'I'm not Alice'.

'Then who...' The words seemed to fail me. My confusion apparently evident to 'Alice' as an amused smirk took residence on her face. Chris on the other hand, was prepared for trouble, using Alice's kukri as a defence. She caught sight of him, shaking her head slightly.

'Please, there is no need...sit, I'll tell you all you need to know.' She gestured towards the desk, white of course, and the empty seats that were beside it. Cautiously I did as she asked, Chris, however, refused to move.

'Fine, have it your way,' She chuckled at Chris, ''I'm Janus, and I'm Alice's favourite.'

'Favourite what? Sister?' Chris had a look of disbelief on his face at the imposter.

'Vocal aren't we? I'm a clone. I saved her life when we were down here together. She sent a helicopter full of survivors to Arcadia, and came down here to kill Dr Isaacs. He had returned from Vegas in an infected state I'm told, a new, stronger infection, derived from Alice's blood.' Janis Sat, placing her elbows on the desk and leaning against her hands. 'She found me, woke me up and I died in her arms...though I guess I wasn't really dead. She was attacked by a mutilated Isaacs, he healed every cut she made, fought just as hard as she did. They ended up in rooms of her past, built for training of the clones.'

I made to interupt, then changed my mind, mouth opening and closing like a fish.

'I'll come back to that' She reassured me. 'Anyway, she ended up in the laser room from the hive, a white corridor with laser grids as a defence for the red queen. She tricked him further into the room, so he'd get stuck in there too. She fully intended to die down there. That's where I come in. In the meantime, I had woken up again, the white queen showed me the cameras, she's the AI you met. And I stopped the laser, he died, she ?'

The smirk returned to her face at our confused looks. Questions ran through my head, but none connected from my brain to my mouth. Again, the fish impressions started as I tried to process the details. I looked to my brother, who seemed to be in the same alien place as I was. He shook his head.

'Clone training, why, and stronger infection?'

'Ah, the clones are obviously from Alice's DNA. Dr Isaacs thought the powers would be as strong in US as they were in her. But the t virus was weaker in us, whether it was the cloning process or just genetic mutations, he couldn't use us for an army, we weren't strong enough. That and we didn't follow his orders. He used parts of Alice's past as we are imprinted with her memories. Part of the mansion is where she used to live, as head of security for umbrella. The laser room is from the hive, the umbrella facility below raccoon city. It was here they developed the t virus. Alice was married to her partner as part of the cover, she was known as Alice Parks. Her real name is Janus Prospero, hence my name. When the clones died in training, samples of their blood was taken in hopes of finding a cure, then the bodies were disposed of.'

'I remember...' two sets of eyes were suddenly upon me.

'You're not coming?' I heard a distraught k-Mart ask our newly found friend. She shook her head, 'take care of the others, Claire' She dipped her head to me, then caught my eyes. In that minute, all the regret, the pain and the anger ran through her eyes. She had to do this, she had to avenge all the people she had lost. The ones she blamed herself for. When the man responsible was below her feet, how could I not let her go. One last teary smile later, and we were away, the chopper rising slowly off the ground. She was getting smaller and smaller. With my eyes focused on the skies, I didn't see the horror below me. 'Claire' a small, terrified voice called. 'Do you see that'. My eyes followed the direction of her pointing finger, finally resting on a trench filled with red. Looking closer, it was women, all in red dresses with black boots. All dead, all bloody, all Alice. 'Oh my God...'

'you saw the clones then?' Those eyes were still drilling into me, those perfect Alice eyes, ones I couldn't meet out of fear, love and God knows what else.

'My brain didn't click, I didn't realise humans could be cloned, sounds too much like a movie.'

'One of those bad sci-fis you used to watch.' Chris offered, smiling.

'Hey, you watched them too.' I countered, chuckling at his fake shocked face.

He sobered quickly. 'Alice is infected? Powers?'

'Her blood bonded with the t virus, made her strong, she healed quickly, was faster than your average human. And after raccoon city she developed other quirks such as telekinesis. Roasted some crows so I'm told.' Janus smiled brightly at me, ' her blood could cure them, it's why she sent you here, she intended to come back too, and help finish developing the cure. The clones blood wasn't strong enough, but it made the virus stronger and the undead were able to be controlled by umbrella. Her blood could cure them, but we need more.'

The answer didn't seem to quite satisfy him, something was still on his mind.

'What Chris?' I finally asked after a few minutes of prolonged silence.

'If she had these powers, why didn't she use them in the prison, or on Arcadia. If she had them, why didn't she save us Claire.'

Now that, was a very good point...

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A/N I'm sorry for the long wait for the update, I'll try harder to get regular updates up! This was sorta a filler chapter, I have a few ideas on where to take this but nothing definite, so if you have any ideas, let me know! As ever, please r&r, it means the world! X