AUTHOR'S NOTE: HERE IT IS MICHELLE. I POSTED A COUPLE OF DAYS EARLIER THAN I PLANED TO JUST FOR YOU.
CHAPTER 22
CONGRATULATIONS IT'S A BOY!
March 2, 2003
6:13am
Miss Parker's Home
Blue Cove, Delaware
"What?" Parker said into the phone
"Parker we need you here now!"
"Sam?" Parker said sitting up right pulling the sheets up to her chest as she did. "What's going on?"
"Will and the boys are gone. Some one drugged all the kids and snatched the boys."
"It would have taken three people to get the boys out if they were drugged Sam." Parker said shaking Jarod awake. The pretender woke daze. Parker snapped her fingers at him and motioned to the phone. Jarod leaned over to listen.
"Mr. Parker wants you here now." Sam told her.
"T-board?" Parker asked.
"Looks like."
"Tell them I'll be there in an hour." She said hanging up.
"I'm surprised that it took them this long to figure out the boys are gone." Jarod said glancing at the clock.
"I should get the kids out of here. While you're at the T-board they'll send cleans by looking for evidence of the kids."
"We better get dressed, the kids will be up soon." Parker said grabbing clothes from her closet. "I'm going to take a shower. Care to join me?" She said seductively.
"I'd be delighted." He replied rising from his spot on the bed.
A few minutes later the two emerged from the bathroom and walked into the guestroom. There they ford the four children removing any evidence that they were there.
"We're almost ready to go. This is the last room." Will spoke.
"You all wiped down the whole house?"
"Yes mama." Aaron replied
"Except for you bedroom." Andros mumbled he and his siblings snickering at his comment.
"What did you say?" Jarod inquired.
"Where is the vacuum? I want to get the floors." Andros covered.
"It's in the hallway closet." Parker told boy. "Make sure you couch too Andros."
"I will." He replied.
Jarod and Parker then left to clean Parker's room. Jarod and the children left fifteen minuets later. Parker left shortly after. Five minuets after Parker arrived at the Centre a team of sweeps were dispatched to her house. They found nothing.
March 2, 2003
7:23am
Blue Cove, Delaware
The Centre
"They were under your care and now they're gone." Raines wheezed.
"What time were they taken?" She asked.
"Excuse me?"
"I said 'What time were they taken?'." Parker repeated.
"Somewhere between one and five am." Raines told her.
"I may be incorrect but I believe that the sweeper who watches the children at that time is employed by you."
"What are you insinuating, Miss Parker?"
"Nothing. I'm just stating the facts."
"All of the children have been removed from the hunt for Jarod. They will continue with their simulations, Sydney will instruct them. You are still in charge of them. You're dismissed, Miss Parker."
7:50 am
Blue Cove, Delaware
The Centre
Parker's Office
"How did it go?" Sam asked when Parker returned from the T-board.
"Fine, I've been cleared. I think that all of their leads are pointing to Jarod. How did yours go?"
"Fine. It is the Centre's belief that I'm too incompetent to construct an elaborate escape. And they think that I'm too afraid to cross them. What about the kids?"
"Off the hunt, back in the Sim Lab." She replied.
"They're still yours then?"
"Yup. For now. Where are they any way?"
"Annoying Jen."
"Jen?"
"Doctor Mackenzie. The kids have a hangover from what ever they were drugged with."
"So you and Mackenzie are close then?" Parker asked pouring herself a cup of coffee.
"Just friends." Sam insisted, as he slightly began to blush.
"You like her." Parker teased. "How long have you known her now Sam? Seven eight years, and you've yet to ask her out?"
"You know what I don't have to take this crap from you I'm leaving." Sam said getting up.
"Bye lover boy."
"Shut up Parker."
"Hay Sam, do your self a favor and ask her out on a date." She said as he left. Parker then got up to hang her cup up as she did a DSA feel out. She had for gotten that Angelo had given it to her yesterday. She grabbed the DSA player and inserted the DSA.
For Centre Use Only
February 29, 2004
Chairman's Office
"You let her do what? Have you forgotten who those children are? She is already starting to form a bond with them what if she learns the truth?"
"What if they learn the truth?"
"Don't worry Lyle they don't know that she is their mother."
"They don't now but what about later?"
"We'll deal with it then."
She sat in shock for almost fifteen minuets. It was Jake who brought her out of it.
"So now you know." The blond haired boy said from the doorway.
"Y-you knew?" She asked staring at the boy in disbelief. "I need a drink." Parker said getting up from her desk.
"Alcohol won't change the truth Miss Parker." Jake said sternly
"No but it will dull the pain." She told him
"Only for a little while. And then when you alcohol induced buzz dissipates, you will have to deal with the reality at hand. You will have to deal with the fact that you are the mother of four brilliant children." Jake said his gaze never leaving hers.
"Who is their father?"
"Do you really need me to answer that?" He replied
"No, No I don't." She said after a moment.
"It's all beginning to make sense isn't it. The fact that they all have the inner-sense. The fact that they're supper pretenders. Now the pyrokensis, that came from Raines playing around with Will's genes. "
"So now what?"
"Well we've gotten Jarod out. We've gotten you're kids out. Now we just need to get you and Pete out."
"What do you mean you got Jarod out?'"
"Jarod may be a genius, Miss Parker, but he and my father could not have escaped with out my and the others help."
"You were what two years old when they escaped?"
"Three actually. So you ready to take your brother and run. You have a week to get your things packed. Take only what is necessary and nothing the Centre will miss. Now I'd better get back to the infirmary before I'm missed." Jake said and walked out of her office.
"Jake." Parker called.
The boy turned around. "You want to know how long I've know and why I didn't tell you or Jarod don't you? I found out when I was two years old. I over heard Mr. Parker and Raines discussing the triplets. I didn't tell either of you because you two weren't prepared. You both had things that you need to learn. Like the fact that Mr. Parker lies, and that Jarod will always love you." Jake said leaving the huntress alone with her thoughts.
Half an hour later Parker went to see Peter. "Hey there little man." She said lifting the sleeping child. She then carried the boy down to her office. There she found Sam sitting at the DSA player.
"You okay? He asked her getting up from her desk.
"No, Sam. Right now I'm along way from being okay." She told him as she laid Peter down one her couch.
"He doesn't know yet does he?"
"No. I don't even have a way to contact him." Sam went and hugged her. "I don't know what shocks me more, the fact that I'm a mother or that Peter and I share the same mother."
"Excuse me."
"Will told me last night that nor Raines or Mr. Parker are my father but Peter is my brother. Before my mother died Raines harvested her ova. Bridgette was just an incubator."
"Who is Peter's father?"
"Mr. Parker." She told him. "I'm leaving soon Sam. I am going to raise my children and baby brother, with out any further influence from the Centre."
"What do you need me to do?" The sweeper asked her.
"Look after Syd, Broots and the rest of the children. It's going to be a while before someone is going to be able to break them out. Security is high since the boys have been taken."
"When are you leaving?"
"Jake said I have a week."
"Jake?"
"Jake's known all along. He found out almost five years ago." She told him.
"Why didn't Jake say anything?"
"Jake felt that Jarod and I weren't ready until now. Sam how did you know that Jarod was the children's father?" Parker asked curiously.
"Who else could it be. For stares Will has a mole under his eye just like Jarod. And all four of them have that annoying little grin of his."
"How long do you think the Centre has been planing this?" She asked.
"Probably since the day you two met." He said.
"Park?" Peter said waking up, stopping the adults' conversation.
"Hey little man you're up." She said walking over to the child and then picking him up.
"Will and da others are gone aren't they."
"Yeah baby they are. They were taken this morning."
"Park if I tell you somethin' you won't be mad will you?" The boy said studying his sister's face.
"No, of curse not Peter. You could never make me mad."
"Th' only reason I didn' tell you was 'cause she told me not t." He explained.
"You told you not to tell me?" She asked him.
"Momma. She told me not t' tell you who I was till you were ready. She said you needed time. Momma also said you and Ethan would keep me safe from him. You won't let him get me 'again will you?" Peter asked his sister.
"I won't let him lay another finger on you Peter, and neither will Ethan." She promised.
"Good. An' you don't gotta worry 'bout my niece and nephews 'cause I'll look after them. Sam'll help too. Won't ya' Sam?"
"Course I will kid, it's my job." The sweeper replied.
"You don't look after um 'cause it's you job Sam. You do it cause you love um." Peter said.
"You know for a three year old you're pretty smart." Sam commented.
"My momma told me t' keep that secret too." The toddler replied grinning as he did. Parker and Sam just looked at the boy in shock.