Disclaimer: Well...it´s done...I lost your soul, I´m sorry to say. Now I own nothing but this story. But it sucks because I don´t own anyone in the story. So I have basically nothing. It´s been a pleasure. Have a nice afterlife.

Chapter 4: Fight Your Fears and Survive

I feel like it´s been an eternity since Jill went to find the medical room. The snake´s poison is starting to affect my nervous system. I´m twitching uncontrollably. My vision is leaving me. I´m worried Jill is hurt. I don´t want to lose her the way I lost Rebecca. I don´t want to lose Jill. Where the hell is Forest? I have to keep thinking or I might lose my mind.

Why am I here? Why is this happening to me? To us? I can hear footsteps in the hall outside. Someone is running. The door is opening.

"I´m here, Richard." It was Jill. "I´m gonna give you shot. Hang in there, okay?" I could see that she was preparing something. It wouldn´t matter. I´m not going to make it. I reached for my radio.

"Jill, here." I handed the radio to her. "Take it. Get out of here. I´m not..." I felt the needle enter my left arm where the snake had bitten me. "Augh." Jill looked at my face. "Does it ever not hurt?" A smile crept upon her face, and I passed out.

When I woke up, Jill was sitting next to me. She saw that my eyes were opening and helped me sit up.

"Richard?" she said, putting her hand on my wounded arm.

"I´m okay. The others," I moaned.

"Richard, I found Forest," Jill said. She lowered her head. "I thought he was dead, but he turned into one of those things."

"Did you...?" I didn´t know how to say it. But she knew what I meant.

"I had to. There was nothing else I could do."

"Have you seen Rebecca?" I asked.

"No. Sorry. Barry is investigating the rest of the house. Maybe he´ll find her." As nice as the thought was, I couldn´t imagine that she was still alive.

"Any more bad news?" I asked.

"Kenneth is gone. One of those zombies killed him. Brad abandoned us in the chopper."

"It couldn´t get any worse."

"We don´t know where Enrico is. Or Wesker. We haven´t known where Chris is since we got into the mansion." Jill lowered her head again.

"Oh...don´t worry. Chris can hold his own," I said with a smile. "But shouldn´t you go look for him anyway?"

"I think he´s okay. Besides, I´m gonna stay here until you´re good to walk." Jill smiled at me, I guess trying to make me feel better about my current situation. We were both silent for a little while. Then Jill spoke.

"So you said a big snake did this to you?"

"Yeah. I know it sounds crazy..."

"Richard, nothing has really been normal in this place. I´ve seen some pretty strange things already," she said, furrowing her eyebrows. "I was almost killed by a plant´s vines when I was trying to get some kind of mask."

"A mask?" I asked, remembering the mask I had seen in the attic.

"Yeah. It´s gray and it´s missing some features."

"I saw one just like that in the attic before the snake attacked me." Jill looked puzzled.

"I found two others being block by some kind of traps. The puzzles were easy, but still...it was like they were being guarded," she explained.

"The snake must have been put there to guard the mask, just like the traps and the vines." I was beginning to wonder if these things happening in the mansion were actually ´organic accidents.´

"Richard, do me a favor. Stay here; I´m going to the attic to get that mask."

"Jill, no," I protested. I didn´t want her to get hurt.

"I have plenty of ammo, I´ll be fine," she argued.

"If you go I´m going with you." She stared at me for a moment.

"No, you´re not healthy enough. I´ll be right back I promise." Before I could say anything else, she left, closing the door behind her. I heard the attic door open. Time passed so slowly. I stood up as best I could to prepare myself, just in case. I heard the snake´s body rubbing roughly against the wooden floor boards. I could barely make out the hissing. I heard Jill´s pistol firing a few times. The shots stopped, she must have been reloading. She must have paused for too long, because the next thing I heard was her scream.

"Jill!" I yelled. As fast as possible, I picked up my shotgun and ran through the two doors in my path and into the attic. Jill was lying on the floor in front of me, knocked back with a small cut on her arm. "Time for a little pay back," I said.

Jill stood up and we both began firing at the snake. It screeched and moaned a few times, then fell to the floor.

"We did it!" Jill exclaimed as she hugged me. "Thanks, Richard. I knew you´d have my back. Even when I told you to stay behind." We both smiled. Jill was distracted celebrating our victory by holding my arm and telling me how much she appreciated me being there, but out of the corner of my eye I noticed the green glow of the snake´s eyes slowly brighten.

The body began slithering silently. It quickly picked up speed and lunged at Jill.

"Jill!" I shouted trying to warn her. Suddenly everything felt as is it were moving half as fast as it should be. I stepped towards Jill and dove, pushing her out of the way. The snake grabbed me in it´s mouth, head first.

"Richard!" I can hear Jill shout. I´m screaming. It´s all I can do. Why are we here? Why is this happening to us? Is Jill okay? God, Jill, don´t die...









Hope you enjoyed it...R&R please. I´ll be writing an alternate ending, but I don´t know if I´m gonna post it. Adiosness.



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