'You hit it right on the button." Jenna agreed. 'Eclipse is a real life example of natural selection; only those with the right genes will live to either pass on the virus to others or live to pass on their genes to the next generation to someone like you." Jenna started to say something else but was cut off by the sounds of the phone ringing.

'Excuse me for a moment," Jenna began, going back to her desk and picking up the receiver. 'Hello?" Julianna could hear for what appeared to be a man's voice asking for Jenna. 'Yes, this is she. What can I do for you?" Julianna leaned back against the cabinet, resolving to look more closely at the vial containing Eclipse while Jenna carried on her conversation. The purple liquid never lost it glow, seemingly growing brighter when Julianna's hand reached out to touch it. If it could, it would probably jump out of that vial and come after me, she thought. So engrossed in observing it, Julianna never heard Jenna put down the receiver until she walked back over to Julianna quickly.

'I apologize for that," she said, taking the three petri dishes and running them under a water faucet for a few minutes before taking the vial of Eclipse and putting it back in the refrigerated drawer, an audible lock coming from it after it was closed. 'I hate to run off, but I've been called to another section of the lab. Will you be alright here on your own?"

'Is everything alright?"

'Yes, it's perfectly fine, just a test subject that's decided to make a break for it." Jenna laughed nervously. 'I'll lock the door so that no one bothers you while I'm gone. I'll be back as soon as I can." With those words, Jenna rushed out the door, locking it true to her word and running away from the office.

Julianna waited for several minutes, just to make sure that Jenna wouldn't come back unexpectedly before turning her attention to the monitor on the desk, seeing that Jenna hadn't signed out of her account. Glancing at the strange board in front of her, Julianna's eyes took a moment to adjust to seeing that they weren't just any keys, but ones that had letters on them. Curious, she touched one and jerked it back quickly when a blank screen popped up. Judging by the blinking black cursor on it, Julianna guessed that it was something to write words on. But how did one use such a thing to write with?

Experimentally, she began pressing different letters on the keyboard, watching in awe as they appeared on the display in front of her. After taking a few minutes to familiarize herself with what key did what, Julianna soon was able to articulate herself on what she realized was a Word document. How did humans come up with such a thing, she wondered, playing around with the document until she'd typed up a complete ten-page document about what she'd learned from the books she'd read.

Once she'd satisfied her curiosity, she turned to opening something else using the little device beside the keyboard that moved a little white cursor on the screen. Seeing an E at the edge of the screen, she moved the cursor over to it and clicked. When nothing happened, she tried again. Realizing that she needed to click two times, Julianna tried it. Sure enough, a whole new screen opened up with space beneath the word Google. She could only stare in wonder, trying to figure out what she was supposed to do. Clicking the little bar, a list opened up beneath it. Hairstyles for long hair, makeup for brown eyes, Watch The Exorcism of Emily Rose online free. Julianna had no idea what the last one was about but clicked it anyways.

And discovered a whole new world.

She spent a good hour looking through them, searching up different things and watching to see how many results came up. This is amazing, her mind echoed. There were so many things on this electronic device that her mind was even more blown than before. Jenna was right; this is the biggest library in existence. When she ran out of things to look up, Julianna decided to instead try typing in things that Jenna had told her, specifically Umbrella. When she clicked the arrow, she was directed to a page which had a red and white hexagon beside the red letters that spelled Umbrella.

Navigating through some of the links at the top, Julianna learned that Umbrella had been founded in the late 1960's by Oswell Spencer and two other men whose names she didn't recognize. According to the site, Umbrella was praised for its pharmaceutical work and the many lives they'd saved because of their work. Julianna wanted to scoff at this: how did they explain the creatures that had been sent to kill her last night then?

Whatever the case, Julianna became bored looking at the site and decided she'd seen enough for one day. Starting to click out of the window, something made her pause for a moment. It took a moment for her to recognize what it was that made her do so, but eventually Julianna realized that this was her chance to see exactly what year it was.

The temptation was incredibly strong, but she had no opportunity to even search it when she heard someone outside the door. Quickly closing the window, Julianna grabbed a book and pretended to be looking at it. Sure enough, it opened to reveal Jenna. Julianna glanced up at her and then looked back at her when she noticed that something was off about her.

'Jenna," She began, putting the book to the side and coming up to her side. Jenna gave her a reassuring smile as she closed the door. 'Is everything alright?"

'Yes, everything's fine now," Jenna said, taking off her lab coat. 'I just didn't expect to be gone as long as I had. I'm sorry for keeping you waiting."

'What happened if I may ask?"

'A subject of ours decided that it didn't like its accommodations, so it wanted to get out for some exercise. We have some people in quarantine because of it now, so it's going to be a long night for me until I get out of here." Jenna explained in an exasperated voice.

'Why is that?" Julianna asked.

'Whenever there's an incident like this, everyone has to fill out a form describing what happened. An incident report, they're called. Since there's been some who need medical attention now, it's got everyone in a bad mood. Especially Wesker. We're not going to hear the end of this one from him." Jenna added, putting her head in her hands. 'I dread the melodrama that's going to go down at the next meeting."

'Why would he be angry at you for this? It wasn't any of your faults, was it?"

'In Wesker's eyes, it is. He expects perfection out of everything."

'So he's pissed all to hell." Jenna snorted at this.

'You don't even know." Julianna couldn't help but be grateful for the fact that she wasn't working under Wesker now. A thought suddenly crossed her mind.

'When exactly is this browbeating meeting?" she asked. Jenna, who'd put her head down on her arms, didn't even look up at her.

'This evening," Jenna revealed. 'Everyone has to be there and it's going to be absolute hell." The thought that was floating around in Julianna's head made an idea manifest. If everyone- including Wesker- is going to be preoccupied with this meeting, then this is the perfect opportunity to escape.

'I see," Julianna replied, taking care to keep any indication that she was planning something out of her demeanor. 'So what do we do in the meantime?" Jenna raised her head at this.

'Well, for one, we get out of the office for the day. I think I've kept you cooped up in here long enough." She said, picking up a couple of the books Julianna had been reading and handing them to her before picking up a few more and leading her out of the office. 'Has Mr. Spencer told you if you were allowed to walk about the mansion?"

'Yes," Julianna answered. 'He said that I may enter the doors which open to my hand but not to go outside the gated areas."

'At least, you'll be able to get some fresh air," Jenna noted. 'The garden is very beautiful if you'd like to take a walk."

'I would actually," Julianna admitted. It would give me an opportunity to find a way out of here.

'As soon as we get back to your room to drop off these books, I'll show you to the terrace which leads to the garden. I'm afraid you'll be on your own, however. I have to start my reports tonight."

'Are you sure you don't require any assistance?"

'Another time, I'll take you up on that, but as it is, I have to politely decline," Jenna said with a smile. They had just turned a corner when they both simultaneously heard the angry shouts of someone coming down the hall. 'Oh shit."

'What is it?" Julianna asked. Jenna motioned for her to be silent as they both listened closely. This time, Julianna was able to make out the familiar tone of Wesker's voice. Just as Jenna predicted, he was raising hell about what had just happened.

'How difficult is it for you ignorant creatures to understand how to lock a simple door?" The sounds of something being thrown caused both women to jerk in surprise.

'I think that's our cue to go," Jenna said quickly.

'I think so too," Julianna agreed as they hurried down the next hall.

To say that Wesker was furious was a severe understatement.

When he'd caught wind of a Hunter making a break for it, like everyone else, he'd double timed it to the enclosure area to see what had happened. He'd expected to see that the situation was under control and said Hunter was recaptured. What he'd found instead was five people severely injured and in need of emergency medical care, three that were potentially infected, and a B.O.W that was now running somewhere inside or outside the mansion; as if having an amnesiac hybrid that Oswell was adamant about keeping around for an undisclosed amount of time wasn't bad enough.

Incompetency at its finest, he thought angrily, not even listening to the excuse that the younger man in front of him was making up on the spot no doubt. It was so odd that when a higher up got involved in the situation that everyone points the finger in every direction other than themselves. He never could understand what went through human minds anymore. Over and over again the humans tried to explain what went wrong, but all they did was add more fuel to the raging fire that was building inside him.

But when one of them had the audacity to say that it was an unpreventable occurrence, his anger boiled over.

'Unpreventable?" He spat, slamming his right fist into the wall so hard that it caused a massive dent and making every person in the near vicinity jump in surprise. 'You've all been working for years now and you dare to tell me that this was unpreventable? How difficult is it for you ignorant creatures to understand how to lock a simple door?" The nearby table was grabbed suddenly and flung clear across the room, sending said ignorant creatures scrambling to get out of the way. As expected with his inhuman strength, it shattered against the wall, sending pieces through the air. A tense moment of silence fell upon the room.

'I grow tired of your insolence," Wesker finally said, his voice laced with malice. 'From this point forward, I will not tolerate any more episodes like this. You all have until this evening to track down the Hunter and apprehend it before it gets a chance to escape. Fail and I promise none of you will live to regret it." He started to say something else but was cut off by the sounds of his cellphone beeping. Dismissing the humans with a wave of his hand, he turned his attention from the fast retreating researchers to the small handheld device. Pressing the screen with his thumb, he raised it to his ear.

'What is it?" he asked harshly. The person on the other line hesitated for a moment.

'Wesker? It's Jenna," the young woman said on the other line.

'I know, I saw on the caller id," Wesker barked, exiting the small office and walking out into the hall. 'What do you want?"

'I know that there's already enough madness from the Hunter's escape this afternoon," she began, taking a breath. 'But we have another problem." Wesker groaned audibly and pinched the bridge of his nose with his free hand.

'Don't tell me another one got out."

'If only it were that," Jenna continued. 'But it's not a Hunter or any of the other B. . It's Julianna." Wesker's hand dropped at that.

'What did she do?" he grumbled, absolutely not in the mood to deal with the mahogany haired hybrid.

'It's not what she did. Rather it's something that we found with her, specifically the sample of Eclipse," Jenna explicated. His attention was caught right away.

'Go on."

'When I found the vial in her cryo-chamber, I thought that it was indeed Eclipse. It displayed the same chemical makeup, the same mutations, and the same properties as described. It also reacted just as I thought it would with the different blood samples that we have by boiling it until it is gone or turning it black-"

'You tell me nothing that I don't already know."

'-but the time that it was exposed to the air changed it to something else. It's indeed a virus, but it's not the one you're looking for." Wesker, who'd been walking down the hall to his own office, froze in his tracks.

'I don't like what you're implying here," he said. Jenna took a deep breath and released it.

'The virus we have is a fake," she finally said. 'It's not Eclipse, but a decoy virus that was meant to throw us off. I don't know how it was done or how it's even possible to do something like that, but whoever put it in there with Julianna obviously knew that someone was going to find it and use it for something."

Wesker was dead silent for several minutes. He didn't move or even seem to breathe.

Without warning, for the second time that day, he slammed his fist into the wall yet again.

'Are you telling me that we've been experimenting with the wrong virus the entire time?"

'Unfortunately yes," Jenna confirmed. 'It's just a genetically modified version of anemia crossed with the flu."

'And it did this after being exposed to the air?"

'It's my belief that it did this after contact with the air, yes. I think what happened is that when it was created, it was meant to last only for a certain amount of time before it reverted back to what it originally was." Wesker didn't answer for a time, running this all over in his mind. None of it made sense, but perhaps that was the intent all along. It had all seemed too easy, yes, but it was clear to him now that whoever had put that girl in the cryogenic sleep…

'It appears we've underestimated the cunning of the Advents," he said, more to himself that to Jenna. 'Our only option now is to extract it from the hybrid."

'That leads me to my next point," Jenna continued. 'We were able to extract traces of Eclipse from Julianna's DNA, but not enough to get a complete sample. There's no visible way I can see to get it by her blood alone. Even if we could, the chances of it creating an Advent are too slim."

'And what do you propose to be a better option?" Wesker replied, merely humoring Jenna.

'Eclipse is contracted only through contact with bodily fluids and blood itself," Jenna began. 'It's extraordinary in that it chooses who to change and who to kill. It's almost as though it has a mind of its own. With that said, it's just too risky to just inject a person with Julianna's blood. Even with the Advent sample that we have wouldn't work because Eclipse dies out when the person becomes one. And if we chose to use the Sang sample, it would turn them into a raving maniac craving blood." Wesker frowned after Jenna finished.

'The samples are useless then?"

'Yes," Jenna confirmed. 'Unless we found one from each race, I don't think we can get a more recent sample."

'You realize that you've inconvenienced me greatly with this information, don't you?" he asked in a dangerous voice. He could almost hear Jenna shudder on the other line.

'I do… but there is a potential solution." She effectively piqued the blonde's interest.

'I'm listening."

'In humans, we typically inherit twenty-three pairs of chromosomes each from our parents. It's widely accepted that in the event there's an extra, it will cause Down syndrome. But with Julianna, it's different."

'What do you mean?"

'Julianna has an extra strain of DNA. She has a completely new set of chromosomes," Jenna illuminated. 'This extra set is what gives her the superhuman abilities attributed to Advents: strength and speed; acute sight, hearing, and smell; and of course, her regenerative abilities." She gave Wesker a moment to absorb this. 'We can't extract the Eclipse virus through her blood, that's a given. But if we can replicate her DNA… we may be able to create a new species after all." All was silent on Wesker's end as he considered the new possibilities that Jenna was implying.

'I never doubted your talents for a moment, Jenna," he noted, a smirk coming to his lips. 'Be sure to include this in your initial findings and send them to me immediately." He paused for a second. 'In the meantime, I want you to continue winning over our house guest. I have a most amusing idea in mind for her."

'Yes, Wesker," Jenna replied. With that said Wesker disconnected the call and replaced his phone back into his side pocket. Any anger he felt was suddenly sucked out of him a like vacuum. It was indeed unfortunate that they couldn't obtain a sample from the hybrid by conventional means, but perhaps all was not lost with what he had in mind. His smirk widened into a sick smile as he continued on down the hall.

Perhaps the hybrid would prove more useful than he originally thought.

A/N- Apparently no one ever told Wesker that it's never that easy to get something out of a person. ;)

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