A/N: DarkGothElegantGirl22: Yes she is! Afterall, she's spent so much time around him something has to rub off. It makes them a perfect pair, in a sense. Not a healthy pair but still. I hope you'll stay around for Part 2! The real fun between the two of them starts there.

Hey all! It's been a fun ride. This is the end of Part 1. Part 2 will be truly AU and if you hate AU this can be seen as a stand alone. Either way, enjoy!

Curtain

A greater power than we can contradict

Hath thwarted our intents

Romeo and Juliet 5.3

The hot liquid burns his mouth, scalding away the memory of her. Wesker spits the scalding water out into the sink, not bothering to watch it circle the drain. It wasn't enough. He is almost tempted to reach for the hydrochloric acid in the cabinet, the wild panicked feeling still holding him by the throat.

Almost. No Jill, you cannot make me fool enough for that.

Dark hands grip the sink, tall body bowed over it. Hellfire eyes reflecting ruefully in the mirror from a blood smeared face, normally perfect hair wild.

His tidy soul can't help the reflexive wince. Such disorder...all from one stupid girl.

Bitch. Why? Why did she have to...?

Dully glowing eyes screw shut, rage focused inward. He could have killed her. Would have, he wanted to so desperately. To wipe out her flawed stain on his plans, on himself. Ripped out her intestines, left her gore to mingle with the lesser creatures she had destroyed.

The sink begins to crack, porcelain unable to take the strength of his fingers.

He can see it, her broken body. An end to this torment.

Except...

"No. I can't. Sometimes I think the same."

Why did he ask? What stupid impulse had driven him? To demand an answer he didn't even really care to know.

If she hadn't said just that, without any recrimination or reproach, he could have kept squeezing until her jaw had the hero gone? The girl who called him pathetic, goaded him?

Why the fuck did she have to kiss back?

If she had fought...if she had struggled, begged him to stop...then it would have simply been another thing he could take from her. Another lesson about the rights of Godhood.

But she hadn't. Her lips had been so soft, so responsive... Vicious and yet gentle.

Fuck it had felt good. So good. Fuck. Fuck.

The sides of the sink crumble. Feline eyes give the cabinet a long look. He reaches for the rubbing alcohol.

Fuck.

Anything to burn the memory of weakness away.

Albert Wesker does not need.

The jarring vibration of a cell phone in his coat pocket startles him, almost making leather fingers slip.

"Wesker."

Pale lips scowl fiercely. The churning inside of him must wait.

Chris Redfield has arrived.

He takes a swig out of the glass bottle, spitting viciously into the ruined sink.

Fuck.

The sand is winding down in his hourglass. He can feel it.

The helicopter's blades slice the air, loud enough to deafen.

Jill can barely hear them, gaze stuck in the fiery heart of the volcano. With him, the one who had meant so much for so long. Defined her.

What now?

P30 isn't there to hold the tears and the screams in. Instead of the explosion of emotions Jill had expected is only a strange sense of loss.

A lack of purpose.

Chris and Sheva murmur in low voices as the metal bird touches down. The pretty African girl as wild and beautiful as her country.

I can finally rest. Why is it not enough?

Her lips still tingle, a burning memory she won't look at yet. An admission ripped out, a dark part of herself Jill is afraid will surface again.

A part far too much like him for her comfort.

As the blades slow and the dust settles, she lets Chris help her down from the helicopter. A black cat runs out of the grass toward her.

A wandering soul who could not pay the Ferryman.

"Hey kitty, what are you doing here?" Chris reaches a hand out to stroke black fur.

Will I see him in my dreams?

For once she is glad Al has Wesker's eyes.

The hour of departure had arrived and we go our ways - I to die and you to live.

Which is better God only knows.

-Anon

Part 2 is called The Fury. I made it a separate story since this can be a stand alone if you're sick of reading my crap. :)

I hope y'all join me for the rest.