Chapter 19

Abandoned Umbrella Facility

"You damn old coot." said Krauser as he jumped down the elevator shaft.

He knew that he had to get to him before he got away, or it was his ass. Ada was sure to be fine with that damn dead body. Why the hell did he care? All he wanted to do was kill the old man and get paid. That's all. He landed on the top of the elevator car and ripped the trap door off. He jumped inside and saw that Spencer wasn't in there. He pushed the open button and walked out. He walked quickly to find out where he had gone to.

He rounded a corner and saw a door slightly open. He walked to the door and gently pushed it open. He walked in, the room looked like and old office. It had filled bookshelves and an antique desk. He also had seen all the dust that was surrounding everything. He looked down to the tiled floor and saw what he was looking for.

"Tire marks, well lets see where they take me."

He walked forward and saw that they stopped in front of a large wall.

"My, my, my the old bastard has a door in my way. But I have the key."

Krauser's arm started pulsating and then it mutated like it had on the Island in Spain. His giant mutated arm crashed into the wall tearing it up bit by bit. When there was enough room to fit through, Krauser had his arm go back to normal and the stepped through his new door.

He saw that the room he just walked into had no dust at all. Which was fine because Spencer was sitting right in front of him.

"Alright old man, time to die."

"I think not."

"Really? Well I guess you don't think too good, must be the old age."

"You're foolish to work under Albert. He's no leader, and he never will be."

"I don't really care what you think."

"Albert is a coward. He is a coward of death and now he is one the creations made by my company."

"Really, I don't care. Just stop talking."

"And you Jack Krauser, you just want power and money. I think that you would be the perfect employee for me."

"I think not pops."

"And why not?"

"I already don't like you. Now how about you die like your other co-founders?"

" I had Marcus killed, he was quite the bothersome pest. But Ashford died of natural causes. Would you like me to be murdered Krauser like Marcus?"

"More than anything?"

"More than saving your partners life?"

"What do you mean?"

"I know that she betrayed you and Wesker. But now she will have to deal with Nicholai."

"Nicholai? I thought that I killed him?"

"Oh but you did. But you also know that the dead can come back to the living as well."

"What the hell did you do?"

"Nothing that you wont care about. I'm sure that Ada is already dead. I want you to work for me Krauser, and it's not a question."

"The hell it isn't. Now why the hell do you want me?"

"So I can have the Las Plagas just like Wesker and the H.C.F. I want the power Krauser and you are the only living thing with it."

"Sorry to disappoint you old man. But, I'll be killing you now."

"Not likely. Give Wesker my condolences."

"For what?"

"Why the death of your partner of course."

Spencer pulled a tranquilizer gun out from behind him and shot Krauser in the neck. Krauser stumbled back through the little door he made. That stumbling gave Spencer enough time to once again go through a secret door to a heli-pad.

Krauser ripped the dart out and went back to the elevator. He jumped back up the shaft and saw Ada shooting at Nicholai's now alive body. Krauser ran to them both and pulled out a blacktail handgun, he began shooting Nicholai as well. Nicholai turned his body towards Krauser and began to walk at him. Krauser threw his gun to his side and pulled out his combat knife. He ran up to Nicholai and stabbed him in the heart and pulled it out. Nicholai still stood and hit Krauser with his now unbroken arm. Krauser stumbled back a bit. Ada started shooting again, but the Nicholai ran up to her stuck her in the face, which struck her unconscious. He was just about to grab Ada again when something started talking.

"The self-destruct sequence has been activated. All employees must evacuate immediately. Repeat the self- destruct sequence has been activated. Five minutes until detonation."

"Old bastard." said Krauser.

He shoved Nicholai out of the way and grabbed Ada. Then he ran for the door as fast as he possibly could go. He ran down the hallway and jumped down the flight of stairs that they had went up a few minutes ago.

"Two minutes until detonation."

"Shit."

He kept on running until get got to the front door. He ripped in open and ran for their car. He opened the door and threw ada in the back seat. He jumped in the driver's seat and turned the key in the ignition. He sped off as fast as he could and a large blast could be heard and felt. He looked in the rearview mirror and saw that the building had exploded. He also saw that where the car was parked, a large chunk of concrete now resided.

"Well now this sucked. I hope Wesker isn't gonna be too pissed about the old bag of bones disappearing, also that damn Russian Houdini. How the hell did he come back? I broke his neck for god's sake. He must have been infected with something."

Just then Krauser's cell phone started ringing. He grabbed it, read the name, and then answered it.

"What?"

"Did you find Spencer?"

"Yeah, the crazy fuck shot me with a tranquilizer gun. Then I got upstairs and magically the Russian was alive again."

"Really?"

"Yeah really. The bitch is in the back seat unconscious. I didn't know if you wanted us to come back or not."

"You might as well. It's not like your going to find them anyway."

"Fine. Wait, do you want us to find Burnside and Birkin?"

"No."

"Why not? Is it part of your plan?"

"Precisely."

"Alright. It'll be a while before we get there."

Before Wesker could respond, Krauser hung up and threw his phone in the passengers seat. He looked behind his shoulder and saw the unconscious Ada.

"Stupid bitch, now I gotta carry your dumb ass around too."

"Shut the hell up Krauser."

Ada's body moved a bit and she flung her arm over her eyes.

"And how was the meeting with the living dead?"

"Stupendous, just like the last one."

"I'm just wondering, how the fuck did he do that?"

"No clue. But the dumb bastard sure can hit hard."

"Not to imply that we're doin' anything, but I need a room. That damn tranq is gettin' to me now. And I'm sure that your dumb ass can't drive either."

"Fine by me. Plus I kinda wanna wash off where he hit me. It kinda creeps me out that he touched me."

Both sit in silence and laugh a little. Then they realized who each other was and then immediately stop.

"This turned out to be one helluva trip."

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Safe House

Claire had both of the men follow her down the stairs into the basement. Leon was right behind her and Steve was at the rear. Once everyone was down Claire gestured them to sit on the couches. Leon took one couch, while Steve took the other. Claire stood in front of them with her arms crossed.

"Alright guys, we need to talk."

"I'm over you, so we don't really need to talk." replied Steve

"My ass Burnside. I saw the way that you looked at her."

"Oh shut up Kennedy."

"Make me asshole."

"I wouldn't want to do it in front of Claire."

"Guys, will you please just shut the hell up!?! I want to talk to you two and you're making it even worse."

"FIne."

"Fine, go on sweetheart." said Leon sweetly

"You guys need to stop your childish behavior. Leon, this is a major turnoff. And Steve, this is making our friendship go rocky."

"Turnoff? But Claire!"

"You heard her Kennedy. Turnoff."

"Anyway. You two need to stop, Steve, I didn't like you like that in Antarctica, I'm sorry but I didn't share the same feelings. And if I did would you think that I'd wait for a dead person for six years?"

"Not really."

"That's right Steve. I love Leon, and nothing is going to change that. It was like we were meant to be all along. It was fate that we met in Raccoon City. After yours and Ada's "death" we got even closer because we lost someone we cared about to Umbrella. I'm sure that you'll find someone out there for you Steve, but it isn't me and it never will be."

"I understand Claire, and I'm sorry."

"It's alright Steve."

"Claire, I didn't mean to say those words to you right before I died. And I apologize for it. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go check up on Sherry."

"Ok Steve. But wait!"

"What?"

"I want you two to shake hands in front of me."

"What?" blurted out Leon

"Yeah what?"

"I want to see that you two can get along."

"Alright Claire." said Leon

The two men walked to each other keeping their distance. Leon lent out his hand first and Steve grabbed it. They both didn't break the eye contact that was between them. Their grip started tightening and tightening until Claire saw the struggle between the two.

"Alright you freaking dumbasses break it up! Steve go find Sherry and see how she's doing. And Leon sit on that couch because I have to still talk to you."

Steve walked up the stairs and Claire followed him. Once he stepped out of the door Claire quickly shut it and locked it.

Claire walked down to her husband and saw a flicker of fear fill his blue eyes. Claire walked over to the couch and straddled her husband. She placed her arms around his neck and pulled him in for a kiss.

"Don't hate Steve honey, please don't."

"I don't know Claire, he was working with Wesker."

"I know, but still. Sherry was with Wesker too. Do you want to kick her out as well?"

"Come on Claire, there's a difference between Sherry and Steve."

"Leon. If this continues then I will refuse to sleep with you."

"What?"

"I don't sleep with men who act like children."

"But you've only slept with me. You were a virgin when I met you."

"And now I'm not. But still, I don't like the way that you're acting. You act like when Chris and Carlos were fighting over Jill. And then when Carlos was fighting over Rebecca with Billy."

"You know, Carlos just doesn't really have luck with the ladies anymore. For god's sakes, he's hitting on Ashley now."

"Just be glad that he never hit on me."

"He'd be dead almost instantly. By either Chris or me."

"This is true."

"Alright baby, if you want me to tolerate Steve then I will."

"Good, I know that you two will be friends."

"I said that i'd tolerate him. Not befriend him."

"Oh you."

Steve walked into the living room and over ten pairs of eyes flew in his direction.

"Awkward." Thought Steve as he looked at all of them.

"I'm uh... I'm gonna go find Sherry."

Steve quickly darted off to the stairs. He flew up them and into a long hallway full of doors.

"Uh Sherry?" called Steve

"In here!" screamed Sherry

"Which one?"

"The farthest one on the left!" screamed Rebecca

Steve walked down the hallway passing each room. The house was pretty big and there were five rooms on the floor. He could see though the open door at the end of the hallway, it was apparently the bathroom. He walked past the rooms and ended up in front of the open door with Rebecca and Sherry in it.

"Where does everybody sleep in here?"

"Billy and I share this room. The room directly across is for Carlos and Barry. The one next to this is Jill and Chris's and then the one across from them is Claire and Leon's."

"Oh, then where do the other's sleep?"

"Ark and Lott sleep in the basement. Ashley and Lily in the living room on the pull out couch. While Bruce and Fongling sleep in the downstairs bed room."

"Where are we gonna sleep?" asked Sherry

"In the attic, there's pull out stairs in the ceiling. It's in the hallway out there. They have a couple of beds made for you up there. Claire made sure you had clean sheets and stuff. It's pretty nice up there actually. There's lots of room, but when we do look out we have to go up there. So don't have us catchin' you two kissin' up there."

Sherry's cheeks immediately changed into a deep crimson color. While Steve's only turned slightly pink.

"Ah you two, I'm just kidding! Oh Sherry, try to get some more rest now. You just seem a little stressed out, nothing to worry about right now. But if it worsens I'll have to look again."

"Alright Rebecca thanks!"

"You can't just call me Becca for short."

"Alright! I'm gonna go see Leon and Claire!"

"i don't know if you wanna do that chica. I hear them though the vents and it sounded like they were mating." said Carlos as he walked in.

"WHAT?!?"

"Nah, I'm just kidding you. Hey Steve, we need you to pull your car into the garage and then you can get your crap out. If Becca hasn't told you, you're bunkin' in the attic."

"Yeah I heard."

"Good, Chris is gonna do some more look out while you're out there."

Steve walked out of Rebecca's room and saw that the stairs were already pulled down. They both walked around them and went down stairs to the front door.

"Hold up man, we gotta hear when Redfield is ready."

Carlos pointed to the ceiling and looked up. Then Steve heard three loud thumps and looked over to Carlos.

"Alright, now Ark is gonna open the garage when you pull up to it. Once it's open you can park inside and get your shit out. You get it?"

"Yeah, yeah."

Steve walked out of the house and got into the car. He stared it up and went up to the garage. He saw it open and drove inside the spacious four car garage. He placed the car in park, popped the trunk and got out. He was then greeted by the man who drove the Denali at Chris's house.

"Heya guy. How's it going between you and Leon?"

"Good."

"That's great! But I have to tell you something, if you ever try to score with Claire or kill Leon, then I'll kill you."

"Loyal to Leon huh?"

"You betcha, also if Leon does mysteriously die, I'm next in line for Claire."

"I'll take note of that."

Steve pulled out only a single duffel bag from the car and shut the trunk.

"You better. Hey wait, how come you only have one bag?"

"We didn't have enough time for Sherry to pack. I was already packed for somewhere else before I got her out of there."

"I see, well I'm sure that we have some girl clothes somewhere. The whole house is filled with women."

"That is true."

"You better get goin' I bet Sherry's waitin' for ya."

"Wait, what?"

"Oh then I assumed wrong."

"Assumed what?"

"I though that you two were together." Ark placed his two hands up and weaved the fingers together.

"Oh, wait! NO. We're just friends."

"Oh. I see, well. Stay away from Claire and the other women!"

Ark walked out of the garage and went into the house.

"What the fuck was that clown talking about?"

Steve walked into the house and went upstairs. He walked to the pulled down stairs and climbed up. He saw that the attic was very spacious. He went towards the two twin beds, he sat his bag on the floor and laid down on the closest one.

"Hey that was gonna be my bed!" screamed Sherry in a irritated voice

"Shut up and let me sleep. I haven't slept in days."

"FIne. Well I'm gonna go take a shower and borrow some clothes from Claire. So I'd better say goodnight now. Or you might be asleep when I come back. So goodnight Steve."

"Goodnight Sherry. Hope you have a nice shower."

"I hope so too. I haven't had one in a couple of days!"

"I know because you reeked in the car."

"I did not bastard. Anyways goodnight!"

Sherry walked down the stairs and Steve turned over on his side and stared at Sherry's unoccupied bed. He grunted and then turned back over and shut his eyes.

A/N: It's finally done!. I was a little quicker with this chapter. Which is always a plus in my book. I've been replaying my Resident Evil's again try to get more ideas for my story. While playing them I have gotten absolutely no ideas from them! Oh well, I'll still continue playing them for fun, they are after all my favorite games. I found out that the damn licker in RE2 that busts through the two-way mirror still gets me after all these years. I knew it was comin' but I still couldn't help but jump, that's one of the good things of these games. They still surprise you even though you know what's comin'. As always any complaints/ ideas just message/ review. Thanks to those who reviewed once again.