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Chapter 3

Venture to the Past

Valentine Redfield Household

After his coffee with Claire, Chris returned home to find Jill typing away at the computer. She was wearing her long brown hair down and wearing a black tank top with a black jacket and some jeans. She noticed him enter and looked up at him before returning to typing. Chris looked around the living room it had white walls and peach carpet (which he hated), a beige chesterfield, a blue and white plaid sofa, a coffee table in the middle of the room and various paintings pinned on the wall across the room. Jill stood after finishing whatever she was doing on the computer and brushed herself off from the grey dog hair that was on her lap and began a conversation with Chris. " How did it go?" She asked kindly.

"It went better than I expected. She won't be following me to Africa this time." Chris said as Jill slowly walked up to him and placed her hands on her hips and frown at him.

"By the way, are you sure its a good idea to be go there and what happened in Kijuju." Chris became aggravated slightly.

"So now, you are saying that I have problems." Chris says harshly.

"No, Chris its just that you went through an outbreak down there, and we both know what that can do to people." Jill said with a concerned look in her eyes.

"I'll be fine, Jill." Chris said annoyed.

"Chris, I really don't want another fight today." Jill said with tears in her eyes, Chris sadly looked at her. How did they get here, to the point where everyday is a battle not to yell at each other.

"I'm sorry Jill, it just that Claire..." Jill sobbed and Chris forgot what he was saying. "What's wrong?"

"It nothing, its just that I just checked the my email and I got the results back from the BSAA office. I failed my psychological exam again." Chris pulled her into a hug as she sobbed into his shirt.

"Don't worry, third times a charm." Chris said, she pulled away and smiled at him.

"I know we have our problems but, I'm glad we're going to make it work." She said as she went back to her computer.

Chris walks to his room and it was a mess. His clothes scattered across the floor, bath-towels hung up anywhere he could of put them. Food wrapper and miscellaneous things across every surface. Needless to say, Chris wasn't the most organized person in the house. And he lives in the same house as Ms. 'leave leftovers out until they attract flies' Valentine.

Chris looks through his closet for his suitcase. He pulls it out and begins to pack it. He begins to pack searching around the room for the clothes he wears when he goes to warmer places like Spain, Mexico, Italy among others. He finds his light green t-shirt and light brown pants along with various other outfits and folds them neatly into his suitcase.

He then pulls a briefcase out from beneath his bed and opens it. Inside there is several guns. He had a Beretta M92F and a Heckler & Koch P8 for pistols. For a magnums he has a S&W M500, he also had a Hydra Shotgun. For sniper rifles he had the Dragunov SVD. His Machine Gun was a SIG 556. He packed all the guns into his suitcase along with some ammunition and a couple of Incendiary Grenades.

Chris zips his suitcase up and begins to carry it out to the living. Jill has now put her laptop away and is sitting on the couch relaxing. When, Chris enters the room, Jill wakes and stands up and says "Before you go and take care of all that paper-work and going to the airport, I have something to show to you."

She rushes to her room and returns quickly. Inside her hand is a pendant. It looks vaguely familiar to Chris but, he couldn't place it until he looked up at his girlfriend face. She was fascinated by it, her eyes showed a curiosity and a little bit of bitter resentment. He looked down at the object laying in her hands. It was a huge African beetle, the body of the beetle was made of a ruby. He recognized it as the beetle that he had ripped off Jill's chest in Africa when she was being brainwashed by Wesker.

"Why do you still have this?" Jill's eyes watered as she played with it between her fingers.

"I need you to take this to a shaman in the town you are visiting first in Africa." Jill said ignoring Chris's question.

"Why do you still have this?" Chris repeated himself. Jill took in a deep breathe.

"Wesker didn't create it, he merely stole it from the locals in Mali. I really like to know how it was created." Jill explained looking up at him.

"Jill you're obsessed with this." Chris said.

"I'm not obsessed!" Jill shouted in his face as she pulled the beetle away. "I just want to know how they got me to turn against everything I believe in!" Jill was short tempered about the subject. She looked at him sadly. "I'm sorry." She said timidly.

"Its okay." Chris said.

"Please, will you do this for me?" Jill asked after a few seconds. Chris looked at her sadly then nodded his head. She smiled then passed the clunky gem into his hands.

"Thank you, Chris."

Newark Liberty International Airport

Chris walked confidently through the airport to a waiting place near his gate. The group he was travelling with to Africa was waiting for him. All except for Leon. Chris sat with the 5 strangers. Chris thought that it would be a good idea to introduce himself to all of his comrades.

"Hi, I'm Chris Redfield" he said looking to the strangers. Dr. Weissman smiled at him and put her hand out to shake his. Chris shakes her hand.

"I'm Dr. Andrea Weissman." Andrea said.

"What's your doctorate in?" Chris asks trying to make the waiting easier on both him and Andrea.

"I'm an expert on Biological Engineering, but I've been a field scientist for 5 years." Andrea said. Andrea wore a grey sweater and a pencil skirt. Her hair was tucked neatly into a bun with a few stains of hair sticking out.

"So, were you a part of the team analyzing the viruses or the one trying to find a cure." Chris said. Andrea smiles.

"I was a part of the team analyzing the G-virus 10 years ago." Andrea told him.

"The one from the Raccoon City Incident." Chris stated as he thought about how lucky he was not to be in town when that hit. But, two people he cared about had been caught there. Andrea nodded her head. " My sister Claire had escaped from that incident."

"Claire Redfield, I think I remember her. Does she have red hair, is about 5ft 7?" Andrea asks. Chris nods his head. "She went to the government with that little girl, Sherry. My associates where in charge of extracting samples from her."

"Claire told me that the people who dealt with Sherry were very rough with her." Andrea looks down shamefully. She gulped before speaking.

"I'm sure that if that happened, my associates have paid for that." Just before Chris was about to speak to her, Leon sits down next to Chris.

"I see everyone's here." Leon says and all the other people pay attention to him. "Our plan is to meet our contact in Bougouni. I don't know anything about there appearance all I know it that the person were looking for will have a red bandana tied around their wrist. This person is said to have a way for us to get a job in the facility."

"And take it down from the inside." The shady man said.

"And find proof of that they are producing B.O.W's." Leon corrected. "That is our objective Mr. Chall." Chall scoffed as if uninterested by this meeting.

"Continuing on, once we've infiltrated the facility, we'll all be bodyguards or medical professionals. I'll pick the rolls now." Leon pulled a list out of his leather jacket. "Keran Chall, you'll be a doctor, so get a tan so, you look less angry all the time." The girl with the purple hair laughed and slapped Keran arm. "Naomi,You'll be a nurse and you'll be his wife" As Leon said that the purple haired girl's face sunk and Keran wrapped his arm around her. Chris assumed that the woman with the purple hair was Naomi.

"Gaston, you'll be a bodyguard" He looks to the dumb looking man. "Drake, Chris and me will be bodyguards." Leon glances at Chris and the older man.

"I guess I'm a doctor, huh." Andrea says. Leon shakes his head and says.

"No, you're going to be a secretary." It was obvious that Andrea was surprised.

"But, I'm an actual doctor." Andrea states.

"Yes but, remember this isn't a rich group any doctors they have there probably just know First Aid. You're too good." Naomi leans in and whispers to Andrea.

"I'll trade with you." Andrea chuckles. The group hears a woman on the loud speaker that says.

"Gate 15-a, Flight to Bougouni."

"That's us." Leon says to the group and the group boards the plane to Africa. The place they'll all remember.