i_run_you_chase | simulation 002; voice

[Private to Miss Parker]

[it is 3:18 am]

[Jarod will be holding up his walkman with the recorded sound of a phone ringing to the communicator]

Current Mood: amused

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Though he did try his best. I particularly liked the ice cold water and freezing rooms.

[sets his jaw as this memory hits him] I could feel how much he enjoyed it.

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yourunichase

[Parker frowned. Hard.]

I honestly do not know how he can be related to me.

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i-run-you-chase.livejournal.com

You have more of your mother in you.

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yourunichase

So I hear.

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[he nods and looks away, then reaches out and picks up one of his pez dispensers. Like Miss Parker with her cigarettes, he takes a bite of one to cool down]

If you make a bargain, Miss Parker...

Make it for your life. For her sake.

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yourunichase

[She looks away quickly, and then she looks back, and she just looks sad.]

If I make one, it'll be for his life. Not mine, not hers, his.

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For Thomas.

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Yes.

[Parker looked down quickly, and then flicked off the camera. He doesn't get to see her tear up, damn it.]

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Jarod looked at the blank video screen for a few moments, and then at the door. He flipped off his communicator. Exactly 67 seconds later, Miss Parker will hear a knock at her door.

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yourunichase

[Parker did not expect the knock on her door, at all. After she had turned off the video feed, she had gotten out of bed and had paced across her floor, angry with herself for turning off the feed and even angrier with herself for having turned it on in the first place. For a moment she didn't want to open it because there was no doubt who it could be. There was a pause before she decided that she wasn't going to hide from him. Quick, angry swipes were made at her eyes and her cheeks before she opened the door quickly.]

House calls now?

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[Jarod stands there, not entirely certain why he walked over here. First of all, Miss Parker is now probably aware that he's living on the same floor as she is. And also, he lacks in the control he had over their conversations]

[But still, there he is.]

I thought you might not want to be alone.

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yourunichase

[Parker tensed. She tensed and she nearly slammed the door quickly shut in his face. Her fingers tightened around the door as if she was going to do it before she took a step back. The step back and the relinquished grip on the doorway was an invitation inside, and it was probably the only one he was going to get. Her bedroom was like the one at home, the silver framed photos of her mother and Thomas were on her night stand, and leaned against one wall (but not put up) was the stained glass window that he had made.]

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[he steps inside and takes in the room, looking almost surprised as he does]

They made it like your home.

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yourunichase

[Having Jarod in her bedroom is odd and unfamiliar and uncomfortable in the fact that it's not uncomfortable enough. She doesn't know what to say for a moment.]

Yeah. [She scoffs] My room, my closest, my bathroom without the shower. It's all a part of being a damn rehabilitation ship.

[Curiosity overwhelmed her. She had noticed the change of door on her floor, but with the influx of people, she hadn't suspected it was Jarod's.] So they stuck you on the floor too, did they?

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I hadn't realized they did this. [he steps over to her lamp and runs his finger across the shade]

My room is like one of the many motels I lived in. I guess that's because I never had a home.

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yourunichase

Apparently it's supposed to be where you're most familiar or something. That's what Katie told me. [Parker watched him touch her lamp and she had an entirely irrational impulse to go over and snatch it away from him. She didn't, instead she turned in the other direction and poured herself a drink.]

Cry me a river. [Yes, that was Parker, covering her insecurities with sarcasm.

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[he circles the room as she pours herself that drink]

I'm surprised they allow inmates alcohol and cigarettes.

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yourunichase

[She rolled her eyes at that.]

Denise lets me do whatever I want. And I do a fair amount of drinking with wardens.

[A beat.]

Do you want one?

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Very thin lines between who's a prisoner and who's a guard in this place.

[he steps behind her and looks over her shoulder at the drink]

Does it make you feel better?

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yourunichase

[Parker laughs at that, and there's a darkness in it.]

You'd be surprised.

If I say yes are you going to call me an alcoholic? Tell me to quit?

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And if I told you that you were, would you listen to me and quit?

[the very mild amusement in his voice says that he doesn't think so]

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yourunichase

Of course not.

[Parker turned to face him, the drink in her hand.]

Maybe I should tell you that; you'd probably leave a bottle of scotch on my pillow.

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I imagine you're probably a really crabby drunk.

[since she's turned to face him, she's a good deal closer than he expected, and he takes half a step back before he can really stop himself]

You know, Thomas won't want to be out there without you. If you make that deal, he'll be alone, and with the Centre on his trail.

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yourunichase

[When he took a step back, Parker took one as well, increasing the distance between them.]

If I make the deal, [she said sharply, earnestly] then Thomas never would have met me; he wouldn't need to worry about the Centre on his tail. He can have a nice normal life with a nice little girl and have a goddamn dog and two-point-five nice normal children.