cooper elias hawkins was born on cctober 31st back in 1984 to two loving and hardworking parents named william and heather (nee’ cooke) hawkins. the hawkins clan was very well known and well liked in their town of southport, north carolina which is where they resided and where cooper had grown up. william & heather are very successful owners of a diner that’s family owned. it’s beloved in their town.
ryan hawkins was the first of the hawkins clan, then ethan, the annie, then cooper and finally the baby megan whom they call meg. growing up cooper idolized his older siblings, his brothers were his best friends and his sister annie was someone whom he admired and aspired to be like. meg was someone cooper always took care of and adored. the hawkins siblings were well known and well liked by the town and could do no wrong.
they were one big happy family. that was until one 4th of July annie and cooper had decided to take their family boat out onto the water alone, without their parents permission. he was 11 at the time and annie was a little bit older. they drove it illegally, but annie really wanted to go and she always had a way of making cooper follow in her footsteps.
they were having a good time and being safe until annie decided to jump into the water after cooper had told her and begged her not too. it was a while until cooper had realized she hadn’t come up from the water. panicked and scared, cooper illegally drove the boat back to shore for some help. once reaching his parents & some cops, they ruled it as a drowning accident. they always said that annie held the family together and her death tore it apart.
his father was furious and devastated and wrongfully accused & blamed cooper for annies death even though he knew it wasn’t his fault. growing up for cooper wasn’t easy anymore. he wasn’t the happy go lucky kid he used to be. his father had mentally and emotionally and sometimes physically abused him for years, and his two older brothers followed in their fathers footsteps. cooper closed himself off and didn’t talk to them until he actually needed too. the only ones who truly cared about him and worried about his well being was his mother & his little sister meg.
he kept to himself and got into reading and writing. he hid himself away in his room, and only had a couple of friends. cooper excelled in school and kept his grade average high. he graduated high school with honors and had decided to move as far away from the small town of southport as possible to get a fresh start. choosing the city that never sleeps, cooper was accepted into almost every nyc college but ended up choosing brooklyn college. he majored in & has a master in criminal justice, and minored in florescence science.
however that wasn’t what he wanted to do in life. after graduating college with honors again, he decided to go into the academy and become a police officer. after a couple years of being a cop, he took the detectives exam and has been/is in the homicide unit ever since. that was until he had met and fallen in love with his former partner, noora raymond. they were in love and sneaking around and then one day the man disappeared. He couldn't take New York City anymore and found Coyote Valley, California instead. He's been here for one year. Ending things with Noora was one of the dumbest decisions he's made, what he doesn't know is that Noora was pregnant and about to tell him that he was going to be a father before he up and left. He hasn't heard from Noora since ending things.
However his job and the death of his sister haunts him on a daily basis. Cooper can be pretty self-destructive sometimes. He drinks, and sometimes his friends think it can be a problem. Used to smoke in college but doesn’t anymore, will do it every once in a while if he needs it. Still loves to read and write and secretly keeps journals and writes in them. Especially writing to his sister Annie when he can't sleep.
what: closed starter for cassandra madden @promiisedlands
where: the ugly mug
Cooper was exhausted, the past week has been hell and all he needed was a day off. Which thankfully today, Cooper had Sunday off which was rare. The Detective never had Sundays off, it was usually during a week day if it wasn't an order from his Chief. He had only been in town for a year but Cooper had already found his favorite spot, in a coffee shop called The Ugly Mug. This is where Cooper would sit down early in the mornings and write. This is where Cooper would come early in the mornings to clear his head. Leaving New York was one of the best decisions he's made, it was starting to eat him alive like Southport did. Cooper was sitting at his spot in the corner watching the people come in and out of the shop, he was drinking his regular black coffee and writing like there was no tomorrow when Cooper finally looked up and saw her. Cassandra, still looking exactly the same as they did when they were kids. It's not like this was the first time seeing her around town, he just tried to avoid her at all costs but the man decided to not be an asshole this morning. As he looked up at her, Cooper smiled and wipe his hand over his mouth but then finally opened his mouth to speak "Well hey stranger. Long time no see Madden." Cooper wasn't one to strike up a conversation as he was more quiet but this felt different.
