Brian Harper

Brian Harper, was born on September 9th 1994, at Howard University Hospital. Brian is the CEO and Lead Detective for his own company InJustice Incorporated. He is the protagonist and the primary character in the Catching Bad series. He is the husband of Elise Harper, and father to Lexi, Connor, Jessie, and Issac Harper. He is the second son of his parents Sean and Julie Harper (deceased).

## Biological Information

### Birth Place

Howard University Hospital (Washington DC)

## Family

### Father-in-law

Issac Ramsey (deceased)Calvin Dixion (adopted, deceased)

### Mother-in-law

Lynn Ramsey (deceased)Melanie Dixion (adopted, deceased)

### Early Life

Brian Harper was born on September 9th, 1994 at Howard University Hospital in Washington DC; the second child of Sean and Julie Harper. His brother Ian Harper is eight years old than him. Sean Harper's success and prestigious position in the city provided Brian with many advantages, including the opportunity to use the Harper name as well as attend private school.

Brian's relationship with both of his parents was strong. Sean had a successful solidified career by the time Brian was born so he could afford to be around more. But even Brian would admit that between the two he was always closest with his mother. Brian and his brother where the centre of Julie's life, the loves of her life, she often said.

Brian's mother spent the first four years of his life as a stay-at-home mother. She spent her days caring, and loving Brian. For four years while Ian was a school and Sean was at work, Brian was the centre of her attention, she spent time teaching him the alphabet, how to count, how to write, and how to read.

Despite being eight years younger than his brother they where still very close. The brothers fought occasionally like all siblings but they where far enough in age that they got to live their own life. Brian got to spend all day with his mother's attention on him so when Ian came home and he had to share her he didn't mind. Ian was always willing to spend time playing with his younger brother after school.

All throughout Brian's life, but especially during his early years, Brian's mother took time and care to teach him all the things she cared about deeply. Julie passed on her morals, and beliefs to him. Passing on her belief that because they where privileged to grow up wealthy it was their duty to help others. To be open minded to those who needed their help. She also taught him and did her best to mold him into a kind, honest, boy. One that cared about others deeply and wasn't afraid to be an open book.

Brian spent a lot of his childhood going to black tie events, before reaching four years old he had met governs, senators, prestigious judges, high-up lawyers and even a supreme court judge. When Sean was working a big case, it wasn't unusual for the family to sit in the court room and show their support. As such crime was always a part of Brian's life, he grew up watching crime documentaries with his father, much to his mother's disapproval. In his early years Brian dreamed of being a lawyer, craving the life that his father lived.

In the fall of 1998, Brian entered kindergarten. He entered school a year early, but was more than ready, all thanks to his mother. In fact, three months into kindergarten he had his reading skills tested and he was determined to be reading at a grade three level. Brian was never very popular in school. Brian attended Sidwell Friends Academy for grades 1-4, and then transferred to Templeton Academy for grades 5-12. Both schools where prestigious private school, which thrived on hands-on learning and accelerating their students to their best abilities. Brian always excelled in his studies, he skipped grade two and headed into Templeton Academy two years ahead of his classmates. In school he was often teased and referred to as 'the baby.' Being quite a bit younger than his classmates, he did not participate in many school athletics. But he did participate, through the community, in soccer during his elementary years and then basketball and baseball until he was 18.

When Brian was six Ian moved out to attend Yale University. Thanks to his frequent visits the brothers managed to maintain a very close relationship. Brian wouldn't have admitted it to anyone but he was a little sad when Ian moved out although he did enjoy being an only child during the school year.

While in school he spent time participating in other subjects, he learnt to play the tenor saxophone. Became fluent in German, Italian, Spanish and Korean. He also managed his way through school with sub-partial artistic abilities and questionable acting talent. Brian graduated Templeton Academy a year earlier than expected after challenging the math and history diploma and managing to squeeze his years of High School into two years.

When Brian was 12, Ian moved to Miami Florida for residency. Brian was jealous that his brother was able to live on his own, so far away from his family so soon. Brian dreamed of moving out of his parents house the moment he graduated from High School. Two months after Ian moved out he brought a girl home to introduce to Brian and his parents. Eden Quinn was amazing and to Brian she became his sister just six months after her and Ian started dating.

When they got engaged Brian couldn't have been more thrilled for his brother. He was touched when Ian asked him to be his best man. The wedding ceremony at the Congressional Country Club was beautiful. When the ceremony was over Brian was thrilled to join the rest of his family in welcoming Eden into the family officially.

In the summer of 2009, Brian graduated from Templeton Academy, and in the fall he entered Howard University. Deciding to double major in criminology and business. A want to fight and prevent crime had solidified in Brian but he had changed his career path, despite the constant nagging and encouragement from his grandfather, Connor Harper, and father to become a lawyer. Instead he set his sights on policing. Brian had spent so much of his childhood around crime, watching his father and grandfather in the courtroom. As prestigious prosecutors the number of bad people Brian had watched them put away were numerous. But for Brian he came to the belief that the work his father and grandfather did, while valiant was not enough. Brian believed if he wanted to protect those he loved, protect the city that he had grown up in he would have to stop criminals sooner. Before their files got tossed onto a lawyers desk. He believed he needed to make sure that they would never harm their fifth or sixth victim, and so Brian's sights were set on policing and becoming a Detective.

Brian moved out at fifteen, the moment he started college. Finally he was on his own! Finally he had the independence he had been craving since he was 10-years-old. He moved into a single apartment on campus. To Brian it was amazing, he loved living on his own. He didn't have any responsibilities. His rent was paid for by his parents, his mother dropped off groceries every Sunday, he shadowed officers his grandfather knew from work on the weekend, and never needed to focus on anything but school. He had his meals prepared for him by his first personal housekeeper, Liana Sainz, who was paid for by his parents. Originally, Brian had planned to finish his undergrad in two years but that changed six months into his first year.

Two months into his first year of college he began dating Kathy Goldinson.

Christmas of 2009 marked a change in Brian's life. On December 27th, 2009, Julie Harper was up offering cookies to her family when she dropped to the floor and began to have a seizure. Brian was the one to react first, he ordered his brother to help her while he dialled 911. He spoke to the dispatcher until an ambulance arrived. The seizure lasted 5 minutes and 3 minutes after it ended the paramedics finally arrived. After the seizure Julie did become conscious but she was disorientated and had trouble speaking.

Brian spent the night in the waiting room with his brother and father as the doctors gave Julie fluids. After a full nights sleep her speech returned to normal and the doctors began to perform test after test to determine why the seizure had occurred. This was the point when Brian's life began to change. He went from a man with no care in the world, he had everything in his life figured out to a man that's world felt like it was spiralling out of control.

The doctors didn't diagnosis Julie until 7 weeks later. 7 weeks later, on February 6th, 2010, Julie told her sons that she had been diagnosed with Huntingtons. That was the day everything began to spiral out of control, like Brian had stopped being able to control his own life. That night Brian spent with some of his college classmates getting drunk, trying to rid himself of his troubles.

After his mother was diagnosed Brian offered to move back home but his parents declined the offer. Brian began to visit home far more frequently than he had previously, nearly every weekend. Brian didn't have any hope, he researched the disease and everything he read said that his mother was living on borrowed time. To Brian that meant make the time she had left the best it could be, but to Sean and Ian it meant that she had to fight harder than she ever had in her entire life. She had to fight until science caught up and found a cure.

In June, Ian got tested for the Huntingtons disease, returning with good news, he was negative. When Brian heard that Ian was clear of the disease he was overjoyed, but also filled with terror. Brian declined over and over again to get tested, fighting back against his father and brother. Brian couldn't handle the idea of finding out that he had the disease. That he was going to die, that he was living on borrowed time. His mother supported his decision, as did Kathy, but they where the only two. Ian, Sean and Eden all believed he was being stupid.

In July 2010 Brian travelled to Costa Rica. His parents had gifted him a trip there for his sixteenth birthday to help build houses for the less fortunate.

In October, Ian and Eden shared the news that they where expecting with the family. To say that the family was excited would have been an understatement. Six months later, on May 8th, 2011 Reggie Harper was born. The addition to the family brought a light of love into the family that they desperately needed. To welcome the baby, Sean, Julie and Brian flew to Miami and visited the new family of three for a week.

Two months after the family welcomed a new addition, the family faced a lost. On July 15th, 2011 Connor Harper passed away from a stroke. Brian wasn't sure how the family managed to keep going through that dark time. Knowing that Julie was dying and now losing their grandfather. He had unmeasurable respect for his father who managed to push down his grief, and keep looking after his wife and being there for his sons.

Brian spent all the time he could with his mother over the next two years, as well as enjoying his full four years of university. Over break Brian travelled with his mother. Going to Mexico and touring parts of Canada. If it had been up to him he would have taken his mother further but Ian and Sean where worried about her going much further, and she constantly was undergoing procedures to try and slow down the progression of the disease.

While in college Brian meets Christopher Daniels who is a few years older than him, fresh out of the military and now perusing a degree in Criminal Justice.

When Brian graduated from college his mother was starting to get worse faster. It was like every weekend Brian could see just how sick she was as the disease stole her away little by little. It began with her losing her coordination so she couldn't use a fork or knife, then she became forgetful, often forgetting to turn off the burner on the stove or turn off her hair strainer. Then her memories and understanding began to disappear, she forgot who her grandson was, who Kathy was, and three months later she forgot who Brian was. It was another three months before she forgot Ian and three months after than when she finally forgot her husband, Sean.

There was nothing harder in Brian's life than walking into his mother's room and her looking at him like he was a stranger. Greeting him with a hello and formal introduction and handshake rather than her usual kiss on the cheek.

The boy who was once so open and care free, and willing to look at the world with so much light and excitement was gone. Replaced by a man fuelled with anger, grief and a determination to close himself off to ever being hurt like this again. This was when Brian determined 'the line'. A line he would let very few people cross.

Brian started at the police academy one month after graduating from college. Two weeks after starting at the police academy Brian sleeps with a girl, and the next days breaks up with Kathy. Brian graduates from the police academy six months later with some of the highest scores in a century. He is immediately placed onto active duty and assigned to the 68th district. When he tells his mother she is confused and started to get worried.

On January 2nd, 2014 Brian becomes a rookie police officer, right out of the academy. He begins his training under Officer Craig Zega. Brian dives into every aspect of his training and the job, using it as an escape from the darkness that he was experiencing at home.

Brian begins spending time at bars and sleeping with different girls almost nightly. He walls himself up and turns into a much darker version of himself. More than once showing up with bloodied fists from beating up a sandbag at the gym.

Meanwhile, Julie is moved into a care facility after she nearly sets the house on fire. On March 6th, 2014 she goes missing from her care facility. Brian is in the field when he gets the call, he and Craig spend time walking from the care home along the streets looking for her, only returning to police work when Sean calls that she was found. Unknown to Brian, Julie had just spent a few hours with his future wife.

After only a year as a beat cop, Brian is promoted to Detective. He is the youngest Detective in Washington DC in half a century. He begins his training on February 6th, 2015 under Detective Jennifer Chambers.

Brian and Jennifer become very close and good friends. Brian spends a lot of weekends over at the Chambers house, getting very close with her parents, sister and nephew. He teaches Gavin how to catch and throw a baseball as well as properly swing a bat, and often takes him on rides in patrol cars.

Armed with the 60 million dollars he had inherited from his grandfather, Brian purchased his apartment. He hires, Katie Meylnk as his personal chief and housekeeper. The two form a sort of professional friendship and she in a way serves as Brian's voice of reason.

In the spring of 2015 Eden and Ian share the news that they are expecting their second child. Brian is overjoyed for his brother, but is also saddened greatly as he believes that Julie who is detariating faster than ever before will not live long enough to meet her second grandbaby.

The news and wishful thinking also leaves Brian rather jealous of Ian. Feeling upset that their mother had been around long enough to watch him succeed in the world, watching him become one of the best surgeons in Florida. Brian feels envious that his mother got to dance with Ian at his wedding and hold Ian's son.

A week before Brian's birthday, Sean decides that it is time for Julie's fight with Huntington's to come to an end. Ian and Brian agree, realizing that they were holding on to their dying mother for themselves and not for her. The appointment is booked for September 8th, the day before Brian's 21st birthday.

Sean offers to have it moved but Brian denies, saying that for once they needed to think about what was best for Julie and not for them.

On September 8th, 2015 Julie Harper dies of Huntington's. She passed away by a withdrawal of life order signed by her husband. Brian expected unrelenting grief to fill him, but instead he just feels burning, white-hot rage. He becomes even more closed off, sinking more into himself. He takes a week off from work and spends it drinking and hooking up with ever woman that sits beside him at the bar.

Brian's 21st birthday is not celebrated. It is from that day forward that Brian began to hate his birthday. He spends the day at the bar, drinking.

Julie's funeral is held on September 13th at Congressional Country Club, it is attended by hundreds of people, all of whom where touched in some way by Julie Harper's life. The significance is not truly grasped by Brian who is silent throughout the whole thing, feeling numb. Brian is only able to bear two hours of her wake before he leaves and heads to the bar. Enraged at the world for taking his mother he begins searching for someone to take his anger out on. Anyone. That night Brian goes to eight different bars searching for a man to give him a reason to fight him.

Finally on the last bar he finds a man attempting to drug a woman. This leads to Brian and the man getting into a confrontation and then fist fighting each other. A couple days later Brian finds out that he had punched the man's nose into his skull, causing brain damage and him to be put on life support. Because of this Brian pays $500,000 dollars to his family every year to cover the medical costs.

Despite everyone pleading him to take more time off from work, Brian returns seven days after his mother's death to the field. He passed his mental evaluation with flying colours, for the first two days, Jennifer forces him to stay at the office and tackle paperwork.

When Brian returns to the field he is more rash and quick-thinking than he ever has been before. In the span of three days there are many close calls. Running unarmed into warehouses, making careless arrests, and beating a sexual assailant to a pulp.

A week after Julie Harper's funeral, Brian and Jennifer are presented with a child abduction case. The case is found to be rather simple as the father is the culprit and was stopped at the airport trying to head for Canada. The girl's aunt is more than relieved and offers to buy Brian a drink in her appreciation. A partially drunk Brian, sleeps with a very drunk Audrey Lynch only to find her gone in the morning.

On September 25th, 2015 Brian opens up his front door to find two lawyers standing outside. He is charged with assault. The district attorney Henry Bennett helps him keep everything quiet in the media, and thanks to a few written letters on his behalf the charges are dropped after Brian pays a couple hundred thousand dollars to Audrey. For Brian this becomes a bit of a turning point, he learns his lesson and from this moment forth never sleeps with a women after she has had more than 2 drinks.

Sean Harper leaves for his first trip on October 19th, after everything with Brian's assault charges are sorted out. Brian is not upset at all by his father's decision to leave and live out his and his wife's dream of travelling the globe.

On December 19th, 2015 Maxim Harper is born at the end of a very hard year. The little boys birth brings some light into a very dark and grieving family. Brian spends a week in Miami with the new family of four, just like he did when Reggie was born.

Over the next couple years Brian works to ensure his reputation as a Detective builds with nothing but positivity and confidence, and it works, with help from Henry Bennett. Over the years Brian and Jennifer are handed less and less typical cases and are often called in to departments all over the city to help with higher profile cases.

Brian continues to sleep around with many different woman, never staying with one longer than three days. He enjoys his bachelor lifestyle, more than Jennifer thinks is healthy.

Brian and Jennifer become one of the best investigation teams in the city, and start to move around the city, taking on big, high profile cases that Bennett assigns them. It isn't long before someone threatens Brian's life the first time, leading to him hiring Matthew Kane as his personal security and driver.

Matthew quickly becomes someone Brian honours, trusts, and sees as a professional friend.

In the winter of 2017 Ian and Eden inform Brian that they are expecting their third child. Brian congratulates them and becomes very excited when he learns they are having a daughter this time.

In April of 2018 Brian is involved in a car accident, while driving to work one morning he stumbles across the vehicle which belongs to the key suspect in his current case, this ends up leading to a full on police chase in a lightless vehicle. As a last stitch effort Brian slams his car into the other, pinning it against the wall. Brian walks away with a cut on his forehead and a bruised shoulder and neck, but nothing serious. The car, however, is a write off. He purchases a brand new mustang and equips it with lights and a siren.

On August 6th, 2018 Esme Harper is born. Sean is out of reach for three weeks and doesn't get in touch until four weeks after the birth of his granddaughter. Brian, however, visits the family of five for a week, just like with each of his nephews.

Brian begins to work shop the idea of opening up his own company. On May 20th, 2019 that idea becomes a reality when InJustice Incorporated is opened. This marks a huge milestone in Brian's life and shows that he has truly started to recover and move on from his mother's death. Slowly the walls that Brian had built up around him begin to crumble.

Blake McNeill and Freja Lundell are hired within a week of each other. Both quickly become close friends with each other and Brian. The three also form a strong relationship with the District Attorney Representative Detective Eric Myers.

InJustice Inc is a huge success from the moment it opens it doors. The company quickly grows to become a massive empire, branching off into many different areas and industries. Law, innovation, research, stock market, and so much more. A large percentage of all money accumulated from the other departments goes directly into the Major Crimes Department to fund their operation.

Brian, who was already a wealthy man before his company started, quickly becomes one of the richest men in Washington DC. He is featured on the news and newspaper almost weekly.

Brian spends the year looking for a secretary. Most only last three weeks. He is careful to hire women he doesn't necessarily find attractive or are not his type. Finally after a year, Brian hires Elise Dixion, despite finding her very beautiful, he figures the fact that she was the complete opposite of the women he usually went out with to be enough to make him stay away from her.

It's not long after Elise is hired that Brian begins to become bored of living the bachelor lifestyle and starts to think about trying to settle down, find a woman he wanted to marry and have a family with. In the year leading up to the beginning of the series, Elise and Brian become quite close, although Brian is careful to keep a professional line drawn between them even though he can't deny that he finds her exceptionally attractive.

In August of the following year, Brian walked in on Detective Myers beating up a believed sexual assault suspect. The incident is kept quiet, but the Detective is fired on the spot and let go from the MPD.

In the same month, Brian is named the most eligible bachelor in Washington DC.

On the Friday before Complicated Love and the series officially begins, Brian meets Jessica Grayson and spends the night and weekend with her.

### Complicated Love

The book begins the morning of August 27th, 2021. Brian spends the day at the office writing up the report for his recently closed case, and doing paperwork. While at lunch, Brian ends his three day relationship with Jessica, stating that while he finds her very attractive he finds her personality downright dreadful.

After breaking up with her Brian receives a ride back to the office from Matthew, and feels nothing but relief to be putting Jessica in his rearview mirror.

That even Brian heads to his favourite bars in the city, where we are introduced to Evan Kisiner, the bartender. Brian and Evan have a conversation about Brian's want to settle down. Evan eventually suggests that Brian should look into getting a puppy so that he would have something other than work and going to the bar to occupy his time.

Tracey Rancok sits down beside him at the bar and after having sexual intercourse in the bathroom, the two head to Brian's apartment to enjoy a night together. In the morning Brian, beats himself up for deviating from his plan yet again, finding it rather sad that he was so easily distracted.

At the office, Brian finds out the Christopher Daniels would be replacing Eric Myers as his District Attorney Representative. In the same meeting, Henry Bennett presents Brian with the murder of Judge Andrew Evans, believing that Brian will solve the case much quicker than the public division which the case had been sent to.

It is revealed after Bennett leaves that Brian and Chris have had disagreements in the past, but it is not elaborated on. Chris reveals that he is after Brian's job because he believes that Brian should not be allowed to walk around with a badge on his hip.

During a meeting to discuss the case, we are introduced to Freja Lundell, Zayn Connelly, and Gabrielle McCarthy, all members of Brian's team. It is also revealed that Gabrielle has a crush on Brian, and that a few days earlier he had to call her into his office and speak to her about maintaining a proper work relationship.

Brian spends the night at home, after work. Deciding that he needs to stay away from bars if he wanted to see to his plan of trying to settle down. Brian receives a call from his brother and is informed that Ian has been promoted to the head of the neurosurgeon department. Ian and Eden also plan to fly in that Friday for a visit.

Brian pays a visit to Lucas Bassi the following day, admitting that he liked to remind the man every once in a while that he was still watching him. Brian tells Blake and Chris that he is simply keeping tabs on him because he believes him to be dangerous, but deep down Brian believes he might be doing it because he had scared his secretary during an interrogation a few months previously.

## Physical Appearance

> "His large walk-in closet was well organized and full of expensive tailored suits, black, gray, and navy in colour." ~ Beginning of the description of Brian's walk-in closet.
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Brian is described to as very attractive and breathtakingly charming. Elise has often described him as the definition of masculinity. He is described to have a perfect diamond-shaped face. A strong jawline, full lips, high cheekbones, perfect eyebrows, straight nose, and emotional but guarded eyes. He has soft, thick light sandy-brown hair, that is kept short and tidy.

His deep green eyes are described as complicated. They cam swim with emotion, especially when around his family and loved ones, often being described by Elise as being able to see into his soul. But his eyes can also be boarded up when he wants to close himself off. Brian is described as being very good at controlling his facial expressions to not give away how he is feeling.

Brian stands at 6'3. He is built with a tough, sturdy figure, with deep set, broad shoulders. He has rounded and hardened muscles and rippled chest and abdomen, sporting a very distinctive six pack. His back, chest and stomach are perfectly smooth as he continuously waxes them and is very dedicated to keeping up with proper skin care routine to keep his body smooth and soft.

He is often described to have a very formal and confident air to him, rarely slouching and often standing with good posture.

The first chapter of Complicated Love goes into a lot of depth of Brian's closet. It is described as well organized, full of expensive tailored suits, black, gray, and navy in colour. With a small selection of gray and black t-shirts hanging in the corner. Baskets filled with solid black dress socks, solid black ankle-athletic socks. Black, navy and deep gray box briefs. A collection of brown and black belts, and a large selection of ties, a few were more colourful but the majority were solid-darker coloured. A large selection of Rolex's are also described to be on display.

## Personality & Traits

Brian is described repeatedly as being stubborn, charming and often times quick-thinking. He is described to be a mystery that those that wish to get close to him have to figure out and piece together. He is described to have many layers.

Around those he cares about Brian is extremely loyal, caring, loving and protective. But this is also what leads to him being rash especially when those he cares about are in danger. Brian is also described to be very romantic and spontaneous especially when he is around his wife Elise.

## Quotes

“I thought you knew, I have decided I am not getting tested.” - Brian telling his brother that he decided not to get tested for Huntingtons. (Pre-Complicated Love)

"She is a beautiful woman, but I don’t think she and I are very compatible. I find her personality sort of — dreadful, but you didn’t hear that from me," - Brian talking to Elise about Jessica Grayson.

“I will see you after lunch Elise, make sure and get something to eat today, okay? Your emails will still be there when you get back.” - Brian to Elise in the first chapter of Complicated Love, reminding her to eat lunch.

“Since the 21st century? Most of them, and ‘his girl’ seems premature." - Brian's answer to Jessica's question: "What kind of man doesn't open the door for his girl?"

"Don’t you think walking around a park and checking out women is a little stalkery?" - Brian's question to Evan when he suggests going to gyms and parks to pick up girls rather than hanging around the bar.

“This isn’t going to be a pain in the ass for me, is it? Our disagreements at the academy and while we were in college have been put to rest, right?” - Brian asking Christopher Daniels if him working as his DA Rep would be an inconvenience.

## Trivia

Brian's full name is Brian Finnely Harper. The name 'Brian' comes from celtic origin and means high strength and nobility. The name 'Finnley' is of Scottish decent which means light-haired hero.

The name 'Harper' comes from Scotland and means harp player, which was what the very first members of the Harper family did. The family was very wealthy and high up in the nobles as they performed and played for the kings and queens of the time.

It wasn't until the 12th and 13th century that the Harper family moved into law, but it wasn't until Connor Harper that the family became well known for its work in the legal field.

The name Finnley was chosen because of Brian's paternal great-great grandfather Finnley Harper.

Brian's spirit animal is a wolf.

Brian likes the show Sex Education and the Mission Impossible and Fast and Furious movies.

Brian's first car was a 2010 black Audi, purchased for him by his parents. After joining the police force, he sells the Audi and buys a 1967 black Ford Mustang, he takes it to a friend he had met in college, who restored old cars. He had everything in the car replaced to the newest model, the engine, the transmission, etc. Everything but the body.

Brian drinks an espresso and caramel mocha latte every day, Monday through Friday, generally at 10 o'clock on the dot. On the weekends he only drinks the latte.