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Jill's Choices

~REUNION ONE~

Jill was sitting at the edge of her bed, wondering what in the world Chris was up to, and at the same time she was wondering what Carlos was doing as well. She was living in an apartment in San Diego, California with Rebecca Chambers, one of her closest friends. She did know that Chris was with his sister, Claire Redfield, on an escapade in Japan with Barry for some unknown reason, they wouldn't tell her. And Carlos was in New York with Leon. Leon and Carlos had both managed to squeeze into the N.Y.S.T.A.R.S., a regrouping of S.T.A.R.S. members that weren't bought off by Umbrella.

Although she was happy that they were off living their own lives, she wasn't all that happy that they were gone. Rebecca was out a lot with Billy, although they had asked her to join them, Jill just couldn't find it in her to join them on a day out. She couldn't even find it in herself to go out shopping.

She wasn't really happy after all. In fact, she was miserable with herself. She got up from her bedside and walked over to her closet where she kept her clothes (of course!). She searched the rack of clothes and found her old S.T.A.R.S. uniform, washed of blood and zombie gore of course. She never really knew why she had kept that thing, maybe because it still made her feel like the high authority. She had also found the tube top and mini skirt she wore on the last days of Raccoon when she first met Carlos. Why she kept it, she doesn't know. Then there was her spy suit (sort of) that she wore on the day of the Cortex and Paris espionages.

All of those missions held such strong memories of when they were all together, as a group…a family. But now that family was broken. They had all gone their separate ways and living their lives the way they wanted it. Umbrella was dead. Trent got his wish but died anyway.

Jill took her tube top and mini skirt and changed into them, trying to make herself a bit happy by going out for once. She decided that she would be going to the mall, to go shopping for something—or someone.

Once she was dressed, she left a note for Rebecca telling her that she'll be at the mall and won't be home for a while just so that she wouldn't worry too much, and she might even be happy to have the apartment to herself for once—alone with Billy.

Jill gave a weak smile at the thought of little Becca alone with her first love. It was cute. Then she left the apartment, locking it before she left the complex.

As she left her complex she noticed how full of life the world was today. The destruction of Umbrella probably stilled lingered in their minds, since Umbrella was the number one pharmaceutical company—was.

She took her car, not special, just an ordinary hatchback, and drove down to the nearest mall. As soon as she reached it, and found her parking space, she was asked to be seen by the head security guard for some strange reason.

"For what reason would this be, officer?" she asked him, as he put his hand on her shoulder.

"I have sworn to him to keep it confidential until you have reached his office, ma'am. Now please be silent until we have gotten to the man's office." The officer said. Jill didn't do anything about it. She didn't know what she did wrong to be summoned like this.

'In anyway, the guy had better be cute…but then again, not all security guards are cute…'

She was taken up many flights of stairs until she had finally reached the guy's office. The security guard opened the door for her and let her in as he stood back.

Jill entered the office, the chair of the head was turned around, there was a woman standing with him, her back to Jill, most likely his secretary. Jill examined the room for anything else, there was another door to her left, shelves of books, racks of guns and ammo, belts of maces, seats, and another desk with a flower pot on it with a stack of papers and a typewriter sitting at the edge of the desk, but then she saw something that caught her eye—a S.T.A.R.S. jacket hanging on a hook to the left of her.

'S.T.A.R.S.? This guy must've been on the CA-S.T.A.R.S. here; what could he want with me?'

"Jill Valentine?" said the man behind the chair, and for some reason his voice seemed familiar to her, it was an oh-so familiar voice that she hasn't heard in a very long time. It was a very sweet and sincere voice, his voice.

"Is—is it really you?" Jill said, walking closer to the man's desk. And then the woman who was standing next to him turned around and in sync with the man who had turned his chair around.

"AH! It is you! Oh my god—you—you're here!" Jill exclaimed in ecstasy as she saw that handsome face of his and his perfect eyes staring up at her. Jill then looked over to the woman and didn't say anything but hugged her with a big affectionate squeeze.

"I missed you both so much! Oh jeez! I missed you both!"

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