Wow, thank you guys for the reviews. I'm really happy that you commented. : ) … and yes, I lied. I said it would have been up last week end, but it wasn't, alas… I lied. Sorry guys. Hectic days. Oh, and here's a little sumting why I'm happy: I was at a football game yesterday, and my crush plays on the team. So then I was really happy to see him wave and smile at me. I almost cried I was so happy. But yeah. Just wanted to tell you something that happened to meh. Anywho, on with the story!

Chapter: 35 The Signs, Steve's Mood, and the Boring Hawk Emblem

Billy and I hugged for a long time, until he had to pull away.

"Claire Bear huh? More like Claire Cub." Billy teased, and smirked at me. I made a face, and smiled broadly. Why Billy came back after all this time, I had no clue. But I was just happy he was back.

"Sure. But where have you been this whole time? And how'd you get here?" I asked, and looked into his face. His eyes were pretty tired, and his body looked bruised and drained too. I wondered if he was gonna pass out now.

"I've been through hell. But that's not the point. I'm here to help you out." Billy said, and smiled. I cocked my head to the side.

"What about Rick?"

"Oh, him too." Billy said jokingly. I laughed, and took his hand.

"Okay, I know they went through here." I said, and led him through the navy blue door.

Billy was walking a little ahead of me. We were still outdoors, but there were walls both sides of us, and they were dull cement colored. I could just see the side of a green over flowing dumpster about five nine or ten feet away. Right before our feet was a dead zombie with a bullet in lodged in its right temple.

"Heeyy, they didn't even notice I was gone!" I growled, and heard some gun shots a little farther away. It made me wonder why I didn't hear them when I met up with Billy.

"Come on." Billy pulled my arm along, and we rounded the left corner. Rick and Claire were both fighting two zombies, one which was running. I stepped back. I hate those running zombies… eww.

"Claire Bear! Where the hell have you been!" Rick yelled, and stabbed the slow zombie in the top of the head. It groaned and fell to the ground dead, in its own pool of blood. Claire shot the other one. Rick looked at Billy agape.

"Billy? The hell did you get here?" He asked and stared. Billy smiled.

"I came to help you guys out of this mess." He said simply. I smiled. Rick smirked.

"Thanks Billy." Rick smiled.

"Claire, this is Billy Coen, Billy, Claire Redfield." I said, introducing them. Billy, smiled at Claire, and they both shook hands.

"Nice to meet you." Claire said and smiled.

"Yeah, you too." He responded. He had a strange look on his face when I told him she was Claire Redfield. I guess it was cuz he knew Chris Redfield.

"I knew your brother." Billy said, and smiled. Claire eyes lit up.

"Do you know where he is?" She asked anxiously. He shook his head.

"I haven't seen him since… well. A long time ago." He said.

There was silence, and both Rick and I could tell they were both thinking of something unpleasant. I knew what Claire was thinking about; her brother, but what the heck was Billy so uncomfortable about?

"Let's go." Billy said at last, and motioned for Rick to lead the way. Rick nodded, and led the way past the fenced room where two zombies started hammering on the fence. There was a small switch panel on the wall next to the fenced room to our left; there was a red light shinning. Next to the small switch was a big shutter. The gears in my mind told me that the switch was to open the shutters. We went through another door at the end of the little out door room.

It was another dull gray hallway. It had a metallic box thingy, and these metal detectors all the way up to the ceiling, so there was no way you could get by. The hallway twisted to the left.

Rick stepped onto the metal square first setting off the voice activation.

"Please deposit all metallically items in the security box." An annoyingly annoying voice said from a small cross hatched hole above the box; as it opened at the top.

"Can we just shoot it and move on?" I asked. Billy pushed me aside, and dumped his stuff into the box. Rick and Claire did the same. I pushed Billy into the wall as my revenge, except he was already a half a foot away from the wall, so he just looked like he was leaning on it. He smirked, and crossed his arms over his chest.

"…Bully." I muttered, and took the lead. Rick was next to me, as we rounded the corner. There were stacks of old boxes and crap lying around, so nothing of any use. Then through three windows we could see a bunch of zombies lurking around. They didn't seem to see that we were there and kept walking around aimlessly.

"Okay… now what?" I asked, and stepped side ways to the room to the right. There was another metallic box system thing, but since we dumped all our crap in the last box we were free to go in.

The room was square and had a door on the left wall. There was crud strewn around and an operating machine in the right corner. Billy picked up the first aid spray which was on the brown filthy table. Claire picked up the flame round seated on a box.

"Maybe we should split up. We could cover more ground that way." Claire said, as we all headed for the door. I followed slowly imitating a zombie. I wanted to see if the movie, Shaun of the Dead was right; if you imitate a zombie they'll think you're one of them. But beyond the door wasn't a zombie, just a dark work room.

"Not just yet." Rick said, and looked at a file.

"What are you doing?" Billy asked walking next to me. I looked up at him acted like a zombie once more.

"Uuuhhhhhh BILLLYYYY! FEEDD MYY HUNGER!" I said in a moan and limped towards him. He sighed dramatically, and went ahead. I sighed, because I was bored, and followed.

"Steve? What are you doing here?" Claire asked as we met up with Steve again, who was typing on the computer. I glared.

"Huh. HEY! Thanks for ditching me you traitor!" Steve showed Billy by the chest, although not hard. Billy sighed, and rubbed his eyes. What was wrong with him?

"Hey kid, I didn't ditch you. I went back to see if you were there, and you weren't, so as a matter of fact, you ditched me." Billy said and looked at Steve. I saw his eyes were turning red.

Not like a freaking demon, I mean out of exhaust, he's tired.

"Hey Claire Bear." Steve said. My eye twitched.

"mm." I responded.

"Well what are you doing here?" Claire asked, and looked at the computer.

"Well, apparently, your brother is being held under surveillance…" Steve said, and leaned against a panel with a lever. He started pressing buttons there too. The freak…

"What!" Claire exclaimed, and rushed for the computer.

"Send him an e-mail…" Rick said, as Billy and I walked over to the computer also. I watched as Claire and Rick discussed who to write to and why, they agreed on Leon. DOI. I watched as Claire finished her letter, and started my own little note:

Sup Leon? Claire Bear here! Yup, I'm still alive. So what up with you? Yeah, like Claire said, were pretty much screwed. Unless you get your fat ass over here and save us you---

Rick smacked my hand off the key board, and erased what I wrote. I glared, and stood beside Steve.

I muttered a few things about Rick that shouldn't be mentioned, but after the message was sent Steve suddenly had a mood swing.

"What are you doing?" He asked and looked at Claire annoyed, "he won't come for you."

"Yes he will. I'm sure of it." Claire said, her voice held irritation. Billy was leaning against a wall thinking about something, and Rick was watching the whole thing.

"He won't come… You'll just end up disappointed!" Steve yelled. Billy had a REALLY mad look on his face. Dark circles were under his eyes. I took a step away from Billy.

"What the hell? If you don't wanna try and get saved, then fine, but us others would like to survive! Okay?" I said. I was getting annoyed with his temper tantrums. He looked at me funny, which made me wonder if I had spit or something, and took off pissed.

"What was that all about?" Claire asked, and got a shrug out of Rick. Billy grunted something, and I just … shrugged too.

I took a metal hawk emblem with fake gold painted over it which was chipping. Billy stood straight, and smiled.

"That's for the huge black doors I saw earlier…" He said. I nodded. Rick started for the door. Claire pocketed the item.

"Right." Rick smiled. I pulled the lever on the panel before we left the room…

Somewhere on the Island…

Wesker smirked. Billy had found the siblings faster than anticipated, but this was a good thing. He smiled and watched the four people from a roof top. They were headed somewhere holding a fire extinguisher. The young girl was trudging along bored as hell, while Billy seemed extremely tired. He smiled. Good. That would affect his thinking, and actions. Wesker smiled for himself. Things were finally turning out the way they should be. And better yet, Chris was coming… now he could repay Chris for what he had done to Wesker those months back at the mansion…

"Hmhmhm… this should be interesting." Wesker muttered, and jumped off the roof.

Back To the four heroes…

"GOOD GOD!" I yelled, and held the TG plate in my hands. It was still hot from the fire. Rick threw away the brief case, and Billy chucked the fire extinguisher over his shoulder.

"Let's go. I know what to do with this…" Claire said, and took of running.

And of course, I was last as usual. I kept up, and managed not to trip and fall. When we did change the TG plate into a copy of the metal hawk, the oh so oblivious zombies crashed right through the windows.

Okay guys, short yes, boring yes, but I haven't been feeling so great the past few weeks. I have had my ups, but lately I've been too busy for anything. I'm really sorry if you didn't find this interesting at all, but I just wanted to update SOMETHING for you guys. I've been too long. : ( So again, I apologize for the short chapter, and it's no humor. But please REVIEW anyway! I need some inpiration from you guys! Thank you for sticking with me this far. : ) I promise the next chapter will be better: )

Claire Bear