Oh, my god. All of the oomphs from Jarod and all of the Pretender feels. It's so familiar when I read you.

Shout out to Parker's slam dunk wit.

"Right, so, tell me, how does this work, exactly, mm? Another punch in the ol' crazy-card, and I get a free ride to straitjacket land?"

Those loyalty cards. I have one for a local ice cream shop. Each time I buy a quart of ice cream they punch my loyalty card with a little cone shaped hole puncher. When my card is finally filled with 6 cone shaped punch outs I get a FREE quart of ice cream. LOL. So, Parker, she suspects that if she shows one more weird symptom or quirk, not remembering or one more terrible truth from the past is discovered that she'll earn herself a free trip to a mental institution

... and we know she'd forget stuff that like just happened in the previous episode, and she didn't remember who hit her mum but she indicated that her mum and dad argued a lot.

It's really intense when Jarod says, "Don't you?" (know what it's in the can) 

Parker tries to laugh it off, and then tells Jarod he has her permission. And I can hear the tears in his voice and his reaction to that. Really profound.

Solid writing Mirage.

You fill in the blanks perfectly. Please continue.

I want more. 

Please?

Hey now, there you are. This was exactly like watching an episode of The Pretender. All of the emotions, the best dialogue, and an ooh super intense start. Jarod had to Jarod as you always say. 

Fantastic, Mirage.

I love it.

More please? 🙏🏻 🙏🏻 

Blimey but you've been missed. Try not to stay away so long next time won't you?

This is astounding of course. Your stories always are. Please continue. 

Woot woot 🎉 🎉 🙌🏻🙌🏻 I'm glad you're back. You've been missed. And this is 😍 amazing 😍 I can't wait to read more!

Top notch mate! This is a tight chapter and this series could easily be a continuation of The Pretender. I probably say that about all of your writing. You have a real understanding of the characters and The Pretender. It feels like home reading you. 

That's how it's done. I can read this forever. Please don't stop. ❣❣❣

Oh wowza GODDESSES I love it. Jarod. He's in big time love with Parker. He craves honesty and also craves doing the right thing. Sometimes, like here, he was able to do both, honesty to an extent but fully the right thing. 

The way she doubts herself because she thinks Broots doesn't trust her. The way Jarod reassures her again. Oh, god. I love this story. Like all of your stories there's such a ... I dunno like a cohesiveness, and you maintain continuity so welll. You have it on a really short leash. It's so impressive. I CRAVE more. 

Oh, wow, I love this chapter, and I'm so glad you're back among us. This one is really poignant, with Parker sharing, still with some prompting by Jarod. I think her "helluva lot more than I want to" is really telling, and Jarod's probably going to be thinking a lot about that in the coming weeks.

Thank you for having Jarod call himself out for his past behavior. That was such a hypocrite move by him when he criticized her for knowing nothing about family or wanting to have a family... when he knows she had no way of knowning what family really is, and why, after witinessing all of that domestic violence, would she want to start a family, and especially when Catherine accidentally normalized domestic violence.

He criticized her so much for trusting her father and then said that to her, which is basically canon because he had many displays of hypocrisy on my DVDs. 

Then he kisses her and commits adultery after criticizing that way. 

This is real character growth, it's real emotional growth, it's self-awareness and god knows Jarod needed a dose of that.

You seem to understand how necessary it is to resolve past resentments, take some responsibility so that it doesn't keep bubbling back up. 

I love that she continues to insist he's a shrink, and he continues to insists he isn't. She did that during one of the Camelot chapters too I believe and he tried to assure her that he was a paleopathologist and lol she isn't buying it. And she shouldn't. 

He's still Jarod. He can be a shrink therefore he is a shrink. That's just how the Pretenderverse rolls. 

Thank you for continuing to write and go deep. I thrive on the profundity. The deeper you go into this the more awed and addicted I become. 

I don't know the words to say how much I love this. I do love this 

Please continue.

Thank you.

Roses!

The evolution of their relationship is natural and plausible. It's beautiful. I could read books and books filled with more. I hope you will continue with this and all of your beautiful stories. 

Oh my goodness. This is amazing. And I've missed you so much!

Are you ok? Are things ok with you? Where have you been?

Please don't leave us for so long again.

Jarod is so loving with her, and our Miss Parker is still so much our Miss Parker, just now she's a Miss Parker who is finally being true to herself. It's what I've needed to see so long. Thank you. I know I'll never get to WATCH it on my tv but I get to SEE it in my head when I read you. 

That means the world to me. Thank you.

Big hugs to you and lots of love. 

Take care of yourself, my dear fandomly sister in the Pretenderverse.

Yayyyy. Oh, god, I love it so much. I love how close they are and I love to see what we were denied happen. You make it happen. It's so perfect. Keep going!