Disclaimer: I do not own any characters from the Resident Evil games or movies. I do, however, own the characters of my creation. This is a Mikey/OC fanfiction. Enjoy
Claire looked in the rear view mirror to see two girls, who were the complete opposites of each other, resting their heads on one another. She smirked to herself, looking back out onto the dusty road ahead of them. She still remembers when she found them both, a week apart from each other to boot. They had found K-Mart first. They were hunting for supplies when they found her, curled up in the dressing room of her name sake store, trying to escape from the infected. Her blonde hair was in a bun and she looked terrified and would flinch constantly at loud movements for weeks afterwards. When they found May, boy that was a whole new experience. They were in one of those 1960's pristine neighbourhoods, on a scout for a place to stay. Everything was going really quietly until a shotgun went off. Everyone turned trying to find the source when they saw her. Standing on the porch of an abandoned house in a blood-stained dress, aiming the shotgun to perfection at a space just behind Mikeys head. She lowered her weapon and turned to Chase and said "You missed one." like she was just telling him his shoes were untied. That's probably why they get along so well. Claire looked back at the two sleeping girls again. The two were as different as night and day but they went together like bread and butter.
"Hey Claire?" the walkie crackled with life. The redhead reached over to pick it up.
"Yeah?" She replied softly, not wanting to wake the girls up.
"There's a small group of houses coming up, you interested in stopping?" Claire looked outside at the setting sun. They'd have to stop before night fell.
"Sound good, it's getting late." Claire dropped the walkie-talkie on the seat next to her and made the turn off that Carlos had told her about. She pulled up in front of an old house and brought the hummer to a halt.
"Wake up, we've stopped." She yelled over her shoulder, whilst she unbuckled herself.
"Where are we?" K-Mart mumbled whilst rubbing sleep out of her eyes. May sat up beside her, brushing her dark hair out of her face and tying it back into a messy pony.
"Who cares? As long as it has a john I'm not complaining." She said, swinging the door open and hopping out of the car. K-Mart followed suit and stood next to her friend who was stretching in the setting sun. Chase walked over and handed them a handgun each. May just looked at him.
"Seriously?" Chase shrugged his shoulders apologetically.
"Claires orders." May groaned and took the handgun off him. She clicked the safety off and pointed to one of the houses.
"Come on Kay, we'll take that one." She said strolling over to the abandoned building with the blonde. They both took a proper stance as they walked into the house. There was two doors leading off from the hallway and a set of stairs at the other end.
"This place, just screams creepy." Kay said quietly, holding her gun out in front of her.
"You can have down stairs then." May replied in the same tone, walking cautiously towards the dimly lit stairs. K-Mart pulled on the back of her over-sized cardigan.
"Be careful." May nodded to her best friend and continued towards the flight of ridiculously scary stairs. When she reached them, she saw that some of the steps were missing. In fact, a fat chunk of the middle had completely collapsed.
"Great." She mumbled to herself, starting her ascent. With every step she took, the steps creaked and groaned, no matter how light her steps were. She had to leap to get over the gap, she nearly missed as well. She made it to the top only to find two doors, side by side.
"Really, really creepy." She whispered, stepping through the door on the left. It was a young girls bedroom, it was pink and white and it was practically untouched. Almost pristine. On the bed, there were dolls and teddy bears strewn loosely across the sheets, as if the owner had merely left the room for a second before returning. On top of the little white bedside table, there was a photograph. In it was a young girl with long red hair and an older woman who looked like her mom. May reached over to pick it up, before she heard a quiet
"Don't." She whipped her head around and the room was just as empty as before.
"Hello?" May said out loud and the wardrobe door creaked. The girl from the photo peeped her head from behind the door.
"Hey," May said softly, reaching her hand out towards the girl, "It's okay, I'm not going to hurt you." The girl stepped out a little bit, but still held the door in front of her like a shield.
"Really?" She glanced towards the gun.
"No, this is for the infected."
"You mean the zombies?" The girl said jumping out from behind the wardrobe door. May laughed a little and nodded.
"Of course I mean the zombies." As she said that, the small girl launched herself at her. She wrapped her arms around Mays stomach and buried her face in her shirt.
"You won't let them eat me right?" The girl mumbled. May patted the top of her head.
"Of course not." She pulled the small away from her and crouched down so she could see her face.
"What's your name sweetie?" The little girl frowned in thought for a second before smiling.
"Angel."
"Angel?"
"Yeah. Angel." The girl said smiling. May laughed and stood up.
"We need to pack a bag, and then I'll take you down to my friends, kay?" The little girl ran back to the wardrobe and pulled out a packed bag.
"I just need this," Angel said, grabbing a locket, "And this." She picked up the photo and she put it in her bag. She held the locket out to May.
"Can you help me?" May took the locket off her and clasped it around Angels neck.
"You good?" May asked her. The red head nodded and grasped hold of Mays open hand. They walked out of the room to the top of the stairs.
"Hey Chase!" May yelled down the stairs. She got no answer and was met only with silence.
"K-Mart? Mikey?" She yelled for her best friends. Again there was no sound. She had no way of getting this girl down the stairs. There was a small creak behind her and May whipped around to find a decomposed, older version of Angel. Without even thinking about , May pulled the trigger, placing a bullet between the dead womans eyes. She collapsed on the floor, never to move again. When she turned to look at the little girl and she was stood there hands clasped over her eyes and she was shaking. May kneeled next to her and placed her hand on her shoulder.
"Sweetie I-"
"Is she gone?" Angel whimpered. May took hold of her hands and moved them from her eyes.
"She's gone." The little girl wrapped her arms around Mays neck and buried her head in her shoulder. May placed a hand on the girls head as she started crying into her shoulder.
"May?"
"May?"
"MAY!" That last one was Mikey, he was always panicking that she or K-Mart were hurt and bleeding to death somewhere.
"I'm up here!" She yelled back and Mikey appeared with Chase at the bottom of the stairs.
"Where the hell you been?" She yelled accusingly at the two.
"K-Mart got stuck in a closet and panicked." Mikey said. May took the back pack off Angels shoulders.
"Here, catch." She tossed the back pack down to Mikey who caught it with ease.
"Chase I'm going to toss her down okay?" May said, signalling to the huge gap in the stairs. Chase nodded and walked up as few steps to close the distance. May peeled Angel of her shoulder.
"I'm going to throw you to that man there okay?" She said pointing at Chase. Angel just looked at him and nodded. May stood up and walked down a couple of steps before grabbing Angel around the waist and tossing her down to the open armed Chase. He caught her and walked down the stairs before putting her down. He then turned and walked back up the stairs, holding his arms out.
"Now you." May rolled her eyes before leaping into Chase' arms. He plopped her down on the floor and she stood up, rubbing her ass. Angel grabbed her hand and snuggled into her arm.
"You okay sweetie?" May asked quietly. The young girl nodded.
"Just nervous." May smiled and led her out of the house and took her straight over to Claire. Claire turned and smiled at her before looking down at Angel.
"Hey sweetie, I'm Claire, I run this convoy." Claire said, kneeling down to Angels height.
"I'm Angel." she replied quietly still half hidden behind May. Claire smiled at her.
"That's a cute name."
"Thank you." Angel said, smiling shyly.
The sun had set by now and May was sitting crossed legged on top of the hummer, gazing up at the stars.
"Hey." She turned her head to see Mikey climbing up next to her.
"Hey yourself." She smiled, looking back up at the sky. Mikey settled himself next to her and looked up at they sky.
"See that group of stars there?" She said pointing up at the sky. Mikey looked at her, then followed her finger upwards and looked to where she was pointing.
"Yeah?" he asked quietly.
"That's Cassiopeia. It was named after this queen from Greek mythology." She whispered.
"How come?" Mikey asked?
"Because she would always boast about her beauty and that it could be rivalled by no-one. Not even the stars." May replied putting her arm down and leaned back on her arms. Mikey stared at the constellation for a couple of minutes.
"She can't have been that beautiful." May just looked at him.
"How would you know?" She asked laughing. Mikey just smiled at her.
"Because, I've met the most beautiful girl in the world. And she doesn't boast about it. Hell, she probably doesn't even think she's that pretty." The blonde Aussie shrugged.
"Who's this girl you've been hanging around with? The only girls you know are me and K-Mart." She laughed, before stopping suddenly.
"Oh my God. You like K-Mart." She said smiling. Mikey just looked at her.
"Well it's not me, C'mon, just admit it." May said looking right back at him.
"Hang on, why can't it be you?"
"Because. It's never me. Duh." She told him simply. Mikey just looked at her.
"Hang on, there's got to have been one guy who's liked you." May just laughed and shook her head, her dark locks waving over her shoulders.
"Speaking of guys you like, who is your current love interest at the moment?" Mikey asked, trying to spin the attention on her.
"Hey don't flip this on me because I guessed your secret." She laughed, waving an arm at him. Mikey laughed and slapped her hand away.
"And besides even if they guy I like, did like me back. Nothing would ever happen." She said shrugging as a piece of hair fell into her face.
"why not?" Mikey asked, looking at her.
"Because, Claire would literally have a cow and-"
"That's not a real reason." Mikey told her simply. May just looked at him wide eyed.
"Your right, it's not."
"What is it then?"
"Because I've never had a boyfriend, or a first kiss, or a first date or a first anything," She huffed looking out into the desert, "And I'd have no idea how to act or what to say or anything." She sighed dejectedly.
"I've never had any of that either." Mikey said, rubbing the back of his neck.
"C'mon. A nice guy like you?" She said incredulously. Mikey smiled at her.
"You think I'm nice?" May thanked whoever was up in the clouds that it was night and that he couldn't see her blush.
"Maybe." She replied, keeping her voice level. Mikey opened his mouth to say something when Claire yelled.
"Alright guys! Lights out!" Mikey jumped off the roof and then held his hand out to help May down. She ignored his help but smiled at him. Claire walked over to them and opened the door to usher May in to the hummer. May turned and saw Angel lying on the back seat.
"She wanted to stay with you." Claire said, before pushing may into the hummer. May grabbed her sleeping bag and joined the little red head on the back seat. When she laid down next to her, Angel climbed into her sleeping bagged and wrapped her arms around the middle. Mikey knocked on the window.
"May?"
"Yeah?" There was a moment of silence before he said,
"Goodnight." May smiled to herself.
"Goodnight." She whispered back. A couple of seconds passed before she heard him walk away to his van.
"He's nice." Angel sighed tiredly. May just looked down at her.
"Yeah," She said looking out of the window, "He really is."