Chapter 11: Never A Moments Rest











The van stopped at a gas station and thinking they were back at the hideout Claire woke up to see they were at a gas station instead then she looked over at Steve.

"It's about time you woke up, I think my shoulder was starting to go numb," he said jokingly with a smile on his face.

"Shut up!" she replied, sticking her tongue out at him like a little kid would do, but she didn't care.

"Hey you two coming or what? We're getting something to eat" Chris said as he opened the sliding door and looked at them as the others we're walking into a café.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah we're coming" Claire replied getting out with Steve and following Chris.

The trio walked into the café and joined the others, Chris immediately sat next to Jill, Barry, Raine, and Leon were sitting at another table close by Claire and Steve walked over to an empty booth and sat down, Claire ordered a soda and a cheeseburger so did Steve. Claire looked out the window started to go into her own little world until Steve snapped her back into reality.

"Claire? You okay?" he asked

"Yeah, I'm fine…" she replied taking another sip of her soda and looking at her burger and deciding that she really wasn't hungry and threw it away. After sitting back down she glanced at Chris and Jill, Chris had his arm around Jill whispering something into her ear and Jill laughing a little she was happy for her brother happy that he was reunited with the woman he loved although at first he wouldn't admit it.

"Alright now that everybody's had something in their stomach we should get back to the hideout" Raine said walking out of the café and back to the van everybody followed.

Soon everybody arrived back at the hideout Raine walked into the hideout followed by Chris and Jill, then Barry and Leon and finally Claire and Steve. Sherry had been waiting on the couch and when Claire came in her face lit up "Claire!" and ran over to her "I wasn't gone that long was I?" Claire replied and looked at Steve who obviously felt like the odd one of the bunch Claire could tell by his face although he tried not to show it.

"Sherry this is Steve, Steve this is Sherry" Claire said

"Hi" Sherry said with a smile.

"Hey" Steve replied.

Then Raine called everybody into the wreck room.

"I've found another Umbrella HQ but we're going to leave tomorrow everybody needs to rest…" Raine said

Claire stood up and walked out of the wreck room and down into the sleeping cabins Steve quickly followed her and saw her sitting on the bed and sat beside her putting an arm around her, Claire leaned her head on his shoulder. Claire felt safe with Steve's around her but soon realized where they were, what was happening, and what they still had to do. Claire stood up along with Steve. Claire looked up at Steve, into his green eyes; she took both of his hand into her own still looking at him. She placed his around her waist and put her arms around his neck.

"I never got a chance to say I love you too," Claire said breaking what seemed to be the everlasting silence.

"I meant every word I said back there" Steve replied, pulling her closer to him.

They looked into each other's eyes for a couple seconds before Claire started kissing him, Steve was surprised at first then kissed her back, soon their kissed started to turn more passionate but was interrupted when the door opened.

"You two picked the wrong time to do that," Jill said sarcastically.

Both Claire and Steve looked at her "meaning what?" Claire asked.

"Get your guns and anything else you think you'll need Umbrella somehow found our hideout" Jill said before gunfire was heard and she quickly ran out with her gun in hand. Claire and Steve quickly grabbed their weapons, before they left Claire walked over to the desk and grabbed a picture and looked at it for a few seconds before Steve was pulling her arm out with him, she quickly put the picture in her pocket and followed Steve, her weapon ready. When they got out they saw too many Umbrella soldiers to count. She saw Chris, Jill, and Barry hiding behind the kitchen counter, Rebecca, Carlos, Ark, and Leon hiding behind the couch shooting at the soldiers. Claire and Steve hid behind the kitchen counter with Chris, Jill, and Barry and began to fire. Sean, Paige, Raine, and Cain were firing from behind a wall while Rebecca and Carlos got the kids a place to hide. After they killed most of the soldiers Chris decided to make a run for the exit "on the count of three we make a run for it…1…2…3!" then they all started to run for the exit when two people just simply walked in a man and a woman, the woman had ear length silky black hair and was dressed in jeans and a white tank top with a black leather jacket over it. Claire glanced at Leon from the corner of her eye and realized that he knew who the woman was and the woman recognized Leon as well.

"Out the back door!" Rebecca suddenly shouted and she and Carlos got the kids outs. Cain, Sean, Paige, Ark, Raine, Barry, and Jill followed them. Hunk looked over at Ada who looked like she knew the man who was on the enemy side. "Agent 9 do you know him?" he asked, she looked over at him only muttering, "Uh, he's nobody" and aimed her pistol at him.

"Ada you know who I am" Leon pleaded.

"Agent 9 don't forget about the mission!" Hunk said Ada looked at him before responding "you know what? Screw the mission!"

"Then go join your boyfriend" Hunk said before hitting Ada over the head with the butt of his gun. Ada fell down the steps and into Leon's arms.

"Let's get out of here!" Claire said and Chris, Claire, Steve, Leon, and Ada ran out the back door. When they reached the outside they were hurried into the van Barry quickly pulled out of the driveway and speeded down the road.

"So exactly where are we going?" Rebecca asked.

"I've already taken care of that" Raine replied.

Claire looked out the window then reached into her pocket and took out the picture she had grabbed and looked at it for a while before Steve tapped her on the shoulder.

"Whacha looking at?" he asked.

"a picture of my….family" she replied "it's must be nice to have parents…" Steve mumbled only loud enough for her to hear Claire didn't say anything and just put the photo away and continued to look out the window at the blurry scenery, ignoring Steve's remark although she knew he didn't know that her parents were dead as well. Steve looked over at Claire and instantly knew he probably said something wrong but before he could ask what was wrong they arrived at the new hideout. Everybody got out and looked at the new hideout, which pretty much looked like the other one. Everybody got situated into their bedrooms and after getting back to before they continued with making plans on how they were going to defeat Umbrella until rained called everybody into the den for a meeting everybody that it except Ada.

"Okay I just wanna get one thing straight. I did put up with Claire's two friends joining but an Umbrella spy!?" rained started to say as everybody was getting seated.

"She's not an Umbrella spy not anymore I know her she's changed!" Leon started to protest before Raine raised her hand.

"That's just it Leon you don't know her. You've probably only known her for how many hours in Raccoon certainly not enough!" Raine snapped.

"And it doesn't matter how long or how good you know her she works for Umbrella and anybody who works for Umbrella can't be trusted no matter what" Chris added.

Claire was waiting for the moment when somebody would drag her and Steve into the situation just because of what that bitch Alexia did to Steve back at the Antarctica Base. In fact she was getting a little suspicious of Raine mainly because it was no coincidence that she just happened to have another hideout ready incase they were attacked by Umbrella, it just didn't add up. "And what about Claire's friends? Might I add that one could possibly turn into a monster and try and kill us all?" Sean added, Claire just extended her middle finger up at him and glared.

"She's got nothing to do with this!" Chris interrupted.

"Hey I'm just saying…"Sean said trailing off and just shrugged his shoulders.

"Can't you guys just give her a chance?" Leon asked. Raine, Sean, and Paige whispered to each other before making their final decision.

"Fine we'll give her a chance but she does anything sneaky and that's it's she only gets one chance" Paige said. Then everybody got up and walked out of the den.

"And court is dismissed" Claire thought to herself sarcastically.



Leon walked over to Ada who was sitting at the table and sat down beside her.

"So am I kicked out of the Scooby gang?" Ada asked.

"No actually they're giving you a chance" Leon replied.



Claire walked into the bunkroom area and went into her room Steve quickly followed her.

"Hey Claire…did I say something wrong back there?" he asked, Claire sat down on the bed and Steve sat down beside her.

"My parents were…uh…already dead…" Claire said and continued "it's okay you didn't know…"

"Claire, I'm sorry I shouldn't have said anything" Steve started to say before Claire started to kiss him. She put her arms around his neck and Steve put his arms around her waist both still kissing each other but then Claire suddenly stopped kissing him

"Is something wrong?" Steve asked just as breathlessly as she was. Once Claire caught her breath she responded "no everything's fine" then she kissed him once on the lips and the two embraced.

"Me and Chris were in the car with them on the night of the accident I was four and Chris was ten…" Claire started to say.

"You don't have to tell me if you don't want to" Steve interrupted Claire just shook her head and continued, "no it's okay."

"I don't really remember it that good…but anyways me and Chris were in the backseat and our mom and dad were in the front, my dad was driving then all of the sudden we heard this bang we just thought it was the tire going flat until I saw blood coming from the back of my dad's head and he fell forward soon I realized he had been shot" Claire looked down at the floor, Steve put his arm around her shoulders "mom tried to grab the wheel but the car had already spun out of control and slammed into a tree. The next thing I remembered was waking up in the hospital, Chris had a broken arm and I had a broken leg needless to say my dad was dead on arrival and mom was in serious condition…"Claire said trailing off then continued "after me and Chris were allowed to see our mom she was talking to Chris and made him promise to take care of me we told her that we loved her and that we didn't want her to die she said she loved us back and that was the last thing she said before she died" Claire finished and Steve wrapped his arms around her and hugged her tightly she hugged him back.

"At least you knew your parents I hardly knew mine…" Claire said

"I'm sorry Claire" Steve said and the two kissed.



Raine walked over to her desk and checked her watch that indicated it was 10:00pm. "My how time flies" she thought to herself sarcastically and walked over to the group.

"Well everybody let's get to sleep" she said. Everybody went to their rooms and got ready to go to sleep.











Author's Notes: this chapter would have been up a lot more sooner if it weren't for the site crashing anyways I would really like to have people review this that way I know if I should make another chapter. PLEASE!!!! REVIEW!!!!