Author's Note: Hey, What the heck? Where are the reviews? If I don't get any reviews, I won't update... I need to know someone cares . (BIG THANKS to pigeonofdoom and Felix Dovetail)

Disclaimer: I don't own Alice, or any other characters you happen to know from previous RE's so I wouldn't sue. Besides, I'm a poor college student. You won't get much out of me. On to the story!

Someone suddenly flipped the lights on and I was blinded. I heard someone moving towards me and I instinctively brought the Sig up.

"Put the gun down."

Instantly, I obeyed. "What the he-"

"Stop talking," the woman's sharp, gravelly voice commanded. I stopped. What was going on? Something was nagging at me in the back of my mind. Something that chided me for forgetting...

The woman turned the light off. I blinked a few times and then gasped. I couldn't help it. The person in front of me was dead. There was no way...

"Alice, its been a while. I was beginning to think you'd never make it."

I was staring at a Hispanic woman in her late twenties. The same woman Matt had put a bullet in, right between the eyes.

"Rain...?" my voice sounded strangled.

Rain smiled that scary smile of hers, the one that said mess-with-me-and-I-will-kill-you.

"Yep, its me."

My face hardened. Once again, I brought the Sig up and stuck it in her face.

"There is no way you're alive. Back away slowly and put your hands on your head," I ordered her, training the gun at her forehead. Instead, Rain took a step forward, her eyes cold.

"Put the gun down, Alice," Rain's voice matched her eyes, cold and steady.

I pulled the hammer back. "I mean it, Rain. You know I'll do it."

Rain nodded slowly. "I know you will. I'm telling you not to." Then, she moved faster than I could follow, lashing out with her foot, knocking the gun from my hands and dropping me on my butt. I flipped back onto my feet only to now be staring down the barrel of the Sig in Rain's hands. "So, now what? Are you going to kill me?" I ignored the gun in my face and spoke instead to Rain. To my surprise, Rain laughed.

"Alice, why the fukc would I kill you? Until a few days ago, I didn't even know you were alive."

I stared at her. "A few days? I didn't even know I was alive until a few days ago."

Rain smiled mysteriously. "What can I say? I have a way with people."

"Oh, yeah, you're a real people person."

Rain laughed again. I wasn't laughing.

"Rain, you were a fukcin' zombie! You tried to take a chunk out of Matt! So you're all of the sudden alright?" I was afraid of her. Could she see it?

She gave me her scary smile again. Oh, yeah, she could see it. I was in deep.

"I don't know what happened. I remember getting on the train, passing out and having you almost kill me. I woke up in a lab and had some fukcin' scientists poking and prodding me. I escaped. You know, obviously, the virus got out. Its infecting more and more animals, not just the dogs."

"So you're no longer on a flesh diet?"

"As of three days ago, no."

"I'm hoping that's when you escaped."

Again, Rain's patented smile. "Yeah, sure. What about you, Alice? Last I heard, you were trapped in a lab."

"I..." I hesitated. Then I told her the rest of the story or as much as I could remember.

Her expression changed, her smile fading.

"It sounds like Umbrella got the last laugh on both of us. We were fukcin' guinea pigs."

I nodded. "What's the deal?" I gestured to the door.

"I...escaped, too. I rescued a few of the people from the flesh-eating freaks. What started as place to crash became a safe house. I, at first, was the only one of these people to have any kind of experience dealing with the assholes. I met the Redfields. They were former S.T.A.R.S., like... Matt. What happened to him...?"

I blinked tears back. Where had they come from?

"I don't know. He was mutating and I couldn't get to him in time..." I murmured the last of it.

Rain looked concerned, something I'd never seen her do before. "Alice, it wasn't your fault. None of it. If it wasn't for you, I would've never even made it to the train."

I felt her hesitate and then she put her hand on my shoulder. "We'll figure this out. Okay,

bitch?"

I felt myself smile, but I knew it wouldn't reach my eyes.

"Rain, you still haven't explained what happened to you." She looked away, her eyes darker than normal. "I don't know what happened to me. I was dead. I was a fukcin' zombie. But I don't really remember anything. I woke up and there were needles in my skin. Hurt like a bitch when I pulled them out. I got out of the room and there were people watching me, almost like they knew..." her voice faded away. I looked up sharply. This part was important.

"What did they know, Rain?" I asked carefully.

"Nothing, nothing. I'm not sure..." she did know but she wasn't gonna tell me. Unless I made her. I let it go. I put it in the back of my mind. I didn't want to forget her again.

"So now what?"

"Well, I was kinda waiting for you," Rain said with a wry smile. "And the Redfields. I figured you'd find them. As far as I know, they're the only survivors left."

"So lets go, lets get out of this fukcin' city!"

Rain smiled again. "Now you're talking. We're going to wait until morning. You look like you could use some sleep."

"I don't sleep."

So what'd you think? Good person to bring back? Do you like the plot so far? Any suggestions?? Come on, guys, ANY IDEAS? Also, Flames are totally allowed as long as you explain what/why I should change or what you don't like. Stay Classy, San Diego!