New Year's Charm

Disclaimer: I don't own Resident Evil, it's characters, or anything associated with Resident Evil. The story is mine though.

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"Shit! GO! GO! GO!" Chris Redfield yelled.

Carlos Oliveira and Leon Kennedy sprinted ahead of him. Leon shoulder rolled behind a crate in a dark corner, Carlos crouched behind him. Unfortunately the fire coming from the opposite side was to heavy for Chris to escape by his two partners. Chris simply ducked behind a barrel, held in his place by fire streaming inches from his head.

"Come out you wimps!" Claire Redfield hollered, pointing her sleek gun at the barrel Chris crouched behind.

Leon and Carlos' middle fingers answered her.

"Great flick me off. I thought we were fighting here!" Claire replied.

While Claire's verbal war was waging against the boys, Rebecca Chambers and Jill Valentine were army crawling across the black floor to the barrel Chris was behind. They leaned against the opposite side, quietly watching Chris look for an opening to join Leon and Carlos.

The six had rented out a laser tag arena in the mall, their Christmas present from Barry Burton and his family, and were now in a heated challenge, boys verses girls. It was only morning, ten to be exact and they were still going.

Chris slowly got into crouching position and began to creep the mere six feet to Leon and Carlos. Jill and Becky sank down. Chris' black vest became open and Jill and Rebecca fired their navy blue guns. His vest vibrated, announcing he was taking fire.

"Damn it!" He cursed, standing up fully and sliding into position with the other two.

"Okay what's the plan Skipper?" Leon asked, raising up for a split second to fire a beam at Claire, it hit her, causing her to glare daggers at him. He sank back down, fear in his eyes.

"Stay low, fire as much as possible at Claire. She's more open and pissed off, so she'll be and easier hit, I hope," Chris looked at Leon, "and stop calling me Skipper, Gilligan."

The guys raised up, firing at Claire.

"Son of a bitch!" She cursed aiming at the crate.

Jill and Rebecca joined her rage, also directing their neon red beams at the crate.

"Shit! Split up! Carlos take Bec, Leon take Claire, and I'll handle Jill!" Chris spat orders at the men as they all went in separate directions.

Chris rolled over to the very back right corner of the arena.

Jill, seeing their opponents split up, ordered to her team, "Claire hold Leon off, Becky go get Carlos, I'll take Captain over here." Jill skidded over by Chris.

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Chris was flat against the wall, with Jill closing in. He had a slight chance, he knew she wouldn't risk crossing enemy lines, or the various walls, crates, barrels, etc. that were scattered throughout the dark arena. Sweat dripped down his forehead, rolled down his cheek and onto his neck.

'Think damn it Chris!' His mind scolded.

He shot blindly at the direction of Jill as he looked around for an escape. There were two boxes stacked on top of each other. A few feet away was another box, then a beam he could jump to.

He shot furiously at Jill as he crawled to the boxes, then he swung up onto the boxes. Jill shot at his open figure managing to get a few hits. He leaped to the next box, then across the beam. He walked one foot in front of the other and disappeared into the darkness.

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"Come here you pain in the ass!" Claire yelled at Leon.

"Hey now! I could sleep on the couch tonight!" He replied.

"Yeah right, like you could last!" Claire responded.

"Like you could last!" Leon retorted.

"Neither of you could last!" Came Carlos' agitated voice from behind a stack of crates.

Rebecca shot at him causing a flurry of Spanish obscenities. She giggled at his frustration.

Leon cast an angry eye at the scoreboard. The percentages of hits were mainly from the girls on the guys.

"Damn it Chris we're losing!" Leon yelled in no particular direction.

"Yes I know," Chris whispered.

Leon jumped, "Shit I didn't know you were right there."

"So does no one else so don't be loud, I finally lost Jill. They won't come across enemy lines so." Chris trailed off as Leon stared over his shoulder.

"The hell we won't." Jill said into Chris' ear before firing.

"Okay, I'm allowed to be wrong." Chris muttered.

Leon and Chris both jumped over boxes scaring Claire and Rebecca momentarily.

"Where the hell are you going? Amigos." Carlos drawled.

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"How am I supposed to get out of this one?" Carlos asked himself.

"Don't know, but either give up, or I call my girls back over here." Rebecca replied.

She couldn't exactly see Carlos, but she had an idea of where he was, but she had no idea that he was slowly creeping around to the other side, with a plan to get some points for his team.

Carlos watched as Rebecca stared where he had been. He walked behind her, tapping her on the shoulder.

"Wha." She spun around right into Carlos' passionate kiss.

His hands slowly trailed across her back and onto her hips. She moaned into the kiss forgetting the mission at hand. He pulled back staring into her green eyes, his laser gun slowly pointing at the targets on her vest, he fired multiple times before running. "You get your ass back here Carlos Oliveira!" Rebecca hollered, causing Claire and Jill to become distracted.

While Carlos dashed next to Leon and Chris, the girls were stunned, allowing the boys to tie the score. Claire spat obscenities.

"That was fucking close, to damn close. Shit!" Chris spewed.

Leon, Jill, Carlos, and Rebecca stopped firing the electric beams for a second, and stared at the two siblings.

"They're exactly alike." They all replied in unison.

"Shut up!" Both yelled.

Ignoring the point they just proved, Chris replied, "You want a fight, give me one first."

Claire raised her gun, "The girls will win."

"When hell freezes over." Chris snorted.

"Then it's gonna be a cold day in hell."

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"The round's over in a minute-thirty! Fire! Fire! Fire!" Leon jumped to fire at Claire.

Warning beeps signaling the round was over in one minute started up.

"Ah shit, get them we can't let them win." Claire muttered.

"You know what Claire, stop stating the obvious of what's gonna happen." Carlos replied snidely.

Claire retorted with a barrage of beams.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Carlos muttered.

Jill shoved her gun in between to crates where Chris was. Her beam caught him five times, upping the girls score. Leon made a sneak attack, allowing Chris to get the upper hand.

"You know we're just playing right?" Chris whispered between a barrel.

"Yeah, I know. Still gives bragging rights though." Jill gave Chris a quick kiss on lips, before shooting at him again.

"C'mon Becky I was just playing." Carlos pleaded.

Rebecca hit him over the head with the laser gun.

"I love you." Carlos rolled into a ball, covering his head.

"Yeah, I know." Rebecca shot again.

"Claire, you're going to lose." Leon's electric blue beam streamed from his gun.

"You wish." Claire's own neon red beam collided. "You know I was just joking about sleeping on the couch." Leon whispered, as the beeps became more urgent announcing thirty seconds.

"I figured that much." Claire retorted.

Buzz!

"YES!" Jill, Claire, and Rebecca yelled in excitement.

"Guess hell froze over Chris." Carlos said sarcastically.

"Oh shut up, you were the one getting your ass kicked over there by Bec." Chris turned.

The girls were shouting about their win.

"Hey, girls, what do you say we refund this ticket for another day. It's snowing, and I call a rematch." Leon said darkly.

Leon, Chris, and Carlos finished, "SNOWBALL FIGHT!"

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Author's Note: It's definitely been a while. For anybody who read my previous story, that will be back up in a little while. I'm trying to finish it, with little success. School's taking up to much time. I was only able to get this up because of Christmas break. I hope everyone had and has a happy holiday. The next chapter with the 'snowball fight' hopefully should be up soon. The next chapter will involve of course the 'snowball fight' and some more romantically themes and holiday cheer with the gang. Pairings will include Chris/Jill, Leon/Claire, and Carlos/Rebecca. Wouldn't pair them any other way. Read and review, constructive criticism is welcome.