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Summary:

Rated T

Friendship and horror.

Alice and Jill. V

English

Better off alone

Chapter One

"We should head back out to the crash site. Umbrella, if they're looking for us won't think of going back there. Right?" Jill Valentine's gentle voice washed over Alice's ears. Barely audible over the torrent of rain being hurled down from the heavens and the gunning engine. The weather was fitting, washing away all the filth of Umbrella's doing and not just re-birthing the Earth, but herself.

Alice looked down at herself, still shivering and still clutching at the lab coat around her torso for dear life. Ears, still full of the throbbing from her blood pounding its way round her body. "Here." She saw Jill, in the corner of her eye, rummaging around in a black back pack for something. Jill pulled out a pair of black pants and an equally as dark tank top, which Alice took and immediately slipped into. Finding slight difficulty in keeping her modesty and changing into something not soaking wet with rain water.

The raindrops fallen onto her barely clothed body had felt like spears of glass being rained down upon her, not water and ice. Each droplet had chilled her body where they had landed, before there were simply too many to count and a curtain of numbness then enveloped her entire being and not let go. Not even now...

"Babe. If you don't like 'em, we can find you some decent threads in town." LJ mused and nodded a hat free head in her direction.

A slight smile graced her mouth at his humour never ending. Even in dire circumstances. "And we can find you a hat." Alice mock glowered from under heavy eyelids at the man in the passenger seat. He was wearing a custom Umbrella operative uniform. Complete with Umbrella Corp logo on the chest plate. Even his hair was in a simple, subdued shape.

"Alice, babe. Please." LJ reached into the foot well of the SUV and brandished his iconic tailored hat. "I leave no man behind." He grinned before turning back and watching the road ahead.

Alice threw the sodden lab coat into her own foot well, not even looking as to where it landed.

Jill's eyes met her own as she looked aver the fellow female. What have they done to you? A sorrowful expression graced each one of her features, showing what Alice could only try and hide from view.

What have they DONE to you? It rang in her head as the realisation dawned she hadn't answered Jill and it was too late to answer her question, now.

The silence spoke words.

Because she simply didn't, couldn't know. Umbrella had already pumped her full of the T-virus. Who knows what they had done this time?! They have everything at their disposal. They are everything. So, surely they wouldn't have missed anything out to test out on their shiny, new lab rat, right?

"Good plan, Jill." Alice nodded. To herself, or to her saviours, it wasn't clear. "We need somewhere to hide out until we get our feet firmly back on the ground."

She took another look out the car window to witness herself and her Raccoon City surviving friends edge nearer and nearer away from Umbrella's clutches and into the seemingly never ending storm.

A shiny new multi-chap story from yours truly?! Yes! And I know the beginning is short but, hey, like in show business – always leave them wanting more. Anyway, I've already written the end and that's over 1K in itself, so, the chapters will probably get bigger. Like in the RE games! :P