Summary: Clues to the past bring Ms. Parker and Jarod back together again. Very involved in IOTH, but you can understand it without having seen it. Ties up most story lines. Mostly from Ms. Parker's point of view. Chapters are short.
The Truth Is WaitingBy Bec-Bec
Chapter 21Oceana…or is it Ocee?
Broots Desk, The Computer Tech Floor, The CentreBroots had immediately looped the surveilence feed from the previous day when he arrived at the Centre. He had gone to great care to make sure that the first and last images matched up exactly so that security wouldn't know the feed was looped. He and Syd started anxiously in on the information about Anna and Nina Parker as soon as he was done.
Sydney was skimming over an old medical record for Nina Parker, when he noticed something that struck him as very odd. "Broots look at this, Nina Parker's mother was a woman named Anna Oceana Parker."
"Who would give their daughter the name Oceana?"
"No, Broots, I remember Ms. Parker speaking of a woman named Ocee that she met out on the Island of Carthis," Sydney ignored Broots remark.
"And you think it's the same woman?"
"It's a possibilty. What does the file on Anna Parker say?"
Broots quickly looked through a pile on his desk for the medical files on Anna Parker that he had printed out. He handed them to Syd, who quickly leafed through them."
"Interesting…Anna Parker was blind."
"I hate to sound obnoxious but, why is that important?"
"I specifically remember Ms. Parker telling me that this woman, Ocee, was blind but had an incredible sense of what happened in the past and would happen in the future."
"D-do you think she had the Inner Sense?"
"I don't know, Broots. Let's keep looking through the files on the computer, maybe there is something else there that we've missed."
Ten minutes of Broots fingers flying rapidly across the keyboard yielded another set of information. "Uh oh."
"What's wrong, Broots?"
"Look at this, there were orders made to kill both Anna and Nina back in the 60s."
"Does it say if the orders were carried out?"
"Nina was…" Broots gulped, "taken care of but Anna managed to escape and wasn't ever found."
"The poor women, her daughter was murdered."
"Syd, what does all of this mean?"
"I'm not sure but we'll have to find everything we possibly can on Anna and Nina Parker."
"Why do you think she fled to the Island of Carthis? Just from the sound of it I can tell it would give me the heebyjeebies."
"Do you suppose she went to find the scrolls?"
"Why would she stay on the Island then? She could have found the scrolls easily if she's got the Inner Sense."
Sydney stroked his chin. Broots was right, it didn't make sense, "Perhaps she wasn't trying to find them but rather trying to keep them from being found."
"Why did she help Jarod and Ms. Parker find them then?"
"The Inner Sense, Broots, she knew that Jarod and Ms. Parker were the ones who were meant to find them."
"Okay, but how exactly is this Anna, I mean Ocee, related to the Parkers?"
"I don't know, Broots. I don't know."
Broots and Sydney spent the rest of the day looking through anything they could get their hands on, or rather, anywhere that Broots could hack into, trying to unlock everything that this newest clue from Jarod could mean about Anna Parker.
Author's Note: I know you've got serious questions in your head as to where I'm taking this but just keep reading, it's about to get soooo good…(hee hee)…at least I hope you'll think it's good. We're coming to the ultimate realization about the entire past of the Centre. Please Review!!!