Didn't expect this and.... maybe I should have. Congratulations 🎉!! Please � � � write more and don't ever stop.

Jarod's back in the Centre! Oh, my goodness. I can't wait to see where you take us next. Thank you for writing.

Welcome back. I love this and particularly love how in character they all are. I have to see them when I read and I always do when I read you. Parker tried to conceal her real emotions and not let it show that she is afraid, hurt, and doesn't want to return Jarod. But Jarod sees all. I think he was pushing her to see if she'd react. That was always my explanation for him being cold and mean to her on the tv series, too. Please continue.

Oo oh this is so freaking awesome! More please?

Heyyy yeyy! You're back and better than ever and I can't get enough and always want more. Rich dialogue and pretender perfect characterizations and I love this story. More please??

Amazing 🤩�! I need more now.

Top shelf as always. You're a hell of a story teller and author.

💯 ðŸŽ¯ right in the Pretender feels. I can't wait to see how this will all go now that The Pretender has returned to the Centre.

Already there is perfect tension and passion. Its everything I've wanted. Please continue. I'm so thankful �

Thank you thank you for writing and sharing you amazing talens.

Oooh o oo! So Parker takes Jarod in?! Oh, wow. He's not going to break back out in the next chapter is he.. it's always disapointing when he doesn't get to stay for awhile.

So I'm trying to unbox all of this and... what a perfect gift box you've arranged for us Mirage!! THANK YOU AGAIN before I continue...

So... in the second sentence we see that Parker is in disbelief just like Jarod is. She can't believe it's happening either ... suggesting she didn't expect Lyle to show up. She thought she'd break Jarod out and... let him go?? She's always let Jarod go. It's like their thing, their unspoken arrangement. She caught him, brought him to her house for the hypnosis and let him walk away.... which was hella surprising for someone who wants him back so bad so this... her disbelief in the second sentence is based on always letting him go.

Her next move is to give him fuel...his goal is fuel too, again both of them are insync with his plans to have the energy to escape.

She's got so much confusion in her mind...trying not to answer his questions, just wanting to get through it. Then he asks if she thinks he's dangerous after Carthis, she interrupted before he talked about the almostKISS, and I think she's disassociating here, but I also think... maybe she wonders if Jarod's guilty? Do you know in that episode where the Centre locks down and Briggie plans to blow up Mr. Parker's helicopters... Parker had to hear and see her MR Parker cry for Catherine before she continued on to save his life. This theory goes along with Parker always talking about the emotional umbilical between Sydney and Jarod and Jarod jumps right in to ask about snapping. I think Jarod not wanting to talk about Miuna when Parker mentioned her could have been misinterpreatated by Parker as Jarod not caring about the girl.

The verbal assaults are the same fear-anger chain reactions we've seen in the past from them. Jarod went a little too far tho cos he's desperate and we've seen Parker visibly wounded before like that, and it would hurt something awful when she's already vulnerable like this.. with her plans being messed up by Lyle's arrival and her not believing the reality that Jarod's going back to the Centre, and with this girl's brutal murder, too. We've seen before on the tv that she has a lot of sympathy and humanity for someone who is supposed to be so bad ass so this murder would bother her. Parker is right about ending up like her mother, and was right in the car limo in Scotland too. They were surrounded by guns, outgunned.

Lyle was perfectly in character, too. Wow. Amazing, Mirage.

That last line means Jarod will be giving them big trouble I bet. I can't wait. Jarod back in the Centre. No last minute escapes, gun fights, or his dad swinging in like Tarzan. Brilliantly done.

oh, wow, this is awesome. I can't blame either of them here for their actions And words. They're both afraid and there's so much appropriate tension. I love that Parker sees to it that he eats. I love that jarid pushes out the pain and anger to give his body fuel and doesn't think of miuna because right now the focus is escape. Out of the park brilliance Mirage. I thought I was gonna have to take to Twitter to get you back here . pheww just in time you show up and give me the update. please update all your other stories too. more!!

Oh💕 Parker arrives with snark to spare and she's telling the truth..Jarod can be a drama queen sometimes.

Oh poor Miuna. I liked her. You killed your darlings!!! I love the secret language Jarod and Parker have, and that she came prepared for war. I like that Lyle came in too. Jarod has to go back to the Centre now. Parker has let Jarod walk away so many times and Sydney is hospitalized? and not there to intervene or even try. Ooh, can't wait. I've always wanted to see Parker and Jarod back in the Centre at the same time both working... or will she go free now that she's returned Jarod? Can't wait!!

Lyle stopping to say "no offense" to Broots about the cosplay quip IS GENIUS! I love that Broots dressed up as Ziggy! I love that you don't disparage cosplay. You are really young aren't you? You're at least 18 aren't you? I will worry if you're younger considering some of the things you've written.. I guess I worry about you anyway. I worry. It's what I do. Just can't get over Ziggy comment. No one is ever going to top that line. Even Lyle appreciates Bowie, as it should be.

Take a bow Mirage.