Prudence Foster was born on October 29, 1972 in New York City, New York. She was the only child of 'Violet Skye' a self-proclaimed hippy witch, and Dylan Foster a reformed hippy turned military man. Violet and Dylan met at Woodstock, got married in a meadow and lived in a commune their first year. As soon as Violet told him she was pregnant, Dylan left of his own accord to join the army. He wound out smack-dab in the center of the Vietnam War.
Violet, less than thrilled with that, took up with whoever would have her while her husband was gone. Taking the 'free-love' attitude to heart. This was the way she raised her daughter Prudence for the first three years, allowing the girl to run wild within the boundaries of the commune, not caring if she fell asleep in the field or at someone else's home.
When Dylan returned in October '75, he saw the mess his family had become. He took his daughter to his home, and found Violet in bed with another man. He gave her an ultimatum then. To move to the army base with him or lose the little girl forever. The 'free love' era in the life of the Foster's was over, and they became a military family.
Violet never took well to the base. While in essence it was like the commune, with a lot of community support, it just wasn't the same. Every so often she'd leave Prudence with one of the neighbors and take off for several weeks. No one knew where she went, and Dylan didn't bother asking. He just took care of little Pru in between working at the base, and doing military work off-site.
Pru's biggest influence was an Orthodox Christian family that took her in when Dylan couldn't be around. Both parents in that family were military medical personnel, and as she aged she took a huge interest in the medical field. She and their son Davy once got in trouble for dissecting frogs from the base pond and leaving them in the middle of the streets to dry out.
Barring that incident, once Prudence got used to the structure of the base, her life was pretty much mundane. Violet would breeze back into the base every so often, spouting off this or that about her 'magic' and trying to re-situate herself into family life. Several times she tried to get Prudence to go with her on her 'journeys', but Pru liked the base, and the knowledge she could gain there.
After finishing high school, Prudence entered into the nursing program at NYU. She graduated with honors, and immediately went to join her father on the base, working there for the next eleven years as she just missed the Persian Gulf War by a matter of months. In 2001 when the planes struck the World Trade Center, her world view shifted greatly.
As soon as the War on Terrorism started, she set out on her first foray into really active duty.
It was not pretty, and it was not easy, but she worked as a field medic. It was there that she met Lt. Commander Doyle Whitter , one of her 'patients' in late 2002. Over the next few weeks while he was recovering from a shrapnel wound that had sliced partially through his leg, they flirted and goofed around, Prudence just trying to keep his spirits bright.
Once Doyle was able to leave the medic tent, Prudence sought him out. They began a somewhat secret relationship. They both managed to get leave at the same time around Valentine's Day 2003. It was April before Prudence realized she was pregnant, and requested a Pregnancy Discharge. She never let on that it was Doyle, and eventually she was able to fly back to New York City.
October 2003 was a very bad month for Prudence. Word came to her via her father that Violet was cavorting with the newly announced vampires. Trying to share her 'witchcraft' with them, and again sticking to her 'free love' attitude. On the wings of this, she also heard through the military grapevine that Lt. Commander Doyle Whitter and his troops were killed by an IED while on a basic patrol in Afghanistan. What wasn't made public is that many of the troops survived the incident only to be bled out by a vampire later that night. Prudence heard this, and the stress of both incidents caused her to go into early labor.
So it was that on her birthday, she gave birth to a daughter whom she named Grace.
Before Christmas of 2003, 'Violet Skye' had become a vampire. She attempted to see her granddaughter, which just sent Prudence into a tizzy. She barred her mother from her house and vowed that Violet would never get a chance to know Grace.
In March 2004 Prudence and Grace left New York City and went as far away as she could afford. This brought them to Dallas, where Prudence met several people from the Fellowship of the Sun church. She became a devout member immediately upon finding out what it was they stood for.
Throughout 2004, she worked with the Newlins and several others on a 'hidden' program within the Fellowship — the Soldiers of the Sun. This group of individuals was trained on military techniques and how to kill vampires. She called upon her own military training, and her nursing abilities to help others within this group. Every six months, they bring in a new batch of trainees. While Prudence doesn't believe they're building an army, she has no qualms teaching young men and women how to protect themselves and those they love.