Rita Butler

Dr. Rita Butler (née Cross) is a biologist hired by the SCP Foundation as a Researcher. She was assigned to MTF Tau-9 "Bookworms", stationed at Site-17. Her sister, Joanna Cross, became an operative for the Serpent's Hand. Butler was an integral player during the Neverwere Incident, and helped stop the Neverwere secretly contained within the Foundation.
==Biography==
===Early life and recruitment===
Rita Cross grew up with her half-sister, Joanna Cross, in New York City, New York, and eventually became a biologist. She eventually married a man with the last name of Butler, taking his name. Due to Butler never needing to drive, as she grew up in New York, she hadn't earned her driver's license.
At some point, SCP-682 breached containment from an SCP Foundation emergency transport and escaped into NYC. The reptile caused minor injuries to Butler and Cross on landing, with 682 destroying a small skyscraper and killing Butler's husband. Butler ended up in a hospital, where she was offered to join the SCP Foundation. 
Considering that her husband was dead, and her colleagues were now distant, Butler agreed to join. Her half-sister, Joanna, wasn't offered the same job and instead was amnesticized.Prisoners
=== Foundation work ===
Butler was assigned to MTF Tau-9 "Bookworms", and served as a Level 2 Researcher within the MTF. She met with her half-sister in family gatherings on Easter and Christmas and didn't talk much about her work; unbeknownst to Butler, Cross had joined the Serpent's Hand, and was technically ideologically opposed to her.
=== Site-17 breach and aftermath ===
Site-17 was raided by the Serpent's Hand in order to free SCP-239, though this raid failed. One of the captured operatives was Joanna Cross, which shocked Butler, as she never thought her half-sister would become a "terrorist" in her eyes.
The shock of this prompted Butler to go with MTF Tau-9 Agent Ramesh Patel and Section Leader John Peters to the Site-17 bar and have a drink, not wanting to be alone. While there, a drunken Peters prompted Butler with a moral question of rescuing an old lady scientist with a truck during a breach, without orders, as a test of courage. When Butler said she couldn't drive, so the question was moot, Peters was taken aback and declared she needed driving lessons. After Butler said she didn't want to, Peters and Patel began a scuffle with one another as Butler left, no-one asking about her feelings with her sister being a Hand agent.
===Interrogation of Cross===
==Personality==
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===Appearances===
*Prisoners
*Family
*Showtime
*Sisters
==References==
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