As frustrated as he was with Adam, Peter still wished that his faith, his trust in Adam had never been misplaced to begin with. That Adam was different. And maybe that was for his own good; he was tired of being on the receiving end of Adam's manipulations. But Hiro had already tried that, and Adam was the one responsible for his life, not Peter, and not Hiro. That didn't change the way he felt though, because when he got down to the core of it, Peter still wanted to keep all the good parts of Adam close to him. He just didn't know if those were a lie too.

"Wasn't it, a week ago? Two? I don't know-- But you told me it wasn't hopeless." Even if he'd been the one that had said it, in a roundabout kind of way, it had still been Adam who'd tried to remind him. And now he was returning the favor, or at least trying to. "You believed it when you said it."