Chapter Fifty-Four
It's a War
Miss Parker slowly sipped the water bottle that Sayid had given her. "What did he say," she asked Jarod.
Jarod looked around the group carefully and decided that he really didn't have much of a choice but to trust his new friends. "It's about the scrolls," he said in a gentle whisper.
"Scrolls," Ana-Lucia said, "You mean those things we found out in the jungle."
Jarod's head whipped around and he looked at Miss Parker, "You found them?"
Parker nodded slowly and painfully, "They're in my bag. BUT we can worry about that later, right now I want to find my father. Where did they take him?"
Jarod shrugged, "I don't know. I don't know what they want with him but apparently they've had him this entire time."
Jack was standing in the corner of the room shaking his head in disbelief. "This just keeps getting weirder and weirder."
Nobody argued that point. "Well," Parker said as she heaved herself up. She handed Ethan the bottle, "Let's go find him."
They group trudged deeper in the underground tunnel, all of them feeling tired and restless. "This is crazy," Kate said, "We're never going to find him in this maze."
"Kate," Jack said in a very warning tone. Parker wanted to give Jack a grateful nod but she was too exhausted to do so. All she wanted to do right now, more than anything, was get back to Blue Cove.
Jarod looked at Miss Parker carefully, "You've seen what these people can do. You know what they're capable of."
"Especially if they used to work for or were influenced by the Centre," Ethan said.
Jarod nodded and looked at Sayid. They shared a look of understanding. The Centre was dangerous and capable of literally anything. Everyone in the room who had ever been touched by them knew full well what they were capable of.
"We're talking about my father," Miss Parker said, anger and hurt playing in her eyes. "Jarod we have to find him, we have to save him."
Jarod nodded, "I agree, but-"
"but nothing!" Parker shouted, "He is my father I WILL save him." There was a lengthy pause and finally Parker whispered, "I have to save him."
Jarod knew, better than anyone, how important it was to have family. He resisted to urge to look as tired as he felt and agreed. "All right. Well I say we finish looking throughout the compound before he look outside of it."
Their search yielded no results by the time they reached the end of the small compound. "Well we only have one more room to check," Sayid said, nodding towards the metal door.
The group exchanged uneasy glances at each other. Sayid motioned for them to all raise their weapons (not that any of them had bothered to lower them in the first place) and nudged the door open with his foot.
The sight of horrifying.
