CHAPTER 11

Just as Joseph had said, Chris asked Claire to come in with him on Monday morning to meet the team properly. She felt rather nervous as everyone turned to look at her.

"Hey everyone I just thought I would bring my sister in to meet my team mates I know you didn't get properly introduced on Friday night." He said, glancing in Joseph's direction. Everyone got lined up. Chris went to the start of the line with Claire.

"This is Edward Dewey, Kenneth Sullivan, Richard Aiken, Forest Speyer, you have already met Joseph this is Brad Vickers, Barry Burton and Jill Valentine. They all smiled and went back to their work. Captain Marini entered the office and spotted Claire.

"I didn't think the new recruit was due for a while." He said. Claire walked up to him.

"I am not a new recruit I am Claire Redfield." She said.

"Ah you must be Chris's Sister nice to meet you I am Enrico Marini but to these people I am captain." He said. Wesker was behind him.

"And this here is Captain Albert Wesker." He said. Wesker looked up long enough to recognise who he was talking to. He couldn't believe that he could remember a chance meeting all those years ago.

"That's the girl who ran into me in that alley." He thought to himself. He held out his hand and shook it. Obviously she couldn't remember him.

"Pleasure to meet." He said before heading off to his desk.

"Don't worry he is like that with everyone Enrico said. The folding chairs were out again. Everyone sat down. Claire thought for a moment.

"Could that be the guy with the sunglasses i ran into all those years ago." she thought to herself. she thought it weird that she could remember that in the first place. she shook her head.

"I must be imagining things he must be wearing them because he had a night on the drink and he has panda eyes." she thought to herself.

"Miss Redfield you can sit in if you like." Enrico said. Wesker didn't look too happy about that. Claire sat down at the back.

"Well it is the contest today I hope you are all ready teams from all over the country are coming here." Captain Wesker said. Claire watched Wesker intently. The way he moved to the way he spoke had her mesmerised.

"Wow he is super cute." She thought to herself. She looked at Joseph and smiled. She was happy with what she had although Wesker was very nice. He finished speaking and everyone left.

"Miss Redfield may I have a word?" Wesker called. Claire stopped and went to his desk.

"Yeah?" she asked.

"How would you like to join the police force I read your brothers background report your father was a homicide detective." He said.

"I know but that's not the kind of work I want to do I am an artist I would rather paint that shoot people." Claire said.

"I suppose." He stood up and held his hand out.

"It was a pleasure meeting you." He said, shaking her hand. Claire turned and left the room. She could feel his eyes on the back of her neck as she left the room. The feeling she had about Chris joining the STARS team came back again. She looked back at the door.

"There is something not quite right about Mr Wesker." She thought to herself before leaving. The teams were getting ready for the competition.

"Hey Chris I have a nice stack of paper work with your name on it." Forest said patting him on the back.

"We shall see about that." Chris said.

"God why do we bother having other teams here we should just let them battle it out." Brad said. Chris looked up to see his sister arriving.

"Hey Claire I kept you a seat." He said. Claire sat down and they all waited for the competition to begin.

"Ready to lose Redfield?" Forest asked.

"Are you?" Chris answered. Forest smiled and went back to fiddling with his gun.

Claire gazed at the clouds and sighed.

"Are you ok?" Jill asked, moving to sit next to her.

"Yeah I am fine." Claire answered. The competition started and there was a lot of cheering going on and by half way through it was evident who the champion was going to be. The competition was almost over and by the time it had finished Claire was about to fall asleep. In a big loud voice it was declared that Chris had won. Chris came and showed her the trophy. Forest tried to sneak past.

"Hey Forest you can start that paper work first thing tomorrow morning." Chris shouted. Forest smiled at him and left.

"Wow that was some kick ass shooting back there." Richard said. Chris smiled.

"It was wasn't it." He said, a smug look on his face.

"I think this calls for a celebration." Claire said. Everyone agreed with her and they headed to the nearest bar. Chris had to give his trophy to the engravers so he couldn't bring it with him. Jill ordered a bottle of champagne and let Chris pop the cork. He proceeded to spray it over everyone. When he was done there was hardly any left.

"You are lucky that wasn't an expensive bottle." Jill said. They all partied hard then they all went home. Claire and Chris walked home instead of getting a taxi.

"So you cleared out mum and dads room huh?" Chris asked.

"Yeah it has sat like that since they died I thought it was time I moved on and redecorate it." Claire answered.

"You are a bigger person than me I wouldn't have been able to do it." Chris said.

"I had to have Vivian help me if I was there on my own I couldn't have done it either." Claire said. Chris took her hand.

"So are you going to be seeing Joseph again?" he asked.

"Maybe I don't know I mean I like him but your captain is so much better looking." She answered. Chris's mouth fell open.

"You have to be joking?" he said.

"Yeah I am joking Joseph and I will be seeing each other again." She said. she laughed.

"Chris you are so gullible you know that." Claire said. Chris grabbed her in a bear hug.

"I don't care how old you are you know I don't like being laughed at." He said. Claire laughed and tried to free herself from his grasp.

"Ok Chris I'm sorry I didn't mean to laugh at you." She said. He let her go.

"I would tell on you if mum was still here." She said.

"I know you would you are a total grass." He said. They walked the rest of the way home laughing.