Author's Note: This is my take on what happens after Resident Evil: Code Veronica. An old friend will come back soon. Mwaha. Also, there are extreme spoilers on what happened in Resident Evil: CV, so don't blame me if I ruined the entire game for you.

This is the revised version of Chapter One. This is easily much better then the first version...



-Even Fond Memories Can Come Back To Haunt You....-
-By Brian Marcelo-
-brianmarcelo@hotmail.com-
Rated R for violent situations, and um...romance situations.



-Prologue-



Chris and Claire Redfield had finally managed to escape from Umbrella's Antarctic facility, but not without facing some of the most horrifying monsters imaginable.

Claire and Steven had dealt with Alfred Ashford, a crazy man who, to cope with his sister's "death", pretended to be her, even to the point of dressing up as her.

Then there was Alexander Ashford, who was nicknamed named Nosferatu by the local workers at the Antarctic facility. Alexander had been betrayed by his own "children" and had been intentionally infected with the T-Veronica virus, therefore making him into a huge gray-skinned humanoid figure, with tentacles flowing out of his back which had the ability to secrete a special kind of poison not treatable by the blue herb.

To Claire's horror, Steve had been taken away by Alexia and had been injected with the T-Veronica virus. Once Claire found him, she was shocked to see him turn into a huge green monster, ready to kill her with his newfound axe. Claire ran as far as she could from Steve as he swung his axe at her. She managed to escape him temporaily before being caught by Alexia's tentacle. The tentacle held Claire in place as Steve was ready to decapitate her. Steven managed to regain control of himself and instead, cut off Alexia's tentacle that was holding Claire. It released Claire and then rammed Steven heavily into a wall before retracting where it had come from. Claire raced to Steven's side and tried to help him, but to no avail. He reverted to his human state as he was slowly dying, telling Claire that he loved her. After saying those words, he died, not letting Claire have a chance to tell him anything in return.

Finallly, Chris faced off against Alexia Ashford, who had acquired unbelievable powers after injecting herself with the T-Veronica virus and then putting her body in cold storage so her body could adapt to the virus. It was a truly fierce battle but Chris managed to prevail, using the Linear Launcher to dispatch of Alexia, in similiar fashion to when he had used a rocket launcher against the very first Tyrant.

Claire managed to bump into Albert Wesker, the former head of S.T.A.R.S, during her brother's battle with Alexia and is easily put in to a headlock by him, seeing as how he has super strength thanks to his super virus. Chris manages to find Wesker holding his sister hostage, and chases after them through a long zombie infested hallway. He follows Wesker to a docked submarine and demanded his sister to be returned to him. Wesker complies and let's Claire go. He then proceeds to tell Chris and Claire that his job to capture a sample of the T-Veronica is done, and all he needs to do now is get revenge on Chris for ruining his master plan. Chris states that Alexia is gone, but Wesker reveals that he stole Steve's body to get a sample of the virus instead. Claire angrily tries to attack Wesker but is held back by Chris, who wants to fight Wesker instead. Claire understands and escapes to the jet plane, while Chris and Wesker fought hand to hand. With the facility about to be destroyed by the self destruct system, they had to call it a draw. Chris managed to escape the explosion in the nick of time, and he and his sister Claire flew away with a jet, vowing to take down Umbrella one and for all.

Afterall, it was time for some pay back after all the horrors that had been through.

However, Chris and Claire needed some help...



-Chapter One-



-January 1st, 1999. On their way to Paris, France via commercial airplane-



"Chris? Wake up Chris..." Claire quietly said, with a hint of urgency in her voice.

"Wha..what is it..?" Chris said, yawning as he started to wake up.

"We're almost there...." she said softly.

"Claire...? Is there something wrong...? We're just going to meet up with Jill and the others...you sound...sad though.." said Chris, showing his brotherly concern.

"No...nothing's wrong Chris...I'm just...a little tired...that's all..." she replied, as a small smile appeared on her lips.

"Ahh, well...you should get some rest..." he said while smiling back at his sister.

'I know you're lying sis...you always do that certain smile when you lie....but why now? You were never one to want to get me worked up about anything, so I guess I'll have to wait and see why...' Chris thought to himself as he kept smiling at his sister, as to not arouse suspicion.

'Good...he doesn't suspect a thing..' Claire thought to herself as she returned her brother's smile, also hoping not to make her brother suspicious.

"So who are we meeting up with again?" said Claire, wanting to chang the subject.

"Jill, Barry, Rebecca, Leon, and this guy named Carlos...." replied Chris, as he wondered how Jill met Carlos, although he wasn't quite sure why he was pondering about it in the first place. After all, he had helped her a vaccine when she had been infected by the Nemesis, and he had helped her escape Raccoon City along with Barry Burton.

"After all," he though to himself, "she had to find all the help she could get..."

He couldn't quite shake the feeling of being a little jealous though...which was starting to really confuse the hell out of him. Chris had always looked at Jill Valentine as his partner, but every now and then he couldn't help glancing at her when they were in their office, alone together, doing tedious paperwork.

"Ahhh...hey...what do you think we're gonna do when we get there...?" asked Claire as she interrupted his thoughts.

"I'm not really sure...I guess we'll be making some type of plan to inflitrate Umbrella's Paris Facility, which also is their main headquarters." replied Chris.

Claire cringed as she remembered how she was chased by a chain gun toting helicopter when she was caught inflitrating the base a few weeks ago.

"Um...we'll be better prepared then I was, right?" she asked nervously, not wanting to be chased around by a helicopter that had a chaingun attached to it.

"Of course sis, we won't be going in recklessly like you did with all those bullets flying around and various explosives being detonated." Chris jokingly answered.

"It's not funny! Let's see you being chased by a helicopter!" she retorted.

"If I had done it, I would've been in and out of the building before anyone even noticed, sis." he answered a-matter-of-factly.

"Grr..." she growled as she gave him a light punch to his arm.

"Anyways, you and I should get some sleep before the plane lands, alright?" he said, yawning as he stretched and went back to sleeping.

"Kay..." said Claire, as she ackwardly tried going back to sleep. However, with all that she had been through the last few days, it had been hard to get any sleep at all.

She was missing Steve so very much. They only knew each other for about two days, but during those two days they had been through so much. It was different then when she had been stuck with Leon S. Kennedy at Raccoon City, because for the majority of their stay there, they had split up and tried to find any survivors left and an escape route out of the city. Plus, Leon had Ada Wong with him, who Leon later fell in love with. Also, Claire had to take care of Sherry Birkin, so she was forced to be more like a mom then pursue any type of intimacy.

It was different with Steve, because Steven and Claire didn't have to worry about finding any survivors, so they did a lot of work together, solving intricate puzzles strewn about the island by Alfred Ashford and shooting any zombies and other, more horrifying monsters, that were in their way. It really meant a lot to Claire that Steve let himself open up to her, especially after he had to kill his undead father from hurting Claire.

Claire just couldn't get any sleep knowing that Steve had not only died, but was stolen by Wesker and taken away to his new employers, who no doubt were trying to extract T-Veronica virus samples from him. She was crushed that she couldn't save him, especially after all those tense moments where she had been saved by him. She was especially saddened since he loved her...

And she didn't get a chance to tell him how she felt.

"Did I..I mean...do I love him back...? We were close...but...do I...love him back...?" Claire whispered quietly to herself.

Another thing that kept her up for many nights was Wesker had said to her....that Steve might come back to life one day, just like how Wesker did...

"Come on Claire...just try to get some rest...at least he'll live on in your fond memories of him...." she said to herself quietly as she closed her eyes and fell asleep, thinking about what she would've said to Steve...



-End of Chapter One-



This is the revised Chapter One, which has extra things in it and...yeah.