Thank you all for the lovely reviews on Eyes Into Her Soul. I'm Glad to know so many people felt the same as I did. My bf is a little worried about my devotion to Carlos and frankly he'd be a bit jealous if he was real or if Oded Fehr lived anywhere near us.

Anyhoo This is the story I've been wanting to do. It starts with the ending of RE:E and will go through RE:A and RE:R ending AU and towards what I hope the sixth one might be like. It is completely independent of EIHS but will have some of the general ideas of it.

Enjoy...

My name is Carlos Olivera. I used to work for the military part of the Umbrella Corporation known as the Umbrella Biohazard Countermeasure Force, the UBCF. I was deployed to Raccoon City, where there was a T-virus outbreak.

The city was overrun and my team and I were left for dead. One of ours, Yuri Loginova was bitten and he turned biting me. Nicholai Ginovaef and I were the only surviving members of our team and we were contacted by Dr. Charles Ashford to get his daughter, Angela Ashford out of the city.

In her school we met former S.T.A.R.S. member, Jill Valentine and L.J. Wayne, a civilian. Nicholai died protecting Jill and Angela from an infected K-9 unit and I saved L.J. from another undead. I then met Alice Abernathy, former head of security of Umbrella's secret lab codenamed HIVE and the reason for the outbreak in Raccoon City.

She pointed her gun at me and asked how long it been since I'd been bitten. I answered three hours and she told me it was my lucky day and that was the moment I fell for her.

Somehow we made it out of the city on the chopper Dr. Ashford had promised. The wave from the nuclear sanitation of Raccoon City crashed our helicopter into the Arklay Mountains. Only L.J., Jill, Angela and I survived. Alice was killed protecting Angela during the crash.

We recovered her from the Detroit facility after she was reanimated with the T-virus. Several months later, under Umbrella's control she killed Angela and fled. Jill Valentine turned herself in to the FBI giving L.J. and I time to get away.

We joined Claire Redfield's convoy and pillaged every small town for supplies and fuel. While resting at a rundown motel we ran into diseased crows. Several members of the group were killed and one of the girls ran right into the path of an unmanned flamethrower. I ran to shield her from its flames and five years after the Raccoon City incident Alice showed up and saved my life again.

She told me she ran to protect us, me. Afterward she told us about a place free of infection in Alaska called Arcadia. We had to stop in Las Vegas to get fuel but it was a trap, Umbrella had been tracking Alice and they used her to test their new projects and their enhanced zombies overran us.

During the battle L.J. who had been bitten a few days earlier, turned and tried to attack Kmart, one of the girls in the convoy. I pulled him away from her and killed him but not before he bit me. Alice was taken over by Umbrella's satellites but she destroyed the signal and followed it to a chopper hidden in a building.

She killed every one but Dr. Isaacs, who got away. He was the one who brought her back after the plane crash. We tracked the chopper to another Umbrella facility. It's hidden in the desert and they are looking for a way in.

I can feel the virus eating through my system. I know Alice knows that I'm not gonna make it but she's hiding it pretty well. I guess that's why I love her. I just wish I had gotten a chance to tell her.

Nevada Desert Ridge Above Umbrella Facility

"Good thing we like a challenge." She said observing the high fence surrounded by undead. The umbrella logo gleamed on the black helicopter as if daring them to come get it.

She was about to say that they should get moving before they were spotted but Carlos' violent coughing interrupted and she turned to see if he was all right.

He seemed to choke on the black liquid pouring out of his mouth for a moment but he managed to spit it up and onto the desert. "Hold on." He wiped his mouth and felt her grab onto his arm. He knew what was happening but he didn't have the heart to tell her.

Surviving a bite once was a miracle, twice would take an act of God. "Hold on," she repeated obviously noting that he wasn't going to offer one of his usual 'I'll be fine' smiles. "They have the anti-virus in there. Just hold on."

He looked up from the ground and leaned into her offering false comfort, he knew his body, the virus was moving much quicker than the last time and he'd be turning in a matter of hours not days like L.J. "Its too late and you know it."

She placed her head on his shoulder confirming what he already suspected. "Besides, you need a way to get in there and I have an idea." He looked at her and smiled. Her stricken expression told him that she understood that this was his goodbye.

There would be no saving him this time and she had to accept it.

They left the ridge and Alice excused herself to get the last of the provisions from the hotel. Claire didn't say that there was nothing there to begin with; she knew why the other woman was going in there and if anybody deserved to mourn it was Alice. Claire knew she'd lost many but Carlos was the one that was going to break her.

Five Months earlier

"So who is she or was she?" Claire asked climbing onto the roof of the truck where Carlos was keeping an eye on the perimeter.

"She?"

"Yeah you know the girl that puts that very serious frown on your face every night when you think no one is looking."

Carlos adjusted his gun and glanced at the redhead beside him. "You're not going to let this go until I tell you, are you?"

Claire adjusted her own gun and got more comfortable. "Nope. I've got all I could out of L.J. but the rest he said I had to ask you. So I'm asking."

"Is there a reason you want to know?"

"I take the health and safety of this convoy seriously. I know that sometimes having food and shelter is not enough. Sometimes people just need to release their pasts in order to move on. Look at Victor, the man never talked after we picked him up. It wasn't until after he shot himself that we even knew that he had a wife named Emily."

"I'm not going to kill myself, Claire." He said annoyed at L.J. for opening his mouth and with Claire for wanting to know something that he didn't want to share with anybody, ever.

"Look I don't want details. I just want." She huffed in frustration. She wasn't good with words she never had been. Hell one of the things Chris constantly mocked her for was the inability to express herself. "You can talk to me if you want. I'm here."

"I met her in Raccoon City when we were left for dead by Umbrella. She was a survivor like me and tough as nails and so beautiful," he trailed off and Claire waited, sure that he was sorting through his memories to decide what to tell her. "She was with me and L.J. for a while but after a few months she just split. No reason, no note or anything. Just vanished."

He clenched his hand and she gripped it. He relaxed and continued. "I spent months looking for her but she just didn't want to be found. After that L.J. and I traveled up and down the coast looking for survivors and that was when we met you."

"You haven't seen her since?"

"No." but he did see her. He saw her everyday in his dreams, haunting him with those blue eyes that were so strong and vulnerable at the same time. Sometimes he talked in his sleep and Claire was a light sleeper.

"I'm sorry. We've all lost so many that it becomes second nature to not get attached. It's hard to understand when someone does and watching what it does to that person is even worse. I guess in reality I just wanted to make you feel better."

"I know and I appreciate it." He said patting her knee letting her know the conversation was over.

Claire got up dusted her pants and climbed down. "You know… she's probably lost a lot of loved ones, maybe that's why she left. She couldn't bear to lose you too. That's why I would leave."

"Thank you."

"Anytime, Olivera."

He saluted her with his gun and she left him to his thoughts of his woman and her reasons for leaving.

Twenty minutes later Alice came back out wrapping her scarf a little bit more snugly around her face. Kmart and Claire didn't say anything to her and just watched as the other woman walked to the Tanker and waited.

Kmart turned and hugged him and she didn't hesitate to cry as she clung to the man that had become the closest thing to a father in this desolate world. Claire was having a tougher time as she refused to give in to her tears but the effort cost her the ability to speak.

"You keep them safe, huh?" Carlos said gripping her hand like that night so many months ago.

"You got it." She managed to say and he hit her knuckles with his and walked away. He didn't look back but he heard her tell Kmart to "come here."

He saw Alice standing by the tanker but he wasn't ready to say goodbye just yet. He instead looked up at the top of the vehicle that would take his life and sighed. This was not the way he had wanted things to end. Hell when she'd kept the flames from roasting him alive, he'd thought that fate was finally going to give them a break.

He'd figured that surviving Raccoon City and then her death and her subsequent return to life had been enough punishment to grant him peace. Then they lost Angie and Jill was captured and a few months later Alice had vanished and then she'd miraculously returned and confessed how much she cared about him.

She explained why she left and he felt that finally they could have some happiness but fate is cruel to those it likes to play with. It showed when it allowed L.J. to go unnoticed long enough for him to turn and infect another.

Now they would never have a chance of exploring what was between them. He'd never get the chance to show her how much he loved her, how much he missed her all those years.

Knowing that they had no more time to waste on something that was not going to change, Carlos allowed himself one last encounter with his dear Alice. He was shocked to see that the woman that Umbrella so feared and wanted was completely falling apart before his eyes.

"Carlos, I-"

'I love you. Don't leave me. Don't do this. We can find another way.'

"Save it."

'I love you too. I don't want to. I have no choice. There is no other way.'

She nodded and he held her hand and for a wild moment he was tempted to pull her close and give her a reminder of him but it would be cruel in light of all those she already mourned so he stayed put. "Just promise me one thing. When you get down there…"

'Kill them all. Save the world. Live for me.'

"Consider it done."

'I will. There is no world to save without you. I'll try.'

He pretended not see the tears running her face. He had to be strong otherwise he'd back out and beg her to save him. Alice didn't seem to care or was not aware of how tenuous his resolve was for she pulled him to her and he could do nothing else but hold onto her as well.

He felt her desperation in the grip of her hands on his body. He buried his face in her neck and was grateful that he'd been able to have this moment, that even though nothing was going to change the fact that he was going to die, at least he got to go with the scent and feel of Alice on him.

He pulled back before she changed his mind and Alice surprised him further by pressing her lips against his in the sweetest farewell he could ever have imagined.

He longed to deepen the kiss, to explore the sensation and texture of her mouth with his but time and fate as usual were not on their side and he reluctantly pulled away. He pressed his forehead to hers and they remained that way for a few precious minutes.

Eventually she slowly let her arms fall from around him and he stepped out of their protective circle. Alice backed away just enough for him to pull the door open and climb into the truck. She stood and watched as he closed the door, effectively putting an end to their bittersweet story.