Valerie Green

Valerie was born in a slum, her parents were struggling to cope with life and thought a child would help turn things around. Sadly it did not, before she was even 4 they had turned to drugs and stealing. Whenever she wasn’t ignored, she was used to help steal food or money. She learnt very quickly to not cry, and exactly where to hit any strangers if they tried to get close. At age 6 she had met an orphanage owner who tried caring for the unwanted children of these parts. Without supplies to take her in, Valerie could however join in on lessons, which helped her learn to at least speak, as she had been mostly unable to.

Every six months, Valerie would watch a van take a few children, giving money in their stead; she didn’t know why the woman seemed sad each time, they were getting out of this place. One time, 7 year old Valerie mustered up the courage to join the group, being added without question. No one knew they even existed, in her little mind she thought that it couldn’t be so bad, maybe there would be food. She would later learn that this was one of the few ways an illegal organization by the name of Tenskiva recruited agents from young, paying enough to keep the orphanage kids fed and healthy so long as a few were given twice a year.

With a group of 70 children her age, they were taught all the normal things that were needed before integrating into a much more advanced system. By 11 years of age her group had been forced to learn 7 languages altogether, with fluency demanded. The punishments for failure were harsh even then, and at 12 years old the physical training began along with an even more advanced learning curriculum. This included weapons training, interrogation resistance, advanced motor skills building, combat training, toxins resistance, psychological testings, and much more. At age 16, the females of the group were taught the art of seduction, along with being forced to have hysterectomies.

Barely 30 children had survived by the time the program was completed, at 19 years old. The day of her first assignment, she was assigned to take out a small weapons deal by sabotaging the transport. She had succeeded, barely, but was injured during her escape. This ended with her second trip to the medical bay since 16, where she had a part of her small intestine transplanted due to impact trauma. This is where she had the unfortunate fate of capturing the attention of the medical scientist, Mathias. Despite everything she had been through before, no amount of pain in the past compared to being forced through that surgery awake.

Some years went by, she integrated as a full proper agent for the company, working mostly alone. A few of her jobs ended in difficulty or even failure despite her above average skillset, these were secretly due to her tasks being manipulated, assigned solo rather than group. Each failure would result in a week’s visit to the disciplinary team (DT), which happened to be right next to the medical bay, run by the same man. And each time, she was put through some form of physical or psychological torture for entertainment or ‘learning’, as anyone who failed did. She lived in fear and pain, pushing herself to ridiculous lengths just to not fail another mission, each day, each week, terror of going back, terror from that man.

It all eventually broke apart when at 23 years old, she failed something too large. A rival organization had sent out bait, she was sent to disrupt them all on her own without leaving a trail back to Tenskiva. It was impossible, she knew from the moment she started it couldn’t be done, and in a moment of pure fear she gave up. She set up a fake death scene, just as she was taught, and ran away. She didn’t sleep well for months, moving to the other side of the country, too terrified to try internationally, panicked that she would be found out. She had started getting new identification, with her old anonymous contacts she at least knew about the mercenary system out there so she worked jobs often, eventually making enough money to get a small house.

The nightmares never left, some days she would lock herself inside in paranoia. But, needing to keep busy, she ended up taking a job that seemed easy enough; she was to steal a large diamond from within a mall. Simple enough, she had thought to herself, mall guards were barely capable anyway, it would be absolutely no trouble getting past them on her way out, surely.