Annabelle Reed

Annabelle Reed, is employed as an Undersheriff with the Eastern Sheriff's Office.

## Arrival in the Commonwealth

Annabelle Reed came from a well-off family in Australia. After some family discourses, she left home at a very young age in attempts to seek a fresh start for herself. Unfortunately, the stones weren't laid in her favor and instead of finding an honest job for herself, she found herself in some trouble.

It was a big world out there and she was unprepared and naive. Eventually she met some people, they took her in under their wing. It didn't take too long for her to realise that they were a criminal gang. Despite having always been raised to avoid such people, they taught her how to survive in the world and gave her a new sense of family.

After being with the gang for four years, the consequences of their actions had caught up with them. Even after avoiding the wrath of the law for so long, they had underestimated the other gangs within the area. A gang that Annabelle's gang had been feuding with previously, came into the camp, declaring a war. The two gangs had gotten into a violent gunfight resulting in Annabelle's gang being shot down. Annabelle managed to escape and decided that she needed to leave Australia, the place that she had called her home for her whole life. The decision wasn't a light one, she knew that she was wanted by the law and the other gang and would have been hunted down until she had met the same fate of the others.

She weighed her options and knew that she wanted to stay alive.

She boarded a ship, using the little money that she had left, and made her way into the Commonwealth, seeking a new beginning.

## 1901

After arriving in Rhodes, Annabelle was seeking a Clothing Store. She entered the building and bought herself some new clothes. After doing so, she met a woman. The woman was a bit of a loudmouth, the two got into an argument, resulting in Annabelle choking her out. After realising what she had done, Annabelle decided to take the woman to the Doctor's Office to seek some help. Once the woman had been treated, she seemed to have forgotten what had happened to her. Annabelle made up a story about how the woman had slipped in the clothing store, gotten her head stuck in a coat hanger and had suffocated herself. The woman believed her story, thanked Annabelle for her kindness and introduced herself as Kaitlyn Spell.

After the first encounter, Annabelle couldn't really rid herself of Kaitlyn. Kaitlyn began to follow her around like a bad smell however, Annabelle began to warm up to her and the two became inseparable. Kaitlyn came from a dark background too so the duo began their quest of making money, in the only way they knew how.

Annabelle and Kaitlyn based themselves out of Van Horn. Together, they robbed graves, dealt with Cannibals, performed highway robberies, stole horses and scammed the people of the Commonwealth. It was a simple life. They managed to get by.

One day, the duo arrived at the Bank in Saint Denis to deposit some money when they had found a man bleeding out on the pavement just outside the building. Kaitlyn took him over to the Doctor's Office for help and Annabelle had gone inside to deposit her money. As she was doing so, a group ran out of the back room, ordering her to surrender. She complied and they took her hostage, alongside two others, and began to rob the Bank. After a long negotiation, the suspects fled the building and Annabelle had made it out safely. She found Kaitlyn waiting outside with the man that she had helped. Among the group was a crazed looking man who kept uttering sentences alluding toward wanting to eat people. Due to Annabelle and Kaitlyn's past encounters with Cannibals, they were quick to dismiss the conversation and headed back to Van Horn for the evening.

The next day, Annabelle rode back into Saint Denis in hopes to find some mischief that she could get herself into. Instead, she found the crazed man from the day before. He approached her, asking her about if she knew where he could find ears to eat. She asked him it depended on what kind of animal he was looking for. He then told her he was looking for human ears. Annabelle told him to try the cemetery and tried to dismiss herself however, he told her that he was very hungry and needed to eat right then and there and lassoed her off of her horse, hogtying her. He began to carry her off when she saw a rider approaching them. Annabelle yelled out to him. The man attempted to help her when the Cannibal took out a sawn-off shotgun and shot him point blank, leaving him in the street. The Cannibal took her into an alley and proceeded to eat one of her toes. A civilian had found her afterwards, cutting her free and advising she reported her situation to the local lawmen. Annabelle found her way to the Saint Denis Police Department and reported the crime to the lawmen there however was dissatisfied with their eagerness to help her. They took her statement, didn't offer her any help for her bleeding nub of a toe and continued to just talk about how the Cannibals had been attacking lawmen. After she left, she returned to the original scene of the crime where she found the man's horse (who had been shot). She took the horse over to the Doctor's Office in attempt to return it to the man. She found him there in which he thanked her for her kindness and the two began to walk together. She told him what had happened with the Cannibal after he had left and the two decided that they would find him and deal with him since the Law wouldn't. He informed her that he had some "people" he rode with and Annabelle had left a good impression with him. He was willing to take her to meet them. Annabelle told him about how it was only herself and her friend (Kaitlyn) and that they had been managing to get by on their own, however, it had been difficult. As they were talking, Annabelle spotted the Cannibal running down the street. The two pursued him and bailed him up in a corner. After a confrontation, they shot the Cannibal, leaving him in the rainy weather on the street before fleeing the city.

They went towards Rhodes, finding Kaitlyn along the way. Once in Rhodes, they met the man's friends, one of them having been the man that Kaitlyn and Annabelle had helped the day before. The two men that really took Annabelle and Kaitlyn under their wings introduced themselves as Michael and Samuel Green. Due to already having a good "in" with the group, they agreed to take Annabelle and Kaitlyn on some jobs with them. The group called themselves "The American Saints" and together they robbed stores, banks and the law. They got into feuds and shootouts with other gangs, which brought back a lot of past trauma for Annabelle.

After a store robbery in Valentine, the group had managed to escape with the money, after only shooting one lawman. They regrouped at a house by the abandoned town of Pleasance where while waiting for Kaitlyn to return, the duo informed her of their real names. Tommy Gunn and Maxwell Paige. They felt that Annabelle and Kaitlyn had well and truly earned their trust. They later went into Rhodes, got into a shootout with another gang and after being medically treated by Doctors, the law began to question them about the robbery in Valentine as they had "fit the descriptions of the suspects involved". Annabelle used the alias of "Beth McCallister" however the law had already seemed to know who her and Kaitlyn were and refused to believe their aliases. The lawman that Annabelle had spoken to was nice, even though she had been difficult to work with. After the shootout with the gang, she was all over the place and couldn't figure where her morals and loyalties were to lie. After she was finally done serving her time for the Store Robbery, she was then questioned by another lawman regarding a separate incident, however, he wouldn't tell her what. He asked her if she knew an "Arizona" or a "Scarlett" and a bunch of other questions that she had no answers to. He informed her that there was an investigation on both Annabelle and Kaitlyn before releasing her. Feeling confused, Annabelle returned to Van Horn.

About a week later, Annabelle was walking around Saint Denis when she stumbled across Tommy and Maxwell with a group. They informed her that they were preparing to rob the bank in Saint Denis and wanted her to join them. She agreed. They first went to find law over in Valentine and Strawberry to rob of some weaponry so that they would be better equipped for the job. They robbed a lawman in Valentine and then robbed a gunsmith in Strawberry. As they were robbing the man from Strawberry, he told them that they gun they were taking was very sentimental to him. Annabelle was given the gun, it was a beautiful Navy Revolver. Annabelle felt a lot of guilt for this however, continued on to rob the Bank with the group. They took three people hostage, one being a member of a gang they were feuding with, another being a random man and the third being a Marshal. Annabelle was given the job of looking after the hostages throughout the robbery. A lot went wrong throughout the robbery. The law was hostile right off the bat, attempting to breach the building multiple times, the dynamite had injured one of the members of the group and then, right as negotiations were coming to a close, one of the hostages managed to wriggle free of his ropes, pulled a gun and started shooting at the outlaws before fleeing the building. After this, the group knew they had lost some leverage so agreed to go out with a "bang". The codeword "oranges" was created. Once the codeword was said, the shooting started. Annabelle got shot down in the shootout, alongside the rest of the group.

Once in the cells, the Marshals were not happy that a Marshal had been taken hostage and demanded that everyone in the group was to be placed on Judicial Hold, no matter what their criminal records looked like. The lawmen in the room knew that Annabelle had nowhere near the amount of charges needed or required to be placed on Judicial so attempted to give her a fighting chance of potentially swaying their minds. Once the rest of the group had been sent to Sisika, Deputy Scarlett Lotusrose pulled Annabelle aside for a conversation. She informed her that she had contacted the Marshals to arrange a meeting between Annabelle and the Marshals to try to get her away from a Judicial. She told Annabelle that in order to do so, she'd have to be willing to give up some information. At this point, Annabelle was fearing for Kaitlyn. The whole gang had just been placed on Judicial, except for her, and she was stuck on the mainland with a bunch of people who hated them. She knew Kaitlyn was in a dangerous position. After her previous conversation days before with Corporal Adam O'Dingle, she had already known some of the information that the law knew about her group. Annabelle fed them that exact information, knowing that they already had known it however, gave them the impression that she was genuinely trying to help. She told them Tommy Gunn's name, in which they had already known. When asked about Maxwell's name, she changed the subject, asking that if she was to tell them his name, would they then hurt her? The law assured them that they wouldn't be able to lay a hand on her and that they would be locked up for a long time. The only "new" information Annabelle gave them was that they called themselves "The American Saints" and that they usually meet up at the Fish Market after jobs. After giving them this information, the Marshals denied the meeting with her so Scarlett had no other option than to place her on Judicial Hold.

Days went by, Annabelle was terrified in Sisika knowing that even though she didn't rat on the gang, it was still the principle that she had given the intention of ratting and knew that there would be consequences, should they have found out. The Marshals arrived in Sisika, pulling Tommy aside for a conversation. Once he returned, Annabelle was released from Sisika alongside Tommy. This confused Annabelle as she had been promised that the boys wouldn't be getting out of Judicial. None of the Marshals had even tried to pull Annabelle aside for a conversation either. Eventually, Maxwell was released. Annabelle woke up one day to Kaitlyn telling her that Maxwell and Tommy wanted to meet with her in Van Horn. Annabelle already suspected something was wrong, however, went to meet with them anyway. They all talked inside the Saloon before the boys hogtied Annabelle and Kaitlyn, informing Annabelle that they knew she ratted before taking them off into the woods. Annabelle was told that the Marshal had told Tommy that she snitched. Annabelle tried to explain the whole situation to them, telling them the whole truth but they didn't believe that she didn't tell the law Maxwell's name due to the Marshals calling him by name upon arriving in Sisika to pick him up. They shot Kaitlyn in front of her and cut off both of Annabelle's pinky fingers before dumping her further into the snowy woods, stealing her boots and leaving her to walk back to town, cold, hurt and alone. Annabelle went to Rhodes to find law. She was treated by a Doctor for her injuries and questioned by Law as to what happened. Marshals were called over, again, no one spoke to Annabelle, only the lawmen did. Corporal O'Dingle promised her that the boys would pay for what they did. Annabelle was seeing red after what they did to Kaitlyn so told the law Maxwell's full name and told them about the house that they would hide out in. Once released, Annabelle went into hiding. She disguised herself and left Van Horn, moving into Braithwaite Manor.

Annabelle and Kaitlyn began to hunt The American Saints, seeking revenge. They went to the house, shot out the windows. They shot lanterns, lighting the house on fire and Annabelle would leave dead snakes all over the porch. They had a few close encounters with the gang but could never find them. Deputies Scarlett and Arizona Lotusrose took a liking to Annabelle and Kaitlyn and convinced them to stay clean. Annabelle then set out to find the Gunsmith she stole the Navy from and returned it to him, as a form of Redemption for herself.

Once the great depression rolled in, Annabelle and Kaitlyn's records were officially cleaned. Deputies from Lemoyne Sheriff's Office approached them multiple times, wanting to hire them however, Annabelle and Kaitlyn were wanting to try Bounty Hunting first.

Annabelle fell back in with The American Saints, they asked her to help them perform a robbery to ensure that the "past is left in the past". Originally, they wanted to rob Scarlett Lotusrose, Arizona Lotusrose and Asher Beckett. Annabelle managed to talk them out of doing so. Instead, they robbed a civilian who fortunately, didn't have much on him. A few days later, Annabelle began to seek out a Marshal to be hired on as a Bounty Hunter as she wanted to hunt down people, such as her former gang, who did the civilians of the Commonwealth dirty. She was onboarded and took of the codename of "Red".

Bounty Hunting at this point in time was difficult. There were no leads for any of the Wanted people listed and no one seemed to know anyone. It wasn't long at all before Annabelle and Kaitlyn turned their interest into joining the Lemoyne Sheriff's Office.

## Catchphrases and Quotes

* "Alrighty."
* "Sheriff's Office, Bitch."
* "Eastside Sheriff's Office!"
* "Y'all were chasing her down like a river of rats..."
* "Ten dollars to the Annabelle Jacobs, formerly Reed, donation foundation!"