Jeanine Corey

Tremen's Mortal ties -x- Carrie Hawkins

Sobriquet: Jeannie

Appearance: Jeanine has beautiful olive toned skin with brown eyes. Her hair is dark and shiny with just a small amount of natural curl in it. Jeanine has a deep scar that starts at the center of her left eye socket and runs back to her left ear. Jeanine has blossomed into a hour glass figured buxom woman with piercing eyes.

Behavior: Jeanine is a no bullshit hard as nails police officer. She deeply loves Carrie and works hard to make a perfect life for the two of them while still grieving for the loss of Tremen.

History: Jeanine was born to an Italian girl and a poor white man. They both did drugs and drank a lot. One night in 1980 the two of them drove off in a car to score some drugs, and wrecked the car leaving Jeanine all alone. When the neighbor lady heard they had been killed she called the cops and Jeanine was shipped off to a group home at the age of 5. For the next 11 years she bounced around the system, moving from one foster home to the next as the broken system floundered to give her some sort of care. At 16 Jeanine was essentially living on the street and hanging out with her friend Carrie all the time. When Carrie had had enough with dear old Dad and ran away, Jeanine was waiting for her on the curb. The two of them had been struggling to survive in the early Denver cold when Tremen Hall found them. At first Jeanine was sure he was a perv, but the old guy took them in and fed them. He was creepy and cold, but seemed to take comfort from having them around. Jeanine initially stole some stuff from him to hoc, but after a couple of months realized that he didn't care and had been giving them money for food and clothes without ever asking for something in return other than light house keeping and picking up packages for him. Tremen would get up in the evening and begin cooking them food, often talking quietly about medicine, law, and forensics. He taught Jeanine to notice things, and think through what they meant.

It was those lessons that made her see his seething loneliness and worry for his daughter Catherine. Jeanine also saw and heard him talking to ghosts. She suspected one of them was his late wife, but the others were the dead of the men he served with in Viet Nam. While it creeped her out, it also made her aware of how much death had hovered around him all these years. The blood he gave them made her stronger, and over the two years they stayed with him she noticed neither her nor Carrie aged or changed. When they left abruptly for Chicago and things went downhill, Jeanine was determined to keep Carrie and Tremen safe. When the cops picked them up at the airport, the last thing she saw of Tremen was him jumping from the back of the moving ambulance and running away into the snowing Chicago night.

Carrie would often talk about Tremen coming to get them, but Jeanine was sure that the cops were keeping too close and eye on them. Months became years, and Jeanine could see the predators watching her and her friend, waiting for the Tremen to show up. Jeanine began taking self defense courses and learning about law enforcement. She became convinced that if she could become a cop she would know if the law ever found Tremen so she could warn him before they caught him. Eventually she found she was good at it, and that Tremens' lessons on observing bore fruit in that she was a good cop.

Recent Events: Now Jeanine is a well respected detective in Chicago. She is a Sergeant. Jeannie as she is known is assigned to the theft division, though has done some cross over narcotics work.