Disclaimer: I don't own Resident Evil or any of it's characters. My fic takes place during Resident Evil 2, while Claire & Leon are stuck in Raccoon City. Everything you see in parenthesis is the character's thoughts. I dunno why it just won't save the story exactly how I wrote it.

Chapter 2 - A Poison Tree

I was angry with my friend:

I told my wrath, my wrath did end.

I was angry with my foe;

I told it not, my wrath did grow.

And I water'd it in fears,

Night & morning with my tears;

And I sunned it with my smiles

And with soft deceitful wiles.

And it grew both day and night,

Till it bore an apple bright;

And my foe beheld it shine,

And he knew that it was mine,

And into my garden stole

When the night had veil'd the pole:

In the morning glad I see

My foe outstretch'd beneath the tree.

- William Blake



Set in Umbrella's secret facility, The AnEx Labs, Ohio...

In a meeting for all researchers including doctors, chemists, and the like new ideas for research were being discussed, as well as problems with experiments that went horribly wrong. The leak in Raccoon City was turning into a disaster. Great effort was put into concealing the incident. As ideas were being sprayed across the room Adele Lawrence, a geneologist, sat dazed. She and her husband Terrance Lawrence, the late chemist, headed some experiments with the albinoids and tyrants. They were close to the Birkins but soon found rivalry between eachother. Terrance was secretly performing his own experiments with the albinoids especially. After Birkin found out they had a fight. Umbrella was going to suspend his license and have him blacklisted. Adele informed him of this and he made his final attempt to find a vaccine against the T-Virus which ended up killing him. Terrance died in an explosion while testing reactions of various chemicals when combined. Adele fell into shock and was convinced that Umbrella had something to do with his death. She was kept as a researcher only because her skill was rare and needed. Adele could structure anything, she was used as a translator.

"Dr. Lawrence, what is your proposal?" The balding doctor asked her. Adele snapped back to reality and decided to finally give her opinions a voice.

"Dr. Raspen, imagine this, you are overcome with passion and seek no responsibilty..." He cuts her off quickly, thinking it a mistake to ask her for an idea. (She talks like her husband. Always the fool.)

"Please humor me, I'll use myself as an example. Imagine this all of you. I am overcome with passion and seek no responsibilty for my actions. That is how these creatures think. They have intelligence but it is minimal. They act upon instinct like animals. Well I am a regular human being, but we decide to inject me with a virus, a new virus. I turn into a zombie or even a tyrant. I have lost all reason and morality that is human nature, or for some, part of it. Instead of looking for a way to create the ultimate bio- weapon, why not just be the bio-weapon yourselves."

"Are you trying to say that we should all turn into monsters and lose our reason. This sounds irrational, uncarefully planned and rash."

"Allow me to further explain."

"Continue, so that you might not be further inturrupted."

"Thank-you Dr. Raspen. Here is my plan. Create a vaccine that will be able to cure any of the virus' then start a full blown research facility using human beings without fear of the law, or new horrors, for experimentation."

"This is an interesting idea, but where would we get these human test subjects from, to willingly donate their bodies for this? How can you guarentee that a vaccine will work."

"It requires extensive testing to first find the vaccine."

"Don't keep us in suspense Lawrence." Dr. Raspen gives her a dirty look.

"We raise them."

"What?" Afew say in unison in shock. Adele raises her tone a little competing with the rest of the board's whispers.

"We raise them. Do you know how many one night stands their are in the world, abortions being a result of that. If we persuade people to give their unwanted pregnancies to use we would save them the burden and at the same time fulfill our research standards. We could advance our technology and gain results faster than any of our rivals."

"Where are you going to find people like that? Who would give their healthy babies over to us to raise and then experiment on? Who would do it, how would we persuade them as you say?" "They don't have to be healthy, though it would be best if they were. The point is to find the vaccine so that we may further test, then cure the test subjects." Adele says with a defensive tone. One of the head doctors stood up and broke his silence.

"Dr. Lawrence, you have proved to be naturally resourceful to this company. Personally I think your hypothesis needs to be proven. With the rest of the board's approval I would like to see that you follow through with your research." Gasps of shock are heard from around the table. The old doctor peeked from above his glasses which were low set on his nose. He looked at the rest of his staff in turn to make sure there were no objections. Adele looked at him, grateful that she is finally being given the chance to prove her idea. With that the meeting was over and she could begin her work. She was assured that funding would be readily available and would be allowed to choose her own staff. Then she could begin. After speaking with the old doctor Adele leaves the room and walks to her office.

"Hey Adele, I think your idea will work." She turns around only to see that she's being approached by that familiar annoying face, Felipe Turnois.

"Dr. Turnois, are you still dealing with those chemical spills in the lab?"

"So you know about that too." He was caught off guard.

"Everyone knows how irresponsible you are, surprised they haven't fired you yet." She said haughtily. She saw she had hurt him deeply. (Maybe he'll get the message this time around.) She looked at him and realized how stunning he was in his lab coat with his long golden hair loose, his scruffy beard and perfect face shaped not too round. (A shame that you're such a clumsy fool.) She turned back to head to her office.

"I'll prove my worth, then you'll be begging for not only my brains." He said quietly to himself. Then an idea hit him and he immediately rushed back to his lab.

(Nothing like evidence to convict the criminal.) Felipe held up a vile half filled with a yellow liquid. He was convinced that his little creation would impress Dr. Lawrence. He had been obssessed with her since she married Terrance. He truly thought he was in love. He only wanted to be close to her. He had hoped that she would pick him as one of her researchers for her experiments. He was about 10 or 15 years younger than she was. (What does age matter, we're on the same level mentally. We're both excellent doctors.) He stepped into the bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror. He liked what he saw except his beard which hadn't been shaven in almost a week. He decided to give himself a shave and cleanup his goutee. He then combed his hair making it look neat. (There, now I don't look like a beast.) He was tired but perked up at the idea of seeing Adele again. (Next time I'll be holding you close Adele.)

Adele was typing away furiously at her computer recording data from previous experiments that her husband had performed. She was brought back to one night they were working late at the lab.

*******

"Oh Terrance I don't know if this will work. I mean..." She's interrupted by her husband's tongue going deeper and deeper into her mouth. She returns the favor with a passionate hard kiss. They fall to the cold cement floor on their knees as if begging eachother's mercy. She starts pulling off her lab coat. He drops his behind her and pulls her black turtleneck over her head revealing her vuluptuous breasts and curves. He kisses her flat stomach and works his way up her chest and to her neck. She feels his passion through his pants throbbing against her crotch. He suddenly grabs her arm and pulls her back on her knees and feels her thighs and slides up her skirt to her butt squeezing it gently. She moans softly. "You're tormenting me Adele, I want you right now." He says while looking in her eyes and still squeezing her butt. She started undoing the buttons on his white collar shirt throwing it to the floor. Then pulled of his white tanktop to see his muscular body. He wasn't too muscular but he wasn't a twig either. He pulled her off her knees and pushed her gently against the wall and slipped her skirt off. Then took her panties off with his teeth. She loosened his black belt and unzipped his pants. His organ was large and pulsating. She stroked it, feeling its hardness and length. He moaned as if he were in pain then bent down and started licking her moist lips. His tongue parting them further apart forcing his tongue to go as deep as it could. She began to tremble and he withdrew his tongue. He moaned loudly with pleasure as she took his stiff penis in her mouth, sucking deep back and forth. After about a minute he could no longer stand it and forced her up pressing her against the wall and rubbed his hard dick against her wet vagina. She gasped. "Go inside me." He rammed his organ hard and deep inside of her expanding her opening. The thrusts came swifter and harder each time, he would have gone through the wall if he rammed her harder. He lifted her off the floor a little holding her weight with his strong toned arms, with his erect cock still inside of her thrusting. She was lighter than he imagined. She wrapped her legs around him holding onto him tightly as he came in her, she shook violently at the exploding pleasure. They managed to climax at the same time. It would be their last time before his death.

*******

Adele felt the tears rolling down her cheeks and wiped them with a tissue. Her eyes were bloodshot. (They won't get away with it Terrance. I'll prove they murdered you. Umbrella will pay! ) Then just at that moment she heard a knock on the door and walked over to answer it. Lo and behold, the annoying face that belonged to Felipe Turnois appeared in the doorway. He looked rather cheery with a huge grin on his face.

"What are you doing here?" She asked without caring why he was there, especially after she clearly expressed a dislike for the young chemist. He then took a vile with a yellow substance in it and waved it like it was the cure for aids. (Now what crazy chemical has this idiot created.)

"I don't want to know what that is, for all I know it could turn into another spill or explosion." She began to close the door which he quickly stopped with his foot and forced his way in the office.

"Get out of here!" She yelled.

"Keep your voice calm, you'll be very interested in what I have to show you." He put his right index finger to his beautifully shaped lips.

"I'm warning you, get out or I'll have you removed from the building."

"Just watch this." He took out a cut rubber band and a needle filled with a green substance. He rolled up his sleeve, wrapped the rubber band tightly around his left arm and injected the green substance. Adele started calling security when she saw that the substance, whatever it was, was taking affect quickly. She dropped the reciever and backed away from Felipe who was mutating into what looked like a zombie. Before the muatation was complete he quickly drank the vile of yellow substance. Within seconds he changed back to his former self. Adele looked horrified and was suddenly very curious.