We were childhood friends, growing up in orphanages on the same street as one another. I was in the all-girls orphanage that had since closed down. St. Mary's was never that pleasant of a place anyway. The rooms were plain, the girls were too feminine for me, and I had no friends within those walls. None that stuck anyway.

He went to the boys' home across the street. The conditions weren't much better, and aside from the numerous teases and sometimes a fight, he could say that his time there was mediocre at best. He had a couple friends here and there, but his true fascination was with the girl across the street.

When allowed, they played together. They tried to make sense of the world they live in. John knew his parents had died when he was young, but Lorelei couldn't tell you what happened to her parents, partially because all she knew was that they gave her up. The duo grew up to have a mutual bitterness towards the world, and once they were released from their 'homes', they were separated and constrained to very occasional e-mails.

John joined the force. It took up the majority of his time, and sealed his destiny to protect Gotham among Gotham's finest. Lorelei on the other hand fled Gotham, fled her past. She became an communications specialist after an internship that made her travel the world, yet she finds her job forcing her back to the one place she never wanted to be.