Chapter 12: A Prelude to the real fight
Claire walked into the wreck room with Steve dressed in long blue jeans and a red halter top and carrying her guns to see Raine, Barry, Rebecca, Ada, Leon, and Carlos but where were Chris and Jill?

Soon Barry walked over to her and Steve "hey Claire why don't you go and wake up Chris and Jill?"

"I thought you'd never ask Barry" Claire replied with and evil grin and walked over to the sink, grabbed a bucket and filled it up with cold water and just casually walked to the room Chris and Jill were sleeping. She quietly opened the door to see the two still sound asleep of course Chris was on the floor, quietly Claire walked over to the bed.

"Rise and shine people" she said and poured the water all over them, they immediately woke up covered in freezing water then looked up at Claire who was on the verge of a hysterical laughing fit. Chris was dressed in blue shorts and a white t-shirt.

"5.4.3.2.1." Barry said to himself and Steve looked at him.

"What's that suppose to mean?" he asked.

"That" he replied before Claire ran out and out the back door with Chris behind her holding the bucket and stopping at the sink to fill it up and continuing after Claire. Ada saw the siblings and smiled to herself, it was the first time she had smiled for a long time. It seemed that even after everything the Redfield's had been through they were still able to have fun. Leon looked over at Ada to see her smile.

"That's the first time I've seen you smile." Leon said.

"Would you be smiling with everything that's been happening?" she replied.

"True" Leon said taking her hand into his.

Jill came out her wet hair combed and wearing a dark green tank top and blue jeans and stood beside Steve.

"I bet you $20 Chris gets her drenched." Jill whispered.

"Betcha she gets him again" Steve whispered back.

Soon the two walked back into the house and sure enough Claire was dry and holding the empty bucket and Chris was soaked again.

You owe me $20" Steve said.

"Fine" Jill said and paid him.

"Now that that's over with we better get going" and Chris got dressed and everybody got their weapons with them and walked out to the van Barry and Raine sat in the front, Barry was driving, Chris Jill, Rebecca, and Carlos were sitting in the middle row and Claire, Steve, Leon, and Ada sat in the back row and the van took off to the next Umbrella Headquarters. Claire checked her guns to make sure they were fully loaded and looked over at Steve.

"What were you and Jill talking about?" Claire asked.

"She made a bet of $20 that Chris would get you back but I said that you would get him again and I won $20" he replied Claire shrugged and leaned her head on his shoulder, Steve put his arm around her and Claire held his hand. Soon they arrived at the headquarters and got out of the van to decide what they were going to do.

"Ok me and Barry will be partners, Chris, Jill, Rebecca, and Carlos you four take the main entrance, Claire, Steve, Leon, and Ada you fur take the back entrance. Now let's get going" Raine said and everybody did as they were told.

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Claire, Steve, Leon, and Ada got into the headquarters but as soon as they were in they were spotted. They didn't know how bad it was until bullets were barely missing them. As they were running Leon was hit twice once in the shoulder and once in the stomach. "Leon!" Ada yelled as she seen him fall and they quickly ran back to get him. Claire raised her gun and started shooting down guards trying her best not to get hit herself, Steve helped her. The two held off the guards long enough for Leon and Ada to get somewhere safe, then joined them.

"How is he?" Claire asked.

"Dead if he doesn't get to a hospital" Ada replied taking out some first aid spray and bandages.

"We need to get the hell out of here I'm going to go find the others" Claire said reaching for the doorknob gun in hand.

"I'm coming with you" Steve said, Claire hesitated then nodded and opened the door and the two ran out but were stopped by even more guards Steve and Claire wasted the guards and ran down the hall until suddenly Claire was pushed violently head first in the wall knocking her unconscious, Steve quickly ran over to her and shaked her trying to wake her up.

"Claire! Wake up!" Steve said and soon felt a sharp pain on the back of his head and fell over unconscious.

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Chris thought he heard shooting but knew that Claire and the others could take care of themselves. He heard his walkie-talkie go off and thought it might be Claire but he didn't know how wrong he was until he heard the voice.

"Hello Chris." it was none other then Albert Wesker.

"Where's Claire!? I swear to god if you hurt her I'll."Chris started to say before Wesker cut him off.

"Don't worry she's okay just a bump on the head but if you want her to have just a bump you better come to the parking lot" Wesker said before Claire must have grabbed the walkie-talkie.

"Chris don't do it you have to get to Leon and Ada, Leon was shot twice by Umbrella guards, he needs to get to the hospital forget about me help him!" Claire said. She had just enough time to tell him where they were before Wesker cut them off when Chris tried to get her back he got nothing but static then sighed and turned to the others.

"Rebecca, Carlos, you two go help Leon and Ada, Jill your with me" Chris said, Rebecca and Carlos and ran off while Jill and Chris headed for the garage their weapons loaded and ready.

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"Big brother should be here soon" Wesker said as he finished tying Claire's hands behind her back and shoved her into Steve, Claire was already working on her binds as Wesker walked over to them and grabbed Claire by her ponytail and held a combat knife to her throat.

"Let her go!" Steve yelled as he struggled with his binds. Wesker just ignored Steve and scoffed.

"Let her go now!" Chris Redfield's voice said from behind and Wesker turned around still holding the knife to Claire's throat smiling evilly even though Chris and Jill were pointing their guns at him but he knew that they wouldn't shoot because he still had Claire struggling in his grasped.

"What are you going to do shoot me?" Wesker asked sarcastically.

Steve felt a sharp, broken piece of glass and used it to cut the rope. Chris and Jill lowered their weapons helplessly Wesker smiled evilly again and removed the knife from Claire's throat, cut the ropes but still held her hands together and just when they thought he was gonna let her go he raised the knife and stabbed Claire deep into her stomach once and just let her drop to the floor then jumped into the air and towards Chris and Jill punching Jill in the head and knocking her into the wall which made her hit her head again, he then punched the same wall after Jill was already on the ground and the wall collapsed over her.

"NO!!!!" both Steve and Chris yelled at the same time, Steve cut his ropes enough that he could get out and ran immediately to Claire who was on the ground holding her bleeding stomach. Chris ran after Wesker and shot him four times but it didn't even seem to faze him, Wesker turned around and kicked Chris into a car and jumped away in super human strength.

"The self destruct system has been activated all personnel evacuate immediately. The self destruct system has been activated all personnel evacuate immediately.four minutes until detonation.four minutes until detonation."

Claire managed to stand up ignoring the stinging pain in her stomach and her throbbing head but was more concerned about the others rather then herself.

"Claire do you think you can walk?" Steve asked wearing a concerned expression.

"Don't worry about me." she replied trying to run over to Chris who was on the ground next to Jill digging her out of the rubble and picking her up, she was still unconscious. Before Chris could asked Claire if she could still go on the alarm when off again.

"Two minutes until detonation all personnel evacuate immediately.two minutes until detonation all personnel evacuate immediately."

They all ran out of the garage and down the hall Chris turned the left corner with Jill in his hands but the detonation was getting closer because the left support collapsed blocking Steve and Claire from Chris so they were about to go the other way when that support collapsed, after it collapsed there was an explosion which threw Steve back. Steve was thrown back landing on his arm and he could actually hear and feel his bone break.

Steve got back up but Claire was already by his side before he could even run over to her and helped him up only to finally succumb to her stab wound and passed out, even with his broken arm Steve picked her up and ran down the hall turned the corner and ran out the back entrance and into the van. Barry pressed on the gas and sped down the road.
A/N: I decided to change a few things on this chapter not a whole lot but just a minor change. You people probably were starting to think I was dead since I haven't updated this story in a long time, but I'm still alive. I'm going to begin working on the 13th chapter for this story and hopefully I'll add before the weekend. Bye for now