Audrey Ramirez

It is very early morning- the sun is just peeking up. So, what has happened since yesterday? The most amazing thing- I found a man and a girl just walking along the side of the road. The man, Bobby, is kind, tall and kind, and ex-military. He reminds me of Doc Sweet. I like him very much. The girl, Chel, is about fifteen with an attitude, but I can see her trying to curb it. I like her a lot, too. Last night, as we ate a very late dinner, I told them where I came from and they seemed to take it much better than I could have expected. Truth is, they might not have believed me, but they didn't do anything to make me think they thought me truly crazy.

We have found a town that has electricity and we are going to go and see what is there. The town is called Haven and we spent last night in a house outside town that has lights and a working stove and plumbing and good beds that don't stink of illness. I haven't felt this good in maybe a week.

So, Nina o Nino, that was the day I met them. I wonder of you will know them, too. I hope so.

Just like the books say, I have started my sixth week and now I can't eat anything. My stomach doesn't like the motion of riding in the Jeep very much either. Now it's not to pee that I have to stop every thirty or forty seconds, if you know what I mean. I have stopped a few miles north of a town named Haven for the night because my poor belly can't take it. I am resting in a farmhouse. There were no bodies inside. !que bendicion! And there was some canned food, peaches and beans, that I managed to eat to keep you well fed, Nina o Nino. I may stay here for a while and let myself sleep in in the morning. Then I'll move on into the next town in the afternoon.

I have been stopping to search as much of the towns I've passed through as I can trying to find some sign of life. So far nada. I have also picked up some books on pregnancy and birth. I have been reading some each night to get through them. What I'm reading makes me even more sure I can't be alone when you come.

So, I figure I oughta write down a few things for the baby (if you're reading this baby, hello Nina o Nino), and to help to keep the days straight. From my calculations, you were conceived sometime between the 28th and 30th of April, which mean if all goes well, you will be here in the middle of January. It has been three weeks since your papi, Paulo Garcia, died and two weeks since I've seen another living person. Since I can't expect to do this alone (at least not the end of it), and I'm not going to want to travel near the end either, I'm on the road south, hoping to find at least one other person. So far, aside from all of the sudden having to pee every thirty or forty seconds, I don't feel pregnant. I am tired a lot, but that might just be more about the loneliness than anything else.

Character Info
Character Name: Audrey Rocio Ramirez
Character Medium: Movie
Character Fandom: Disney's Atlantis
Brief Biography:

Audrey Rocio Ramirez was born in 1896 in Dearborn Michigan to Manuel and Ana Ramirez. Her father was a mechanical genius and Audrey inherited his talents. At the age of 4 she rebuilt a '96 Quadracycle Runabout and only a year later she began working as an apprentice mechanic in her father's shop. By the time she reached the age of nine, her family was living in Detroit and Audrey was working as a journeyman mechanic for Henry Ford Automotive. At Ford, she became a supervisor (age 11) and helped form the Automobile Workers Union (age 13). She continued to hone her skills at Ford for the next five years.

Then in 1914, when Audrey was 18, she accompanied an expedition to find the lost city of Atlantis, for which she was chief engineer and maintained/repaired everything mechanical, including a submarine, several types of planes, trucks and even a hot air balloon. Officially, the expedition was a failure, but the truth was that they did indeed find the city as well as living residents. Most of the members of the expedition were more like mercenaries than archeologists and the expedition's leaders wanted to take the great crystal that powered the city for themselves, which would have killed every Atlantean. Audrey had to choose sides. She and a few others sided with the Atlanteans and Milo Thatch- the linguist/cartographer/archeologist who'd figured out the clues to find the city. To protect the Atlanteans, those who returned to the surface vowed not to reveal the location of the city. The expedition made Audrey a very rich woman. As a souvenir of her visit to the lost city, she kept a glowing crystal that preserved her life, allowing her to remain physically young for the next 92 years. The crystal also made her immune to disease.

As a girl, Audrey had been a precocious tomboy with a tough exterior but a good heart. As time passed, she retained her youthful ideals and continued to keep her hand in as a mechanic working for Whitmore Industries (the company that had financed the Atlantis Expedition) on various projects across the globe. In her free time, she studied many differing subjects- scientific, spiritual, artistic and physical. She spent a few years in search of the meaning of life, but eventually decided that life, being alive to see and learn it all, was the meaning of life. She never married not wishing to watch a husband grow old, but she took many lovers over the years, never giving her whole heart to any of them. She is bilingual (Spanish and English) with a smattering of other languages she picked up over the years to get by as she traveled. She is also a pilot.

Revised Character History:

One clear morning, Audrey was working in the machine shop behind her little house in Detroit, trying to improve the efficiency of the electric car she'd built several years earlier, when things went strange. One moment she was turning around to find a 3/8th inch wrench to unscrew a bolt and the next moment she was watching her workbench dissolve as an irregular ring of light appeared to float in front of her. It was rapidly moving towards her, dissolving everything that came in contact with its edges! Audrey tried to back away from it, but there was nowhere to go, the car was directly behind her and stepping to the side would have put her into the path of the ring without enough time to clear it. So much for immortality, she thought to herself and, hoping to go all at once instead of in bits and pieces, she jumped into the middle of the ring.

She was completely surprised to find herself sprawled on the ground more or less whole (but for a few bumps from landing on the ground). She was in her own backyard, but the workshop Audrey had built a few years back was no where to be found. She would later come to find out that, while it looked very much like it, this backyard was not hers. It belonged to strangers, as did the house. Other details of her life were similarly missing. The crystal that always hung around her neck and connected her to the Heart of Atlantis, which was powered by the life-forces of the people in the lost city, the crystal was dark. Some of the people she knew from the neighborhood still lived there, but not one of them remembered her. Whitmore Industries didn't even exist and no one had heard of the discovery of Atlantis. Audrey didn't know exactly what had happened to her, but she knew one thing- this was not her world.

Over the next weeks, she tried to make contact with her lifelong friends from the Atlantis Expedition, Dr. Joshua Sweet, Vincenzo Santorini, Mole, Preston Whitmore and Milo Thatch, only to find that each of them had died years before. She even found her own death certificate dated some forty years earlier. That was possibly the strangest thing. Audrey had lost everyone she really counted as a friend and this world was not a friendly one. It was in turmoil from the same event that had brought Audrey into it- the Deluge.

Not sure she would or even could find a way home to her own world, Audrey did what she could to make the one she was in a better. She made her way into the city's department of public works and offered to be part of the critical infrastructure repair teams. The fact that she was, officially speaking, a dead woman, made it hard to get the man heading up the department to consider letting her help. And, once he did, he didn't listen to her about anything anyway.

The one person there who did give her his ear was Paulo Garcia. He was a good man who respected Audrey's opinions and they soon became lovers. Audrey had never had a child- she had so many things she'd wanted to do and she could always do it in five more years, twenty more years, fifty more years. The crystal around her neck going dark awakened the desire to be a mother in Audrey and she and Paulo soon conceive a child. Just weeks later, Paulo, died of the plague.

Audrey was pretty sure she would age since the crystal had gone dark, she just hoped that it would be at a normal rate. Although she still looked 18, she was 110 years old in 2006, and she was still hoping for another good 60 years or so. Audrey didn't know why she didn't die of the plague like everyone around her and she feared for the health of the child she carried. Would Audrey's child be born just to die from the disease that killed her father and so many others?