Archived:Deliverance Blackburne

Appearance
Blonde hair that she usually wears in braids or in a bun, blue eyes, thin, tall at a height of 5'8, looks 17 but real age unknown

Personality
Mature, courageous, hard-working, very disciplined, lacks self confidence, usually doesn't trust others, can be insensitive or unsympathetic, intelligent, can be trusting as well as affectionate and caring, usually closes off feelings

History
In 1677, when he was 29, Benjamin Mansforth met Hecate in England. It was love at first sight, but Benjamin was already married to a woman named Bridget and already had three children, so they started to date secretly. But, a few months later, Bridget discovered the affair and put a stop to it by watching Benjamin more carefully and following him. Almost a week later, Hecate and Benjamin called the relationship off and everything went back to the way it was in the beginning. Or so Benjamin thought.

On May 21, 1678, Benjamin discovered Hecate standing on his doorstep with a baby. She told him that the baby was his and that he needed to care for her. She quickly handed him the baby before running off and disappearing. Confused, Benjamin obeyed her and took the child in. He then named the child Deliverance. A few months after Deliverance was left with the Blackburne family, the family moved to America. The ship ride was horrible. Half the people were ill, and storm's shook the ship a lot of the time.

After almost a year on the ship, the family reached Salem, but, sadly, the oldest boy, Nathan, had gotten terribly ill on the ship and had passed away. The family continued to mourn the loss for months and months after arriving in America. Growing up, Deliverance was different than the other children in Salem. She was moody, shy and quiet, not talking to a lot of people, and would sometimes, just to scare her siblings, talk and mumble to herself. She was treated like a servant for her many older and younger siblings, as well as her step-mother. The only person that treated her like a member of the family was her father.

When Deliverance turned 12, her step-mother finally got her reason to send Deliverance away from the family. 18 year old tailor William Blackburne was searching for a wife and was interested in Deliverance. (In the 1600s, when girls reached 12 - 14, they were married off) Benjamin agreed, and soon Deliverance was married. Deliverance hated the married life. She hated feeling like servant again and William was always busy running his business to even try and help her.

A year later, Deliverance started noticing strange shadows and even stranger people, like a man that seemed to have one eye and a woman with hair like flames, following her around. Deliverance just ignored it, but soon, a few months later, a faint symbol appeared above her head. Around this time, the witch trials were beginning, so Deliverance decided not to tell a soul. But she was paranoid. What if someone had seen? Would they tell on her? If so, was she to die? Deliverance's paranoia got the best of her as she tried to think of every and any reasons why she didn't go outside.

But soon, William became very ill with an unknown illness. Each day he became worse and worse, until May 31, 1691. That's when William passed away. The villagers of Salem were even more paranoid than Deliverance. They had known of Deliverance's strange behavior as a child, how she had closed off everyone around her and how she would talk to herself. And now that her husband, that she had openly hated, was dead, they were even more afraid. Armed with what they thought was enough evidence, a mob, headed by an officer, marched to Deliverance's house, where they accused her of being a with. With that, they arrested her.

Deliverance stayed in the jail cell with a few other women (and children) who were accused of being witches for a year before she finally got a trial. She pleaded non guilty but, like all witch trials at that time, she was found guilty and she was to be hanged. On April 14, 1692, the executioner tied the noose around Deliverance's neck and walked her to the tree where they tossed the rope over one of the branches, made her stood on a tall wooden box, and then tied the rope to another branch. Tears streaming down her face, Deliverance's last words were 'Curse you all. Justice shall be served.'

With that, a man that was present kicked the box out from underneath her feet and Deliverance was hung, though it took five minutes for the rope to finally strangle Deliverance. Once she was dead, Deliverance's body was thrown into a shallow grave near the tree she was hanged on. A few days after her death, Deliverance, as a ghost, wandered away from the tree. After realizing she was a ghost, Deliverance haunted the man that kicked the box from under her feet and some of the other men that were present. She tortured them for years before they went insane. After causing the men to go insane, Deliverance was left alone by her tree. Anyone that walked past it would hear a quiet 'hello', but quite a few years, no one noticed the whispers. They just walked by in a hurry.

To Deliverance, time went faster then it really did. When she thought it had only been a few months, it had actually been 303 years. In 1995, a couple, Susanna and Chris Heithoff, built a house near the forest where Deliverance's tree was. Deliverance felt a connection to them because they were descendants of one of Deliverance's older brothers. Unknown to the couple, the baby they were going to have soon had died a couple days before. Feeling pity for the couple, Deliverance's soul entered the baby's body, rebirthing Deliverance. But, when she entered the body, her mind became that of the child, and she lost all memories of her past life.

After she was born, her parents named her Emily. Growing up, Emily was a happy child with loving parents. She loved exploring the forest near her home, though it worried her parents, who thought she needed to be around kids her own age but Emily refused. But, as she got older, strange thing started to happen, like Emily accidentally making a car explode, and often talking about monsters she thought she saw. Her parents were bewildered by it, but just ignored it, thinking their daughter had an active imagination. But, as Emily matured, she started to slowly regain her memories from her past life, but the memories were blurry and unfocused; they confused Emily to no end.

Emily only had one friend. His name was Aaron and he was almost as different as Emily. He didn't talk much, and he didn't have any friends ever. He always seemed nervous and was very protective of Emily.

When Emily was 12, while exploring, she stumbled upon an tall, old tree. Emily noticed rope on the tree. Reaching out, she grabbed the rope. When she touched the rope, suddenly all the memories of her past came flooding back. After a while, Aaron found Deliverance sitting down on a fallen log. She told him everything that had happened. By the end, Aaron looked even more nervous than ever. He grabbed her hand and pulled her out of the woods, telling her that he needed to get her to Camp Half-Blood. He explained that he was a satyr and that she was a demigod, a child of Hecate.

Aaron pulled her to her house, where he told her mother, Susanna, about all of what happened. He then asked if she could drive them to Camp. Susanna said yes, but, during the whole ride, didn't say one word to Deliverance. After Susanna pulled over near Camp Half-Blood hill, Aaron grabbed Deliverance again, and pulled her out of car. When they were almost up the hill, a harpy attacked. Aaron tried to defend Deliverance the best he could, but he was killed. He told Deliverance to go on without him before he died. Deliverance started to run up the hill, but the harpy grabbed her with its claws. Deliverance screamed. She started to kick, scream, and punch, but the harpy continued to claw and bite her.

When Deliverance was half dead, suddenly, two campers ran out of the gate, and attacked the harpy. As the other dueled the harpy, one of them grabbed Deliverance and ran through the gate to safety. In camp, Deliverance stayed in the infirmary for a few weeks before being healed and sent to her cabin with her siblings.