Chapter X
Reminiscing
The cop quickly grabbed the small girl, pulling her away from the gruesome murder scene. A butler had called the police when the bodies of her parents were found gutted, mangled and torn apart to pieces. The three other children stood emotionless at the sight of their petite sister with a large, bloody knife in her hand. it was covered with the guts and insides of their loving parents. The poor girl looked sadly at her siblings, as if to apologize. She would be later found guilty of murder, and sent to a children's rehabilitation center and then to an orphanage.she was given multiple medications, leading to personality disorders and amnesia.the only written documents containing information of her past could have be found in the Capitol Estate, which was decimated when the island was destroyed last year.
*
Ada threw herself through the tenth story door, wheezing and gagging, gasping for a breath of sweet air. She had bolted up the metal steps, downing at least ten or fifteen of the Chimeras as she moved. Heatherly still lay down there.she hoped that somehow she had crawled away, survived somehow. She hadn't noticed the shadowy figure in front of her, let alone her whereabouts at all. All Gregory had said was to make her move at the Central Control Room, and when the alarm went off she fled here, the living quarters of the maintenance men and cleaners.the figure in front of her moved again, stepping softly into view. Ada had come to recognize the soft face that starred blankly at her. He showed up conveniently at every moment of drama, every moment of suspense only to offer some type of clue to help her along her journey. This time though, this time he hadn't done anything but cause a life to be lost. "You bastard!" Ada threw herself at him, slapping him clear across the face, "My friend is dead, and it's your God damn fault!" She pushed him, but he shoved back sending her clear across the floor, skidding to a stop. He held out a gun, leveled it with her shoulder and cocked the weapon.she could see it clearly, a Colt Python .357; it was like the one that Heatherly carried. He smiled at her, winking at her in almost a flirtatious way. His cool voice sounded in her ears, filling up her head and clouding her thoughts. His voice was almost relaxing now, calming her and soothing her. She saw him equip something to the magnum, the shove in some type of dart into the cartridge. He pressed the tip of the gun to her left shoulder, ".rest now, my Ada." 'He's going to kill me!' Ada reacted quickly, letting her weak leg rise into the air and collide with his stomach. She grabbed his head and pulled it into her knee, smashing his forehead. Jumping to her feat, Ada quickly grabbed her magnums and equipped them, checking the cartridges for ammunition. 'Four bullets.' she checked the other, 'two bullets.probably enough to kill him with if my assumptions are incorrect. If he was infected with the same thing as Wesker, then it's a whole 'nother ball park.' "Don't move you piece of shit." She checked the safety on her weapons. It was slid to the off position, ensuring that it would go off if she pulled the trigger, "If killed ten fucking monsters in the past two minutes, and lost a dear friend in the process thanks to your silly riddle fetish.I should put you out of your misery right now." THWACK! He moved, head-butting her to the ground. Her magnums clanked against he hard ground, scattering and disappearing into the muffled darkness in the room. Their sound was muted as they fell into the shadows, and she knew that she wasn't going to get them back. The room was small, like a passageway. Two doors, concrete walls and a vent on the ground. She had no where to run, no where to hide.this was her doom. "I cant believe you did that to me.after all I have done to help you." He looked at her, sprawled out on the ground. She was pulling herself back, propping herself against the wall. Ada watched him reach for his gun, his small dart equipped gun that lay on the ground, illuminated by the light shining in from the next room. He leveled it with her, ".now it is time to pay the piper, and you owe a major debt." She saw him pull the trigger and time seemed to stop. She could see the dart heading for her, piercing her shoulder and sticking into her. The dart emptied out, filling its contaminants into her blood stream. Her legs felt weak, and she crumpled to the ground in a helpless mess.
*
.her body felt numb.the only thing she could do now was dream.
*
.frozen.Ada walked in the door to watch a horrifying event take place.the bullet was fired, penetrating the air.she drew her weapon, aiming for the shooters head.she shot.the bullet pressed through his skull, collapsing it on contact.he dropped, Heatherly dropping beside him.Craig screamed.the bullet smacked his built chest.it ripped through his ribs, tearing the muscles and drawing blood.the thick, wet gurgling sound of his heart being torn.Ada screamed for him.he fell.his body dropped to the ground, a mangled heap of blood stained flesh.he moaned.she could hear something from across the room. "You'll never live."...Ada dropped to the ground, pushing herself forward to listen to Craig breath his last breath.to say his last words. "Ada.I love you.".he lay motionless, blood erupting from his lips to pour down his cheeks and land in puddles about his face.Ada she tears, she began to whimper and cry.Craig was dead.
*
"Craig.no please, please breathe.don't die on me.Craig." Ada lay on top of her fallen friend, hearing his last dying words repeatedly in her head as if to echo without fade. She had witnessed his gruesome death, a fatal hole ripped through his giving heart. He died nearly instantly, falling backwards and landing on his back. He looked up at her with pale white eyes, as if to scream for her to help her but there was nothing she could possibly do to help him. Craig Hilt was dead, and there was nothing she could do. Ada had watched him die, watched him fall before her with nothing but an empty promise to ring throughout her head.the promise she had made to him when she had first met him.that they would make it out together. But he was dead now, that promise unfulfilled and she was heartbroken. Her time in this world had seemed pointless up until the moment she had met him.now it began to feel the same way again, showing that her hopes of a better life with him was just a tease. "Ugh." The faint moan in the distance, the moan of a young girl put through hell and back. Heatherly was in the corner, slouched between Dimitri's dead body and the wall. She clutched her side, her eyes fixated on something past Ada. She turned to look around, and there was nothing there. The poor girl was starring into nothingness.she needed to act quickly to try to save Heatherly, if she was still savable. Ada stumbled to her aching feet and inched towards Heatherly, wary about if she would still be able to save her. What would happen if she was already beginning to mutate? How could she live with herself if she had to put a bullet through the poor girl? She couldn't, that was a given.she'd have to leave her here.wait, that would only cause her more pain, more suffering. "A.Ada." Heatherly coughed, blood already trickling from her bulging eyes, "Please." she coughed again, ".please help me." "Don't worry, I've got the antidote." She knelt down in front of her, drawing the syringe and anti virus from her side pouch. The needle tip pressed against Heatherly's swollen neck, entering one of the bulging veins. She pressed down on the medical tool, watching the green liquid empty out into her bloodstream. Heatherly moaned at the touch of the cold needle, but began to relax as it was withdrawn. The antidote had been applied, and the effects would begin immediately. "Alright, it's time to get moving hun. There's less than an hour until this places blows." Pulling Heatherly up off the ground, Ada helped her out of the room and back down the burned hallway that led to the staircase. Together, they made the descent back through to the lobby and into the elevator. It was only a matter of time before they would make it out onto the docking platform near the freezer, and when they made it there it was clear sailing out into freedom.
*
The elevator door opened, allowing the two women to file out. The wind blew their hair as they walked forward, each of them wary about what would happen to them. Ada knew that when they were able to get inside one of those boats this would all be over. Heatherly pointed, "There." Across the massive platform they were on was a speeder, a small boat that would be able to fit two. The platform was huge, hovering half a foot above sea level. It extended a good fifty or sixty feet in every direction. As they moved away from the elevator it quickly rose up, ascending up back into the main floors of the facility. It was a huge location, Ada noticed for the first time. Having three sub basements, three basements, a lobby, a level dedicated to the dormitories, and three upper levels. The rooftop was equipped with a helipad, suitable for take off and landing. Running along the side of a building were two ladders, extending from the rooftop and dropping down to the platform they were on. Ada touched the small water craft, "It's finally over." CCCSHHHH! The platform shook, knocking Ada to the ground and sending Heatherly to her knees. Ada looked up just in time to see the walls of the facility crumble as the creation Craig had spoken about threw itself out into the open air for one last confrontation. The alarm continued to scream out the tick-tock to explosion, ".fifteen minutes until detonation."
*
Water engulfed Ada as she swum for the surface, cool air filling her lungs. She looked around, grabbing for anything to hang on to. God only knew what creatures prowled the ocean floors surrounding an Umbrella facility.she quickly pulled herself up, rolling up onto the platform. She looked up, realizing that Heatherly hadn't given up the fight. The monster was still moving forward though, seeming to grow on the platform they stood on. Its massive tentacles whipped about in the air, its open mouth crying for something to eat. Its razor teeth protruded from bleeding gum, blood stained on their pale white surface. Ada quickly rose to her feet, groping for the magnum that was thrown from her hand when she was knocked into the water. Heatherly didn't even seem to notice that she had gotten out of the water, screaming out obscenities at the creature as she continued to fire away.and in the distance Ada could hear what seemed to be a helicopter.
*
"You two girls need a lift?!" Ada recognized the voice immediately.
.Leon S. Kennedy.
*
Ada quickly rushed up the ladder, grabbing hold of the helicopters metal floor. She saw Leon's young face through the pilot mask. Heatherly rushed up to greet him, as if she knew him from somewhere. "Heatherly Taft, its good to finally meet you. The names Leon Scott Kennedy, I was a member of the RPD. Good to see you're alive." "I know who you are Leon.there are some things I have to tell you about."
*
She didn't know what time it was, and frankly it didn't matter. Ada woke up alone, locked into a small cell sealed off from the rest of the building. She was chained to a wall, her face dripping with sweat. Her wrists were enclosed by hard metal locks, chained to the brick wall. She was laying down when she woke up, her eyes flickering back to life. How long had she been asleep for? She felt as though she had just relived the entire Capitol City experience, from meet up with Craig, then his death and up until the ending confrontation with SPENCER. Although that entire dream was just that, it felt so real. What the hell had Gregory given her that would knock her out so quickly? She had remember being in the cold metal room with him, the struggle to keep her ground and ultimately being shot by some kind of tranquilizer. Gregory was fast.too fast to be human. Her tattered rags that she had called clothing had been stripped away, replaced by the same. "Holy shit." she remember the outfit she wore during Raccoon City.the red dress, the black stockings and the heavy black boots. The entire costume was there to a T, including the fanny pack around her waist. She touched it, unzipped it and found four full clips, giving her about sixty bullets. Her hands were still chained to the wall, but she could maneuver about to some extent. The only thing that was missing was her. "Looking for this?" Gregory appeared in front of her, holding the small 9mm handgun she had used in Raccoon. It was the same model, the same type of revolver. It took the same parabellum rounds, and it had the same reload action. How had he known about that incident.some kind of obsessed fan? No, people like Gregory don't have time for things of that nature. People like Gregory are too absorbed in their work to have any type of personal or sexual lives. Ada was stunned, plain and simple. Gregory stood in front of her, blocking the only visible exit to the room.the cold metal door fitted with a grated hole that could be seen out of. She tried to look past him, but he casually swayed his body over it to cover it, "I see that you have properly come to, Ms Wong. I'm glad that you have finally awakened. I was beginning to become worried," he paused, ".that you may fall victim to the same fate your ally did." He grinned and noticed Ada scowl at him. He realized he had stepped over the line, "I'm sorry about our struggle back in the dormitory hallway, but you had gotten so out of hand that I had to take physical action." "You didn't have to kill her," Ada said boldly, interrupting his calm and collected speech. His grin faded, giving his aging features relaxation. His cheeks puffed out a bit, almost in disgust, "I had finally gotten close to her." she could feel the tension rising into her throat.the same tension that had built up when Craig died, the same tension that had built up when she fell off the catwalk and watched Leon's face quickly fade away. "I'm sorry," he said softly, "I should have given you more information to the puzzle. When the alarm went off, I didn't expect the creations to react so hostilely." "Well they did." Ada said, anger expressed on her face, "And they killed my friend." Gregory snapped at her, "I said I was sorry, and besides that little bitch meant nothing to me anyways. She was worthless, a waste of space.just like-" His voice trailed off, and he quickly turned around. He left the room immediately, and Ada was left to wonder who he was about to mention before he realized he had stepped out of line.
*
"Floor fifty five." Hillary said, almost laughing, "Almost twenty floors without a hitch. I think we're on a roll!" As the words left her lips, a door burst open beside her and Ja quickly opened fire. The creature dropped to the floor in an utter mess of decaying flesh, its horrid smell erupting from its body as bullets crashed into its gut. The thing twitched, and then a river of blood spilled from its wounds, ".I spoke too soon." Ja kicked the door on the far side of the room, opposite from the one the zombie had come through. He filed in, realizing that it was just another tenant hallway, "Damnit! Hillary," He looked at her, his cool expression had faded away hours ago. They had climbed hundreds of stairs, and had gotten no where, "Hillary I want you to take cover in one of the tenant's offices, see if you can work one of the computers. The alarm said that power will be restored in twenty minutes, and that was about fifteen ago. See if you can dig up any information about Umbrella, or about any of the incidents that have happened here. I'll keep going up to the top, and if I find anything interesting I'll come back and get you." "You want me to stay here alone." Hillary said, her head dropping into her chest, ".but I'd feel safer if I was with you. I don't want any of those things to attack me.and without a gun." Ja noticed a fire extinguisher on the wall. It was sealed into a glass chamber, but it was locked. Raising his knee up to the chamber, he smashed it open and handed the light weight container to his female comrade. ".It'd be safer than going alone." He whispered his voice raspy with fear, "Be careful, baby. I don't want you getting hurt.I don't know how I could get through this without you." The moment was tense, and Hillary didn't' know what to do. He had never talked this way to her before, and for the first time she was noticing how much she was attracted to him. "It's the same way for me Ja.I couldn't imagine losing you." she moved in closer, and in an instant they locked into one of the most sensual and explosive kisses either of them had ever experienced.
*
"Welcome to Breckenridge Orphanage." the tall woman said, smiling at Vela, "I hope you enjoy it here, we do everything to make you feel at home." she looked at Vela, dressed in her school girl outfit that fit her ever so tightly. Her blonde hair was braided behind her head, pulled tightly into a small bun. She looked up at her, an emotionless expression stretched across her young but tired face. She had been put through hell by her siblings, and if this place was meant to make her feel like home, she dreaded stepping foot inside.
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Reminiscing
The cop quickly grabbed the small girl, pulling her away from the gruesome murder scene. A butler had called the police when the bodies of her parents were found gutted, mangled and torn apart to pieces. The three other children stood emotionless at the sight of their petite sister with a large, bloody knife in her hand. it was covered with the guts and insides of their loving parents. The poor girl looked sadly at her siblings, as if to apologize. She would be later found guilty of murder, and sent to a children's rehabilitation center and then to an orphanage.she was given multiple medications, leading to personality disorders and amnesia.the only written documents containing information of her past could have be found in the Capitol Estate, which was decimated when the island was destroyed last year.
*
Ada threw herself through the tenth story door, wheezing and gagging, gasping for a breath of sweet air. She had bolted up the metal steps, downing at least ten or fifteen of the Chimeras as she moved. Heatherly still lay down there.she hoped that somehow she had crawled away, survived somehow. She hadn't noticed the shadowy figure in front of her, let alone her whereabouts at all. All Gregory had said was to make her move at the Central Control Room, and when the alarm went off she fled here, the living quarters of the maintenance men and cleaners.the figure in front of her moved again, stepping softly into view. Ada had come to recognize the soft face that starred blankly at her. He showed up conveniently at every moment of drama, every moment of suspense only to offer some type of clue to help her along her journey. This time though, this time he hadn't done anything but cause a life to be lost. "You bastard!" Ada threw herself at him, slapping him clear across the face, "My friend is dead, and it's your God damn fault!" She pushed him, but he shoved back sending her clear across the floor, skidding to a stop. He held out a gun, leveled it with her shoulder and cocked the weapon.she could see it clearly, a Colt Python .357; it was like the one that Heatherly carried. He smiled at her, winking at her in almost a flirtatious way. His cool voice sounded in her ears, filling up her head and clouding her thoughts. His voice was almost relaxing now, calming her and soothing her. She saw him equip something to the magnum, the shove in some type of dart into the cartridge. He pressed the tip of the gun to her left shoulder, ".rest now, my Ada." 'He's going to kill me!' Ada reacted quickly, letting her weak leg rise into the air and collide with his stomach. She grabbed his head and pulled it into her knee, smashing his forehead. Jumping to her feat, Ada quickly grabbed her magnums and equipped them, checking the cartridges for ammunition. 'Four bullets.' she checked the other, 'two bullets.probably enough to kill him with if my assumptions are incorrect. If he was infected with the same thing as Wesker, then it's a whole 'nother ball park.' "Don't move you piece of shit." She checked the safety on her weapons. It was slid to the off position, ensuring that it would go off if she pulled the trigger, "If killed ten fucking monsters in the past two minutes, and lost a dear friend in the process thanks to your silly riddle fetish.I should put you out of your misery right now." THWACK! He moved, head-butting her to the ground. Her magnums clanked against he hard ground, scattering and disappearing into the muffled darkness in the room. Their sound was muted as they fell into the shadows, and she knew that she wasn't going to get them back. The room was small, like a passageway. Two doors, concrete walls and a vent on the ground. She had no where to run, no where to hide.this was her doom. "I cant believe you did that to me.after all I have done to help you." He looked at her, sprawled out on the ground. She was pulling herself back, propping herself against the wall. Ada watched him reach for his gun, his small dart equipped gun that lay on the ground, illuminated by the light shining in from the next room. He leveled it with her, ".now it is time to pay the piper, and you owe a major debt." She saw him pull the trigger and time seemed to stop. She could see the dart heading for her, piercing her shoulder and sticking into her. The dart emptied out, filling its contaminants into her blood stream. Her legs felt weak, and she crumpled to the ground in a helpless mess.
*
.her body felt numb.the only thing she could do now was dream.
*
.frozen.Ada walked in the door to watch a horrifying event take place.the bullet was fired, penetrating the air.she drew her weapon, aiming for the shooters head.she shot.the bullet pressed through his skull, collapsing it on contact.he dropped, Heatherly dropping beside him.Craig screamed.the bullet smacked his built chest.it ripped through his ribs, tearing the muscles and drawing blood.the thick, wet gurgling sound of his heart being torn.Ada screamed for him.he fell.his body dropped to the ground, a mangled heap of blood stained flesh.he moaned.she could hear something from across the room. "You'll never live."...Ada dropped to the ground, pushing herself forward to listen to Craig breath his last breath.to say his last words. "Ada.I love you.".he lay motionless, blood erupting from his lips to pour down his cheeks and land in puddles about his face.Ada she tears, she began to whimper and cry.Craig was dead.
*
"Craig.no please, please breathe.don't die on me.Craig." Ada lay on top of her fallen friend, hearing his last dying words repeatedly in her head as if to echo without fade. She had witnessed his gruesome death, a fatal hole ripped through his giving heart. He died nearly instantly, falling backwards and landing on his back. He looked up at her with pale white eyes, as if to scream for her to help her but there was nothing she could possibly do to help him. Craig Hilt was dead, and there was nothing she could do. Ada had watched him die, watched him fall before her with nothing but an empty promise to ring throughout her head.the promise she had made to him when she had first met him.that they would make it out together. But he was dead now, that promise unfulfilled and she was heartbroken. Her time in this world had seemed pointless up until the moment she had met him.now it began to feel the same way again, showing that her hopes of a better life with him was just a tease. "Ugh." The faint moan in the distance, the moan of a young girl put through hell and back. Heatherly was in the corner, slouched between Dimitri's dead body and the wall. She clutched her side, her eyes fixated on something past Ada. She turned to look around, and there was nothing there. The poor girl was starring into nothingness.she needed to act quickly to try to save Heatherly, if she was still savable. Ada stumbled to her aching feet and inched towards Heatherly, wary about if she would still be able to save her. What would happen if she was already beginning to mutate? How could she live with herself if she had to put a bullet through the poor girl? She couldn't, that was a given.she'd have to leave her here.wait, that would only cause her more pain, more suffering. "A.Ada." Heatherly coughed, blood already trickling from her bulging eyes, "Please." she coughed again, ".please help me." "Don't worry, I've got the antidote." She knelt down in front of her, drawing the syringe and anti virus from her side pouch. The needle tip pressed against Heatherly's swollen neck, entering one of the bulging veins. She pressed down on the medical tool, watching the green liquid empty out into her bloodstream. Heatherly moaned at the touch of the cold needle, but began to relax as it was withdrawn. The antidote had been applied, and the effects would begin immediately. "Alright, it's time to get moving hun. There's less than an hour until this places blows." Pulling Heatherly up off the ground, Ada helped her out of the room and back down the burned hallway that led to the staircase. Together, they made the descent back through to the lobby and into the elevator. It was only a matter of time before they would make it out onto the docking platform near the freezer, and when they made it there it was clear sailing out into freedom.
*
The elevator door opened, allowing the two women to file out. The wind blew their hair as they walked forward, each of them wary about what would happen to them. Ada knew that when they were able to get inside one of those boats this would all be over. Heatherly pointed, "There." Across the massive platform they were on was a speeder, a small boat that would be able to fit two. The platform was huge, hovering half a foot above sea level. It extended a good fifty or sixty feet in every direction. As they moved away from the elevator it quickly rose up, ascending up back into the main floors of the facility. It was a huge location, Ada noticed for the first time. Having three sub basements, three basements, a lobby, a level dedicated to the dormitories, and three upper levels. The rooftop was equipped with a helipad, suitable for take off and landing. Running along the side of a building were two ladders, extending from the rooftop and dropping down to the platform they were on. Ada touched the small water craft, "It's finally over." CCCSHHHH! The platform shook, knocking Ada to the ground and sending Heatherly to her knees. Ada looked up just in time to see the walls of the facility crumble as the creation Craig had spoken about threw itself out into the open air for one last confrontation. The alarm continued to scream out the tick-tock to explosion, ".fifteen minutes until detonation."
*
Water engulfed Ada as she swum for the surface, cool air filling her lungs. She looked around, grabbing for anything to hang on to. God only knew what creatures prowled the ocean floors surrounding an Umbrella facility.she quickly pulled herself up, rolling up onto the platform. She looked up, realizing that Heatherly hadn't given up the fight. The monster was still moving forward though, seeming to grow on the platform they stood on. Its massive tentacles whipped about in the air, its open mouth crying for something to eat. Its razor teeth protruded from bleeding gum, blood stained on their pale white surface. Ada quickly rose to her feet, groping for the magnum that was thrown from her hand when she was knocked into the water. Heatherly didn't even seem to notice that she had gotten out of the water, screaming out obscenities at the creature as she continued to fire away.and in the distance Ada could hear what seemed to be a helicopter.
*
"You two girls need a lift?!" Ada recognized the voice immediately.
.Leon S. Kennedy.
*
Ada quickly rushed up the ladder, grabbing hold of the helicopters metal floor. She saw Leon's young face through the pilot mask. Heatherly rushed up to greet him, as if she knew him from somewhere. "Heatherly Taft, its good to finally meet you. The names Leon Scott Kennedy, I was a member of the RPD. Good to see you're alive." "I know who you are Leon.there are some things I have to tell you about."
*
She didn't know what time it was, and frankly it didn't matter. Ada woke up alone, locked into a small cell sealed off from the rest of the building. She was chained to a wall, her face dripping with sweat. Her wrists were enclosed by hard metal locks, chained to the brick wall. She was laying down when she woke up, her eyes flickering back to life. How long had she been asleep for? She felt as though she had just relived the entire Capitol City experience, from meet up with Craig, then his death and up until the ending confrontation with SPENCER. Although that entire dream was just that, it felt so real. What the hell had Gregory given her that would knock her out so quickly? She had remember being in the cold metal room with him, the struggle to keep her ground and ultimately being shot by some kind of tranquilizer. Gregory was fast.too fast to be human. Her tattered rags that she had called clothing had been stripped away, replaced by the same. "Holy shit." she remember the outfit she wore during Raccoon City.the red dress, the black stockings and the heavy black boots. The entire costume was there to a T, including the fanny pack around her waist. She touched it, unzipped it and found four full clips, giving her about sixty bullets. Her hands were still chained to the wall, but she could maneuver about to some extent. The only thing that was missing was her. "Looking for this?" Gregory appeared in front of her, holding the small 9mm handgun she had used in Raccoon. It was the same model, the same type of revolver. It took the same parabellum rounds, and it had the same reload action. How had he known about that incident.some kind of obsessed fan? No, people like Gregory don't have time for things of that nature. People like Gregory are too absorbed in their work to have any type of personal or sexual lives. Ada was stunned, plain and simple. Gregory stood in front of her, blocking the only visible exit to the room.the cold metal door fitted with a grated hole that could be seen out of. She tried to look past him, but he casually swayed his body over it to cover it, "I see that you have properly come to, Ms Wong. I'm glad that you have finally awakened. I was beginning to become worried," he paused, ".that you may fall victim to the same fate your ally did." He grinned and noticed Ada scowl at him. He realized he had stepped over the line, "I'm sorry about our struggle back in the dormitory hallway, but you had gotten so out of hand that I had to take physical action." "You didn't have to kill her," Ada said boldly, interrupting his calm and collected speech. His grin faded, giving his aging features relaxation. His cheeks puffed out a bit, almost in disgust, "I had finally gotten close to her." she could feel the tension rising into her throat.the same tension that had built up when Craig died, the same tension that had built up when she fell off the catwalk and watched Leon's face quickly fade away. "I'm sorry," he said softly, "I should have given you more information to the puzzle. When the alarm went off, I didn't expect the creations to react so hostilely." "Well they did." Ada said, anger expressed on her face, "And they killed my friend." Gregory snapped at her, "I said I was sorry, and besides that little bitch meant nothing to me anyways. She was worthless, a waste of space.just like-" His voice trailed off, and he quickly turned around. He left the room immediately, and Ada was left to wonder who he was about to mention before he realized he had stepped out of line.
*
"Floor fifty five." Hillary said, almost laughing, "Almost twenty floors without a hitch. I think we're on a roll!" As the words left her lips, a door burst open beside her and Ja quickly opened fire. The creature dropped to the floor in an utter mess of decaying flesh, its horrid smell erupting from its body as bullets crashed into its gut. The thing twitched, and then a river of blood spilled from its wounds, ".I spoke too soon." Ja kicked the door on the far side of the room, opposite from the one the zombie had come through. He filed in, realizing that it was just another tenant hallway, "Damnit! Hillary," He looked at her, his cool expression had faded away hours ago. They had climbed hundreds of stairs, and had gotten no where, "Hillary I want you to take cover in one of the tenant's offices, see if you can work one of the computers. The alarm said that power will be restored in twenty minutes, and that was about fifteen ago. See if you can dig up any information about Umbrella, or about any of the incidents that have happened here. I'll keep going up to the top, and if I find anything interesting I'll come back and get you." "You want me to stay here alone." Hillary said, her head dropping into her chest, ".but I'd feel safer if I was with you. I don't want any of those things to attack me.and without a gun." Ja noticed a fire extinguisher on the wall. It was sealed into a glass chamber, but it was locked. Raising his knee up to the chamber, he smashed it open and handed the light weight container to his female comrade. ".It'd be safer than going alone." He whispered his voice raspy with fear, "Be careful, baby. I don't want you getting hurt.I don't know how I could get through this without you." The moment was tense, and Hillary didn't' know what to do. He had never talked this way to her before, and for the first time she was noticing how much she was attracted to him. "It's the same way for me Ja.I couldn't imagine losing you." she moved in closer, and in an instant they locked into one of the most sensual and explosive kisses either of them had ever experienced.
*
"Welcome to Breckenridge Orphanage." the tall woman said, smiling at Vela, "I hope you enjoy it here, we do everything to make you feel at home." she looked at Vela, dressed in her school girl outfit that fit her ever so tightly. Her blonde hair was braided behind her head, pulled tightly into a small bun. She looked up at her, an emotionless expression stretched across her young but tired face. She had been put through hell by her siblings, and if this place was meant to make her feel like home, she dreaded stepping foot inside.
**