Vin Tanner
We call them strong, Those who can face this world alone, Who seem to get by on their own, Those who will never take the fall
Family. The one thing that he'd always wanted and finaly had, thanks to two men, and two women; Christopher Adam Larabee, Trent James Malloy, Nettie Welles and Keirstien Nikolette Morgan.
Chris had become the brother and friend he'd never had. They were so close, they could tell what the other was thinking and wanted to say before they said a word.
The only regret was that he had wished he could have known Chris when he was younger.
But then he wouldn't have got into trouble that sent him into the military in the first place and led him to meet the rest of Alpha Seven.
He'd lived in Tascosa, TX for as long as he could remember, up until his mother died. Then he was bounced around like an unwanted rag doll. Then he turned 12 and became a runaway. He was a witness to a mugging gone wrong done by his 'friend' and he took the blame.
He was sent to another home, and the woman promised that when he turned 17 he'd enlist in the military. The woman stood up for him the next 5 years, but died three days after he graduated high school, when she had a car wreck.
He joined the military almost a month later.
He pushed all the rules and made some enemies during the first two months he was there.
Finally, one man had had enough and brought him in after they had saved a medic from a beating when he failed to save another soldier.
Major Christopher Larabee brought him onto his team and explained that General Orrin Travis had told him to build an elite team.
He and Chris became almost like brothers, and even let his walls down around him. The other 5 men in the group consisted of a chaplin, because no one knew the missons they'd be doing, the medic they'd saved, a conartist who preffered Armani® to Wranglers® unlike the rest of them, a Casanova, and a kid same age as he was. But there were two others off the record; the seargent who taught the selfdefence classes they needed and a young woman his age, who could sip in and out without being seen.
Trent Malloy trained him in hand-to-hand combat, and became a big brother to him, like Chris.
And Nikole Morgan became the little sister that he trained and could confide in, when he thought the others would laugh.
Larabee, Malloy, Tanner and Morgan; an odd family but family, his family, nevertheless, and one that he'd never give up.
They all had something in common;
Chris had lost everything there was to lose, except his life… but not by his choice. He would have, had they not have met, and Chris found a surragate little brother.
Trent had found where he belonged even though he didn't think his father approved and became a good brother figure.
Then there was Nikole. She had never met her family until two years before, when the people she 'stayed with', as she put it, realized they had adopted their own granddaughter and had a family reunion. Still, she pushed the boundaries and let them know that she could make it on her own.
Having nothing himself, Devlin 'Vin' Tanner' found himself surrounded with people like him.
The six men in his group became his brothers, the young female agent became a little sister, and the hand-to-hand combat instructor became another brother, though they were separated at times by many miles of land and water.
"Family is more than blood ties; it's a connection and love that they have."