Rashiel's Plotlines

Her Abysmal Love Life
Jill immediately had an attraction to Lazarus, and the two spend some time together, at times becoming quite intimate without actual sex. One of these instances involves skinny dipping on the beach near her house, which is captured by an aspiring photographer. While nothing can be seen, that, combined with her being seen in public with him, is enough to generate a buzz about the Actress and the Singer in gossip-loving LA. In many was, this is a boon for keeping her secret ID, as her sudden disappearances often correspond with Lazarus', providing alibis for both of them. Worried about what this does to her carefully tended, out-of-the-media image, she thinks too much, dithers and procrastinates before starting the relationship she realizes she really want to have with the charismatic singer and mystic. Unfortunately, just before she can express her feelings, his ex-wife/soul mate returns from the dead. It's always something.
    While she is trying to keep a respectful distance and not get in the way and still maintain a solid working relationship & friendship with the man she just realized she loves, her ex-husband returns. Now, Jake's returns are never positive things, and she swears she's really over him, and will never let him back into her life in any way shape or form, not after all the controlling and manipulating damage he did last time, but this time it's worse. Jake is on the run from criminals. He saw something he wasn't supposed to ­ a criminal hit on the Japanese ambassador. Unfortunately, the Japanese ambassador is alive and well! Jill tells him to get out. She then calls the Host in to check on his statements, and they uncover a complicated plot involving the WCL, Cloning and Spider (see the WCL plots for more details). During the course of this, Jake is taken into police custody, explains his story and then is killed by a WCL car bomb. Just as Jill is dealing with the guilt of that little bombshell (heh, heh), she is contacted the police. New evidence reveals that the body in the car was not Jake's and they want to know what happened to him....
    Jill's friends, seeing her morose, depressed and not dating (and certainly not dating Lazarus Murdoch), drag her out to a singles bar, where she meets Rick, a nice, cute, stable historian, who happens to be involved in the movies she is currently working in, the cultural heritage thing on Mayan culture, for which there has been a resurgence of interest in within the last year, drawing in many of the Hispanics in LA. Rick is Hispanic himself, and passionate about the project. He is also sympathetic to Jill's problems, friendly and perhaps exactly what she needs to take her mind off her current man problems. If only she did keep seeing him with frog eyes when she looks at him in dim light.... Rick is still around after the explosion with Se&ntilode;or Q, and Jill still doesn't know whether to trust him or not—she wants to, and from her track record that definitely means she shouldn't, but will anyway.
    Oh, and she has an on-again/off-again flirtation with Captain Awesome. He was a hero of hers when she was growing up, but the reality of this soldier shakes the child's images of her hero.

Work, Work, Work
Jill's work life used to eat up all of her spare time, hiding from herself the absence of a social life. With her induction into the Host, she's finding it hard to cut down on her commitments and obligations. She continues to do fight choreography, including work on Raiders on the Lost Ark (she will never forgive Harrison for wrecking that sword/whip fight that she spent weeks on!), but her acting career starts to slide.
    Worrying about that and wanting to keep busy after losing her chance with Lazarus, she tells her agent to find her work, and is approached to do a series of parts in a small-budget film about Mayan history and culture. While Jill has no problem with acting under heavy makeup (especially considering her days as Lisa Cheung), the movie itself is worrisome to her, given her experiences with the Mayan Twilight incursion and the Frog Prince. She agrees to the job, but tells the Host of her actions.
    There she meets Señor Quetzo, chief financier of the film, and already on the Host watch-list after his contacts with Jerry. The movie set becomes a piece in the magical chess game going on between Quetzo, the Frog Prince and Kensington; Jill, whose senses have been Twilight-open since the first Mayan affair, manages to stop an assassination attempt of the Prince's on Quetzo. When Quetzo vanishes at the end of the Kensington affair, the funding on the film stagnates and the project is shelved, but might return.

Women's United Martial Arts League
When Jill arrives at the last possible minute to the last possible preliminary event before the nationals, she discovers that her long standing rival Carrie Kopek vanished after qualifying for the nationals last month. No one has seen or heard from her in six weeks, and there's some doubt that she'll be at the Nationals. Kopek is a stronger fighter than Jill, more aggressive, but without Jill's grace; the two are very evenly matched. Jill qualifies for the national easily.
    Later, Jill runs into Warren Samuel, a follower of the WUMAL and nice enough fellow whom she bumps into once in a while. He recounts to her that he just recently saw Kopek in LA. When she tries to question him on this later, he has no memory of the incident. She makes inquires into Kopek's disappearance, and the police in Chicago believe it to be foul play. Jill is attacked by one or more invisible super strong highly skilled opponents, who erase her memory of her meeting with Samuel, her checking into Kopek's disappearance, and this encounter.
    Fortunately, the rest of the Host was informed of Jill's suspicions, and Lazarus manages identify the blocks in her mind, though he cannot break them. Knowing where the missing pieces are, they are able to re-inform Jill of what she lost. Shortly thereafter, Lazarus and Jill encounter the Sisterhood, whom Jill is able to identify by style as Kopek—all five of them! The Sisterhood is still out there as of this writing, and the mystery of Carrie Kopek is unsolved.

The Twilight
When the Mayan Affair began, Jill discovered her high natural affinity for the Twilight. She received visions, and took to the Twilight physics very quickly. She also maintained contact with Harry Griswold, a Host guard who was more directly affected than her, and constantly sees into the Twilight now. Griswold is, of course, mad, but has disturbing powers of prophecy and insight where the Twilight is concerned.
    Due to her Twilight affinity, Jill occasionally sees things that other people don't or can't; she can catch people moving in the twilight in he peripheral vision, she can sometimes see aspects of a person in their face or eyes, and she has on two occasionally stepped directly into the Twilight, but only when others were using it's powers in her vicinity. She is unclear as to how or why she has these strange abilities, but is interested in exploring them.

   

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