So... you are Mirage. Now I know. Your work is every bit as magnificent as I'd heard it would be. I had high expectations and you exceeded those and I don't say that often. Now that I'm hooked I want more. I'll wait but not patiently. Congrats.

*Can someone please contact Craig and Steven and let them know that Mirage will write the Pretender ending we all want and deserve!?*

With every chapter in every story you write Mirage you keep Miss Parker and Jarod alive. You skillfully flesh them out for us. You do this while updating and writing several stories at once. 

I remain grateful for all that you do to keep 'The Pretender' in our lives. 

Thank you!

OMG. This is shipper utopia Mirage. You naughty non shipper! I can't even believe all the feels and loves I have. "I can't stop it either," Jarod continued, "or promise you it'll end, but I'm not going to laeve you alone with it. People in relationships," he added, finding the taste of Parker's words on his lips pleasant, "don't watch the person they love struggle to keep their head above water and do nothing." You make me cry like a dummy. OH and the C4 and countdown clock... yeasss. I don't know how you navigate all of this but it is magic the way you moved them from what they were ..and I love that scene where she tells him what she wants... to what they are now. More of this. You are the master. Or mistress.. whatever. I love your writing. I crave more.

Pretender perfect. I've never seen the characters so IN character. Am blown away.

YES! The saga continues and until all the real life anxiety-triggering drama dies down I will be immersing myself into the Pretender universe where if Jarod doesn't kill the bad guys Miss Parker will and if she doesn't Jarod's Mother will. That seems like the sweet surprise twist..Jarod's mom a bad ass. I want it. Make it so Mirage. Because I need that in my life right now. There seems to be no justice ever. You won't ever know how much your work means to me. Please dont stop. I don't notice errors or anything wrong. It's always well written. It's literally perfection. 

Welcome back. Top notch as always Mirage. "motherboard will short circuit" lol LOVE.

Been away for a while but I'm back now during this time of turmoil in the U.S. and we're about to become A Handmaid's Tale scenario. It's scary as hell. I was hoping you would still be here sharing your love with us and here you are. Relieving some anxiety and letting me just go to the Pretender universe and hang there for a while. Thank you Mirage.

The US is certainly on a bender. I can attest to that personally as it's my country of origin as well. I think some evangelical women are finally coming around and the hangover must be hell and deservedly so. They should have to carry their support for the rapist in chief to full term.

This one took a turn I didn't foresee. Jarod withholding the truth from Parker and also torturing himself. It make sense that even though they've almost established a brutal honesty with each other that now as he finds himself in love and a father he would grow to feel protective of Parker's feelings. He enforces this concern and love by not having sex with her because even the truest consensual sex cannot be completely consensual if she isn't aware of the circumstances, that there's no way out right for her should she decide sex was a mistake and that she doesn't want to be with him. I can see how he would consider all of the repecussions and decide she wouldn't feel eager to have sex at all if she knew the truth about their changed circumstances. Jarod's doing the correct thing here and I hope he will tell her the truth.

I'd still like for her to confide in Jarod, allow him to help her. I think you cringe probably when you think of writing that one. It's only a thought. It's your story. I haven't been disappointed by you yet.

It seems completely plausible too that the bad spray tan in the WH would cut funding to something important as Witness Protection. Just look what he's doing to the water and the national parks. I'm glad you didn't rewrite anything.

Trust your Muses, Mirage.

I do.

Until next time..

I'm glad someone is holding Jarod accountable. Finally. Good on Ethan. I'm glad Parker has an ally. I think Jarod's abducting and sedating Parker justify Ethan's concern. I love how well thought out and written your stories are. Amazing.

This is that other issue you highlight inside an already moving and emotional story. The prose and dialogue are familiar to what we know. These characters have a way and you have captured that "way" and you grow them. The full development you write is what I wanted to see when I used to watch The Pretender while doing my algebra homework. I read you and it's like they are there in front of me again and even better. I love this story. I love that Jarod loves Miss Parker enough to know he doesn't need the sex, that he doesn't want to risk what they have for the physical. He is lying at her side and sharing her bed and giving her comfort. Something else I noticed is a profound example of consent. She isn't trying to convince him to have sex with her or jumping his bones. She doesn't resent him or try to pressure him or tell him he isn't man enough. He explained how things were and she respected him enough to leave it at that. What you've given us here is a special magical gift Mirage. Right now more than ever this lesson needs to be heard. Thank you. Just thank you and wow. So much wow.

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?

I was afraid I wasn't going to like this. I feared you were going in a darker Jarod direction so I'm relieved. For him to have sex with her now when she's there with in the first place because he abducted her would be wrong wrong wrong of him even if she offers herself naked to him on a silver platter. I like your darker evil Jarod novels when that's a part of the plot but right now he's his usual darkness and still good and I like it.

I need to say that I love how Jarod had planned to have one conversation with Ethan and then for him to lose control of the conversation. It shows Jarod's humanity and that he isn't always perfect. Makes him more relatable. I love how you show that Ethan has grown and come a long way and he took control of the conversation and held Jarod accountable. When it came down between allying with Jarod against his sister, Ethan chose to ally with his sister. Can't blame that. She never shot or took Jarod to the Centre but Jarod did abduct her.

LOVE Parker's thoughts about Jarod's own fears that he's chin-deep in. It just shows that he keeps trying to help others when he needs help and easily he could become an enabler even accidentally. Needing help, needing to help others and needing her because he loves her and he could let things slide to please her. They could bring each other down if they aren't careful, drown together. You keep it real and I've always loved that about your writing. Cate adds difficulties as children do. Bringing Catherine into this is a stroke of genius too. I can't wait to see what happens next. I never want this to end.

Bless you. Mirage your update is the best news I've seen all year. I feel like I'm sometime living through a hurricane every waking minute... it's been a bad year and so much bad and darkness in the world but this update is a lighthouse for me. I'm grateful.