Chapter 4

Another chapter! That's what's great about holidays: Enough time to do all the things you love to do but usually can't because of the lack of time.

I don't know if you can call this part romantic, but it's closer to something you could call romantic than the parts before…At least it's about feelings…umm, sometimes LOL

Thanx for the reviews!

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"Parker! God!" Sydney was shocked to see an obviously unconscious Miss Parker when he and Broots entered her office.

Sydney quickly felt her pulse"C'mon Broots! We have to get her out of here!"

"What does that mean Sydney? I don't understand…" Broots was puzzled and shocked.

"It means that Ethan was right and someone is actually trying to kill her! C´MON NOW! There's no time!"

"What are we going to do?"

Sydney thought for a moment. "There's only one place where she's gonna be safe."

Broots nodded and together they got Miss Parker out of the Centre.

He drove to a little house outside Blue Cove during Sydney was trying to wake Parker up. Without success.

"Broots! Take care of her for a while! I have to make a phone call!" Sydney ordered immediately when the car stopped, taking out his cell phone and calling a well-known number.

"Jarod! It's me! We need you help! Something happened!" Sydney said, quickly and worried.

On the other phone, Jarod felt his heart sink "Miss Parker?" he asked, fearing the answer.

"She took some pills because of her headache. I brought one to the lab because I didn't trust those pills after what you told me and Parker looked quite ill. I was right. We found her in her office – unconscious. She still didn't wake up and I don't know any place where she could be with a doctor without fearing that they could find her. That's why I call you. Please help her before it's too late." he knew Jarod would help her, but he had no idea Jarod would be that shocked and worried.

"Where are you?" Jarod's voice was almost breaking and full of anger. If Parker died he would kill whoever had done this to her. But know there wasn't time to think about killing, he had to be with her as soon as possible!

"We're near Blue Cove at the little house near the river."

"Meet you there!" he hung up and left the kitchen where he had been eating some pizza.

Entering the living room, he grabbed Ethan.

"We have to go. I need you to come with me. NOW."

Ethan immediately stood up when he saw Jarod's pale and shocked face. "Coming."

But when they reached the door, Major Charles held them back. "Where are you going?" he just saw into Jarod's face to know that this was about Miss Parker. "You won't risk your and your brother's life for that woman, will you? Listen son, no matter what you may feel for her: You helped her so many times! Did she ever do that for you?"

Jarod bit on his lips "You don't understand that. Let me go! Please! I could never forgive myself if she died only because I wasn't there in time! She's a victim herself, she's not the enemy!"

"I couldn't forgive myself either. She's my sister." Ethan nodded.

Major Charles sighted and let his sons go. He just prayed that they knew what they were doing.

Running down the stairs, Ethan gave his brother a frightened look "You are NOT going to drive, are you?"

He didn't get an answer. Knowing there was no way out, he sighted "Oh great…"

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When Sydney saw the car with Jarod and Ethan in it arrive, he calmed down a bit. "Thanks for coming."

"Where is she?" was everything Jarod said, but his worried face spoke more than a thousand words.

"We brought her inside. Come with me." Sydney pointed to the house.

Inside the house, Jarod was immediately kneeling next to Parker, who was lying on an old bed. Taking her cold hand, he looked at her and whispered just as loud enough that she could have understood "Don't leave me. Be strong, I need you so much!"

"Jarod? Sydney says that we don't have much time. Do you think she's gonna be fine?" Ethan looked down at his sister.

"I don't know." Jarod admitted. The thought that he might loose her haunted him.

Ethan remained silent for a few moments, then he said "We have to go, it's not save here."

Holding the still unconscious Miss Parker in his arms, Jarod sat down in the back of the car while Ethan thanked Sydney and Broots for taking care of his sister. When he took his seat he let out a sigh of relief "Thank god I'm driving this time…"

When Parker slowly woke up, the first thing she realized was Jarod holding her in his arms. She closed her eyes again and thought "It has to be a dream. I don't wanna wake up – this feels good…"

"Parker?" Jarod asked, carefully trying to wake her up.

Realizing that is wasn't a dream, Parker gave Jarod a pretty shocked look. "What?..." she managed to say, but realised that she was even to frail to speak more than a few words. She hated to be helpless and in this situation it was worse than just being helpless. She didn't know what had happened, felt like she had been hit a dozen times with a baseball stick and on top of THAT, Jarod was holding her in a way that she just wanted to cry.

"Hey…just relax…it's all right." Jarod gave her a warm smile, trying to make her feel at least a little comfortable. "Try to remain conscious, okay? That's important."

"Okay." Parker bit on her lips, forbidding herself to cry. It felt so right to lie in his arms. So warm and save. She knew it would never be the way she dreamed of – it just couldn't. The Centre would destroy them as well as they destroyed everything else in her life. She couldn't fight her tears anymore.

"Don't cry. I'm here."

Parker gave Jarod a sad smile "That's exactly why I'm crying."

They remained silent for the rest of the time. When they reached a little ordinary house near New York, Parker had dried her tears and felt a little better – in fact she felt strong enough to fight Jarod when he tried to carry her into the house.

Jarod, who hadn't expected her to fight him, lost balance and fell down. Now they were lying on the ground, glaring at each other.

Ethan sighted "Could you PLEASE stop behaving like two stupid little children?" He turned to Miss Parker "You've been unconscious for hours! Please stop being so foolish, this is very serious!"

"Are you a doctor, too?" Parker snapped and stood up, only to realize that Ethan had been right. Everything around her went black and Jarod catched her just in time before she hit the ground.

"Perfect…"he rolled his eyes. Parker could be so damn stubborn!

ToBeContinuedToBeContinuedToBeContinued…

I'm really trying to write something soppy, but I guess BEFORE I do that I'll have to throw Zoe into the mix – wouldn't be working the way I want it to if I didn't ;P LOL