Lauren Adams

Infobox character
colour = light red
colour tezxt = Black
name = Lauren Adams
series = CHERUB
first = ""
last =
cause = CHERUB agent
creator = Robert Muchamore
rank = Black Shirt
gender = Female
born =c. birth date and age|1994|09|24|df=yes
age = 13
occupation = CHERUB agent
title = Black shirt CHERUB shirt
family = James Adams (brother), Gwen Choke (mother), Ronald Onions (father)
residence = CHERUB Campus, England

Lauren Zoe Onions (more commonly known as Lauren Adams) is one of the main protagonists and brother of (James Adams), the main protagonist in the fictional book series CHERUB by British author Robert Muchamore. Her personality could be described as 'stereo-type'. Throughout the book she is described as funny, caring and intelligent but can make stupid and unsensitive mistakes such as blackmailing James in which could have potentially ruined their friendship.

Lauren was born with the name of Lauren Onions in

Comments from friends and teachers

*"Judith Donovan, carer junior block.":'Lauren has really blossomed since joining CHERUB, but does have a tendency towards bossiness.'

*"Norman Large, training instructor":'Lauren Adams is a vile subhuman splat of puke who deserves to be booted off CHERUB campus.'

*"James Adams, brother":'I wish she'd stop messing about with my bloody phone.'

Basic Information

Physical

Like many young girls who join CHERUB, Lauren had no history of participation in sport and was in fairly poor physical shape. Since she begun CHERUB training, this has improved massively and now Lauren has proved herself to be one of the best swimmers at CHERUB campus for her age.

Combat

Lauren has extremely good fighting abilities and also boasts great speed and upper body strength. Her ability to defeat more experienced opponents in the fighting dojo has injured several body parts and joints.

Academic

With a very high IQ of 147, Lauren's capabilities are extremely well rounded. She lacks her brother's extreme mathematical skills, but surpasses him in most other academic areas. She is very fluent in Spanish and Russian, especially the latter which proved to be essential during her first solo mission in .

Involvement in CHERUB

Lauren Adams is one of the main protagonists in the fictional series CHERUB. Her role in the first book, The Recruit, is not considered to be very major but as the books evolved her role in the series became bigger, resulting in Lauren being considered to be the second main character behind her older brother James.

In the February 2008 book, , Lauren is the main character in the main plot. She is strongly attached to her brother and her best friend is Bethany Parker whom James ever-growingly dislikes.

In the opening stages of the book, Lauren is portrayed as the 'annoying little sister' James never wanted. However, when they end up splitting up (when James is taken away to Nebraska House), Lauren misses her brother thoroughly. Later, before James is taken to CHERUB, they are able to meet up again before James starts his official training, which lasts a hundred days. When James returns to campus after Basic Training, he is very surprised to see Lauren there. James is very happy to see her there and their friendship is rekindled.

Similar to the previous book, , Lauren does not contain a huge role, as this book mostly concerns James and his companions. However, Lauren makes a brief appearance when she goes to Luton (whilst he is on a mission) to visit James for his thirteenth birthday. Whilst there, Lauren gets a sense of what being in a mission really involves and is present when a discovery is made about the drug cartel 'KMG', which CHERUB and MI5 are attempting to abolish. Later on, it is that during Lauren's Basic Training Lauren is abolished shortly after pulsating Norman Large (Basic Training Instructor) in the head with a spade. Lauren, expecting exculsion, is surprised to learn that she will only get a milidly serious punishment from Mac.

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In the opening stages of the book, Lauren is with her best friend Bethany Parker as they attempt to succeed in their last three days in Basic Training whilst in the Arctic. To conclude her training, Lauren is forced to swim in a small pool contained with freezing water to acquire the grey T-shirts by Norman Large (Head Training Instructor) whom obviously hasn't forgiven her for the previous incident involving the spade in Class A. Surprisingly, she succeeds and can now participate in missions.

Meanwhile, her elder brother James is offered a mission by John Jones (former MI5 Agent and Cherub Mission Constructor) involving traveling to Arizona to attempt to track down weapon dealer Jane Oxford. John informs James that he will need a female companion, not too old, whom he knows fairly well. James chooses Lauren the day she graduates from CHERUB training and along with Dave (a very experinced CHERUB agent), they head to America. As Lauren showed a consistent strong performance throughout the mission, Mac (the principle/headmaster of CHERUB) awards Lauren with a Navy T-Shirt. This means she is now on equal rank as James; who also earned his navy t-shirt in his first mission.

Lauren does appear a few times during this story, although it is much more minorly than in Maximum Security. When James is punished for assulating Andy Lagan, a CHERUB blue shirt, Lauren is extremely ashamed of James and they have a long-winded argument. Their relationship between the two improves as the story furthens and Lauren reliases eventually and with time that James merely made a stupid, over-blown mistake. Lauren is more angry at the fact that throughout his life, James has violenty attacked several people, including Lauren. Lauren does have a small part to play in James's mission which turns out to be more important than everybody previously expected. As the mission concludes, she must impersonate a teenage tear-away and wreck a house, something very popular at CHERUB.

Lauren Adams along with her brother, James and Dana Smith are sent on a mission to Australia, posing as the children of an ASIS agent. They were sent to determine whether a very serious religious cult are associated with Help Earth, a terrorist group. As the mission develops, the trio are sent to a 'recruitment hotbed' area. The supposed 'family' begins to visit cult meetings, and are eventually accepted into the commune. Lauren and James are accepted into the elite academic foundation in the Ark, the cult's headquarters. There, James befriends Rathbone 'Rat' Regan, whom Lauren develops a crush on. He uses his influence with one of his father's many wives to get Lauren a fairly simple job in the office, rather than in the stifling warehouse or laundry rooms.

However, as the story develops, ASIS discovers the links between Help Earth and The Survivors. Having previously been waiting for an excuse to attack the Ark, Elite Troops are acquired and sent in to dispose of it, despite the CHERUB agents' warnings that the cult is well-prepared for such an event. A helicopter and dozens of troops are killed in the first attack, and in the lull that follows, Lauren, aided by James and Rat hatch a escape plan and attempt to do so. However, the three are caught and captured by a sadistic overseer, therefore they are locked in a room full of toddlers.

When they manage to eventually overpower her, Lauren points out that they must bring the children with them as there is a risk of them dying. James reluctantly agrees, and the half-asleep toddlers join them. Rat states that the most likely way out is through the sewage system, but as James is journeying through the tank, an engineer appears. A brief moment of panic is proved unfounded as Rat persuades the man that he is on a divine mission, and as such is helped eagerly by the man, who asks them why they haven't turned the light on.

The now-eight strong group escape, but later hear that in another uneccssary ASIS attack, several dozen children were fatally wounded when a wall collapsed on them. Rat is reported dead, but is revealed to be alive and actually very good friends with Lauren, who is made a CHERUB agent. Lauren, for her impressive performance during the mission is given a Black T-Shirt which is the highest rank whilst being an agent at CHERUB.

After having a minor argument with his girlfriend Kerry, Lauren's older brother James enters his bedroom where he is met by her. She requests that he helps her and her best friend Bethany Parker to sneak into the basic training compound to give Bethany's brother, Jake Parker and, Lauren's crush, Greg 'Rat' Rathbone, some food and provisions, otherwise she will reveal to Kerry an affair James had a few years ago. James initially refuses, but after this he grudingly agrees, so he joins the couple on the task to safely get the food and provisions to the trainees. All runs smoothly until Mac discovers them on the back up CCTV and they get caught.

Lauren and Bethany are thoroughly punished, however James is not due to the fact he was blackmailed. James is infuriated and disappointed with Lauren, due to the fact his sister would use him in an unjustified fashion. However, shortly afterwards, Lauren, along with James and Kyle and sent on a mission to dissolve the AFM (Animal Freedom Militia). Together the trio succeed in their mission and return home. During the mission, Lauren becomes a vegetarian and as they leave to visit the summer camp, James places meat in her bag on the plane to avenge her.

The opening stages of the book are very emotional for Lauren as she struggles to cope with the fact that she does not know if James is alive after a mission in Russia concluded disastrously wrong. However, James does survive and their relationship continues. James is suspended from missions after this but Lauren is asked by mission controller John Jones to undertake her first solo mission dealing with the trading of young Eastern European girls as prostitutes.

Lauren makes friends with a young Russian girl named Anna, a victim of a brutal human trafficking operation. The mission is categorized at Low Risk however Anna still manages to call the traffickers, thinking they are in the knowledge of where her younger brother is, whom she has been searching for since she was in England. Anna calls through Lauren's mobile phone and the traffickers manage to track the location of the duo.

John Jones tells Lauren that the traffickers have discovered her location and that she must visit a restaurant with Anna and wait. This plan occurred too late, however, and the traffickers take Lauren and Anna with them despite many pedestrians being among them in the street. The two girls are taken to a Victorian building where other girls, whose ages range from 12 to 20, from parts of Eastern Europe are forced to have sexual relations with several men at the bar. Lauren manages to hide her mobile phone within her knickers but they eventually discover it. A man called Keith attempts to rape Lauren but she continuously struggles and uses an opportunity at stabbing him. She manages to escape with some of the prostitutes, however the Manager of the club uses pepper spray in her face, temporarily blinding her. Eventually, The Police raid the building and over time, most of the girls are sent back to Russia and the other Eastern European countries which they originated her. Lauren comes back to CHERUB Campus still shaken from these horrifying events.

Lauren is hardly mentioned in the story Mad Dogs as it concerns with James's and Bruce's mission, extending the events of . The reason for this is that Lauren is suspended from missions due to blackmailing Mr Large to leave CHERUB.

As a plane crashes into the sea and all the passengers are fatally wounded, a troubled boy named Fahim Bin Hassim calls the emergency hot-line and blames his father (Hassim Bin Hassim) for the presumbed terrorist attack. Lauren is sent on a mission with Jake Parker by Mac to discover the truth behind thr attack and Fahim's phone call.

After she plants listening devices all over the house, Hassim discovers them, and he and his brother Arif decide to escape. Hassim originally presumbes they were planted by the cleaning lady and he tortures her in several painful ways. Fahim feels guilty about this violent act and admits to his father that he was the one who let Lauren and Jake plant them (NB: for this mission Lauren tells Fahim that she is and undercover spy).

Fahim is then violently beaten by his father. After being transported to a deserted house, Fahim gets increasingly outragedand throws some stinging liquid at his father's eyes, temporarily blinding him. Hassim chases him across a field, but when an MI5 team (who have been contacted by Lauren) threaten to shoot him, Hassim takes his own son hostage.

Jake bravely attacks Hassim and saves Fahim, after which Hassim is shot dead. After all of the trouble is cleared, Lauren, Jake and Mac discover that the plane crashed due to faulty parts.

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Lauren was teamed with,Rat,Bethany,Jake,Andy,Kevin and Ronan to infiltrate and vandalise an airport control tower.

See also

*List of CHERUB characters
*CHERUB
*Robert Muchamore
*James Adams
*Kyle Blueman

Links

* [http://www.cherubcampus.com CHERUB official website]
* [http://cherubcampus.com/biolauren.htm Lauren's profile on the CHERUB website]