Author's note: Alas, the last chapter. This was actually a story that I couldn't see myself ending, therefore I am writing a follow up! Check back in two more days and the first chapter should be up.I posted the summary that I have so far in my bio so go check it out. The follow up should be better, I already have some crazy ideas for it! Anyways before I start writing this last chapter I would like to warn you that this chapter will be fairly short. Thanks for the reviews and here is the last chapter for How long is the night?
If we run far away do you think we will ever die?
We'll throw these books in the fire
Can you stop the train
Cause it some delay?
The change machine lied
And it's too late to scream
How long is the night?
It's never over
The ribbon was tied
But the card was never read
The ribbon was crimson
The color of the night
"How long is the night?" By: Thursday
How long is the night?
Chapter 28
Epilogue
One year later...
There was the quiet drip, drip noises as the rain lightly fell upon the roof of a two story building. It stood along side many others on a busy street in downtown Washington, D.C. The front yard was nothing more than a plain grassy lawn with the odd weed poking out here and there. The house was painted a hazel color with white window pannels on the sides of every window. The front door was simply white with a gold door knob. The pathway to the front door was made up of white gravel with blue mixed into it. Every light was off inside of the house, save for the one where a shadow could be depicted.
A whole year and everything seemed to brighten up. There was no trace of Wesker, or any sort of evil. The place seemed to be silent, but he knew that would never last. He still had his job, working directly under the president like he had done just before the events that had taken place. He used to live in the Whitehouse with the president's family, but he insisted to move out and find a place of his own, after all he was still mourning the loss of Ada.
Curling his finger around the delicate fabric of the dark ribbon that Ada had given him, Leon peered out the window and got caught up in the past, just like he had been doing ever since everyone went their seperate ways.
Michael went back to New York shortly after Raccoon City was finished. He had left with a quick good-bye. He had told Leon that he was planning on travelling with Jill back there before she would go to where ever she ended up.
Barret had stayed with Leon, telling him that he still wanted to live in the place where they had found him. His hand had healed very slowly, almost becoming infected from time to time. Now Barret could move his thumb without feeling that it might fall off. When Leon wanted to move out of the Whitehouse, Barret had helped him with everything, even the transportation. He moved back into his house that he had occupied before the outbreak after having to clean it plenty of times before he got the smell of rotting flesh out.
After they made it to New York, Jill went on a little road trip looking for a place to stay. She stumbled upon a small town in northern Michigan and lived there for awhile before going off in search for the other people that she had once worked with, hoping that they survived through the outbreak as well.
The loud, annoying sound of an old car racing down the street on which he looked upon brought Leon back to reality. He placed the ribbon in a small box before he went downstairs and found a spot on the couch. He surfed the channels a bit, got bored, then decided to go back upstairs and look out the window again.
By now the rain had stopped. It was replaced with a cold October wind that blew the leaves off the trees that tumbled down the street along with the moving vehicles. The sky never changed. It was still littered with gray clouds, reminding Leon of the creatures that Wesker had created with that virus.
It was about a month after everything that happened before Leon found out that it was called the Infinity virus. He also learnt many other things and the abilities that the Infinity virus brought forth. But there was no sample found anywhere and the Infinity virus had vanished, leaving no trace whatsoever.
With Wesker gone the remaining survivors had come together to rebuild many of the cities that had been damaged. They had small progress at first before it grew and things seemed to go back to normal. The population though, had gone down about half due to the Infinity virus destroying it. Leon had personally helped with the cleaning up of the country, also having to kill many of the infected beings, but it could not be prevented.
Glancing outside one last time, he watched half alseep, half awake as a group of people walked by on the sidewalk that his lawn liked to try to grow on. Finding this completely boring, Leon looked away and went to go find his phone to find out if he had any work to do.
Unknown to Leon though, the group of people looked up to the window where he had been moments before and narrowed their eyes. Leon came back shortly and continued to look out the window, having found out that there was no work for him to do. He looked down and watched as the people walked away. Leon spotted one of them turn around, but he had missed something.
Their eyes weren't any normal color.
They were red.