LJP- You have no idea how much that review meant. I was getting seriously depressed
CHAPTER 42
PEAS IN A POD
April 30, 1999
3:08pm
Blue Cove, Delaware
The Centre
Will sat in his cell shocked. His mother was leaving the Centre to move to Oregon with Thomas. This was not the way Will had planed things. He had hoped that the whole thing with his mother and Thomas would blow over. Never did Will think that Parker would pack up and move to Oregon. Will had believe that Parker's strong ties to her "family" would have kept her in Blue Cove.
And there was Sam, the one factor Will had relied on keeping Parker in Delaware. Sam over the years had more or less been the one person that kept Parker sane.
"This can not be happening. This can not be happing. It wasn't suppose to be this way. Damn it you promised me. You told me we'd be a family!" Will yelled to the voices.
NOT A LIE. TRUTH. ALL WILL HAPPEN AS PROMISED
The voices told Will over and over as growing louder. Will covered his ears with his hands in a vain effort to silence the voices.
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" Will yelled tears streaming down his face yet the voices continued to grow louder. Will's nose began to bleed as he fell to his knees on the cold concrete floor. Images began to flash through his head as the voices repeated their message.
A blonde woman sucking on a lollipop standing outside of Parker's house.
Thomas standing on Parker's front porch stretching.
Bridgette pulling out a gun.
Thomas's turned back.
Bridgette pressing the gun to Thomas's temple.
"NO!" Will yelled and collapsed in to unconsciousness.
May 1, 1999
9:29am
Blue Cove, Delaware
The Centre
When Will came to he found himself in the infirmary. Sam was sitting next to Will's bed on his cell phone.
"Oh God Mor." Sam gasped. "I'll be over as soon as I can. Just let me get every thing straighten out. I promise you we'll find the bastard who did this." Sam said viciously and hung up the phone. Sam stared at the phone in his hand and then flung it savagely against the white wall. Will jumped at the sudden outburst from the normally calm sweeper.
"Sam," Will managed to croak.
"Will you're awake. Thank God," Sam said. Will noticed that the sweeper was quite pale. "You gave us all quite a scare."
"Sam what's going on?" Will asked already knowing the answer.
"You passed out. Was it the voices again?" Sam asked Will.
"Yes. But that's not what I meant Sam. What made you so angry?" Will clarified. In all honesty Will did not want to hear what Sam had to say. The voices had already shown and told Will what had happen. And Will blamed himself.
"Do you remember the man my sister was talking to a week or so ago? The one who you asked about?" Sam questioned.
"Yes," Will whispered. Sam sighed.
"He was murdered this morning. My sister found his body on her front porch," Sam told the boy.
"D-did the Centre do it? I heard that your sister -Miss Parker- was leaving the Centre."
"I wouldn't be surprised," Sam muttered softly. "Look Will I need to go. Jen will look after you." Sam said running a hand through his mussed hair. Will nodded his head.
Sam left and Will fell back on to his bed. 'What have I done?' Will asked himself. Will just knew that somehow he had to be blamed for Thomas's death. For weeks he had been projecting his feeling for Thomas. 'What if I pushed Mr. Parker into having Thomas assassinated with my thoughts.' Will panicked. 'Momma will never forgive me. I killed the man she loved.'
Will began to hyperventilate. His chest heaved as he struggled for breath. The monitors that he was hooked to began to chirp and whirl and Jen ran over to check on the boy.
"Will. Will calm down you're having a panic attack," Jen said helping Will sit up. "Breath Will... Deep breaths... That's it... It's all right... Everything's okay sweetie." Will breathing began to return to normal and the beeping of the machines stopped.
"Will what happened?" Jen asked a few moments later. Will locked eye's with the doctor and found concern in her eyes. Will began to cry. In his mind he knew that he did not deserve such concern not after what he had caused to occur. "Shush Will. It's alright," Jen said pulling the bay into her arms.
"No it's not. I-I killed him," Will sobbed in to Jen chest. His words left the doctor stunned.
May 1, 1999
9:45am
Blue Cove, Delaware
The Centre
Alley heard voices outside of her cell door and got up form bed, walked over to her door, and placed her ear against it in effort to hear clearer.
"Lyle we need to go," Mr. Parker spoke.
"What's up Dad?" Lyle asked.
"Your sister just found the body of the plumber. We need to be their for emotional support."
"Sure, just let me take care of Phoenix," Lyle told the chairman.
"No the girl can wait. We need to deal with your sister now. The last thing we need is for her to think that the Centre had anything to do with that plumbers death."
"Carpenter," Lyle corrected.
"What?" Mr. Parker said confused.
"Thomas was a carpenter, not a plumber. And on another note didn't you sign the termination order?" Lyle asked. Alley could sense a bit of anger in his voice. 'Maybe he does care about Momma' Alley thought.
"Yes... well we couldn't let her leave. We might may need her further down the road. Who knows if we need to create more children." Mr. Parker said.
"Like we don't have enough. Hell you should have just let her go. Phoenix and the Black Files are hard enough to keep in check. The last thing we need is for Parker to discover them. We wouldn't have to worry about her discovering them if you let her go. And who knows Parker and her beau's relationship may not have even lasted," Lyle argued.
"Are you questioning my judgement. I make decisions that will better our family. Trust me I know what I'm doing," Mr. Parker growled.
"Really because I think your punishing her for what our mother did. You don't want for either Parker or I to be happy because not only did Mom have an affair behind you back she betrayed you by trying to destroy the foundation you brought to greatness," Lyle sneered. Alley gulped. She knew the last person to talk back to was the chairman.
Alley jumped back from the door as Lyle was slammed against it by the chairman. "You listen to me boy. Never talk back to me. And never question my actions. I do what I must so that the Parker name will survive." Mr. Parker snarled.
"And just what do I and my sister have to do with the Parker name. I'm not an idiot I know that you aren't our real father. I don't know who is, but I do know that if Parker isn't really a Parker than Will and Alley aren't Parkers either. Unless of course Jarod is, which would be quite ironic," Lyle said.
"That lab rat is not a Parker. And just because the Phoenix twins aren't Parker's by birth doesn't mean that they won't be able to rule the Centre. They are legally my heirs, and they will be the ones to rule the Centre after I'm gone. Not you and not your sister. And don't pretend you care about her, or her children. Because she certainly doesn't give a damn about you." Mr. Parker said in a low voice.
"Maybe if you hadn't of had Raines separate us at birth she would give a damn about me. And maybe I would have gotten to know my mother instead of being raised by an obviously delusional woman, and an abusive man." Lyle yelled. Alley heard a smack and knew that Mr. Parker had struck Lyle.
"Shut up. Tend to the girl. And get your ass over to your sister's," Mr. Parker growled. He then released Lyle and walked away. Alley quickly made her way back to her cot, and pretended that she was asleep.
Lyle entered the girls cell and saw that she was asleep. "Get up Alyssa," Lyle said wearly. Alley did as told.
"Good Morning Mr. Lyle," Alley said softly.
"How much did you hear?" Lyle asked.
"Everything," Alley admitted.
"How much did you already know?"
"Most of it. I didn't know that you knew Mr. Parker wasn't your father." Alley said.
"The reeducation never took did it?" Lyle continued.
"No sir." Alley answered waiting for the blows to fall. She found her self in a state of shock when Lyle began to laugh.
"It's funny you know. For years I told him that you and Will couldn't be controlled. And yet he went on to create your brothers and sister."
"Why didn't you tell him about my telekinesis?" Alley asked.
"Maybe, just maybe I'm not half of the evil man I pretend to be." Lyle sighed.
"Yeah but you still killed those women." Alley commented.
"Yes I did. What can I say I'm a victim of my past."
"You know, after a while you start running out of excuses on why you do such things." Alley said.
"Yeah but after a while it consumes you. Becomes all you know." Lyle told her.
"Why?" Alley asked.
"Why? I don't know," Lyle said. "It becomes habit like smoking."
"That's not what I meant. Why are you telling me all this? Why have you been treating me differently every since Will and I were separated?"
"Would it surprises you if I said that I protested to the separation of you and Will. That I felt it was wrong. That maybe I do actually care about my nieces and nephews. That I may care about my sister."
"Yes it would," Alley answered honestly.
"I can see why. But know that I do care. That when I learned that we were related I was angry at what had been done. But know that I hate you all as well. It's not fair your mother was allowed to have something that resembled a childhood. She was loved, by our mother and she has Sam. I had no one." Lyle said.
"And that's why you treat me different form the others. Because like you I am alone. I was taken from my brother and hidden underground in hopes that no one will discover me. My brothers and sisters you don't have so much pity for. Will like my mother has Sam and he has Jen. Aaron-Daniel, Andros, and Alexandra have each other along with the other Black Files.
'But a part of you doesn't like me because I resemble my mother. You're an extremely complex man," Alley spoke. Lyle didn't answer.
"I have to go. You won't be punished for your eves dropping today. But don't ever do it again. Next time I won't be as kind. Also you will not have any sims. Be thankful because your mother is in pain you wont have to suffer as well."
"I suffer when she suffers," Alley replied. "She's my mother, I know when she is in pain."
"Take advantage of your day off. Wreak havoc on the mainframe if you please. And if your really interested. Play around with the chairman's Cayman accounts," Lyle told the girl and got up to leave.
"A part of her loves you Uncle Bobby," Alley whispered. "She hates that they separated the two of you. She wishes that things could have been different."
Lyle stared at the girl and then left the room.
Up Next: Jarod pays a visit to our favorite sweeper. And Sam gets interrogated.
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