CHAPTER 7
IT'S BEEN A WHILE
Blue Cove, Delaware
Miss. Parker's Home
February 25, 2003
10:00pm
There was something familiar about those children –Arron, Andros, and Alex, but Parker couldn't figure out what it was. For the past three hours she had been studying the three children's files. She hadn't learned much. Out of all the files, Alex's and her brothers contained the least information. There was no listing of their parents, their abilities, or even their IQ score. All of the information given was repetitive and could be found in the other children's files.
There was one sheet of paper where some one had hand written what they speculated the children's abilities might be. A Dr. Mackenzie believed that the children might have empathic and telepathic abilities. After almost seven years all Lyle and Raines were certain of was that the three children were pretenders.
Parker pulled out the children's pictures. The three were indistinguishable. The only thing that let Parker know who was who were the names written in the lower left hand corner. All three had stunning blue eyes. Their dark brown bangs were in danger of falling in their eyes. It took Parker a moment to realize that they were grinning in the pictures. It almost seamed that the children were unaffected by the horrors of the Centre. Just as Parker placed the picture in their corresponding files her phone ranged.
"What!" She said answering the phone.
"Hello Miss. Parker." Came a deep voice. "I heard that you made some new friends today." For a moment she couldn't talk. After no trace of Jarod for a month he calls her out of the blue.
"Hello Jarod. It's been a while since you last called." She replied. "Still up to your old tricks I presume."
"Your rarely wrong Parker."
"I'm never wrong Jarod."
"Really?" She could hear him smirking through the phone.
"Really." She replied. "You mentioned something earlier about my new friends."
"Always right down to business aren't you Parker?"
"You know me Jarod."
"Better then anyone." Her prey replied. "I just wanted to warn you. Be careful around the Black Files. Rumor has it that Lyle, Raines, and your fa- Mr. Parker went to great length to keep the Black Files from you."
"Why?" She asked.
"I don't know." Jarod replied
"That's a first." She said.
"There is a first time for everything Miss. Parker." Jarod said and hung up.