Summary: When Jarod and his clone are presumed dead and further cloning attempts prove futile, Raines is determined to find another way. He finds it in Dry River, Arizona.
Rated: PG 13
Categories: Post IOTH Characters: All the characters,
Jarod,
Miss Parker,
Other Non-Centre Related Character,
Sydney
Genres: Angst,
Drama,
GeneralWarnings: Warning: Character Death,
Warning: Language,
Warning: Violence
Series: None
Chapters: 27
Completed: Yes
Word count: 64108
Read: 2064698
Published: 29/03/13
Updated: 11/04/25
1. The Missing Piece by Mirage [Reviews - 63] 
(2895 words)
2. Silent Treatment by Mirage [Reviews - 11] (1572 words)
3. Truce? by Mirage [Reviews - 11] (1636 words)
4. Welcome Back, Jarod by Mirage [Reviews - 8] (1749 words)
5. Help by Mirage [Reviews - 7] (2585 words)
6. Flight of Fancy by Mirage [Reviews - 9] (3952 words)
7. Ace in the Hole by Mirage [Reviews - 7] (1526 words)
8. Exile by Mirage [Reviews - 6] 
(1883 words)
9. Unfinished Business by Mirage [Reviews - 9] (1293 words)
Petuary you might ask? I was a bit curious about it myself when I woke up at a quarter after four with the word on my lips. The internet has since assured me that such places exist.
Crimson Sphere is one of the fictional terrorist rings the muses dreamed up for The Return series. Shame on me for using it again.
No animals were harmed during the scribbling of this thing.
10. Tension by Mirage [Reviews - 13] (3673 words)
11. Demons by Mirage [Reviews - 12] (1459 words)
12. Recompense by Mirage [Reviews - 13] (4920 words)
13. Traffic by Mirage [Reviews - 14] (2488 words)
Fact check: flash drives were invented in 1999-2000ish, so naturally, the Centre was already using the things (Jarod probably invented them ages ago) and Parker could very well have pressed one of them into Jarod's palm during that infamous limo-hand-crushing-pleading scene.
14. Gone (Part I) by Mirage [Reviews - 14] (2916 words)
15. Gone (Part II) by Mirage [Reviews - 13] (3425 words)
16. Gone (Part III) by Mirage [Reviews - 13] (2544 words)
A reader asked for music during the Parker-Jarod-ness of the story: "Lots of different music." I deduced (no doubt incorrectly) that the reader wanted different genres, decades, artists, etc. and the only reasonable way (in a normal universe) to achieve that was- well, you'll see.
17. Gone (Part IV) by Mirage [Reviews - 9] (1858 words)
18. Gone (Part V) by Mirage [Reviews - 13] (2772 words)
19. Gone (Part VI) by Mirage [Reviews - 9] (1842 words)
The ghost of Little Miss Parker continues to bedevil Jarod (he sorta has it coming after all those years of tormenting adult Miss Parker).
20. Gone (Part VII) by Mirage [Reviews - 10] (2177 words)
21. Gone (Part VIII) by Mirage [Reviews - 15] (1895 words)
To all of you who've said Jarod (during the tv series) didn't frequently sweat/perform manual labor: this one's for you. The poor man. I almost feel sorry for him. He, however, rises to the occasion I think--- no, no, not that kind of rising; drag your minds out of the gutter.
Speaking of gutter—
22. Gone (Part IX) by Mirage [Reviews - 6] (1165 words)
23. The Missing Piece by Mirage [Reviews - 6] (1744 words)
24. The Missing Piece (Part II) by Mirage [Reviews - 9] (2897 words)
25. The Missing Piece (Part III) by Mirage [Reviews - 20] (2398 words)
26. The Missing Piece (Part IV) by Mirage [Reviews - 11] (2989 words)
27. Resolution by Mirage [Reviews - 31] (1855 words)
It's been a minute, Fam. I was certain I'd completed this-- until today when I was emailed a review that contained a lot of !s.
I sometimes tap 'submit' and immediately close the tab (that's a perfect way to NOT publish a scribbling). Evidently, I do things so quickly sometimes that I don't do them at all. I apologize for my continued incompetence.
