Annette

**Annette** was a British vampire; the first vampire that Bones ever sired.

## Biography

### Early life

At fourteen, Annette was married to a man named Abbott in an arranged marriage. On the third night, Abbott invited a chambermaid to join them in bed, and when Annette refused, he beat her. A few years later, Annette and Abbott were invited to visit the duchess Lady Genevieve while the duchess' husband was away at court. Genevieve drugged Abbott and presented Annette with a surprise: she had hired the gigolo Crispin for them. Annette felt a connection with Crispin because they were both trapped by their circumstances. Annette eventually conceived, although the child could have been either Abbott's or Crispin's, as she was sleeping with both men at the time. Abbott refused to hire a midwife for the delivery, so the baby was stillborn. Annette nearly bled to death during the delivery and was rendered sterile ever afterward. Crispin snuck in to care for Annette as she recovered. Shortly afterward, Crispin was arrested and sentenced to hang for pickpocketing, but Annette spoke with the judge and persuaded him to send Crispin to the new penal colonies in New South Wales instead.

Nineteen years later, Crispin, now having become a vampire, killed Abbott and offered Annette a new life as a vampire in return for the kindness she had shown Crispin in his human days. Not wanting to spend the rest of her life at court, Annette agreed. Crispin changed her over, and the two maintained a close relationship.

### Vampire life

Crispin summoned Annette to help him protect Cat during the period when Maximillian was seeking to kill her and Ian was seeking to make her one of his people. When Annette met Cat, she immediately began showing animosity towards her. While Crispin left to pick up other friends to join them for dinner, she openly taunted Cat about Annette's extensive sexual history with Crispin, provoking Cat into a physical fight. Crispin overheard their fight upon returning to the house. After persuading Cat to tell him what Annette told her, Crispin furiously confronted Annette, but Cat convinced Crispin to make her listen to them shagging instead. In the morning, Crispin arranged for Annette to accompany Cat to "deliver" hostages to Ian's guards, threatening to cut off Annette from his line if anything happened to Cat. Annette helped Cat fight the guards and free the hostages, despite them all being her acquaintances, and even gave her blood to Cat for healing when they were finished.

When Tate is changed into a vampire, Annette flies in from England to help. Her plane is delayed, so Bones picks her immediately after Tate's transformation while Cat visits her mother. The airline loses Annette's luggage, so Bones calls Cat to tell her they will be late, but Cat does not answer her phone, something which never happens. They drive to her mother's house to find that Cat has been ambushed and attacked. They break in and rescue them. They capture Cat's father Max, the chief orchestrator behind the attack, and Bones publicly tortures Max that evening to make an example of him but refuses to let Cat attend. Annette speaks with a hurt and angry Cat, telling Cat her story and convincing her to reconcile with Bones. When Cat questions her intentions for doing this, Annette explains that though she is not particularly fond of Cat, she loves Bones and wants to see him happy.