A.N: This is the last pre-written chapter I have, so I'm sorry to say I can't guarantee how soon the next update is going to be. I do promise to try and write it as soon as I can. Until then, here's Jill again.

Chapter 9

Jill woke in the medical room to a loud, reptilian scream. How did I…Oh, yeah, I got hot and dizzy, then passed out after I got back into the mansion from that stupid lying wall panel. Checking her leg, she was surprised to see that the bandages had been changed, and that there was something placed over the wounds besides the bandages. Looking around the room, she found that her berretta and shotgun were lying on the box next to the shells and clips she was carrying. She checked her pockets, but the key she found wasn't there; it had been replaced by a note.

Jill,

I found you collapsed with a fever by the back door and brought you here. Somehow, a bunch of reptilian things managed to bust down the front door and swarmed the place, and killed off almost all the zombies. I locked the door so that they can't get at you.

Sorry for taking the key from you, but we really need to get out of here fast and you really aren't in any condition to go anywhere yet. Try not to go anywhere if you wake up before I come back to check on you.

Barry

Something's wrong. Barry wouldn't leave me like this, no matter how bad the situation was. Getting up and finding she could walk a little better than before, she grabbed her stuff off the box, then walked over to the bookshelf and grabbed a pen. Picking up the note from where she left it on the cot, she wrote her own note on the back of Barry's:

Couldn't stay. Will try and find you.

Jill

Stepping outside, she taped the note to the door and headed upstairs to the helmet door she couldn't get into earlier. Finding it unlocked, she stepped inside to find a tiny trophy room full of stuffed animals, with a step stool strangely placed near the moose's head on the right wall. Using it to look at the head up close, she would've missed the blue gem used as its left eye due to how well it blended in, if it wasn't for her father's training on spotting hidden things like that. That tiger statue is still missing an eye; maybe it goes there.

Carefully removing the gem, she pocketed it and left the room. Heading back downstairs, she stopped halfway down the stairs when she heard the shrieking that woke her earlier again. The noise repeated, and what appeared to Jill to be an overly large, two legged lizard lumbered into view. Stopping in front of the stairs, it turned to look up at her, then, with another ear-splitting shriek, it charged at her. Forcing herself to move, Jill barely managed to get out of the way before it slashed her torso, then swung her shotgun around and knocked it back a few inches before she emptied two rounds into its face. Its brains scattered all over the railing, it silently fell dead on the stairs. Catching her breath, she continued down and causally rounded the next corner, but didn't run into another one until she opened the door leading into the next hall. She got the jump on the first two, but didn't notice the third one until it pounced on her. Jamming the shotgun into its mouth, she blasted the top of its head off, then practically threw it off her.

Getting up, she swallowed the bile in her throat as she wiped as much of the gore off herself as she could before reloading the shotgun and entering the tiger statue room again. Placing the blue gem into the last empty eye socket, it rotated around the opposite way to reveal a case of acid rounds. Grabbing them, she made her way to the other side of the mansion to where the last locked door was that required a key; she still hadn't found the code for the door upstairs yet. By the time she got there, she had killed another three hunters (she found the name in a bit of some torn report in the dining room, and it seemed to fit them), two zombies, and the largest spider she had ever seen in her life, leaving her with only five shotgun shells and her fifty-nine handgun rounds (rounds inside the gun included). Reaching for the handle, she stopped when she heard footsteps heading in her direction. Whipping around, she quickly lowered her gun when she realized it was Barry. "Thank God you're okay. I got worried when I found the note."

Seeing how genuinely worried he was, Jill started feeling bad for doubting him. "Sorry, one of those lizard things you mentioned managed to get in when I unlocked the door, and after I managed to kill it, staying there didn't seem like a good idea."

"I see. Well, I'm glad you're well enough to be moving around; I wasn't really sure those herbs I read about would really work." Pulling the helmet key out of his pocket, he unlocked the door. Turning back to her with a small smile, he said, "Let's see if we can find a way out in here, then."

"Sure." Smiling a little back at him, Jill followed him. The room was bare, with nothing but a fireplace and a piano in the checker-floored room. Jill wondered over to the piano while Barry examined the fireplace. Not finding anything of interest, Jill started heading over to him when she heard a familiar hissing noise. Rushing forward, she pulled the man out of the way just in time before the giant snake she fought earlier came in through the fireplace and swallowed him whole. "What IS it?"

Once the snake came fully into view, she realized it was the same one from earlier by all the missing eyeballs and chunks in its hide as it reared up to strike at them again but missed, shooting in between them and smashing its head into the wall and knocking the piano over. "That's the snake that killed Richard. I thought I killed it earlier."

"Well, this time I'll make sure it stays dead." Drawing his magnum revolver out of his back pocket, he started firing into its back. Reeling from every shot, it broke through the wall behind him and lunged, causing him and Jill to roll out of the way. Lifting up her shotgun, Jill started firing into the left side of its jaw as Barry restarted firing into its backside again. Under the continued barrage, the confused snake died as it was trying to find its way out of the line of fire.

Slinging her empty shotgun over her shoulder and pulling out her Beretta, Jill back stepped toward the piano to get away from the venom that had started leaking from its head and fell through the floor. "Jill! Hold on, I'll go get a rope."

"Okay!" The place she was in was about as small as the tiger statue room, with nothing but a gravestone for a 'George Trevor' that had a black floppy disk labeled 1 on it. Picking it up, she noticed a switch near the bottom and pushed it, causing the gravestone to slide backwards to revel a ladder. Should I go down the ladder, or wait for Barry? Before she could make up her mind, Barry came back. "Jill! Are you still there?"

"I'm still here!"

"Okay! Grab the rope!"

"Okay!" Once the rope tumbled down, she grabbed it and climbed back up. "Thanks, Barry."

"Don't mention it. Hey, when I found the rope, I found this slip of paper with the combination for that door on the other side of the mansion."

"Let's go see if it works, unless you'd rather split up again."

"Nah, we already searched most of the place already. Besides, I don't think it's such a good idea with all those reptiles running around."

"Me either. I stashed Forest's grenade launcher in the medical room, and I think I'll need it, so can we stop by there first?"

"Sure." They ran into several more hunters on the way there, but Barry easily took care of them with his magnum. Once back in the medical room, Jill opened the box and switched out her shotgun for the grenade launcher, and grabbed her extra grenade and flame rounds. Slinging the launcher over her shoulder, Jill followed Barry back up the stairs to the keypad door "Hey, Barry, are you okay? You seem kinda tired?"

"I'll be fine, so don't worry." Jill didn't completely believe him, but decided to keep an eye on him anyway. Pulling the paper out of his pocket, Barry inputted the code, then smiled when the door unlocked. Inside was a marble hallway with several zombies in it, but they died pretty quickly when hit by a couple of grenades. The next door lead to another hallway, full of hunters, which didn't last very long either. The first door to their right was a closet with magnum rounds in it. Halfway down the hall was an elevator, but they passed it for the time being and continued to the end where there were blue double doors leading into a library with more zombies. Killing them, they looked around, but other than an empty room behind a bookcase with a broken light switch, they didn't find anything of interest. The room behind the library only had a desk in a recess with an empty false book on it, and a switch that didn't seem to do anything.

Back in the hall, they backtracked to the elevator. The only way the elevator went was down, and that lead to a disgusting kitchen with more zombies, which were simple to kill. The left door was boarded up, and the one hidden on the right just lead back to the hallway where Kenneth's body was. "Okay, that's it. There's nowhere else to go, so I'm going back to the back door and busting it down."

"I don't know if it'll work, but okay." Making their way back to the crest door, they were surprised to find it already open, and two familiar faces waiting for them. "Chris! Rebecca!"

"Jill, Barry! I'm glad you're both safe."

"Me too. How did you get the door open?"

"We don't know. When we came back from circling the house without finding another way in, it was already open."

"Wait, Barry, didn't you tell me the front door got busted open?"

"It was."

"But, when we got there, it was all boarded up."

"That's weird. How did you know we were in here in the first place?"

"Wesker told us."

"Wesker? You've found him?"

"Yeah, he was in the guardhouse. He said he was going to look around for a while, so he should still be there."

"I hope so." Chris and Rebecca lead the way back toward the guardhouse. Jill's uneasy feeling from the beginning of the mission came back, but she pushed it away again. Nothing else is going to go wrong. Chris is okay, and we'll meet up with Wesker again soon.

A.N: The questions of the back and front doors will be answered next chapter (as will what happened to Joseph). Please review; it'll help me get back into a RE mood (cycling interests are a b****).