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Her blue-black hair falls in curtains

Surrounding a delicate heart-shaped face

Blue eyes set deep in a pale, almost ivory complexion

Stunning

Beautiful

Schuyler

Even those not so enamored will grudgingly accede that she is attractive. The beginnings of her

Transformation came right on schedule in her fifteenth year, with the discovery of the sangre azul on her forearms. Duly inducted into the Committee during the first semester of her sophomore year, she has displayed questionable judgment in the process of her Transformation. Her attendance at Committee meetings is inconsistent, and she recently performed the Sacred Kiss with her human Conduit, in a flagrant violation of Committee rules. According to Dr.

Hazard, she had no other choice but to do so or she would have succumbed to a sickness and the loss of consciousness that felled her mother.

Intern Report #202

While retiring in nature, Schuyler displays an unerring ability to attract the attention of the opposite sex. She was spotted dancing with Jack Force at the fall Informals, and rumors have it that her infatuation with Duchesne’s most handsome and popular student may be returned. During the after-party at the

Four Hundred Ball, she was spotted kissing a fellow masked reveler. Conflicting reports have the boy in question as Oliver Hazard-Perry, Kingsley Martin, or the most likely candidate, Jack Force.

Intern Report #303

Schuyler’s infatuation/relationship with Jack Force appears to have grown since she was ordered to move to the Forces’ town house after her adoption by her uncle, Charles Force. Several interns have confirmed sightings of Schuyler and Jack entering a residential building on Perry Street separately but within minutes of the other (real estate records show apartment 10 N. titled to the Benjamin Force Trust).

From a page from Schuyler’s journal:

“To love Jack is to ruin him, to risk his very life. His eventual bonding with Mimi is law, it is life and death. I must leave him. I cannot keep doing this to Oliver, who loves me so much and whom I love as well. I cannot live with the guilt anymore. I have to say good-bye.”

(Renfield’s notes continued)

Schuyler Van Alen was put to a Committee hearing after the events in Rio, where Regis Lawrence Van Alen was murdered. She has been on the run for a year since the trial, but we can assume she returned to New York, as she was spotted at the bonding ceremony of Madeleine (Mimi) and Benjamin (

Jack) Force at St. John’s Cathedral.

We have pieced together the story and have discovered that Schuyler was hiding in the city under the name Skye Hope, using her shape-shifting abilities to pose as the daughter of an ex-hippie traveling singer.

Details on the events at St. John’s are still coming to light.

Eyewitness reports state that a silver mist appeared in the church, and the demon Leviathan himself abducted Schuyler, and they disappeared into the world of the glom. Venators on the scene reported that Jack and Mimi Force also disappeared at this time. Several minutes later, Jack and Schuyler emerged from the glom, Jack gravely injured and bleeding heavily.

Guests at the scene testified they witnessed Schuyler offering her blood for him to drink. She was overheard telling him that as she was half human, that her blood could save him. Jack Force was then observed performing the Sacred Kiss on her, risking

Corruption.

Schuyler was last seen at John F. Kennedy Airport with her faithful human Conduit/familiar, Oliver, but at the last moment, conflicting reports indicated that she entered the terminal with

Jack Force, with Florence, Italy, as their possible intended destination.

Current Status: Missing. Suspected to have sought refuge in European Coven.

ALLEGRA VAN ALEN CHASE

Gabrielle, the Uncorrupted, the Virtuous, the Messenger, Archangel of the Light

Birth Name: Allegra Elizabeth Van Alen

Origin: August 24, 1969, New York, New York

Known Past Lives: Rose Standish (Plymouth), Tomasia

Fosari (Florence), Junia Tertia (Rome), Meni (Egypt)

Bondmate: Charles Force (broken). Bonded to Stephen

Chase (Red Blood)

Assigned Human Conduit: Warren Hazard-Perry (deceased)

List of Human Familiars: Stephen Bendix Chase, no others

Physical Characteristics:

Hair: Blond

Eyes: Green

Height: 5’7”

Allegra Van Alen is the current reincarnation of Gabrielle, the

Uncorrupted, one of only two of our kind who was not cursed or fallen, but became a vampire by choice instead of sin.

Like many Blue Bloods of her generation, she began her education at the Duchesne School in Manhattan but transferred to Endicott Academy, a boarding school in Massachusetts, during her junior year. As a student, Allegra was known on campus as cheerful, spirited, and athletic; captain of the girls’ field hockey team and a natural-born leader. She made a stunning debut at the Four Hundred Ball on her eighteenth year, leading the cotillion with her brother, Charles. Town & Country christened her the “debutante of the decade.”

As far as the Repository is concerned, nothing in Allegra’s past or her personality suggested that she was capable of violating the Code in a most egregious manner. When she came of age at twenty-one (not eighteen, as previously believed: see new documents updating Allegra’s history/diary/Hazard-Perry notes), Allegra forsook her blood bond to her bondmate and vampire twin, Charles Force

(Michael, Pure of Heart: see Force Family Files/Angelus

Files/Pure) to elope with her human familiar, Stephen Chase.

The marriage remains the only instance of a vampire-human bonding. The couple lived in hiding for several years until

Charles Force, acting from his position as Regis of the

Conclave, lifted the sanction and allowed Allegra to return to the

Coven.

Allegra succumbed to a self-imposed coma in 1995, three years following the birth of her half-human daughter, who was conceived from the illegal union with her husband/human familiar. While earlier reports indicated that Allegra lapsed into unconsciousness immediately following the birth of her child, the Repository has concluded that the confusion on the dates of

Allegra’s current long-term hospitalization stemmed from her lengthy stay at the maternity ward after the difficult birth of her child. The date of that earlier internment (9/1/1992) was mistakenly applied as the date of her remittance into the care facility.

It is speculated that sorrow from the death of her human husband {DEATH UNCONFIRMED-RENFIELD} was what led Allegra to lapse into a comatose state. She would not participate in the Caerimonia Osculor with any other human after their bonding, and when he died, she chose to withdraw from life as well.

A recent visit to her hospital bed revealed that even at forty years of age, Allegra has kept her incandescent beauty. While most of the community used to visit at her bedside, in recent years, only two visitors have signed the security logs: her estranged bondmate, Charles Force, and her daughter, Schuyler Van Alen.

While some in the Coven believe that Charles Force could use his considerable influence on his twin to wake her, he himself has admitted that he has no such power over her reduced state.

From Hospital Records

DATE REDACTED BY ORDER OF REGIS

—An orderly working the late shift reported that he heard screaming from patient’s room.

—Patient undisturbed. (Orderly delusional?)

—Security logs indicate visit from her daughter. But signature is of a B. Llewellyn? (Is this correct?

Reconfirm with security.)

DATE REDACTED BY ORDER OF REGIS

—Patient awake and coherent. Alert: Dr. Patricia

Hazard