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I...turned it on...

That's all? [Rests a hand against the laptop keyboard, concentrating.]

I'm afraid so. Oh, perhaps... I had been working with someone rather prone to electrical outbursts...

When was the last time you plugged it in to charge it?

[Please ignore the embarrassment!]

I...can't recall.

[Hiding a smile.] You should do that, Doctor Suresh.

[Face palms and takes out his charger.] I'd have spent hour on that.

It probably run down faster with your electrical friend around. Now it has just enough power to turn on but not do anything.

Thank you. Really. You have probably saved my research.

You should keep back-ups on an external USB thumb-drive. You could fit your whole hard-drive on something you can put on your key-ring. They can be encrypted too, to keep them secure. I could set it up for you, if you like?

[Looks relieved.] Probably the best idea I've heard today, actually.

It won't take long. What are you researching?

Genetic carriers and natural versus introduced human evolution.

Because of people like me?

Yes, in a way. It was work that my father started. It is a bit limited to those people that participated in the Human Genome project, though I am working on synthesizing a better formula for determination. [Once again, Mohinder's head is filled with straw and the inherent danger of being able to easily out a Special does not dawn on him.]

And then what?

Well, and then reach out! People shouldn't have to think that they're alone.

You didn't read comics much as a kid, huh?

I was lucky to be allowed to escape the house for a game of football growing up.

...oh.

Oh, it wasn't all that terrible. What sort of comic books do you enjoy? [Micah makes him a little sad to think about Molly.]

I like the Fantastic Four, because it's really about family; the Silver Surfer, because it's about being different and trying anyway; 9th Wonders! because it's about cool ideas, but also about facing the future. Mostly I was thinking about the X-Men, though.

Ah, 9th Wonders. [Mohinder was currently working out of the artist's space actually.] A friend of mine likes those books quite a lot.

You know about the artist?

[His eyebrow arched.] Yes, he died. Unfortunate.