The Rookie
By Fire
He walks in the shadows, the darkness hiding him from his destiny. The inky black night cloaking him in its embrace. No-one knows what he is, no-one knows that at his fingertips there is a power waiting to be unleashed, to uncoil like a snake in the sun. He hides his true identity from everyone, never giving any indication to the one and only person that would understand him.
Love is a gift from the gods, the one true emotion that we have no control over. Love is what drives him, love is what keeps him from becoming the darkness in which he hides. His love for the warrior Sara, the bearer of the Witchblade is the only thing that keeps him from falling into a pit of the fates making. Since he was a child his duty, his destiny, was drilled into his head, branding him like a hot iron fresh from the fire. He isn't the only one that walks in the shadows, another does it also, but unlike him, he works for evil, he does someone else�s bidding.
He has had his blood spilled to protect his true identity. He was beaten by Ian Nottingham, never giving any indication that with a blink of an eye he could have taken him apart. Instead he took the shots to the stomach, and face, pretending that he couldn't fight back, even going as far as to let him put the white bulls bullet in his mouth. He would have stopped him if he had to, but Sara, his beautiful warrior saved him, brandishing the witchblade. In all his life he had never seen anything more beautiful than an angry Sara. He hates lying to her, hates deceiving her and letting her think that he is clueless where the Witchblade was concerned
They are linked through a power greater than anything else is in the world. Their destinies intertwined, their past and their future linked. A few details were left out when Irons informed Sara of the Witchblade. The most important of which was that there is always a protector, a companion, someone to be with her through the entire time that she would wield the blade. Trained since a child he is more powerful than any other man on earth. He is almost like a male bearer, a counterpart for the blade. Once his true identity is revealed to Sara her power, her strength where the witchblade is concerned will grow to unimaginable proportions.
But also he was warned not to let his true identity be known until the correct time, to do so would put both his life and Sara�s in grave danger. The very same ones that were saying that they wanted to help her would kill her and him if they discovered why he was truly there. Being what he is takes heart, it takes a strength that he sometimes wonders if he has. He sees things from the past and from the future, so much in fact that he is constantly one with the darkness.
He has followed Sara without her knowledge, without the Witchblade warning her of his presence. He ahs followed Ian Nottingham without the assassin�s knowledge, and to his knowledge he is the only one that has ever been able to do that, most of the time the follower winds up killed, in a very painful manner. He blends with shadows, becomes one with the darkness of night.
To everyone he meets he appears to be totally different than what he truly is. He looks like the normal young, handsome, rookie cop. His colorful clothes concealing his dark nature. To everyone he is Jake McCartey, mild mannered Rookie Cop. But to himself, he is just Jake, a man with destiny, a man with a purpose, a man that would eventually wind up helping push the forces of darkness from the earth. Destiny and Fate has chosen him to assist Sara in her quest for good, in her quest to fight evil. He will fight by her side for as long as it takes, and love her from afar until the time comes that he can reveal his true nature.