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A/N: This is my 1st Resident Evil fic so please don't make fun of me or I just might have to go and cry now.

Chapter 1

Bang! Scrape. Bang! Scrape...

Skyler Wears awoke with a start, listening to the sound at his door and trying to be as quiet as he possibly could. The banging and scraping stopped and Skyler started to breath normal once again. The fear was beginning to edge away slowly and Skyler got up and walked to the bathroom and rinse his face.

Skyler is only about 19 years old, with his blonde hair a mess, his ice blue eyes dim and with his ragged blood stained and dirty clothes he wasn't much to look at. Coming in at around only 150 lbs and at about 6'1" he looked all to skinny.

Skyler has been staying in a hotel room for about two and a half weeks now. He had been staying with a friend of his but a couple of days ago his friend had left and never returned.

Alex had been Skyler's friend for almost 8 years. Alex was just a few months older than Sky but he acted much younger. Alex had scruffy light brown hair and bright green eyes. About 5'9 and 137 lbs, he had looked a lot healthier than Skyler.

"Help!" A voice screamed inside Skyler's mind, "Help me!"

"No," Sky whispered quietly, "No. no. No!" His whisper quickly turned into a scream, a scream of panic and terror.

"Oh God!" Came the voice, which was now more or less just a moan.

"Stop. please just stop," Skyler begged aloud, "Make it go away."

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A shadow of his former self, Alex stood just outside the window to the room that he and Skyler shared.

"Oh Skyler," Alex watched Skyler through the window with concern for his friend, "What has happened to you?"

Alex's head drooped as he watched Skyler walk back over and crawl into his bed, slowly, and he noticed Sky was staring at the empty bed that he himself once occupied. Alex whispered quietly as he walked to the door, "It's okay Sky. I'm back now."

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Skyler glanced over at the bed his friend had once slept in. A sudden sadness crept up within him. A sadness for all that has happened for all that he has lost and for what he knows, is yet to come.

Closing his eyes but not even coming upon sleep Sky thought he heard something at the door. Something began to turn the doorknob.

Skyler jumped up out of his bed and immediately went for the gun that he carried everywhere with him. It was a Colt automatic .45 caliber though small it was better than nothing. Skyler backed into a corner of the room and pointed the gun at the door ready to fire if anything came crashing through.

"Don't shoot me!" A familiar voice called from the other side of the door making Skyler jump when he realized that it was human, "Damn you Skyler."

"Alex?" Skyler's voice wavered with the emotions within him, "Is that you?"

"Yes it's me," Alex replied as he opened the door and walked in then turned shut the door and locked it.

"But. but," Skyler didn't know what to say, wasn't even sure of what to do, "You."

"I'm fine," Alex reassured with his normal boyish smile on his face.

"I thought you died," Sky became suddenly resentful about Alex not letting him know sooner that he was just fine.

"I'm sorry but I couldn't get back hear," Alex looked genuinely sorry, "Look it's a long story and I'm exhausted. Can I tell you tomorrow? If I don't get to sleep I feel I might pass out at any moment."

"Yeah," Skyler's anger seemed to have lessoned a little, "I'm actually really tired myself. Haven't been sleeping well lately. Something big has been hanging out around here. I hear it usually in the early hours of the morning. I'll tell you about that tomorrow. We can both fill each other in on some things."

"All right," Alex agreed as he pulled off his shoes and pants, leaving himself in only his boxer's and a shirt, "Good night Skyler."

"G'night Alex," Skyler said then yawned as if to prove to Alex that he really was tired. Skyler got under the covers and closed his eyes.

3

An hour had passed and Skyler still lay awake. He hadn't been lying about not sleeping well; he had hardly been sleeping at all in fact. Next to him he could hear the soft sounds of Alex breathing gently, almost peacefully, which was hard to do in the God for saken place.

"Lucky for you," Skyler whispered at the still and sleeping form of his buddy, "Wish that I could have a good night like that."

Feeling somewhat sour that his friend could sleep so easy where as he could not, Sky pulled himself once again out of his bed and began to pace the room. Stopping briefly he glanced up and out of the window. huh? Skyler thought that he had seen some sort of movement just past an old broken down car.

"I'm must really be losing it now," Skyler sighed warily to himself.

"I saw it too," Sky jumped as Alex put his hand on his shoulder and spoke.

"I thought you were sleeping," Sky mumbled feeling rather stupid and childish at jumping like that.

"I was," Alex said calmly as he continued to stare out past the car, "I heard you get up though and it woke me up I guess. Just because I can fall asleep easy it doesn't mean I'm a heavy sleeper," it was almost as if he knew what Skyler had been thinking, "I wake up really easy actually. Very slight sounds cause me to come back to."

"Wouldn't have gotten up if I knew it would wake you," The apology sounded lame even to himself.

"Don't worry about it. So was that the thing you've been hearing?"

"No. At least I don't think so."

"Well how can you not know for sure?"

"I've never actually seen it before."

"You've never seen it? Then how do you know it's big?"

"Well with the noise it makes I just assume that it's big, that's all."

"Oh."

"Yeah."

"So what do you think that was?" Alex's question seemed only half innocent, only half unknowing.

"It looked human to me," Sky said with great conviction, "Don't know if it was zombie or not though. I think maybe I'll go check it out. just to make sure."

"You can't go alone," Alex spoke up, "Not if you think there's something big out there."

"I'll be fine," Skyler tried to reassure not only Alex but also himself, "I need you to stay back here just in case there is something. Watch from the door and be ready to shoot if anything comes after me. If I don't make it I want you to make sure you get out of hear safely. Got it?"

"Yeah but you'll be fine," Alex smiled but it held little assurance in it.

"Of course I will," Skyler's smile was an exact copy of Alex's.

Skyler walked hesitantly out the door, scared though he tried not to be. The fear he felt continued to rise with each step he took away from the door, from his safety. Though in truth if something wanted in there wasn't that much holding them out so it was as safe as they tried to believe.

Crrassh!

Startled Skyler jumped and watched in horror as a lid to a garbage can came rolling towards him, a few feet away from him.

"What was that?" Alex called from their room.

"Just a lid to a garbage can," Sky yelled back in a shaky voice. Just a lid...

Deciding not to pursue whatever was out there until morning Skyler turned around and headed back for the dingy apartment room. He felt as if he were being watched, not just from Alex, no, he was sure that someone was behind him. staring.

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The stranger watched from the shadows, looking on with intense uneasiness, unsure of what would happen next. Not positive that they had been spotted they kept as quiet and still as possible so as not to let the other's know their position. Body rigid and mind racing as the blonde approached they backed away knocking into a trashcan and sending the lid crashing straight for the blonde.

"What was that?" The boy with brown hair called out.

"Just a lid to a garbage can," The blonde yelled back in a shaky voice. The person almost ran for them when he heard them speak, but fear held them back so they remained in to shadow's afraid to go to the other's but desperately wanting to. The person in the shadow wanted to have some more company, people who could help them, help protect them maybe even be able to help them get out.

Finally they retreated back down the alley, took a right, then a left and crawled through a small hole in the side of an old pizza parlor.

"Did you find them Teel?" A young female voice asked quizzically.

"Yeah I found them," He replied sounding somewhat frazzled.

"Well?" The girl persisted.

"Look Desiree I didn't talk to them," Teel sighed just wanting to be left alone for the moment.

"Why?" Desiree seemed completely irate that he hadn't spoken to the others.

"We can't trust them for sure," Teel snapped at his little sister, "Now just drop it."

"Fine," Desi's anger hadn't lessoned in the least bit, "I'm going to bed so don't bother me!"

"Don't worry I wont," Teel responded through gritted teeth, "I wont have to."

Teel turned and walked away to a small back room that served as his bedroom where he slowly shut the door. There was a click that echoed through the empty place as Teel put the lock on the door in place. Shutting himself away from the world outside.
A/N: I hope that you all enjoyed my story and if you didn't well then. that is just to bad cause there's nothing I can do about that. Well please people R&R my stories. I would really, really appreciate it. Thanx!