Okay well next two chapters should be up today, my ideas will start up from the next chapter and slowly evolve into a different type of storyline so hopefully you enjoy and also I'd love to say thanks once more too Red Hope who is an awesome person and that their reviews are absolutely AWESOME! So once again thanks.

Disclaimer – Last time I checked i didn't own Resident Evil but checking again...I still don't own them.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind
A belief
A surrender to inevitability
It is a despair for the future
It is the death of hope
Jim Butcher

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Alice glanced down the scope of her crossbow, reading the stitched name 'Stevie' across the left breast of the infected man. "Sorry about this, Stevie," she mocked pulling back on the trigger and hearing the whistle of the arrow and the little thud of metal piercing skin and bone and impaling a solid human infected against a van.

Alice unassembled the crossbow quickly, keeping count of how many seconds it took her. She shoved the parts of the crossbow back into a duffel bag hooked onto the back of her BMW.

Alice rode the bike the rest of the distance to the service station, killing the engine and un-mounting her bike. She pulled the goggle glasses down, they protected her eye's from the sand storms that would randomly blow through the wasteland at any given time, day or night.

She rounded her bike to the gas pump she had pulled up next to. She picked up the pump with a rattle and clang, clutching the handle in hopes gasoline would spill out from the nozzle, she put it back with a sigh. Gas was a rare thing now days; any gas station in a small town was usually as dry as the Nevada desert. She gave the gas pump a slight tap trying to magically make gas appear.

She took a glance towards 'Stevie' the infected she had impaled against the white van...one usually meant many. She pulled her pistol out the holster keeping it at ready as she made her way towards the gas station door. Last thing she wanted was a surprise from an infected.

Alice gave the double doors to the gas station a kick before taking her first steps into the overheated building. Outside was boiling but inside the building felt like she was trapped in an oven. She took a few quiet and careful steps through the silent overheated building. She jumped at the rattle behind her, quickly whipping around to face it and letting out a small grateful sigh and chuckle as she noticed the glass jar and coins and coins lying on the floor in front of her.

Alice raised her pistol up once more after having lowered it during the small rattle. She glanced around the building running her eyes over the walls until they landed on a wooden door at the far end of the building. She took a few careful steps towards the door waiting for an infected to come barging through the door, almost praying for something to break the eerie silence that had enveloped the building like wildfire.

Alice pulled the door open almost regretting it as the sound of buzzing and smell of decay wafted through the room. She shoved her hand to her mouth and nose doing anything to block the smell out but failing miserably. She quickly bent down grabbing the red notebook before having to inhale anymore of the smell she was out of the building taking the in the fresh air, her lungs burned at the contact with oxygen.

"This is Claire Redfield's convoy, broadcasting for any survivors. Is anybody out there?"

Alice took a few steps towards her bike hearing the transmission and letting a small smile fall on her lips. She had never met Claire but by the way the man over the transmission continued broadcasting she knew they trusted her with their life just by the way they made sure the people they were broadcasting too knew it was Claire's convoy and she was their leader.

"Broadcasting for any survivors is anyone out there?"

Alice gave a disgusted look towards the crow that was scavenging around the eye ball of the infected dead man against the van. She turned back to her bike before rounding it and shutting her radio transmitter off before the last broadcast could be finished. She had memorized the broadcast after hearing it over a hundred times a day it was one thing that gave her hope believing all was not lost in the world, that there was still survivors and people still cared.

She mounted the bike once again placing the book over the speedometer and flicking through the pages. Her head seemed to burn and spin at every word and sentence, 'Isolated', 'Safety', 'Food', 'Water', 'Isolated' that's what stuck into her mind the most... 'Isolated'. Was it actually possible that there was some place in the world that the infection hadn't reached?

Claire glanced around the outside of abandoned motel gas station; her jaw was clenched in anticipation, Carlos and L.J. had entered the building no less than a few minutes ago and there had been no word on their current progression. She knew it was hardly likely that they had been attacked upon entry or otherwise the rest of her convoy would have heard it and likely become attacked.

Claire glanced to her left towards K-mart who gave a small shrug, turning to face her lone hummer that Carlos and L.J. had taken to close the rest of the distance between the convoy and abandoned motel, she pulled the walkie talkie back up to her mouth, "Guys everything okay?"

'Were good, it's clear."

Claire let a sigh of relief escape her lips before turning to the rest of the convoy and giving them a wave, ushering them lightly in towards motel. Their vehicles were rusted and dirty so the last thing they needed was an accident that could possibly destroy the vehicles and render them unsalvageable.

She gave a small smile the moment the vehicle engines were cut and groups of survivors started piling out of the vehicles to set tents and camps up. The smile quickly disappeared as she glanced over to Otto who gave her a small shake of his head as he set himself to handing out food, it was a small gesture but she knew what it meant. They were running out of food, it had been months since they had found a descent food supply. She gave a look towards Chase who mimicked the shake that Otto had given her. It was only a little time away before they no longer had anything to support the convoy having drained every small town dry.

Claire pivoted walking towards Carlos each step taken with slightly a bit more determination. "I need my perimeter up Carlos," she spoke breaking the man away from his conversation.

"I'll get it done," Carlos turned towards Claire his previous conversation forgotten.

"Now would be nice Carlos thank you," she turned refusing the man any chance to ask if she was alright. Of course she was alright, she was always alright, she had to be it was part of what being a leader was.

Claire took her first steps into the motel building, the smell of rain on her senses as she took in the cigarette vending machine. She sent a silent prayer up to anyone listening as she took her first steps forward to the machine, opening the door up and bending down enough to glance around the inside of the machine. She groaned once again as she took in the sight of an empty cigarette vending machine, her first thoughts were to kick the machine until some magically appeared.

"You hungry?" K-mart piped in breaking the agonizing nicotine craved silence that Claire was holding onto.

"Nah I'm fine," Claire waved her hand giving a small smile towards the girl.

"At least eat a little please," K-mart pleaded.

Claire rolled her eyes before nodding, "Just a little," she stared at the teenager determined to get her point across.

K-mart rolled her eyes before handing the tin towards Claire, she had been handed one that had no pull top. She watched with a small smile as Claire pulled her knife out slicing the tins edge before handing it back to her and taking the spoon that she had held out. Claire was like her older sister always there for her but when it came to being there for Claire, she'd always push her away saying it was for the best. Everybody needed somebody, someone to lean on, someone to hold and no matter what Claire needed someone even in a world that no longer held hope.

Okay hopefully you enjoyed this chapter; next one will be up ASAP.