MURPHY, Laura Grace

[Laura Grace Murphy]

* Laura Grace Murphy!

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PB: Irene Bedard
But you'd save the best for last like I'm the one for you[/center]

name;; Laura Grace Murphy
nickname/s;; Laurie (By Henry)
age;; 58
sexuality;; Heterosexual
race;; Werewolf-Bitten
affiliation;; With the Hunters
Likes;;

• Old Cherokee stories
  
• Singing
  
• Her owner Michelle
  
• Dark chocolate
  
• The forest
  

Dislikes;;

• Werewolves
  
• Being alone
  
• Herself
  
• Thinking about her past
  
• Sweets
  

Fears;;

• Not being around Michelle when a werewolf is around.
  
• That everything she was told is untrue and her world collapsing around her.
  
• Being back in Converse near her husband and children.
  

Goals;;

• To try and avoid her family.
  

Anything else;;

• She’s not as sane as she appears.
  
• She’s more violent than she ever was before.
  
• She rarely ever shifts, and when she does she begs Michelle to forgive her.
  
• She has a serious case of Stockholm Syndrome.
  

You should know that you're just a temporary fix
This isn't a routine with you it don't mean that much to me

appearance;; Laura has long black hair that falls to just about her shoulders. It’s thick and glossy, and she usually keeps it braided back to keep it out of her face. She never wears makeup except for the occasional chapstick when her lips feel dry. Her skin is naturally tanned. Her eyes are a dark chocolate brown that almost look black in certain lights. She’s rather short, standing at five-foot even, and is thin, weighing only about 120, and most of that is muscle. She has no fat on her.

Her wolf is pure white, with no other color on her. In the rare times she shifts, her wolf is nearly uncontrollable, frantic and wild looking. Her eyes are bright, vibrant gold that seem to have a strange fire behind them that her eyes lack when they’re purely human.
Wolf form

personality;; Before she was kidnapped and brainwashed, Laura was a sweet, motherly woman who always tried to find a peaceful resolution for quarrels between her sons or other members of the pack. She was never violent, always trying to use words to break up fights.

Now, she’s blank faced, her eyes nearly dead. Her responses seem more automatic than with any spark of life in them. She’s more like a robot now, than a person. She rarely talks without first being spoken to, though when she does her voice is nearly dead.

Before, she would never do anything that might have harmed someone unless it was her last recourse, and Henry wasn’t around. Now, though, if another werewolf is around, she becomes violent. Angry, almost furious, she rarely attacks them. If she can’t drag them to Michelle or another hunter for “rehabilitation”, she usually runs instead of attacking. She knows now that being a werewolf is bad, knows that the others only need to have things explained to them before they can understand. Part of her knows that if she gets Cayden and Carter, and her mate Henry to just believe, that they can be a family again. The other part of her, though, fears what might happen if she tried to do that.

family;; Henry Murphy; Husband and Mate
Carter Murphy; First-born son
Cayden Murphy; Youngest child

history;; Before everything happened, Laura was a sweet, well-mannered girl. She loved her life, loved her family and loved the place she lived. She had many friends, all of them calling her ‘Mother Laura’ because she was always acting like her friends were children and doing what she could to take care of them. She had no enemies, only friends and family, and her life was wonderful. At least, to her it was.

Laura had just turned twenty-one when she met the love of her life. She had gone out with friends to the local bar and celebrated. She was only a little drunk, only a bit tipsy when she was convinced to go out on the dance floor. She wasn’t a bad dancer, not great but not horrible. She loved to dance, so it hadn’t taken too much effort on her friends’ part to drag her out there. Just as she turned to go back to the bar, she ran into someone. Arms wrapped around her waist, steadying her as she looked up to see who she had run into, and tried to apologize. All words left her as she looked right into Henry Murphy’s eyes. It wasn’t so much as ‘love at first sight’ as ‘attraction’ but still, she loved to joke that it was love at first sight.

At first, it was just a night at the bar. Dancing, drinking, having a great time. She gave him her number by writing it on his palm with a pen, and left late that night with her friends. She didn’t know if she was happy because of the alcohol she’d drank, or because she’d met someone. Either way, Laura felt as if she floated out of the bar instead of walking.

The next day, Henry called her. They talked on the phone, and agreed to meet up for dinner the next night. And so the pattern went, talking on the phone, Henry taking her out for dinner or dancing or to a movie. Henry wasn’t as fond of dancing as she was, but he took her anyway. This went on for nearly two years, dating and loving one another. The two were so opposite in personalities. She, gentle and sweet, him, rough and ragged around the edges. But the two meshed so well, that few people could disagree with their union.

Laura had never believed in the stories around Converse about werewolves. She thought them silly bedtime stories, nothing more. But one day, when her and Henry were out walking in the forest, a large wolf seemed to come out of nowhere. It was huge, much larger than a normal wolf. It’s eyes glowed vibrant gold, and for the first time, Laura felt fear. But before she could do anything, Henry chased it away, calling it by name and making it leave.

For a while, Laura wasn’t sure how to take it. Henry told her everything, about werewolves, about the pack, even about himself. He even shifted for her, and she had even worked up the nerve to pet him. He was perfectly docile, eyes pleading with her to understand. She distanced herself from Henry for nearly a month, before going to find him again.

She claimed that, despite everything, she loved him. She had needed time to think, to wonder about things and how their loves would be without each other. Part of her felt as if she had just ripped away a piece of her soul for just the little bit she had been away from Henry.

Laura was the one to convince Henry to change her. She said she couldn’t stand to grow old, only to watch him never age. She doesn’t remember much about her transition after Henry finally agreed to change her. She had blacked out for most of it, and refused to listen when Henry tried to tell her about it. Part of her didn’t want to remember. Her first change was just as harsh as any other, and Henry helped her threw it. Henry taught her, trained her to control her wolf. It was a year after she was changed when they got married.

Over the next five years, the two of them were happy together. But, eventually, Laura began to feel as though something were missing in their lives. She had learned to control her shift, and knew what she wanted. Knew what they were missing.

Nine months later, Laura and Henry had a baby boy she named Carter Ethan Murphy. She loved her son, loved Henry, and to her, all was right with her world again. She told him stories her mother told her about their Cherokee heritage, and sang him the songs that she had learned. For about six years, the three of them had a wonderful life. Carter, having gotten it into his head that he wanted a sibling, started to bug Laura and Henry about giving him a baby brother or sister, as if they could snap their fingers and make it happen. It had amused Laura, but had upset her a little too.

Three years before, Laura had gone through a bad miscarriage. She hadn’t known she was pregnant when she had shifted, and it caused her to lose the baby. She had been upset for weeks about it before she managed to put it behind her. Henry had been nothing but doting during that time, trying to find ways to make her feel better.

It was more of a surprise when, not long after Carter had started bugging them, Laura realized she was pregnant. At first, she had been terrified, afraid she would lose this one too. But as she managed to keep from shifting, and the baby seemed healthy, she started to relax and was happier than ever. When Cayden Thomas Murphy was born, Laura couldn’t have been happier. Part of her was sad she didn’t have a daughter, but it only lasted for a brief moment before Cayden opened his eyes and looked right at her.

For the next seven years, all of them were happy. Laura kept the boys from fighting and Henry from losing his cool, and she was constantly tired from running around trying to keep everyone from killing one another. But still, she was happy despite everything.

One day, though, Cayden had gone wandering out in the forest. He was only seven, and as it started to get dark, Laura had started to worry. She went out, despite Henry telling her he would be fine. But part of her feared for her son, and she wouldn’t let it go. She had been searching for nearly an hour without a sign, and by that point she was terrified. She stripped, and started to shift before she heard something. Henry had always told her that her senses wouldn’t work unless she listened to him. Her one minor mistake had turned into a near fatal error. Before she knew what was happening, she was knocked unconscious and taken away from her family.

When she awoke next, she had no idea where she was. Chained down to a flat surface that was cold and hard, Laura couldn’t move. Soon, a man walked in, and Laura could see a security camera in the corner of her strange cell. He told her that she was there for “rehabilitation”, not to kill her. She struggled. She fought, she tried to break free and go back to her husband and children. But over the years, after the beatings and torture and constant attempts at brainwashing, Laura finally broke.

Part of her mind seemed to shatter, leaving her as emotionless as a robot. Slowly, they began to let her out of her cell. They had convinced her that shifting was bad, that being a werewolf was bad. They said they would find a cure, and would give it to her for her disease. Laura agreed because she knew that was what was expected of her. But part of her wasn’t really sure. Over the next eight or nine years, Laura wasn’t sure, she was employed to help them find other werewolves to be rehabilitated.

A few months before, Laura was sold to a different hunter named Michelle. The woman wanted to go back to Converse, but she took some time for Laura to get to know her before she decided to go and find her brother. Now, though, Michelle and Laura have arrived in Converse, the place where, for the past ten years, Laura has been avoiding at all costs. Will she be able to face her children? Her mate? She had no idea. But she knew in a town the size of Converse, she would be spotted sooner, rather than later.

You're just a filler in the space that happened to be free
How dare you think you'd get away with trying to play me

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[Cayden Thomas Murphy]

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