Colby Dolores Martinez was born in southern Texas on July 15, 1978, to Alicia and Raul Martinez. The third of six children, four of which were young boys, Colby grew up in a close knit, but competitive family environment. She was caught in the middle of the sibling wars of age, testosterone, privileges, and hand-me-downs, but overall the family gang was a closer group of friends and protectors - particularly over their youngest, baby sister Linda. It was no surprise to the family when Colby began to take to the same interests as her brothers at a young age - baseball, soccer, even football and cars. The young Latina worked hard throughout her schooling, graduating from a regional vocational school at seventeen. Her eldest brother, Antonio, who had moved to New England to become a popular news journalist, helped to fund Colby's dreams - sending his tomboyish, younger sister to Texas A&M University where she began to excel in all things mechanical.
Colby graduated and moved on to open up her own car and motorcycle mechanics shop, still living at home with her parents to help raise and support the last of the sibling gang. Colby had never been one much for dating and love throughout her adolescence and even later on. Instead, for two years she ran her own shop, filling the needs for her own family life by caring for her younger siblings. That all changed the day a young woman pulled up to the shop, stepping out of her sedan in a lime green sundress. Ariel and Colby clicked instantly. Ariel was a young psychologist, working for a small practice until she could afford to move away from these deserts and open her own services in big New England city. Ariel was the spark of Colby's life, and soon just the glimmer that had the young Latina turning her life around.
Colby sold the shop and moved her and her lover to New York, New York. With the profit of her sold company, Colby purchased a small office downtown for Ariel to begin her own practice. Colby's whole perspective changed on life with her lover's influence - drawn to see the good in people through the rather rough and tumble perspectives her tight-funded, boy-influenced youth. Colby saw the way her sweet Ariel helped to change the lives around her for the better, and Colby wanted nothing more than to be a part of that. She didn't have the soft touch necessary for doctoring or social work. So, instead, she aimed for a career more befitting of her - she joined the police academy soon after their move. Her graduation gift? In the Spring of 2002, Colby and Ariel were married in Columbus Park, not according to government at that time, but by the laws of their love were all that mattered. Colby began to excel through the ranks of her new career with a passion fed and supported by her loving wife.
Soon Martinez was pressing her way through the ranks, working the beat, then excelling through the department programs, only to take a greater roll by becoming an undercover field agent. The strain this put on the relationship was to be expected, but quickly forgotten when the pair sat on their sofa on November 8th, 2006, their eyes glued to the television, the world screaming outside their windows - watching as the importance of their life was not snuffed out in the disaster, as the explosion reminded them just how lucky they were, and the world began it's first shifts of erratic change. Over a year later as the crisis became greater and greater, Ariel began taking on a new kind of client at her practice - Evolved. Ariel began to work with those that had shielded their abilities for so long, helping them to cope, and even learn to control their abilities. Colby found no reason to debate her lover's call to help those gifted among the people; her own job had plenty of its own risks, besides.
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The lovers had just begun talks of adoption a few days before, Colby is supposed to meet Ariel for lunch over at the corner café - Then she gets the call.
Ariel is in the hospital.
A young, male, electrokinetic had been training with Ariel's help for a short time. He had a troubled youth to compound his 'Evolved issues'. Something in that office had gone terribly array. Ariel has been electrocuted, stopping her heart. Colby has to identify the body.
She gets the call from a fellow officer: They've got a hit on Sparky Boy's credit car. It's not far from a bus station. What happens from there: To Stop Another Heart and The Pardon of Sins
