[Narrative] Who: Gwen What: Medical procedures and stealing an identity... kind of. Where: Woods → Military Base, Facility When: Throughout this weekish Warnings/Rating: None. Unless you're Perry, in which case you really won't like this at all.
Damian's doctor was super skilled. Gwen checked her RFID-chip cloner three times before getting in the car that would take her to Wainright Manor for the removal procedure, and it was all over before she even realized it. The port was gone, and the incision was neatly stitched. The RFID chip was gone, and that incision hadn't even required stitches. She told the doctor about the weird procedure she'd undergone the night before her escape, but he couldn't find anything else in her body that was transmitting or could be tracked. He did say that it seemed like there might've been some egg extraction, and Gwen knew that was a big deal, but she figured she would tell the people on Flash's team, and that they would know what to do about it. All this would be over, like a super bad, bad dream, right?
But the really hard part was still on the horizon.
After the procedure, she contacted Flash's boss. Flash had given her the number, and she was way nervous that the voice on the other end of the line would say she wasn't necessary. She had no back-up plan whatsoever (which wasn't standard behavior for her), but she found it was kind of nice to not have every single thing planned out in advance. It was weirdly liberating, and the conversation with Flash's boss went super well.
By that evening, she was at the facility, in a decontamination ward. They'd explained to her that it was going to take a little time to get her identification squared away, and that they would be running medical tests in the interim. The medical tests totally worried her, but Flash trusted these people a lot, and she trusted Flash.
The next few days totally passed in a blur. Medical test after medical test, and then they told her they'd contact Gwen's (the real Gwen's) mom. Things moved super fast after that, and it was a total blur for the girl in the medical wing of the military base.
In New York, they exhumed what was left of a dead girl (not much), and the coroner confirmed that there wasn't enough left of the girl who'd been consumed in a library to medically prove who it was (or wasn't). There were no teeth, no bones, and just a spattering of DNA from a dirty floor. And Gwen's (clone Gwen's) DNA matched the "dead" girl's in preliminary findings.
The next morning, Mrs. Riley was at the facility in Repose. Gwen had never met this woman, but she knew about her, and she had enough acquired data to convince anyone who required convincing. And she felt super bad about it all, she did, but Gwen (the real Gwen) was gone, and this Gwen claimed amnesia for the past year, but stated that she thought she'd been held by someone, somewhere, taken from the library where that spattering of DNA had been found.
In the end (guilt aside), it had been super easy.
A day later, Gwen Reilly was, legally, Gwendolyne Riley. News stories about Captain Riley's daughter's "return from the grave" ran from New York to California, and the military even recommended she make a few appearances, to make it harder for League retaliation. In the interviews, Gwen insisted she remembered nothing from the last year, and everyone was super sympathetic to the the girl in the headbands and pleated skirts.
Her mom (Gwen's mom) was perfectly okay with Gwen staying in Repose "to study," and Gwen got the feeling that Mrs. Riley didn't really want her "daughter home." Gwen didn't mind, and (in the end) she didn't even need to sell Harry's Christmas gift. People made donations to help her get back on her feet (Gwen had to look up the etymology for that saying), while her inheritance from her dad was being sorted out. She paid the back-due rent on her apartment, and by the time she got to tour the military lab she was going to be working in, she was actually starting to think this was all going to be super okay.