❝the question isn’t “who is going to let me,” the question is “who is going to stop me?❞
resident | crossroads | detective | twenty-seven | female (she/her)
There was a curse on the Croft Family, or at least that was the story Lena had grown up listening to. Long lives full of happiness and personal contentment were not meant for this family who had, eons ago, pissed off Yu. No one in her family could rightly choose what the ancestor had done, and each time the story was told it was something different. Lena never put much faith into it. It was a fairy tale, meant to scare her and her sister into behaving. Mostly believing if they did they could outrun the curse. But Lena never believed, even when her parents died in a freak accident when she was only 10.
While their deaths were hard on Lena, her sister was inconsolable. She acted out, became fearful of just about anything. It was more then the people who took them in could handle, so Lena perfected her chiseled personality. Making sure she never gave her foster parents a reason to decided that she and her sister just weren’t worth the effort they had to put in. She got good grades, was a part of the student counsel and when high school rolled around she played several sport. Putting on the appearance of the perfect child while her sister rebelled. It was the least she could do. Things really became strained when her older sister came home with the news she was pregnant and refused to tell anyone who the father was. Lena had her suspicions, but all her sister had to do was give her that pleading look and she knew she would never tell anyone even when she was 100% certain she was right on who the baby Daddy was. Reagan was promptly kicked out and while Lena missed her sister she couldn’t help but feel like she could breath for the first time since their parents died once she was gone. she wasn’t tiptoeing around Reagan’s feelings, or guilty looks. Lena was able to truly show her appreciation to the people who took them in without feeling like Reagan was going to accuse her of disgracing her parents memory.
She still tried her hardest, with her sister out of the house. Even graduating salutatorian in her class of 600. It was something she was super proud of even if her sister refused to come and be in the same space as the people who had kicked who out. Still the summer before Lena went off to college she spent it in Athens with her older sister and adorable little niece whom she instantly fell in love with.
In the Fall, Lena bid goodbye to both of them as she embarked her trip to M.I.T. She had loved S.T.E.M. and technology all though high school and was amazed when this prestigious school actually wanted her. It was tough though. Any extra brain power she had after classes was spent talking to or thinking about her sister and niece. She hadn’t cut things off with the family that raised her but they never reached out, never called her back, and soon Lena stopped trying. It almost felt like they abandoned her but it was hard to feel sad at that when she remembered they were never really her family to begin with.
She was halfway through her Second year at M.I.T when she got the call and it shattered her world. Her sister had died, a mugging gone wrong, and she left Daisy in Lena’s care. The news was overwhelming and the school gave her time off to figure out what to do. Lena just never went back. She moved to Bellevue because that’s where Daisy’s life was and she got a job working as a beat cop for a while. The rage of her sisters death fueling her for a while until Lena actually started to like what she did. She provided for Daisy’s future and made sure the girl never forgot who her mother was, even though it was trying at times. It wasn’t long until Lena’s wasn’t just happy walking the beat. she wanted more. She took the detective’s test as soon as she was allowed and killed it. She’s been working as a detective pretty happily since then.
Lena has lived in Bellevue for quite a few years now, but still she doesn’t really feel like she belongs here. Most of the social interaction she has is with criminals or other people who work in the police department. Of course Lena probably isn’t the easiest person to make friends with. She’s only 27 and she’s been raising her Niece all by herself since she was barely 20, but that little girl is her whole life. On days where Lena does feel like maybe she missed out on the crazy 20’s most girls seem to have she just looks at Daisy, smiling as she hums a little tune, and it all just fades away.
