It's always exciting to see Mirage back in recently added section again. I love this, their interaction is so real and it's like being there with them. This chapter was too short and that's my only complaint. Can't wait for more!

This is so amazing. I'm so blown away and I need more.

Jarod is hilarious and I'm so glad you've kept him that way. Jarod has also grown up ALOT and had some time to realize he'd made some mistakes and... if I'm honest that would have to happen way way way before any kind of trust too because our boywonder Jarod has done some really f*cked things to Parker in the past and Parker probably puts in the context of the game and that's how he played it but I feel better knowing that Jarod is more woke and is willing to work to earn her trust. Parker says nothing. She doesn't say she approves or think it's cool that he tries to earn her trust she just asks him who he is. I love his answer "the same pain in the ass" awesome. This is Pretenderlicious. so many feels and so many shippery pangs. I need more. You are a GENIUS.

A missing piece for missing pieces indeedy Mirage. That was a huge confession for Jarod to make and it's the only thing that makes sense and I appreciate and enjoyed the comparisions between walls in construction and walls that Miss Parker has. More. Please?

It's steamy in here. Thank you for writing, for sharing your work, keeping these characters alives and in character. You say you don't write smut well. This isn't smut. It's hot erotica and you write it well. Thank you for not using tasteless slang but also for not writing other things that make it difficult for the reader t know that sex is actually happening. NO kidding. There are stories where the writer is so vague the characters be dancing or eating or anything else but the write clams they were having sex. I don't know why people can't say what they mean. You keep it real without the bullshit. Thanks for that. I hope there will be more of this story. You wouldn't leave us hanging?

I'm a shy lurker new to fanfic so please be gentle with me. This is well written. You write extremely well. You know the characters so well too and that is refreshing. I didn't begin reading fanfic until rebirth and I read some amazon reviewer about how the novels were like buying fanfic. I was interested. I like what you write and the way you write. Your style is more like real classic novels I've read and nothing like fanfic at all except the characters are from a tv show and sometimes I wonder if you're a fan? I've heard you maybe weren't fond of Jarod? I don't like relying on rumors. Your biography would be helpful. Just sayin. I'll get to my review now. I used to want Jarod and Miss Parker to have sex and be together. Then I watched Keys where she seemed to cringe about his "especially repressed memories" comment when he was asking her to let him help her remember that night her mother was beaten. On the ISLE OF THE HAUNTED she pulled away from that kiss and snatched her hand from his and she seemed so devastated and was not herself. On the show she could be so strong and tough and sexual with men but sometimes it was like she underwent a personality change at times and Jarod seemed more dominant at times and she almost seemed submissive and afraid. On the Island their roles changed. He was cruel at times. She seemed to be losing her mind and seemed to be scared of him. I love to hear all your thoughts on this. I thought that she probably couldn't be with Jarod ever at all in any way. I've never seen it expressed so well, their strange relationship, and it's like you're saying in this story where Jarod fears she's so used to rejecting him that she's trained her body to reject him too and will never be able to do anything but reject him. But I'm curious too and I've wondered how that might look though, how it could happen that they might have sex. This, specifically the part where she presses her hand to his chest and maybe almost changes her mind. You left it to our imaginations what she's thinking then while cautioning him. I think maybe she was changing her mind. There's another here by you I've read where she wants to have sex with him and doesn't want to have sex with him and is so conflicted and thinks their relationship will be the end of her I can't remember the title but there's a lot of songs and she's driving and drinking too much coffee. I remember it was comedy in places but got really serious too. I think that story and this one are exactly the way it would go. She's too opposed to the possiblity. You write it so they can still have a healthy relationship. In this one especially they purge so much pain and that can only be good. I hope you'll continue this and explore their relationship.

You always snatch me back here Mirage. You are always worth the wait. I'm glad you aren't overthinking. Just write and post and don't think.

"My place or yours?"

"Yours, asshole."

Jarod is fine with what they've done. He would be. It's so natural for him. You wrote them in character as always and the dialog was fresh and raw ..even made me a little uncomfortable it was so like being there with them. I can hear Michael T. Weiss and Andrea saying all of those things and I'm so thankful to you for staying true to the original tv series. Jarod is right. She's been trained to hunt him and feel nothing for him and he's right. She had to suppress the feelings when they did begin to surface and that's what she is used to doing. It's learned behavior, a pattern and unlearning it can't be easy. She's off to a sexy af start though and I need more.

Jarod laid it down epically and it's about time too. On the series he would get in a barbed one-liner and take a jab here and there. I'm glad he finally told her what's what and I still sympathetize with them both. Impressive. Every line is impressive Mirage.  Thank you for letting them duke it out verbally before having sex. At the end of all that pain and hurtful words there was not fight left I guess. I'm so curious to know what happens next. I hope you're writing quickly.

More! Please write whatever the hell you want and how EVER you want to but just keep writing. ONLY YOU WRITE THEM THE WAY THEY WERE ON THE TELEVISED SERIES. You keep them in character and their dialougue clever and intelligent. PLUS SEX! YES. More please?

Magnifica Mirage!

Woo Merci Mirage! It's so beautiful. I love it so dearly. Merci Merci!

Oh uhhh! GOD! Mirage. I want more. I'm hooked. I'm always hooked on your writing. Pretender perfect like always. I won't aggravate you about Michael but I should. You need to meet him. I met him and I lived!!! I think you'd get along really good with him. Until then keep writing. I'm totally addicted to your writing.

That, young lady, was completely unexpected. Top notch top shelf all the way. The kiss fail giphy gif you provided us in your chapter notes wasn't unexpected. It was painful. Jarod was watching her react badly to almost kissing him and that was painful and I agree with you that it was severe and I think it was maybe out of character for her a little. The tables seemed to turn in that episode and maybe began turning before that when he saved her from Alex in TP2001. Jarod did seem to be heading in a darker direction and Miss Parker was uhghh I hesitate to call her submissive in the IOTH and she's never been submissive in your fics unless she was drugged and even then she fought back and that was Forces Of Nature I'm thinking of now. 

In the IOTH telefilm she was altered and Jarod did seem to lead and she seemed to follow. Not submit. I don't want to offend the women in this fandom but she was very very different. And Jarod was different. It was still a cute scene but I didn't see any of the chemistry in that scene that some fans talk about. It wasn't there. You've given them the chemistry and you continue where the series left off and build on what's already established between them.

If they'd made love and hadn't discussed anything this might not have gone over so well with me. Because on the Profiler series when Jarod went over to their show we know that Jarod didn't want to sleep with Rachaeel when she "didn't have a handle on her emotions." Now I will contradict myself and say that Jarod did almost kiss Parker when she didn't have much of a handle on her emotions in Carthis but I think he was caught off guard.

Before the lovemaking they shared the best dialogue I've ever read or heard or seen in this fandom including the tv series and possibly the best I've read ever. Jarod had been protecting her from his own pain I think and if I'm wrong I trust you to correct me and she had to hurt him with her own pain to break him open so it would gush out of him. I think that was a stroke of genius.

They really talked it out and argued and raised their voices and I think Jarod never wanted to shout at her because he was feeling bad about almost saying the words "detain" and "cuff." He's listened to her pain, been ignored, wearily waited while she avoided him. I don't think he intended to shout. He doesn't even curse at all no matter how much she curses and attacks him.

This is so refreshing. He finally gave her some of what she's given him. His tearful "how dare you" was so plausible and visible. The words you write come to life in my mind and I'm there in the room with these characters we all love. It's magic.

They needed to shout, cry, accuse each other and explain themselves. When it was done Miss Parker didn't disagree. She seemed to have a "handle" on everything. There was some flirting. She had time to change her mind. Jarod danced her across the room to the door giving her an easy exit and offered to open the door for her. I also have to say that as far as the lines leading in to the love making Miss Parker's was genius. "It's as good a reason as any." They never struck me as a pair that needed a reason to make love.  Solid chapter.

Thank you for writing and sharing this with us. Please never stop.