A:N: All right, ever since I watched the first Resident Evil again, I really fell in love with Rain's character. So here's this. It's rated M for swearing, violence and yes, eventually, there will be a sex scene or two. It may get sad, and you might want to kill me. But here goes. It'll be a long one. ;)

Rusted From The Rain

"Rain?" Alice's lower lip quivered. The Umbrella Commando's head hung down, chin to her collar bone. The blonde was praying in the back of her mind that the anti-virus would start to kick in. She didn't want to lose the one other person she had come to care about during the two hours down in the Hive. Not now after what they had gone through, not ever. Rain had been bit at least four times, maybe even more, Alice wasn't sure. She had started to pale, and her eyes had the circles around them. She was weak. But yet, the black haired woman remained still. "Rain?" Alice called again softly, with urge in her voice. When there was no response again, Alice's blue-green eyes darted to the silver handgun that lay on the bare steel floor of the train they were on. Rain had asked her that when the time came, that Alice wouldn't let her turn into one of those 'things'. This was the time.

Alice took the pistol, the weight of it in her hand surprising her. She pulled the slide back, cocking it once. She shakily aimed it at the top of Rain's head. Her eyes began to water. This wasn't how she wanted it to end, but at least Rain had an easy way out, and wasn't going to become one of the undead. Her index finger treaded the trigger, when suddenly she felt a force push the pistol to the side. It was Rain's bloodily bandaged hand.

"I'm not dead yet." She stated softly, breathing forced. "I think…I'll take that back." Alice let her have the pistol. Alice found herself shaking, both from being damp, and the near heart attack the other woman gave her. Slowly, the blonde smirked, leaning in close so Rain could hear her.
"I could kiss you, you bitch."

Rain's brows arched, even in her weakened state. Alice was so close to her face. "Then do it." Rain smirked in reply. Hell, she'd take a kiss from anyone right about now. Alice looked back at her rather dumbfounded. What was going on through the commando's head? Was she even making clear decisions?

"What?" Alice said blankly to buy herself time. The train continued moving up the shaft as Alice had set the controls to auto at a decent pace.

"You gonna kiss me or not?" Rain used her non-injured hand to put it on the other woman's cheek, fingers nestling behind Alice's right ear. She tugged her right in, so they were less than an inch apart. They were the only ones left on the train as both Kaplan and Matt had fallen to the licker that had escaped and mutated after killing Spence. That licker later fell victim to being hit by the bullet train, leaving one bloody pulp of undead road kill on the tracks. Alice's eyes locked into Rain's dark ones, and she smiled, lips meeting and moulding together as one. Rain didn't have a whole lot of strength left, but Alice knew that if she did, the kiss would be much more fiery and passionate. She could feel it by the way that Rain held her grip on the side of her head.

Alice pulled back for a moment, and already she noticed that Rain's colour was coming back to her face. It seemed that the anti-virus was working. The blonde felt slightly relieved and ecstatic. She wouldn't be the only one to survive. She smiled brightly. "We'll be okay." She stated, more out of self-reassurance than trying to comfort the commando. Alice rose to her feet, walking to the control room of the train. They were just about to reach the entrance of the Hive. Once the train was stopped, Alice helped Rain out, lending her shoulder to the shorter woman. They barely escaped with just under twenty seconds before the doors sealed themselves shut for good. Before they stopped, both went up to the mansion and collapsed to the floor in the main room. For now, they were safe. Alice held Rain close to her as she felt her emotions finally getting the better of her. Tears watered in her pale eyes.

"I failed…all of them. I failed"

"No. You didn't. We got out. There was nothing else we could've done…" Rain comforted the blonde, a hand on her shoulder. The case for the anti-virus was next to them. Rain was already feeling better, her bite wounds hurting less. The one on her neck especially. Rain wasn't one to usually get emotional, but seeing Alice this upset had her worried. She took Alice to be the kind of woman who could maybe handle this. After all, she had been head of security down in the Hive. Rain sighed, and hugged her. "It'll be-"

Rain was cut off by the sound of people and feet shuffling inside the mansion. She urged Alice to her feet. "C'mon. Something's not right in here." She took out her pistol, holding in her left hand. The two women walked into the hallway, and the sight before them took both by shock. White plastic lined the walls, and about ten men in gas masks and white hazmat suits were advancing. Rain used the last three rounds in her pistol to shoot them, hitting two in the head, and one in the chest. Unlike the undead, they all fell down, dying soon thereafter. However, that didn't stop the next wave of men, grabbing each woman, and separating them. Alice fought against the four men holding her back as Rain tried to do the same. She was getting dragged farther down the hall way into what looked like a white clad tent.
"RAIN!" Alice screamed out, elbowing one of the men in the neck beneath his suit. She tried to catch up to the former Umbrella soldier and found herself locked in another set of arms. Soon others had her, and she couldn't escape no matter how hard she tried. Rain was fighting like hell, but in her weakened and wounded state, she couldn't fight like she normally could. "RAIN!" Alice yelled again, her voice raspy and strained. This couldn't end like this…not after what went down in the Hive. There was a man standing in the tent, gas mask on, standing over two cots. Rain was getting strapped into one, and Alice was getting dragged along slowly towards the other.

"This one's been bit. I want her in the Survivor program."

"RAIN!"

"I want her quarantined, close observation and a full series of blood tests. Let's see if she's infected. Take her to the Raccoon City facility. Then assemble the team. We're reopening the Hive. I want to know what went on down there. Just do it. "

The last thing Alice remembered seeing was white. There was a lot of white and only the eyes of the doctors and surgeons standing above her in yet another white room, machines beeping, and people moving around. She slowly felt something injected into her arm again, and she blanked out again. Rain's fate was still unknown.