Special thanks to The95will, my beta reader.

Chapter 2. "So it Begins."

A set of eyes opened to see a dull white ceiling. The same place that felt as alien like a hotel. There wasn't any kind of longing to be here. Just a place hold belongings. The eye closed as the owner leaned forward. The owner was a woman. The woman had shoulder length brunette hair, fair pale skin, and ocean blue eyes.

Her wrinkled shirt crumbled down as she straightened it. It hide her slim built frame. Her face had a round button nose along with a pursed lips.

None of her features detracted from her look however. She indeed was a very attractive woman.

Her name is Jill Valentine. A thirty year old woman that works for the American government.

She looked at the closest window. The bright yellow beam engulfed her room to reflect from the white paint. Just a way to wake up from the light. Alarm clocks annoyed her… so it was a rather decent compromise.

She leaned up while she used her right arm for support and looked at her door. She stared at it as she could clearly hear the echo of her thoughts. Memory was rather cruel when the pleasant ones don't offer the chance to be relived. Jill's lips winced at a fond memory she used to live by. A friend that would help her with any problem. His name was Chris Redfield and this morning, he didn't barge through her door to wake her up. Like in her memories. Instead, she heard a sound coming from down stairs,"Welcome..." The two of them lived together.

It started after she escaped Raccoon City with Carlos and he returned with Claire. She saw the worst of what life could offer but she faced the dangers and prevailed by escaping that hell. From then on Chris will usually invite Jill for some peaceful time along with Barry Burton and Rebecca Chambers. Old partners back when Jill was part of S.T.A.R.S. The Special Tactics and Rescue Squad. The old police unit that served with distinction. The happiest time of her life. The four friends will have a dinner together, joke around and drink a little. They will do this three times in a month.

When Raccoon City was consumed in nuclear fire. The same happened to the S.T.A.R.S unit as it dissipated. Until one day, plans were made to create the national initiative against the issue of Bio Terrorism. An advocate named Clive O'Brian came to visit her and asked for her to help him and make the group grow.

She knew the dangers what Biological Weapons could do. It didn't take long for him to convince Jill to join his efforts. It is the same day Chris asked her to move in with him, it is also the day she told him, "Chris, please I do not want you to take this the wrong way, you are my best friend and I love you. It is just I hope after I move in with you this will not change, I do not want to damage what we have." His lips curled into a warm smile, "Don't worry, darling." Chris wanted her; there is no doubt in her mind, she noticed by the way he looked and spoke to her. It was so hard to speak those words to him, but she'd have to, or else he will get messy signals from her.

At last she stepped out of the bed, dread infected her mind as she looked at the clock at the night stand, 6:30 A.M. "Damn it!" she thought out loud.

Jill scrambled from her bed.'I'm going to be late!' In a hurry she prepared her uniform, a light blue long sleeves shirt, and a grey pants. She ran out of the bedroom, thinking of many different scenarios of how she will break Chris' teeth, for doing this to her.

Chris just left the bathroom, "Good morning." he said, but she pushed him out of the way and entered. "Sorry no time," she yelled and closed the door.

Chris chuckled in amusement, "I hope you take this as a lesson."

"Asshole!" Jill retorted as water started to run. He covered his mouth, trying so hard to contain the urge to laugh. "Chris," a deep husky voice called out to him, he rotated his head and saw Parker Luciani a member of the B.S.A.A. and a good friend to the both of them. "Did she wake up?" Parker asked.

"Yeah. She'll be ready soon."

It took her fifteen minutes to finish showering and ran to her room, and Parker's patient was running out down stairs. Parker was looking at his watch and sigh in an obvious annoyance. "Come on Jill, we are running out of time." he shouted. "We have a meeting with Ingrid Hunnigan. Also we have a meeting with a guy named Leon."

"Leon?" Chris came into the living room puzzled. "I thought this was just a meeting with Hunnigan to have a little discussion with her?"

"No," Parker replied, "we will be having a helping hand from the special agent, the president wants him to help us. What I got from his records, he's pretty experienced."

His torment came to an end at last, Jill came down the stairs fully dressed and ready to leave, "Come on Parker move it," she said as she made her way to the front door.

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7:22 A.M.

Leon took off his helmet and sigh as the noise of the motorcycle stopped, the door of his building is open; two unfamiliar cars were near.

"I'm late." he whispered.

Leon made his way inside, and he was met by two agents. "Hey Kennedy, they are waiting for you." one of them said. "Alright, thanks." he replied.

He walked through the cold clean corridor of the government building and he headed for the board room, past of few offices and around a corner in the hall. He heard Hunnigan's calm voice, apparently she never change no matter how scary the coming events will be like.

Ever since she helped him in Spain, he wondered how she could always be so calm all the time, sure she wasn't like him: a survivor of an unbelievable horror. Hunnigan was very mentally capable and it reflected in her work.

"... said he'd send some of the information first thing tomorrow morning. Another of the agents said he called himself and his men; Veltro, he sent another message to O'Brien. He'll be waiting to hear from us when we've finished to put a plan to stop him of course...Chris Redfield will be leaving soon, for an investigation with Jessica Sherawat. She's a good soldier and you two will report to O'Brian. We will be waiting for them, they'll give us everything they find in their trip." She broke off as Leon walked into the room, all eyes turned to him.

He recognized Jill Valentine who sat beside Hunnigan, There were two men sitting on the chairs in the right side of the large table.

Hunnigan smiled at him, "Agent Kennedy, at last." both men got up, stepping forward to be introduced.

"Hello mister Kennedy, my name is Parker Luciani. I'm Miss Valentine's partner for the past three months, nice record you got..."

Leon lips moved into something close to a smile that suited his rough features perfectly as he shook his hand, "Nice to meet you." he said.

The other man; his gaze was friendly and direct. "... My name is Keith Lumley, I will be helping you behind the scenes; I can track you down, and point out any issues in the place and give you directions." Leon noticed Keith offered his hand. He shook it and nodded to Keith.

He made his way to the front where Jill waited for him, "Pleased to make your acquaintance," she said gently.

"Pleasures all mine," he replied and took a seat next to her. "Well, it took you more than five minutes to be here." she said with a smile.

"Sorry, got caught up by traffic." he said. "What did I miss?" in the corner of his eyes he could see Jill watching him closely, he turned to look at her. "What?"

She broke eye contact."Nothing... I just," she whispered, he noticed that her eyes flickered, "remembered something."

"I will show you Leon, right now. Focus in the screen please." Hunnigan said, getting their attention. She took a control from the table and pressed play.

After a seconds of darkness, a masked man appeared, speaking in a deep voice. "But if my words be seed that may bear fruit of infamy, to the traitor whom I gnaw. Speaking and weeping shalt thou see together." The voice was obviously muffled by a gasmask. The world is in our hand." he said as he took something and showed it to the camera, it is look like a needle with a dark-pink liquid inside. "This is the T Abyss virus, and we are equipped to infect one fifth of the earth's waters." He put the needle on an aquarium, in mere seconds the water turned red, and before their eyes the fish changed into something like a large piranha, but deadlier.

Hunnigan at last turned it off, "See? That was the end of his message, will almost."

"What in the world was that? the Infection is really fast!" Leon said half surprised.

Parker showed him all what they wrote; all the Information they learned so far, in a file. A history of Terragrigia city, before the tragedy. A rumors of Veltro and their possible Resurrection.

"So does this have to do with the Terragrigia tragedy? I don't understand! Does he or they wants a certain information about the city to be reveled?" he said, more puzzled than before.

Jill heaved a long shudder, "I wish that was the case," she said and in her voice an unmistakable tremor.

"Alright Jill, we're leaving, O'Brian needs us." Keith said. "Nice to see you Mister Kennedy, goodbye."

Leon watched them leave, as a certain memories returned to him, he could feel tears at the corner of his eyes, his mask is failing once again.

"Excuse me Mister Kennedy?" Jill asked, Leon hurriedly pushed the memories away,

"Call me Leon," he answered without looking at her eyes. "What?"

"Do you have a background of Veltro? I brought a file filled of Information for you to read before we leave." she stated.

Once again he looked at her ocean eyes."Alright, I'll make sure to check it. Thank you." barely cracked half a smile.

Jill turned her gaze back to her file in the table, The two of them did not even realize Hunnigan has left with the others.

Jill took out a photo from the file and showed it to him, it appeared like: a photo of an old factory building. "We need to investigate this place first. Veltro might use this factory many times. We're told of a suspicious movement in there, and strange figures leaving in the middle of the night."

"Okay..." he said with an obvious confusion in his voice.

"We had leads, trust me on this okay." She replied,"We're not just going in there because of rumors."

"TerraSave, Claire's group are already working around that area; to help the residents. This area is actually close to the ruins of Terragrigia do you see now, we're the B.S.A.A. we do not play around."

Leon's heart skipped a beat at the mention of Claire, the two of them did not meet since they escaped Raccoon city, and she chose to leave him and sherry to look for Chris. Though he spoke with her a few times later, and he gave her location to Chris in the Ashford Island. "Claire?" he whispered. "Claire Redfield?" "You know her?" Jill asked. "Yes, she is a good friend of mine."

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