I mailed you my beta, and I did touch on the Heidi subject. I also mailed you a link for transcripts, which I found useful for stories in the past!

I love your take on the Nathan/Peter dynamic; Peter is the one who's holding all the cards, emotionally speaking. Nathan knows it, too.

Yes. And verbalizes it in .07%.

Both Charles and Angela have strong opinions about what kind of person Peter is -- and those opinions are both largely wrong. Nathan seems to be the only one who truly recognizes both Peter's weaknesses and his strengths. (Peter is not as clear-eyed about Nathan, although he comes close and certainly understands his brother more than Angela does, maybe more than Heidi, too.)

I think this is partly due to the age gap and the older/younger sibling dynamic, too; Peter, as cadesama noted above, probably has an amalgan of the persona Nathan later develops for his sons (calling back his conversation with Niki about needing to be two people when you have children, and Peter was the first child Nathan felt somewhat responsible for, even when being a child and adolescent himself, so he'd have gotten the prototype) and real Nathan.

Nathan is trying to draw some line between politics and family here, and weirdly, he may be the first person to do so becaue politics is his safety zone and family is more dangerous!

LOL. But with this family? YES! Also agreed that politics are Nathan's comfort zone.