Resident Evil

Already Taken

A Chris Redfield & Jill Valentine Story

Introduction: Welcome! This is my very first Resident Evil story. This will feature a series of self-contained chapters that aren't necessarily linked to one another. This will feature Chris and Jill together in many different events in their lives. The chapters will definitely contain spoilers, so please be prepared for that.

This prologue will take place during Revelations for the Nintendo 3DS and is after the scene in Chapter 8. No real spoilers.

With that out of the way, review if you like, but it's not necessary to do.

Enjoy!


Prologue

Sometime in 2005

2:20 am

Queen Zenobia, Ventilation Area

After walking through the door and exiting the casino; Jill Valentine walked beside Chris Redfield, her long time partner, friend, brother-in-arms at the BSAA and her lover. After the ship violently shook just a few moments ago, she watched as Jessica Sherawat held onto to Chris a lot longer than she liked, but also was grinning inwardly at Chris' reaction to Jessica being all touchy-feely with him. He wasn't comfortable with that, especially during a mission that was a life and death situation.

Of course, she knew that there was one exception.

She looked at Chris and a smile appeared on her lips, the first true smile she could bring out during this hellish night on the Queen Zenobia. She watched Chris kneel down and point his gun and flashlight down the ladder to the ventilation shaft. He turned his head and motioned that it was safe to go.

Chris stood up and before he dropped down he turned his head again, he noted Jill smiling at him. He turned completely and looked at her.

"You look happy." Chris stated, he looked her square in her beautiful eyes and was mesmerized by her face. She never needed make-up to look gorgeous. Even amongst all the death and chaos, he still took time to revel in her perfection.

Jill chuckled. "It's great seeing you that's all."

Chris let a smile develop on his own face, his first in a number of days. Hearing her voice earlier and then seeing her in person was important to him. He felt a sense of relief at seeing the woman he loved and was glad she wasn't injured or worse. He knew he could trust Parker Luciani to watch her back and keep her safe and as he expected; that was the case.

"Same here." Chris turned and dropped down into the ventilation shaft. He stepped forward and turned to watch Jill drop down behind him.

"We've still got a job to do." Chris became serious and spoke in a stern voice.

"Yeah, I know." Jill replied with the same seriousness. She looked at his handsome face and was reminded of her reasons for falling for him.

"But," Chris said. He approached Jill and gently gripped her right shoulder. "We'll have plenty of time to relax together after this is over."

Jill reached up with her left hand squeezed Chris' gloved hand. Smiling warmly, she gave one last long look in Chris' eyes before speaking again.

"Sounds like a plan."

Chris let go and nodded, he turned and walked towards the opening and slipped his gun back in it's holster attached to his hip and dropped down into the water.

Jill followed and holstered her gun and dropped down next him. Before they were about to dive, she had to ask him one thing first.

"What's up between you and Jessica?" Jill asked, her tone wasn't accusatory, but there was a hint of jealousy, though not very much.

Chris turned his head and smirked, he knew why she asked, Jessica held onto to Chris a little too tightly earlier and she was far to flirtatious when he was working with her. He was relived that he could work with Jill for the rest of this mission and Jessica was now Parker's headache.

"She's a partner. Nothing more." Chris replied.

"Good." Jill said, she smirked back and shot Chris a playful look. "She's not good enough for you anyway."

Chris nodded his head and gave her the same playful expression. "And you know I'm a one woman man."

"As you should be." Jill said. She smiled and then took a deep breath and dived into the water.

Chris smiled and took a deep breath and dived in after her. He already got the hint about Jessica's attraction to him, but she better have gotten the hint about how he felt about Jill. He just hoped after this mission was over he could show Jill how much she meant to him.


Next: August 1998.