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Mary Elizabeth Cooper is the daughter of a heavily christian couple her father even being a PREACHER. Mary had spent a lot of her time in the church mainly against her own will. Her parents held a strict hold on the girl dictating almost every fashion of her life, such a tight hold made her seek rebellion and freedom and she found it in a group schoolmates but a year above her grade. She was out late missed church meetings. Took substances and for a long while she was free, sneaking past her parents watchful gaze. Even coming face to face with her first sexual experience. But not all things last. Cornered by her father a friend of hers ratted her out exposing all the things that Mary had done. Disgusted that their daughter had been tainted a sinner not a saint. So after yelling and yelling they kicked her out. Wanted nothing more to do with her. She was a Cooper no more.

Mary never went by her full name again choosing to be called Mary and only Mary. For a while she bounced back and forth between homes nothing ever permanent ( whether it be streets or the dwellings of another ). Searching and searching for a home.

A year after being kicked out she fell into a similar group as the one before this one more adult while she was young. Drugs. Small crimes. The whole thing and Mary had become apart of it. While running with them she dyed her hair as white as possible. There she believed she found a home, and people who cared. She was wrong.

It was not long before she found that this was false. A strange and new drug one she was uncomfortable with in partaking in. Such a decision outcasted her and it was not before long that she woke up many of her posessions taken and alone.

Wandering again, ever and ever and ever looking for a home, she found herseelf with another. A boy who visited her day in and day out while she stayed in an homeless shelter, he wore a military jacket and after confessing his love to her he gave it to her. One gift in the way of hundreds. He gave her a place to stay with his four roommates. For a while things were good. She felt the comfort and warmth of one's love and she realized how much she needed it. Needed it so badly that she was willing to do anything to keep it. Even giving her body up for the other roommates in the house to just preserve it. She didn't want it but if it kept the love she'd allow it. And yet --- it would not take long before she'd leave again feeling her love being abused.

For years she'd wander between places she thought were home, places that she thought she'd find love. Each was a lie. Nothing felt right. That is until she met a travelling Circus group and the woman behind it all : the Madam. She saw Mary and took her in to their "family", a group of those abandoned and lost, and in the same process renamed her to : Hope. A name that she could accept and here in the Circus she found a family she could accept.

So that's all her backstory and it's a biggie one but there's even more that I'll be abridging for conveinience.

Hope meets Price during one of his cases and immediatly she's interested. It's an almost love at first sight except Price was never at all interested in her beyond the case. Once the case was done they would have never met again if fate had different plans.

Price and Hope would run into each other over and over. Price taking interest in how easily he was able to talk to her and how easy it was for Hope to draw things out of him.

Years of abandonment haven't shaped Hope into a hard person, she's soft and kind to everyone. Mainly cuz she knows what it's like to be hated. She sees the good in literally everyone and everything even when she sees and hears what Price has done to the people he chases she's not ever detterred from him.

Hope's kind nature actually rubs off on Price and when they officially start seeing each other he changes really. He starts to let his pride go.

The only drug Hope does now is smoking. There are many times that Hope and Price share the same cigarette.

Hope teases Price a lot. Mainly cuz she enjoys seeing his usually stoic expression fluster and change.

While it takes Price a while to realize it, Hope realizes it way to quickly. She loves Price. She finds her home in and with Price.

Price found another satisfaction in life than winning and that was loving Hope and wheeze.