Due to the small town, Fortmount residents are very familiar with each other and almost always attend the same school. Since elementary, Lambert frequently sought comfort from her loneliness with emotionally unavailable young men in high school until eventually, it caught up with her. In her Senior year, Lambert found herself pregnant with no support from the young man who impregnated her. After great consideration and struggle, she reluctantly got an abortion. Only Bethany knew.

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Before graduation, Peterson had mysteriously disappeared and a state-wide search was undertaken to find her with no avail. This had caused a  great rage within Lambert for many years, believing that Peterson had run away with her mysterious love-interest. After participating in many failed search parties, Lambert decided to start new in California. Rebecca Spears followed her and became her roommate. Shortly after, Lambert met and fell in love with Victor Gomez, a psychologist. They married with Wagner as her maid of honor.

 

As time went on, Lambert had become an OBGYN, Spears followed in her father's footsteps in politics for the Democratic party, while Wagner, now Whittaker, had become an event planner with two sons. By this time it had been thirteen years since Peterson's disappearance when she visited Whittaker and was reunited with the Tripod. Although her whereabouts remained a mystery, Peterson was very open about her new life with Fox but Lambert required more time to accept Peterson's story.

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The girls remained friends and kept in touch but none, except Peterson, had survived the events of Mutant 5.