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.
Always impressive, Mirage. Your stories are visual, rich in detail, and still somehow astonishingly succinct. I can't believe you don't have an editor.
I needed a moment, as always when I read you, to reflect on what you've said here in your stories. The hero's heart was, I thought, Kyle's heart, and could have been, or could have been Parker's heart. She was truly heroic in this, letting herself be captured by agent Misha Clemente who was pretending to be an old woman named Magdalena.
Parker knew something was off, but Jarod was being too stubbon to listen to her because he was so hurt.
This could have been about Jarod's heart, he never gave up looking for her, trying to save her. This could be about Angelo's precious heart, I know you love him. This could be about the heart of the hero inside of all of them and all of us really.
I love that about you and your storytelling. You leave enough to our imagination. I think the fan inside of you can't help but to recognize that need that we fans have to want to interpret some things on our own and you allow room for that.
You have made these characters reborn here in this final chapter of a journey that has been agonining. It's such a portrait of life. There were moments of comedy and uncertainty and pain, loss, all that makes life life and you let them start over, the three of them in a true rebirth just in time for spring! You even talk about Miss Parker possibly being dead, how certain sources were claiming she was dead and her brushes with death.
This is a complete rebirth... for Parker, Jarod, and Angelo. A new start. A new everything.
I enjoyed every word, every chapter, every twist. I still have more analyzing to do but rebirth seems to be overarching theme, beginning with Kyle's appearance. I love this story. It's beautiful. The redemption is beautiful. These characters save each other as much as they save themselves.
You are a paragon. Maybe a paradox too at times, an enigma definitely. Mirage is accurate.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Jarod is implicated in a spate of homicides.
There was so much talk about ghosts, this story and conclusion, and you, and you lived up to the hype so that means it wasn't hype at all, m' petite.
I read this all in one sitting this afternoon, and it is such a joy. Please forgive me for not reviewing each chapter. It's so daunting to review each chapter. I reserved final and complete judgment for the final chapter and took it all in total as a story. I hope you'll write more as you have a natural skill. You're a born author.
Reviewer: Sydney Signed
A past transgression jeopardizes Sydney's life.
You capture all of the characters perfectly. Love Parker's "THE most unpleasant" comment and the descriptive work. Beautiful work. More please?
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Always impressive, Mirage. They're really making a go of it and compromising. The character growth that was necessary for them to get to where they are now is still very much in character for them, and you balance it all perfectly. You have an excellent grasp of the characters and know where to put them. It's a pleasure to read this and I don't say that often. Brilliant work.
Reviewer: Sydney Signed
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Your plotting is on point, and you really know the characters. Jarod back at the Centre is so exciting. The way you plotted this is brilliant. That fighting scene is realistic and something I can see Jarod doing.
I want to read more. Please?
Reviewer: Sydney Signed
Extraordinary Mirage. This is powerful and tender, subtle and poignant, and still succinct.
Jarod back inside the Centre. I'm so excited to read more.
Reviewer: Sydney Signed Oomph, I can't get enough of this.
I just...I mean God, your writing is sharp and succinct.
Just what the hell are Jarod and Parker going to do now? How are they going to get out of this mess?
I don't see a way out. Are they never getting out?
Please never stop writing for us 🙏🏽 🙏🏽 🙏🏽 
Reviewer: Sydney Signed
Ohhhh I'm beaming, my heart soars, all the pretender feels are hitting hard.
Jarod's, "yes, well, that's never exactly..." oh, god, I can hear Michael T. Weiss when you write Jarod.
Parker's, "and just how exactly do you propose..." oh man, I can hear Andrea when you write Miss Parker.
I can hear all of the characters when you write them. How the hell do you work such magic? It's like you study them or just.. you just really know them.
It all just clicks, all the gears are gearing...Mirage. Funny that I don't know YOUR name either, not the first or last name. You're really a fan of the series, aren't you?
oh god.
Jarod's dark. I didn't always want to admit that either. Violated a man's autonomy, even if the man is a prisoner, is a felony and it's wrong. And doing it in a motel is even worse. It's so like rape. That prisoner was in prison serving his time. He didn't even know he had a kid. That woman he had a kid with knew she was pregnant and lied to her husband for YEARS. But she comes out smelling like roses.
That was wrong of Jarod. I see that now. Jarod's really dark. He's scarily dark. You were right along. But you still like Jarod a little bit don't you? I've read your replies to reviews. Do tell please.
And hurry up and write more. Please?
Reviewer: Sydney Signed A last resort
Exquisite work, Mirage.
Thank you for including Isaac. Jarod has called in a lot of favors from victims he's helped in the past and I love that only Isaac seems to know Jarod is still alive. The others seem to think they are helping family of Jarod. I love this subtly here. Isaac proves that The Pretender was wide awake woke back in the 90s.
I love how in character they all are when you write them. Magical. I can't get enough.
Reviewer: Sydney Signed
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
I just read your story and I love it.
Reviewer: Sydney SignedPart six of The Return series.
Congratulations!
Let me count the ways I'm in love with this young lady.
I haven't read anyone touch the topic of human sacrifices even though it was discussed heavily during IOTH. The sword in the Alley Sports Bar. The sacrifices that have to be made for messing with the scrolls. I'm glad you're exploring this and I love it. I was afraid you were going another direction with this but you surprised me and made this brilliant turn.
I love how Broots that Broots is, even if his the mastermind and was with the government infiltrating the Centre as a tech. He's still Broots. He's still worried. He must feel like he's sending his children away and putting the oldest, Jarod, in charge.
I love how you describe Jarod's concealed feelings. We don't always get to know how he's feeling. He always plays it cool and it's nice that he isn't so cool now and he's made some mistakes and revealed darkness. It's like you saw that in him before some of the others did, and instead of stopping writing the darker Jarod stories you wrote several more darkJarod stories. I love that about you.
I think it still alienates some fans because he's so sweet and so Greg Brady on the surface. It's his facade. He talks about Parker's. It takes one to know and that's why. He's hiding too. Jarod is dangerous and I needed to read your perspective to see that myself. It's like the truth is there and we don't want to see it.
Did you know that Michael T. Weiss wanted Jarod to be darker? It's in the special featurettes on the DVD. They said it. They said something about arguing about how dark he would go.
Season 5 would have been darker Jarod. Michael wanted Jarod to get darker.
You gave him what the networks didn't whether you're aware or not. I love it.
So, keep doing what you're doing. We like Jarod any flavor we can get him and you write him in all of the flavors of the rainbow and it's terrific. I love your work. More please?
Reviewer: Sydney Signed
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.
Reviewer: Sydney Signed This scriblet follows Incursion.
You always leave me in awe Mirage. Your plotting is brilliant, everyhting you do is on point. The characters are so in character it stuns me. You're a genius aren't you? I'm addicted and hopeless. Please post more.
I'll do it. Thanks, Sydney.
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Oh, m'petite this is amazing. You are a natural born author with a gift. I feel excitement like I've never felt before. It is similar to watching a new episode and wondering what will be next.
I'm too excited for more!.
More please?
Reviewer: Sydney Signed Always impressive, Mirage. I believe that a tragedy of this magnitude would be necessary to galvanize Parker into reaching a turning point, taking the turn with Jarod and doing what is needed. It's plausible. Heartbreaking, for sure, but plausible and beautiful. The way you write about grief is magnificent, the same way you write about everything. The beauty in the writing makes the pain I feel worth it. Congratulations.
More please?
Reviewer: Sydney Signed This scribbling follows Wild Horses, and concludes the not-yet-titled series.
I sit here in awe. Jaw slackened. Coffee getting colder. This is totally on point. I'm relieved for everyone who isn't Lyle.
I feel sad for Lyle because he refused to be helped. You actually have Jarod and Ethan trying to help him like Jarod helped Ethan and Kyle but the bad just wouldn't wash out of Lyle.
Parker knows how to clean things tho. I was shocked and thrilled that Jarod didn't even consider judging her. He was just afraid that she was physically hurt. I immediately began to cry about his behavior, his relef. It's so vivid, so real, raw. You shake me sometimes, Mirage.
Jarod helped her cover it all up. She shouldn't have to keep paying for what Lyle did to her. Lyle shouldn't have been out of prison but it's exactly like this out in the real world too.
"Sometimes, the things (Jarod) that scare you (Miss Parker) can be the things that save your (Miss Parker's life." I believe he was talking about himself and Parker then.
Parker's arousal isn't surprising. Jarod being a good man about it isn't surprising either. Mucking stalls? Instead of f*cking in stalls. Ok. Ok.
What a joy to read.
Reviewer: Sydney Signed
And there it is. You did it my love. I am pleasantly surprised. This is the best of christmas gifts, Mirage. Keep ruling, Queen.
Thank you for this chapter, this story, this unnamed series and keeping my favorite television series alive. I am grateful. Happy Christmas.
Reviewer: Sydney Signed Broots honors a promise.
(FON sequel)
Always impressive, Mirage, always, always. Your stories are visual, rich in detail, and so so succinct. Jarod is so ouhhh Jarod ..and all of the characters are so in character.
Please continue. 🙏🏼
Reviewer: Sydney Signed
Jarod has had the time and if anyone could do it... and would anyone here be surprised. The guy had to hallucinate his mum to stop himself from killing a man and he did violate that one man's autonomy by taking out his kidney and it was a skeezy motel. The parallels to rape in a skeezy motel are drawing themselves and I didn't always realize that... it was only after reading you that I went, oh, shit, true dat.
I think Sydney is right that Jarod doesn't want to hurt her. But neither did Mr. Parker right. So. You say a lot without having to say a lot. It switches on the mind and I'd love to sit down with you for a few weeks and have a big conversation about this series.
I'm loving this story. It's plausible. Scarily plausible.
Thank for sharing with us.
Please don't ever stop.
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