As Good As Family
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Sydney's POV
Sydney sat in his office and loosened his tie. It was late but he didn't go home mostly because he had no one to go home to but also he was in the Centre so much he practically lived there. He got up and walked over to where the mini Empire State Building that Jarod built when he was 4 or 5 was. He looked at it and smiled it brought him back in time. He remembered Jarod at that age so unique so full of curiosity and bright way beyond his years but he also remembered a hurt sad little boy who missed his family. Sydney had so much wanted to be like a father to him to show him the way to be in the world and take him away from that place but he was to scared it was too dangerous they would've killed him and Jarod would've been just a lab rat for them to use at their disposal. Sydney had always loved Jarod but he had never told him. He wasn't sure why now that he thought about. Maybe to protect Jarod maybe to protect himself. All Sydney knew was that Jarod meant more to him than most anything and he would do what he had to do to make sure that the Centre never laid another hand on him. They had stolen his life once (which most of the time Sydney felt personally responsible for) and Sydney would be damned if they were going to do it again. When Jarod escaped from the Centre Sydney felt mixed emotions he had felt glad that Jarod would finally be able to experience life, scared that Jarod would get hurt, and sad that he couldn't see Jarod every day. In fact he rarely saw Jarod at all though he talked to him all the timeā¦but to Sydney it just wasn't the same. At the same time Sydney was so proud of Jarod and all the things he had done to help people. He was always willing to lend a helping hand. (Proud in the way a father is of his son when he graduates college and does something with his life). How he still had the compassion Sydney would never know.All he knew was that he loved Jarod and he would do whatever it took to protect him.
