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Break Down Of Collins Family and

Collinsport Residents

Prologue

My name is Josette Collins; I am an accomplished time folder and Day walker. My days are filled with travel. Not the normal jetting about travel. This type of travel transcends time. I am a time traveler. My family lineage was never normal or ordinary. My family would never pretend to accept ordinary as a norm for them.

They are the Collins Family of Collinsport Maine; their story began some 30 years ago, when my mother an orphan was hired to be a governess to David Collins. It was with her arrival that many strange and extraordinary events began to unfold and brought attention to her existence by the S.H.A.D.O.W.S. Ops Team.

This highly covert government team knew her offspring would be exceptional and would be marked for recruitment. At a very early age, I was made aware of what my future would hold and I embraced the commitment with my heart and soul for I am a member of the S.H.A.D.O.W.S strike team.

Shadows Operations Quarters

Aden Landon switched off the volume of his I Pad and smiled. Josette was a very talented and beautiful young woman. She had excelled in her new position and was up for promotion. He had been reviewing her personal journal and needed to do some more background on her family and close associates before he recommended her for her own team on Dark Power Incursions or their term DPI. She had more than shown her abilities in handling any Dark Power placed in her pathway and now, she was up for the star and a promotion. Pouring himself a hot cup of coffee, he took a sip and then grimaced and poured it out.

He knew he would be up half the night researching so he prepared himself another pot of coffee and went to take a hot shower and put on some comfy clothing. This would put him in the right frame of mind. He needed to be clear headed and open minded to make his recommendations and that would take his assessment of the Alpha Team. But first he had to determine the viability of the promotion and the stability of the new team captain.

Leaving his shower, Aden heard a burp on his internal computer, throwing on a robe, he moved to the keyboard and keyed in to the pending message that had transmitted during his shower. The very lovely face of a woman appeared on his screen. "Josette, I take it you are back from your latest mission?"

He muttered playing her face-time message. "Sir, mission records have been stored on the attached file. All went well and we have one new Class A Vamp as a new recruit for the western seaboard area. He will be debriefed at the Nevada Resort. I will prepare my report and file it under Ref 01209 BMVCA," which he translated to Bangor Maine Vampire Class A, which was a nasty piece of work, "And will sign off. I hope this day finds you in good health and hope to speak to you soon. Collins out."

Aden Maxwell London smiled at the way her eyes held him with their intensity. He had heard when she went Day Walker they would glow with a bluish intentness that was eerily reminiscent of the old Dracula movies. Her tiny figure reminded him of one of those ballet dancers from the Philadelphia Ballet Company. The way she moved was most definitely like one of the dancers. Downloading the transmission he drug it to his private folder, then went to get dressed.

Going back to the kitchenette he poured himself a fresh cup of coffee and waited to cool it by blowing on it then sipped and let out a little sigh. Picking his coffee cup up he moved back to his living room area and sat on the sofa and looked around his surroundings.

Most personnel that held any position with the SHADOWS section was assigned a private apartment in the complex of sky rise buildings in the center of town. The government had long ago decided that something this top level and secret would be housed in a two block radius above and below ground in the heart of the nations capital.

Those buildings would encompass the whole operations from tech rooms to ready rooms, work out and scenario rooms, and a detention holding cells of all levels of dark power detainees. Those were underground and so secured that it would take more than an act of congress to access.

He found that his favorite room was usually where he found Josette Collins if she was not in the field. She would take up her time in the scenario room. This room was the room that would equal, if not rival the military's NORAD's computer rooms.

It was a room that was complete with computers and monitors that filled the room in a three hundred sixty degree surround. The room was not the only part of this division if he were allowed to boast and be proud of, it was the fact their soldiers had powers no one could dream of and knew of things far more dangerous than facing the enemy in a battle.

The enemies faced by his group could change the face of the world, as they knew it. He was really proud of how his tech had been volunteered by the future and gleaned from the past. All his operatives were outfitted in the most advanced technical suits that enhanced their abilities to fold time.

In some respects the suits also accented other attributes that would have brought a raised eyebrow by the most stringent Christian minded populace that was why he had devised an accent to the uniform. He got the idea one night while watching a science fiction movie of the future run by computers and the hero wore a long black duster styled coat. By utilizing this one piece of clothing his soldiers could easily integrate into any time frame and bring a more sedate and less attention to his operatives.

Aden picked up his coffee spoke to him self and moved to the living room. "Now, lets get back to this." He stooped to picked up his I-Pad and manipulated the icons and began to study the portfolio encrypted "Collinwood". Slowly he began to read the synopsis of the residences of Collinwood and for the town that bore the same name as the Collins family.

Elizabeth Collins Stoddard

Elizabeth was married to Paul Stoddard and they bore one child, Carolyn Collins Stoddard. Elizabeth prior to going away to school became pregnant and gave birth to a female child whom she named Victoria. Unable to bring the child home and not wishing to bring shame to her family, she left the child at the fondling home with a note. "Her name is Victoria, I am unable to care for her." The fondling home employees named her 'Winters' after the time of year of her arrival at the fondling home.

Elizabeth never named who the father of Victoria was until the father discovered he had a daughter. George Patterson and Elizabeth Collins Stoddard then married on the island of Martinique, which was one of the marked locations of a DP Incursion, which was never defined or determined.

Paul and Elizabeth Stoddard

Issues 1

Carolyn Collins Stoddard

Possible Recruitment

Talent: Psychic

Recruitment probability zero rating

High Strung and unreliable for government processes

Refer to cross references attached to file.

Max frowned not recalling readily why they had not recruited Carolyn so opened the attached file. Then he began reading. The opening paragraph brought home why she was a zero rating.

The subject, Stoddard had married the reincarnation of the Leviathan God Jeb Hawkes. Maxcontinued to read on.

Carolyn Collins Stoddard Hawkes Peterson (46) married Jeb Hawkes i.e. see Leviathan reference for superior race, world domination etc. Hawkes disappeared and Carolyn started dating Tony Peterson and they married. Carolyn became the COO of Collins Enterprises. Tony Peterson has a law practice in Collinsport. Together Tony and Carolyn had one child:

Anthony Paul Peterson (20) who has started college in pre-med, spends his clinical studies at the Collinsport Hospital.

Elizabeth Collins and (Father) George Patterson

Victoria Winters Collins (48) married Barnabas Collins,* (ref file DP Hell mouth 1795, 1967, current status rating P-10)

Barnabas Collins (Classification CAV, Class A Vampire) is purported to be a distant cousin of Elizabeth Collins Stoddard Patterson. Barnabas and Victoria live in the "old" house or the original Collinwood, which has been restored. Victoria was originally engaged to Burke Devlin, who perished in a plane crash in the tropical jungles of South America, prior to his death, he left Victoria as his sole beneficiary of his estate. Barnabas is very wealthy in his own right. Together after Barnabas rescued Victoria from Vlad Tepes (CAV- MIA) they were married and had 5 children:

Specialist Josette Elizabeth Collins (25)

JEC: works special ops for a covert government agency. Josette has very unique powers that made her a recruit for the SHADOWS Team. Josette has abilities to fold time and space, to use her unique gifts as a day walker to seek out CAV's and determine if they are a likely recruit or a danger. She has already brought over two CAV's, which were over 300 years old. She shares her job with her two siblings Jeanette and Joshua.

Specialist Jeanette Naomi Collins (23)

JNC: looks very much like her mother, Victoria, and has some special talents passed on by her mother and was recruited for the covert government agency S.H.A.D.O.W.S. where she has been assigned to retrievals and recruitment.

JNC has distinguished herself on many occasions during high-risk assignments and has been credited with recruitment of three highly placed agents within the strike team. The three recruits have a permanent assignment pending probationary status completion.

Specialist Joshua Barnabas Collins aka JB (22)

JBC: was recently recruited by the government for S.H.A.D.O.W.S. His unique talents made him a logical choice to work with his sisters more precisely with JNC in recruitment and retrievals he shows a natural ability to anticipate and sense DP incursions. Has an abnormally higher IQ and excelled on all levels of testing for the SHADOWS Operations unit.

Sarah Elizabeth Collins (18)

SEC: is one of the twins born to Victoria and Barnabas. Sarah has never shown any special abilities and would not be up for selection for S.H.A.D.O.W.S., she is attending College and attempting to get an MBA, background indicates her aunt is grooming her to help in operations of the family business as well as assisting in operations of Devlin Enterprises.

Daniel William Collins (18)

DWC: is Sarah's twin brother who is attending college on a sports scholarship. Daniel has not made up his mind what degree he wishes to pursue but is leaning towards forensic pathology.

Aden paused in the middle of the read and sat back. He knew of the Collins Family and their siblings well, he had after all, been the one to bring them to the attention of the Director of S.H.A.D.O.W.S. OPS some time ago. He had recalled how he had watched the first tapes of his original field operatives when they had their first encounter with a werewolverine on the Collins Estate and how Josette had handled that situation and she was only twelve at the time.

Glancing around the room he noted the daylight was beginning to wane and he should turn on the lights. "Lights 65 percent." His voice was soft deep and well modulated. It was the kind of voice that immediately told the listener that he was educated and used to being heard even with those soft tones. The computer activated the lights and dimmed the power of the lights to the requested 65 percent.

Picking up his I-Pad, he moved to a more comfortable position on his sofa and once again immersed himself into his review of the Collins family and associates.

*** side note*** DP incursion side affect Level 12 clearance to continue with file.

The information flashed on the screen and a pop up box requested a security clearance code to open the file. This annoyed Aden because it was his encryption that put it in place and he had thought he had omitted his personal Identifying pen sequence or his ips' to avoid this annoying feature.

Sighing he punched in his code hit send and frowned when it denied him access. "Frag it" he muttered under his breath and then slowly and methodically retyped his code and once again punched send. This time he was successful and the file opened to reveal a picture of Victoria Winters on screen and then two other pictures appeared. Another set of twins.

NTKO: Aiden translated the Need to Know Only and continued on with the information. He knew that only four people had access to this information and it was not to be divulged unless it was a need to know. Flipping the page he began to read.

DP incursion resulted in the birth of two DP children, the use of a PSI DP occurred and the following result is the outcome of this incursion ** (110) Aden flipped the page and continued to read.

Victoria Collins had twins she birthed but is unaware of their existence. She thought she had a stillborn birth and buried a male child that was named Roger Edward Collins. This was a child that was substituted by the DP Baal, who under guise of a mortal assumed the name of Dominic. He had been the OB doctor that had delivered the twins and replaced the twins with a stillborn male child (possible succubus male child research still pending).

The twins are Felicity and Dominic, Jr.

Felicity (16) is a very bright and articulate student at the local high school, she has been trying for 2 years to find out who her mother might be. Because she is in escalated classes she takes 3 courses at the local college attended by Sarah and Daniel. She has classes with them both.

Dominic, Jr. (16) is also very bright and joins his sister in college classes at the local college. Dominic has adopted a juvenile Goth attitude in the way he dresses and acts. He tries very hard to be a outcaste where his sister is trying hard to fit into the class norm.

Elizabeth Collins Stoddard-Patterson

After divorcing Paul Stoddard, Elizabeth and the death of George Patterson's wife, Gretchen Patterson married her high school sweetheart and father of her child, George Patterson, the Sheriff of Collinsport.. When George married Elizabeth he brought into the family 3 stepchildren:

George Thomas Patterson, Jr. (39) years of age, is married to Constance Miller, they have 2 children:

Robert George Patterson (16)

Donna Gretchen Patterson (12)

George Jr., or as the family refers to him "Thom" took up in his father's footsteps and is currently the Sheriff of Collinsport. His wife, Constance is a nurse at the Collinsport Hospital. They reside in Maggie Evans Haskell and Joe Haskell's cottage, where prior to their marriage Maggie Evans and her father Sam Evans lived.(cross ref file number CP-1967)

Jason Alan Patterson (37) is currently the Fire Chief of Collinsport Fire Department. He is divorced from his wife Jennifer Lynn Rogers Patterson and has 3 children:

George Edward Patterson (14)

Michael Joseph Patterson (12)

Jason Allen Jr. (10)

The children live with their mother in a beach house. Jennifer is a teacher at Collinsport Junior High School. She is attempting to put her bitterness against Alan behind her, and is dating a Professor from the college.

Alan was a workaholic and his perfectionism drove Jennifer to resent his dedication to his work and his neglect of his family and her needs. This set the stage for a bitter divorce with high tensions and resentment.

Penelope Lydia Patterson (30) never married, is a Detective with the Collinsport Sheriff's Department. She lives at Collinwood. She has been good friends with JVC and JNC and has casually dated Joe Haskell Jr. and Richard Garner. Never seriously involved, she enjoys her work on the Sheriff's Department and is believed to be the favorite of her father.

Aden lifted his cup of coffee and discovered it had grown cold. Deciding he needed another cup of coffee, he stood up, closing the flap to his pad and moved to the kitchennet, as he waited for his coffee to heat up in the micro wave he stood thinking about what he had read so far.

From what he could tell Josette's mother had been the driving force behind her daughters and it was amazing with everything she had been through she still managed to come across as a fairly stable person mentally and emotionally.

He was still puzzled by Josette's decision to recruit two Class A Vampires as part of the SHADOWS operations. A lot hinged on his decision on whether or not she received her promotion so his intent was to find out everything he could about one of his top operatives.