FACTS.

** Chloe was born on March 5, 1988 to two very unprepared teens. Michael and Evie had been a fast fling in high school and when Evie had realized that her period would not come and that she was finding it more and more difficult to squeeze into her favorite jeans she knew that the unthinkable had happened. While she'd thought about giving her little girl up for adoption, upon laying eyes on her she knew that she couldn't do it and Michael had known that he would always be there, no matter what. Shortly after she was born the two were married and are still to this day.

** Chloe was a special child. She exhibited signs of understanding her parents very early on and was very quiet and well behaved. They were grateful for the easy business of raising a child and attempting to maintain four jobs between the two of them to keep them afloat until they could figure out what it was either of them wanted to do for a living. They, with the help of Evie's mother, managed just fine in their studio apartment in Portland until their daughter turned two, when Michael had finally saved up enough to buy a small house for the three of them where Chloe would spend the majority of her adolescence.

** Things changed when she went into elementary school, it was then that her powers were starting to flourish. Before she could sense emotions, gathered what it was that people wanted and behaved in that fashion however, it's when the voices started that she began to get overwhelmed by her telepathy. Hearing everything going on around you in the imaginative minds of kids her age made it difficult to pay attention to the teacher and despite how intelligent she actually was, she struggled in school for this reason.

** When Chloe turned seven she finally voiced her concern over the voice to her parents. The two of the, neither with any ounce of psychic blood between the two of them, were concerned that she had a form of schizophrenia and took her in to be psychologically evaluated. This, of course, made its rounds throughout the children in school and what few friends she had slowly began to distance themselves. Despite how young she was, her doctor suggested a few medications and those, for the time being, had stunted what she could hear, at the cost of most of her energy.

** While Elementary school had been trying, Middle school was a thousand times worse. Word of the fact that she'd been heavily medicated leaked at an alarming rate through campus and often times she caught people throwing apprehensive looks her way, shunning her to the point of being alone 99% of the time. Up until this point she'd put on a brave face for her parents but the loneliness slowly began to drive her into a deep depression and one evening she finally decided to flush all of her medication down the toilet and embrace whatever parts of her personality that she'd left behind.

** A week after doing so her psychic abilities had come back in full force, causing her to suffer massive headaches in response. It was better, at least she thought, to have the headaches than it was to continue on the monotonous trail she'd been roaming alone. That was when she met her.

** At twelve Chloe had finally managed to meet someone like her. She could feel other people's emotions in a way that was unlike anything she had ever seen before and when she quietly disclosed that she could hear what other people were thinking, the two of them became the fastest of friends. After that the two were inseparable, they had their own secret little club and for the first time in Chloe's entire life she didn't feel like she was on the outside looking in but, that the outside was finally paying attention to her instead. She and Callan had their own language and with her friendship she finally felt that maybe the voices weren't that bad and that maybe, just maybe, there would be a place for her somewhere.

** It wasn't until the two girls reached high school that Callan's mother had told her of The Bennet Institute, the two girls had proceeded to delve deep into research over the Institute of people just like them and with her heart pounding Chloe ran home after school and explained excitedly that she wasn’t the only person that could hear the voices. She explained the research she’d done into telepathy and pleaded with her mother to send her across the country to try and harness a power she’d struggled so hard with hiding. She wanted to flourish, wanted to control it. She wanted to lead a normal life ( or as normal as one would hope ) and she knew that the people there were dedicated in helping people like her, people like her best friend, in doing just that.

** It took months of research, months of fact checking, months of begging and pleading with her parents to send her somewhere she could be happy. Somewhere where she didn’t have to fear responding to something that someone was thinking because she’d legitimately thought they’d said it to her directly. She didn’t want the reproachful stares, the constant gossip. She wanted to silence the voices without numbing everything else that she was as a person in the process and finally, FINALLY, after months of begging they gave in and with a bright, optimistic, spirit she was off to Louisiana.

** Fast forward years of struggling and training her mind and you have a completely developed personality. You have snark, you have wit, you have an unending desire to have fun and experience her new lease on life. She doesn’t have to hear your thoughts but, if she wants to that option is readily available and while Chloe knows she’d excel in any form of law enforcement she’s decided that, for now, she’s just excited to see where life takes her.