Garrett
PBTD 01/5
EMT who helped Katie recover after the Sacrificial ceremony. EMT tatooed on arm. Strong.
Past Life: I was a firefighter and an EMT in my human life. My life was perfect, you know? I mean, it seemed perfect to me. I wasn’t a loner or a badass like the rest of these guys. I was born in Arizona. I went to school and college there, met my wife there, and had settled down there to raise our two beautiful children, Aiden and Sebastian. I had the job I had always dreamed of. I was that hero who swooped in and saved the day.I always thought the flames would take me from my family. I never saw this coming, not even in my wildest dreams. I think about my wife and boys every single day. Every damn day. I thought about exorcism, you know? To get back to them. But my demon, he’s pretty gnarly when he wants to be. He’s comfortable where he is, I suppose. Anyway, long story short. It was a Saturday night when the station got the call. There was a fire at a hotel just four blocks from my house. I knew they needed help, so even though I was off duty I geared up and headed over there. My wife asked me not to go, but I blew her off and told her I’d be back in time for dinner.” Some of those spiritualists were fucking around out there. A spiritualist is what people like the ones who tied you up call themselves now—like there is anything spiritual about robbing people of their lives. Anyway, one of them was fooling around with enchantments. They were just fucking around because they were rookies. They had no coven; probably just thought it sounded cool or something. Well, the one accidentaly pulled in a demon that had an affinity for fire. The demon inside the kid was young, too. Had no idea what it was doing, and got him and his human body charred to a crisp. I remember getting there and seeing this burst of light come from one end of the hotel. It wasn’t like anything I had ever seen before, but I figured maybe it was just an electrical box going or a flash from one of the small explosions in the fire. One thing was for damn sure—I never thought a demon was in there wreaking havoc. I volunteered to go in first,” he said. “I fought my way through to the room where the spiritualist was, but all I found was a charred body. After that, it was kind of a blur for about ten minutes. That demon burned the hotel to the ground and latched on to the closest living body it could, which was me. I didn’t even realize what was going on. When I came to I was standing outside the hotel, just staring back at the burnt rubble. There was something in me, though. I could feel it, like I was on fire from the inside out. Korbin ran up to me and just looked me straight in the eyes. Didn’t say a word. He saw the red ring in his eyes. He knew immediately that Garrett had been Damned. Did you hear your demon? Not at first. I’m assuming he was just as perplexed, finding himself trapped inside of me. He didn’t say a word for about two weeks after the event, and when he finally did I just blocked it out. It made me feel crazy, and he had nothing interesting to say. Level-Four Affinity Demon. He's a Team stood by me, got me through. wife and kids think I'm dead. Better that way. You found a way to be there for them without actually being there,” Katie said. “It’s poetic.”
Exorcism? Damian rubbed his chin. “That was his first thought when he saw me,” he said. “But things are difficult with his demon. His is a fire demon, and quite a powerful one at that. He’s quiet inside Garrett, but at the first sign of anyone even thinking about removing him he begins to fight back. It almost killed Garrett the first week he was here.”
PBTD 01/22, 23
Went through expocism, lost his demon to Katie, and Pandora killed it. Went back to family - wife, two kids, and delicious hotdogs. Katie and Pandora's good deed because Katie cares about people.
