I am finally back with a new chapter. I just got back from a vacation to Chicago a few days ago. As usual, I'd like to thank all of my reviewers, new and old. The last chapter seemed to surprise you guys. Let's see what this one will do for y'all. I plan to upload the next chapter pretty quickly. Oh, and if you have the time, stop by and read my other iCarly fic, iBet. Thanks and as always, read, review, and enjoy!!

Chapter Eleven

There was a moment of grim silence before Carly buried her head in Sam's chest and started to cry.

"This can't be happening!" she wailed. "You can't die Sam! Not now! For as long as we've known each other—for it to end like this! I don't want you to die now!"

Jill and L.J. watched with heavy hearts. Twenty-four hours ago, none of them knew each other, but their shared quest for survival had brought them closer together. Watching the scene unfold in front of her was almost too much to bear.

"This is all my fault." said Jill, frowning.

"Naw girl, this ain't nobody's fault but fuckin' Umbrella." said L.J., probably the most serious statement he had made all day.

Carly looked up at Jill. "There had to be a cure—there just has to be!" she wailed.

Jill shook her head. "According to that notebook, there is no cure to the Nemesis Virus. Made specifically to be incurable. Whoever was trying was wasting their time with a vaccine."

"There's got to be something we can do!" cried Carly.

L.J. leaned forward and patted Carly on her shoulder. "Ya know, the only thing we can do for her is to kill her now before she turns into one of them damn things and kills us all."

"No!" shrieked Carly quickly, causing the others to jump. "If either of you hurt him, I swear I'll—I'll kill you both!"

"C-Carly? Where we be? We get out yet?"

Carly jumped at Sam's voice, and looked down to see Sam opening her eyes.

"No, we're still here, but we're safe for now. We're going to escape. Alice and Carlos are searching for a way out." said Carly, trying hard not to cry.

"Don't give me that. I'm not stupid. Just kill me now and be done with it."

"No!"

"I heard what Jill said, and I don't wanna be one of those things."

"You won't! I won't let you! We're going to find a way to fix this and you'll be alright!" said Carly fiercely.

"I know I'm gonna die; no point in telling me otherwise," said Sam. "But Carly, there's something I wanna tell you. I should of told you a long time ago, and now I want you to know it."

And suddenly Sam wasn't doubting it anymore. It was probably too late to say it now, but she had nothing to lose.

"I love you Carls." she said

Tears flowed from Carly. Hearing Sam say that made her realize that Carly felt the same. Only now, when she was about to lose her forever, she discovered how much she loved Sam.

"I love you too, Sam! I wish I told you before..." she sobbed.

"No worry, Carls. I now know," Sam paused. "You're beautiful, you know that right?"

Carly leaned down until her mouth was level with Sam, and was about to kiss her when Jill grabbed the back of her shirt and pulled her away.

"Don't!" she cried. "Kiss her and you'll catch it also."

"I don't care!" said Carly tearfully. "I promised her that she would get out alive. And I'm not about to back out on it now." She turned towards Sam. "Just keep pushing along. It will be all right. I promise."

"Kay." Sam smiled weakly before passing out again.

There was a minute of silence before Carly spoke.

"I'm going up there to look for a cure."

"Oh no, no you don't," Jill warned. "You are not going up there to look for a cure that doesn't fucking exist. I won't let you."

"Try and stop me." said Carly sharply.

Jill sighed deeply, realizing there was no convincing Carly. She opened the notebook to the back looking for any info on where to possibly look. After a few seconds, she found a page and read it aloud.

"If there was such a vaccine, it would probably be located in Birkin's personal lab, right in the corridor upstairs by the old bomb shelter. Their office requires a key to get in, but after the incident, it was handed down to me. The code is 84571. The computer requires a login name and password which was also handed down to me. Log in as BirkinW or BirkinA with the password 'Renegade.'"

"Now I know where to go." said Carly

"I'm goin' with you." said L.J. as he stood up.

"No, I'm doing this alo--" L.J. cut her off.

"Bitch I'm goin' with you, or you ain't goin' at all, ya heard?" Carly didn't object to that.

"Good, 'cause you cant take all them things at once." he said.

Jill thought for a moment. "Here, take these." She unholstered her Uzis and handed them to Carly. "Do you know how to use these?" Carly shook her head.

"These are good for close quarters. Use short, controlled bursts for best accuracy. Safety is here, and here is where you unload..." Jill pointed out various other things that Carly needed to know. "Oh, and you might need these." Jill handed Carly a spare clip for each Uzi. "Hopefully you won't need these as L.J. should have you covered."

Carly smiled weakly. "Thanks Jill."

Jill reached over and ruffled Carly's hair affectionately. "I can't believe I'm letting you go. But I realize there's no stopping you now. Just return in one piece so I don't regret this decision for the rest of my life."

Carly nodded as she turned towards the ladder, followed by L.J. She was about to climb it when he stopped her.

"What if Sam starts to change while we're gone..." he said. Silence filled the air for a moment before Carly turned towards Jill.

"Then do it." was all she said before grabbing the ladder and began ascending it.

"Take care of her L.J." said Jill as he followed Carly up the ladder. A few seconds later, Jill heard the hatch open, then slam shut. Now she had to sit and wait.

"Nothin." said L.J.

There were no zombies in sight. But that wasn't assuring. They probably just went back to the shadows from where they came from. They were still around here somewhere.

Carly turned around and began to walk forward, but stopped. Suddenly she realized how crazy of a mission this was. Was there really a vaccine? Or was she just wasting her time, searching for a way to ignore the thoughts of Sam dying. At the current moment, she really didn't have an answer.

"With that attitude Carly, you're never going to survive. You want to succeed? Then you're gonna have to be more aggressive. You're real nice and all, but sometimes, you got to be a cold-hearted bitch to get what you want."

Remembering this, Carly snapped out of her thoughts and put away her fear and doubt. It was a piece of advice that Freddie had given to her when the trio had first entered high school. If Freddie could say this and mean it, than why not her?

"Come on L.J., lets keep moving."

With her leading the way, the two of them proceeded down the corridor at a brisk trot, making sure to stay away from the walls or any dark shadows. To break the silence, L.J. began humming the theme to Shaft again to try and break the tension. A second later, Carly joined him in his humming, even saying the phrase 'shut yo mouth!' with him, but the words caught in her throat when she saw what was at the end of the corridor.

"What the fuck is that?" L.J. whispered loudly.

The object in question turned towards the two, hearing the noise. Carly knew what is was already, recognizing it from being in the church a few hours earlier. It was another one of those lickers. Same head, same blank eyes, the same long tongue thrashing out of its mouth--

Carly and L.J. both tried to pull the triggers of their weapons, but they were too slow. Their weapons were swatted aside by the creature's tongue. Carly watched as one of the Uzis sailed into the air before she suddenly dove for it. But even as she did, the creature's tongue had lashed out and grabbed hold of her, causing her to fall short, with the gun lying inches from her fingertips.

Typical.

L.J. didn't have any luck either as he was thrown against the wall and emitted an 'Ooff!' and suddenly found himself pinned under the creature's foot. Carly felt herself being dragged forward, the same way the lickers did in the movie and games.

"No you don't!" she snarled, and with all of the strength she could muster, she flipped her body, so she was now facing the Licker. She could now see it's tongue had a death grip on her calf, not planning to let go anytime soon.

Carly shook her leg, and forced the Licker towards the wall, pressing her foot against the metal surface. Determined not to let go, the Licker moved forward a little bit to compensate for the distance--

'Wham!' Carly's other foot slammed into the side of the wall, pinning the Licker's tongue to the wall, causing it to shriek out in pain. Losing it's concentration, the tongue's grip loosened, allowing her to release herself. Also taking advantage of the situation, L.J. took the chance to slip out from under the Licker, and reach one of his Eagles. He let out a couple of shots right between the creature's eyes.

As the Licker reeled backwards, struggling to loosen its tongue from Carly's foot, L.J. rushed over to the Uzi and quickly handed it to Carly. She now lifted her foot from the wall, releasing the Licker's tongue. At the same time, she aimed her gun right at it's face and pulled the trigger.

Carly stopped firing when she could no longer hear the screams of the creature. She lowered her weapon and chanced a look at it. The Licker was definitely dead, its body still twitching and blood was spilled everywhere. L.J. had his hands on his face, feeling around, not believing what he just experienced.

"Lemme check myself—am I dead??"

"I can't believe it—we're still alive!" cried Carly. She herself couldn't believe that she had been able to take the thing down. She felt a surge of pride swell up in her. "And no, you're not dead L.J."

"Sheeee-it! Now that's a fuckin' story to can tell to your friends when you're drunk! I thought our narrow asses was history!"

Carly couldn't help but to shake her head. "Let's get out of here before we see more of those."

"Here we go. I think this is it." said L.J., looking at a door just beyond the Licker's dead body. Carly rushed over and read the nameplate on the door and was relieved.

Dr's. William and Annette Birkin

As to be expected, there was a keypad next to the door.

"Damn, what's the code again?' said L.J., as he was the first one to it.

"84571 I think," Carly responded.

L.J. entered the code, and was rewarded when the door swung open, revealing a dark room. Instantly he raised his Eagles and slowly made his way into the room. When he entered, the lights came on automatically. Sitting at the desk was a male zombie wearing a lab coat and still had on a pair of glasses. He was wearing a badge that read 'Birkin, W.'. Seeing the two, the zombie slowly got up and made its way over to them.

"Bitch, where are the goods!?" asked L.J., aiming for the zombie's forehead.

"Ungggghh..."

Not getting the response that he was hoping for, he put a bullet right between the thing's eyes.

"So, what are we lookin' for?" he said.

"Anything useful," responded Carly. "Let's look through all this stuff."

They began to pull open various drawers on the first filing cabinet they saw. Each drawer was marked with different years and such. Carly pulled open a drawer labeled 'Vaccine Development Reports (1998-) and was hoping for an answer, but was disappointed when the papers were about common illnesses.

"Damn it!" Carly shouted.

L.J. was taking out drawers and dumping them onto the floor, finding nothing useful to them. Most of the papers were years old and had nothing to do with the Nemesis Virus. After he emptied the last drawer, finding nothing, he threw it across the room.

"Where the hell these neatfucks hiding the stuff at?" he said in frustration.

Carly sat down at the computer and moved the mouse to get rid of the screen saver. She was met with a login screen.

ENTER USERNAME AND PASSWORD.

User: BirkinW

Pass: Renegade

She pressed enter. After a few seconds, the computer desktop appeared. There were a few program icons such as Microsoft Excel and WinRar. She clicked and drug the 'Internet Explorer' icon to the trashbin (Firefox for the win!). She also spotted two folders with the names of "Annette's Folder of Doom", and "Will's Folder of No Return".

She decided to open the late William Birkin's folder up, but was disappointed to find hardly anything. A lab report or two, and a folder with a few pictures with barely legals in it. She quickly X'd out this folder, disgusted, and opened up Annette's. Here there were about fifteen different text files. Carly checked each one, frowning deeper as she moved along. After reaching the last one with no luck, she sighed and looked at the time on the taskbar, which read 2:11 AM. They were running out of time.

Scowling deeply, Carly turned off the computer, not even bothering to log off. She was so angry. Where the hell was all the information on the vaccine? Matter of fact, where is the vaccine. She was wasting her time if she couldn't find it soon. If she didn't, Sam was going to die, and there was nothing Carly or anyone else could do to stop it. With a scream or rage. Carly picked up the flat screen monitor from the desk and chucked it at a filing cabinet, making a large dent with a shower of sparks.

"Son of a bitch neat freaks!"

She picked up the keyboard and was about to toss it when L.J. yelled from across the room. He was standing next to a bookcase and was holding a small object.

"Chill out, I found something!" he shouted over the noise.

Carly rushed over, and looked over his shoulder as he opened a book labeled as "Diary of Annette Birkin." He opened to the first page, but skipped ahead as he found nothing of relation. Finally, A few entries from the last one, L.J. found something positive.

July 2nd, 2008

At last, we've completed the vaccine! We're going to have to hide it pretty well, but at least we have it if needed. It's good to know that at least this virus can be stopped if it ever goes mainstream. We've tested it on a pair of infected hamsters we recovered from one of the labs' and incredibly, they returned to full health within minutes of getting the vaccine. I hate animal testing, but Will wouldn't let me do it on him. The vaccine does appear to be slightly painful when first given, but soon passes. So far, no side-effects are being seen, although their intelligence and physical activity do seem to have been improved as a result of the initial infection. They're now in perfect health. In fact, they seem healthier than they were before. I've kept some vaccine samples hidden in a safe place in our lab, and I keep a does on me at all times.

"Where the hell is it though?" asked L.J., shaking the book. He read the next entry, which was now in a completely different handwriting. Obviously somebody else had written in it.

July 9th,

My Annette is dead. I found her in the lab last night and I know they did it. She was slumped over her lab station with her head buried in a tub of toxic chemicals. I tried to revive her, but by then it was pointless. When I went to get help, they wrote it off as a malfunction in the vent system, and she must have been overcome by fumes. This is a bogus excuse, as I checked the vents myself a few hours earlier, and they were just fine. I know she was murdered.

The T-Virus is spreading through the city, and now nobody is allowed to leave. The company has already began loading out the higher-ups by choppers as I write this. Us still alive are still hoping for rescue, but there won't be one. They've left us for dead, just like everyone else. I now fear that I will also be tracked down, just like my wife was, and all because we decided to make a vaccine for the Nemesis virus. Cane suspected, but he had nothing to back it up. But now he's going to use the city as a playground for Nemesis.

I may as well end this diary now, seeing as it is not even my own. These will probably be my last thoughts.

True to his word, Will ended the writing, as the rest of the pages were blank.

"Okay, we know that it does exist, but where the hell did they stash it?" said Carly, looking around. She spotted another door with a keypad next to it, labeled 'Lab'. L.J. also saw this and again led the way by inputing the code into the keypad. They stepped back as the door swung aside. Their nostrils were filled with a horrible smell.

"Yuck!" Carly cried, coughing.

In the centre of the room was a table. Resting on top of it was a human body cover in a white sheet. It was probably Annette's body, but none of the two wanted to really check up on that. No way they were going to touch that.

Curiosity, though, got the better of L.J, like it always did. He stepped forward, lifting the sheet slowly and drawing it back over the body while Carly was leaning over his shoulder. What was revealed had to be one of the most disturbing sights of the night for both of them.

"Holy shit..." exclaimed L.J.

Jill sat staring at the wall, worried about various things. It had been about thirty minutes or so since Carly and L.J. took off. Jill was now beginning to regret ever letting them leave. She had heard several gunshots and yells, but didn't chance or investigating, as Sam would be left alone. Speaking of Sam, she hadn't made any movements either since they had left. Jill was beginning to wonder if she was dead already. But she wasn't, as the girl still had a faint pulse.

Jill had already looked through her briefcase of papers out of boredom. None of them contained anything about the Nemesis Virus, but the papers could still be of use in the future,l so she didn't discard them. The only thing she hadn't toughed was Carly's iPhone, doubting it still worked after getting wet. But curiosity got the best of her so Jill picked it up. Somehow, it was still on and functional, albeit the screen was a little discolored.

She began to look through the various menus that it had. Jill had never seen one of these before. A cell phone that held music? A camera? Internet?! She opened up various music albums, and was baffled by artists such as "The Plain White T's, and Miranda Cosgrove.

"Whatever.."

She was about to back out when she saw something else interesting. There was another file that looked to be a picture. It was marked "Resident Evil Apocalypse". She couldn't see what it was judging by the thumbnail, so she selected it with her fingertip, and the picture filled the whole screen.

"What the fuck is this all about?!"

She was staring at a picture of herself holding a gun, with the date September 10, 2004 written above her head, like it was a movie poster or something...

Note: The movie was released on September 10, 2004. Hopefully this clears up confusion about the date at the end if you didn't already know.