"Where do you think they're going?" Claire asked as she watched the two figures walk away.
"I don't know but Carlos is with her. He knows how we work," Betty replied while reloading her gun.
"Are we going to go or what?" LJ yelled in the direction of the two women, "I'm feeling lucky today."
Betty looked at Claire before they both smirked at his comment. The other four waited under the shelter of a tall building half covered in sand, giving the two time to catch up. They picked the first building to search with an accessible door.
Inside the rooms were untouched apart from the dust and spider webs. Most of the furniture was in its original position and the playing chips were still ready and waiting for their next game.
"What happened here?" Eddie asked walking around a roulette table.
"I… don't know," Claire answered, "It looks like they never saw what was coming." Claire picked up a crystal glass, which still carried signs of alcohol to prove her point.
K-Mart stopped to lift a fallen bar stool, "How could they let this happen?" she whispered, "Those poor unfortunate people are suffering because of Umbrella's mistakes." Mikey walked over to her and rapped her in a hug in an attempt to make her feel better.
"Do you still feel lucky?" Betty asked LJ as she stopped behind him as they all took in the devastation.
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"What is this place?" Carlos asked lowering his gun once his eyes had searched the lab.
After having received a few questioning glances Alice had been able to get Carlos to follow her out of the harsh light of the untamed sun into the welcome shade the labs brought. She had followed the path she had only seen in her dream yet it appeared she had walked it many times before.
Carlos' voice snapped Alice's attention back to the present. Her hands simply moved over the different worktops, tubes and glass beakers almost ensuring that the room was in fact real. She continued, with her eyes taking in everything seemingly oblivious to Carlos' question.
"It's from my dream… God I hoped against hope that it wouldn't be here," Alice whispered. She continued to move, her swords in one hand. Carlos followed sensing her need to find something.
"What are you looking for?" Carlos trailed off at the end as his eyes came to rest on the object in front. Alice walked to a table and slide down one of the legs in total despair. Carlos still with his eyes fixed ahead of him only realised she had moved away when she spoke.
"Do you think…. I'm a bad person Carlos?" Alice asked her face a carefully blank mask as she picked up a fallen beaker. She studied the beaker, cradled gently in her hands. Her long fingers tracing the crack created from its fall from its perch on the tabletop.
"What?" Carlos asked turning his back to the large test tube filled with sterile blue liquid. He crouched down be side her pushing her swords to one side so he could sit in front of her.
"Alice you are not a bad person," Carlos replied softly while holding her face in his hands and stroking her bottom lip.
"Then why does stuff like this keep happening to me?" she asked. Her eyes never moved from her very own clone stationed at the wall to her right. She was so focused that she didn't even notice when she broke the glass beaker that had been in her hands.
"God… Alice you need to be more careful," Carlos grabbed her hands and pulled her gloves off to check for damage. Her hands were unmarked despite the fact that Alice had squeezed the beaker to make it break.
"No harm done," she replied in a sad whisper, "all better." Alice didn't wait for his reaction before getting up and moving to the clone on her right. She stood pulling on her gloves until Carlos joined her.
"We need to kill it," she stated simple. While she spoke she noticed what looked like a small, brown leather diary lying under a chair.
"It's not alive… it obviously didn't work," he moved closer to the glass to get a better look. Alice grabbed the diary and opened it at a random page. The writing appeared to be a mix of Russian, French and English. She put the small book in her pocket and stood once more beside Carlos.
"What if it does next time anyway you don't know what to do with just one of me." Alice moved quickly, she grabbed a small hand from its position, tucked in Carlos' belt and aimed for the head. By the time Carlos realised what was happening he had already heard the gun shot.
"Poor me," Alice whispered to the clone. She turned and handed the gun back to Carlos. "Lets go, I did what I came here to for."
Thanks to everyone who read or reviewed the last chapter. Has anyone seen the website for Resident Evil Extinction- its cool. Let me know what you think. Until next time.