Author's Note: Yeah, I'm attempting to make the "author's note" part of each chapter relatively smaller, so that you the fans get to have more nice material to read and then review about, to either flame or praise the chapter. Hopefully it'll be the second one...
" " denote speech, while ' ' denote thoughts.
Finally, thank you for all the reviews so far, guys...I anxiously await more reviews, as they are my inspiration for writing...*nudge nudge*
Also, I'll try to keep the story more organized and less messy, since I love you guys.
And sorry, but nobody dies just yet in this chapter. Sorry for saying that they would in the last chapter, but I decided it would be more dramatic to put it in Chapter Thirteen...
Anyways, on with the chapter...
-Even Fond Memories Can Come Back To Haunt You.... -
-By Brian Marcelo-
-brianmarcelo@hotmail.com-
Rated R for...
-The Letter-
-Chapter Twelve-
-At the French Restaurant, 11:59 AM-
"Hey Barry!" said Chris, as he noticed his friend walking up to their tables.
"Hey all!" Barry said with a smile as he took a seat with his friends, still a little tired from carrying two rather large backpacks of weapons and ammunition to the car, "Anything good to order here?"
"The French toast is pretty good." said Claire with a grin, as cocked her head towards Leon, who had been embarrassed earlier by the waiter for ordering French toast.
"Yeah...it's great..." muttered Leon under his breath, still and mad at the waiter for being so grouchy.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot... " said a Barry with a wide grin on his face, as he took out an envelope from his pocket and handed it to Chris, "I found this on your hotel room door, Chris, heh heh. Who's it from? A girl in Paris perhaps?"
"Huh?" said a confused Chris, as he took the envelope and examined it, "I haven't met anyone around Paris, Barry..."
As Chris opened the envelope and took out the letter within it, he looked at who it was addressed to, and looked rather shocked.
"Claire...?" said Chris as he handed the letter to her, "This letter is for you..."
Claire, who had the same look of confusion as her brother Chris, took the letter from him and read it aloud so that everyone could hear her.
'Claire,
You remember how I had Steve Burnside in my possession? Remember how I said he might come back sometime, like I did?
Guess what?
He's back. It seems that the T-Veronica virus that Alexia injected him with brought him back to life.
But guess what?
I'm back as well.
If you want to see Steve, go to the center of Downtown Paris. If you bring anyone else with you besides your brother, I'll make sure that Steve dies a second time, and then I'll come after you and your brother.
- Wesker'
There was an awkward silence as Claire finished the letter, all of them feeling confused, surprised, shocked, and/or angry. Nobody said anything for a while, as they were all at a lost for words at the shocking revelation.
Wesker was back, and in Paris. He was back, just like he said he would be.
Jill Valentine and Barry Burton both couldn't believe their ex-Captain was back to haunt them once more. Jill hated Wesker just as much as Chris did, since Wesker had killed her teammates all for the purpose of combat data. Barry hated how he was used by Wesker to destroy evidence, as well as help him bring the S.T.A.R.S. members into the mansion.
Rebecca Chambers clenched her teeth silently, angry with Wesker for killing her teammates, and for ruining her once happy, cheerful life. He had traumatized her to the point where she had to fake being cheerful so that her friends wouldn't worry.
Leon S. Kennedy and Carlos Oliviera, the only ones who had been lucky enough not to have met Wesker, hated him already, from all the stories they had heard about him from the group. Leon especially hated Wesker after he had heard what had happened in Antarctica and how he almost killed Claire.
Leon looked at Claire and realized she hadn't said anything after reading out the letter; she wasn't even moving, she was just staring at the letter silently, her eyes unwavering from it.
"Claire...?" Leon asked with a worried voice, "Claire...? Are you alright...?"
Jill glanced over to Chris and realized that he was barely moving like his sister, looking angry as he gritted his teeth. The last time Jill had seen Chris that mad was when he was telling her about what Wesker had done at Rockfort and Antarctica, and how Wesker had taken Claire as his hostage after Chris had destroyed Alexia Ashford.
"Chris...?" Jill asked with the same worried tone as Leon, "You okay...?"
"He kills my friends...he nearly kills me...and now he threatens my sister life..." said Chris through clenched teeth, "I'm gonna kill him...I'm gonna kill him..."
Chris abruptly stood up without another word and walked over to the jeep that Leon and Claire had driven to get to the restaurant.
"Come on Claire, we have to go save your friend." he said simply, almost coldly. Jill, understanding of what Chris was going through, decided not to say anything except silently wish him good luck.
She nodded and started walking towards the jeep without saying a word as well, until Leon grabbed on to her arm.
"Claire, wait...shouldn't we come along too...?" Leon asked quietly, not wanting to just sit around and do nothing.
"No Leon." she said coldly, "If any of you come, he'll kill Steve."
"How can you be so sure? What if he kills Steve anyway and then comes after you...?" Leon said with pleading eyes, "Please let me come with you...I don't want to see you get hurt..."
"This is something that only my brother and I can handle, Leon...I have to save Steve..." she replied, as she turned away from him and, without another word, walked up into the jeep and sped off with her brother towards downtown, leaving Leon speechless and heartbroken.
There was another awkward silence between the group, as they all were unsure of what to do or say. After a while of this, Leon decided to speak up.
"We should go follow them..." he said simply, hoping that his friends would agree with him.
"Leon..." Rebecca said softly as she tried to reason with him, "You heard what the letter said...if we come along, he'll kill Steve..."
"From what I've heard of Wesker, it seems he'll just kill Steve in front of Claire just to spite Chris!" Leon argued, desperately wanting to make sure Claire would be alright.
"I agree with Leon...I think we should follow, but be a block or two away....I mean, Wesker may be enhanced, but I'm sure he couldn't see us from that far away..." said Jill, who wanted to make sure that Chris was going to be alright as much as Leon wanted Claire to be alright.
"What are we waiting for then? Let's go!" said Carlos impatiently, wanting to get into some action. Leon, looking towards Barry and Rebecca for their response, saw them nod their heads in agreement, wanting to make sure their friends had back up just in case things went sour. The group proceeded towards the van that Barry had driven to get to the restaurant and went in, in pursuit of the Redfields', in hopes that they could somehow be of some help to them.
-On the way to Downtown Paris, 12:05 PM-
"Check the glove compartment Claire." said Chris as kept on speeding towards the central of Paris.
"Sure Chris." she replied, as she opened the glove compartment and to her surprise found a Browning HP handgun along with two clips of ammo.
'Whoa...this reminds me of when Leon and me were in that cop car...' she mused to herself as she checked the gun, 'Feels just like yesterday when that happened...heh...it's even the same model of handgun that I used in Raccoon city...'
"Thanks bro...uh, hey Chris, what about you?" she asked, wondering if her brother had any sort of weapon on him beside his combat knife, which had been a gift from their father.
"I've got my trusty Enhanced Glock right here...I didn't get to shoot Wesker with it the last time I saw him, but since then I've had time to prepare a special bullet with his name right on it..." he said, clenching his teeth again at the chance he had missed.
Claire, surprised by how her brother was acting, decided to keep quiet and go back to thinking about Steve.
'Steve...I'm coming for you...I'm sorry for not being able to do anything when Alexia had attacked and captured us...I'm sorry for not being able to save you from Wesker's clutches...but this time I'll save you, now that you're alive again. I'll save you, Steve...' she thought to herself, as her brother Chris kept on driving faster towards Downtown, anxious to take down Wesker once and for all.
"It's payback time, right Claire?" said her brother, which interrupting her thoughts of Steve.
Claire quietly nodded as she held her Browning HP handgun tightly. This wasn't going to be easy, but she was determined to get back Steve no matter what happened to her.
-Downtown Paris, 12:07 PM-
"They should be arriving soon..." said Albert Wesker quietly to himself, as he tilted his black sunglasses slightly.
"Wha-what are you going to do when they get here...?" asked Steve, sounding frightened at what Wesker could do to Claire and Chris.
"Why Mr. Burnside, what do you think I'm going to do?" replied Wesker with a smug smile on his face, "I'm going to do what I should've done a long time ago."
Steve just closed his eyes and looked away from Wesker, silently cursing himself.
'This is all my fault...Claire is going to risk her life to save mine...sigh...it would've been better if I had just stayed dead...that way Claire wouldn't get hurt....' Steve thought to himself solemnly.
-On the way to Downtown Paris, 12:09 PM-
"Everyone got their gear?" asked Barry, who made a sharp left turn at the intersection.
"Geez, calm down with the driving, would ya Barry?" said Carlos, as he was trying to steadily reload his standard U.B.C.S. standard issue M41A Assault Rifle which he had took as a "memento" of his time at Umbrella.
Barry muttered an apology as he took a sharp right at the next intersection, which made Carlos bump his head rather hard at the side of the van.
Everyone was gearing up with what Barry had brought. Leon had taken the Custom Remington M1100-P Shotgun that he had once used while trying to escape from Raccoon City, Carlos had his M41A Assault Rifle that he had used to battle the Nemesis countless times, Barry had taken a Desert Eagle 50A.E Magnum since he had used a magnum during the Mansion Incident, Rebecca had taken a Custom Beretta-M92FS, and Jill had taken the Western Custom shotgun, which was the same one she used to escape from the Nemesis. Barry had made sure that the group was prepared with familiar weapons, because they were going against Umbrella and they were likely to have many troops, as well as T-virus B.O.W.
However, they didn't plan on seeing Wesker, and from what they heard from Chris, he was like a Tyrant in power, only much faster and much smarter. All of them having experienced what a Tyrant type monster could do, they decided to pull out the heavy weaponry from the start.
"Claire.." Leon whispered to himself quietly, as he went over his shotgun carefully, "In a way, you picked Steve over me kinda...no...sigh...I'm being stupid...but still...I can't help but feel that you did..."
Jill, noticing Leon's discontent, nudged him a bit and said, "You okay Leon?"
"Yeah, I'm okay..." he replied with a small smile, "I just didn't think we'd have to fight so soon."
"Yeah...I know what you mean. Don't worry though...after all this is over, we can stop fighting and start living again..." she said with a smile, hoping to somehow cheer Leon up. They both had gone through hell trying to escape from Raccoon City, so fighting for their lives was something they had both gotten used to, and after three months, still couldn't forget.
"Thanks Jill. I hope so..." said Leon solemnly, as he reloaded his shotgun with a loud *click*.
-End of Chapter Twelve-
Okay, I said someone would die in this chapter...uh...sorry. Not just yet....
Someone will die in unlucky Chapter Thirteen...which will be coming soon...
Chapter Thirteen is called "Dance With The Devil", so you all can guess what that means...
" " denote speech, while ' ' denote thoughts.
Finally, thank you for all the reviews so far, guys...I anxiously await more reviews, as they are my inspiration for writing...*nudge nudge*
Also, I'll try to keep the story more organized and less messy, since I love you guys.
And sorry, but nobody dies just yet in this chapter. Sorry for saying that they would in the last chapter, but I decided it would be more dramatic to put it in Chapter Thirteen...
Anyways, on with the chapter...
-Even Fond Memories Can Come Back To Haunt You.... -
-By Brian Marcelo-
-brianmarcelo@hotmail.com-
Rated R for...
-The Letter-
-Chapter Twelve-
-At the French Restaurant, 11:59 AM-
"Hey Barry!" said Chris, as he noticed his friend walking up to their tables.
"Hey all!" Barry said with a smile as he took a seat with his friends, still a little tired from carrying two rather large backpacks of weapons and ammunition to the car, "Anything good to order here?"
"The French toast is pretty good." said Claire with a grin, as cocked her head towards Leon, who had been embarrassed earlier by the waiter for ordering French toast.
"Yeah...it's great..." muttered Leon under his breath, still and mad at the waiter for being so grouchy.
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot... " said a Barry with a wide grin on his face, as he took out an envelope from his pocket and handed it to Chris, "I found this on your hotel room door, Chris, heh heh. Who's it from? A girl in Paris perhaps?"
"Huh?" said a confused Chris, as he took the envelope and examined it, "I haven't met anyone around Paris, Barry..."
As Chris opened the envelope and took out the letter within it, he looked at who it was addressed to, and looked rather shocked.
"Claire...?" said Chris as he handed the letter to her, "This letter is for you..."
Claire, who had the same look of confusion as her brother Chris, took the letter from him and read it aloud so that everyone could hear her.
'Claire,
You remember how I had Steve Burnside in my possession? Remember how I said he might come back sometime, like I did?
Guess what?
He's back. It seems that the T-Veronica virus that Alexia injected him with brought him back to life.
But guess what?
I'm back as well.
If you want to see Steve, go to the center of Downtown Paris. If you bring anyone else with you besides your brother, I'll make sure that Steve dies a second time, and then I'll come after you and your brother.
- Wesker'
There was an awkward silence as Claire finished the letter, all of them feeling confused, surprised, shocked, and/or angry. Nobody said anything for a while, as they were all at a lost for words at the shocking revelation.
Wesker was back, and in Paris. He was back, just like he said he would be.
Jill Valentine and Barry Burton both couldn't believe their ex-Captain was back to haunt them once more. Jill hated Wesker just as much as Chris did, since Wesker had killed her teammates all for the purpose of combat data. Barry hated how he was used by Wesker to destroy evidence, as well as help him bring the S.T.A.R.S. members into the mansion.
Rebecca Chambers clenched her teeth silently, angry with Wesker for killing her teammates, and for ruining her once happy, cheerful life. He had traumatized her to the point where she had to fake being cheerful so that her friends wouldn't worry.
Leon S. Kennedy and Carlos Oliviera, the only ones who had been lucky enough not to have met Wesker, hated him already, from all the stories they had heard about him from the group. Leon especially hated Wesker after he had heard what had happened in Antarctica and how he almost killed Claire.
Leon looked at Claire and realized she hadn't said anything after reading out the letter; she wasn't even moving, she was just staring at the letter silently, her eyes unwavering from it.
"Claire...?" Leon asked with a worried voice, "Claire...? Are you alright...?"
Jill glanced over to Chris and realized that he was barely moving like his sister, looking angry as he gritted his teeth. The last time Jill had seen Chris that mad was when he was telling her about what Wesker had done at Rockfort and Antarctica, and how Wesker had taken Claire as his hostage after Chris had destroyed Alexia Ashford.
"Chris...?" Jill asked with the same worried tone as Leon, "You okay...?"
"He kills my friends...he nearly kills me...and now he threatens my sister life..." said Chris through clenched teeth, "I'm gonna kill him...I'm gonna kill him..."
Chris abruptly stood up without another word and walked over to the jeep that Leon and Claire had driven to get to the restaurant.
"Come on Claire, we have to go save your friend." he said simply, almost coldly. Jill, understanding of what Chris was going through, decided not to say anything except silently wish him good luck.
She nodded and started walking towards the jeep without saying a word as well, until Leon grabbed on to her arm.
"Claire, wait...shouldn't we come along too...?" Leon asked quietly, not wanting to just sit around and do nothing.
"No Leon." she said coldly, "If any of you come, he'll kill Steve."
"How can you be so sure? What if he kills Steve anyway and then comes after you...?" Leon said with pleading eyes, "Please let me come with you...I don't want to see you get hurt..."
"This is something that only my brother and I can handle, Leon...I have to save Steve..." she replied, as she turned away from him and, without another word, walked up into the jeep and sped off with her brother towards downtown, leaving Leon speechless and heartbroken.
There was another awkward silence between the group, as they all were unsure of what to do or say. After a while of this, Leon decided to speak up.
"We should go follow them..." he said simply, hoping that his friends would agree with him.
"Leon..." Rebecca said softly as she tried to reason with him, "You heard what the letter said...if we come along, he'll kill Steve..."
"From what I've heard of Wesker, it seems he'll just kill Steve in front of Claire just to spite Chris!" Leon argued, desperately wanting to make sure Claire would be alright.
"I agree with Leon...I think we should follow, but be a block or two away....I mean, Wesker may be enhanced, but I'm sure he couldn't see us from that far away..." said Jill, who wanted to make sure that Chris was going to be alright as much as Leon wanted Claire to be alright.
"What are we waiting for then? Let's go!" said Carlos impatiently, wanting to get into some action. Leon, looking towards Barry and Rebecca for their response, saw them nod their heads in agreement, wanting to make sure their friends had back up just in case things went sour. The group proceeded towards the van that Barry had driven to get to the restaurant and went in, in pursuit of the Redfields', in hopes that they could somehow be of some help to them.
-On the way to Downtown Paris, 12:05 PM-
"Check the glove compartment Claire." said Chris as kept on speeding towards the central of Paris.
"Sure Chris." she replied, as she opened the glove compartment and to her surprise found a Browning HP handgun along with two clips of ammo.
'Whoa...this reminds me of when Leon and me were in that cop car...' she mused to herself as she checked the gun, 'Feels just like yesterday when that happened...heh...it's even the same model of handgun that I used in Raccoon city...'
"Thanks bro...uh, hey Chris, what about you?" she asked, wondering if her brother had any sort of weapon on him beside his combat knife, which had been a gift from their father.
"I've got my trusty Enhanced Glock right here...I didn't get to shoot Wesker with it the last time I saw him, but since then I've had time to prepare a special bullet with his name right on it..." he said, clenching his teeth again at the chance he had missed.
Claire, surprised by how her brother was acting, decided to keep quiet and go back to thinking about Steve.
'Steve...I'm coming for you...I'm sorry for not being able to do anything when Alexia had attacked and captured us...I'm sorry for not being able to save you from Wesker's clutches...but this time I'll save you, now that you're alive again. I'll save you, Steve...' she thought to herself, as her brother Chris kept on driving faster towards Downtown, anxious to take down Wesker once and for all.
"It's payback time, right Claire?" said her brother, which interrupting her thoughts of Steve.
Claire quietly nodded as she held her Browning HP handgun tightly. This wasn't going to be easy, but she was determined to get back Steve no matter what happened to her.
-Downtown Paris, 12:07 PM-
"They should be arriving soon..." said Albert Wesker quietly to himself, as he tilted his black sunglasses slightly.
"Wha-what are you going to do when they get here...?" asked Steve, sounding frightened at what Wesker could do to Claire and Chris.
"Why Mr. Burnside, what do you think I'm going to do?" replied Wesker with a smug smile on his face, "I'm going to do what I should've done a long time ago."
Steve just closed his eyes and looked away from Wesker, silently cursing himself.
'This is all my fault...Claire is going to risk her life to save mine...sigh...it would've been better if I had just stayed dead...that way Claire wouldn't get hurt....' Steve thought to himself solemnly.
-On the way to Downtown Paris, 12:09 PM-
"Everyone got their gear?" asked Barry, who made a sharp left turn at the intersection.
"Geez, calm down with the driving, would ya Barry?" said Carlos, as he was trying to steadily reload his standard U.B.C.S. standard issue M41A Assault Rifle which he had took as a "memento" of his time at Umbrella.
Barry muttered an apology as he took a sharp right at the next intersection, which made Carlos bump his head rather hard at the side of the van.
Everyone was gearing up with what Barry had brought. Leon had taken the Custom Remington M1100-P Shotgun that he had once used while trying to escape from Raccoon City, Carlos had his M41A Assault Rifle that he had used to battle the Nemesis countless times, Barry had taken a Desert Eagle 50A.E Magnum since he had used a magnum during the Mansion Incident, Rebecca had taken a Custom Beretta-M92FS, and Jill had taken the Western Custom shotgun, which was the same one she used to escape from the Nemesis. Barry had made sure that the group was prepared with familiar weapons, because they were going against Umbrella and they were likely to have many troops, as well as T-virus B.O.W.
However, they didn't plan on seeing Wesker, and from what they heard from Chris, he was like a Tyrant in power, only much faster and much smarter. All of them having experienced what a Tyrant type monster could do, they decided to pull out the heavy weaponry from the start.
"Claire.." Leon whispered to himself quietly, as he went over his shotgun carefully, "In a way, you picked Steve over me kinda...no...sigh...I'm being stupid...but still...I can't help but feel that you did..."
Jill, noticing Leon's discontent, nudged him a bit and said, "You okay Leon?"
"Yeah, I'm okay..." he replied with a small smile, "I just didn't think we'd have to fight so soon."
"Yeah...I know what you mean. Don't worry though...after all this is over, we can stop fighting and start living again..." she said with a smile, hoping to somehow cheer Leon up. They both had gone through hell trying to escape from Raccoon City, so fighting for their lives was something they had both gotten used to, and after three months, still couldn't forget.
"Thanks Jill. I hope so..." said Leon solemnly, as he reloaded his shotgun with a loud *click*.
-End of Chapter Twelve-
Okay, I said someone would die in this chapter...uh...sorry. Not just yet....
Someone will die in unlucky Chapter Thirteen...which will be coming soon...
Chapter Thirteen is called "Dance With The Devil", so you all can guess what that means...