Aww. My heart is splitting open for Jarod. He's walking to Parker knowing what he will do already when he reaches her, what he has to do. I love how this unfolded. You present a gift and all of the ribbons slowly unravel to reveal something more stunning and eloquent than I could have imagined.

It's also painful and bittersweet, this gift. He's still not going to walk away, not really. We already know he was with her when she didn't know.

A really telling part is when she can't answer his question and tell him that she feels him nearby. She can feel his love straight through the fucking walls, Mirage. She loves him, too. It's all clear. I'm gutted. I'm so blissfully gutted right now, laughing and crying.

Not to mention BROOTS! He's so mild but when his people are hurt, and Parker is so his people. I feel that, I feell all of his rage and pain.

Your writing is the best, your characterisations, descriptions are the best. I hope you can get cracking on this right away and give us the rest of this gift.

I need more immediately 🙏

Oh, my God, Mirage. I've feeling all of the Pretender feels right now.

This is stunning and delicious.

This is dark and eloquent.

This is beautiful and haunting.

This is hard and wonderful.

This is correct and painful.

Jarod's last words to her before leaving are wow. My God.

That's what Jarod does best inn't it? Loving Parker at a distance, doing the hard things for the right reasons that are in her best interest even though she might hate him for it? Ensuring that she doesn't lose herself? Y

ou make it clear that Pleasant View will resume the sedate and restrain nontreatment where Incursion no doubt tranpsired, where she was tearing out sutures and trying to self-extubate.

That is Jarod at his finest, demonstrating his pure and genuine love and look at you, Miss Not-A-Jarod-fan, stripping Jarod down to his core being and showing us the truth of him.

Parker will realize the truth eventually too I hope. I'm so looking forward to see what happens next. You're amazing. I love you!

Thank you so much for writing and sharing. More more more!

You've got me hanging on every syllable here. I was hoping you'd directly let them all confront the trauma this way. You show the pain, not skin over it, and go deep on exploration and I love it. You have a hell of a command of the story, characters, and your voice.

That last line. I think that's what Parker needed to take her healing seriously. Wound vacs can be a bitch.

You nailed all of it. The medical bits are spot on too. I love this, in short

More please?

OOOOOhhh this is so exciting Mirage and as always so eloquently and beautifully written! I do hope you will put it all in a series format just for ease of finding purposes. 

Jarod was with Miss Parker while she was comatose and has been sneaking in to see her the whole time and he tells her and US why. It's because he wants to be near if she asks for him, and he wants to save her if something goes wrong and the doctors are unable to and oh my fucking heart Mirage just burst open!

You DO like Jarod, come on, admit it. Just a little bit? You at least know that he has feelings for her and that he does want her to live and be safe and he's not ALL entirely bad and evil not ALL of the time anyway.

I can tell that you like Michael too, the way you never say a bad word about him, and the way you don't objectify him and talk about not accosting him and disrupting his day if you see him out and about. If you're like me you love the entire fanmily very much and only want good things for them. I think you're really a sweetheart. You're always kind to me.

Kind regards always and please add the rest soon. I love your writing and your powerful voice and how well you know the characters and the story. It does my heart so good to see you still writing. 

Thank you for not giving up on the fanmily.

Oh, awesome. I've been checking every day to see if you've posted. This is fabulous 😍 🤩 Mirage.

What a stroke of freaking genius to have that monitor telling on Parker. She's always pretending to be so bad ass but she's really not that tough.

Ooh I love that Jarod stocked the shelves with books that are challenged and banned to make sure Parker has quality reading material. She has to be there at least she can read a book like she did with her mother. I love the little Easter eggs. The Wizard peeling back the curtain. Nod to Oz.

Briots steals the show like he does sometimes. You have the characters down pat..I think that line Jarod I will also remember Broots sobbing and the sawing motion. Broots is devastated and he feels things like the rest of the normal viewer/reader does so he is torn up.
And poor Sydney.

That's a list the 3 of them will have to live with and they will need to learn hard on each other.

Back to Miss Parker.. oh God I can't even! The way she tells Jarod to stop... he's about to go on his shrink trip with her and she couldn't deal with it and panicked.

Her telling Jarod he shouldn't have saved her if he was going to let Lyle live is so .. powerful and just ..god.

You followed through with the trauma and aftermath and I thought....or was afraid you would take an easy way out

and I'm just thankful to you for doing the harder thing. I'm thankful that you're still writing and sharing with me. It means everything..I don't know what I'd do without you and your beautiful, intriguing, painful, dark, light, amazing, life changing stories.

Thank you thank you thank you 🙏 🙏 😊 😊