Chapter 1
Now...
Kate could tell that this was going to be one long dinner. She new that she wasen't going to have any relationship with this guy, but he was so dull! She glanced down at her sliver dimoand cut watch hopeing it was nine, but it was only seven. Kate was a secretary for the mayor of Raccoon City, her job was good, but she wasen't getting paided way enough for what she was doing. The Chief of police, Bryan Iorns was going to run for mayor in the upcomeing election this year. The mayor usually doesn't have any compation in the election, but Iorns was defeintaly a threat.
Chief Iorns was new this year, he came in after the murders started happening and was way better then the old Chief. He had already redecorated and redesigned the entire police station. He had friends in high places and was liked by an overwhelming amount of citizens. It was just recently rumored that he was going to run for mayor and the present mayor is already going ballistiac. He had all his staff working overtime to find some sort of evidence against Iorns. The mayor was not about to lose to Iorns anytime soon, so he put matters into Kate's own hands.
Kate Wilkinson had just recently moved to Raccoon withen the past year. She had just quit her job as a Journalist in New York to come to Raccoon for a simpler life. Yeah right. She bought a little town house towards the outskirts of the city. It wasen't much but it was home, plus it was only her. She started out as a journalist for the Raccoon Times, but the pay for secertary was much better. She haden't made a lot of friends sofar, but she new some people, the only one she could truely call a friend was one of here neighboors, Jill Valentine. Although Jill was involved in the S.T.A.R.S incident and Kate haden't seen her since. It was very odd, she haden't been to her house in weeks, in one day when Kate came home from work, Jill's house had been extremly trashed. All of the windows were broken, from what Kate could see, she got out of her car and walked to the frount door which was wide open and falling off the hinges. She looked inside and the place was a mess. Furniture had been thrown around, pictures had been torn from the walls and even a simple glass of wine had been knocked over and was spilt all over the floor. Kate was tottally disturbed and Jill was still nowhere to be found. Kate had asked the other neighboors what the hell had happend, but the neighboors had not seen the house yet.
"Your hair...it looks...good...tonight..I..I..guess" said Hugh suddenly.
It awoke Kate from her daydream.
"Thanks" she said
Kate's hair was about shoulder lenth. Her hair was an inbetween color of blond and brunett and was flipped out towards the end. She wore a three quater lenth sleeve, black, low cut V-neck shirt that fit her snug. She had low cut dark blue flare jeans and black leather high heeled boots. She also wore a black choker that Jill gave her for her birthday earlier that month. That was probably the best birthday ever. Jill and Kate had gone to dinner for her 24th birthday at the very same restaurant she was in right now. Jill had put the choker in a small jewlery box. When she gave me the box I thought she was going to propose or something like that. This was actually the first time she had worn the black choker. It was to sexy to wear everyday and this was the first time that Kate had been to a special occasion. Figures it has to be with this guy.
The mayor needed something on Iorns. He found out that this Hugh Fitzsimmons guy was Iorns best friend. So the mayor decided to have poor Kate go on a date with this guy. She had no idea he was this bad. He was a nice guy but he was the dullest and least interesting person on earth. The whole time he talked about his prized Star Trek Collection. They had absolutly no connection whatsoever and Kate didn't just want to bring up Iorns as a subject out of the blue just like that. She had no infomation on Iorns but it had only been 30 minutes. Well actually it's been an hour for me. Good old Hugh showed up on our date 30 minutes late. It wasen't his fault though, his car looked really old and worn down. She was surprised that it even worked; the color had littarly been rusted off and when he hit the brake it squealed as loud as a whistle. That was the start of there date.
The waiter finally brought them there dinner. Kate had orderd Steak and Hugh ordered Oysters and a Octopuss Platter.
"Anything else I can get you?" the waiter said.
"No thank you..." Kate looked up at his gold nametag "...Jake."
Jake looked young probalby fresh out of high school. He was about 5'9 and it didn't seem that he had this job at AL SWRE very long. He didn't seem very intellagent, but he was a cute guy. I'd rather be dating him then Hugh.
Hugh was about 30. He looked like he had a beer belly beacuse the rest of him was thin. Luckly he had a thick head of hair and wore a pair of brown glassess. For there date he had put a green suit with brown pennyloafers. Kate didn't wanna seem rude or mean but she thought here I just went for a photoshoot to try out modeling, beacuse the mayor said she should and she got the job. Now here i am with a guy that looks like my doctor. As she was thinking that, she got a slight smirk on her face. She looked up and Hugh was complaining to Jake that his Oysters looked overcooked. Jake aplogized and took the oysters back to the kitchen.
"Well at least my Octopuss looks scruptious!" Hugh said when Jake left.
Kate smiled and shook her head. She was just waiting for the night to be over and how to bring up Iorns. As she was thinking that she heard a woman scream. The scream seemed like it came from behind Kate. So she turned her head.
There was an older woman sitting with an older man, screaming at the top of her lungs. Eveyone in the resturant was staring at the old woman. She was faling her arms and finally managed to say the word "rat!" Jake rushed over to her.
The old woman stuttered "th..e..er....is a...r..ra..rat...in my...so...soup."
"I'm so sorry mam!" Jake aploziged.
The rat was dead at least, it had been cooked in the soup. There was something strange about it though. It's eyes were red and it looked like it was deterating. The old woman stood up as Jake grabbed the bowl and rushed to the kitchen.
Jake with the rat in the bowl, was right in frount of the sliver swinging kitchen door when the cook suddenly slammed it open, hitting Jake to the floor. Kate looked up from the old woman and to the cook. There was something wrong with the cook though. He came limping into the resturant. His eyes looked as if they had completly turend white and you could barley make out his pupils, his skin had turend into a grayish pale color and was litterally falling off him in chunks as he limped towards Jake. On his right arm the skin had been what looked like torn or bite off his body and you could see mucsle tissue and bone. He wreaked of a horrible smell, even worse then Hugh's Octtopuss platter. The stench littarly could off made you pass out and it rememinded Kate of how she used to have to pass the crematorium every day on her way to work. He smelt and looked like he'd been rotting for days. And worst of all he made this horrible moaning noise as he stumbled over to Jake. Only one word came to Kate. Zombie.
