So, Chase got me this apartment, right? It's in Seattle, and Max Scraps-For-Cash, who won the challenge fer Alpha, is payin' fer it, an' that's where me an' Chase live. Up till recently, Chase's been a member of The Bellingham sept an' of Doc Marcus's sept in Seattle. Max made him choose between the two, an' ol' Chase, he chose the Seattle sept. So now we're workin' in two different towns, but we both come home to the same apartment each night. That's when the rumors started flyin' around.
Everyone starts talkin' about this Child o' Gaia, or that Kinfolk, or Julie Wrath-O'-The-Rainbow. Everyone's sayin' that Chase is cheatin' on me, an' what am I supposed to think? It ain't like he ain't never cheated on me before, right? So I confront him about it, an' he tells me that he's been true. I try to trust him, but it jus don' make no sense fer him to stick with me when there are all these other girls who're more'n willing to spend the night with Chase... I mean, who wouldn't? And after all, Chase has got a past... and a reputation. To put it real simple, it drove me batty for a while.
To make things worse, I got kidnapped.
One night, before Chase got home, I got grabbed and hauled off by a Bone Gnawer Metis. He trashed the apartment and hauled me down the fire escape, through a bunch of streets and alleys that I didn't quite recognize, and left me in this alley. He bound me with silver wire at wrist and ankle, and left me there, going off into a corner to die.
I spent a week there, with a huge snake-spirit slithering around in my head. It picked out some of the bad things and intesified 'em... had a weeks free run of my skull. Showed me some truths that I'd been tryin' to hide from. Showed me the hot, painful, boring nights, showed me hatred and fear in the form o' sex. It was right, though. I ain't no hero, just a dirty little hooker from Seattle. I tried to frenzy a couple times, but got burned from the wires... I got scars from that to this day.
Chase came in an' busted me out. He bargained with the snake for a while, but then the snake tried to take Chase's body. And succeeded. I looked into Chase's eyes and saw the cold, sadistic bastard in there. The look on Chase's face as he tore my clothes off ain't somethin' I'll soon forget... especially seein' it on those features.
So Chase grabs me an' starts runnin'. I'm kinda scared, y'know, after all that... Not so much that I'm still scared o' Chase or anything... but there was just too much running through my head... too many things for me to feel at once. I felt panicky, and claustrophobic. I tried to push away from him, but Chase held on tight. But I got pulled into the Umbra. By Rat. She took me somewhere safe, where I could recover a little and think about some of the things that'd happened. I still wonder why she even bothered to rescue a lil' thing like me... best not to look a gift spirit in the mouth, I guess.
I got word through Rat that chase was still out there lookin' fer me... he wouldn't find me here, though. Rat told the spirits o' the city that they weren't to tell noone about where I was.
A week later, I was back at the caern. My presence stirred up quite a bit o' noise, though. Everyone wanted to know where I'd been, what was goin' on. I told Rowan Rises-Again, beta at the time, what had happened. I figured one of the official-types oughta know about the evil weaver totem that's scurryin' about, right? Well, that punk-ass little Silver Fang runs off, tellin' the whole caern my business and shoutin' that Chase was Wyrm-tainted. Then Chase shows up. As unsure as I was about Chase still, I was glad to see the look on his face, and to see how quick Rowan shut up. I knew the snake wasn't with Chase no more... I could see it in his eyes... but things was still difficult fer me. Too many different feelins fer someone who ain't used to feelin' much at all.
I couldn't think much about that then, though. Duty called. They needed the Street Knights to get the staff that Owl had been bound into from Zhygak's beta... this involved raiding something called a "Thunder-Wyrm". Can't say as I really care about it's name, though. I was pissed and confused and more'n welcomed the opportunity to take my rage out on somethin' wyrmy. It was a pretty pathetic display on my part, an' I didn't do much that was useful, but at least I got some exercise an' didn't have to have my ass rescued like at the Everett assaults. An' I didn' let what was floatin' around between me an' Chase interfere with my job... we got the staff back.
We talked about it later, and got some of it straightened out. Sorta. Chase was gone from the Bellingham Caern fer a while after that. I still wonder if he left because of the way I was acting... doesn't matter, really... we still got the apartment.
That snake didn't leave me alone, though... I started havin' visions and dreams. Bad ones. Involving Chase and alot of other girls. When I was spendin' my time at the Bellingham Caern, the visions got so bad I made Max call down to Seattle to make sure he was alright, that the snake hadn't made any tries for him. That's what the snake was really after... Chase. Why would it want me? Another example o' me bein' a liability to Chase. Anyway, point bein' I was goin' insane. I had dreams about Chase sleepin' with other girls, about Chase with empty eyes, about him voluntarilly wearin' a leash and collar. But guess who was holdin' the leash? Me. I don' know what it meant, but it had me thinkin' about leavin' Chase fer a while. I don' wanna be no threat to him. Yeah, I was kinda glad Chase wasn't around. Because he snake came to the caern.
The first time we spotted it, it gobbled up the soul o' Rowan Rises-Again, who gave his life to free the totem Owl. The second time, it fought the freed owl, and dragged it down into the earth. There was reports from all over about Garou who couldn't die because Owl weren't there to return 'em to the cycle. I kept tellin' people about what I was seein' about how we needed to do somethin', an' about how the other snake totems was under the black one's control, but as usual no one would listen to me.
We were taken to Nightsnakes...ahh, realm? yeah, realm. At this point, the bastard thanked me fer helpin' him gain all that power, at which point I was again humilliated in front o' my sept. The snake also revealed all his evil plans to the good guys, an' we found out about his plan to kill the other totems. To make a long story short, I was possessed by the snake again, an' I could hear myself tellin' my sept that I knew where Owl was. They didn' know I weren't myself, an' I had no way o' tellin' 'em, so the followed me. A great battle then followed, me against my sept, durin' the course o' which, the snake jumped bodies a few times. We got away, and Loki Laughs-Last torched the place, but the snake got away.