Edited stories:
Frederick Mathers was the eldest of four children. His two twin brothers and his sister were always going to be a handful, but the situation was complicated by his father's death when Frederick was only six. As a child Frederick believed that his father had been killed in a car accident, but he later discovered he was killed by a Loup-Garou whilst working with the Breed. As the eldest child, he had to take on a lot of his father's former responsibilities. By nine he was doing most of the cooking and by eleven he was dealing with all of the household bills. He even faked his mother's signatures on the cheques he wrote to pay those bills. The only thing he did for himself was a regular Saturday afternoon with "Uncle Frank"* playing paint ball. He had no idea how important those games were until one day Frank took him to meet Sheriff Ream.
*Uncle Frank being Frank Stanley - The Blue Knight in the Court of the Fisher King and the "Lord Protector of The Faerie City".
Having proved himself more than competent on the rifle range, the teenage Frederick was instructed by Ream to provide sniper cover for a bust on a clubland drug mage. Unfortunately, while Frederick was separated from the rest of the squad he was attacked and bundled away. During their interrogation the gang shot him full of cocaine in an attempt to get him to talk. Fredrick was tracked down and rescued, and he was helped to overcome the physical effects of the drug addiction. However, there is some small part of him that recalls how good it felt. Still, as Ream reassured him, he DID resist them. He did not give them the information they wanted. If he had not been a Mathers the situation would have been very very different, SOMETHING.
Despite, or maybe because of, his shaky start in active service with the Breed, Frederick has risen through the ranks. His determination and attentiveness have impressed the sheriff who has pushed him into more and more senior roles, including assisting the younger cadets in developing thier skills and abiliites (Ream knows that Frederick is never going to make the mistakes that almost cost him his life with them). Now in his mid thirties, Fredrick is having to face the fact that his own son is coming up to cadet age. He is trying not to feel too old, but surounded by all these 'kids' it's hard.
