not too short for a stormtrooper

This episode is SO BAD, but OH GOTH JAROD I LOVE YOU. <3333


Less flailingly (perhaps more flailingly), I want to draw parallels to Miss P simply through use of the angel motif.


( ps: "it's like he vanished into a black hole" "a little like your personal life" )

Lived an Illusion, 200 words for Pieces, who wanted Jarod to meet the Angel of Death. This is not that, not really.



He leans back on the park bench; he watches kids taking turns on the slide, listens to shrieking children throwing sand, and wonders who he would have been, with Kyle, with Emily. He tilts his head back, the sun warm on his face, and when he closes his eyes imagines pushing a little girl on a swing, her brown hair bright in the sunlight, her grin wide.

There is a rustle beside him, and when he opens his eyes a woman looks back at him, her eyes dark but her smile open. He wonders that she isn't warm, her shoulders wrapped in black.

"I like it here," she says, turns back to the children.

Jarod leans forward, rests his elbows on his knees. "It's nice," he says, reluctant to speak.

"No fear now, Jarod," she says, and his heart races, and though her smile is warm she is here, and she knows him. He looks around, worried. "I'm not them," she says, and he believes her.

"I should go," he says, though, still unsure.

She shrugs, and he leaps up.

"Suit yourself," she says. Breaks a cookie, offers half to the pigeon swaying with hunger by her feet.

He runs.

The Rhythm of These Words
The Pretender, Miss P, Jarod, Angelo, G.

I wrote this for Pieces last week. I'd just got out of Chinese class, so was indulging my languages kink.

( Jarod is eight when he learns Chinese.  )

So, those of you who have zero interest in The Pretender, I hope you've noticed how I am strictly restraining myself - I only post once a day about the Pretender, no matter how much I have to say or how excited I am!


Today, I would like to talk about Jarod and Miss Parker (yes, I know you're surprised).

I was just watching this vid by StuckHereWithNoTV over on youtube. It's a Miss Parker vid to Alanis Morissette's 'Everything,' and as it started I thought, what a terrible song choice, so slow and sappy and it's Alanis. I was so wrong - this vid is surprisingly perfect, and I was amazed at how much I enjoyed it.

I think the funny thing about Jarod and Miss Parker's relationship is that it isn't the sort of thing you can see; there are no hugs or kisses on the forehead, and there are no light touches or anything like that. Through everything, even though Miss Parker is driven to recapture Jarod; even though he hates the people that she works for and even though she's really mean, he still loves her, in his way. And their love is in the silence on the phone when she answers late at night, in the distance between them when they meet, in the things he leaves behind when he runs and the way he always comes back.

Sometimes I consider that their relationship is unequal. Jarod is always the one feeding her information; he's the one with the power to infiltrate the Centre and the one who could disappear at any moment. However, she has exactly the same power, she just chooses not to use it. She loves her father too much, and she fears what the Centre will do to her if she leaves, whereas Jarod fears what the Centre will do to him if he stays.

In my head, sometimes they meet where the Centre can't see them; footsteps echoing through a dark alley; nonsensical messages left on voicemail; hotels on the other side of the world. And of course, as the director told us, Jarod clearly had a key to the back door of her house. In my head there are scratches on his back and bite marks on her shoulder; he handcuffs her to the bed and she never, ever calls in sick. And one day he'll disappear and there'll be nothing left of him but a thousand stories with happy endings and her, bitchy and bitter and fighting with her brother, and it's then that she'll show them what she can do, because she'll disappear, too, and it'll be for her, and not for him.

And then she'll find him and they'll have wild monkey sex.


On a related topic, I think that Gar (the albino Sweeper) totally suspects that Miss P and Jarod are conspiring together.


Finally, remember that awesome BSG vid Breathe Me? I love it so much when I can watch vids using the same song in different fandoms, and this morning I watched this vid, also by StuckHere, using 'Breathe Me' for the Pretender and it's cool. Not as awesome as some of her other vids, but still good.



&hearts

Palindrome by Pen
The Pretender, rated M. Miss Parker, Jarod, and Lyle.

this was written for mandysbitch, who requested Miss Parker/ Jarod - with an appearance by Mr Lyle, some kind of intervention from him. Twincest is awesome if you feel like going down that road...*g* and no happy endings.

With thanks to anr, zeplum and daygloparker. Sucks to be CGB, though, because she likes plot and I'm terrible at that sort of thing.

This may possibly not make sense. I'm just saying.

( She's not sentimental, anyway, so he's not sure why he thinks she'd care to keep a memento. )

double drabbles for zeplum's birthday. written right now because I FORGOT OMG SORRY I STILL LOVE YOU.

( Chloe and Lex against the world )

( Miss Parker and Jarod )

There might be more drabbles later, but for now I have to go to bed. Much love to that Kathe person.