Deborah Rivera

**Deborah Rivera** is a vampire, one of the recurring female characters in the *Ruby Creek Secrets Universe*. Deborah is the wife of Bas Rivers.

**Deborah** is the member of the Delgado Family.

## Biography

Deborah never knew who her parents were or what was her last name. She only knew that she was born in 1601 and her mother was a 'french or english prostitute'. She grew up in a French orphanage and was turned into a vampire by her friend Josephine.

She met Antonio "Fracie" Baralt Cervantes in 1666 when she compelled him and drunk his blood. When Antonio came home with a bit on his neck he couldn’t remember who bit him, he just remembered a beautiful woman who asked him to help with her horse and then he woke up on the bar counter. Antonio's uncle, Giorgio, scolded him for not wearing a vervain bracelet and gave him extra vervain he put inside of his pendant along with his mother Vera’s photo that he had with him since the day he was taken by a foster family in Seville.

Antonio met Deborah again as a part of his plan with Giorgio to kill her. She tried to compel him again and he pretended she succeeded and they went to her apartment. When they were kissing, Giorgio appeared and tried to kill her but she killed him first by breaking his neck with her scarf. Antonio was terrified and escaped. Days after he came to meet Deborah again but she didn’t want to let him in because he tried to kill her with his uncle. He said she compelled him before and drunk his blood. She opened the door and said that they were even. Antonio told her about his mother and asked to help him find her. She agreed because she was alone and bored anyway. Deborah really liked him and called him "Francie".

They started searching in England and then had been moving over Europe. They were a good team: she helped him killing evil vampires, he helped her drinking from stupid rich men and take their money. Frank asked why she needed money when she can compel whatever she wanted and she said it was as sport for her and later he noticed how she gave all the money she had been getting to an orphanage. She confessed that she grew up in one of these orphanages and never knew who her real parents were and she actually didn’t care. About 50 years ago, when she was 16 and very sick, she was turned into a vampire by a woman named Josephine. They used to be very good friends and traveled together until Josephine was killed by her admirer who turned out to be a vampire hunter. Deborah escaped and settled down in London and had a very quiet life and never killed anyone.

In 1677 Frank was attacked by a group of vampires and was almost drained of blood until Deborah came to the rescue along with a vampire Kol who turned out to be one of the original vampires. Kol said that Frank had to thank Deborah and her pretty face. Deborah and Frank realized they had feeling for each other and their romance started. They hanged out with Kol for almost five months together until Kol met his sister Rebekah and they left to Portugal. Kol shook Frank’s hand and said he was pleased to meet him and hoped to meet again in a century or two. Frank couldn’t stop thinking about these words. It’s been eleven years and no signs of his mother were found. He was getting older and the thought that he might’ve never meet her again because he can die sooner or later terrified him. He didn’t want to stop searching. Deborah never pushed him and said it was his choice. He made it and asked her to turn him. In 1677 Frank became a vampire. In 1802 Frank and Deborah came to Spain to visit places where his family used to live and Deborah was taken away by a vampire Vladimir. For over the year Frank had been looking for her but no result. One day he wanted to end his life when he was really, really drunk but Kol entered the room and told that he’s got a piece of information about one cool friend to end his life. Kol helped him to overcome the loss and proposed to leave with him to America. Frank decided he had nothing to lose so they appeared in New Orleans in 1805. Kol knew how heartbroken Frank was so he told him about one vampire trick – he can turn his feelings off. Frank did so and he felt better. Kol and him travelled from salon to salon, from bar to bar until they bumped into Kol’s brother Elijah and Kol disappeared with him. Left all alone and without humanity, Frank lost control over his feeding habit and killed a lot of people for two months until vampire hunters caught him and filled his body with vervain. While being in captivity with other vampires he saw a woman who reminded him of his mother. He was weak and it was hard to for him to see but this woman came close and ordered to leave until she kills him herself. He never saw her again but this encounter gave him hope in searching for his mother. Anyway, a minute he saw two women passing by, his rage burst out again and he killed both of them by drinking them dry.

Another year later he had his circle of vampire without humanity, they moved from city to city until all of them were killed by a vampire hunter Patricia who asked if he knew Vladimir. Frank was surprised to hear this name. He asked to come with her because he wanted to kill him too. She agreed. When they came to New Hampshire, Frank bumped into Deborah in the forest where she had been running away from Vladimir’s captivity. The moment Deborah screamed “Francis, my love!” Frank’s feelings turned on. Deborah told Patricia where she could find Vladimir and their paths parted.

Frank told Deborah he saw his mother and they continued their searching in America. In 1719 they married in Paris. They had house in Boston where they had been coming back from time to time.