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Author's Note: Hey people. My Goodness, let me tell you that being a pretender and therefore being trained to get along with little or no sleep at all is definitely an advantage. I have no such luck to be a trained pretender (if it really is luck?) and so I have to cope with getting only two hours of light slumber (not sleep!) over the course over the last two and a half days (or were it three?). We (speak my whole school year) are currently in the last few days of our school-departure festivities and let me tell you that this is more stress than school itself. There is so much that needs to be organised as well as bodily carried. Well, anyway; I didn't really get any sleep lately but yet I decided to rewrite this chapter for I didn't like the old one any longer. And my tiredness is very much the reason why this newer chapter is so very short. I'm sorry for that but I decided against postponing the update. For I know that this chapter is so devastatingly short, there will be an update in two days… but until then, I would love to get reviews from you! Thank you all!

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The Call Part 16

Thinking twice about it

Another week had passed. Another week and his mind had yet to give him some rest.

Jarod huffed.

It weren't so much his nightmares that made him uneasy. It was something else that made him wonder, something else that had left him in a sullen mood the last few weeks.

Five weeks ago, he had called Sydney and told him that it would be the final call.

It wasn't the reason that he missed his mentor and that he wanted to talk to him again, to hear his voice… he did but that was not what put him into this mood.

It was rather what Sydney had said and what Jarod had tried to ignore over the past five weeks.

"No but you are making another mistake", Sydney had said and that maybe he had misinterpreted something.

Sydney had placed some doubt into Jarod's version of what had happened.

Jarod had spent the better part of the last few weeks trying to crash that doubt into pieces but somehow they always managed to reassemble and even grow bigger every time he turned his back on the pile of pieces.

There was this nagging doubt that had managed to eat way a huge part of his ignorance and let the curiosity and his conscience resurface.

Jarod looked at the water. He was still in Canada. Staying in one and the same place for six weeks in the outside world was a whole new experience for him.

Normally he wouldn't have dared to do something like that but he knew that he had left no traces to his whereabouts and so the Centre was as clueless as it had been six weeks ago.

Out of curiosity he had accessed the email account he had given Parker the address to, two days before everything had happened.

There were several mails waiting for him; mails from shortly before his capture and after his escape.

Nearly every one of them was from Miss Parker.

At first, Jarod had shut the server off, not wanting to know what she wrote but in the end, curiosity had gotten the better of him and combined with the nagging doubt Sydney had placed in him, he hadn't been able to resist anymore.

The mails from before his capture were short and seemed as if hastily scribbled, telling him to call her again before going into the Centre and that it was very important that she spoke to him once more.

Those from after his escape showed various stages of pleading, nearly begging with him to call her and that she needed to speak to him.

Despite her emails and Sydney's careful words, Jarod had managed to keep his consciousness down for some more days.

He didn't know what to make out of it and somehow part of his mind refused to give him room to find out.

The fact was that he was still afraid and what was more, he was deeply hurt by what Parker had done… or what he thought she had done.

Jarod growled silently.

Again, there was this soft voice inside of his mind, the voice that doubted that version.

He breathed in deeply and let his gaze wander over the calm surface of the ocean.

The surface was calm but in the depth of that silent water, there were so many dangers just waiting for the victim-to-be to show up.

Jarod balled his hands.

Maybe he had to place another call to his past, if only to set his mind at rest and let go of the past completely.

To be continued…

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