A crime scene, a chance meeting, two people transcending the lives chosen for them. Jarod POV. S.M.U.T.
I just talked about R rated in another review and was reminded of my favorite smut story ever. This is me dropping you some love.
Reviewer: Jameason Signed
When you care enough to send the very best
Oh this is a xmas story? I don't like xmas stories usually but I love this one. This is what xmas at the Centre would be like, too. The Centre doesn't stop being evil to give santa a chance to come. It's evil every day. I like that Jarod and Parker were both startled. He was afraid she'd brought sweepers. She was afraid he'd discover her intentions and stop her. This is probably the only xmas story where Jarod and Parker don't end up together and I appreciate that...which they never have a happy ever after in your stories anyway. It is trite but especially during the hols. She turned down his offer of dessert... and he would know where to find all the best desserts because he eats a lot! I'm so glad I saw this and decided to read it even if it is a xmas story. It wasn't cheesy at all.
Reviewer: Jameason Signed I always read this at xmas time no matter how much I hate xmas. It's beautifully written and in character and Raines dies like he should. All that's missing is a happy ending for Jarod and Parker. A sequel would be amazing. hint hint hint hint hint.
wink wink wink wink.
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Reviewer: Jameason Signed Jarod is implicated in a spate of homicides.
What a hell of a thrill ride Mirage! It is genius to begin with a crime scene and original characters that introduce us to the characters we know, and I'm pleased to say, immediately recognize. Always in character, always thrilling. Rapier wit. It's a shame that you aren't writing the novels.
Well, I don't know about genius. Thank you for saying so. That's rather sweet.
Reviewer: Jameason Signed "Jarod I am NOT going to cook for you." The Miss Parker we know and love. You are amazing Mirage!!!!
Reviewer: Jameason Signed Welcome back. Top notch as always Mirage. "motherboard will short circuit" lol LOVE.
Thank you, Jameson, for the welcome back and for reading and reviewing.
Reviewer: Jameason Signed This didn't go the way I thought it would. It's better and I'm glad that Jarod isn't getting all extremely pushy and too forceful with Parker the way he is with the notebook people. That one episode in Season 4 Risque Business was very hard for me to watch and he was just too aggressive with the therapist who had been raped and because of your one story every time I see or write the word "therapist" I see clearly the words the rapist. I'm glad you pointed it out and I wish you had never pointed it out.
No one knows , not even she knows everything. But that's typical probably when there was an instance of child sexual abuse. It's a delicate story and subject matter and you seem to be knocking the chapters on like a professional. I think you are a professional probably and this is only your play area. You give 100% to fan fiction and you don't have to do that but I'm glad you do. More please?
Hello. Yeah, I'm not wild about pushyJarod but I realize that it's part of who he is and he reveals that face quite a bit in my scribblings. The first couple of chapters of this series being some of those scribblings. Thanks for the R&R, Jameason.
Reviewer: Jameason Signed A past transgression jeopardizes Sydney's life.
The incest can be off-putting like you say but it's commonplace here now but I understand why you give people a warning...some people can't handle it. I want to talk about Lyle's artπ¨ and your descriptive work and Jarod's reaction to it..all are outstanding! Each dismembered body part had a mouth opened in screams presumably but those screaming body parts in sl27 all surrounded by a sea of blood concealed another horrific portrait and Lyle and Parker being 2 peas in a pod!! Stunning. I'd love to see that actually drawn or digitally rendered??? can you do it or can I ask someone else to do it? Amazing job as always!
Reviewer: Jameason Signed Awesome. I need more please?
I'm working on it. Thanks for reading and reviewing, Jameason.
Reviewer: Jameason Signed Is Sydney gonna be ok?
Please update soon.
Oh, let Jarod and Miss Parker get together!
Tell me more about that weekend. I need the dirty details.
Reviewer: Jameason Signed From the top.... Jarod's happiness to be outside of the hospital is way to reminiscent of everyone in the world wanting to be outside again and dining out during the pandemic...and it's still not over but we know to wear masks and be vaccinated and safely distance and still be out now. But I swear.. ughh Mirage I felt that. I felt that so hard. Parker's inability to leave Sydney is appropriate. She feels responsible...mostly becausee Jarod made her feel responsible and that means she values his opinion more than Jarod could have known. It feels ...not over between them. I think it's understandable that Jarod would be surprisee to learn that he had been sharing Sydney, Nicholas, and the family with Parker... ahhh I love how write and story tell. I love the word placement, the word choice, the complexities involved. I never liked Lyle, always thought he was completely evil and impossible to redeem. Now I'm asking myself why. Chapters back you reminded us that Jarod led Ethan and Kyle to redemption and that Parker was in a position to pretend to kill Jacob convincingly. Lyle had to make tougher choices. Lyle was taken at brith, never knew love, never was nurtured and never had a Sydney to pick up the slack and nurture. Ethan seemed to have a good foster family, so good that they were killed. Kyle had his parents for a while too just like Jarod. But Lyle had none of that. This is more than a sympathy for the devil plot you've written. Lyle isn't the devil. Raines is if anyone is. Lyle isn't evil. Lyle wasn't cared for and that can have bad results and it's not his fault. He wasn't raised to know what was right or wrong. He was influenced and raised by Raines and crappy insane and abusive foster parents who tortured him and taught that if wanted acceptance he had to kill and do what Raines said. This is why I can't call your work fanfic. It's so much more. You're writing fiction and I don't know want led you here but I'm grateful that you're here. You really made me think and rethink my feelings toward Lyle. I was prejudiced and quick to label him bad. It's not his fault if he is bad. What can be done for that though? Will he be rehabiliated somehow? Was Sydney helping him? Because Lyle seems to realize his mistakes and doesn't want Jarod's pity. It's like he knew he was bad and thinks he needs to die now because of it. Will Lyle be mad that Parker distracted him so Jarod could inject him? I love the exploration and I want you to keep it up and explore even more. I wish your works would be in television format. You should be writing the official novels definitely. I wonder if Jarod and Parker will patch things up now. I'm so full of anticipation to know what will happen next. I'll patiently wait. Thank you a million for writing and sharing.
Reviewer: Jameason Signed From the top.... Jarod's happiness to be outside of the hospital is way to reminiscent of everyone in the world wanting to be outside again and dining out during the pandemic...and it's still not over but we know to wear masks and be vaccinated and safely distance and still be out now. But I swear.. ughh Mirage I felt that. I felt that so hard. Parker's inability to leave Sydney is appropriate. She feels responsible...mostly becausee Jarod made her feel responsible and that means she values his opinion more than Jarod could have known. It feels ...not over between them. I think it's understandable that Jarod would be surprisee to learn that he had been sharing Sydney, Nicholas, and the family with Parker... ahhh I love how write and story tell. I love the word placement, the word choice, the complexities involved. I never liked Lyle, always thought he was completely evil and impossible to redeem. Now I'm asking myself why. Chapters back you reminded us that Jarod led Ethan and Kyle to redemption and that Parker was in a position to pretend to kill Jacob convincingly. Lyle had to make tougher choices. Lyle was taken at brith, never knew love, never was nurtured and never had a Sydney to pick up the slack and nurture. Ethan seemed to have a good foster family, so good that they were killed. Kyle had his parents for a while too just like Jarod. But Lyle had none of that. This is more than a sympathy for the devil plot you've written. Lyle isn't the devil. Raines is if anyone is. Lyle isn't evil. Lyle wasn't cared for and that can have bad results and it's not his fault. He wasn't raised to know what was right or wrong. He was influenced and raised by Raines and crappy insane and abusive foster parents who tortured him and taught that if wanted acceptance he had to kill and do what Raines said. This is why I can't call your work fanfic. It's so much more. You're writing fiction and I don't know want led you here but I'm grateful that you're here. You really made me think and rethink my feelings toward Lyle. I was prejudiced and quick to label him bad. It's not his fault if he is bad. What can be done for that though? Will he be rehabiliated somehow? Was Sydney helping him? Because Lyle seems to realize his mistakes and doesn't want Jarod's pity. It's like he knew he was bad and thinks he needs to die now because of it. Will Lyle be mad that Parker distracted him so Jarod could inject him? I love the exploration and I want you to keep it up and explore even more. I wish your works would be in television format. You should be writing the official novels definitely. I wonder if Jarod and Parker will patch things up now. I'm so full of anticipation to know what will happen next. I'll patiently wait. Thank you a million for writing and sharing.
Ha, yes. I think everyone wants to be back-to-normal but not everyone wants to do the necessary things that will aid us all in being back-to-normal- mm, but enough about real life. I'm afraid that Parker values Jarod's opinion more than she should. I think she's in love with him (why, Parker, why?) (and I think he's in love with her, too). It feels not over because um, it's not over.
Lyle's certainly not perfect. Jarod isn't either. No one is. I think the appeal of this series is that no one is perfect, no one is innocent-- except Broots, Debbie, and Angelo. Most all of the characters are victims, including Lyle. Ah, well, regardless of what we call these scribblings, they are still only fanfic. I know, I know: Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost were fanfic, too. Whatever. Yes, it's my understanding that Sydney and Lyle were meeting. Lyle is a bit perturbed by his sister's actions, feels it's a betrayal. I wonder if Parker and Jarod will patch things up, too. Er. I'll wait patiently with you. Thank you for reading and reviewing, Jameason.
Reviewer: Jameason Signed Unbroken.
I'm giving you a standing ovation and cheers and whistles. You can hear or see it but that's what I'm doing now.
My jaw hit the floor when I discovered it was Lyle, but that is the face Jarod seems to most laoath and that makes sense.
This is the most plausible thing I've read since.. the last thing I read by you a minute ago. This is so succinct and poignant and so profound and just...oh, my god! I need to read all of this. The sequel and prequel. I'll go look for those now. Thank you so so much for writing and sharing with us.
Reviewer: Jameason Signed _
I've been away too long. Am loving this. Mind blown.
Reviewer: Jameason Signed Oh Mirage it's so lovely to have you back and a hell of a ride this one is already. I was reading along thinking Jarod was dead and then ...no. It's so like you to kill Jarod and so I was convinced he was a goner lol. He has a way doesn't he because at the end of chapter 4 he's saying "don't do this for me, do it for Eli" and that is classic Jarod. You know him well. Even if you don't like him well. He can be creepy sometimes.. I recall another of your wonderful novels where you described his conversation with Miss Parker and how she was feeling while he interrogated her and it was something like "intensines churning" and then "or a cloth being wrung out" like twisting at the ends or something anyway yeah I felt aLOT like Miss Parker when I watched some of the Pretender episodes.. he can be cringey. Risque Business was one of them.. that whole conversation with Blass and Jarod can be just...weird. You capture that perfectly. Pretender perfectly. Don't stop. I love your writing.
Reviewer: Jameason Signed Beautiful prose and so so eloquent. You amaze me. Your voice is strong and you know these characters and where to place them to perfection. I'm eternally grateful Mirage.
Thanks for reading and reviewing. You are too kind.
Reviewer: Jameason Signed ooooh. wow. So much to break apart and examine.
I love that she has no objections to blaming him for having sex with him. The ending had me rolling laughing. She wants to do it again and is angry that she wants to do it again. You left them satisfied and you left me satisfied too. I just love it all. Please say there'll be more.
Haha. Oh, God. What the hell did I write? I'm afraid to read my own writing.
OH. MY. GOD!!! Eli is .... oh my god!!
How am I supposed to be able to think now?
The tension is palpable.
"Parker reeled back in surprise and asked in a low, throaty voice, "What else did Angelo tell you?"
"A hell of lot more than you're telling me," returned Jarod fiercely. "Answer the question."
and Parker wants to kill the tension, will do anything to stop the tension
"This conversation is over."
Jarod offered her a sympathetic smile. "I know you want it to be over. I know you do," he said softly, his brow creasing. "Don't," implored Jarod when Parker's lips parted, shaking his head. "Don't beg me to leave. I don't want to be the villain, compared or conflated with Lyle. I don't want to coerce you to do anything."
He's so understanding but he's still so much an asshole for leaving but he had to leave but oh... you know what you're doing. You do it expertly. Ive never been so unable to walk away from a novel/book/story. I can't put this down.
You excel at every aspect of writing, including children and children is where most authors lose me because most people think kids are just dumb. You give them personalities that I fall in love with. I love their snark.
More tension. There was a lot of tension on the show and between Jaord and MP so yeah, makes sense and I love it.
This part where Parker tells on herself.
"I'm not doing this," insisted Parker, slamming a cabinet closed."Avery's a rather obstinate child, but polite and intelligent," said Jarod with an amicable smile. "She reminds me of you at that age. Eli reminds me of you, too," added Jarod tersely, his smile vanishing. "He's distrustful, guarded, suspicious of questions."
"It's not too late to walk away, Jarod, before this becomes complicated, and be remembered fondly as a family friend who came to dinner. Full disclosure: they aren't always this well-behaved. You don't have a monopoly on pretending, artfulness, acting charming."
Jarod gazed steadily and silently at Parker, absorbing her words with an inscrutable expression, detecting nuances of chicanery, deducing that the developing amicable rapport was feigned. Reestablishing credibility and communication, he realized, would be challenging. "What," she demanded in apparent perturbation, her eyes wide and fierce.
"You're trying to frighten me away."
and all of this too
"Someone else, you mean?" Jarod asked pointedly, dropping his voice to a hush, deliberately enunciating her name. "I'm sorry that I hurt you," he asserted, categorically accepting the responsibility evidently assigned to him, "for whatever my apology is worth."
Parker scoffed her incredulity. "I'm perfectly capable of saying precisely what I mean," she snarled at him. "For all the good it does," she added hotly. "That isn't my name."
"Nevertheless," Jarod said, maintaining a placid, soft tone, observing as Parker opened a drawer, shuffled its contents. "It would have hurt you a lot more had I stayed after Glasgow, after clarifying my feelings when, clearly, you didn't reciprocate."
"No," agreed Jarod, the passivity and softness in his voice bizarre if not incongruous, considering the implied audacity. "I am. Each time I considered returning, I remembered the tears in your voice, your eyes, and those words." Just forget. "I believed I was only capable of causing you pain and, apparently, I wasn't wrong."
"Heaven forbid," snarled Parker, bordering contentious.
Heaven forbid Jarod ever be wrong about anything. I get you. I love it.
You are magic. I'm under the spell definitely.
so eloquent, too
Whows!
That's all I got.
I could copy and paste the entire story I bet to show all of the parts I love. I'll spare you all of that reading. You worked so hard writing this I can tell it's so professional.
Need more. But I have to sleep or I'll get fired.
Reviewer: Jameason Signed Please update this next. I need more.
Reviewer: Jameason Signed Parker took her kids to her abortion.. is just something so liberating and something she would have to do under those circumstances and I love that she isn't apologetic at all in owning her body and making decisions. Parker is going to do what she wants every time and we see it again here.
It's plausible that she would have to break laws to survive. She chose Jeruselum because in and around Israel abortions are free. Israel is really progressive, right? But she had illegal cross into Mexico first and then hijack a corporate flight to get to Israel. I like the added backstory and time line that supports everything I already know. I love this story. It's not typical. You're the best bar none hands down. Your writing always blows me away. It's such a pleasure to read you Mirage. Congratulations.
Reviewer: Jameason Signed Speechless and thrilled.
Thank you so much for this THE ULTIMATE missing piece Mirage. Whows! What else is in the Mirarchives? Will you please post all of it? I love this. It's such a treasure and the most original story ever. No one has ever done this... just like no one thought to have Parker kill Jarod with a pistachio laced kiss. Or have Parker and Jarod end us as twins... or... have Jarod go full dark. Or ... you are amazing. This is the best thing ever. Thanks for being talented and thanks for sharing with us. Thank you for keeping my favorite characters alive and very much in character.
It's ugly down in the Mirarchives. I won't post all of it. Some of those stories will never see the light of day, are for my eyes only- and even I don't want to read them. I will be sharing from the Mirarchives a prequel to Wild Horses (o unholy darkness) and adding a second and final chapter to Wild Horses. Winter is coming.
Um. Full-darkJarod was-- a mistake. That one should have never escaped the Mirarchives. It was so dark and something most (normal) people don't readily associate with Jarod and that's why that happened. If it's crazy and veering out of character it beckons the muses. Now you know.
Thank you for reading and reviewing.
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