A/N: I have a lot of Claire feels right now and I have no idea why. It's probably RE 6's fault. So I write them down. Some of the things here are a bit spoiler-ish but not too much. Please review. =)
There where a lot of things no one knew about Claire Redfield.
How after every visit she paid Sherry she would come home and cry herself to exhaustion. It was worse when Leon's visits actually coincided with hers as well. After leaving Sherry she would hug Leon goodbye and run away. She just needed to be alone and bawl. Claire knew she needed to cry but she loathed to do so in front of other people and wondered, always, if it would stop.
The fact that Leon never flirted with her made her feel uncomfortable. It wasn't like she loved him loved him but it just felt wrong. He seemed to do it with every other woman. Why not her?
When her brother, Sherry or Leon didn't send word for over a week she almost always turned suicidal.
The guilt felt at letting Sherry get taken away and tested for eleven years God only knew how, because the little girl never told her what they did to her even as she grew older and neither did her caretaker, or how she lost Steve. She felt that the only reason that Sherry had to be tested was because she hadn't made the antidote in time. These were also the reasons why she started working with Terra Save. She couldn't stand to lose someone else.
She had written one letter every year on Sherry's birthday apologizing: for the G-Virus in her body, for not saving Annette and for not having found a way to save William and instead having killed him. She always wrote a PS.
"I will forever choose you no matter who the other person is. It will hurt you and me but you will live as normal a life as possible even if it kills me."
When Sherry was assigned her first mission Sherry only informed her after she was deployed because she knew that Claire would do anything in her power to stop her. So when she returned home with Leon by her side and Simmons no longer had a hand on her she just felt like hitting her, kissing her, scream at her and hug her all at once. She opted to cry her eyes out in her couch with Sherry hugging her and whispering sorry over and over again into her ear as Leon made some dinner.
If you rode on Claire's bike at any point in your life, to her, you were family.
After Raccoon she never had an actual romantic relationship with any man.
At Terra Save she always requested to work with children if it was possible.
In the six months that Sherry had disappeared without a word after leaving for her mission she did try to commit suicide. She woke up in a private hospital a few hours later with her Terra Save superior sitting next to her bed and her savior somewhat under her bed. His name was Will and he was a beautiful yellow and white Siberian Husky.