On November 8, 2011, Veronica became a known face in the American public after speaking to the press while escaping from the Arcology with members of the Ferry and staff and patients — victims — of the Institute, bloodied and injured from the raid. Fearful of putting the Ferry in danger with her presence, should she be tracked, Veronica chose instead to travel west with Brian as fugitives, living off the grid and under the radar as much as possible.
However, it was soon clear that they could not ride quietly off into the sunset and that their fight was not over. As war broke out, Vee and Brian joined the rebel forces on the west coast, their training from the Company making them competent leaders of effective teams. She threw herself into the war effort as she had thrown herself into everything in her life — with determination, conviction, and that all-consuming need to prove herself as worthy. As predictable, she is injured often but never enough to keep her from pushing herself to do more, do better, save another life, to make up for all the lives she feels she destroyed as an agent of the Company. In addition, since her face is already known, she allows herself to be interviewed by war correspondents, unwilling to hide who she is or what her beliefs are after doing so while in the Institute.
When the war finally comes to an end, the question comes — do they try to reclaim their lives or hide in obscurity? But the desire to give all of her years’ worth of information to those who can enact justice is a pressing one, and Veronica chooses to give herself up, knowing she may herself be indicted for her own past work. It felt like a weighing of her soul, in some ways — does the good outweigh the bad? Somehow, either through her own interviews, her past actions, or the corroboration and accolades from other, she is cleared and pardoned.
For once her life was her own.
For a few moments, it was tempting to walk away from it all, even to another country, perhaps. After the Chesterfield Act passed and SESA was established, Veronica became pregnant — and suddenly there was another family member to worry about. Living a quiet life looked more appealing than other. But when Praeger approached her to ask her to join SESA, to ensure that the atrocities of the both the Company and the Institute do not recur, she agreed. With her ability making her the perfect plant (she cannot be mindwiped, telepathically read, or persuaded, unless negated first), she once again found herself on a secret assignment — sort of the story of her life.
A couple of months after Olivia is born in June of 2015, Veronica returned to work — in dual capacities: one, as an agent seeking to keep both Evolved and non-Evolved people safe, and two, as a watchdog of sorts, a moral compass, within the ranks of the agency. Her well-known face means that she won’t be able to do the undercover jobs she was so often slated with in the past; her status as a mother of a toddler means she won’t be as selflessly devoted to her work or so willing to let herself get hurt in the name of duty. It’s a brave new world.