Chapter Four: Murder

'Another body was found this morning mutilated just outside the city, the identity has not been confirmed but as the fourth murder in two weeks the police are said to be looking for a serial killer'

'This brings back memories' Said Ada setting the newspaper down on the coffee table. 'Stories hit the news just before the zombie outbreak in Racoon City about mutilation'

'You know what Ada I have a feeling we may not have zombies on our hands but something similar, who popped up the same time as these murders began?' Said Lilia, it was a week after their mission and her bruises had only just faded away.

'Zack?' Ada said staring at Lilia, she was dressed in pyjamas and her hair was scruffy for once. 'But surely Genevieve wouldn't let him...'

'Who knows' Said Lilia 'I vote we give Wesker a call later.'

'Good idea he'll probably know what's going on' Said Ada.


Wesker came up from his laboratory dressed in his white lab coat; he had managed to take a sample of the Las Plagas and of the T-Virus and was trying to work out what exactly Genevieve had done with Zack. He yawned tiredly. It seemed the work never ended. He just wanted his research back but it did seem like it was happening any time soon. He wanted to bring Genevieve down, she'd caused too much trouble for his liking and she'd made him look like a fool. His current personal assistant Meredith was his spy into her organisation, she was working in Genevieve's labs and reporting back to him which is why when he'd seen Zack he'd realised the 'top secret project' being talked about was him.

'What on earth is going on?' Said Wesker walking into the kitchen, Meredith was stood there dressed in a smart black skirt and red blouse, her hair was long and blonde, her eyes a piercing green and she was clever. Yet there was something missing he couldn't quite put his finger on. 'I read the newspaper this morning, almost sounds like zombie kills'

'I know' Said Meredith 'The talk at the office is that our little project is being a little rebellious, when you create something almost indestructible it becomes very hard to control, he's still working for Genevieve at the moment but he's taken murder on as an extracurricular activity'

'That's not good' Said Wesker thoughtfully 'I'll have to call Lilia and tell her whats going on' Meredith smiled at him with red painted lips and sauntered over, she ran a hand down his chest and let it rest on his belt buckle.

'Would you not like to have some...time out?' asked Meredith, Wesker raised an eyebrow at her, she was beautiful and they'd been together before. She pulled on the belt smiling at him and softly kissed him on the lips.


'Wesker?' Said Lilia 'Where are you Wesker?' When she couldn't get a hold of him by phone she had decided that going to his house was the best option. She'd sneaked in because security was tough, and now she was confused because the mansion had so many different corridors and rooms. She tried to use her hearing for her benefit and she could almost hear Wesker's voice. She followed the noise until she was stood in front of one heavy oak door. She pushed it open and almost had a heart attack.

'Oh my god oh my god oh my god' Said Lilia squeezing her eyes shut, Wesker was naked. That was her first thought, her second thought was that he was naked with another person. She backed slowly out the room surprised just how much it had hurt to see him with someone else. Her feelings were going haywire. She decided leaving the house and never facing him again was the best option.


'Something's gone very wrong' said Leon; he'd called an emergency meeting at AUCOS. Jill and Chris were sat there, Jill's hair was longer than ever and Chris looked happier than ever. They'd been glad for the break in action but now it seemed like something had happened.

'What's happened Leon?' Asked Lilia seriously, her hair was tied in a bun and she'd made an effort to put on her AUCOS uniform. There'd been enough fun and games. It was time to take the Zack problem seriously. He might be strong but nothing was completely indestructible.

'There's a situation' Leon said, 'A restaurant, Zack's there, it's a blood bath, he seems to have completely lost it, he's killing people left right and centre, the police have cordoned it off but the government have asked us to go and try and sort out the problem'

'Genevieve' Whispered Lilia, all she ever caused was death and destruction. She'd been responsible for the death of everyone Lilia had every cared about, she'd been haunting her ever since and now her newest and best experiment had gone on a rampage.

'So what's the plan?' Asked Ada also dressed in her uniform, they were going to be on official business so they had to look like figures of authority rather than random people off the street.

'Me, you, Chris, Jill and Lilia are going in' Said Leon sighing.

'Hey I'm not so sure' said Chris frowning 'We don't have a chance; he's tearing those people to shreds in there'

'I'm not so sure either' Said Lilia 'Your human, you saw what he did to me, you'd be dead if he did that to one of you, incredibly dead' She ran a hand through her hair and looked at the people who'd become her family. 'I can't let you all die, I need you to help me bring Genevieve down' Lilia pulled her phone out of her pocket. 'I'm calling Wesker, me and him will go down there, you can all wait at the police cordon and if we need back up I'll call you in, sound fair?'

Lilia didn't go into authorative mode too often and Leon raised his eyebrows at her.

'You do realise I'm the boss?' He asked quietly smiling at her. 'But your right, we'll send you in first and see what you can do,' Lilia nodded and dialled Wesker's number.

'Wesker' she said 'Need your help'

'Oh, I'm surprised to hear from you, couldn't stay away once you saw me naked?' Asked Wesker nastily 'To be honest Lilia I'm not in the mood to help you or your little minions. I'm sick of you.'

Lilia was unsure what exactly she'd done wrong this time but she shrugged as she heard the dial tone.

'Guess I'm going in alone then' She said, she could feel herself blushing at Wesker's comment, 'and no arguing' she said as they all began to open their mouths in protest. 'I'm going in'


'This is bad Terrence' Said Genevieve. She was sat behind her desk dressed in a designer suit, top of the range glasses perched on the end of her nose and her perfectly manicured nails tapped the glass desk impatiently. 'This wasn't supposed to happen'

Terrence was looking a lot more dishevelled, his suit was crumpled and he had bags under his eyes. 'I know Genevieve' he said quietly 'This really wasn't supposed to happen, when we combined the two viruses it seemed stable, but seems the Las Plagas don't appreciate being the undead and start fighting to become free of the body which is extremely painful, it must have driven Zack insane'

'Or at least into a murderous rage' said Genevieve 'what on earth are we going to do?' She smiled suddenly. 'I think maybe we should give our old friends at AUCOS the first go at destroying him, hopefully they'll solve the issue and we'll get rid of a few of them at the same time'

'So we don't do anything for now?' Terrence asked 'We let them sort it out?'

'If they can' Sighed Genevieve 'until then keep working on a way for these viruses to combine in a way that doesn't create an insane monster. That'll be all Terrence' Terrence turned on his heel and left sighing. Genevieve looked at Zack's case file resting on her table and sighed. They had so much at their finger tips. So much biochemical and biological warfare they were selling and making money out of, but her personal interest in these viruses meant it wasn't enough. She wanted the best and only the best.


The scene was a disaster. The restaurant was a free standing building in town; it was old fashioned in a way, called 'Greenfields'. There were hundreds of policeman standing round the building preventing family members from trying to get in to save loved ones and maybe even to stop Zack bringing his rampage into the streets. There were crowds of people swarming to get a look at the scene. Overhead helicopters whirred and there were dozens of news vans reporting the latest. Lilia patted her hair in place as she began to push her way through the crowds to the scene.

'Lilia!' Shouted one of the reporters. Ever since the Marstonville incident the public had become aware of AUCOS and what they did. However they didn't know that Genevieve was the culprit, only that an unknown company was currently causing biological chaos. Lilia ignored the reporter, she finally got to the glass front doors of the restaurant, she couldn't see inside as they were plastered with scarlet blood. She swallowed heavily. So many lives had been lost but it never got any easier to see human beings dead. Only harder. Her backup were waiting with the police round the back. Lilia had worn as much light body armour as possible and she was loaded up with two handguns, a shot gun and a knife.

'Ok here goes nothing' She said to the policeman at the front door, one was tall with dark hair; he turned to her his face pale.

'Good luck little lady' He said in a strong southern accent. 'I hope you teach him a lesson'

'Me too' Said Lilia though she doubted it, the best she could do was get people out of their safely. She kicked the doors open and walked through. She was disgusted by the scene in front of her, bodies littered the floor. Young and old people lay there bleeding and torn to pieces by the monster Zack had become. She couldn't tell who was alive and who wasn't. There were survivors cowered up against the wall at the back of the room. She could see Zack; he had a person in his hand and was gnawing at their neck.

'Hey drop him' Lilia shouted, Zack turned to her, one of his eyes seemed almost human, the other had turned red with the virus inside him, his skin was bubbling with the viruses under his skin fighting eachother.

'It hurts, it hurts so much' He hissed 'The only thing that makes it better is killing.'

'I don't actually care' Said Lilia raising her shotgun to her shoulder, she fired a shot and it caught him in the shoulder, there was an explosion of blood and gore but before she could fire another shot it had regenerated. Zack smiled lopsidedly at her, his face crazy and dangerous. 'Bring it on' Said Lilia and fired shot after shot, he kept moving towards her as the bullets made holes in his body. His skin was crawling and he was laughing out loud.

'Oh look a shield' He muttered picking up a small girl off the floor, she was crying, her little face covered with dirt.

'Oh too far' Said Lilia full of fear for the child, the front doors were open; she looked at the survivors then Zack. 'Right all of you' She shouted 'run!' She ran full pelt at Zack, he dropped the child as she tackled him to the floor, she brought her handgun to his head and began to fire it yet it didn't seem to make a difference. He seemed to be calming down, both his eyes were back to their normal colour. It seemed the virus had stopped its fight for now, but that made him all the more coherent and dangerous.

'Oh god' Said Lilia.

'I seem to have lost it a little here' Said Zack looking around them, Lilia was still on top of them, he reached out a hand and grabbed her around the throat. He rolled her onto her back and she began punching him as hard as she could. He winced and let go of her throat, she turned and smiled. The girl had made it out the front to safety as well as fifty or so survivors. At least they were going to be ok. She turned and smiled at Zack. She kicked him as hard as she could in the chest and he went flying off her, but he was back in a second and this time he had a knife at her throat. .

'Even if you kill me, at least their safe' Said Lila defiantly staring him down with her icy purple eyes, his blue ones met hers and he looked away.

'There's over twenty dead' Said Lilia 'You lost control'

'I don't care' Said Zack 'I really do not care,' He pinned her to the ground with one knee and she could feel herself pressed up against one of the dead bodies, he raised the knife ready to slash her throat when a shape propelled itself into him.

'What the...' He shouted and Lilia could see Wesker, she jumped to her feet to help him but he shouted for her to stay back, he was dressed in black leather with his trademark glasses on. She didn't understand why he'd want to help them, then she saw they syringe in his hand, he stuck it into Zack's skin and managed to draw some blood.

'Catch!' Wesker shouted, he threw the syringe at Lilia and she caught it in one hand. He wasn't even there to save her life; he was there for the only thing that mattered to him, his experimentation and research. Wesker's eyes widened and Lilia found herself screaming as Zack's hand emerged from Wesker's stomach ,he removed his hand and stabbed Wesker in the neck with the knife repeatedly. Lilia ran over and grabbed Wesker and tried to drag him from the scene.

'ZACK' Shouted a female voice, 'Zack get out of there now!' There was a helicopter above the building. It sounded like Genevieve's voice but she couldn't be sure. She continued to drag Wesker and managed to get him out into the street, there was a gaping hole in his chest. 'We need to get him to a hospital!' She shouted. Leon ran over and she shoved the vial into his hand 'Get this to the lab now before Zack comes after it' she said. Lilia pulled off her jacket and held it to Wesker's neck, his wounds were bleeding profusely and his eyes were black with pain. Lilia put a hand on his head and stroked his hair.

'You'll be ok' Said Lilia quietly. She was surprised when she felt his hand resting on her leg squeeze slightly; she took his blood covered hand in her own. She didn't know why she cared so much. He'd done nothing but betray her and hurt others but he'd saved her life and he seemed to have changed so much. The sirens roared in the distance ready to attend to the sick and the dying. She watched as the paramedics dragged Wesker onto a stretcher and she felt like a zombie herself as she climbed into the ambulance with him.

'We're losing him' said the paramedics frantically trying to save him

'He's regenerating' whispered Lilia 'But not quickly enough' by the time he regenerated he'd have no blood left to pump his heart; Lilia kept her hand in his.

They arrived at the hospital and they tried to give him blood but his body rejected it.

'Give him my blood' Said Lilia suddenly 'Were similar blood types' she smiled at the idea as they took her blood and transferred it into Wesker. It seemed to work as his body began to fix itself. Before the end of the evening he was resting in a hospital bed.

'You nearly died' Lilia whispered sat by his bed side, he was still asleep, but his head turned towards her at the sound of her voice and his strange red eyes flickered open.

'Why didn't you let me die?' Wesker asked 'I'm a bad person and I'm not going to stop doing those bad things'

'I don't think you're that bad' Said Lilia shrugging.

'Well I am' Said Wesker. 'These viruses are my life, my legacy, and I'm not going to stop doing all I can do find out ALL that I can about them,'

'Wesker...' She started.

'Just leave!' He shouted 'I have no need to see you anymore.' Lilia shook her head at him.

'Eugh you're so difficult' she said standing up. 'I'm going home, having a shower, going to bed and thinking about how much of an idiot you are' Wesker shook his head and closed his eyes as Lilia got up to leave.


'You should have left him to die' Said Ada darkly 'Saving Wesker's life is going to bite us in the ass the next time he decides to betray us'

'I'm not like him' Shrugged Lilia 'and we need him right now with the Zack situation'

'Oh because he did such a great job stopping him' Snapped Ada 'you're too soft with this whole thing, you let your feelings get in the way and its going to get you killed'

'Well if it's me being human that gets me killed then that's fine by me' Said Lilia 'I'm not weak, I just care about people, and the best way to help people is to keep Wesker on our side and helping us no matter how much we can't trust him'

'So what's next?' Asked Ada, Lilia shrugged.

'I don't even know anymore' She replied quietly. 'I don't even know'


Wesker was lying in his hospital bed staring at the ceiling of the room. He wasn't a good man, he'd killed, he'd done terrible things in his life and emotions had never hindered him in what he did. Research was his life. He knew this. Everyone else knew this. Yet Lilia was different. She looked at him like she could see something he couldn't even see. He felt most human around her and it was a bad thing. To achieve his life's work and to discover new things about the viruses he needed not to care. He sighed loudly and stared at the hand she'd held.

'You're getting soft' he snapped at himself shaking his head. He was Albert Wesker. Not a lovesick teenager.