Amelia Jersey

Amelia Jersey is one of the four agents who work for the special-ops group, The Blacklist (Group). She's in a relationship with Vanessa Newton throughout the whole series - they start dating near the start of The Blacklist. Amelia is best friends with Shaunna Royalsden in the first book, and also close friends with her fellow agents - Toby Rieper (her boss) and Ralph Lindsay.

Amelia is a skilled and experienced agent. Although trained to kill, she is very kind and polite and loves to have fun when not working. Amelia is seen to be very protective over the people she loves, to the point at which she resigns from The Blacklist (Group) just to protect Vanessa Newton. Amelia often keeps secrets, but stops doing it halfway through The Blacklist, when she almost lost her girlfriend.

Biography
Amelia Jersey was born on the 13th November, 1987. She was born in England, but the location is unspecified. It is stated halfway through The Blacklist: Reunited by Toby Rieper that Amelia first started off as a Leftenant in the Special Boat Service (SBS) and moved on to being a Corporal in the Special Air Service (SAS). She was then transferred to CTU work in 2015 at the age of 28, when she started working for The Blacklist (Group).

The date Amelia first meets Vanessa Newton isn't specified in the book, but we do find out at the start of The Blacklist that they have been best friends for some time. They first start dating in 2018 (near the start of the first book) and are together throughout the whole series.

Role in The Blacklist
At the start of the first book, we catch a glimpse of Amelia's good friendship with her fellow agents - Toby Rieper, Ralph Lindsay and Shaunna Royalsden. It's only later on, after Vanessa Newton tells Amelia that she loves her, that we find out that Amelia is best friends with Shaunna. The two girls tell each other their secrets and are very supportive of each others' decisions. When Toby and Ralph break away from The Blacklist (Group), Amelia and Shaunna keep close together.

However, Amelia soon can't cope with the stress and she upsets Shaunna, which leads to a massive argument between the two, resulting in the two girls not talking to each other. Amelia awfully regrets ruining their friendship and tries several times to get in touch with Shaunna, but fails. After a few days, Shaunna herself calls Amelia and they have a small chat. At this point in the book, Ralph and Toby had just escaped from Paula Smith's grasp.

We then see Amelia Jersey get close to her girlfriend, Vanessa Newton. They go out together to a bar in Machester's Gay Village, where it seems the girls normally spend their free time. However, one day, when Amelia and Vanessa are walking through the streets of Manchester, they hear an explosion, which turns out to be Ralph Lindsay and Toby Rieper attacking the SSU Headquarters. Amelia swiftly hides with Vanessa and puts her in a safe place, as she herself goes inside to find out what's happening. When she sees her two friends about to leave the building, Ralph covered in blood, she tells them how she thought they were a team and how them two have ruined everything between them. In tears, Amelia leaves the building but quickly finds out that Vanessa was not at the spot she was told to wait at, and she tries her best to get in touch with her. She does after a while, and she decides to resign from The Blacklist (Group).

At the end of the book, we see Amelia Jersey constantly trying to call Vanessa Newton to make sure she's safe and protected. Amelia then waits with Shaunna Royalsden at the entrance to Buckingham Palace, telling Toby Rieper and Ralph Lindsay to hunt Paula Smith down themselves. This scene is powerful, because it once again shows Amelia's utter love and compassion, where even her biggest enemy can't overcome her attachment to her best friend.

Role in The Blacklist: Reunited
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In The Blacklist

 * "Because the world doesn’t revolve around you, Shaunna! You’ve been like this ever since you got shot and we all had to stop the mission to save YOU!”
 * "I was a mess. Toby and Ralph were gone, you were telling me to stop hunting them down, whilst I kept getting orders, and it all came down on me, all at once, as if literally all the problems in my life chipped away at me at that very moment in time... I’m sorry.”
 * “I don't give a single fuck. I- I thought we were a team, you know? I thought I could trust you both with my life… You've ruined us, you've destroyed everything between us. You did that; not Diana Kerber, not Paula Smith. It was you.”
 * “I've been thinking about it since the day… And I think I've made my mind up… I'm resigning from The Blacklist.”
 * (Ralph - "This should work") “That's if we get there before something goes wrong.”
 * “Ralph, if you get us killed, I swear.”