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Background: Brigitte is the youngest daughter of Pam and Henry Fitzgerald, the younger sister to the temperamental Ginger, who was Brigitte's only friend. The pair shared such a deep bond that when they were eight they swore they would die together. The sisters grew older and as they grew their plan changed greatly to become a pact to runaway at sixteen. "Out by sixteen or dead on the scene but either way, together forever", the pair swore. Time passed quickly and sisters remained outcasts in Bailey Downs, so much so that as they came closer to sixteen the idea of killing themselves seemed more and more appealing. Their obsession with death spilled out into their school work when the pair worked on a project called "Life in Bailey Downs" which consisted of a slideshow of the sisters in various fake death scenes. On the day that the girls debuted their project, Brigitte was picked on by Trina Sinclair. Judging by Brigitte's tone, this was a regular occurrence but what was not regular was when Trina shoved Brigitte into the remains of a dog.

Brigitte and Ginger devised a plan for revenge, plotting to nab Trina's dog and fake the animal's death so that Trina would think the Beast of Bailey Downs did it. Unfortunately for the sisters, they encountered the real beast that night while in the local playground. The beast had been drawn to the girls thanks to Ginger's menstrual blood and it attacked the eldest Fitzgerald. With the help of Brigitte, Ginger was able to get away from the beast but it was too late, she had already been infected with the lycanthrope virus. While the pair ran across a road during their escape, the werewolf that was chasing them was hit by a van driven by Sam, the local drug dealer. The sisters made it home as Ginger began to heal, something which scared Brigitte. She insisted that they call a doctor but Ginger pleaded with her not to. The next day the sisters went to school and tried to pretend that nothing was wrong. Yet it was clear to Brigitte that this was not the case. Already Ginger had begun to change, becoming angrier and impulsive which lead to a rife between the sisters which grew as Ginger started dating Jason McCardy and Brigitte turned to Sam for help. Brigitte lied to Sam, telling him that the werewolf he hit had infected her and together the pair worked on a cure for lycanthropy.

After Ginger's disastrous first time with Jason, Ginger began to realize that what was happening to her wasn't normal so she and Brigitte try Sam's first suggestion for curing lycanthropy by piecing Ginger with silver. Sadly it didn't work so Brigitte and Sam start researching a plant rumored to cure werewolves, a plant known as Monkshood. By this point Ginger had decided she didn't want a cure and she was jealous of the growing bond between Sam and Brigitte. Ginger tried to convince Brigitte to let Ginger make her a werewolf too but when that failed, Ginger went after Sam. To save Sam and convince Ginger that they had a cure, Brigitte infected herself with Ginger's blood but Ginger was already too far gone. Brigitte and Sam tried to bring Ginger back to the Fitzgerald house where their mother had a pile of dried monkshood but Ginger transformed into a full blown werewolf along the way and turned on the pair. Sam was killed but Brigitte managed to survive by killing Ginger. She took the cure for herself and ran away from Bailey Downs that night.

Sadly for Brigitte, her so-called cure didn't work. It suppressed the lycanthrope virus but it didn't cure it. While she was on the run Brigitte continued to search for cure but she was not the only werewolf out there. A male werewolf stalked her every move, finally tracking her down to a run-down motel in Winnipeg. As Brigitte tried to escape, she passed out thanks to monkshood she had injected earlier. When she woke up Brigitte found herself in a rehab clinic called Happier Times. It was there Brigitte encountered junkies, a slimeball named Tyler and a strange girl named Ghost. It was the latter who figures out what Brigitte was, thanks to Ghost's love of horror comics and Ghost helped Brigitte escape from the clinic on one condition: Brigitte had to take Ghost with her.

Brigitte agreed but the girls quickly discovered that the male werewolf was still after Brigitte when they attempt to get Monkshood from Tyler. The trio, Tyler, Brigitte and Ghost retreated back to Ghost's house in the woods. Tyler helped Brigitte inject more monkshood in her system but it had an adverse effect, causing her to go into shock. While Tyler tried to help Brigitte, Ghost grew jealous of the pair and schemed to get rid of Tyler. Later she pretended that Tyler raped her while Brigitte was passed out, causing Brigitte to seek revenge by locking Tyler outside of the house and at the mercy of the werewolf. Meanwhile Brigitte and Ghost prepared to fight the werewolf off when Alice, the woman who ran the Happier Times clinic, appeared, wondering where Tyler was as he had called her when Brigitte went into shock.

It is around this point that Brigitte learned that Ghost lied about her grandmother's "accident" and realizes that the young girl is not as innocent as she seems. Brigitte confronted Ghost but at that moment the werewolf got into the house. Ghost and Alice fled to the attic while Brigitte faced and attempted to kill the werewolf. She succeeded but with its last breath, the werewolf seriously harmed Brigitte. Ghost used the distraction to kill Alice with a hammer to the head and found Brigitte alive. When the older girl pleaded with Ghost to kill her, Ghost chose to keep Brigitte alive and locked her up in the cellar. She became Ghost's very own hound of hell as it were but after a while Brigitte realized that she was not trapped in her werewolf form and she learned how to transform back into a human. Once Brigitte finally succeeded in transforming, she passed out and woke up in a desert, outside of what looked like a ranch.