Chapter 1
Thursday 25th September 2031
""Happy 18th Birthday Piers!" The crowd applaud in cheer and joy. Balloons and confetti everywhere. The garden filled with mostly rowdy teenagers. The weather was perfect for an outdoor party. The pool was open for everyone if they chose to go for a quick dip. The party was a great surprise for the birthday boy, friends and family sharing their best moments of the young man's life. Baby pictures hung around on the fence's all around the garden, school pictures we're in plain sight of everyone on the buffet table.
"Piers! Come over here!" a small blonde girl called from one side of the pool, as the birthday boy came into view from the house, he stood tall, short brown spiky hair similar to his fathers when Chris was roughly his age, piercing blue eyes looking out to the blonde girl calling to him. He wore dark red and black swimming trunks that hung from his well toned hips, his body filled with muscle.
"Alright I'm coming Rosa!" he called over. Making his way over to Rosa he continued to get birthday greetings from his friends, getting distracted by everyone he almost didn't see his father stepping out in front of him blocking Pier's path.
"Happy Birthday son" Chris threw an arm over his son's shoulders and started leading him away from the pool "come with me for a minute Piers, your mother and I want to give you something.. don't worry we wont keep from you're girlfriend for too long".
"What is it? I haven't asked for any presents, you both have given me so much already with the party" Piers states, Chris walks him away from the party and all the guests, the loud talking and music begins to fade in the distance as they slowly stroll back into the house and upstairs to the master bedroom, where Jill was sitting penitently waiting.
"Happy Birthday Piers" Jill swiftly gets to her feet and throws her arms around her son neck, squeezing him tightly before pulling away cupping her hands on his cheeks pulling his head down and kissing his forehead. "I'm so proud of you, you make me the happiest mother ever"
"Thanks mum" Piers pulls away looking into his mother's eyes. "you guys mean so much to me" pulling her in for another hug but with his arms protectively cradling Jill's shoulders. The moment was ruined by Chris as he spoke while holding a rectangular black box.
"We're both very proud of you Piers, with you being head captain on your football team, and for being there for your sister when she needed you. You're old enough now Piers to have this" Chris handed over the black box to his son. Opening it, Piers' jaw dropped, laying on a bed of Cyan silk was a 14" survival knife with a red handle, the pure titanium blade caught the sunlight, as the sun skimmed across the blade Piers noticed the engraved writing...
"Redfield" Piers said aloud.
"Do you like it son?" Chris asked. Placing his arm over Jill's shoulders pulling her close into his muscular frame.
"Mom.. Dad.." looking back down at the elegant weapon in his arms. "Thank you.. thank you so much!" putting the box down on his parents cream, silk bed and rushing into the arms of his parents.
"oh! Almost forgot" Jill said before squeezing herself out of the strong arms that surrounded her. Darting off to her walk-in-closet, after a few seconds she walked out with another box, but this box was a lot smaller, about the size of the palm of her hand. "we had this made for you not long after you were born. And we've waited all this time to give it to you for your 18th" handing the box over to her son. Piers looked puzzled by yet another gift from his parents. Opening the box carefully realising that the box is indeed a jewellery box. Inside was a silver pendant, the pattern engraved around the outside was some kind of swirl, there was something else engraved in the middle.
"R?" Piers pulled the pendant out to examine it closely.
"The R stands for Redfield sweetheart. Just like your fathers. This pendant is a symbol of who you are and that no matter what dangers you may face, hope will always be there for you" Jill explained.
"Thank you" pulling the pendant out of its box and putting it on. "I love you mom" pulling Jill into yet another hug and kissing her forehead. Pulling away and turning to his father "Love you too old man" giving Chris a manly hug.
"Love you too son.. now you'd better get back down to your party and your lovely girlfriend" leading Piers to the door and winking at him. Piers hurried out the door and back to his party. "He's growing up so fast" Chris spoke just as Jill wrapped her arms around Chris' waist from behind.
"Yeah, he reminds me of you when you were young." Jill giggles into his back, feeling how warm he is.
"I hope not, I was a big trouble maker when I was 18" they both laughed before Chris turned around and holding his wife in his arms, stroking her back and hair with his fingertips.
"I don't think he will ever be a trouble maker, he takes after me far to much" closing her eyes at Chris' gentle touch
"yeah he does, he is such a mommy's boy"
"He might be a mommy's boy but Kimiko is definitely a daddy's girl" pulling out of Chris' hold and looking up into his deep brown eyes. Raising her arms from his waist to round his neck, pushing herself up onto her tip-toes, pulling Chris into a deep passionate kiss.
Pulling away too soon looking back at his beautiful wife "Come on Jill, lets go join the others" walking hand in hand downstairs back to the party.
"Chris! Jill!" the familiar voice of Claire Kennedy. Claire and Leon both arrived at the party with their daughter River. "sorry we're late, but someone was taking too long doing their hair. Not naming any names, Leon and River" crossing her arms over her chest, looking between both her husband and daughter.
"it's not my fault.. I didn't know what to do with it" the young voice called out to her mother before looking at her father who was laughing
"you defiantly take after your father, it's scary" Claire giggled before feeling a pair of warm hands placed on her hips and a few wet kisses on her neck.
"And you love us no matter how much we are alike" Leon whispered in her ears before moving his hands from her hips to wrapping his arms around her waist pulling her body close to his.
"Hands of my sister Kennedy." the moment ruined by Chris' stern voice as he and Jill approached the couple. Leon stays put knowing that Chris means ever word he says but is still willing to disobey the big guy.
"Chris I'm a fully grown woman, I've been married for 17 years, and I have a daughter I don't need my over protective brother anymore" Claire holds onto Leon's arm tighter making sure that he wont let go of her.
"I'm still your big brother and I don't care who he is I still want to look out for you"
"knock it off both of you.." Jill spoke up, pulling Claire from Leon's grasp. Leon and Chris walked off to get themselves and their wives a drink. "Claire it's good to see you, you look lovely." Claire was wearing a light red vest top with blue denim, Jean shorts, her hair was pulled back into her signature pony-tail with a pair of sunglasses resting on her head.
"Thank Jill, you saved us once again" giggling at the fact that only Jill can keep Chris tamed . "you look stunning as always" Jill wore a simple light Blue summer dress, revealing a bit of cleavage, the dress had a white sash wrapped around the waist. Her hair was long but curly, her brown locks reached just below her shoulders. "where's my nephew? I haven't given him my love yet"
"He's over by the pool with his girlfriend" rolling her eyes at Claire, smirking.
"A girlfriend? Since when?" looking over Jill's shoulder searching for her nephew and this girlfriend of his.
"Since 4 months ago, he kept her secret from us, we only found out about her 2 weeks ago" Jill crosses her arms over her chest. "but she's a good girl, we like her"
"well I had better meet this girl, I'll be right back, then I can tell you what Leon and I got up to last night" winking to Jill before walking past her looking for her nephew. Jill watched as she left, thinking back when Claire was a teenager, she experienced her first apocalypse in Raccoon. She's been through a lot.. we've all been through a lot..placing her hands over her chest where heput that device on her.
The ice cold table was not comforting at all, the large white room was blinding. Jill lay on her back, waking up from such a long slumber. Trying to take in her surroundings. She tried to sit up but couldn't. "what the..." she spoke as she lifted her head. Looking down her body noticing that she's not wearing her BSAA outfit but a blue, purple and black one-piece catsuit. The zip wasn't fully to the top revealing some skin of her chest. Confused with what she's wearing, trying to lift her hand up to feel the suit but found her arms and legs held down to the table with metal cuffs. Struggling against the restraints a familiar voice speaks out to her, causing her to freeze in place. "you don't want to be doing that Jill, you might hurt yourself my dear."
looking over to the voice in question.
"Wesker..." panic written all over her face, now she really wanted to get off the table, who knows what he will do to her. "what? Aren't you happy to see me?" he smirked. "what the hell are you going to do to me!" anger begins to take over as Jill doesn't give up her fight. "it's not what I'm going to do to you, but it's what I've already done to you" walking over to a table behind Jill's head. "you see Jill, you've been in cryogenic stasis for 2 years. And while you were sleeping I used your blood and antibodies to perfect uroboros." "what? What have you done to me?" Jill asked in disbelief. Thinking about the last thing she remembered, its was her and Chris at the Spencer mansion, jumping out the window with Wesker. "Redfield has been at the point of breakdown after your death." he continued to mix some chemicals. "It will break his heart even more when you kill him" "what?" still in shock with what he's saying. "I will not kill him, in fact I promise you Wesker, if I don't kill you Chris certainly will!" shouting at him. Before she could continue her range a hand was gripped round her throat tightly squeezing hard. Looking at the mad man with glowing red eyes, struggling more than ever to get out the cuffs and defend herself from him. "Chris won't get the chance to get near me since you will be working for me, and will be under my control. Now be a good girl and be still." releasing her, and reaching behind her head. She began coughing and gasping for air. She didn't get time to react before a cold metal disk with a big red gem was place on her exposed chest. It looked like some sort of spider, it had 6 legs that stretched out. Before the legs hooked themselves into her skin, connecting to each other under her flesh. The pain was agonising for her. "There you go Jill, your complete." smirking at her before pressing a button that released her from the cuffs and table. Quickly sitting up and getting to her feet, wobbling as she stood grabbing the table behind her for support, her head began getting more fussy as she tried to focus. "what the hell have you done to me.." holding her head in pain before stumbling forward, landing on her knees. "very impressive, maybe I should up the dosage?" Wesker said as he grabbed a red gem like the one already on the so-called spider. He approaches Jill, grabbing her by her throat again, pulling her to her feet before pressing a few buttons on his phone. Suddenly the red gem fell of the spider. "Keep still, this won't hurt much" placing the new red gem on the device. Dropping Jill on the table before taking a few steps back. "Come and attack me Jill" crossing his arms over whilst he continued to smirk. "you son of a bitch! I'm gunna to kill you!" she gets to her feet, before charging at him with everything she's got. Wesker just stands there with an even bigger smirk on his evil face. "Stop" he speaks as he presses a button. Suddenly Jill stops where she is and grabs her head in pain. It hurts a lot more than the last time, she can't stop herself from falling hard to the floor curling up into the fetal position, not knowing how long she's been screaming at the pain when the pain starts to subside. "Get up" his words echo through her mind, not being able to controlling her body, she gets to her feet and stands facing him, her facial expression, unreadable. "Good now, you hate Chris Redfield. You want him eliminated!" "Chris Redfield, must be destroyed. You tell me when you want me to perform my mission sir." her words were stern, and full of anger. "Good, now then, lets go, we've got work to do" Wesker put on his sunglasses and headed for the door. "oh and wear this my dear.." he hands her a black hooded cape and a bird like black mask with red eyes. She follows orders and put them on without any questions. "Perfect." he turns around and the both head into an elevator, leading them up and outside into a huge deserted area, it was very hot outside, the sun was setting giving the area an orange glow. "Welcome to Africa Jill.."
"oh god! Chris!" she whispered loud enough for Wesker to just about hear.
"Mom?" a young voice snapped Jill back into reality. Looking down seeing her daughter Kimiko. Kimiko was wearing an orange flower bikini top with matching shorts, her long brown hair was pulled back into a low ponytail, if it weren't for her brown eye she would be the spitting image of her mother.
"Kimiko, what is it dear?" walking over to her daughter and pulling her into a quick hug.
"You okay? You kinda spaced out there?" lifting an eyebrow.
"Yes, I'm fine, just enjoying the sun while we have it." she lied. "River's here somewhere, I think she went to find your brother-"
"Actually I wanted to ask you if I can go out tonight.. with a friend.." tapping her fingers together nervously.
"It's your brothers birthday, and for the record I don't like you being out late.. who is this friend of yours?"
"Just a friend, he wants to take me to see a movie tonight."
"he? Who is he? What's his name?"
"he's name is Ryan, he's just a friend from class, please mom I really want to go"
"what time?"
"the movie starts at 9"
Letting out a sigh "I'll think about it.."
Kimiko looks at her mother knowing the answer already is no. "you never let me go out after dark, I'm 16 years old! Piers can stay out until 11 so why can't I? I can look after myself or have you forgot about the self-defence you taught me?"
"That's enough Kimiko. You might be 16 young lady but you are to abide by mine and your fathers rules. I have no doubt that you can't look after yourself, I just don't want you being out when it's late. You know your curfew is 9pm. And your brother is older and it's taken a lot of trust and respect from him for us to allow him to stay out longer. When you're older, you can stay out longer but for now, no." feeling frustrated with her daughters constant outbursts about staying out late. "Look no more talking about this, it's your brothers birthday."
"But-" Kimiko trys to speak before Jill puts her hand up.
"No, I said I'll think about it. No more of this" looking straight into her daughters eyes. Not another word was spoken between the two, just as Chris and Leon arrived back with the drinks.
"One bud for my darling wife" Chris handed her a bottle of budweiser. Noticing the silence Chris speaks up. "everything okay here?" neither of the women speak until Kimiko just turns and walks away. "Kimiko?"
"Don't talk to me!" causing a slight scene.
"What's up with her?" Chris turns to look back at Jill. She explains what had happened between them.
"She's not going out with some boy." gripping drink his tightly, Causing Jill and Leon both to smile at his rage.
"Over protective brother AND father." Leon joked, making Jill giggle.
"Shut the hell up Leon." looking to his brother-in-law.
"Chris calm down, I'm just as concerned as you. maybe we should sit down with her and tell her about Raccoon, Umbrella, China and Africa.." placing a gentle hand on his shoulder, Chris seemed to relax a little. "Leon I think, you should tell River aswell. It would be for the best." giving her attention to Leon.
"Yeah, River's been getting a little annoyed about her curfew aswell. Tell you what, Me and Claire will bring River round one day next week and we can tell them together?"
"sounds like a good idea." Jill smiles.
"I better go find the Mrs, don't want her giving all her love to my nephew, I need some of that action" winking at Jill before heading off into the party searching for Claire.
"you think it's right for us to tell the girls?" sadness filled Jill's voice.
"Yeah, we can't keep them hidden from the secret forever.. They'll be fine Jill." Pulling his wife into a comforting cuddle.
"I hope you're right. We can have Piers with us, I am kinda glad that we told him, he's been amazing with his sister, looking out for her because of those bullies. He'll help shed some light on the situation."
"I love you Jill." Chris kisses her head whilst stroking the back of her head and top of her back.
"I love you too Chris."