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Chapter 7

The rest of the trip continued without incident. Thankfully anyway. Except that Alice punched Chris, bringing forth a confused look. Alice's reply was simple; she comes through on her threats. The dog did start to chew on the zipper of one of the bags on the back seat though.

The residential area outside the capital was a mess. A warzone of sorts. The rubble was piled high, rendering the SUV useless. They had to walk the rest of the way. Chris had a look of disbelief on his face when Alice opened the passenger door. "You've got to be kidding me, right?" Alice chuckled, closing the door behind her. "No, I'm not. I don't know about you, but I don't think we can drive in there. It's DC. The place is going to be crawling with the undead and other creatures. But lucky for us, the Umbrella facility is only about 50km away. We'll be in and out before you know it." Alice pulled the door to the back seat open, pulling out a few guns and stocking up on ammo just in case. "You're carrying that thing." Alice pointed toward the dog.

"We can't leave it here. It's going to end up attracting anything hungry within the immediate vicinity. So come on, let's move it. Time is money." Chris only nodded, picking up one of the many bags and pushing the dog into it. "What are you doing?" Alice moved closer to where Chris was standing. "I can't carry him in my arms. I need those to shoot, remember?" Alice snorted. "Whatever. You ready to go grandpa?" Alice eyed the bag.

"Yes dear, I'm all good. You do realize that this is going to end badly, don't you?" Alice nodded. "Didn't anyone ever tell you, you talk too much?" Alice shot over her shoulder. "Not recently no." Alice chuckled. "Come on, this way." Alice headed in the general direction of downtown.

After about 15km later, Chris walked up to Alice, pulling out a water bottle. "You notice how quiet it is?" Alice nodded. "You think they are attracted to whoever is still alive?" Again Alice only nodded. "We can't check it out. No time." Alice grabbed Chris' arm, pulling him up a little slope of debris. "We need to keep moving. They can smell us too you know." Chris slid his hand into hers. Alice felt a silly grin plastered onto her face.

"Alice, wait. Do you hear that?" Effectively ruining the moment, Alice looked up. Years of running from people who wanted to eat you; makes your ears become finely tuned to any sound that wasn't, well, natural. There was a faint yell. Then a gurgle. Zombies. Something was chasing, or rather eating someone. Chris started moving into the direction of the sounds, but was stopped by Alice's hand on his arm. A silent plea from her eyes to his, when he glanced at her- turning from his original position.

"Let's make a deal. You head for the facility, and I go check that out. If I'm too late, I'll come back. You told me where the facility is. I'll find you." Alice clenched her jaw. "No. We don't split up. Bad things are going to happen if we split up. I'm coming with you." Without waiting for a reply, Alice started moving in the direction of the yelling. She moved quickly and swiftly, climbing over debris with grace as she heard Chris panting behind her. The sounds were getting closer. There seemed to be more yelling and screaming. 'Sounds like agony.' Alice thought.

Then she heard it, the sound of the undead. Alice pulled out her guns, and ran the rest of the way. As soon as she turned a corner, she spotted them. There were a few barricades and zombies, when isn't there zombies? The zombies were close to a hundred, maybe even more. Alice took aim and stared firing in the direction of the creatures. If her instructors at the Umbrella Training camp saw her now, she would most certainly be getting latrine duty for using, what they called, spray and pray. Spray your bullets, your lifeline, and hope and pray that you hit something. Rico Shade.

Alice started slowing down, not because she wanted to, but because she couldn't move any faster. Everything felt so heavy. Dropping her arms, Alice looked up. The yelling and screaming went quiet. The humdrum of the undead went quiet. The shooting next to her and in front of her died down. It all went black.

*RE A/C*

Someone was talking to her. Opening her eyes was one hell of a mission. Something cold was touching her arm and her forehead. "Go away" was all she could manage in her ill state. Someone was laughing. 'This is getting annoying.' Alice swatted at the cold thing that was close to her arm. She was greeted by a wet nose and fur. The dog. That's what was cold on her arm.

Opening her eyes with difficulty, Alice stared into Chris's face. "Didn't your mother teach you that it's rude to stare?" Chris laughed and wiped her forehead again. "What's going on?" She tried to sit up, but Chris pulled her back down by the shoulders. The dull throb in the back of her head was back. "You passed out." Alice craned her head to look Chris in the eye. Sitting up, not being deterred by Chris' attempt to lie back down. "What is going on Redfield?" Chris sighed, looking away.

"You did it again. That thing you do. You made it all go slow, and then splat. You were killing zombies by just staring at them. Like you had invisible hands breaking them apart. And then you passed out." Chris dropped a rag into a bowl of water. Alice sat next to Chris, racking her mind to remember. Nothing. She had nothing. She couldn't even remember anything past seeing the horde of zombies.

"I don't remember." It was more of a statement to herself as if she were forcing herself to recall. "I don't remember." Chris looked back to Alice. "Yeah, figured as much." Getting up, Chris turned back to Alice. "I did some asking around. The facility we were headed for is inside the perimeter of their safe zone. One of the guys around here said he'll take us there."

"Chris, I-" Alice didn't know what to say. "Don't. I said I'll help, and I'm sticking to my word. I'm just a little freaked out. It's the second time you did that around me. You pulled zombies apart. Tore them limb from limb. Then flung them into adjacent buildings. Others necks you broke clean off. Turned their heads 180 degrees around. Don't blame me for being a little freaked out. And don't feel bad, okay? It's gonna take some time, but I'll get used to it." Alice looked at Chris. He seemed to be forcing a smile awkwardly.

Alice looked back down, staring at her feet. "Don't Alice." She felt his index finger pulling her chin up. "Don't feel bad. We're lucky. They only had two casualties. You saved them." It sure as hell didn't feel that way. Chris turned his lips into a smile and leaned it pressing his lips against her lips in with small peck. Alice curled her fingers into Chris' shirt. After pulling away slightly to look at her, Chris smiled again. Alice's eyes were opening lazily. "Get some rest. We're leaving in two hours." Chris kissed her again, and pushed Alice back down on the bunk bed. She didn't even notice where she was. Didn't even ask. Pulling back, Alice smiled. "Don't make me regret letting you out of that cell Redfield." Alice heard him chuckle as he left the room.

Alice laid staring at the ceiling for a few minutes. "What is happening to me…?"

LR: So it was a shorter chapter, but I do hope you enjoyed it. Chapter 8 will be considerably longer, promise! Please review, and remember: Reviews = Happy Dance :D

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