ā Iāve been a saint, Iāve been the truth, Iāve been the lie. ā
Ā» Natalie Mercer
Ā» Thirty
Ā» Hunter
Ā» Deputy at Salem's Point Police Department
Ā» Caity Lotz
Life on the run leaves no time for fashion or shopping. Natalie used to dress to the tens when she had previously lived in Salem. Always putting her best foot forward but since her Auntās return to her life and her decision to live under the shadows she started to dress simply. A simple shirt and some jeans were everything she was able to pack in her backpack, and it became her regular outfit. Her hair is always braided or in a pony tail, rarely does she let it down. Natalie never says more than she needs to. Rarely does she let someone in. She had a solid wall around herself and though she believes that there is nothing good left in her she does show compassion to people in her own way. When she talks to someone she is always listening to them and wanting to help them to the best way that she can. Her regrets and mistakes eat her alive but she is a silent person and if she was burning she would be the last one to point that out and would tolerate the pain. The anger has managed to shape Nat into someone that is short with her words and tends to express no emotions. She used to smoke whenever she was tense or stressed, it was the tell that gave her away but now that it is a constant state, she classifies herself as a smoker.
ā¦ Discreet, observant and resourceful
ā¢ Abrasive, destructive and determined
Only a few people get to be left behind and disappear themselves. Natalie Mercer happened to just win that lottery. When she was eight years old she saw the last of her parents. It had been so simple and comical in the dark twisted way. They had just left to go get some groceries and never came back. Her aunt didnāt even hesitate to pronounce them dead. For the years coming up Natalie believed that was because nothing good happened in town. It wouldnāt be till much later that she would actually understand what had taken place. Eight years old she saw her entire life be packed up in a couple of gym bags and two boxes. The woman was then shipped off to Colorado with her aunt and other hunters. It should be noted that Natalie had always been the odd ball out. Even when she was young she had befriended the werewolves next door and promised them that no harm would happen to them if they didnāt hurt anyone. The brown hair girl never saw why there had to be hate towards what someone was and not what they had done. That was a trait that her aunt was not okay with. In fact, it was the one trait that she tried to claw out of Natalie with violence, physical and verbal abuse.
At a young age the woman took advantage of the young brunette and would often starve her and other times push her to murder whoever they captured. Whenever she asked about her parentās whereabouts Natalie was isolated out of the camp for days. Natalie had believed that those days would come to an end when she didnāt get the blessing after all her parents were missing and no one gave a kid a blessing without their parents. That small hope that Natalie had been holding onto ended up coming crashing down on her when she turned seventeen, that was when her aunt requested that the blessing for her kids be placed on Natalie, after all, Natalieās aunt wasnāt able to have kids so she was making damn certain that her legacy stood the test of time. So when the witches granted it Natalie stopped being some orphan that had been taking in. Instead, her aunt started to look at the brunette as property. As an investment that she did her best to protect with the constant training, sending her on hunts that she lacked experience, and pushing her to her limits.
Soon Natalie realized how to handle the situation. Natalie became everything her aunt wanted only in front of her. Behind closed doors, she was sick with herself, she did her best to not kill anyone that hadnāt committed a wrong, but at times she wasnāt able to choose. The guilt drove her to shut down. Even after her aunt murdered a childhood friend that managed to get bitten the hunter didnāt dream about crossing her. Natalie believed that this was normal after all this was the only family she had ever known. The hunter did not want to appear to be selfish. Her aunt couldāve tossed her aside and not want anything to do with her. But instead, she took in the complication that was Natalie and fed and bed her. That was until she met an older male in her early college years. The two were never supposed to be a thing. Everything about their relationship screamed that it would end up in flames. He had been honest and told her what he was from the start as she was. Honestly had never been a downfall of theirs. Just ask quickly as she met him she trusted him. Both were aware of how fucked up each others family was but she brought him home. For the first time standing up against her aunt and defying her. Their relationship was the first time that she was actually able to breathe again but it would be short-lived compared to the pain that was soon to come. Her aunt guilt tripped Natalie on going on a hunting trip that Natalie still wasnāt prepare for, not to mention she had just had finals and was not at her best. The hunter almost died in the hands of a vampire, she shouldāve died was what everyone said but out of nowhere, she came back. When she came back home, she came back to an empty house, her boyfriend was gone. Without a note or an explanation.
The break up was the second emotional pang that she wished she could erase. Half the time she had been worried that something had happened. Then the other half she wished something did happen to him. Days turned into weeks and weeks turned into months, soon she realized that she had to close that chapter of her life. She joined the police academy which ended up being allowed only if Natalie ended up staying with a family friend. A friend that her aunt had trusted would make her into the ruthless hunter that her parents had once been. It never managed to become a reality because the family friend ended up being more like a brother to Natalie than a friend of her aunt. He was more than aware of the abuse that Natalie had suffered but neither of them ever talked about it. Besides the town was always throwing grenades at her for her to even contemplate being more ruthless than she was. During one of the curses, Natalie managed to discharge her gun ending the life of an innocent person. She placed herself on desk duty for the longest time till friends reached out and pulled her out. Then there had been the whole getting kidnapped incident. All these took place while she started to get close to someone else.
As a hunter, she took part in the hunter community right away. After all, she had connections with most of them and kept in touch. No one ever did see her second guess her kills or even regret being a hunter. Natalie didnāt go around telling people what they were doing wrong, she kept things to herself. But always was there when she was needed and never hesitated to have her blade cut deep into the monsters. A co-worker and fellow hunter soon were able to give her an update about her family. There was a lead that her parents had not died ā instead, they had been bitten and ran away cause they knew their family would kill them. So they left Natalie behind and now they had two other daughters and a family within the same pack that she had once befriend when she had been younger. Her aunt ended up being proven right once again ā she shouldnāt have dug around because the next thing that she could recall was being surrounded by three werewolves. It would be easy to plea self-defense but what she did to them was everything her aunt had taught her. That line that she had refused to cross all those years had been crossed that line. It wouldnāt go unnoticed, especially since her aunt managed to stumble upon the scene. Natalie didnāt know how to grasp the reality that her parents had been alive all these years and never thought to check up on her. That they had assumed that she would hate them like she had been taught versus giving her a chance. And now she had blood on her hands, she had become everything her aunt had demanded. She was not able to actually process the situation because her auntās grin ended up being plastered throughout her head. Her words echoing in her head. That provoked Natalie to turn to the witch and ask him to erase their memories. Saying that would be the last time he saw her. For whatever reason, he decided to agree and it was done.
The next months she had nightmares but turned to her new relationship to get rid of them. Natalie had foolishly thought that a memory wipe would be enough to bury her skeletons but life quickly reminded her of reality. Five years ago ā during one of her patrol walks she was taken. The ride back to Colorado was a complete haze and the next image that she being back in that same hole when she had been 15. Quickly she lost track of the days and her entire focus was to survive the next obstacle her aunt could possibly think. When she was finally released she had realized months had passed by. It had felt longer and yet it had just been 120 days. It became obvious that she wouldnāt be able to leave. Her aunt managed to blackmail her into staying with the fact that there was a pack of werewolves that wanted Natalieās head on a silver plate. It was not till Mikael, her nineteen-year-old childhood friend, managed to break down her door and plea to her to stop her aunt from killing his girlfriend that was a werewolf.
For a couple of days, the hunter was not going to do anything. After all, this was just the circle of life. This was a lesson that he had to learn in order to prevent any future pain. But after a bottle of tequila, she found herself thinking otherwise. That night she ended up turning against the hunters and protected Mikaelās girlfriend, which led to her becoming an enemy and being attacked. Natalie barely escaped the fight alive. She wouldāve ended up dead if Mikael hadnāt called her ex into saving her. Which was an action that was going to change the course of Natalieās life forever? At the same time her own family was going up in flames so was Lucasās. One of his elders ended up confronting Natalie about her exās accident and things became violent when Natalie refused to answer anything which managed for Natalie to become physically violent with an elder. At the end of the day the entire apartment ended up being damaged and Natalie delivered the final stab to the witch. It was during that confrontation that she learned that her ex-had healed her that night that Mikael had called him. Natalie was in deep water with an entire pack wanting her dead, her former fellow hunters, and now her exās coven did too.
With the hot-headed individual that Natalie was, she told them all to come at her. Her ex, on the other hand, had another solution. He managed to propose to Natalie. Portraying the entire thing as a business deal, one where his family would get off his back about the future and his nasty habit of always protecting Natalie and one where the supernatural would think twice before going after her. Around this time Mikael ended up disappearing into thin air. Another thing that marriage to a witch would give was giving her access to tools that she didnāt have. Natalie tried to locate Mikael with her hunter skills but nothing worked. Instead, she ended up running into Jeremiah Ainsworth who managed to confess to Natalie that no one had looked for her after she disappeared and that they had all acted as if she had never existed. That the guy had moved on ā it was the first time she had seen Jeremiah be so honest, and he confessed it was because he had also seen his own version play out the same. So after weeks of yelling at each other Natalie gave in and got married in private. For an entire day, Natalie and her ex-didnāt banter or become petty with each other. For one day Natalie wore a beautiful white gown. And it felt similar to the days when they had been each otherās best versions of each other.
For two years Natalie did the marriage thing. Natalie knew she couldnāt leave because of the enemies that she had managed to make outside. But every passing day that she didnāt hear from Mikael she worried more and more. Till the point where she couldnāt stay still anymore. Not like that was the only reason that she picked up her bags and left. Her husbandās family demanded too much from Natalie, things that she knew she would not be able to give. On top of that, her aunt had located her and managed to draw her out by threatening to kill Clarkās baby sister that had managed to get triggered. Natalie didnāt believe her but showed up to the location and there enough was Cammy being tortured to the fullest. The sight of the smaller Clark being abused by the same hands that she had, was enough for Natalie to let go of any fight and give into her auntās demands. So a deal was made with the devil ā her life for Cammyās, and Natalie accepted the terms after all she was given little choice but to leave and follow her aunt wherever she wanted.
But as soon as Natalie was able to escape from her aunt she did. And ever since then she has been on the run, with the help of Zeke she has been able to be one step ahead of her aunt and both have been working to locate Mikael. Interesting turn of events since she would have never probably trusted Zeke before and now he is the one that she is the closest with. It was during this time that she dyed her hair blonde, as a symbol of change. During the past three years, Natalie wasnāt able to be a law enforcement because her aunt knew all the connections and how to get info so she with the help of her previous friends she became a hire for kill during the mornings and a hunter at night, traveling throughout the country and killing supernatural beasts. There were moments when she needed help and would call Zeke to come and help her out. With the three years, she managed to go from an adequate hunter to a specialist. It was during this time that she would help people deal with their supernatural troubles for the exchange of money and food. The woman that had once dreamed about a family got used to living in a studio apartment and living on a paycheck.
The woman excelled at her hunter skills. She put all her focused on her hunting cause if she was going to be hunted for killing, then she was going to kill as many as she could. Though the blonde managed to make it into her own job she started to just haunt those that hunted others for no reason. She never checked on Salem because she didnāt want to be reminded of the people that she had managed to hurt. Her ex-was someone that she had hoped wouldāve moved on and created a better life for himself. She never planned to go back but she started to get short and strange calls from Zeke, that allowed her to know that something was up. Then Natalie got a phone call that Clarkās sister was back in Salem and it was only a matter of time before her aunt came, so she decided to make the one phone call to Zeke to let him know she was coming back home.
