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Character Name: Julia Shumway
Series: Under the Dome (TV Show)
Timeline: The end of 1x13 "Curtains"
Canon Resource Link: Julia at the Under the Dome Wiki
Character History: Not much is known about Julia's early life besides the fact that she worked as a journalist in Chicago and married a doctor named Peter Shumway. Eager to advance her career, Julia covered a local election and was given information that the politician running was corrupt. She suspected the evidence was forged but ran the story anyway, and it was only a matter of time before the truth was revealed. Disgraced, Julia lost her job and she and Peter moved from Chicago back to his hometown of Chester's Mill.
Julia took over as reporter, photographer, and editor for the local newspaper, The Independent. She tried to adjust to small town living, but she always felt like an outsider. She missed Chicago and didn't really understand life in Chester's Mill.
On a summer day, a day like any other, an invisible divide suddenly appeared over all of Chester's Mill, cutting off everyone from the outside world. Cell phones and WiFi stopped working and radio waves from the outside were cut off. Julia was out investigating a tip about suspicious propane deliveries and followed an airplane that crashed into the barrier. At the site of the crash, near the barrier wall, she met up with local teen Joe McAlister and a transient, Dale "Barbie" Barbara. The minute she met Barbie, Julia felt a connection to him, and they developed an almost immediate bond. He accompanied her back into town to the medical clinic where her husband worked so they could help the people who had been injured during the chaos.
Peter was nowhere to be found, however; he had been lying to Julia about his work schedule, and Julia was left wondering where he went, assuming he was trapped outside of Chester's Mill. Julia and Barbie found themselves working alongside councilman and used car salesman "Big Jim" Rennie to bring some kind of leadership to the frightened people of the town. Julia invited Barbie to stay at her and Peter's house, confiding in him that the town probably thought she was an idiot for not knowing her husband was having an affair, yet insisting that she knew Peter and he would never cheat on her.
Being cut off from the world was only the beginning. Julia attempted to get the attention of the military stationed on the other side of the divider, but no amount of screaming or yelling (or stripping) was getting her answers, so she headed out to the local radio station. The station managed to pick up bits and pieces of radio chatter and Julia discovered that the military was referring to the invisible divider as "The Dome." Julia quickly took over the role of radio reporter and kept the town updated on anything essential that they picked up from the military radios.
Julia started doing what she did best - asking questions, even ones that no one had answers to. She ended up on the front lines when a fire broke out, and after a sheriff's deputy lost it and killed another deputy, Julia pressed the Sheriff about keeping the town under control. When Barbie questioned Julia's inability to slow down, she admitted that she had never been particularly cautious; it was her nature to throw herself into the fray and find whatever answers she could, no matter the cost.
Barbie soon fell under Julia's scrutiny. He claimed to have no connections in Chester's Mill and only happened to be passing through when the Dome came down, but when Julia found herself exploring the tunnels under the cement factory with Big Jim's son, Junior, looking for a way out from under the Dome, he cast doubt on Barbie's true intentions in the town. After going through Barbie's stuff, Julia found a map of Chester's Mill with a location on it which led to the trailer where the local radio DJ lived. She found Peter's car there and the DJ claimed Peter sold it to him. He collapsed before Julia could get anymore information from him.
Within a few hours an epidemic of meningitis broke out, spreading rapidly due to the Dome keeping everything contained. Julia quickly contracted the illness but remained obsessed with finding out where Peter was, why he sold his car, and how Barbie tied into all of it. The DJ told her about a cabin Peter talked about and Julia sneaked out of the clinic to find it. Julia found the trashed cabin and in it documents showing that their bank accounts were empty and their house was in foreclosure. She finally succumbed to the infection, passing out and nearly dying before Barbie tracked her down and brought her back to the clinic.
Once Julia woke up, she questioned Barbie and discovered that Peter had gambled away their money. Barbie was in Chester's Mill to enforce payment for the bookie Peter owed. Barbie told her that Peter probably ran off, leaving Julia alone and destitute. Heartbroken and betrayed, Julia realized she didn't know the man she married. She was angry that she opened her home to a man who was lying to her and told Barbie he was no longer welcome. Once he left, she lost her resolve for the first time since the Dome came down, crying for the loss of the man who abandoned her without a word.
Things seemed a little brighter the next day when Chester's Mill was given its first visitor's day. Families outside the dome were bused in by the military and everyone was excited to see their families. Julia went to the meeting place to see if Peter would have the guts to show up, but she was met by her sister-in-law who had a letter from Peter apologizing for what he had done. Livid and hurt, Julia stormed off, sharing a few curt words with Barbie before she decided to go about her investigation into the Dome. After overhearing military chatter on the radio, Julia met back up with Barbie to find out that the military was planning on shooting a powerful missile at Chester's Mill; visitor's day had been a chance for the town to say goodbye to their families. The missile would destroy the Dome, but also kill everyone inside.
Resigned to their fates, the town took cover in the tunnels under the cement factory, and Barbie and Julia reconnected over a bottle of wine Julia had saved for years for a special occasion. Julia admitted to Barbie that she had made peace with what Peter had done to her, and that while she never understood life in Chester's Mill, the way the Dome brought everyone together helped her understand how to be part of the community. Just moments before the missile was launched, Barbie and Julia left to search for two of the missing teenagers, Joe and his friend Norrie. They were out in the open when the missile hit the Dome, but it had no effect. The Dome stayed put, sparing the lives of everyone beneath it but continuing to trap them. The missile completely destroyed the area outside of the Dome and as Julia and Barbie surveyed the damage, Julia took his hand.
Shortly after, the radio station found its transmissions jammed. Even the police radios stopped working. Julia accompanied the radio station's tech guru to see if they could pinpoint what seemed to be jamming the airwaves, and they tracked it to Joe and Norrie. The teenagers told Julia that when the Dome came down, they both started having seizures and saying the same thing - "The pink stars are falling in lines."
While Julia tried to figure out how Joe and Norrie were connected to the Dome, the town started to riot due to a water shortage. Right before things got dire, it started to rain. Julia saw Joe and Norrie touch the Dome wall together, and the jamming frequency immediately went away, allowing the radios to work again. Nothing about the timing sat well with Julia, and it was the first time she began to truly wonder if the Dome was actually protecting them. It stopped the missile strike, and gave them water just when they needed it. Julia wanted to believe that the Dome's was telling the people of Chester's Mill that they would be okay. She decided to keep this to herself and keep quiet about what she knew of Joe and Norrie until she could put together what it all meant.
With this new belief that the Dome didn't mean them harm, Julia drove around in the rain and found Barbie wandering the street. Something had shifted for her; she wasn't afraid of the Dome anymore, and she knew her relationship with Peter had been built on lies. Julia had found something with Barbie that she never experienced before, and she felt safe with him. She consoled him, hugging him in the rain before he kissed her and she took him back to her house where they spent the night together.
The days following continued to challenge the people of Chester's Mill. Julia's neighbor went into labor, delivering the first baby born under the Dome, and Norrie's mother died the same day. It hit Julia profoundly that one life would be created and one lost, compounding her belief that the Dome is there for a reason and was trying to tell them something.
Julia learned more the next day when Joe admitted before her mother died, he and Norrie found a black egg in the woods surrounded by a smaller dome. Julia demanded to see it and as Joe took her there he talked about how the Dome brought he and Norrie together, and Barbie and Julia. Julia was thrown off, as she hadn't really thought about her and Barbie truly being together or if what they have could at all be long term. Once they reached the mini-dome, the black egg had turned pink. Julia didn't hesitate to touch the mini-dome, and she saw a vision of Joe telling her "the monarch will be crowned."
Julia started to wonder if she had lost her mind. She put her need for answers away long enough to be there for Joe while Norrie grieved for her mother. When Julia took Barbie to show him the mini-dome the next day, it was gone. Although she spent the day looking for it with Joe and Norrie, Julia returned home that evening empty handed and admitted to Barbie that while she had been hoping for reasonable answers about the Dome, she was starting to wonder if it was even worth looking for answers anymore and that maybe they should be content with what they already have.
Barbie started acting strange, disappearing for the day and causing Julia to look for him. With the help of the new sheriff, Linda, Julia discovered the propane deliveries she had been tipped off about where part of a money laundering plan to keep drugs out of Chester's Mill. Linda and Julia were led to a safety deposit box and found a letter of confession from the original sheriff who was involved with the laundering. The letter also pointed to Big Jim heading the operation and working with a woman named Maxine. Julia also checked Peter's safety deposit box, convinced that there might be more information to help her understand why he hid his gambling debts from her. In the box, she found a million dollar life insurance policy with her listed as the beneficiary.
Cornering Barbie when he came back from one of his escapades (and looking completely beat up), Julia finally worked out the truth; Peter had taken a gun to meet Barbie, though the gun wasn't loaded. Thinking his life was in danger, Barbie killed Peter and buried him in Chester's Mill. Peter knew if he committed suicide the insurance policy for Julia would be void, so he had to trick Barbie into killing him. Julia knew already what kind of person Barbie was, and that he had risked his life over and over again to save people he didn't even know in a town he didn't live in. She could, through it all, still see him for who he really was and see a future with him. She made him promise not to lie to her ever again if he wanted to have a future with her, too.
In the morning, Julia demanded to be taken to Peter's grave so she and Barbie could get closure and be able to move on together. Before they could leave, however, an enraged Maxine, who had blackmailed Barbie into working for her, showed up at the door and shot Julia. Julia almost died, but Barbie managed to just barely save her life.
While Julia was unconscious and recovering, Big Jim tried to pin the blame of the money laundering on Barbie. He also murdered Maxine and framed Barbie for the murder and, for good measure, accused Barbie of shooting Julia. The whole town was after him and Barbie was on the run, enlisting Joe's sister, Angie, to get a still unconscious Julia from the hospital and hide her. Barbie knew that if Julia woke up she could tell the town Barbie didn't shoot her and Big Jim's story would fall apart, so Big Jim would have to murder Julia to complete his plan to take Barbie out. The poor unconscious Julia got dragged around for a while until she woke up, barely able to walk and convinced that the only reason she could was because the Dome needed her to. She and Angie managed to break Barbie out of jail, and Julia discovered everything she missed while she was unconscious: Joe, Norrie, Angie, and Junior all joined forces and touched the mini-dome, activating something inside of it that caused a monarch butterfly to hatch. Big Jim found out about the egg and, convinced it was the power source for the Dome, searched the town and threatened the kids who refused to give up the mini-dome, and thus the egg's, whereabouts.
Junior ran off, though, and without his help, the other three teenagers were unable to open the mini-dome and free the monarch butterfly. The butterfly hit the sides of the mini-dome, blacking it out and in turn, causing the bigger Dome to black out the sky. The butterfly died and Chester's Mill was launched into darkness. Julia, Barbie, and the teenagers manage to keep the mini-dome hidden and Junior finally returned, so the teenagers touched the mini-dome together. The mini-dome collapsed and the monarch butterfly came back to life, flying around Barbie, convincing Joe that Barbie was the "monarch" that Julia's vision spoke about. Then the egg turned white and started to emit a screeching sound like it was about to explode. Panicked, everyone started to run. Julia, drawn to the egg in almost a trance, picked it up. The egg quieted immediately under her touch and turned black again, and the butterfly landed on the egg in her hands. Barbie realized it was Julia who was the monarch.
The group was caught again, and Barbie let himself be arrested so that the others could get away with the egg. Norrie begged the egg to tell them what to do next and the group was visited by the image of her dead mother. She told them that the Dome was there to protect them, but they must protect the egg. Big Jim demanded the egg in exchange for Barbie's life, and the teenagers wondered how they could protect the egg and save Barbie at the same time. Julia understood that they couldn't; she had to make the choice between giving up the egg to Big Jim or letting the man that she loved be executed. As the monarch, she told the kids that the decision was hers alone to make, and she chose to protect the egg. As Big Jim prepared to execute Barbie, a heartbroken and exhausted Julia went to the lake and dropped the egg safely to the bottom. Once the egg was safe, pink stars began to shoot from the water up into the Dome's sky, and the blackness began to abate. Julia held Barbie's dog tags in her hand, believing Barbie to be dead, and she knew she would have to live with the choice she made.
It's at that point that she will find herself in Wonderland.
Abilities/Special Powers: None.
Third-Person Sample:
In a way, her life hasn't changed all that much since Wonderland. Some of the fears are gone; she doesn't have to worry about getting sick, starving, dying of thirst. The egg is gone, so no more ultimatums that make her second guess everything she does. Supposedly death doesn't even stick here, although that concept is one Julia hasn't quite wrapped her head around.
But she's still trapped. At least in Chester's Mill, she had Barbie. Had, she reminds herself. Not anymore.
Nothing happens by accident anymore, and it's not lost on Julia that the challenges in Wonderland are similar to what happened under the Dome. Fighting for survival is almost becoming second nature to her, as if the Dome was preparing her for this next step. It wasn't supposed to happen this way, though; she thought she was doing the right thing by protecting the egg. She thought the Dome would protect Barbie, in turn. Instead she came here, among strangers with no hope of escape. At least in Chester's Mill they could see into the outside. In Wonderland, she can't see anything.
Julia sets up an office in her room the day she arrives. If this is a test, she intends to ace it. The exhaustion from her injury finally has a chance to catch up to her, but she can't sleep. Too many thoughts race through her mind; what did Wonderland have to do with Chester's Mill?; where are the kids?; did she make the wrong choice?; did she betray Barbie? Instead of sleeping she showers and puts on fresh clothes before heading back out into the mansion to ask questions and get answers.
She needs to find out what Wonderland has to do with the Dome, and she knows she can. She's the monarch. She doesn't know what that means, but it means something, and for now that has to be good enough.
First-Person Sample:
Hey guys, this is Julia Shumway, one of your resident journalists looking for a little information.
[ Julia has already managed to find the other reporters in town (it's nice to not be the only one for a change), but she still likes to investigate a little on her own. ]
What kind of attempts have been made by people to leave? I'd prefer first hand accounts mostly, whether you tried to get out by foot or otherwise. What you did and the consequences of doing so is what I'm most interested in right now.
I know if there was a way to just walk out people would have figured it out by now, but I have to imagine that some of you have tried. The more we know about what's keeping us here the better chance we have of understanding what this place wants from us.
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Other Characters: Chloe Decker |
thevulnerabilityCharacter Name: Julia Shumway
Series: Under the Dome (TV Show)
Timeline: The end of 1x13 "Curtains"
Canon Resource Link: Julia at the Under the Dome Wiki
Character History: Not much is known about Julia's early life besides the fact that she worked as a journalist in Chicago and married a doctor named Peter Shumway. Eager to advance her career, Julia covered a local election and was given information that the politician running was corrupt. She suspected the evidence was forged but ran the story anyway, and it was only a matter of time before the truth was revealed. Disgraced, Julia lost her job and she and Peter moved from Chicago back to his hometown of Chester's Mill.
Julia took over as reporter, photographer, and editor for the local newspaper, The Independent. She tried to adjust to small town living, but she always felt like an outsider. She missed Chicago and didn't really understand life in Chester's Mill.
On a summer day, a day like any other, an invisible divide suddenly appeared over all of Chester's Mill, cutting off everyone from the outside world. Cell phones and WiFi stopped working and radio waves from the outside were cut off. Julia was out investigating a tip about suspicious propane deliveries and followed an airplane that crashed into the barrier. At the site of the crash, near the barrier wall, she met up with local teen Joe McAlister and a transient, Dale "Barbie" Barbara. The minute she met Barbie, Julia felt a connection to him, and they developed an almost immediate bond. He accompanied her back into town to the medical clinic where her husband worked so they could help the people who had been injured during the chaos.
Peter was nowhere to be found, however; he had been lying to Julia about his work schedule, and Julia was left wondering where he went, assuming he was trapped outside of Chester's Mill. Julia and Barbie found themselves working alongside councilman and used car salesman "Big Jim" Rennie to bring some kind of leadership to the frightened people of the town. Julia invited Barbie to stay at her and Peter's house, confiding in him that the town probably thought she was an idiot for not knowing her husband was having an affair, yet insisting that she knew Peter and he would never cheat on her.
Being cut off from the world was only the beginning. Julia attempted to get the attention of the military stationed on the other side of the divider, but no amount of screaming or yelling (or stripping) was getting her answers, so she headed out to the local radio station. The station managed to pick up bits and pieces of radio chatter and Julia discovered that the military was referring to the invisible divider as "The Dome." Julia quickly took over the role of radio reporter and kept the town updated on anything essential that they picked up from the military radios.
Julia started doing what she did best - asking questions, even ones that no one had answers to. She ended up on the front lines when a fire broke out, and after a sheriff's deputy lost it and killed another deputy, Julia pressed the Sheriff about keeping the town under control. When Barbie questioned Julia's inability to slow down, she admitted that she had never been particularly cautious; it was her nature to throw herself into the fray and find whatever answers she could, no matter the cost.
Barbie soon fell under Julia's scrutiny. He claimed to have no connections in Chester's Mill and only happened to be passing through when the Dome came down, but when Julia found herself exploring the tunnels under the cement factory with Big Jim's son, Junior, looking for a way out from under the Dome, he cast doubt on Barbie's true intentions in the town. After going through Barbie's stuff, Julia found a map of Chester's Mill with a location on it which led to the trailer where the local radio DJ lived. She found Peter's car there and the DJ claimed Peter sold it to him. He collapsed before Julia could get anymore information from him.
Within a few hours an epidemic of meningitis broke out, spreading rapidly due to the Dome keeping everything contained. Julia quickly contracted the illness but remained obsessed with finding out where Peter was, why he sold his car, and how Barbie tied into all of it. The DJ told her about a cabin Peter talked about and Julia sneaked out of the clinic to find it. Julia found the trashed cabin and in it documents showing that their bank accounts were empty and their house was in foreclosure. She finally succumbed to the infection, passing out and nearly dying before Barbie tracked her down and brought her back to the clinic.
Once Julia woke up, she questioned Barbie and discovered that Peter had gambled away their money. Barbie was in Chester's Mill to enforce payment for the bookie Peter owed. Barbie told her that Peter probably ran off, leaving Julia alone and destitute. Heartbroken and betrayed, Julia realized she didn't know the man she married. She was angry that she opened her home to a man who was lying to her and told Barbie he was no longer welcome. Once he left, she lost her resolve for the first time since the Dome came down, crying for the loss of the man who abandoned her without a word.
Things seemed a little brighter the next day when Chester's Mill was given its first visitor's day. Families outside the dome were bused in by the military and everyone was excited to see their families. Julia went to the meeting place to see if Peter would have the guts to show up, but she was met by her sister-in-law who had a letter from Peter apologizing for what he had done. Livid and hurt, Julia stormed off, sharing a few curt words with Barbie before she decided to go about her investigation into the Dome. After overhearing military chatter on the radio, Julia met back up with Barbie to find out that the military was planning on shooting a powerful missile at Chester's Mill; visitor's day had been a chance for the town to say goodbye to their families. The missile would destroy the Dome, but also kill everyone inside.
Resigned to their fates, the town took cover in the tunnels under the cement factory, and Barbie and Julia reconnected over a bottle of wine Julia had saved for years for a special occasion. Julia admitted to Barbie that she had made peace with what Peter had done to her, and that while she never understood life in Chester's Mill, the way the Dome brought everyone together helped her understand how to be part of the community. Just moments before the missile was launched, Barbie and Julia left to search for two of the missing teenagers, Joe and his friend Norrie. They were out in the open when the missile hit the Dome, but it had no effect. The Dome stayed put, sparing the lives of everyone beneath it but continuing to trap them. The missile completely destroyed the area outside of the Dome and as Julia and Barbie surveyed the damage, Julia took his hand.
Shortly after, the radio station found its transmissions jammed. Even the police radios stopped working. Julia accompanied the radio station's tech guru to see if they could pinpoint what seemed to be jamming the airwaves, and they tracked it to Joe and Norrie. The teenagers told Julia that when the Dome came down, they both started having seizures and saying the same thing - "The pink stars are falling in lines."
While Julia tried to figure out how Joe and Norrie were connected to the Dome, the town started to riot due to a water shortage. Right before things got dire, it started to rain. Julia saw Joe and Norrie touch the Dome wall together, and the jamming frequency immediately went away, allowing the radios to work again. Nothing about the timing sat well with Julia, and it was the first time she began to truly wonder if the Dome was actually protecting them. It stopped the missile strike, and gave them water just when they needed it. Julia wanted to believe that the Dome's was telling the people of Chester's Mill that they would be okay. She decided to keep this to herself and keep quiet about what she knew of Joe and Norrie until she could put together what it all meant.
With this new belief that the Dome didn't mean them harm, Julia drove around in the rain and found Barbie wandering the street. Something had shifted for her; she wasn't afraid of the Dome anymore, and she knew her relationship with Peter had been built on lies. Julia had found something with Barbie that she never experienced before, and she felt safe with him. She consoled him, hugging him in the rain before he kissed her and she took him back to her house where they spent the night together.
The days following continued to challenge the people of Chester's Mill. Julia's neighbor went into labor, delivering the first baby born under the Dome, and Norrie's mother died the same day. It hit Julia profoundly that one life would be created and one lost, compounding her belief that the Dome is there for a reason and was trying to tell them something.
Julia learned more the next day when Joe admitted before her mother died, he and Norrie found a black egg in the woods surrounded by a smaller dome. Julia demanded to see it and as Joe took her there he talked about how the Dome brought he and Norrie together, and Barbie and Julia. Julia was thrown off, as she hadn't really thought about her and Barbie truly being together or if what they have could at all be long term. Once they reached the mini-dome, the black egg had turned pink. Julia didn't hesitate to touch the mini-dome, and she saw a vision of Joe telling her "the monarch will be crowned."
Julia started to wonder if she had lost her mind. She put her need for answers away long enough to be there for Joe while Norrie grieved for her mother. When Julia took Barbie to show him the mini-dome the next day, it was gone. Although she spent the day looking for it with Joe and Norrie, Julia returned home that evening empty handed and admitted to Barbie that while she had been hoping for reasonable answers about the Dome, she was starting to wonder if it was even worth looking for answers anymore and that maybe they should be content with what they already have.
Barbie started acting strange, disappearing for the day and causing Julia to look for him. With the help of the new sheriff, Linda, Julia discovered the propane deliveries she had been tipped off about where part of a money laundering plan to keep drugs out of Chester's Mill. Linda and Julia were led to a safety deposit box and found a letter of confession from the original sheriff who was involved with the laundering. The letter also pointed to Big Jim heading the operation and working with a woman named Maxine. Julia also checked Peter's safety deposit box, convinced that there might be more information to help her understand why he hid his gambling debts from her. In the box, she found a million dollar life insurance policy with her listed as the beneficiary.
Cornering Barbie when he came back from one of his escapades (and looking completely beat up), Julia finally worked out the truth; Peter had taken a gun to meet Barbie, though the gun wasn't loaded. Thinking his life was in danger, Barbie killed Peter and buried him in Chester's Mill. Peter knew if he committed suicide the insurance policy for Julia would be void, so he had to trick Barbie into killing him. Julia knew already what kind of person Barbie was, and that he had risked his life over and over again to save people he didn't even know in a town he didn't live in. She could, through it all, still see him for who he really was and see a future with him. She made him promise not to lie to her ever again if he wanted to have a future with her, too.
In the morning, Julia demanded to be taken to Peter's grave so she and Barbie could get closure and be able to move on together. Before they could leave, however, an enraged Maxine, who had blackmailed Barbie into working for her, showed up at the door and shot Julia. Julia almost died, but Barbie managed to just barely save her life.
While Julia was unconscious and recovering, Big Jim tried to pin the blame of the money laundering on Barbie. He also murdered Maxine and framed Barbie for the murder and, for good measure, accused Barbie of shooting Julia. The whole town was after him and Barbie was on the run, enlisting Joe's sister, Angie, to get a still unconscious Julia from the hospital and hide her. Barbie knew that if Julia woke up she could tell the town Barbie didn't shoot her and Big Jim's story would fall apart, so Big Jim would have to murder Julia to complete his plan to take Barbie out. The poor unconscious Julia got dragged around for a while until she woke up, barely able to walk and convinced that the only reason she could was because the Dome needed her to. She and Angie managed to break Barbie out of jail, and Julia discovered everything she missed while she was unconscious: Joe, Norrie, Angie, and Junior all joined forces and touched the mini-dome, activating something inside of it that caused a monarch butterfly to hatch. Big Jim found out about the egg and, convinced it was the power source for the Dome, searched the town and threatened the kids who refused to give up the mini-dome, and thus the egg's, whereabouts.
Junior ran off, though, and without his help, the other three teenagers were unable to open the mini-dome and free the monarch butterfly. The butterfly hit the sides of the mini-dome, blacking it out and in turn, causing the bigger Dome to black out the sky. The butterfly died and Chester's Mill was launched into darkness. Julia, Barbie, and the teenagers manage to keep the mini-dome hidden and Junior finally returned, so the teenagers touched the mini-dome together. The mini-dome collapsed and the monarch butterfly came back to life, flying around Barbie, convincing Joe that Barbie was the "monarch" that Julia's vision spoke about. Then the egg turned white and started to emit a screeching sound like it was about to explode. Panicked, everyone started to run. Julia, drawn to the egg in almost a trance, picked it up. The egg quieted immediately under her touch and turned black again, and the butterfly landed on the egg in her hands. Barbie realized it was Julia who was the monarch.
The group was caught again, and Barbie let himself be arrested so that the others could get away with the egg. Norrie begged the egg to tell them what to do next and the group was visited by the image of her dead mother. She told them that the Dome was there to protect them, but they must protect the egg. Big Jim demanded the egg in exchange for Barbie's life, and the teenagers wondered how they could protect the egg and save Barbie at the same time. Julia understood that they couldn't; she had to make the choice between giving up the egg to Big Jim or letting the man that she loved be executed. As the monarch, she told the kids that the decision was hers alone to make, and she chose to protect the egg. As Big Jim prepared to execute Barbie, a heartbroken and exhausted Julia went to the lake and dropped the egg safely to the bottom. Once the egg was safe, pink stars began to shoot from the water up into the Dome's sky, and the blackness began to abate. Julia held Barbie's dog tags in her hand, believing Barbie to be dead, and she knew she would have to live with the choice she made.
It's at that point that she will find herself in Wonderland.
Abilities/Special Powers: None.
Third-Person Sample:
In a way, her life hasn't changed all that much since Wonderland. Some of the fears are gone; she doesn't have to worry about getting sick, starving, dying of thirst. The egg is gone, so no more ultimatums that make her second guess everything she does. Supposedly death doesn't even stick here, although that concept is one Julia hasn't quite wrapped her head around.
But she's still trapped. At least in Chester's Mill, she had Barbie. Had, she reminds herself. Not anymore.
Nothing happens by accident anymore, and it's not lost on Julia that the challenges in Wonderland are similar to what happened under the Dome. Fighting for survival is almost becoming second nature to her, as if the Dome was preparing her for this next step. It wasn't supposed to happen this way, though; she thought she was doing the right thing by protecting the egg. She thought the Dome would protect Barbie, in turn. Instead she came here, among strangers with no hope of escape. At least in Chester's Mill they could see into the outside. In Wonderland, she can't see anything.
Julia sets up an office in her room the day she arrives. If this is a test, she intends to ace it. The exhaustion from her injury finally has a chance to catch up to her, but she can't sleep. Too many thoughts race through her mind; what did Wonderland have to do with Chester's Mill?; where are the kids?; did she make the wrong choice?; did she betray Barbie? Instead of sleeping she showers and puts on fresh clothes before heading back out into the mansion to ask questions and get answers.
She needs to find out what Wonderland has to do with the Dome, and she knows she can. She's the monarch. She doesn't know what that means, but it means something, and for now that has to be good enough.
First-Person Sample:
Hey guys, this is Julia Shumway, one of your resident journalists looking for a little information.
[ Julia has already managed to find the other reporters in town (it's nice to not be the only one for a change), but she still likes to investigate a little on her own. ]
What kind of attempts have been made by people to leave? I'd prefer first hand accounts mostly, whether you tried to get out by foot or otherwise. What you did and the consequences of doing so is what I'm most interested in right now.
I know if there was a way to just walk out people would have figured it out by now, but I have to imagine that some of you have tried. The more we know about what's keeping us here the better chance we have of understanding what this place wants from us.