Heaven in Hell

A/N Chapter two, because chapter one was just a little tiny morsel anyway. Oh yeah, I almost forgot to mention, because this IS fanfiction, and it makes the story a little easier to believe if I do it this way…herbs are rare in the first place, and not everybody knows about the curative powers either.

First Aid sprays are SUPER rare in this story.

Just imagine this like there is a difficulty above very hard called "Real life" mode.

Disclaimer: I didn't own it on my last chapter, why would I own it now?

Chapter two – The start of the nightmare

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She was late…VERY late, it was almost 11:00 and she still hadn't shown up.

She was supposed to have been here an hour ago, but apparently blew me off for something or other, so I had moved from the table to my usual barstool.

"Hiya David." Will the greeted when I sat down, Cindy had asked if I needed anything when I sat at the table and I had said no, but the bar was Will's domain, "So how are you tonight? Can I get you a drink?"

I sighed and mumbled "My usual." Will was used to me being the quiet type, he didn't have to ask again, he simply said, "Comin' right up!" cheerfully and went to fetch me a glass.

Will came back and set my drink in front of me, "Put it-" I started, "-On your tab, I know David, no problem." Will said to me cheerfully.

Cindy flashed a smile towards Will and he blushed, it was always funny to watch those two, I was pretty sure that Will was gearing up to ask her to be his girlfriend, and I'm pretty sure Cindy would accept, they'd make a cute couple if she did.

Cindy was a real cutie; pleasant almost all the time it seemed, she was working, so she was dressed in her uniform.

My eyes floated over to Kevin, he was off duty at the moment and was just wearing blue jeans, a white tee shirt and a cowboy hat, but tucked underneath the shirt was Kevin's trusty 45. Automatic, a gun he had proudly shown me, telling me about it's stopping power.

Of course I was well aware of the gun, and it's stopping power long before he showed it off to me one night when he got just a little too drunk.

Kevin was doing what he did best, lose games of darts to George, the area's best doctor.

George was a quiet, respectable man; he looked like he was in his thirties or so, and despite his calm demeanor, if you watched you'd see that he was a man who worked out regularly, a short look at his muscles told a few stories all by themselves.

George had just gotten off work it seemed he was in his casual suit, laughing as one of Kevin's darts hit the wall, but under his laugh I think I sensed a sadness...must be my imagination.

I took a small sip of the drink in front of me; I didn't drink nearly as much as I used too, but there were good reasons for this.

I let my eyes wander to Jim, the subway agent, he too was doing what he did best, Crossword puzzles, I didn't linger on him too long. If he caught someone looking at him he automatically took it as the okay to start talking your ear off, I have never enjoyed being bugged and tonight I really wasn't in the mood for it.

My eyes shifted to Mark and Bob, they were security guards, and they both worked at some university uptown a little ways.

When their shift ended it was almost a sure thing that they would be coming to J's, and that must have been true for tonight as well because they were both still in uniform.

I noted that Bob looked a little sick at the moment, poor guy.

Then my eyes floated over to the last person in the bar tonight, the last of the regulars, Alyssa Ashcroft, she was a journalist for the "Raccoon News".

She was one of the better staffers on the paper too I must admit. She wasn't afraid to tackle any story no matter how big, and unlike some of her colleagues, she couldn't be bought off with a little spare change.

She was in her favorite red jacket, typing away today's news and tomorrow's headlines.

She was one of the few people in the place that got me curious, wanting to know more, but she wasn't exactly the type you'd go up and just start talking too, especially if she was busy…and she always seemed to be, so I wasn't going to chance it.

An unfamiliar person walked by as I was looking at Alyssa, I didn't catch a real good glimpse of her myself, but I noticed that Alyssa glanced back at her too. I looked at Alyssa and she looked at me, I noted the fact that her eyes were an interesting dark blue, somewhat purplish color before turning my view back to my glass, and then the TV.

I heard the charming barmaid Cindy let out a little yelp of surprise and then drop a glass that she had been carrying. On the floor was a rat, it quickly scurried into a hole in the wall.

"Why do I eat here so often again…?" I idly thought.

The front door opened and a hunched man walked in.

"Huh…? What a weird customer?" Will said quietly as he walked around the bar to meet the strange patron.

"Are you okay mister?" He asked putting his hand on the mystery mans' shoulder

The mystery man slowly lifted his hand and grabbed Will's arm, and then looked up.

The mystery man had a hideous face and what looked like wickedly sharp teeth, and without notice the man lunged forward and bit Will in the neck.

I was frozen, I couldn't move for a moment, Will managed to fight off the monster and lock the door.

It was then that all of us knew, at that exact moment, that we were all going to be put to the test, the test that would decide if we could survive, or if we would be killed like the people in the stories that Alyssa writes.

We knew that everything was about to change, and there was nothing we could do to stop it…

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A/N I know what you are thinkin', "This guy writes small chapters", you are correct, but when I get more reviews, I write more chapters, that way everyone ends up happy.

I also know that I changed some of the movements that happened in the beginning cut-scene… tough.

It's going to happen a lot.

I'm trying to turn Outbreak from an online game that almost everyone skips the movies in, into a story that may actually be entertaining so somebody, so I'm going to have to take some license, because if I don't you might as well just go read the strategy guide.

Besides, I always thought that Will just walking up to the zombie an standing there until the zombie bit him was a little stupid…

Reviewer notes…

Cannibal Jello, I'm happy to see I'm one of the few people on your favorite author list…even if I don't agree that David should be with Kevin, I do respect the idea and I suppose it's POSSIBLE. Even though David is a manic-depressive and Kevin is an optimist…still and all, I think that the two most stubborn characters make a cuter couple…that and I like straight pairing better than not so straight pairings…

Redfield, thanks and I agree, while somewhat…odd… Cannibal Jello seems to be pretty cool, and despite the fact I'm not a slash writer, or reader, the stories that I have read that were done by Cannibal Jello are pretty good.

Thais: Thanks.