A/N: Welcome to the sequel of Silence, my largest story I've written thus far. It is roughly 4 times the length of my next longest story, and like a true masochist, I started writing this sequel right after the finale. Now, for reference, this story begins at the same time as Silence's Epilogue takes place, which is about 15 years after the finale of Silence. Now, since it is a sequel, anyone just picking this story up will miss a lot of vital information regarding a majority of the characters, so I HIGHLY suggest reading Silence FIRST (I know it's over 200k words, shush) and then coming back to this one.
Yuuki leaned her hip against her motorbike, toying with her zippo lighter with one hand. She had heard the news of her father's death over in Eastern Europe with the BSAA, but she couldn't bring herself to enter the church with her mother. There was something about the whole concept of a funeral that didn't sit well with her.
While she waited for her family to finish up inside the church, Yuuki suddenly spotted a blonde woman striding into the church, and for some reason, she instinctively sensed something familiar about her. It was very similar to the distinctive sense she got from her mother, her aunts and her uncle... and her father, before his death.
She couldn't quite figure it out, but not even two minutes later, the woman was walking back out of the church and happened to look up and see Yuuki leaning on the old black motorcycle.
"You must be Yuuki." The woman approached the young teenager, who's stunning solid blue eyes instantly narrowed.
"How do you know my name, bitch?" Yuuki snarled. She wasn't very social, and this woman was making her feel oddly uncomfortable.
"Is that any way to speak to your grandmother?" The woman raised an eyebrow, oddly amused at Yuuki's hostility. "You're just like your mother, but you have his eyes and hair."
"What the fuck? I thought my dad said he killed his mother." Yuuki was on edge, and her hand stopped flipping her lighter open and closed.
"Not exactly... But, the fact remains, I am your grandmother... My name is Alice." The blonde woman held out her hand to her grandchild, but the girl smirked and ignored the hand.
"Prove it." Yuuki crossed her arms over her stomach.
"Now isn't the time or place for that." Alice glanced at several pedestrians nearby. "But I can sense the T-Virus inside your body. And I know what your powers are... You control water."
"So what the fuck's your power?" Yuuki hissed, glancing around to make sure there wasn't anyone close enough to eavesdrop.
"Telekinesis. I even gave your father a sample of my blood to give the power to him, before I died of course." Alice replied. "I came here to pay respects to my dead son... so give this to your mother, tell her to give me a call when she gets a chance." Alice held out a business card, which Yuuki accepted without looking at it. "I'll see you around, Yuuki."
With that, Alice turned and walked away, leaving Yuuki to look down at the crisp BSAA business card in her hand. "Motherfucker..."
Yuuki followed the funeral precession to the grave, begrudgingly standing beside her mother as the casket was lowered into the grave.
After the burial, Yuuki was hailed by one of her father's BSAA comrades, the big muscular guy from his squad, Lieutenant Redfield.
"Excuse me, do you have a moment?" He asked quietly as Yuuki stopped walking towards her bike.
"Yeah, I got a minute." Yuuki still remembered her father's rules about respecting the BSAA. They were his organization, after all.
"After speaking to your mother, we've decided that you should be the one to receive these." Chris held out his closed hand, placing the two objects into her palm. "I understand if you want them destroyed."
Yuuki opened her hand, revealing her dad's BSAA dogtags and a black metal chain with a massive bullet casing and mangled bullet.
"If you don't mind, can you shove this bullet back into the casing? I'm sure they belong together, knowing my dad."
"I don't want to break it, you see..." Chris looked unsure. "Not without tools, that is."
"Alright... thanks anyway." Yuuki took the bullet and shoved it into her leather jacket's pocket, then hung both of the necklaces around her neck. "I have to ask... Was my father a hero, or did he die in vain?"
"He was a hero... More than you believe." Chris replied solemnly.
"Alright, do svidaniya." Yuuki replied, turning on her heel and pulling her bike helmet over her head before riding away.
Yuuki laid on her back, her eyes closed as she felt the weight of her father's dogtags and the strange black metal necklace on her chest. She'd managed to shove the broken bullet back into the casing, and only then did she realize that the bullet was massive. She'd seen her dad's obnoxious revolvers only a few times, but they were the only guns she could possibly see the damn thing coming from.
Opening her eyes, she detected the sound of her mother approaching, so she quickly got to her feet and swam to the surface of the pool. Her head broke the surface just as her mother smirked knowingly at her from the edge of the water.
"I thought you said you were training?" Rize raised an eyebrow as she regarded her daughter.
"I am." Yuuki replied. "I was just taking a break."
"I know." Rize smiled. "You do know I've been keeping track of your movements, right?"
"Shit." Yuuki muttered under her breath. She'd been laying at the bottom of the pool for longer than she thought.
"It's about your dad... isn't it?" Rize regarded her daughter sadly. Out of their entire family, Yuuki hadn't really shown much of a reaction to Tobias' death... It was almost like she was denying it entirely.
"I don't know... I just..." Yuuki started, but then stopped herself. "Never mind. I'll get back to training now."
"By the way, I found this laying on your jacket. Is it yours?" Rize held up a business card between two fingers.
"Yeah... about that." Yuuki swam to the side of the pool and hauled herself onto the edge. "Some old broad gave that to me outside of the church during dad's funeral. She said for you to give her a call, she claimed that she's my grandmother."
"So, you met Alice..." Rize sighed. "Alright, out of the water. This might get interesting, knowing her."
"You sure?" Yuuki raised an eyebrow. This was an unusual development, to say the least.
"Nice to see you again, Yuuki." Alice smiled as she removed her sunglasses.
"Hmph." Yuuki hummed in acknowledgement as she drank some coffee. She didn't particularly trust Alice very much... yet.
"I've gathered she's just like her father, even though she's a near clone of you, Rize." Alice turned towards her oldest daughter. "So... I guess it's about time I tell you what happened since Umbrella existed."
"Can that wait until Tabitha and Serenity get here? They said they'd be here shortly." Rize asked, scrutinizing her adoptive mother closely. "You've aged quite well for someone that died, y'know."
Alice smiled ruefully. "You're not the same teenager I remember either... And you've had a kid. She's fifteen right?"
"Yeah, I was two months pregnant with her when we slaughtered Umbrella." Rize smiled. "I had a hot flash, and Toby... y'know. Helped."
"And despite being in the BSAA, he still managed to remain in her life... to the very end." Alice sighed. "Not that I should be one to talk."
"Hey... Don't say that." Rize shook her head. "He did everything to avenge you. You and I both know that Wesker was a piece of shit. He'd have done Toby dirty for a fucking Klondike Bar."
"Those actually don't taste as good as people think they do." Alice smirked, since she still remembered what they tasted like, even after nearly 20 years of not eating one.
Before Rize could say anything else, Alice was suddenly thrown forward, stumbling as something large collided with her back, accompanied by a loud "YOU FUCKING BITCH!"
Alice's assailant turned out to be Serenity, who had already locked lips with her old lover, straddling Alice's stomach to stop her from escaping.
"Don't you ever do that to me again!" Serenity spoke threateningly into Alice's face as she pressed her forehead against Alice's. "Do you know how fucking hard it is to get a good looking woman when you're almost fifty!?"
"Not really..." Alice replied. "I'm 52, and I got myself a gorgeous woman." She kissed Serenity back lovingly.
"So, if she's really my grandmother, who the fuck raped her to have dad?" Yuuki asked her mother in Russian, one of two languages that her parents used to talk to each other - the other being Japanese - so she learned both. For whatever reason, despite looking completely Asian like her mother, Yuuki preferred to speak Russian, like her father.
"I'll let Grandma Alice explain everything." Rize replied in Russian as well, but actually forgot that Alice spoke the language.
"Hey, hey! No 'Grandma Alice' nonsense!" Alice separated herself from the near-feral Serenity to responde in English. "I may be in my fifties, but by no means have I earned that title yet!"
"Technically, you have." Rize shrugged. "Then again, you were thought to be dead... so I'll downgrade you to 'Aunt'... For now."
A/N: As of this initial upload, I'm in the process of writing the 12th chapter. And I'm considering to upload this one on the weekends. Haven't decided that yet, but I do know that it will be weekly.