Joe's father brought baby Jacob to London to live with Joe, and Bridgette finally got to meet the two of them. Joe's father was a bit of a grump, but Bridgette felt like she was able to get him to warm up a little by the end of his stay! As for Jacob, he and Bridgette grew attached to one another instantly!
Soon after Joe's father left, Joe and Bridgette discussed "furthering" their relationship, and Joe invited her to move into his flat. She'd decorated most of it, after all! They finally consummated things, and Bridgette thought she could never be happier than she was right now! She and Joe and Jake felt like they were a little family.

And then everything fell apart. A few weeks later Joe went out to the library to do some research on their new project and never came home. Bridgette was frantic�sick. She told the Order he was missing, and an extensive search was conducted for the next two years. At the end of the two years the Order finally sat Bridgette down and told her that they were going to conclude that the Union had finally found Joe and taken him. They were going to close the search. They told Bridgette that she should think about moving on with her life, but Bridgette would have none of it. She secretly continued the search for the rest of her life-paying contacts behind the Order's back to search for Joe-but there was never a trace of him that turned up.

In those two years Bridgette went through a number of phases. The first was the worried sick-phase. Then came the angry-phase. She remembered what Joe said about the "Constantine Curse," and wondered if Joe had done the same thing to her that Cigarette-Girl had done to him. She wondered if moving in had secretly been too much for him�if he'd realized that they were heading into something serious and had chickened out. But it just didn't make sense that he'd leave Jake behind. He loved his son more than just about anything!
Once Bridgette realized that Joe wouldn't have left them like that, she went into the depression-phase where she couldn't eat or sleep. It was Jake who finally shook her out of that phase. Seeing the worry on his little baby-face was too much for her, and she realized that if the Union had come for Joe, they might come for Jacob. So Bridgette spent the next 4 years carrying Jake around with her everywhere-too paranoid to leave him with a sitter. If she lost Jake, she would have nothing left.

The years went by. Bridgette never married�never had children of her own�never even saw another man. She immersed herself in her work and in raising Jacob. She raised Jacob surrounded by mages, so the world of magic was no mystery to him. Except that he wasn't a mage.
When he was old enough, Bridgette finally told him the story of his father�how no one knows what happened to him, but they suspected he was kidnapped by the Union. She knew Jacob wanted to help search for his father but was prevented by the fact that he wasn't a mage. She knew this frustrated him to no end. She knew he felt resentment for the mages who HAD magic but couldn't find his father.
So it didn't come as a complete surprise when he decided to move far away to Liverpool when he was old enough to move out. She was very sad about his decision, but at the same time she figured he'd be safer from the Union if he wasn't in London. Besides�the Union was only after the "reality-benders," and Jake wasn't one of those. He'd be fine.

Jacob ended up getting a girl pregnant, and she died giving birth to a son. Jake named his son John. He wanted to raise this son, himself�didn't want the mages back in London to know that he'd messed up and had a baby now. But then problems came to Liverpool and he and his fellow workers were laid-off.
Bridgette told him to come home. She was excited to see her "grandson" and wanted them to be a little family again. She was finally able to convince Jacob to come home, but he wanted his own flat. He didn't want John raised around mages. Bridgette was now one of the senior board members at the University, which meant she was a senior member of the Order. So Bridgette arranged for him and John to have their own flat, and she secretly assigned mages who were under her employment to keep an eye on Jacob and John. She knew something Jacob did not: John was a mage. Or WOULD be, once he Awakened.

The events of the next few years were momentous. John ended up Awakening when he was about 15 or 16. Nothing earth-shattering, he just realized one day that he could do magic, and that the dead people he'd been seeing since he was 13 were real.
Bridgette explained everything to him�told him all about his Grandpa Joe�told him he'd need to find a mentor soon. She would have loved to have been his mentor, but then Jake would have been furious with her, so she regretfully stepped down.
Jake ended up treating John very badly when he found out his son was a mage. He was consumed with jealousy. John made friends with some other mages his age, and one of them told him about his mentor in Toronto, Canada. John thought it might be a good idea to get out of England and away from his father, so he pretended to be going to Toronto for college.
Bridgette knew the truth, so she helped convince Jake to let him go. All Jake knew was that John was going to be getting away from those "bloody mages in London," so he didn't stop John.
A year or so later Jake was killed by a serial killer in London. John came home to take care of the killer, himself, and the results weren't pretty. Something went out of Bridgette when Jake died. She was leader of the Order of London�she felt like she'd achieved everything she could in this life. She felt tired. And she missed Joe. And now his-THEIR-- son was dead. She wanted to see Joe again. She assumed by now he must be dead, even if the Order hadn't been his demise. She wanted to go to him.
She wrote up her will, leaving everything to John. She stayed around long enough to make sure her last students had graduated�that she'd recorded every last big of magickal and cultural knowledge that she'd gained in this life�and then one night she went to sleep in the bed she and Joe had shared for a mere three weeks and never woke up.