I love your writing style and voice but the way you flesh out the characters is amazing!!! I agree with Twisted and Dark Angel. Terrific update as ALWAYS doh. Yours ALWAYS are. Please end the hell and write some more SMUT. We don't want smut? Yea Mirage we do want SMUT.

Nowhere near as depressing as some of the other chapters. Still they are pretty miserable together. If I were either one of them I would have killed the other by now!

No offense intended but I will be glad when you post the final chapter. I really love your writing and am in constant awe of the fact you can juggle so many stories but this one just took too much out of me.

Further proof (if needed) that you are the best Pretender fan fiction writer EVER! I'm off to re-read the most recent chapter of 'Sweet Dreams'. COH = sad and SD = happy!

Thanks as always for writing!

Author's Response:

Thank you, twisted, for reading and reviewing. They are indeed miserable and I have been tempted to let Parker kill Jarod (perhaps the final chapter?). Oh, no, No offense is taken. I know that this fic is particularly pathetic. Oh, my muse- someone take my muse. Take her away. I appreciate every review, every email and you've all been extremely generous. You are so kind and supportive. Thank you, twisted. And believe me when I say: no one will be more happy to see this thing end than I. Thanks again for reading and reviewing.

hey :) I had time to catch up and I like how Miss Parker is acting. She is standing up for herself and is finally honest with herself as well. Well done! I believe Jarod when he says he loves her, but love is not always enough and can (in the case of a genius in love) also be 'dangerous'.

Can't wait for more :D

I don't know what to say. Mirage Mirage. You are the best my favorite author. :) You write the characters true. I see them and I think I can touch them. I wish you wrote them more happy though I know that all stories can't be the same happy stories. Original always.

Utterly gut wrenching that was. I can't say I will be sorry to have this story end. For one it is just to depressing! For another that might mean you will finally continue with 'Sweet Dreams'! :-)

As always thank you for writing and for updating. If not for the possibility of a Mirage story I would not even come on this site. Craig and Steven really need to hire you! (Well only if you promise to stop writing about misery! :-)

Please update soon!!

You are killing me. I know we haven't had to wait 12 years for you to finish a fic...or not yet...but you can do it. Please. I love this story and I have to know. I hope Jarod doesn't get stupid and wreck it all. Please let Parker be happy. I know whatever you decide it'll be worth waiting for. Hurry. :)

"he'd already figured up the amount of retroactive child support and written a check."  <-- that makes me go 'aww, he's such a nice guy!', but then he's really being such an ass with Miss Parker.  She's not helping the situation, though... *sigh* When will those two just give up fighting it and realize they're meant for each other? :)

Oh, why is she fighting this so much?

Mirage you don't disappoint! This story continues to hold my attention like no other ever has and the idea of MP cheating on Jarod with his clone is so brutal and so raw and plausible. He is Jarod but he has never hurt her. I anxiously await the conclusion but I wish this would go and on.

My favorite chapter so far. So many brilliant parts. First I'm so glad that Ethan isn't groaning and acting whacky. I love that he is the voice of reason and tries to negotiate. I love so much the conversation between sister and brother.. "I don't know." Ethan replied, and then dipped his head and raised a brow at the sight of his sister in such distress. "Why don't you tell me how complicated this is?"Parker buried her face in her hands and shook her head."Sister?""Parker? Are you all right?"He grimaced when his sister sobbed into her hands."Oh, Parker." He whispered."

I mean just wow. I love the scene between Jarod and Astra too. You climbed into everyone's head and I could hear them, a little girl, Jarod, Ethan, Parker, all of them carrying on these conversations is like being there and being real.I love NEMO. I love Radney Foster song you used in the club where Ethan found Jarod. Top notch Mirage!

I spotted one spelling error typo.. " a crouch near the desk " think you meant couch or sofa but your stories are so great I laugh everytime I spot one thinking of you making fun of yourself. Must have sleep now.

You make me hate Jarod for pounding at her walls until they fall. "He slipped out of bed and his dark, probing eyes narrowed. "Then why are you here with me?" And it's his fault she didn't leave. But it's her fault too because she did want him. You are amazing. Your muse is bold..she loves to make already complex characters even more complex to. I had a feeling he wasn't wearing a condom and I wondered....

Oh Oh Mirage Mirage Mirage... am going to stay up all night reading. I've read only the first five chapters and your fics to me are like crack cocaine to addicts. You know the characters on fundamental plane.. are you sure you weren't a TP writer for the serie? In another life on a parrallel universe? I think Jarod would find himself feeling those emotion..his relationship with Miss Parker is "highly explosive". Plausible, original, always well written. Please I hope you will finish this because now I'm reading.