Chapter 3
'Miss Parker you still have a long life to lead and you're not a prisoner of the centre anymore,you're a prisoner of yourself…you're the only one keeping yourself hostage. Tommy just wanted you to be free and experience real happiness whether he was there to share it with you or not'
'he once told me that he wanted children with you one day as something that was all yours and had nothing to do with the centre,brand new and not a constant reminder of the centre-
'Jarod please-
'he also thought you'd make an affectionate mother-
'Jarod,that's not me-
'Tommy didn't think so and neither do I,I have seen the real you Parker and I have to agree,and even when you tried to push Tommy away because of your doubts he stayed,he fought for you but he needs you to keep fighting now for it all to mean something,if you give up-
'Jarod please don't tell me I'm giving up on Tommy I….loved him and nothings going to change that'
Even as he said this he heard the whimper of the 10 year old Parker again and he considered how truly beautiful she was when she was flawlessly human.
But the distrustful Parker was never hidden far enough.
'please tell me you're not pretending to be a psychologist right now Jarod?'
'no but there is a ski slope waiting for me…oh and Miss Parker?'
'what?' she growled as she wiped tears on her grey blouse.
'enjoy your gift,I picked it out myself' Jarod was almost startled when he turned around on the bed to face Elisabeth,his phone conversation with Parker must have put him in a trance,how did she have that affect over him?
She was so foolish,every time she answered the phone to him she convinced herself she had the upper hand but at the end she felt like a jealous teenager.
why did he get under her skin and mess with her from inside?she thought her heart was in the wrong place and the blood in her veins felt far too hot.
as if on cue a box arrived for her,snorting with derision as she opened it.
Miss Parker realised a constant of Jarod's personality,a kind gesture with a rude one a inside the box were four figurines of the evil gremlins from the Wizard of Oz and an engraved glass ornament for Tommy's grave she guessed as the engraving read 'Guardian Angel'
The significance of which she didn't realise until she read the note
'all he ever wanted to do was save you from yourself kind of like a guardian angel,some may say'
She instantly wanted to thank him and curl up until the anniversary and just cry her way to exhaustion….
Instead she placed the bat figurines on her desk to continue her self punishment and remind herself of her position,a ruthless hunter nothing more,nothing less.