Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from the television show "The
Pretender." They belong to Steve Long Mitchell, Craig W. Sickel, and TNT.
Warning: If you like Zoe or Thomas Don't Read!! Because is only gets worse. Also I'm not done writing this story. Sorry!!
Where my pretty one lies.. Part 4 Dream
Jarod' New Lair Early Morning
The wooden cabin was quiet the sun streamed in through the windows. Major Charles was in the kitchen sitting at the table drinking his morning cup of coffee, when he noticed a young man out of the front window.
Quietly he got up to investigate through the front window. He recognizes the young man as Ethan his other son by the picture Jarod had given him. 'How did Ethan find us?' Going to the front door he opens it to let Ethan in.
Looking more closely at Ethan, Major Charles could tell something was wrong. Ethan's eyes are red and puffy there were dark circles under them. His clothes were torn and there looked to be cuts and bruises all over him.
Ethan looks questioningly at him and asks timidly, "Who are you?" The face before him becomes one of shock the man answers "I am your father." The man goes up to Ethan and helps him into cabin. 'According to Jarod Ethan's gift should have told him. What has happened to him?'
Upon hearing noises Jarod wakes up from sleeping. When he enters living room he could see Major Charles trying desperately to calm Ethan down. But by the looks of things he was being unsuccessful. Jarod could hear Ethan repeating quietly to himself "they're gone, all gone, they're gone, gone."
Jarod' Lair Three days later 9:30 A.M.
After spending the last two days tempting to hack into the Centre's mainframe Jarod finally gives up in frustration. 'This is impossible. I can't find anything.' More out of reaction that any given a thought Jarod reaches for his cell phone, hitting the speed dial. It only rang once before her voice came on the line.
Miss Parker's Office 9:30 A.M.
"What?" it sounded laced with pain.
"Miss Parker." Jarod said softly.
"Jarod.I might of known." Miss Parker replies. Miss Parker could hear Ethan in the background screaming. After a moment she demands, "All right, Jarod lets hear it, what is wrong with Ethan?"
The pretender explains to Miss Parker that he spent the last two days tempting to break into the mainframe. So far the has found nothing that would explain exactly what is wrong with their half brother.
"So maybe the Centre is not involved. Have you thought about that?" questions Miss Parker.
"Can you hear him? Of course the Centre is involved! *Damn it* Parker. Quit being such a *Bitch* for once, and think about your brother!" Jarod shouts at her. "Do you want him to end up in some psych ward or maybe the re- newel wing?" Taking deep breaths he tries to calm himself down knowing that if he antagonizes her she will not help him.
"Miss Parker, Ethan *really* needs our help." Jarod pleads with her. "All I want you to do is look into it. Look he has periods of calmness then he explodes, it sounds like someone has been giving him drugs. Maybe Lyle or even Raines."
She could hear Ethan's screams becoming more frantic. "If I agree to help with this, it's *only* because I care about Ethan." She hears the pretender whisper "thank you."
Miss Parker replies, "Don't to thank me yet I haven't done anything." Miss Parker hits the intercom on her desk phone, and shouts, "Broots get in here." Jarod flinches from the tone of her voice.
Miss Parker releases a heavy sigh. "It does sound like Ethan is falling apart at the seams. I'll see what I can find out from here," she informs him as she snaps her fingers at Broots to look at the information she has written down. "Try to keep him calm," she says "Jarod how will I be able to contact you?"
"I'll contact you." Jarod says harshly as he discontents the call.
"Damn," Miss Parker swore, "I really hate it when he does that."
"When who, does what?" The sound of her brother's voice nearly caused Miss Parker to jump out of her skin. 'God not now!' Giving him a look of pure distain, she raised one eyebrow. Lyle stood there unabashed, next to a very nervous Broots. Grapping Lyle's jacket lapels, "Lyle, if you ever come in here again, I will put a bullet between your eyes."
"Wouldn't want to strain yourself, Sis." Lyle grinned. 'Believe me it would be no strain.'
"What the hell do you want anyway?" she says as she lets go of his jacket.
"I was merely passing by and thought maybe you were talking to our estranged lab rat," Lyle inquired as he smoothed out the wrinkles in his jacket. "But, I can tell from the frustration your showing me at it must have been someone else." He reaches to take the paper of information off her desk.
"Not that it's any of your business, but the person I was speaking with was Ethan." She lied to Lyle face as she snatches up the paper. She studies Lyle under her lashes for any detection of discomfort.
Finding none she hands the paper over to Broots, "Broots here is a list of possible leads on Jarod, look it over. Anything else Lyle?" she says sweetly.
Lyle glares at her as he turns and exits her office, slamming the door behind him. Broots looks behind him; just to be sure Lyle really has left.
"I'm looking into Ethan, why? Do you think the Centre has him somewhere?" Broots asked.
"No, but wonder-boy thinks the Centre did something to him. So he has asked me to look into it," says Miss Parker. She sees Broots look up in surprise before he had a chance to cover it. "What?"
"Miss Parker do you realize what you just said. Jarod calls and asks you to look into something and you are." Broots sounded amazed until he notices her eyes going from normal to glacier. "He trusts you to help him, is all I meant."
"If he trusted me Broots, he would have given me a number to reach him if and when there is something, ENOUGH," Miss Parker waves her hands in the air "look Jarod said Ethan has periods of calmness then he explodes. Said it looks and sounds like someone has been giving him drugs. Maybe Lyle or Raines. Personally, I think Raines." Miss Parker relays.
He shakes his head. Broots leaves her office before he can make her any madder.
Jarod' Lair 9:45 A.M.
Jarod walks into the living room, approaching his father says, "I just called Miss Parker."
"Jarod, did she have any information on Ethan? " the major interrupts.
Shaking his head he states "No, but she did say that she'll look into it." He sits in a chair next to the Major. Both men are looking at Ethan who is sitting next to J.C. opposite them. Neither man sees Zoe enter the room.
"Do you think it's wise to include Miss Parker, Jarod?" questions the Major.
Jarod shrugs "Not really, but without inside help on this one, I'm afraid we'll never know what is wrong with Ethan."
Placing her hands on her hips she waits for someone in the room to realize she is in the room. Growing more impatient as the seconds tick away Zoe demands, "Who is Miss Parker?"
"The most gorgeous, amazing woman I have ever met," answers J.C. "She has the most beautiful big blue eyes, and she was the first person to ask me if I wanted a nor .."
"J.C.!" shouts the major. J.C. blushes. Zoe looks from one man to another, all of them have this guilty look. Zoe sharpens her gaze on Jarod. 'Why won't he look at me?' Walking up to Jarod, Zoe sits on the chairs arm.
"Well, I don't care if J.C. thinks this woman so anything as long as Jarod thinks I'm the woman." Jarod jumps out of his seat so fast that Zoe falls into it. Glaring at Jarod, she sees Jarod tensing up. 'What the Hell? Who is this woman?' "Jarod, is there something you want to tell me?" Jarod just stands there, looking everywhere but at her.
"Jarod, I asked you a question. I *would* like an answer."
"Miss Parker is my sister, Zoe. I have not seen her is some weeks and Jarod was doing me a favor by trying to contacting her for me." Ethan says as Emily walks into the room. He notices that the explanation doesn't sit well with Zoe.
"Ethan, you call your sister 'Miss Parker'." Zoe laughs. Then snidely says "it doesn't sound like you two are all that close if you can't call her by her first name." She smiles sweetly at Jarod. 'What a freak, I would disown you if you were in my family.'
Seeing the distress on Ethan's face, Emily curtly says, "Zoe their relationship is none of your business, kindly keep your *unwanted opinions* to yourself." Emily places a smoothing hand on Ethan's arm; he in turn smiles shakily at her. 'God, how did my *super smart* brother get mixed with this bitch.'
Zoe glares at Emily. 'Why did Jarod have to have such a brat for a sister?' Opening her mouth to make another snide reply, Zoe is interrupted by Jarod. "Miss Parker isn't just Ethan's sister, Zoe. She is my best friend." Knowing that if she attacks this Miss Parker person again, she will probably antagonize Jarod. "Well, as long as she isn't one of them. I don't care who she is."
The Centre Miss Parker's Office 1:30 P.M.
"Broots!"
Almost jumping out of his skin, Broots pulls his attention off the computer screen, "Nothing, Miss Parker. I can't find anything."
Seeing her shake her head, she pinches her nose "I don't think your going to find any answers in the main frame, Jarod probably has been thought it upside down and backwards. What I need is for you to look in Mr. Raines's office .."
"What! No way, come on Miss Parker I have ."
"Broots, its either Raines's office or Lyle's office now take your pick!" snaps Miss Parker. Broots stares at her in shock, Miss Parker was giving him a choice, even if it was the lesser of two evils.
"Fine I'll take Raines, just be very careful around Lyle's office." mutters Broots.
The Centre sub-level 14 3:00 P.M.
Broots grabs Sydney pulls him into a corner and whispers, "Sydney, your not going to believe what I've just found. Broots pulls out a DSA and a vanilla folder "this came from Raines's private storage. It's all about Ethan."
Sydney looks quickly around him. They start to talk in hushed tones, when they could hear footsteps approaching them. As the footsteps get closer, Syd grabs Broots arm and whispers, "We need to get this to Miss Parker." The two men start up the hallway toward the elevator. As the elevator's door closes Syd spies Raines's sweeper Willie turning the corner.
Miss Parker's Office 3:30 P.M.
Sydney and Broots go straight to Parker's office. Opening of the door looks around not seeing her he calls out "Parker, are you still here?"
"Yes Syd, I'm over here," she said for the darkened corner of her office. She was sitting on her couch looking at the picture of her mother and herself. "Did you find something?" she asked.
He and Broots walk further into the room. "Miss Parker it looks like Broots has found a DSA and a folder pertaining to Ethan." Broots holds up the DSA and folder. He places the folder on her desk along with a DSA player. He inserts the silver disc.
Together all three of them watch in horror as Raines informs someone watching that he is going to subject Ethan to injections of the substance nicked named 'glow'. And they watch him in check to Ethan with the substance.
They watch Ethan go from calm and gentle to extremely violent within seconds of being injected. On the tape before them they can hear Ethan shouting for the voices to stop, that they're too loud and they're hurting him. They hear him beg for his mother to stop speaking.
Miss Parker forwards through the disc to find out at that Ethan remains violent for a long period of time. Towards the end of the disk they find out that to if it Ethan is injected with a substance nicknamed 'mud' the voices would stop completely. Raines informs the mystery watcher that it would take anywhere between six months to a year before the voices returned based on his biological characteristics.
Jarod' Lair 5:45 P.M.
With tensions mounting in the cabin J.C. takes upon himself to call Miss Parker to see if she has any new information. Using Jarod's cell phone He pushes her speed dial button. He hears the phone rang only once and then her voice came on the line.
"What"
Confused he asks her, "Do you always answer the phone like that?" There is a long pause before she asks him, "Who is calling?" Trying to put to a coherent sentence together he and informs her that its "J.C." when it was apparent that she didn't understand he rushed to say "Jarod's clone." He hears her demand, "Get a better name, now put Jarod on."
In his bedroom, Jarod is pacing, feeling the walls closing in on him. 'What a mess, my family hates Zoe. She was nice, maybe a little to needy. Dad and Emily can't stand her. J.C. thinks she is an idiot. Man, the way he blew up after she accidentally broke his computer. Granted we were really close to find Mom. And Ethan. Ethan feels like he's walking on eggshells. Like what happened to him, wasn't bad enough.' Jarod absent-mindedly kicks the air.
'Still can't believe he survived another run in with the Centre. Damn if only I knew what was injected into Ethan. What was that stuff, how did Raines know it would stop the voices Ethan hears?' Jarod's face shows his bleak thoughts. Still pacing the room, he doesn't notice J.C.
Walking guiltily up to Jarod J.C. hands him his cell phone, he states "Its Miss Parker." Standing around he finds that Jarod is demanding answers from Miss Parker. He learns that Ethan was subjected to one of Raines's sick projects. Ethan was injected with a substance nicked named 'glow'. Which caused him to become extremely violent for long periods of time.
Angrily Jarod says, "Ethan was not hearing any voices, he..." Jarod is cut off by Miss Parker's voice stating, "He must have been injected with injected with another substance nicknamed 'mud' which causes the voices to stop completely. The substance should."
"Damn the Centre," Jarod swears as he disconnects the call. J.C. flinches from the harshness in Jarod's voice. J.C. glares at Jarod, "You didn't even let her finish. God, Jarod not everything in that place is tainted."
"What do *you* know?" snaps Jarod "Huh, you think just because you met her for *what* three minutes makes you an expert on her. Well trust me I have known her a lot longer."
"She was being helpful; there could be side effects," shouts J.C. Standing at the doorway Major Charles watches the exchange.
"J.C. is right Jarod, you did cut her off. If she just want to track us down she wouldn't have told J.C. to give the phone over to you." States the Major as calmly as he can.
Jarod flushes, "Do you think I should call her back?"
The Major shrugs his shoulders, "Do you think she'll talk to you?" Major Charles watches his son's facial expressions change. "No."
"Well, do you know everyone else who would get us the information we need." questions J.C. Flipping open the cell phone Jarod hits the speed dial. He waits for the person to answer.
Miss Parker's Office 6:00 P.M.
"He must have been injected with injected with another substance nicknamed 'mud' which causes the voices to stop completely. The substance should work it ." her voice dies away as she realizes Jarod discounted the call. Syd watches the tension mount in Miss Parker's shoulders, as she slowly lowers the phone to put it away.
"Syd" her voice was terse "When he calls you tell him that the substance will work it's self out of his system from anywhere between six months to a year based on his biological characteristics." She glances at the man, seeing him nod his head. "I am taking the DSA and the folder home with me, neither of you two have seen nor heard of this. Am I making myself clear?"
Broots and Syd watch her quietly and quickly pack up but the DSA and the folder. "I mean it, *Never* heard nor saw this. I swear if either of you talks I will personally find some private way of making you pay."
"You know you can trust us." Syd says, which only brings about Miss Parker's scrutiny. She walks right up to Syd and stars him in the eyes "I *trust* no-one." Watching Syd's eyes widen in alarm, she turns, grabs her silver case and walks out the door.
"Syd, she trust you, she is being over protective of Ethan" whispers Broots.
"Yes, I know." Syd pinches his nose, "I just wish that she wasn't so hurt." The ringing of his cell phone brought a small smile to Sydney's lips. "This is Sydney"
Loudly and clearly Broots states, "It wouldn't hurt if Jarod was a little bit nicer to her, after all she was helping."
************************************************************************ More to come!! Any questions? Sometimes things aren't what they appear and sometimes they are.
Warning: If you like Zoe or Thomas Don't Read!! Because is only gets worse. Also I'm not done writing this story. Sorry!!
Where my pretty one lies.. Part 4 Dream
Jarod' New Lair Early Morning
The wooden cabin was quiet the sun streamed in through the windows. Major Charles was in the kitchen sitting at the table drinking his morning cup of coffee, when he noticed a young man out of the front window.
Quietly he got up to investigate through the front window. He recognizes the young man as Ethan his other son by the picture Jarod had given him. 'How did Ethan find us?' Going to the front door he opens it to let Ethan in.
Looking more closely at Ethan, Major Charles could tell something was wrong. Ethan's eyes are red and puffy there were dark circles under them. His clothes were torn and there looked to be cuts and bruises all over him.
Ethan looks questioningly at him and asks timidly, "Who are you?" The face before him becomes one of shock the man answers "I am your father." The man goes up to Ethan and helps him into cabin. 'According to Jarod Ethan's gift should have told him. What has happened to him?'
Upon hearing noises Jarod wakes up from sleeping. When he enters living room he could see Major Charles trying desperately to calm Ethan down. But by the looks of things he was being unsuccessful. Jarod could hear Ethan repeating quietly to himself "they're gone, all gone, they're gone, gone."
Jarod' Lair Three days later 9:30 A.M.
After spending the last two days tempting to hack into the Centre's mainframe Jarod finally gives up in frustration. 'This is impossible. I can't find anything.' More out of reaction that any given a thought Jarod reaches for his cell phone, hitting the speed dial. It only rang once before her voice came on the line.
Miss Parker's Office 9:30 A.M.
"What?" it sounded laced with pain.
"Miss Parker." Jarod said softly.
"Jarod.I might of known." Miss Parker replies. Miss Parker could hear Ethan in the background screaming. After a moment she demands, "All right, Jarod lets hear it, what is wrong with Ethan?"
The pretender explains to Miss Parker that he spent the last two days tempting to break into the mainframe. So far the has found nothing that would explain exactly what is wrong with their half brother.
"So maybe the Centre is not involved. Have you thought about that?" questions Miss Parker.
"Can you hear him? Of course the Centre is involved! *Damn it* Parker. Quit being such a *Bitch* for once, and think about your brother!" Jarod shouts at her. "Do you want him to end up in some psych ward or maybe the re- newel wing?" Taking deep breaths he tries to calm himself down knowing that if he antagonizes her she will not help him.
"Miss Parker, Ethan *really* needs our help." Jarod pleads with her. "All I want you to do is look into it. Look he has periods of calmness then he explodes, it sounds like someone has been giving him drugs. Maybe Lyle or even Raines."
She could hear Ethan's screams becoming more frantic. "If I agree to help with this, it's *only* because I care about Ethan." She hears the pretender whisper "thank you."
Miss Parker replies, "Don't to thank me yet I haven't done anything." Miss Parker hits the intercom on her desk phone, and shouts, "Broots get in here." Jarod flinches from the tone of her voice.
Miss Parker releases a heavy sigh. "It does sound like Ethan is falling apart at the seams. I'll see what I can find out from here," she informs him as she snaps her fingers at Broots to look at the information she has written down. "Try to keep him calm," she says "Jarod how will I be able to contact you?"
"I'll contact you." Jarod says harshly as he discontents the call.
"Damn," Miss Parker swore, "I really hate it when he does that."
"When who, does what?" The sound of her brother's voice nearly caused Miss Parker to jump out of her skin. 'God not now!' Giving him a look of pure distain, she raised one eyebrow. Lyle stood there unabashed, next to a very nervous Broots. Grapping Lyle's jacket lapels, "Lyle, if you ever come in here again, I will put a bullet between your eyes."
"Wouldn't want to strain yourself, Sis." Lyle grinned. 'Believe me it would be no strain.'
"What the hell do you want anyway?" she says as she lets go of his jacket.
"I was merely passing by and thought maybe you were talking to our estranged lab rat," Lyle inquired as he smoothed out the wrinkles in his jacket. "But, I can tell from the frustration your showing me at it must have been someone else." He reaches to take the paper of information off her desk.
"Not that it's any of your business, but the person I was speaking with was Ethan." She lied to Lyle face as she snatches up the paper. She studies Lyle under her lashes for any detection of discomfort.
Finding none she hands the paper over to Broots, "Broots here is a list of possible leads on Jarod, look it over. Anything else Lyle?" she says sweetly.
Lyle glares at her as he turns and exits her office, slamming the door behind him. Broots looks behind him; just to be sure Lyle really has left.
"I'm looking into Ethan, why? Do you think the Centre has him somewhere?" Broots asked.
"No, but wonder-boy thinks the Centre did something to him. So he has asked me to look into it," says Miss Parker. She sees Broots look up in surprise before he had a chance to cover it. "What?"
"Miss Parker do you realize what you just said. Jarod calls and asks you to look into something and you are." Broots sounded amazed until he notices her eyes going from normal to glacier. "He trusts you to help him, is all I meant."
"If he trusted me Broots, he would have given me a number to reach him if and when there is something, ENOUGH," Miss Parker waves her hands in the air "look Jarod said Ethan has periods of calmness then he explodes. Said it looks and sounds like someone has been giving him drugs. Maybe Lyle or Raines. Personally, I think Raines." Miss Parker relays.
He shakes his head. Broots leaves her office before he can make her any madder.
Jarod' Lair 9:45 A.M.
Jarod walks into the living room, approaching his father says, "I just called Miss Parker."
"Jarod, did she have any information on Ethan? " the major interrupts.
Shaking his head he states "No, but she did say that she'll look into it." He sits in a chair next to the Major. Both men are looking at Ethan who is sitting next to J.C. opposite them. Neither man sees Zoe enter the room.
"Do you think it's wise to include Miss Parker, Jarod?" questions the Major.
Jarod shrugs "Not really, but without inside help on this one, I'm afraid we'll never know what is wrong with Ethan."
Placing her hands on her hips she waits for someone in the room to realize she is in the room. Growing more impatient as the seconds tick away Zoe demands, "Who is Miss Parker?"
"The most gorgeous, amazing woman I have ever met," answers J.C. "She has the most beautiful big blue eyes, and she was the first person to ask me if I wanted a nor .."
"J.C.!" shouts the major. J.C. blushes. Zoe looks from one man to another, all of them have this guilty look. Zoe sharpens her gaze on Jarod. 'Why won't he look at me?' Walking up to Jarod, Zoe sits on the chairs arm.
"Well, I don't care if J.C. thinks this woman so anything as long as Jarod thinks I'm the woman." Jarod jumps out of his seat so fast that Zoe falls into it. Glaring at Jarod, she sees Jarod tensing up. 'What the Hell? Who is this woman?' "Jarod, is there something you want to tell me?" Jarod just stands there, looking everywhere but at her.
"Jarod, I asked you a question. I *would* like an answer."
"Miss Parker is my sister, Zoe. I have not seen her is some weeks and Jarod was doing me a favor by trying to contacting her for me." Ethan says as Emily walks into the room. He notices that the explanation doesn't sit well with Zoe.
"Ethan, you call your sister 'Miss Parker'." Zoe laughs. Then snidely says "it doesn't sound like you two are all that close if you can't call her by her first name." She smiles sweetly at Jarod. 'What a freak, I would disown you if you were in my family.'
Seeing the distress on Ethan's face, Emily curtly says, "Zoe their relationship is none of your business, kindly keep your *unwanted opinions* to yourself." Emily places a smoothing hand on Ethan's arm; he in turn smiles shakily at her. 'God, how did my *super smart* brother get mixed with this bitch.'
Zoe glares at Emily. 'Why did Jarod have to have such a brat for a sister?' Opening her mouth to make another snide reply, Zoe is interrupted by Jarod. "Miss Parker isn't just Ethan's sister, Zoe. She is my best friend." Knowing that if she attacks this Miss Parker person again, she will probably antagonize Jarod. "Well, as long as she isn't one of them. I don't care who she is."
The Centre Miss Parker's Office 1:30 P.M.
"Broots!"
Almost jumping out of his skin, Broots pulls his attention off the computer screen, "Nothing, Miss Parker. I can't find anything."
Seeing her shake her head, she pinches her nose "I don't think your going to find any answers in the main frame, Jarod probably has been thought it upside down and backwards. What I need is for you to look in Mr. Raines's office .."
"What! No way, come on Miss Parker I have ."
"Broots, its either Raines's office or Lyle's office now take your pick!" snaps Miss Parker. Broots stares at her in shock, Miss Parker was giving him a choice, even if it was the lesser of two evils.
"Fine I'll take Raines, just be very careful around Lyle's office." mutters Broots.
The Centre sub-level 14 3:00 P.M.
Broots grabs Sydney pulls him into a corner and whispers, "Sydney, your not going to believe what I've just found. Broots pulls out a DSA and a vanilla folder "this came from Raines's private storage. It's all about Ethan."
Sydney looks quickly around him. They start to talk in hushed tones, when they could hear footsteps approaching them. As the footsteps get closer, Syd grabs Broots arm and whispers, "We need to get this to Miss Parker." The two men start up the hallway toward the elevator. As the elevator's door closes Syd spies Raines's sweeper Willie turning the corner.
Miss Parker's Office 3:30 P.M.
Sydney and Broots go straight to Parker's office. Opening of the door looks around not seeing her he calls out "Parker, are you still here?"
"Yes Syd, I'm over here," she said for the darkened corner of her office. She was sitting on her couch looking at the picture of her mother and herself. "Did you find something?" she asked.
He and Broots walk further into the room. "Miss Parker it looks like Broots has found a DSA and a folder pertaining to Ethan." Broots holds up the DSA and folder. He places the folder on her desk along with a DSA player. He inserts the silver disc.
Together all three of them watch in horror as Raines informs someone watching that he is going to subject Ethan to injections of the substance nicked named 'glow'. And they watch him in check to Ethan with the substance.
They watch Ethan go from calm and gentle to extremely violent within seconds of being injected. On the tape before them they can hear Ethan shouting for the voices to stop, that they're too loud and they're hurting him. They hear him beg for his mother to stop speaking.
Miss Parker forwards through the disc to find out at that Ethan remains violent for a long period of time. Towards the end of the disk they find out that to if it Ethan is injected with a substance nicknamed 'mud' the voices would stop completely. Raines informs the mystery watcher that it would take anywhere between six months to a year before the voices returned based on his biological characteristics.
Jarod' Lair 5:45 P.M.
With tensions mounting in the cabin J.C. takes upon himself to call Miss Parker to see if she has any new information. Using Jarod's cell phone He pushes her speed dial button. He hears the phone rang only once and then her voice came on the line.
"What"
Confused he asks her, "Do you always answer the phone like that?" There is a long pause before she asks him, "Who is calling?" Trying to put to a coherent sentence together he and informs her that its "J.C." when it was apparent that she didn't understand he rushed to say "Jarod's clone." He hears her demand, "Get a better name, now put Jarod on."
In his bedroom, Jarod is pacing, feeling the walls closing in on him. 'What a mess, my family hates Zoe. She was nice, maybe a little to needy. Dad and Emily can't stand her. J.C. thinks she is an idiot. Man, the way he blew up after she accidentally broke his computer. Granted we were really close to find Mom. And Ethan. Ethan feels like he's walking on eggshells. Like what happened to him, wasn't bad enough.' Jarod absent-mindedly kicks the air.
'Still can't believe he survived another run in with the Centre. Damn if only I knew what was injected into Ethan. What was that stuff, how did Raines know it would stop the voices Ethan hears?' Jarod's face shows his bleak thoughts. Still pacing the room, he doesn't notice J.C.
Walking guiltily up to Jarod J.C. hands him his cell phone, he states "Its Miss Parker." Standing around he finds that Jarod is demanding answers from Miss Parker. He learns that Ethan was subjected to one of Raines's sick projects. Ethan was injected with a substance nicked named 'glow'. Which caused him to become extremely violent for long periods of time.
Angrily Jarod says, "Ethan was not hearing any voices, he..." Jarod is cut off by Miss Parker's voice stating, "He must have been injected with injected with another substance nicknamed 'mud' which causes the voices to stop completely. The substance should."
"Damn the Centre," Jarod swears as he disconnects the call. J.C. flinches from the harshness in Jarod's voice. J.C. glares at Jarod, "You didn't even let her finish. God, Jarod not everything in that place is tainted."
"What do *you* know?" snaps Jarod "Huh, you think just because you met her for *what* three minutes makes you an expert on her. Well trust me I have known her a lot longer."
"She was being helpful; there could be side effects," shouts J.C. Standing at the doorway Major Charles watches the exchange.
"J.C. is right Jarod, you did cut her off. If she just want to track us down she wouldn't have told J.C. to give the phone over to you." States the Major as calmly as he can.
Jarod flushes, "Do you think I should call her back?"
The Major shrugs his shoulders, "Do you think she'll talk to you?" Major Charles watches his son's facial expressions change. "No."
"Well, do you know everyone else who would get us the information we need." questions J.C. Flipping open the cell phone Jarod hits the speed dial. He waits for the person to answer.
Miss Parker's Office 6:00 P.M.
"He must have been injected with injected with another substance nicknamed 'mud' which causes the voices to stop completely. The substance should work it ." her voice dies away as she realizes Jarod discounted the call. Syd watches the tension mount in Miss Parker's shoulders, as she slowly lowers the phone to put it away.
"Syd" her voice was terse "When he calls you tell him that the substance will work it's self out of his system from anywhere between six months to a year based on his biological characteristics." She glances at the man, seeing him nod his head. "I am taking the DSA and the folder home with me, neither of you two have seen nor heard of this. Am I making myself clear?"
Broots and Syd watch her quietly and quickly pack up but the DSA and the folder. "I mean it, *Never* heard nor saw this. I swear if either of you talks I will personally find some private way of making you pay."
"You know you can trust us." Syd says, which only brings about Miss Parker's scrutiny. She walks right up to Syd and stars him in the eyes "I *trust* no-one." Watching Syd's eyes widen in alarm, she turns, grabs her silver case and walks out the door.
"Syd, she trust you, she is being over protective of Ethan" whispers Broots.
"Yes, I know." Syd pinches his nose, "I just wish that she wasn't so hurt." The ringing of his cell phone brought a small smile to Sydney's lips. "This is Sydney"
Loudly and clearly Broots states, "It wouldn't hurt if Jarod was a little bit nicer to her, after all she was helping."
************************************************************************ More to come!! Any questions? Sometimes things aren't what they appear and sometimes they are.