Knocking on Heaven's Door

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Nada, nichts, nihil. I don't make any money with this and won't try to. looking to whoever owns the Pretender Got it! So don't sue me, we writers don't either, do we? (For making us admit again and again they belong to someone else…THAT is really hard ;))

Author's Note: Umm… I wanted to mention that English isn't my mother-tongue and this is my first story in English as well as my first Pretender-story. I'm really sorry for all the mistakes I certainly made (I hate grammar – it doesn't matter which language…).I don't have much experience as a writer yet so please write what you think!

There may be some German things in it, but I'll translate or explain them.

I promise an interesting meeting sooner or later…Parker…Zoe…lol

Miss Parker found herself lying on the floor. She couldn't remember what happened. Irritated, she noticed that her phone was ringing. Okay, so it had woken her up. But why the hell was she lying on the floor in her living room? Still a little dazed, she reached for the phone.

"What?"

"Did I wake you up?" Jarod was surprised to hear a sleepy, lifeless Parker. It was 4pm on a Sunday!

"You did. Well…In some kind." she managed to bring herself in a standing position and made a few steps towards her sofa where she sat down.

"In some kind?"

"Yeah…Um, Jarod? Have you been at my house lately?" Parker wondered if he had given her a nice hit on the head, which would explain the headache that was beginning to haunt her.

"Missing my presence?" he teased her.

"Like hell. I was just wondering if I should thank you for the fact that I was lying on the floor when your call woke me up."

"You were lying on your floor? Sleeping? Unconscious?" Jarod sounded rather worried. "Parker are you all right?"

"Don't you worry about me PEZ head. Just continue spoiling my free afternoon and you should better worry about your own sorry ass." Parker just wanted to get rid of him. Especially after that evening on Carthis she couldn't stand the worried sound of his voice without feeling something inside her break. Damn him! She deeply wished he would just disappear without a trace! Forever! She didn't want to think about him, she didn't want to talk to him AND she didn't want HIM to care about her. It made difficult things even more difficult.

Parker hung up. This was just too annoying. She didn't even know who to blame: Jarod? The Centre? Her fathers? The scrolls? Herself? She only knew that she needed to sleep. Now and for as long as possible.

Jarod looked at his phone sadly. Maybe she was right and this was the way it was meant to be. A life after the rules of "I run, you chase". But if it wasn't? What if there was so much more for them? No, he wouldn't accept it the way it was; he would never accept this lack of options!

"J? Everything all right bro?" Emily was entering the room "Who have you been talking to?"

When Jarod didn't answer, Emily raised an eyebrow and flicked in front of his eyes. "Hello? Jarod?"

"Uh…I'm sorry I was thinking…"

"About what?" Emily sat down on the chair next to him. "C'mon tell me you look worried and confused."

"I phoned Miss Parker and she asked me whether I had been to her house because she woke up on the floor and obviously couldn't remember why."

Emily hesitated "Miss Parker? She's Ethan's sister, isn't she? He told me about her, but to be honest it wasn't much that he knew. Isn't she one of the bad guys? Ethan told me she was good at heart but dad glared at him in a way that said that he disagreed. Tell me about her!"

Jarod looked to the ground "Well, she's…not easy to explain. She is Ethan's sister and I wouldn't call her bad at heart but she's one of the bad guys, indeed…Unfortunately." he added.

Emily just gave him a look. She didn't know her brother for a long time, but she knew him well enough to recognize if there was something or someone important to him. She couldn't keep herself from wondering how important that Miss Parker was to him and hoped that she wasn't as important to him as she feared Parker was. Though Emily didn't like Zoe that much, she knew enough about the Centre to know that it was dangerous to deal with its people – or to fall in love with them.

Suddenly Ethan ran to them. His face was white and he nearly collapsed when he reached them .He leaned on the table.

"We…have to….have to help her." he wheezed, grabbing Jarod.

Jarod and Emily looked at Ethan, shocked. Jarod immediately stood up and made Ethan sit down on his chair.

"Ethan! Who needs our help?"

"It's killing her…Jarod! It's killing her…We have to prevent it…Catherine told me." Ethan stopped, but continued after a few seconds "He's trying to get rid of her because he knows about the scrolls – He knows about your destiny and the destiny of the Centre."

Jarod bit on his lips "Parker."

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I know it's not much yet…But I desperately wanted to post today LOL.

Happy Easter everyone !