September 22, 1998

Raccoon Police Department, Raccoon City

Night

Billy walked into the Police Station, doing his best not to attract any unwanted attention. He couldn't believe he was actually walking straight into the freaking Police Station of all things. He knew Rebecca would have pronounced him dead and all, but even so, it was pretty crazy for a death row fugitive to be walking straight into a Police Station. However dangerous it may have been, however, he didn't care. He wanted to get to Rebecca no matter what.

It was true that he'd gotten feelings for her. She was the only one who had ever even thought him of being innocent of what he was accused of. He knew he was innocent and it meant a lot to him that Rebecca had believed his side of the story. He was supposed to have left Rebecca in order to keep himself safe from being found, but he didn't know if she had made it out alright, and he was going to make sure.

He'd tried living a new life, but it was hard. He found some work here and there, but it wasn't anything that fun or exciting. He could only work unofficially for people who wanted cheap labor. The pay was awful and the hours were tough. Since him working there was illegal, there weren't any rules for how he should be treated. But even so, he was able to get the work done well and fast which made his bosses like him. That was the only reason why he was always paid on time.

But even so, he hated his life. Not one day went by that he didn't think of Rebecca. He wasn't sure what had happened to her and this made him get very paranoid. He had many dreams of her, some where he got married to her and others where she was dead and had blamed him for being the cause of it. Those dreams, no, nightmares had really haunted him and are part of the reason why he ditched his job and decided to hike all the way out here to Raccoon City in search of Rebecca. He knew what he was doing was beyond crazy, but he didn't care. He was just going to make sure Rebecca was okay, that was it.

Billy looked around. He stood in a large hall, a big RPD emblem laid across the floor in front of him. There was small office in front of him, a few doors here and there, and an upper walkway which wrapped around the hall. Billy walked over to the desk and approached a young woman who was working there.

"Excuse me." He said. The woman looked at him. "I'm looking for the STARS Office." He explained, hoping the woman would actually help him.

"The STARS are on suspension." She stated. "What is your business with them?" She asked in a serious tone. Billy sighed. From the looks of her, there wasn't going to be any way she'd let him go with just some sort of explanation. Unless, it was green. Billy handed her a twenty dollar bill from his wallet. The woman took it and then pointed to a door that was nearby. "Go through that door and up the staircase that is a little farther down. It'll be a door on your left." The woman explained.

"Thanks." Billy said and then turned to follow the woman's instructions. He wasn't sure how Rebecca would react to him just appearing here out of the blue, but he was going to see her no matter what. He had to, he just had to. A few minutes later and Billy was up the staircase and walking towards the STARS Office. There were many doors on his left and then he saw one further down that had STARS written on it. He walked towards it and then stopped. Was he really going to do this? He was very hesitant. Come all this way for nothing? No way. He reached for the doorknob and just as his hand neared it, it began to turn by itself. Someone was opening it.

Quickly, he spun around and pretended to be headed the other way.

"You sure you're okay, Rebecca?" A young woman had asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She said. "Don't worry." Billy smiled at hearing her gentle voice again.

"Alright, I'll see you tomorrow." The woman said.

"Goodnight." Rebecca said back. He heard footsteps come near him and then saw a young woman walk past him. It must've been the woman she was talking to just a second ago though he wasn't sure where Rebecca was. Did she go back inside? He didn't hear anything. He turned back to the STARS Office entrance and saw Rebecca looking straight at him with a gaze of shock. Billy sighed.

"What's up?" He asked, smiling. Rebecca took his arm and practically dragged him away from there. "Hey!"

"Shh!" She hushed him as she lead him back down the stairs. "What are you doing here?" She whispered loudly. "Are you crazy?"

"I uhh-" Billy would've gone on, but she hushed him again as she lead him out of the Police Station and into the cold, dark night. She led him farther down onto the sidewalk and looked around to see if anyone was nearby. No one was. She sighed with relief and then looked back to him.

"What's the matter with you?" She questioned. "I pronounced you dead." She stated. "You know what will happen if they find out you're really alive?"

"I know, I know." Billy stated. "It's just, I..."

"You what?" She questioned. She looked really irritated with him. Billy was expecting her to be happy that he'd come back for her, but she looked pissed. He suddenly felt stupid for doing this. What was he thinking? He became angry with himself and just couldn't tell her anything at all. Billy sighed.

"You know what, just forget it." Billy said and then walked past her.

"Hey, wait!" She called out to him, she must've started following him, though he didn't know for sure for he didn't even bother to look back. "Billy!"

"Look, I'll leave, okay?" He stated. "Go back to work."

"It's not that!" She said. "It's just, I don't want you getting hurt."

"Well, I can take care of myself, thank you very much." He stated in spite as he continued to walk away, his back to her.

"Billy, please!" She shouted. "I-" Just then, Billy heard her scream. He spun around and saw a zombie biting into her arm. He threw the zombie off of her and stomped it's head to pieces with his boot. How the hell did a zombie get here? He had no idea, but he had more important things to worry about. He quickly turned back to Rebecca to see if she was okay. She wasn't okay at all. She was holding her arm in pain, blood oozing out between her fingers. Billy lifted her hand up gently to examine the wound and saw that the zombie had bitten all the way through. She was infected, he knew it.

Billy was shocked, he froze up. His body became cold, so very cold, his heart especially. Rebecca began crying, Billy could tell she knew it well too. She was infected and there wasn't a damn thing either of them could do about it. Billy wanted to say something, anything, but he couldn't. It was too much, just too much. He lifted his gun out of his back pocket and looked at her. She nodded her head slowly as her tears flooded down her face. Billy began crying uncontrollably as he raised the handgun at her face and pulled the trigger.

A loud bang echoed throughout the city, a large puff of smoke filled the area in front of him, hiding Rebecca who had seemingly disappeared into the ground. Billy couldn't bear to look at her, he couldn't. He spun around and took off, running away as fast as he could. As he ran, he noticed more zombies popping up here and there. Large fires broke out and he could hear the screams of people being eaten alive by the monstrous beings. It was as if the world had just ended, his life had ended. He couldn't take how terrible what he had did was so he just kept running and running as if he could get away from what had had done. But he knew he couldn't. He'd gotten Rebecca infected, he'd gotten Rebecca killed.

He kept running and running, far away from the city and out into the surrounding forest. It was dark and he could not see well at all, but he didn't care and kept running in the same fast pace. Just then, he felt a large object hit his head hard. He fell to the ground and passed out. All the memories of the tragic event fading away as he fell into a deep slumber.