The classy dressed couple made their way down the stairs and out onto the street. Jill stops when they get to the street.
"Chris? Where's the car?"
"Around the corner."
"It was here earlier, where the hell didja go?"
"Okay Jill, calm down. First off I moved the car when I went to get your flowers, and second of all, you know that parking spot I had is like beach front property around here, people would kill for it."
Jill starts to calm down "Ok fine...I see what you are saying."
The pair starts walking and turns into the alley where Chris parked the car. They spot the car and start heading toward it. They walk for a few feet and Jill stops dead in her tracks. Chris looks back at her when he notices that she is stopped.
"What's wrong?"
"Look at that car."
Chris cocks an eyebrow "Huh? Which one?"
Jill manages to drag herself a few steps forward up to a silver 2001 Toyota Celica GT-S with a black bra sitting in front of Chris' car. "This one! This is a Celica." She looks inside for a second. "2001..." Still astonished, she walks around the back "A turbo spoiler, 4 cylinder. Eighteen inch rims. Oh my God this is the car I would kill Wesker, Irons, and anyone else that has pissed me off for. It's the EXACT car I want."
Chris kinda chuckles a little bit "Wanna see something else cool?" He grabs a key out of his pocked and pushes a button and disarms the alarm. The lights flash and the car makes a chirp sound. Jill almost passes out. "I rented it for the night 'cuz I know you like Celicas."
Jill runs up and gives Chris a giant hug and a big 'ol wet kiss on the lips "Where did you find this?"
"Well I was getting your flowers and I drove by a used car dealer that did rentals and there was a sign that said 'Rent Me' on it. And I knew you liked Celicas so I rented it."
"Used car dealership, cool maybe I'll trade my Integra in for it."
"Well there will be plenty of time to think about that later, we are going to be late." Chris opens the door for Jill and holds out the keys.
"You are letting me drive?" Chris just looks at her with a grin on his face "You are gaining points by the second bud." She gets in the car and Chris shuts the door behind her, she starts the car as Chris walks around to the passenger side of the car and gets in. He sits down and moves the seat all the way back. Jill just looks at him with a smirk; Chris is crammed in the little car not looking amused.
"There is more room in the driver side of these cars."
"Oh stop complaining; at least you aren't in the back or even the trunk."
"THAT'S true."
"I wish I had my CD's..."
Chris just smirks and reaches behind her seat. "You mean these?"
"Man Chris...I'll hand it to ya, you know how to please the ladies...But DON'T be pleasing too many of them." She grabs the CD's and flips through a few of them until she reaches her Bon Jovi CD. She grabs it and puts it in. She looks at Chris as she cranks up Livin on a Prayer. "Cruisin music." She then drops down the top and they take off towards their destination.
Can you picture that? Two pristinely dressed people driving down the Embarcadero in a Celica bumpin Bon Jovi, oh lordie. Well anyway. So Chris directs her where to go from the crammed passenger seat as they listen to Bon Jovi, not particularly one of Chris' faves but this is for Jill, and she looks like she is having fun, so he just sits there nice and quiet.
"We are almost there so park around the corner. Over there."
Jill pulls into a parking garage in the beautiful silver Celica. They grab the parking pass and pull in and parks. Chris immediately gets out and stretches "These things are pretty quick."
"Well it is a GT-S so of course it will be quick. It has 180 Horse power." She says as she gets out of the car. She reaches in the back seat and grabs her purse and then closes the door. Chris by this time has already made his way around to the other side of the car.
"So you liked it?"
Jill gives Chris a sideways look..."No the car sucked, Of course I liked it, and I am looking forward to cruising the city in it after dinner."
"Well cruising the city will have to wait until later tonight, I have plans for after dinner, that is why we are having dinner so early, I mean it is only 7:45. And speaking of which our reservations are for 8:15 and if you aren't there at the time your reservation is for...Well then we will be eating McDonalds with all of the homeless people. So let's go."
They make their way towards the door; Chris puts his arm around her. Jill just kinda shrugs and keeps walking.
"What was that for?" Chris asks as he removes his arm.
"What?"
"You shrugging when I put my arm around you."
"What are you talking about?"
Chris shrugs himself and replaces his arm on her shoulder just as they make it to the door. He opens the door for Jill and walks in after her.
"Welcome to the Grandview's Restaurant, may I take your name?"
"Yeah, it is under Wesker, Albert Wesker party of two." Jill just looks at Chris a little cockeyed as the doorman is looking for the name, Chris motions towards Jill to drop it until they get inside.
"Ah Yes, a pleasure to have you as our guest this evening Mr. and Mrs. Wesker, please follow me." The man leads them to their table. "Your waitress will be right with you."
"Thank you," says Jill. The man leaves and Jill shoots a look to Chris as if he doesn't start talking then she is going to bite his head off. "That is kind of disturbing, being called Mrs. Wesker... Why the hell were the reservations under Wesker's name?"
"Do you know how hard it is to get reservations to this place? You need to make them like a million years in advance so I asked Wesker to pull a few strings and get us the table, so just calm down for a little and enjoy the view."
The restaurant sits atop of one of the highest building in downtown San Francisco. To their right is the KOIT Tower, and the Bay Bridge, and to their left is a bright orange sun setting on the water right under the Golden Gate Bridge, the glow reflecting off the water and the red clouds make the bridge look like a silhouette against the brightly colored background. Alcatraz sits quietly in the bay as all of the ships and boats make their way past it, an eerie reminder of the people placed in the high security prison. Now like the Golden Gate Bridge is sits there as if it is a ghost.
Jill sits there admiring the view, thoughts flowing through her mind like flashes of lightning. Man Chris is such a ladies man, look at that view, beautiful it couldn't be anymore perfect…You know that Celica was pretty fun I think I am going to trade my Integra for it….I still don't get why the reservations were in Wesker's name...Do I have an extra tampon with me?
"Jill, how do you like the view?"
Jill is still running thoughts through her mind and doesn't even hear Chris. Do I have any reports due on Monday?...I should go see my mom.
"Jill?!"
Jill finally realizes that Chris is talking to her and she acknowledges him "Yeah?"
"Are you ok? You seemed out of it for a second..."
"Just admiring the view, it's beautiful."
Chris and Jill are sitting there talking and the waitress comes up to the table, she is about 5'5' maybe weighing about 135 pounds. She has short brown hair with bright blue eyes. She looks like a college girl about the age of twenty-two probably working here to pay her tuition.
"Good Evening, My name is Jennifer and I'll be your waitress this evening. Can I start you off with something to drink?"
Chris starts chuckling as he hears her name is Jennifer, as he remembers the last time he had a waitress named Jennifer…
…Jennifer walks back over to the table with their food in her hands. She sets Jill's platter in front of Jill. She then picks up Chris' platter and as she is setting it in front of him, she knocks his glass of water right into his lap. He quickly stands up.
"What the-?!?!"
"Oh my God, I'm SO sorry…please let me help you with that." She grabs a few napkins and sticks her hand right onto the wet spot, which also happens to be his manhood….
Chris starts chuckling a little harder and then realizes that Jennifer is waiting for his response, he tries to regain his composure. "Yes can we have a bottle of some White Zinfandel," he says and starts chuckling again. "Just as long as you don't spill it in my lap." Jennifer just smiles and makes a note of it.
"Ok I'll be right out with that and here are your menus," she hands them a menu each.
Jennifer walks away and Jill shoots Chris the Evil Eye, Chris meanwhile is still chuckling. "May I ask what is just sooo funny?"
"Remember at Claim Jumpers? Our Waitress was named Jennifer as well..."
Jill tries to think back bits and pieces of that lunch flash through her mind…
….my name is Jennifer…"You did that on purpose…"
Chris, in his little innocent kid voice, "What?"…."You were flirting with her." …. Jeez, I was right. I can't take Chris anywhere without some girl staring at him… Hmm, I wonder what will happen if I say that Chris is my boyfriend? ... "Yes, that is the name of my boyfriend."….
Out of nowhere, Jill leans across the table and smacks Chris. Chris, startled at that sudden slap, looks at Jill like she is crazy.
"What was THAT for???" Still a little dazed.
"That was for what happened at Claim Jumpers..."
"What!?" Chris says in his shy little boy voice. "Well if you want to be like that then I won't tell you about what we WERE going to do after dinner."
Jill just looks at him.
Chris grabs his silverware and starts to make a castle out of them once again, not paying attention to Jill's stares. Jill grabs the menu and starts looking over it. Chris notices that and also grabs the Menu. He starts looking over the menu and turns a pale white. Jill kind of concerned at the Menu prices. "Chris,
Isn't this place a little expensive?"
Chris regains his composure, "Don't worry about that, I have it covered, order what you want," Chris starts thinking my God...I'm gonna kill Wesker, look at these prices. Chris snaps his finger, Jill looks up at him, "Eh….cramp, heh..." He starts digging into his pockets. Please say it is here, A-HA! He pulls out a credit card, with the name Leon Kennedy on it, THANK YOU AGAIN!! He picks up the menu again just as Jennifer walks back over to the table.
"Here you are," she pours them both a glass and then sets the bottle on the table. "Are you ready to order?"
Jill set the menu down, "Yes, I'll have the lemon chicken please."
"Ok and for you sir?" She looks over at him.
"Umm…I'll take the Vegetable Tempura please."
"Ok, I'll be right out with your salad and bread." Jennifer leaves and Chris and Jill resume their conversation.
"So tell me about what we are doing after dinner?" Jill asks.
"Ok well I happened to stumble across something I think you might enjoy." He pulls out a pair of tickets and hands them to her.
She looks at them for a second and then her eyes light up like the headlights of the Celica. "Les Miserables!! Where did you get these!?!? I've been
looking for these for so long..."
A huge smile crosses Chris' face. "Well it is actually a funny story, when I went to get your flowers I ran into an old buddy from the Air Force…."
Earlier That Day:
Chris stands there in line waiting to pick up the roses he ordered for Jill earlier. A man of about Chris' height and body build is standing next to him. He has brown hair with blonde highlights and a tattoo on his left arm. He is wearing a red Abercrombie shirt with the sleeves cut off and a pair of blue jeans, with the White and Red Globe Chet Thomas IV's. He stands there looking at the flowers, with as much of a lost look on his face as Chris has. He looks over spots Chris.
"Redfield?" Chris turns and looks at him. "Chris Redfield my God it's been a while."
"Nick Dawson…" They both give each other a hug. "What is going on? I thought you were in the service still."
"Medical Discharge, I led a group of elites into an obvious trap and lost my who party, I barely made it out alive myself and it drove me nuts, I still replay those moments over and over in my head. Well they let me go."
"Oh man…Well at least you are alive..."
"I guess…can't say the same for Marx, Collins, Perry, Grahmm, Hayes, Michael and Dion. But anyway what are you doing here?"
"Well I'm looking for some flowers to give my partner, we are going out on a date tonight, and I am getting her flowers and I know she likes Celicas so I am renting one for the night."
"Nice, so what are your plans for after that?"
"Well, we are going to dinner then cruise the town..."
"I have a better idea…here…" He pulls out a pair of Les Miserables tickets. "Take her to go see Les Mis, me and my wife were going to go but her mom just went into the hospital and we are bringing her some flowers and are going to sit with her, and I don't want these to go to waste."
"Wife? Since when? You were Mr. Bachelor in the Force."
"Sara and I have been happily married for almost a year and a half now with a little girl on the way."
"Oh man, Congratulations. Well I have to get going or else Jill is gonna kill me, hey thanks for the tickets, and keep in touch. I'm a member of the S.T.A.R.S. So look me up and maybe we can hang out sometime."
"Yeah, that'd be cool. Later."
Chris gets to the register and pays for the roses and takes off to rent the car…
"…and that is when I went and picked up the Celica, and I remembered seeing the Les Mis CD in your CD case when I grabbed it so I knew you would like this."
Jill puts her salad plate to the side. "Chris you are such a gentleman." She sits up and give him a real big kiss. "Oh by the way sorry for slapping you earlier, I was just remembering how you were flirting with the waitress and how you charmed us into a free lunch. You know Chris...you are a cheap skate."
Chris looks like he took a blow to his ego, but knowing Chris he ALWAYS has a snappy retort to everything. "Cheap Skate? How can you say that when we are sitting in here eating? This bottle of wine alone costs 90 bucks." Chris thinks: 90 Bucks of Leon's money, heh heh.
"And you did see how much your chicken cost? You call that being cheap? Damn woman…there is no satisfying you."
"I was just saying…" Jill gets interrupted by Jennifer who sets her plate in front of her.
"Lemon chicken for you and Vegetable Tempura for you sir." She sets Chris' plate in front of him. "Can I get you anything else?"
"No, thank you Jennifer," Chris says politely with a big grin.
She leaves and Jill starts to cut her chicken "This looks good, and did you notice how dark it got all of a sudden."
"Oh yeah..." Chris looks at his newly cleaned watch with a fresh battery in it. "Ok well the show starts in 30 minutes so we should make an attempt to eat quickly. Oh and one more thing." He fills up her empty wine glass and puts a little bit more in his barely touched glass. "A Toast!" Jill raises her glass. "A toast to the end of Umbrella's genetic research and to both of us making it out alive, after the mansion, and the Tyrant and even Nemesis..."
"And also to us, to our date and to you and the Celica, thanks again for renting it I can't wait to drive it again."
They both raise their glasses and make the toast. The rest of the dinner goes on pretty uneventful, they have a few arguments but what can you expect. They pay and both get up to leave to go see Les Miserables. Jill once again is driving and they make their way out of the parking lot and head towards the Curran Theatre where Les Mis is playing. This time they are listening to DJ Sammy - Heaven.
"Turn here. I know a shortcut through the alley."
Jill turns and starts driving down the alley; she turns and looks over at Chris and smiles. He smiles back and something catches his attention out of the corner of his eye. "WATCH OUT!!!!"
Jill looks and slams on the brakes "SHIT!!!!!"
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Jill's Note: ^.^;; Whew…finally…Well that ends my chapter, I think we are going to be mean and leave you hanging for another year and not post anything else…lol, Just kidding I couldn't do that to you. Anyway as I stated before this fic is a product of IM conversations Well I have talked it over with Chris and be sure to look for our ACTUAL IM conversations in their ORIGINAL form with all of the brb's and OOC moments, I hope you enjoy them as much as Chris and I do. We'll be posting one every so often here on FF.net.