Steve walked into the facility, Ryu and Kirrin flanking him, the trio dressed in black, Mikhail was the first one to see them and ran up hugging Ryu, who picked the boy up noting the tear stains. "Where's Marina-san?"

"People took her. She sent me back to Wesker."

That caused Steve to pause mid step. "How long ago?"

"Two hours, we're already looking for her Steven, I don't want you going on this; your feelings for her might cloud your judgment." Wesker's voice came. He had known for a while about the two of them, it hadn't been hard to figure out, he was still curious to know if there would be offspring from it, not that he'd say anything about thinking of it as a science experiment to them.

"Like Hell! This isn't Sherry we're talking about." The red head glared at Wesker as he spoke.

"Wesker is correct, your feelings will cloud your reactions if she is harmed." Kirrin touched Steve's arm. "Brother and I can deal with them, then you can join us."

"I want to go. I lost her. Please Daddy Wesker, can I go?"

There was a chuckle from Birkin at the child's question. "I'll need help here. Why don't you stay behind, if your friend is hurt I'll need to have equipment ready to help." He didn't like the idea of the kid going and looked at Wesker to make sure the other man knew it.

"He's right, Mikhail, you stay here with Dr. Birkin."

"Albert, you should stay too, you're not healed yet." He looked at the taller blond.

Wesker glared a moment, Birkin was right after all. "Then Steve, you and Mikhail fetch Sherry, by force if necessary." That got a glare from William.

"Within reason, she is my daughter after all; and the only one able to fully control the G."

Mikhail looked at Steve.

"I'll bring her alive, conscious I can't promise Doc." Steve sighed a little. "And don't worry, I won't damage her too much. Wes needs her blood still, so can't have her wasting energy to heal herself." He glanced at Mikhail, "Come on let's go." Steve glanced back at him, then Wesker and the others. "Get Marina back. I'll get our wayward princess."

Mikhail bit his lip but followed Steve, if it was his orders then he'd follow them. Steve usually hated being stuck with him.

"Burnside don't worry, you know we'll get her back."

William glanced over to where Wesker was lying. He knew the taller blond wasn't asleep. The two of them had both needed a break which is why Wesker had gone to lie down.

"You know you make a lot of noise when you stand there right?" Golden eyes looked at crystal blue.

"Sorry," He sighed holding out the coffee cup he had brought. "You know there's a chance even filtering her blood it might not work this time Albert. I've been running through everything again. Her's is closer to yours, but if it doesn't work, we're going to have to…"

"It will work, filter it through someone else and it will work, it's why Mikhail was infected." Wesker felt guilty about it by would never admit it to William. "Marina and Sherry refused to let us destroy him in the first stages of his mutation."

"I was going to ask… Why a child, wasn't Sherry's childhood enough?"

"We didn't think he'd survive, Sherry was the one that found him in the labs. By then he was already weak. The kid had been hiding for a month before we got there." Wesker stayed calm; in his current condition he knew he couldn't fight Birkin. "His father was already playing with your precious virus. Got himself killed by it too."

"He didn't feel right…"

"Since then he's had a few changes. I don't know what, only Marina and Sherry know. Marina had contacts that she used to get the kid to Italy to work with him. That was about two years ago." He sighed.

"You let her out of your sight before?"

"She thinks you're dead William, she has no need to look into what happened then. And I let her think she was leaking information, I knew the game she was playing. I needed to know if she'd be able to finish the task needed of her."

"I didn't come back just to watch you use my daughter as a lab rat."

"No you came back because that idiot Kennedy, whom she's so fond of helping, couldn't do the job right. Just like I'm back because Redfield couldn't do the job, so we're stuck in the middle of this damn thing while Sherry should have already taken over the company and be turning it around fixing our damn mistakes, isn't that right?" Wesker's voice was still perfectly calm. "We put this in motion when we took out Marcus. Since then things at the top have changed. The kids, even the damn mistake Burnside, are going to have to be tougher to win. If that means we have to become the monsters to them then we will. You and Annette both agreed on that when we planned this."

"That was when we both thought that we would be there to guide her properly. You've turned her into a soldier. We didn't want that for her."

"If things hadn't been moved forward because of Chris's poking around…" Wesker sighed; he didn't want to have this argument with Birkin. "You want her to know you're alive now don't you? You know she's going to hate you for hiding. After all it's been ten years."

"She'll hate me more if I don't try to talk to her before we stick a needle in her arm."

Wesker nodded. He hated being too weak to do anything, but the look on William's face he knew what he was going to have to do. "Fine, we'll give you two a day."

William nodded. "Good, now really, you should go rest in the room I set up for you Albert. You need the rest while you're body's still healing. We don't need you losing control in the middle of the process. I don't know how strong the kids are, but you at full strength just happens to be well beyond my capabilities to handle, and we'll have Sherry strapped down."

Author's note: OMG I'm so sorry for not updating this lately, I've been doing stuff for my shops and trying to get two sites up and running, not to mention all my original writing I've been doing lately. I'll try to get at least three chapters up this week. Hopefully this one makes sense.

*Huggles* I'm so sorry I'm slacking!