Painkiller Jane
Disclaimer: I only own copies of comics of the "Painkiller Jane" series, as well as the DVD boxed set of the short-lived TV show. Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe Quesada created the character and I am at their mercy. That goes the same for Dynamite Comics and/or Marvel, who have the rights to the new series of comics that will come out eventually.
Author's note: Okay, for those who have read the comics, particularly the original Painkiller Jane series from 1997 (the TPB is available, by the way), you would probably know how Jane's life turns out after being in a coma. However, I felt that some issues were never resolved. Hope you enjoy. Peace.
After being in a coma for two years, I never knew how much change things would occur in my life, if you could call it that.
After I awoke from my coma, I found out some changes have been made. My parents died. The love of my life moved on and married someone. My whole life has been shattered from that point on.
The only friend who had remained by my side was my longtime partner and friend, Maureen Fernandez. She had suffered a loss as well. Her husband Raymond was killed in a bust at the same time I had almost died while Maureen and I were undercover trying to bust the Blanco Brothers. However, Maureen blew our covers when she raced out the door after hearing that her husband was shot in a bust. Sometimes I think that she still remains in my life out of guilt of what had happened.
I also made somewhat of a new friend in the process and his name is Seth Hiller. He is a nurse at the hospital I frequent because I get hurt so many times. I surprise myself that I never get killed because of this strange healing technique that I have. I also see that he is madly in love with me, but I wonder myself if I actually return his interest, even though I tell myself that I don't.
I also have some other friends, if you can call them that, in the 22 Brides. They are a gang of women (and a man who dresses like a woman) who are hired guns and always willing to help me out if I am in a jam. I have helped them out before in a job trying to bring down Don Joe Fonti and they have helped me many times as well.
Even though I have the ability to heal from physical pain and I don't die so easily, I still hurt from the broken heart that I suffered after realizing that my parents are dead and my one true love, Mark Willofsky, had married someone else while I was in a coma. A lady who lives at the house that we used to live in told me that he had moved to Long Island.
I know he has moved on from me, but why do I feel like I want to find him? I have a feeling that deep down, he still loves me. I couldn't control what had happened in those two years I was in a coma. He couldn't, either. For all he knew, I probably wouldn't have woken up from the coma at some point, if at all.
This life I live as a vigilante may be hard work and hurts like hell, literally, but I still hurt from the fact that my fiancé who I was going to marry had ran off with some other woman. Okay, maybe that wasn't the case, but I still hurt from it. We had known each other since we were kids and we fell in love while we were in high school.
I never thought I would say this, but I have to find him. I must see him again. I really wonder what led him to move on from me like that. I might need some help in finding him. I must find Mark Willofsky.