Abby St. John

* Season 3
* Season 2
* Season 1

"*I hate you. I've **always** hated you. But you're still my dad...I don't want you to **suffer**,*"
—Abby to Gordon[src]

**Abby St. John** is a main character and a survivor of the pandemic in *The Langdom Experiment*. She is the only child of Gordon St. John, Langdom's deputy mayor, and his wife Janine St. John. She is one of the five known survivors of Langdom and the last surviving member of the St. John family, having escaped the containment zone with her boyfriend Adam and his sister Cassie. Eighteen months after the virus spread to the rest of the country, Adam, Abby and Cassie were still driving across the backroads of the former United States, searching for a safe-zone to settle in while also hiding from the government agents hunting them due to Cassie's immunity to the Langdom Bioweapon. During the harsh winter of 2019, they joined the community at Searchlight Ranch, where Abby discovered she was pregnant with Adam's child.

## Biography

### Early Life and Background

Abby was born in 2000 to local politician Gordon St. John and his wife Janine. Abby grew up in a tense household, with her father regularly sleeping around instead of investing any love or interest in his family. Abby came to hate her father when she reached her early teens, around the same time that she met Adam Levitt and started dating him. In Adam, Abby found love and affection that she had never felt before and came to prefer the Levitt family to her own, seeing Joseph Levitt as a father figure.

Her new family quickly fell apart when the marriage between Joseph and Tracy Levitt fell apart and Tracy started dating Abby's father, Gordon, tearing the Levitts apart and putting Abby's relationship with Adam at risk. Abby's hatred of her father extended to the point that she no longer considered him family, and her friendly relationship with Mrs Levitt was also destroyed. Her relationship with Adam was also severely affected, with Adam becoming uncomfortable with being physical with her due to their new "family bond", as Gordon put it.

### Searchlight Ranch

#### The Voyage

In the days following their escape from Langdom, Abby, Adam and Cassie managed to avoid all military patrols by hiding in the underground bunker of Flint McCarren, a rancher who lived just outside the town. They hid in the bunker for a few weeks, and when they emerged they were horrified to discover that the bioweapon, and the monsters it created, had spread all over the world in just a few weeks. The three of them then got back inside the RV, inviting Flint to join them to which he refused. The three of them then spent the next eighteen months driving across the backroads of the country as the world degenerated and fell into anarchy. Eventually the RV broke down on a derelict bridge, where the trio decided to stay and try to live out some sort of life in this new world of chaos.

## Overview

"*Eighteen months after escaping Langdom, Abby has become hardened by the new world around her. Her love for Adam has reached new heights, having taken his hand in marriage. Together, they care for Adam's sister Cassie, who may be the key to humanity's future. But supplies are running low, the people hunting them have become more ruthless, and the roads are lifeless. With time running out, Abby finds that she may have to step up higher as the world around her gets more and more dangerous,*"
—Abby's *Season 2* description[src]

### Physical Appearance

Abby is an attractive young woman with a rock asthetic. She prefers to dress is dark, warm clothing, something she shares with Adam. She prefers to not wear makeup and has grown her hair out since her early teens, resulting in long, brown locks that often get tangled while on the road.

### Personality

At the start of the series, Abby is rebellious and adventurous, filled with a deep desire to escape her abusive family and explore the world. Like Adam she is restless and has become overwhelmed by feelings of abandonment due to her family situation. When the bioweapon was unleashed on Langdom, Abby quickly proved herself a competant survivor who quickly learns to adapt to the Turned.

After eighteen months on the road Abby has become an extremely experienced survivor who finds no trouble in doing whatever necessary to survive. However, after discovering she was pregnant, she becomes afflicted with feelings of self-doubt and fear over raising a child in such an unstable world.

## Death

### Killed by:

* Adrian Fox *(indirectly caused)*
* Turned *(caused)*
* Internal bleeding, shock and blood loss

In an attempt to prove himself to Hill Seed, Adrian joins the estate group to spy on them. He leaves by a partially-repaired hole in the wall surrounding the estate, allowing Turned to enter the estate. In the resulting attack, Abby is knocked onto her front by a Turned, causing her to go into labour early. When she gives birth to a stillborn boy, she holds him before she dies of internal bleeding and shock.

## Killed Victims

* Gordon St. John - shot in the chest and head
* Numerous counts of unnamed Turned

## Relationships

### Adam Levitt

Abby and Adam have a loving relationship, having dated since they were in elementary school. They share similar views on the world and have much in common, and they remind Adam's father Joseph of him and Tracy in their youth.

At the start of the series, their relationship has become rather stagnant due to Adam feeling uncomfortable with being physical with Abby, caused by the fact that his mother, Tracy, was now dating Abby's father, Gordon.

By *Season 2*, Adam and Abby's relationship has grown further still when it revealed that they have married during the eighteen months between the first and second seasons. Two weeks after arriving at Searchlight Ranch, Abby begins to suspect that she is pregnant, something later confirmed by Alycia. Not wanting to put Adam under yet more stress, Abby cannot bring herself to tell him and only does so when she starts having morning sickness and Adam quickly deduces what is wrong with her. While the two appear happy, separately they appear terrified, having no clue how to raise a child in the new world. Nonetheless, they remain completely dedicated to each other, reassuring one another that they will figure it out the same way that they have figured everything else out. Following the fall of Searchlight, they appear to become more distant from each other, likely due to Adam finally demonstrating how hardened he has become, combined with her own fears of motherhood in the apocalypse.

### Gordon St. John

"*...you're still my dad...I don't want you to **suffer**,*"
—Abby delivers the final shot to her father[src]
Abby has a bad relationship with her father due him leaving her and her mother for Tracy Levitt and putting Abby's relationship with Adam at risk. Even before this, Gordon showed little interest in his daughter.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* 'Deadly Hypothesis'
* 'The Turned'
* 'No Way Out'
* 'Jaw Breaker'
* 'Cul De Sac'
* 'Containment Breach'

### Season 2

* 'Mad World'
* 'Searchlight'
* 'Killer Within'
* 'What Lies Ahead'
* 'Long Night'
* 'Secrets'
* 'Dying Fire'

### Season 3

* 'Day 825'
* 'Seek'
* 'Trust'
* 'Watch' (hallucination)
* 'Suffer' (hallucination)

## Trivia

* Abby was one of six known survivors of the Langdom Experiment, the others being her boyfriend - and later husband - Adam, his sister Cassie, Charlie Everett, Lloyd Smith, and Frank Thornstein.
* Abby is one of two characters to have willingly killed a member of her family in what was not an act of mercy, the other being Jesse Ericson.
	+ In Abby's case, the person was her father, Gordon.

* Abby is the first character in *The Langdom Experiment* confirmed to be pregnant during the apocalypse, the second being Alycia Reid.