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Title: The Missing Piece (Part IV)

Is this complete? Please tell me there is more. I love it.

 Reviewer: Jillian Signed starstarstarstarstar [Report This]
Date: 12/05/23 07:53 pm
Title: The Missing Piece (Part IV)

Amazing 🤩 I hope you will update this and all of your stories. You've been away a while. Are you ok? Just at least say hi to let us know you are ok please. You have to keep writing and being a bad ass! You have to meet Michael T Weiss if you haven't already and tell me all about it...tho I think you have already and won't share the details!! Take care of yourself. Wishing you great hols. ..and free time to write and share. I need more of your writing..am addicted.

 Reviewer: Lorraina Signed starstarstarstarstar [Report This]
Date: 07/12/22 04:53 am
Title: The Missing Piece (Part IV)

Hey there, do you have any plans to update this? Please?

 Reviewer: Contessa Signed starstarstarstarstar [Report This]
Date: 18/01/21 11:19 pm
Title: The Missing Piece (Part IV)

OMG! So amazing Mirage. I love your writing. The way you bring them in gahhhh I'm envious. She puts her hands on the table kind of aggravated and Jarod just covers her hands... so simple and so beautiful. I need more. I got some questions about The Pretender in general if you can asnwer them.. like why did Jarod run if he was a genius and could have exposed the Centre? I already emailed you but no response yet. Please. Or check your email..



Author's Response:

Why did Jard run? Jarod's creators are far better equipped to answer that one than I. I assume you're writing a story and want to brainstorm with someone? And you couldn't find anyone else and have settled for me? I'll bite.

The most obvious the reason that instantly comes to my mind is Jarod knew, considering the nature of the simulations, that certain powerful entities (CIA, NSA, DOD) with dubious histories were well aware of the Centre's existence and probably held contracts with them and that they perhaps even conceived the Centre or some aspect of the Pretender project (not as far-fetched as people want to believe it is) and would likely have done anything (including kill) to ensure that the Centre and its misdeeds escaped scrutiny and evaded accountability.

Jarod maybe didn't know who to trust or he deduced (correctly) that most authorities couldn't be trusted or perhaps that certain low level or ignorant law enforcement officials could be trusted but would likely be promptly assassinated should they learn the truth and be naive enough to try to expose the Centre.

Jarod would have been risking the lives of innocent police officers and Federal agents. (Another thought: he felt guilty and feared the world would consider him culpable as well- victim blaming is real; victim self-blaming is real.)

Jarod might have shared the information he had with the world via livestream, etc. on his own, risking only himself, but that might have endangered Sydney and Miss Parker (or at least resulted in them spending the remainder of their lives in prison) - I believe he had some complex feelings for them and that maybe his feelings sometimes guided his decisions.

Also, even if Jarod had 'leaked' the information to the world the Centre had their well-established narrative-- "he's a mental patient"; "his parents were killed"; "the poor orphan" (people love to smear the truth-tellers-  as I type this people are smearing a woman for finally speaking her truth) and they likely have decades of documentation to support that narrative (because they are, after all, the Centre) (you know they have decades of video that can be cleverly edited and it would have enabled them to easily dismiss his claims). Jarod then would have been considered dangerously unstable and EVERYONE would have been searching for him in some massive clusterfuck of a manhunt and that would have made it impossible for him to remain free, find employment, find his real parents, answers, etc..

I've wondered before if Jarod wanted to maybe slay the beast from within or was coerced to infiltrate because none of the above avenues were attractive. It's a relatively easy theory to float after all Sydney, Angelo, Miss Parker (people INSIDE the Centre) often help Jarod find the answers he seeks. Of course, with Miss Parker it's usually a quid pro quo-- Jarod, I believe, anticipated Parker's unwillingness to help him do anything (except return to his cell) and found and raided all of Catherine's strong boxes. Why else would Jarod have raided Catherine's strong boxes? He certainly didn't hand over to Miss Parker the diary he found. He gives her just enough to keep her absolutely starving for more.

Why?

Because he needs leverage---- I guess (and I know that sounds horrible but only if you consider Jarod a "good" person, someone that would never ever be similar to Lyle, a guy who is despicable and removes people's organs from their bodies---- but then we recall that, like Lyle, Jarod straight up abducted, sedated, and removed a man's kidney despite the man's pleas. I don't like good/bad labels. If we use those we have to face some hard truths: Either Jarod and Lyle are both incredibly bad. Or Lyle and Jarod are both good).

The information Jarod collects and parcels out to Miss Parker is the quid in the quid pro quo, the something Jarod can offer Miss Parker for the something she must discover for him from within the belly of the beast.

Another thought is we know that he discovered pretty early on that the Centre lied about the identity of his parents (episode one) and maybe he assumed that if the info wasn't in the stolen DSAs it might be inside Raines' head or somewhere else. He had a lot of questions whose answers might have never been revealed by legally and successfully exposing the Centre.

Rather than face prison Raines might have ended his life taking answers to his grave- those bible-tapping types love to imprison others, but, hypcocrites that they are, become terrified by the prospect of being locked up. Those are my initial thoughts on the matter.

Also, Miss Parker did say that Jarod enjoyed the drama.

I know you can probably think of a hundred more of these that are more plausible and intriguing and I'm sorry to cut the brainstorm short.

I look forward to reading your fics and theories, Chloe.

Reviewer: Chloe Signed starstarstarstarstar [Report This]
Date: 24/06/19 07:18 pm
Title: The Missing Piece (Part IV)

Please say it's not all there is to this. I could go on reading this for hundreds of chapters. I want more and more. It's nice to see Jarod a little behind the curve and not sure of himself. It's more realistic and fitting with what's happened. more please if I have the right to ask?



Author's Response:

Ah- well, there won't be hundreds of chapters. There will at least be one more. Thank you for reading and your lovely reviews.

 Reviewer: Chloe Signed starstarstarstarstar [Report This]
Date: 12/06/19 12:11 am
Title: The Missing Piece (Part IV)

The man, the myth, the legend. Ooh so many feels Mirage. This is perfect. This isn't the last chapter?? Please say it isn't.



Author's Response:

It isn't. Thanks for reading and reviewing.

 Reviewer: Leslie Signed starstarstarstarstar [Report This]
Date: 11/06/19 04:24 am
Title: The Missing Piece (Part IV)

Jarod is like a jack hammer that won't stop hammering away at Miss Parker. He was like that on the show. Insistent and passionate. You didn't change him. I can almost sympathetize with how exposed she must feel around him and how he doesn't quit until he gets at the true heart of the matter. Him issuing the challenge "you can't kill the little girl unless you kill me" and her response that it isn't fair. I saw someone say your writing is emotional and I didn't know what that meant until I got all the way to this chapter and all your words crushed me. The characters are emotional so writing about them must be emotional. I feel sparks of this or that and fury when Miss Parker is talking about videos those traffickers made her watch. There was anticipation when Miss Parker felt Jarod nearby and some laughter when she called him an asshat. When the writing is well done it is emotional. I can feel Jarod's confusion about everything too not knowing why he feels or what she has done to him but really Jarod has done all of this to himself and Miss Parker invites him to do more. I hope this isn't the end yet. If it is thank you for sharing your gifts with us. I have thoroughly loved this story and won't forget it. It meas so much that the series is still living here in this corner of the internet. Thank you.



Author's Response:

A jack hammer. It's going to be difficult to unsee that one. Thank you for all the truly generous reviews. It's not the end yet (wishful thinking). I really love when it's all over. Thank you for reading and reviewing.

 Reviewer: Kyle McLane Anonymous starstarstarstarstar [Report This]
Date: 11/06/19 02:46 am
Title: The Missing Piece (Part IV)

"I don't want your protection."

"that doesn't mean you dont need it."

Oooh. Classic Jarod and Parker. I love the way you write them!!

 



Author's Response:

Thank you, Shelley. I appreciate you taking the time to read and review.

 Reviewer: Shelley Anonymous starstarstarstarstar [Report This]
Date: 09/06/19 07:58 pm
Title: The Missing Piece (Part IV)

More please. I love this and your writing style. They are so in character. Yes!!!



Author's Response:

Thanks, TPfan.

 Reviewer: TPfan Anonymous starstarstarstarstar [Report This]
Date: 08/06/19 08:26 pm
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