A/N: Sorry for the long wait, but I'm amidst a row of test at uni.

Thanks for all the nice reviews. I'm glad you liked the last chapter.

Chapter 5

The light of the moon fell through a gap of the closed curtains and covered the two sleeping forms that lay peacefully in the king-size bed. The smaller body was curled up against the larger one, an arm securely draped over him. Suddenly the phone on the nightstand began ringing, ripping both from their dreams.

Groaning Parker fetched the receiver directly after the second ring. Her eyes darted from her baby brother to the digital clock on her nightstand, that read 3.04am. Annoyed and still very sleepy she barked her usual 'What!' in a low voice into the receiver.

Next to her Tommy yawned and rubbed his still closed eye with his hand. Immediately the brunette turned back to her baby brother and stroked his little head with her free hand. "Shh, honey."

"Honey?" asked a very confused sounding man on the other end of the line.

As soon as Miss Parker was sure, the child still slept, she sat up in her bed, a pillow in her back. "You sound jealous, Jarod." A glad smile was on her lips. Though she was happy the pretender finally called her, she couldn't resist in teasing him a little. "You are disappointing me, wonder boy. You really don't know anymore what's up in my life, do you?" One moment later she felt sorry she'd said that. She knew he wanted to be a part of her life.

The pretender also sat in his bed some hundred miles away from the woman he was talking to right now, a frown evident on his forehead. Deeply in thought his brown eyes moved fast. "Who is with you at three in the morning, Parker?"

"Huh, you really are jealous." The brunette looked down on the sleeping boy next to her and her hand rested protective on his back. "You must know there is someone who also confessed his love for me tonight. And this certain someone lays next to me at the moment."

"Parker?"

Jarod sounded hurt and she sighed, deciding this wasn't the right topic to tease him. "There is no reason to be jealous. The adorable guy in bed with me still wears diapers."

Enlightenment appeared on Jarod's features and the heaviness that covered his heart vanished. "Your baby brother is with you?" He raised a brow, waiting for her confirmation.

"I take him home with me on the weekends."

"And Raines allows that just like that?"

"Surly not. But after Dad's death I began thinking about my family-tree once again and wondered what'd happened to my baby brother. He was like vanished from the earth's face and the only place he could have been was The Centre. I went to Raines, and like always my evil twin was right there in our father's office. I demanded to see him and Lyle just asked why. I said that I just wanted to make sure that it was cared for the boy, now after his father's death. Raines and Lyle exchanged strange looks and the devil doctor gave me his permission to see the child in the evening."

"Really? Without reasoning and threatening?"

"More or less, yes. When I reached the sub-level a nurse already awaited me and brought me to the nursery wing. There she showed me to his room, which remembered me so much at Gemini's: no windows, no color, no warmth; only grey cement walls, a cot with metal bars, a small table and stool. The only difference was the blue blanket in his bed and the various toys in a shelf, out of his reach. But all of these toys had an educational purpose.

Tommy sat sad on his cot, hugging his blanket, watching me with wide eyes. When I approached him, he immediately stood up, as if ready to do whatever I wanted him to do. In that moment he remembered me so much at Gemini, that I couldn't bear seeing him like that. I decided to free him from his prison, even if it was only for some hours."

"So you went to Raines again and he said yes?"

"Would have been wonderful. " Once more Miss Parker sighed. "But I think they had expected something like that. I had to agree that I wouldn't leave Blue Cove and that Raines get a report about every step I do with the boy outside the Centre or my house. And the schedule I'm allowed to have him is really tight. Saturdays in the evening after work I can take him with me and Mondays in the morning he must be back at the nursery before nine AM, otherwise the nurse informs Raines that I broke the agreement."

A sudden silence wrapped around both, after Parker had finished her explanations. "How is your shoulder?"

"Fine. Thank you. Sydney obvious wondered, who stitched me up, but he took care of the wound without further inquiring. … No one except him and Broots know that I'd left Blue Cove last week. I came back just in time, to fetch Tommy and to inform Syd that the cover-up story wasn't necessary." Parker thought for a moment. "Have you found out something, Jarod?"

Instantly the pretender knew she was referring to the answers they had found at Seronon. "Not yet. But I'm on something else at the moment." His eyes fell on the huge box on the other end of the room, a smile creeping on his face. "You know, you are the first to know when I find something out about our child." When the brunette didn't say a word for a minute or two, Jarod wondered if the connection broke. "Parker?"

"Yeah."

"What is it?" Concern was evident in his voice.

"It's nothing. … I'm sure you'll be a great father…. Just I can't imagine me as a mother."

"But you're taking care of Baby Tommy; and I'm sure you do everything in your power that he's happy and save."

"Sure, but he is my brother and I see him only a little more than a day a week. And by the way, Jarod, he is a really well-behaved and smart little guy. He is really easy to take care for."

"What says that a child with our genes wouldn't be smart and well-behaved! … You are worrying too much about nothing, Parker. You'll be a great mom." Before Jarod disconnected the line, he added. "I won't call weekends' nights, then. I miss and love you."

Hearing the constant beeping in the receiver, she replied in a whisper. "So do I."

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The Centre
Blue Cove, Delaware
12/10/01

Hardly eight am had past, when the doors to Mr. Raines office swung open and Mr. Lyle entered, confident in his position at the corporation. With the new news he was sure that he would be the one keeping his head. He approached the desk, facing his father. "The jet to Memphis will leave in half an hour. This time I'll bring you Jarod."

"Make sure you do." Between every word Raines breathed in the oxygen from the tank next to him. "We need him back here. Our projects are now in more danger than ever before."

"Ethan is like vanished from the earth's face. Not even Parker has any information about his whereabouts. At least Jarod is back on the radar, playing his little tricks again."

"We NEED him as soon as possible. Last week someone broke into our gene-research facility in San Josè."

"Someone?" Lyle's voice sounded ignorant, through he had a guess, who Raines meant.

"Jarod or Major Charles." While saying these names, the doctor's eyes widened with emphasis. "Whoever it was, has information about 'Evolution', Jarod and Ms. Parker. And destroyed all cell-cultures and DNA-samples.

They have already taken Gemini and Mirage from us. We cannot allow them to endanger 'Evolution', too."

"What do you suppose?"

"To bring 'Posteritas' active into our program. "

Mr. Lyle was surprised about this statement, but didn't show this emotion to the outside. "And what is with the future of the Centre; the Parkers?"

"Without the pretender-project, there is no future. The work of decades would be destroyed."

"We still have some DNA-samples of the …parents." Lyle was unsure how to refer to the donors.

"The test-results are promising. We are in no position to waste his talents."

"She won't like the idea." The thought of seeing her devastated brought a smirk on his lips.

"It doesn't matter. It will take some time to arrange things."

Lyle just nodded in understanding, turned on his heel and left for the airport.

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A/N: I know this was short, but I REALLY have to learn for my Maths-test on Thursday.

To get everything right in the next chapter, I need the help of you. Can anyone tell me please, if it was shown in the series that Broots knows that Jarod and Ms Parker were close friends as kids? Has he seen a DSA about them?

Reviews would be nice.