Disclaimer: I do not own Resident evil or any of the characters.

A/N: So I know I said it would be a while before I finished the story, but my muse and the little plot bunnies wouldn't leave me alone. So here it is. I have updated the first five chapters to reflect necessary changes. The story is finished and is currently in the capable hands of my fantastic Beta. So When I receive a chapter back I will upload it.

Also please keep in mind that I have changed a few details to what I want. For example; Alice did not kill Angela. She simply left to protect the group from her unknown powers. I'm going with the theory that Angela ran out of Anti-Virus L and Jill was captured later by Umbrella. Another thing to note is that in my story Chris and Claire have a very…antagonistic relationship. I really have no opinion of Chris, but this is what works for my story.

On a side note while there really is a group of deserted Islands named Phoenix Islands, mine is completely fabricated.

Reviews are appreciated and welcomed, but please NO FLAMES!

Warning! Rated M for mature themes and Sexual situation.

Resident Evil: Phoenix Island

Chapter 1

ALICE!" The screams echoed through the air and Alice could hear the fear in the redhead's voice. She dispatched the Umbrella soldier she had been fighting and then turned to locate the source of the leader's terror. She watched in horror as a tall blond brought the butt of her gun into contact with her opponent's temple.

"Claire!" Alice screamed as she watched the other woman drop to the deck. She saw the blood flowing from her wound as the younger woman fell. All other commotion vanished as she stared in horror at the still body of her friend, her leader, the woman she loved and the woman she had sworn to protect

Even without her powers she slowly made her way from devastated Japan across the United States, both of which (were) crawling with undead in search of Claire's convoy. She had promised the redhead that she would come back for her, that she would come back to her. The trip took longer than it normally would if she still had her powers, but she made it. She knew that they weren't stripped away like Wesker had said. She could feel them just out of her reach, dormant but try as she might she had not been about to reach them.

But now her powers were building up. She could feel whatever block was on them breaking down. The pain at seeing her lover lying there, bleeding, and not knowing if she was dead or alive was causing them to swell. The knowledge that she had failed, that she had once again failed was a pain she had never known before. She had failed Angie and Jill, Carlos and LJ, and she had failed Claire, K-mart, and the others by sending them to Alaska. But to know that she had failed again when they were so close to finally finding some peace and quiet was too much. To know that she had failed Claire again without protecting her and allowing her to be hurt caused all the anger, hurt, pain, and misery she had been suffering over the years to burst forth and release her dormant abilities.

As the powers pushed out of her in one giant shockwave she threw her head back and roared her misery to the sky. Every Umbrella soldier on the deck was tossed to their feet and every Osprey in the air was rocked, as the survivors watched on in awe. The ex-project turned her eyes towards the Blonde responsible for her pain as she leapt to the upper deck. She could see the fear in her eyes; she could smell it coming from her enemy. "Jill Valentine." She said without any emotion whatsoever. The only thing keeping her from killing her old friend on the spot was that she knew Claire would not approve and she suspected that Jill was not operating under her own volition.

"RETREAT!" the blonde commander ordered when she saw the power the brunette in front of her was exhibiting. She knew Project Alice had been classified a failure and that Wesker had stripped her of her abilities, rendering her human again, but that's not what she was seeing. The amount of energy pouring off the woman in front of her was unlike anything she had ever seen. She knew that there was no way they would win this fight and her only option was to take her chances and report back to Umbrella for further instructions.
As she turned to retreat to the waiting Osprey she realized that she was literally stuck in place. She felt as if her legs and feet had turned to stone and she struggled to move. She was vaguely aware of her men in the same predicament, but was only worried about her own troubles. When she finally looked back at the ex- project she shivered at the cold smirk she was receiving and the power shinning in the hazel eyes before her. Pulling herself up and gathering what little courage she had she commanded, "Project Alice, you are ordered to deactivate yourself and return with us for termination."

The woman's smirk just increased. "Project Alice died over a year and a half ago in the Nevada desert." Alice tilted her head to the side and looked down at the still redhead that was now 10 feet away from her. Studying her lover she was relieved that while slow and weak, she could detect signs of life. Turning back to Jill she said, "Project Alice died the day she met that woman and her convoy. I have been simply Alice since then."

"You are the property of Umbrella." Jill attempted to argue while she tried to control her fear, "You are theirs to dispose of as they see fit."

"I will give you a choice Jill." Alice's voice was still steady and calm. "You and your people can leave and return to Umbrella. You can inform them that the Arcadia now belongs to us and if they ever come after these people, or me again I will destroy them all. Or I can simply destroy you all now, where you stand."

Jill studied the woman before her. She knew from the records that this woman would do as she promised, but she also knew that if she returned there was a good chance she herself would be terminated for failure to complete her mission. She looked at her men and all of them stood with their weapons trained on the ex-project waiting for her instructions, while all of the survivors had gathered together in a huge group waiting to see what would happen. Turning back to the brunette in front of her she decided she would take her chances here, "You will report back to Umbrella one way or the other, Project Alice." She looked at the soldier serving as her second in command, "Kill her." She ordered and immediately her men all fired at their target.

The power that had been flowing from Alice surged forth and immediately a shield sprung up around the survivors protecting them from any stray bullets. Another wall of energy surrounded her, Jill, and Claire. Somewhere in the back of her mind she was aware that her lover was waking up, but it never fully registered as she emotionlessly watched as the bullets were redirected back to their owners. One by one the Umbrella soldiers were ripped to shreds by their own weapons. She didn't even wait for the last man to fall before she reached out with her telekinetic powers and forced the Ospreys still in the air to lose control and crash into each other before plummeting into the waters below. In a matter of minutes she had taken out all of the Umbrella soldiers, leaving only the blonde before her.

Alice could feel herself fading into unconsciousness and fought to stay awake. The amount of energy summoned by her abilities plus the amount she had expended since then was too much for her body. Before she allowed herself to fade into the welcoming black she reached out with one final telekinetic push and caused the controlling device attached to Jill's chest to explode outward, throwing the blonde backwards with the force, but effectively freeing her from Umbrella's control. With stumbling movements she tried to reach the now moving redhead. She needed to hold her one last time before she gave into the darkness that she could feel coming, but she was unable to make it.

"Claire…" she called weakly as she dropped to her knees a few feet from the younger woman.

As the darkness took her she felt a pair of warm arms wrap around her and a voice whisper to her, "Alice…baby stay with me." Then everything went dark.

Claire returned to consciousness when Jill gave the order for her men to fire on the Brunette. The pain in her head was intense and the sounds of rapid gun fire around her had not helped. It took her several minutes to gain enough control over her own body to even move her head. She saw Alice standing no more than ten feet from her and the blonde woman she had been fighting before a few feet from Alice. As she watched the beautiful brunette in front of her and stared at her in awe at the amount of power she seemed to control, she was assaulted with wave after wave of forgotten memories. All of them centered on the woman before her. She was her friend and her lover.

In a matter of seconds she could remember the first time she had ever laid eyes on the other woman and how majestic she had looked beneath the flaming sky. She could remember the almost instant attraction that she felt for their newest member which was not only physical but mental and emotional as well. She could remember their one and only night together. She could recall with perfect clarity the night they had given into their emotions and their desires. She knew what it felt like to be skin to skin and lip to lip with the woman, and she remembered how in that moment of ecstasy she knew without a doubt that Alice was her destiny.

She could remember the desperation she had felt when they had talked of Alice's need to leave them and finish what she had started with Umbrella. The fear of losing the woman she had just found and had so quickly come to mean so much to her, and the understanding that what she needed to do was necessary. She had known in her heart that Alice would return to her one day and she had sworn that she would wait for her. There had been no declarations of love and no tearful farewells, but as she flew the few remaining survivors out in the helicopter she knew that she was deeply committed to Alice and that she would wait as long as necessary for her to return. She could not imagine the pain Alice must have gone through to keep her promise to return nor the despair that she must have felt to find that Claire could not remember her.

She was pulled from her own jumbled thoughts as she felt Alice's powers increase. She knew that her lover had told her that she was without her abilities and that Wesker claimed that he had stripped her of her abilities, but Alice had admitted to the redhead that she could feel them locked away just out of her reach. It would seem that she had somehow reached them and as she watched the Osprey above them crash into each other she could tell that they were stronger than ever. She could also see that her lover was fading fast. The amount of power she was using must be overwhelming her body.

She struggled to sit up as Alice destroyed the device controlling the blonde. She wondered briefly why she didn't just kill the blonde as she had done with the rest but as the blonde fell and Alice turned to stumble towards her she didn't care. "Claire…" She heard Alice call to her weekly before collapsing to her knees a few feet from her.

Struggling to her knees she forced herself to crawl to her lover and managed to grab her before she collapsed completely. Wrapping her arms around her she pulled the older woman close. Alice…" she called to the now fading woman."…baby stay with me." She implored her lover. She wouldn't lose the other woman again, not now that they were finally together again and she remembered what Alice meant to her. She wiped the blood trickling from her lover's nose as she kissed her gently on the forehead, "Stay with me Alice. I can't lose you again."

She looked up as she heard footsteps rushing towards her and saw that it was K-mart, Tom, and a few others she recognized from her convoy. She could see the others following as well but at a more sedate pace with Chris in the background. "Claire…" the teenage blonde called as she dropped to her knees next to them. "Are you two alright?"

"You remember us?" She asked in honest surprise. It had taken her days to even recall the first memory.

"Yeah." K-mart said reaching out towards the wound on Claire's head but not touching it. "I don't know how, but when the first surge of power came from Alice. It jolted my memory. Not all of them, but most. Now forget about that. Are you two alright?"

Claire looked up at the others from her convoy to see they had regained their memories as well. Tom simply smiled and nodded at her but that's all she needed. Reaching up she gently touched the wound on the side of her head, wincing slightly in pain. "We need to get her into a room and see if anyone around here has medical training." She ordered slipping into her role as leader. She saw Anne nod and slip away into the crowd gathering on the outside. "Tom, Lock her up." She said indicating the blonde still out cold not too far from them. "And place a guard on her room."

Tom nodded and headed off. "Help me with her, please." She said looking at Jim and Steve. The two approached and gently took Alice from her. With K-mart's helped Claire stood, "Thanks, K." She said quietly. "We need to find a room below. Post guards on the deck as a lookout until we can figure out what to do next." She ordered the crowd. "We need to make sure Umbrella doesn't come back." The group nodded and slowly some of them left to do as Claire ordered.

She started to lead the way slowly to the stairs aware that Anne was fallowing with another woman. She could only hope that the other woman was a doctor. "We should place a guard around her room as well." Chris' voice stopped her. She looked over at the other man who was her brother. She had her memories of him back as well and they were not that great.

"Excuse me?" she asked and anyone could tell there was a warning in her tone. She waved Steve and Jim ahead and was relieved to see Anne and the other woman follow them. "Why the hell would I do that?"

"She's dangerous Claire." Chris stated slowly as if talking to a small child. "Look at what she just did. She needs to be contained before she harms anyone else."

Claire could hear some mummers of agreement through the crowd and she didn't like it one bit, but before she could speak K-mart beat her too it. "She just saved your fucking life you ass." K-mart said with anger. "She's saved some of us more than once and you will not treat her like dome prisoner."

"It's alright, K." Claire said softly before turning towards Chris. "She's right. Alice just saved all us and she is the only one capable of keeping us safe from Umbrella if they return. She will not be treated as a prisoner."

"It's her they want, Claire." Chris sounded exasperated. "When they return we can trade her for our safety."

Before he could even blink he found himself face to face with an angry redhead and a barrel of a gun pointed at his face. "Don't you even think about it" Claire growled. "If you ever threaten her again, brother or not I will end you. She's been there for us, for me, more than anyone else. She's done everything, given up everything to try and keep us safe…to keep me safe and now it's my turn. You will not touch her, you will not try and harm her and anyone who does not like it is welcome to leave. Just remember, that woman is the only one capable of keeping you safe. You leave this ship and you fend for yourself."

With that she turned and allowed K-mart to help her to the rooms below not noticing everyone on the ship nodding in agreement to the points she had made. They might be scared of the brunette but they knew the redhead was right; she was the only one capable of protecting them. And with that they pledged to follow the two women and allow them to lead them to safety.