Chapter 2
Jill Valentine could feel the glare of the sun on her soft skin and sighed, "gees, where's Chris when I need him?", finally Chris Redfield emerged from the tropical holiday resort with the items Jill had specified and made his way over to the beautiful sunbathing blonde as she relaxed on a beach chair under the hot sun.
"Finally", Jill sighed, "You have my sun tan lotion", "Right here", Chris smothered his hands with the lotion and proceeded to lather Jill's back with it, and kneed it into her soft skin.
Jill hadn't been in the sun for a while, so her pale skin sunburned easily, this was the first time in a LONG tie that Chris and Jill had been on a holiday, and considering the recent circumstances of their mission, they deserved it.
After all, how many people could say they were chased throughout Africa by mindless human creatures that only wanted to destroy them, and had not only defeated all their enemies but had singlehandedly destroyed the greatest and most powerful threat to humanity, the superhuman Albert Wesker. Not many, that's for sure. So Chris and Jill were enjoying their well-earned vacation and Jill was enjoying seeing the sun as a free person, for the first time in a long time.
Jill still felt badly about trying to destroy Chris even though she was obviously under mind control when she tried. She felt the blonde strands of her hair in her fingers. She still felt weird looking at that hair.
It felt as if it belonged to another person. Jill's hair was normally a rich dark brown colour and befitted her dark and serious personality, who wouldn't be dark and serious after going through what Jill had gone through?
But after Albert Wesker's medical experiments on Jill, after he captured her, her hair reacted to the strange combination of medicine and chemicals by turning a permanant blonde colour. This was an advantage to Wesker as it also helped disguise Jill's identity.
Chris sat down next to the vacant chair beside Jill, he could see her fingering her hair, and he knew she was still getting used to being free from that bastard Wesker's grasp.
Jill had a hard time readjusting after her capture by Wesker and it wasn't uncommon for her to wake up in the idle of the night screaming and covered in sweat. Chris had slept in the room next to her and would rush in to Jill's room to comfort her.
But Jill only felt embarrassed and ashamed when Chris tried to comfort her. She had nothing to be ashamed off, everyone at the BSAA and especially Chris were proud of Jill, hardly anyone would have had the strength to withstand Wesker's mind control and gone through the things she had, but Jill didn't want to be a bother to Chris.
They were once partners and friends, and equals, and Jill felt that she wanted to go back to that time, but she didn't know how.
The vacation to a tropical beach resort, was Chris's idea, he thought it would be good to unwind. But Jill wasn't sure this was a good idea, too much time had passed between when Chris and Jill were teammates during the mansion incident and now, the two had drifted apart and Wesker taking control of Jill and making her fight Chris had only deepened that rift.
She knew Chris still cared for her and thought of her as a friend, but she felt ashamed of herself for giving in to Wesker's mind control, she thought she was stronger than that, that everything she had been through meant she was able fight Wesker, but she was wrong.
Chris could see she was struggling to remain calm and patted her hand, "it's alright Jill, your safe now", "I know", Jill replied, "but I can't help thinking about how easily Wesker managed to control me, I thought I was stronger than that, but Wesker managed to turn me into just a weak shell of my former self".
Chris knew Jill still blamed herself for being controlled by Wesker, but he knew it wasn't her fault, "Jill, no one else has been through what you have, and survived, it wasn't your fault that Wesker took control of your mind, you're still just as strong and resourceful as always, Jill, and you're still my friend and partner". Jill thanked Chris for his kind words and they both started to relax, they tried their best to enjoy their tropical holiday, but both of them were unprepared for the horror that was to come.
