Claire Burton

[Claire Burton]

"You know there’s got to be a faster way to do this. How about we just change the first question to ‘have you recently dated a homicidal pyromaniac?’"
-Derek Morgan, "Compulsion"

Your Name: Reid
How many years roleplaying?: 4+

French poet Jacques Rigaut said, "Don't forget that I cannot see myself. My role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror."

Jason Gideon, "Plain Sight"[/center][/size]

Character Name: Claire April Burton
Age: 25 years old
Date of Birth: April 1, 1984
Residence: Virgina
Profession: She works with Children that have lost loved ones, or have been hurt in anyway. (Afilated with the FBI)

Appearance: Claire is not all that tall, but she is not short either. She is about 5 foot 5, average. When she was not pregnant she was about 105 pounds, a little under weight for her size. But being five months pregnant is heaver now. She is showing now, but under baggy cloths it isn't that noticeable. She still looks like a skinny person in the face, though. She had long curly blond hair, that lately has been a little messy, she is getting tired and tired and just ready to give in with doing her hair all together. She has lovely blue eyes, that as kind of ghostly. The tell the story of her triaged past, of all the lose and pain that she had been through. All that she doesn't show on her face to protect her young daughter. her face in itself is very pretty and loving. She is kind of pale, though, and rarely wears make-up any more, again with the whole getting tired and not wanting to try any more thing.

Claire's cloths aren't what you would call fancy or even in style, not having that much money means that she really can't. But what she doesn't wear isn't all that bad. She is wearing maternity cloths, that she got from the "Planned Parent Hood" program because they are free and good looking and fitting. many say that she is beautiful enough to pull off anything, though. One of the most important things she wears is a locket that Charlie gave her on her wedding day. Inside of it is a picture of Charlie and a picture of Lily.

Personality: First and for most Claire is very loving. She would never do anything to hurt anyone and wants to take care of everyone. She is a protective mom over her child, afraid that something bad might happen to her, after all everything wrong seems to have happened in her life. At times she can be a little over protective, never letting Lily out of her sight, checking on her ever five minutes. None of that is really bad, though. At the same time as taking care of Lily she is afraid of something happening to her. She doesn't know what will happen to her daughter if she dies. It's not like she is very close to her father or mother. So she tries to take care of herself as well, but forth most is her daughter. Lily gets to eat the most, she gets the new cloths, everything is done for Lily, and now her on the way baby girl.

At the same time Claire is extremely overwhelmed. She Is a signal mom trying to raise a kid with another on the way. She can take her daughter to work with her, and that helps with some costs, but she is still on the break of poverty. Under all this is deep depression. So much has happened to her that she just wants to lay down and quit but she knows she can't. There is times that she has a break down and just starts crying. That she wishes she could start life all over again. But she has to stay strong for Lily, the one person she has left in life. Yet Claire will never feel safe again. She can never be a normal person anymore. She just has to learn to live with the life that she had been give.

History: Claire was born in Australia with parents and one brother, Kade. Nothing really happened through out her early years. She was not all that smart in school but she was smart enough to get along. Most people liked her, but she wasn't that social. Mostly she liked to sit around and read or play out side by herself. She didn't really get along with her brother, who was three years older than her and always made fun and picked on her. This made Claire hate her brother, and even at times hate herself because she believed some of the things that he was saying.

When she was 13 years old her mother and father got a divorce. That was when her father decided to move to America. Claire got the choose to either go with her father or stay with her mother. Kade decided to stay with her mother right of the bat. So even though Claire loved her mom just as much as her father she decided to go with him. It was a fun new adventure, a chance for her to start over. They moved to Washington D.C.. By this time Claire was just starting high school. It was scary enough going into high school let alone just moving to the country. But she found strength. On the first day of school another freshmen noticed that she seemed lonely. he came up to her in their first class together and talked with her. Claire didn't like it and would have much rather him leave her alone. But at lunch he was there again. This time she was kind of happy that he was there, because she had no idea where to sit.

This is when she learned his name was Charlie and he had moved to America from Britain only two years before so he knew what she was going through. He promised to always be there from her to take care of her. That was the start of a new friendship. Over the years the two only got closer and closer, and soon they couldn't even be separated. Where Claire was Charlie was. After they got out of high school they decided to get married. And so they did. Then they went off to college together. They had both just gotten their bachelors degrees when Claire got pregnant, she was only 20 years old. She loved Charlie, though, and didn't care. She had the baby half a year later, a little girl Lily.

Claire became a stay at home mom while Charlie became a FBI agent. For three years they small family lived happily together. Claire even took some on line classes in psychology. Their happy life didn't last long, though. One day Charlie didn't come home. Claire filled a missing person's report and waited. It was the next day that the FBI came to her door telling her that her husband had been abducted. Two days later they found his body. This devastated Claire. She could barely function. But she still needed to take care of Lily and that's what kept her going. She was running out of money, though, she had to get a job. With her degree in psychology she joined a small organization that offered cheap therapy for murder victims. It didn't offer much, but it was enough to keep them going.

Then five months ago, less than a year after Charlie's murder, Claire's life was thrown into turmoil again when she was raped on her way home from work. Of course she was scared to report it, but she was afraid if she didn't her daughter could be hurt. So she did. They never did find her attacker. Not long after she found out she was pregnant. Her first thought was to get rid of the baby, but some how she couldn't do it. She couldn't kill a life. So she decided to keep it. Because of what she had gone through she decided to make a small career change. She joined a child therapy group, though she was no qualified to be an actually therapist she still worked with the children. This job is one that she could take Lily to, which she really liked to do. Five months later she just found out the baby is a girl.

Likes:

• Lily
  
• Peanut Butter
  
• Helping others
  
• Reading
  
• Charlie
  

Dislikes:

• Rape
  
• Murder
  
• Her Brother (Kade)
  
• Child that have been Hurt
  
• Life at Time
  

Strengths:

• Her Kindness
  
• Loving
  
• Mothering Instincts
  
• Understand what other Have been Through
  

Weaknesses:

• Afraid of almost everything and everyone
  
• Being raped
  
• Losing Charlie
  
• Being poor
  
• Mothering Instincts
  

Parents: Alice Littleton---Mother---Australia
Aden Littleton--Father---Washington, D.C.
Siblings: Kade---28 years old---Australia
Spouse: Charles "Charlie" Burton---Dead
Children: Lily---four
Unknown---Unborn

Anything Else? Nope

Roleplay Sample: Reid had had a long day. The team had been called out to Arkansas for a case. It was a pretty bad one at that. There had been three rape murders in the last two months and he was devolving fast. He tried to rape and kill another, yet she had gotten away before he could kill her. That's how they found him. So their day ended on a happy note, at least a little one. It wasn't much when there was already three dead, but at least they had saved one, actually she had saved herself and then they saved his next victim before he could even try to rape her. All in all it was a pleasing day. When they had returned to the BAU it was late and most everyone had gone home. While Morgan, Emily, JJ, and Rossi left Reid stayed behind with Hotch, who was locked away in his office so it was like the young genius was alone. He didn't want to go home because he was afraid to sleep. Over the last few weeks, even before the plane crash, he had been having nightmare, again. But sitting in the dark bull pen by himself wasn't much better.

So he decided to go, at least somewhere where he wouldn't be alone. As he walked down the silent halls he noticed someone walking in front of him. Slowing down he realized it was Krys. At first he was going to call to her, they hadn't seen each other in a while. But some how he lost his voice. He wasn't sure why but he couldn't let her know that he was there. Something just seemed off. Of course it was only the creepy feeling he was getting from his dream that was making him feel that way, but still. He remember so clearly the scars on his back. The ones that she didn't want anyone to know about. So he decided to follow her and see where she was going. It wasn't like he had anywhere else to go, he wasn't going home that was for sure. Yet he didn't want to talk to her, not right now. Yet something kept him following her.

When she entered the building he waited a second out side the door before following. Inside he got goose bumps. It was dark and kind of cold. He didn't know where was and just wanted to leave. He had never liked the dark. Yet the fact that Krys had gone down the long hall way made him go on. Walking so quick and slow that you could hear a pin drop he finally made it to the end of the"tunnel". What he saw was not what he had expected. It was Krys going in a circle on an ice ring. Reid stood there in shock for a moment, forget that he had just followed her here. When she saw him his jaw dropped and she ran into the wall. Shocked Reid ran to the entrance onto the ice, not even realizing that he would be more of a burden than a help on the slick surface, and ran, half falling over to Krys. "You okay?" He asked even though she had already said she was okay. "I'm sorry, let me help you up." He added as he tried to pull himself to his feat unsuccessfully. [/size]

[Penelope Garcia]

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