"I'm sorry... Captain... I did it for the BSAA... For the future!"

Claire

The news shattered Claire. Crumbling to the floor and sobbed, not giving a fuck about how pathetic she looked because he was gone. "Piers didn't make it." The four tiny words crushed her, especially since they fell from the mouth of someone she loved. She glanced up at the eyes of her older brother, he looked like a washed-up celebrity dying from years of partying too hard. How would they get though this?

Chris

The best thing in Claire's life was gone. Forever. Jesus fuck, he wished it was him. That's all he wanted. Jill and Claire could go on without him. Piers had his own life, his own hobbies, his own friends, and his own family. Chris knew he could die and it wouldn't matter to the BSAA, or anyone else. Except for the two women in his life. Piers was the only one who loved his sister as much as he did, and he knew he would always take good care of his family. How was this fair?

Six months later

When Claire returned home it felt empty and it was slightly messy, it had been unchanged since she was admitted again. She pulled one of Piers shirts close to her chest, trying her best to remember the last time she seen him wear it. All Piers items lay untouched, but she knew his parents would want some of his belongings back.

Claire took a deep breath before she glanced around the room, she needed a fresh start. She deserved it, they all did.

two weeks Later

Claire finally finished unpacking and decorating her new apartment in a way that made her almost happy. She had put things up around the apartment that belonged to Piers and her both. She wanted those little reminders of him. Claire wanted him to live on in memory, it was as if she was scared in case she forgot him. She liked remembering how happy he had made her.

She sat down on the couch and grabbed the pink notebook off of the coffee table. Claire had always been more confident in expressing her opinions and feelings in her younger days, but recently Claire was struggling to understand her own thoughts. The memory's of Piers, her parents, Raccoon city, being taken multiple times to different islands had taken a toll on her. Claire wondered how much longer she could handle it? She hadn't ever really given much thought to ghosts, never really decided whether she believed in them or not, but now she found herself haunted by them.

The buzzing sound coming from her door startled her. She walked over to look at the screen and it was blank, the camera couldn't be connected to the doorbell right. Just great. Claire presses the small button unlocking the door into the apartments, "Just come on up".

She quickly went into the bedroom, She put the notebook in her sock drawer. Before leaving the room again she checked on Matty, who was snoring loudly causing her to giggle. How something so small make such a loud noise?

Walking into the kitchen area, she turned on the kettle. Since giving up alcohol, Chris has become a tea drinker. She couldn't wait to see him. Claire hated that she missed so much. She spoke to him briefly on the phone the day before where he informed her that she was now an auntie, which was almost impossible since last she heard Jill wasn't pregnant. Back to the wall, she smiled as she heard the door handle turning and her brother entering the apartment.