CLAGUS, Heidi Cosmina

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HEIDI COSMINA CLAGUS

FULL NAME: Heidi Cosmina Clagus
NICKNAMES: Heids.
AGE: 21
GENDER: Female
SEXUALITY: Straight.
STATUS: Single.
GROUP: Student.
GRADE: Sophomore – but she’s on a year deferral .
MAJOR: Optometry.
JOB OCCUPATION: Currently unemployed (she was recently fired).

HAIR: Dyed from a dark to a light blonde and long. She almost always wears it down with the natural waves and kinks in it.
EYES: Blue.
SCARS/BIRTHMARKS: She’s been getting some scars lately with the fights she’s getting into, but they’re all the kind that will heal in time if she lets them.
TATTOOS: She has a flower at the very top of her right arm, and the family name on her left forearm.
PIERCINGS: Just her ears the once.
PLAY-BY: Bryden Jenkins!

LIKES: Free running, trainers, European liquor, feeling worn out at the end of a day, heavy rock music, men with ink and/or piercings, hockey, being out at night, scrambling, mental challenges, letting out pent up emotions, keeping a journal, stripping off at home, banana smoothies, coconut body wash, flirting, weights, black forest gateau, the colour black, red lace, movies with a lot of blood.
DISLIKES: Fighting (but she feels like she needs to), thinking about Bree, feeling dizzy, marmalade, pears, long car journeys, falling asleep and forgetting she has candles lit, white chocolate, cheddar cheese, waiting for a message, online dating sites, long skirts, getting sick, seeing doctors, thick belts, Henry Cavill, overly groomed men, fishsticks, cats fighting in the alley, food pictures.
FEARS: Returning to college in September, someone else saying she is responsible for Bree’s death, locked in syndrome.
SECRETS: Heidi was there when Bree died. That much isn’t a secret. What is a secret is that Bree called out and begged Heidi for help and Heidi didn’t do a thing to help her best friend. She froze and couldn’t move and because of that she ended up watching as Bree’s car blew up and killed her.
PERSONALITY: Heidi has always been athletic, and the type who can’t sit still for very long without needing to do something energetic; that’s why she ended up free running in the first place – it was perfect for her. She’s fidgety and always thinking about the next thing before the first is finished. Despite that though, Heidi is pretty clever and a hard worker when she wants to be. She can slack off with the best of them and frequently does making her no stranger to trouble. More than ever lately she finds herself on the wrong side of danger, but that’s a manifestation of how guilty she feels after her best friends’ death. Punishing herself is the only way she can gain any temporary relief from it, but it’s solving nothing and only giving Heidi some new scars. She’s a tomboy some would say, but Heidi is capable of dressing up with the rest of them when the mood takes her or the situation calls for it. She just prefers to have a more rockish style since that matches her personality better than a dress and caked on foundation. She likes feeling free, which hasn’t been a thing lately thanks to her burdens, but at home she usually strips away the day (literally) and finds herself able to be anything she wants. She’s scrappy and a damn good fighter. Someone needs only look at Heidi the wrong way and she’ll ask them what their problem is. Feisty and unreserved, Heidi isn’t the type to shy away from any kind of danger or trouble, which usually means she ends up in more. These days, Heidi feels too messed up to let anyone in. Her emotional state is far from stable and she’s coping with flings and meaningless guys who would toss her to the curb as quickly as she does them. However, if she were to be honest, there is a fun side to her heart, which enjoys flirting and the chase; both being chased and doing the chasing. She’s never thought about anything serious yet, but that’s because she’s never met anyone to make her think about that.

MOTHER: Miruna Stela Clagus, 46.
FATHER: Finnegan James Clagus, 49.
SIBLINGS: Amanda Camelia Clagus, 18.
Heather Mihaela Clagus, 14.
OTHERS: Bree Germaine Timberline, deceased.
PETS: Theodore, a Calico cat that was Bree’s.
HOMETOWN: Alexandria, Romania.
HISTORY: When an Irishman walks into a bar, there’s usually a fight. And on the night Finnegan met Miruna, there was one. How else would an Irishman on a stag party in Romania meet a nurse? Miruna was not long out of school, and she was on the night shift doing little more than dealing with drunks who needed stitches and those who came in with minor injuries. When she called out Mr Clagus, she didn’t expect to catch herself swooning at the strapping Irish gentleman holding a bloody napkin over his left eyebrow and wiping dirt from his beard. She was professional, but he was a flirt, and since the stag party was a weeklong he managed to coax her into one date which ended up back at his hotel room. At the end of the week he wanted to keep in touch even though it all seemed crazy and Miruna was convinced it would never work out. He told her never to doubt the luck of the Irish and boarded the plane home with nothing more than a wink and a smile. And he proved her right. Within a month he was back, a job relocation and a position working two cities over from where they met. It was still a bit of travelling to see each other, but it was better than a couple of countries. Miruna moved to a hospital in Alexandria when she could and then they got a place together and soon Miruna was pregnant. They welcomed their first daughter; Heidi. The happy couple married when Heidi was two, and two years later once they had moved to a nice new house they welcomed a second daughter, Amanda. A third and final daughter came four years later; Heather.

The girls, although they looked eerily identical, were strikingly differently. Heidi was a tomboy and athletic. She couldn’t sit still for more than five minutes without wanting to climb something or run somewhere. Amanda was artistic and had a gift for anything creative. She played the cello and painted. Heather, the youngest, was the bookish type. She was shy and reserved and always hiding behind her sisters whenever anything was going on. She was a bit of a target for the bullies, but Heidi was the first to swoop in and knock little kids back into their place. Most of the kids in both Amanda and Heather’s classes were scared of Heidi, purely because she was such a rough kid. She played with the big boys, and wasn’t afraid to get into a fight. She was scrappy, fought dirty sometimes and seemed fearless to her peers. Of course, back when they were children, most of them were only scared of spiders and ghost stories. Heidi liked spiders and didn’t believe in ghosts.

When Heidi was fourteen the family moved to Aspen, Colorado. The company Finnegan worked for had been bought out by an American company and the only way for him to keep his job at the position he worked at was for them all to move. It wasn’t an easy choice, but Miruna could still be a nurse in America with her qualifications and the girls were still a good age to move; there were no big exams any of them were due to sit, and they could all adapt well. They moved in the summer giving them all time to settle in and adjust before school started up. It was on Heidi’s first day that she met Bree. The two became best friends almost the instant Heidi called out some jock for mocking Bree’s braces and the rest was history for them. Most of the time they were inseparable. If they weren’t around each other then they were on the phone to each other. Nothing could come between them, though some bitches at school tried with nasty false rumours and lies. The pair of them made a dream together to go to New York once they graduated from the hell that was their high school. Bree wanted to be a fashion designer and she had a really talent for it, too. Heidi on the other hand was fascinated by optometry ever since she went with her dad after an accident during their move to Aspen saw him get glass in his eye. She was amazed by the work they did and had asked more than a dozen questions when her poor father was being treated by one of the optometrists at the hospital.

After high school graduation, the pair decided to hold off on college. They planned to make their way to New York in style. They took a year, deferring their college places and making a road trip out of it. They stopped off everywhere, saw all the things they wanted to see and did everything they wanted to do. They partied, hung out and made hundreds of memories. Sometimes they had to live out of their cars until they came into some money, but they loved every moment of it. They landed in New York City a month before they were due to start college and found themselves an apartment to share and settled into part time jobs to help with the rent and bills. Life was everything they wanted it to be. They were young, carefree and loving every minute of the lives they were living.

Their sophomore year rolled around and just before the Christmas the two decided to take a trip to Vermont for a long weekend. They both felt stressed with finals and deadlines and just wanted a break before the end of the semester and before they went back to Aspen for the holidays. Bree drove them up to the cabin they had rented and everything was just peachy. It was later on when Bree headed out to pick up something for them to drink that everything changed. Bree had left her cell phone behind and Heidi picked it up when it buzzed, thinking nothing of it; they frequently answered phones for each other or shouted that there was a message from someone. As far as she was concerned no one had any secrets. The message made her heart sink though. Bree had a boyfriend, a sweet guy, but this message indicated that she was seeing someone else. There was a long back and forth that turned Heidi’s stomach as she realised the extent of Bree’s infidelity. She was in shock when the accident happened. Bree’s was coming back around the bend to the cabin when her tyre caught a patch of ice and she lost control. The car crashed into a power house by the cabin and she was wedged in. Heidi ran outside, but the shock of the crash and the shock of what she had seen on Bree’s phone left her frozen. She was horrified by everything; the sight of Bree trapped, seeing the car and knowing that it was bad, and the phone in her hand buzzing with messages from the man she was cheating with. Bree called for Heidi to come help, begged her when she just stared, but Heidi didn’t move an inch. She was just coming to her senses when the car blew up. The force of the blast threw Heidi back some, breaking her arm and three ribs when she hit the wall of the cabin. Bree was killed, and Heidi survived with nothing more than ‘minor injuries’ as the police report stated. The report would never know the extent of Heidi’s guilt though.

She returned to Aspen for the funeral and while she recuperated from her ‘minor injuries’. She didn’t sleep properly, couldn’t focus well at all. NYU allowed her a year off, promising she could come back fresh in September and redo her sophomore year, under the circumstances. When she did return to New York, she was a different person. Reckless and wild. Heidi didn’t tell anyone what she knew about Bree’s infidelity, or that she had frozen up when her best friend needed her. Instead she closed Bree’s bedroom door after boxing up all her things in there and didn’t open it again. Her family had taken what they wanted already and the rest was supposed to be for Heidi to sort through, but she couldn’t. She wanted to be punished for her guilt, or for not doing something. And so began Heidi’s spiral.

It started off with getting drunk and having one night stands or flings with men who didn’t care if she was hurting or broken. Then, that didn’t quite make her feel better, so she started coupling that with bar fights. It would start off with her flirting with someone and then she’d see someone looking at her and instead of ignoring it or simply telling them to mind their own business, Heidi would get so riled up she’d just dive right on in there and start brawling with someone. It didn’t matter if they were a man or a woman, bigger than her or smaller. She’d fight them until she was bleeding and bruised and being thrown out of a place. Sometimes someone would still come home with her, other times she was hailing a taxi for herself or staggering home alone. This reckless streak cost her everything, relationships, her job, and even her inherited cat seemed to stop wanting to spend time around her. Heidi is due back at college in September and she’s scared of going back and fucking that up, too. Until she stops feeling that gnawing guilt though, she won’t stop punishing herself for what happened to Bree.

YOUR ALIAS: Kim.
RULE WORDS: kidnappedbykim.
WHERE YOU FOUND US: In my back pocket.
SAMPLE:

Pyjamas don’t have back pockets. I lied about where I found you.

[kim]