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</div>NAME: Terry Morgan<br/>Alias: Cabal Black<br/>Age: 40<br/>Location:  Operations Room<br/>Wearing: See Picture<br/>Mood Music:<a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2FkkoT1nZOexY&amp;hash=537b6517fb0a763fb7e44d7b8e777196" href="https://youtu.be/kkoT1nZOexY" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Blake Shelton - Home</a><br/>Tagging:  Everyone<br/>Mentioning:  Everyone<br/><br/><br/>Terry lashed herself with recriminations as she walked to the Operations Room.  She could joke with Chris about Emmy's anger, but it was Terry's fault that Emmy was the way she was now.  And she really didn't know how to fix their relationship.  Emmy wasn't going to let her apologize.  From the moment the girl saw her, she was on the offensive.  And even Terry's refusal to fight back made Emmy mad.<br/><br/>From early childhood, all Terry had wanted to be was a cop, like her father, her grandfather, and her great grandfather.  Four generations of Morgans serving and protecting the public.  And that damn Matrix took it all away from her.  It took her partner, a lot of the hospital staff she'd become friends with as fellow first responders, and given her a curse in return.  Why couldn't it have left her along and given her abilities to someone else?  She would have almost preferred to die alongside her partner rather than living the dual life she was stuck with.  Maybe Emmy wasn't the only bipolar one in their relationship.<br/><br/>She'd made a deal with Mother.  She would join the Cabal and help with the children when off-duty.  In return Mother accepted that Terry would continue as a cop.  In the beginning, the arrangement seemed to work.  There were of course impossible demands made upon her. Addy resented that Terry had saved her life, but not the lives of her parents.  She couldn't tell the little girl that she'd spent days digging through the rubble of the hospital alongside police, firefighters, and soldiers, looking for any sign of life.  And doing the DNA on all the bodies they found.  None of the DNA matched Addy's.<br/><br/>She could feel the tension in Kenji's body when she hugged him.  The boy of the street still saw her as just a cop.  Someone to be avoided.<br/><br/>Terry identified with Idris and Chris more because they were so uncomplicated.  None of the angst of the teenagers.  And none of the impossible demands, either.  They accepted her just the way she was.<br/><br/>Tristan and Alissa she left pretty much alone, because they had each other.<br/><br/>Terry's hatred of the Matrix made it hard for her to understand Emmy's and Iris's connection to the device.  But that was not a good excuse for how she mishandled her relationship with them.  Was she trying too hard to make up for her mistakes with Iris?<br/><br/>When she entered the Operations Room, Terry made a beeline for Idris, wrapping her arms around her from behind.  Saying nothing.  Just trying to gather strength from the woman.  Probably holding that hug long enough to make Idris uncomfortable.  Finally releasing her, Terry then went over to hug Addy in the same manner.  But in this case, she bent down to murmur in her ear "Are we still good?" She'd had plenty of communications with Idris over the years, but very little from Addy.  Both of them were off in exotic places doing incredible things while Terry was struggling to keep the citizens of Zero City from killing one another.  She envied their lives.<br/><br/>Terry placed the air pot on the side board for anyone who wanted coffee, pulled out some cups from the cabinet, and then sat in the chair closest to Emmy.  She gave her a smile and leaned back to sip her coffee.  She was desperate to hear about the Restricted dossier. If Emmy finding it had caused the Matrix to come back to life, then the device had merely been playing dead while monitoring what was going on around it.  She found that disquieting.<br/><br/>However, if this meeting was going to be a rehash of past wrongs, Terry was positioning herself to be the buffer between Emmy and everyone else.