Having fallen asleep, Parker's head was laying next to Jarod's and hers hands clasped together.
Feeling herself being shaken, she jerked awake. Eyes widening in fear for a second before recognizing Sydney's voice saying her name.
"Miss Parker…" He whispered.
Hand slicking back her hair to get it out of her face, her piercing blues met with Sydney's eyes.
"What is it Syd?" She asked in a scruffy voice. Sleep still evident in the way her voice sounded.
"Broots and I need to talk to you Miss Parker. We need to think of what needs to be done."
Parker blinked a few times then looked over at Jarod and back to Sydney. Getting up slowly she followed Sydney right outside of the room. Parker turned a second and closed the door slightly.
They were still on the maternity ward and had yet to move Jarod again for fear that Sweepers would return.
"Miss Parker, Sydney and I have been thinking it would be a good idea if he and I go back to the Centre……just……just until we can gather some things and…….and leave the Centre." Broots said stuttering the last words. Looking up he met her blazing blue eyes and the furrowed brow that now graced her face.
"Are you two high?" She asked with a voice that was close to angry but not quite there.
Parker looked from Broots to Sydney and then back to Broots.
"You two are talking about leaving the Centre! It's not something that you do all of a sudden or 'couple of days'. They will find us!!" She growled out.
Broots let out a sigh as a look of depression came over his face.
"Miss Parker…." Sydney began as his eyes pierced hers, "we just want to get back and give them a false lead." His accent making the words sound almost hypnotic.
Staring at him with what both knew to be a look of doubt, she knew what they were wanting to do was the most rational thing.
Jarod was still in a coma and no one knew how long he would stay in this condition. Swallowing down the saliva that had collected in her mouth she nodded.
"Fine."
Both let out sighs of relief.
"What are you going to tell them about me?" She asked suddenly, as if remembering that Mr. Raines was more then likely to ask what had happened to her.
"You're following up on another lead." Sydney stated the obvious answer.
Standing there a second she crossed her arms as she allowed herself to actually think and consider what they suddenly seemed like they were planning to do.
Jarod had been able to escape the Centre, and that was no small feat. Keeping the three of them………
"Broots we need to find a way to get Angelo and Debbie here without the Centre finding out. They'd be the first people the Centre would look for if anything were to go wrong."
"Broots and I had already discussed a way to do just that. Hopefully we will be able to proceed with the plan."
Parker nodded as she looked down at the ground.
"Are we really going to do this?" She asked the two of them.
When she looked up she found Sydney staring at the door behind her with an expression of extreme sadness.
"Better late then never Miss Parker."
Parker just looked at him as his gaze tilted to her eyes.
"Better late then never."
A week had passed and Parker had stayed by Jarod's side night and day. Leaving for only a few minutes at a time to either go to the bathroom or to get coffee.
The nurses had never asked her to leave. All of them having seen what Parker had denied for many years……that she loved him.
Whether she loved him romantically or just as a friend was still to be seen. But nonetheless she loved him.
Kathy would actually check in on her and Jarod every day and always brought food for Parker. Having discovered that she had not eaten for two days but a short conversation with her, she had made it a habit of actually bringing food up to Parker.
Broots and Sydney had gone back to the Centre and had found that Raines was in a blind panic. Angelo had been missing. Oddly enough Broots and Sydney had been able to get everything done that needed to be because of the distraction. When Broots had gone home to prepare Debbie he had been shocked by finding Angelo there waiting for him with Debbie.
Angelo had smiled at him as he held out all the DSA's and documents. Debbie was seventeen now and hat become a very pretty young lady, but most of all, intelligent enough to have understood that Angelo was not someone to fear.
A day later all four had left Blue Cove Delaware behind them. Sydney having taken care of all things Miss Parker had asked him to take or dispose of for her. Certain assets that needed to be liquidated……things of the sort.
Now Parker sat again in Jarod's room. Just her and Jarod. She had to chuckle at the irony of that.
When it all came down to it………it had always been just her and Jarod.
It was late at night, and with a yawn Parker realized that it was approaching one a.m.
Her back ached and every single one of her muscles felt stiff. The result of slipping in a chair for a week.
Eyeing the bed that Jarod was currently occupying she debated with herself over a very lucrative idea.
When she winced as a muscle twitched in her lower back, all of the debating was gone. Not thinking twice she slowly stood from her chair and shifted herself onto Jarod's bed, snuggling beside him, careful of all the wires and tubes.
On her side she faced Jarod and stared at his face. Slowly she lowered her head to his chest and listened to the reassuring beat of his heart.
Sleep found her within minutes. Jarod's heart seeming to lull her to sleep. Almost as if his heart………was beating for her alone.