Sage Reinhart

Sage Reinhart is a character role-played by BlazingSaberWolf.
==Who is Sage?==
Sage Luna Reinhart was born on the early morning of October 4, 1990. You would think that this would be a wonderful day, but Sage was not expected for another month. 
October 4th, 1990 had another meaning to her parents, it was their four-year wedding anniversary and they wanted to start the day off by watching the harvest moon over the Boston Harbor. They got up early that morning, packed a picnic basket of breakfast pastries and hot cider, and then made their way to the harbor. However, they never reached their destination. As they traveled through the streets of Boston, music going and smiles on their faces, it was short lived when they passed through an intersection. Tires screeching, the sound of metal crunching, and the screams of confusion and pain could be heard. A drunk driver sped through the light and t-boned the Reinhart's car, causing it to spin and flip over. The Reinhart's were placed in their own ambo and rushed to the hospital. Sage's farther was treated for minor injuries, but her mother was rushed into surgery to fix internal bleeding and also save the baby. However, no matter what the doctors tried, her mother kept flatlining, so they needed to switch their focus to saving the baby. After only a few hours, Sage had finally gotten the strength to open her eyes to the world, revealing a set of striking green eyes that mirrored her mother's. Thus, her farther named her; "Sage" for her green eyes and "Luna" for the harvest moon that she was born under.
== More Childhood Heartache and Pain ==
Another family loss came when Sage was thirteen. Her grandmother got sick over the winter and just never recovered. She ended up passing away just before spring hit. The loss changed something in Sage that made her want to work harder and cherish the trivial things in life. You never know when something will be gone forever. 
The death of Sage's grandmother was the triggering point of her deciding that she wanted to start a career in medicine. Her mother was a nurse, but also, she could put all her extra energy and caring for others to effective use. However, Sage didn't want to a be a doctor in a hospital position, so she was very gun-ho on being an EMT.
Junior high came and went with no issue. With high school came new challenges. Sage did a lot of scheduling and planning, so she was able to do softball in the springtime and set up her classes so that she could get some college credit. As for some pocket cash, she worked a few hours in her grandfather's auto shop with her dad. Then on the weekends she would do a few hours at the local fast-food joint.
Senior prom. This was supposed to be a good night and it was to a point. No date to it, but a few of Sage's friends and her decided to just all go together. The party was being held at the high school, so her father dropped her off around 6pm and told her to let him know when she was ready to leave, and he'd come get her. Now Sage is not one for dancing, so she kind of just hung back and enjoyed the music, while making small talk with classmates. The time quickly passed by and before she knew it, it was almost 10pm. People were slowly saying their goodbyes and calling it a night. Deciding that it too was getting late, she rung up her dad. He said that it would be about twenty minutes and to sit tight. As she waited for him, the time started ticking by. 20 minutes. 30 minutes. 1 hour. Sage waited almost 2 hours for him and then her grandfather's truck showed up. He had an incredibly sad look. Yet, another drunk driver struck and killed her remaining parent.
At this point Sage had enough and was livid. Another irresponsible person took the life of her only parent. All she had left now was her grandfather and how long would that last? When the next school week came, there was an army recruit at school. Not thinking clearly, and still in an angry state of being she decided to approach their table. They said that they needed people and one of the options in the brochure was to be a combat medic. Sage's closest friend, Will, was also looking into joining the army. Thinking that maybe if she became a medic, she could make sure he didn’t die on her too! So, she signed up and would ship out with Will after graduation.
== A Career as a Combat Medic ==
The ten weeks of boot camp were hard, but Sage survived and that meant she could then go on to medical training for another sixteen weeks. Unfortunately, even though Will and her went through the same boot camp, since Sage went into a different field, they ended up getting separated.
The need for combat medics meant she saw a lot of field work. Sage ended up doing three tours overseas. Each tour would be about two years, and then one year back in the states. She would occasionally get to have a leave from duty and would go back home for a few weeks and help her grandfather in the shop. Before the start of Sage's third tour, her grandfather said that he was getting tired, and it was becoming more difficult to keep the shop up and running. He wanted to get a small apartment, put the house, and garage up for sale.  She told him she would help him before she had to leave and that she would put her stuff into storage and worry about getting her own place when she got back from this next tour. Oh, how wrong she was.
Sage's third tour overseas went good for the first year and a half. She was stationed with an evac group, and long and behold Will was the chopper pilot. And he was a damn good pilot. When Sage saw his face, she ran over and gave him a death grip of a hug. When they got out of boot camp, they did not have the means to keep in touch. They had both thought the worst had happened, so seeing that they were both alive and well had lifted their spirits. 
With six months left in her tour it all went to shit! There was a platoon that took on some heavy fire in the mountains. Two of their guys got hurt, so they called in for a medical evac. The unit said they had the area cleared and it was secure for the team to land. So, Will, Sage, and her medic partner loaded up a chopper and headed up to the platoon's location. They landed at the marked spot and Sage grabbed her med bag. As she was leaving the chopper all hell broke loose.  The unit and chopper started taking fire from the hills north of their location. Sage got about a few feet away from the chopper, as she was dashing for cover and then heard it. The whizzing of a rocket. An RPG was fired from the hills, straight at the chopper. She did not have enough time to shout a warning as she turned slightly to her left to look at the chopper to see if Will and her partner had gotten out of the chopper in time. The blast was so loud. Sage could feel the heat of the flames on her side and then the shearing pain as shrapnel teared into her whole left side. The pieces were all over the place, in her leg, side, and arm. The force of the blast also sent her flying forward another few feet into cover. The closet person grabbed the collar of her jacket and pulled her farther behind cover. Sage was in so much pain, but still conscious. Through gritted teeth, she instructed the person who grabbed her on what to look for in her med bag to quickly stabilize her wounds. Sage then told them to give her a pack of pain meds and take the bag over to his injured comrades. The meds slowly eased the pain away before darkness took over.
Sage woke up a few days later in the field hospital. She was a pin cushion of IVs and wrapped up like a mummy. Any slight cough or movement would send a shooting pain into her left side and then the pain would radiate either down her leg or up through her left arm just stopping at the shoulder. As she rested in the bed, she overheard talk that the pilot and other medic did not survive the explosion. She just silently cried that night. Another two people lost. How many more people was she going to lose? 
Sage was transferred back to a military hospital in the states to recover for about two months. In the meantime, her grandfather came to visit and helped her get a first-floor apartment for when she got out of the hospital. The injuries that Sage sustained were the first time she had gotten severely hurt. Through the surgery to piece her back together, the doctors had administered morphine to ease a lot of the pain. However, she ended up be that 1 in 100 who have a server allergic reaction to opioids and an allergy to penicillin.
== Healing and Moving On ==
The road to healing was a long one. Almost five years of physical and mental therapy to get back into a somewhat normal state. Physically, on a good day Sage might just have a slight limp in her step, but she can bend and move around with the help of a knee brace. Mentally, though she found herself with some PTSD from the explosion. The slightest unexpected loud noise or bang had her flinching or ducking for cover, as if she was back in the field hearing the chopper explode all over again. 
Hearing that Los Santos was looking for workers and civilians to help the island’s economy get back on track, Sage thought that it might be a good idea to get out of Boston. There were too many bad memories there and a fresh clean start, could be what she needs. She has many experiences under her belt and hell, she could be a medic again.