A/N:here's the first chapter of another little adventure that's been kicking around in my head lately. Muse is feeling very abandoned and lonely lately (probably because most papers tend not to involve her) so as a treat I wrote and am posting this. Hope you enjoy, please remember to review, because then muse really feels loved and creates another chapter.
Disclaimer:I don't own pretender, I really don't. so please don't sue. I'm not actually sure that I even own my own pillow, so you would get nothing but student loans.
Destiny
Parker sat behind the large desk that dominated what had once been her father's office. So much had changed over the years since she had returned from Corporate, and the changes kept coming.
Mr. Parker had once told her that she looked good sitting behind his desk, in his chair, and that rare praise had reminded her that she was meant for this office, had reminded her that the man who had lied, cheated, and abused her for her entire life had also groomed her meticulously since the age of eight for this.
The indomitable Miss Parker was the Chairwoman of the Centre.
The dark forces that had controlled the Centre for generations, since its beginning, had learned after Carthis that Parker was a force they could not stop, and had never controlled. When it had seemed as if the Chairman's office, at that moment controlled by Raines, was closed to her, Parker had simply gone to the Triumvirate. None of those three were happy with the fact that in six long years of chasing, Jarod was still free, and was even then extremely close to completing his goal of reuniting his family.
But Parker had offered no excuses for the lack of complete success, but she had also offered no reasons. Instead she had been given a seat on the legendary Triumvirate. The other two members did not know why their aged and learned colleague not only gave up his seat, but had given it up in favor of the much younger Parker.
With Jarod incommunicado and tracing the whereabouts of the final member of his family, his mother, Parker used the time to consolidate her power, while also maintaining her anonymity. She wanted no one at the Centre to know that she was the new member of the Triumvirate.
With her seat on the Triumvirate secure she had returned to Blue Cove and with the impeccable style and cunning that had always been her trademark, even if people had the habit of underestimating her, she had begun to arrange the downfall of William Raines and the insidious Mr. Lyle.
But while destroying them, she had found there true betrayal. Shocked and horrified at what they had done, Parker reacted the same way as when they had discovered Gemini. But her anger, her absolute fury was even stronger than it had been all those years ago at Donoterase. And it was her fury that fueled the final downfall of the Boogeyman and Neusfaratu.
But in a way it was too late.
Standing behind her desk, Parker smiled at the four-year-old boy sleeping on the couch in her office and lightly pressed a hand to her lower abdomen. Yes, in a way she had been too late, but maybe, just maybe, she was really right on time.