Disclaimer: I don't even own pretender figurines (I wonder if they even make those) I highly doubt that I could even so much as pretend to own anything that deals with The Pretender. No infringement is intended.
A/N man guys Christmas was great! (I think my uncle thought I was nuts when he saw how happy I was when he gave me leather work gloves) I didn't get any Pretender stuff but I didn't put it on my list so I can see why I didn't get any. I am really sorry about my updates being sooo slow but my computer hates me and about every two hours or so my screen will turn black and then I can not see what I am doing so I will try to get the next chapters up ASAP but it will not be as quick as it would have been had my puter been working right.
Theory of the chapter #1: You tell me to reach to the stars but how can I when all my stars have fallen? - unknown
P.S. it may sound like I am really pessimistic but I am not really I am actually very perky and happy honestly!
Theory of the chapter #2: What happens at deer camp stays in deer camp- Rebecca Zischkau Ryan Harmen Arthur McDonald
FYI: Takara means treasure and that is why I picked that name for my main character
Definition of the chapter: Feign: -v- to put on a false appearance of; PRETEND; SIMULATE
P.S. no reason for this definition. I just thought that it was cool because it had pretend and simulate right beside each other. (Don't worry I don't read the dictionary or anything, it was vocab. Now... ON with the story!!!!!
6:00 am
Josh's living room
Maple Nut Drive
Blue Cove, Delaware
There was a squealing of tires and a loud crash as a yellow Chevy Caviler pulled into Josh's driveway, tried to break and crashed into the trash cans waiting to be put on the side of the road to be picked up. Argyle jumped out and ran to the door. Before he could knock Jarod swung the door open, glaring at him.
" Way to be conspicuous Argyle." Jarod turned to Josh. "Josh this is Argyle. Argyle this is Josh I met him when I was doing a pretend as a cop." Argyle looked at Josh. He was probably in his mid twenties and had short spiky dark brown hair. He was muscular and by the badge that he wore on his belt Argyle figure that he was a cop. "You know how I started that new pretend as a substitute to find the kid that The Center was using as their latest project?" Argyle nodded. "Well her name is Takara and The Center kidnapped her. I went to her house when I figured out that she was the one, but The Center beat me there by a few seconds. I had to make a run for it seeing as they already had Kara and one of Lyle's goons shot me in the leg." Jarod nodded towards his leg, which he had propped up on Josh's coffee table.
"So what are you going to do now?" Asked Argyle.
"Well first I have to find Kara's mom, apparently her dad was killed in a drive by shooting before Kara was born. It does not look like she has any other relatives that are still living. Both her parents were only children. Now Kara's mom is going to be targeted by The Center. I have to find her before The Center does." Jarod took his duffle bag from Argyle, which Argyle had bought a NASCAR racing bag instead, and pulled out his laptop. As he hooked it up to Josh's phone line Argyle turned on the TV. Jarod was about to yell at him when he heard him yell.
"Hey J-man I think that you should see this." Jarod limped into the entertainment room where the news was on. The screen showed footage of what used to be a car. A reporter stood in front of it while paramedics and cops scurried around in the back round.
"Jocelyn Stevens died a few hours ago when an unmarked car ran her off the road. Her car flipped five times before landing upside down 100 meters off the road in this valley."
The report babbled on about something else but Jarod did not hear it.
"Dang it. That was Kara's mom." Jarod shuffled back to his computer where he booted up to the net. % Another life taken by The Center. They are going to pay. % Jarod broke into the Center mainframe to see what he could find about where they were keeping Kara. Now it was up to him to keep her safe.
9:00 am
Dr. Bo's office
The Center
Blue Cove, Delaware
Lyle strolled into Dr. Bo's office holding a folder. There was a question that had been bugging him all night. Without looking up from the folder that he was looking at Lyle asked his question.
"Dr. Bo, I was looking at Kara's school grades and there is something that troubles me. Her grades are high but there are higher in the school. Aren't pretenders supposed to be geniuses?" Lyle handed the folder that he was looking at which was apparently Kara's grades over to Dr. Bo.
"From what I understand pretenders can become whatever they want to be. Kara had high grades when she was little but after that her grades went down to just being a normal high, not an abnormal high. I think that she pretended to be a child of lower IQ when she was in school with out reliseing it. She did not want to be singled out of the group so she made her own pretend where she brought herself down to the think like the kids she was surrounded by. I also think that some of her friends may be useful to us as well. You see there is a group of friends that she has been with since she was in third grade. When people spend enough time with one another they start to like many of the same things as well as thinking in the same manner. If you look at the grades of her closest friends, they have risen since they met her. I think that they are starting to think partially like pretenders, especially her friend Maggie Malone."
"I will think about this new revelation thank you Dr. Bo. Oh and by the way. I am putting you in charge of Kara."
10:00 am
Kara's cell
The Center
Blue Cove, Delaware
Kara looked at the mush that one of the sweepers had pushed under the door. % I think they want me to eat it % Kara took the spoon and dipped it into the red liquid in the bowl in front of her. She lifted the spoon and let the concoction drip off of it. % Yuck! I don't care if they want me to eat it or not. There is now way I am letting that stuff go down my throat % Kara took the glass of water from the tray gulped it down, placed it back on the tray and slid it back under the door. She heard someone trip and fall and then swearing. Kara giggled. From what she gathered when she pushed the tray out the door someone had been walking by, and tripped over it. Chances are they would be covered in the nasty stuff. The door beeped and Kara jumped a bit again. % Man I hate that infernal beeping. Every time I hear it I think that it is my alarm clock and I have to get up and go to school. % Kara quickly stopped laughing and downgraded her merriment to a big cocky grin. A soggy Dr. Bo walked into the room with a glare in his eye directed towards Kara but he also had a glimmer of merriment hide behind the anger.
"You really should eat your food you know." He said as he pulled a chair over to the bed that Kara was sitting on.
"Oops." Kara said insincerely as she let another giggle slip forth. "There is no way that I am eating that stuff. Man if I ate that chances are I would die of poising."
"Alright what do you want to eat then." Kara's grin broadened.
"Deer meat. Rare as you can get it deer venison." Dr. Bo laughed.
"Cravings for meat. Huumm"
"No I have always loved deer meat. Not necessarily rare but I have always loved it, compared to the nasty beef that is supposed to be good for you that stores sell. Dr. Bo laughed some more.
"What part of the deer do you want?"
"Tenderloin?" Kara asked hopefully. Dr. Bo got up with an amused grin on his face.
"It shall be done. They should give you a lot meat any ways."
Minutes later Dr. Bo came back with a tray. He handed it to Kara.
"Cool." Said Kara as she surveyed what was on the tray. % Corn, Tenderloin, peaches, juice, I can deal with that % She tucked in as Dr. Bo tried to start a conversation.
"You don't seem bent on escaping or not doing what you are told here. Why?"
"I haven't seen any ways to escape yet nor have I been told to do anything that I do not want to do. Had I been told to do something I did not want to do you would definitely know it." Kara said as she woofed down her food.
"I could tell Mr. Lyle that."
"But you won't"
"Why wouldn't I?"
"Because if you wanted to tell him then you would have made me eat that other junk and you would have gotten mad when you tripped over tray."
"Maybe so, do you relies that there might be cameras in here?"
"But there's not"
"How can you be sure?"
"It would have inhibited my, what you guys call simulations, what I call zoning out. I would not have felt comfortable with the cameras on me and therefore the out comes of the problems you guys gave me would be different."
Dr. Bo leaned over and looked Kara in the eye. Kara stopped eating and looked back at him.
"Why are you telling me all of this? I could easily use it against you."
"I trust you. You don't want to be here. You got tricked into this and for some reason you cannot leave. You have no choice in what you do. If there was something that I thought would be dangerous to tell you then I would not tell you, simple as that. "
Dr. Bo laughed.
"Yeah as simple as that." Kara finished her breakfast and went over to the door with her tray. She stooped down and waited. Suddenly she thrust the tray out of the slot. There was a crash and some muttering. Kara giggled evilly again.
"You know you really shouldn't so that"
"Oh but it's fun. Just wait till I get that Lyle dude walking by when I do that"
"That might end up causing you some pain if you hurt Lyle"
"Pain can only be so great then after that it is just a matter of time before the pain slacks off. I have already felt the greatest pain and it I can handle it. Anyways, getting in trouble makes things fun and interesting:"
"What ever you say." Said Dr. Bo as he walked over to the door, put his eyes next to the retina scanner and stepped back as the door opened.
"I will be back later on to take you to the sim lab. Be ready. Mr. Lyle is gonna be there." Kara's eyes glinted dangerously.
"Don't worry I will be."
A/N oh oh oh I like this Chapter and how I made Dr. Bo and Kara friends!! Oh I really liked that! It was sooo fun. I especially liked tripping Dr. Bo with the tray, and the sweeper that went by too!! This chapter was so much fun to write. Unfortunately my computer decided that it was going to take a step up on the make Pretender Fanatic mad scale and is turning off less expectedly so that I cannot save my work before the screen turns black. So now I am on my mom's computer typing, but the new cd's that I got for Christmas make it bearable. I tried a new monitor but imagine this! An ms. Dos monitor is not compatible with a windows 95 computer! Who would have thought!! So now I have to buy a new monitor I think and that is going to put me in debt a great deal. I am going to try to update soon but I have been spending my Christmas vacation screaming and kicking my puter so I am kinda busy *grins* Please review. Cuz I really need some good news. (I kinda figured out after rereading Gemini I that it is not as good as I wanted it to be, so now I am bummed out)
A/N man guys Christmas was great! (I think my uncle thought I was nuts when he saw how happy I was when he gave me leather work gloves) I didn't get any Pretender stuff but I didn't put it on my list so I can see why I didn't get any. I am really sorry about my updates being sooo slow but my computer hates me and about every two hours or so my screen will turn black and then I can not see what I am doing so I will try to get the next chapters up ASAP but it will not be as quick as it would have been had my puter been working right.
Theory of the chapter #1: You tell me to reach to the stars but how can I when all my stars have fallen? - unknown
P.S. it may sound like I am really pessimistic but I am not really I am actually very perky and happy honestly!
Theory of the chapter #2: What happens at deer camp stays in deer camp- Rebecca Zischkau Ryan Harmen Arthur McDonald
FYI: Takara means treasure and that is why I picked that name for my main character
Definition of the chapter: Feign: -v- to put on a false appearance of; PRETEND; SIMULATE
P.S. no reason for this definition. I just thought that it was cool because it had pretend and simulate right beside each other. (Don't worry I don't read the dictionary or anything, it was vocab. Now... ON with the story!!!!!
6:00 am
Josh's living room
Maple Nut Drive
Blue Cove, Delaware
There was a squealing of tires and a loud crash as a yellow Chevy Caviler pulled into Josh's driveway, tried to break and crashed into the trash cans waiting to be put on the side of the road to be picked up. Argyle jumped out and ran to the door. Before he could knock Jarod swung the door open, glaring at him.
" Way to be conspicuous Argyle." Jarod turned to Josh. "Josh this is Argyle. Argyle this is Josh I met him when I was doing a pretend as a cop." Argyle looked at Josh. He was probably in his mid twenties and had short spiky dark brown hair. He was muscular and by the badge that he wore on his belt Argyle figure that he was a cop. "You know how I started that new pretend as a substitute to find the kid that The Center was using as their latest project?" Argyle nodded. "Well her name is Takara and The Center kidnapped her. I went to her house when I figured out that she was the one, but The Center beat me there by a few seconds. I had to make a run for it seeing as they already had Kara and one of Lyle's goons shot me in the leg." Jarod nodded towards his leg, which he had propped up on Josh's coffee table.
"So what are you going to do now?" Asked Argyle.
"Well first I have to find Kara's mom, apparently her dad was killed in a drive by shooting before Kara was born. It does not look like she has any other relatives that are still living. Both her parents were only children. Now Kara's mom is going to be targeted by The Center. I have to find her before The Center does." Jarod took his duffle bag from Argyle, which Argyle had bought a NASCAR racing bag instead, and pulled out his laptop. As he hooked it up to Josh's phone line Argyle turned on the TV. Jarod was about to yell at him when he heard him yell.
"Hey J-man I think that you should see this." Jarod limped into the entertainment room where the news was on. The screen showed footage of what used to be a car. A reporter stood in front of it while paramedics and cops scurried around in the back round.
"Jocelyn Stevens died a few hours ago when an unmarked car ran her off the road. Her car flipped five times before landing upside down 100 meters off the road in this valley."
The report babbled on about something else but Jarod did not hear it.
"Dang it. That was Kara's mom." Jarod shuffled back to his computer where he booted up to the net. % Another life taken by The Center. They are going to pay. % Jarod broke into the Center mainframe to see what he could find about where they were keeping Kara. Now it was up to him to keep her safe.
9:00 am
Dr. Bo's office
The Center
Blue Cove, Delaware
Lyle strolled into Dr. Bo's office holding a folder. There was a question that had been bugging him all night. Without looking up from the folder that he was looking at Lyle asked his question.
"Dr. Bo, I was looking at Kara's school grades and there is something that troubles me. Her grades are high but there are higher in the school. Aren't pretenders supposed to be geniuses?" Lyle handed the folder that he was looking at which was apparently Kara's grades over to Dr. Bo.
"From what I understand pretenders can become whatever they want to be. Kara had high grades when she was little but after that her grades went down to just being a normal high, not an abnormal high. I think that she pretended to be a child of lower IQ when she was in school with out reliseing it. She did not want to be singled out of the group so she made her own pretend where she brought herself down to the think like the kids she was surrounded by. I also think that some of her friends may be useful to us as well. You see there is a group of friends that she has been with since she was in third grade. When people spend enough time with one another they start to like many of the same things as well as thinking in the same manner. If you look at the grades of her closest friends, they have risen since they met her. I think that they are starting to think partially like pretenders, especially her friend Maggie Malone."
"I will think about this new revelation thank you Dr. Bo. Oh and by the way. I am putting you in charge of Kara."
10:00 am
Kara's cell
The Center
Blue Cove, Delaware
Kara looked at the mush that one of the sweepers had pushed under the door. % I think they want me to eat it % Kara took the spoon and dipped it into the red liquid in the bowl in front of her. She lifted the spoon and let the concoction drip off of it. % Yuck! I don't care if they want me to eat it or not. There is now way I am letting that stuff go down my throat % Kara took the glass of water from the tray gulped it down, placed it back on the tray and slid it back under the door. She heard someone trip and fall and then swearing. Kara giggled. From what she gathered when she pushed the tray out the door someone had been walking by, and tripped over it. Chances are they would be covered in the nasty stuff. The door beeped and Kara jumped a bit again. % Man I hate that infernal beeping. Every time I hear it I think that it is my alarm clock and I have to get up and go to school. % Kara quickly stopped laughing and downgraded her merriment to a big cocky grin. A soggy Dr. Bo walked into the room with a glare in his eye directed towards Kara but he also had a glimmer of merriment hide behind the anger.
"You really should eat your food you know." He said as he pulled a chair over to the bed that Kara was sitting on.
"Oops." Kara said insincerely as she let another giggle slip forth. "There is no way that I am eating that stuff. Man if I ate that chances are I would die of poising."
"Alright what do you want to eat then." Kara's grin broadened.
"Deer meat. Rare as you can get it deer venison." Dr. Bo laughed.
"Cravings for meat. Huumm"
"No I have always loved deer meat. Not necessarily rare but I have always loved it, compared to the nasty beef that is supposed to be good for you that stores sell. Dr. Bo laughed some more.
"What part of the deer do you want?"
"Tenderloin?" Kara asked hopefully. Dr. Bo got up with an amused grin on his face.
"It shall be done. They should give you a lot meat any ways."
Minutes later Dr. Bo came back with a tray. He handed it to Kara.
"Cool." Said Kara as she surveyed what was on the tray. % Corn, Tenderloin, peaches, juice, I can deal with that % She tucked in as Dr. Bo tried to start a conversation.
"You don't seem bent on escaping or not doing what you are told here. Why?"
"I haven't seen any ways to escape yet nor have I been told to do anything that I do not want to do. Had I been told to do something I did not want to do you would definitely know it." Kara said as she woofed down her food.
"I could tell Mr. Lyle that."
"But you won't"
"Why wouldn't I?"
"Because if you wanted to tell him then you would have made me eat that other junk and you would have gotten mad when you tripped over tray."
"Maybe so, do you relies that there might be cameras in here?"
"But there's not"
"How can you be sure?"
"It would have inhibited my, what you guys call simulations, what I call zoning out. I would not have felt comfortable with the cameras on me and therefore the out comes of the problems you guys gave me would be different."
Dr. Bo leaned over and looked Kara in the eye. Kara stopped eating and looked back at him.
"Why are you telling me all of this? I could easily use it against you."
"I trust you. You don't want to be here. You got tricked into this and for some reason you cannot leave. You have no choice in what you do. If there was something that I thought would be dangerous to tell you then I would not tell you, simple as that. "
Dr. Bo laughed.
"Yeah as simple as that." Kara finished her breakfast and went over to the door with her tray. She stooped down and waited. Suddenly she thrust the tray out of the slot. There was a crash and some muttering. Kara giggled evilly again.
"You know you really shouldn't so that"
"Oh but it's fun. Just wait till I get that Lyle dude walking by when I do that"
"That might end up causing you some pain if you hurt Lyle"
"Pain can only be so great then after that it is just a matter of time before the pain slacks off. I have already felt the greatest pain and it I can handle it. Anyways, getting in trouble makes things fun and interesting:"
"What ever you say." Said Dr. Bo as he walked over to the door, put his eyes next to the retina scanner and stepped back as the door opened.
"I will be back later on to take you to the sim lab. Be ready. Mr. Lyle is gonna be there." Kara's eyes glinted dangerously.
"Don't worry I will be."
A/N oh oh oh I like this Chapter and how I made Dr. Bo and Kara friends!! Oh I really liked that! It was sooo fun. I especially liked tripping Dr. Bo with the tray, and the sweeper that went by too!! This chapter was so much fun to write. Unfortunately my computer decided that it was going to take a step up on the make Pretender Fanatic mad scale and is turning off less expectedly so that I cannot save my work before the screen turns black. So now I am on my mom's computer typing, but the new cd's that I got for Christmas make it bearable. I tried a new monitor but imagine this! An ms. Dos monitor is not compatible with a windows 95 computer! Who would have thought!! So now I have to buy a new monitor I think and that is going to put me in debt a great deal. I am going to try to update soon but I have been spending my Christmas vacation screaming and kicking my puter so I am kinda busy *grins* Please review. Cuz I really need some good news. (I kinda figured out after rereading Gemini I that it is not as good as I wanted it to be, so now I am bummed out)