Tormented Little Angel
-Music for the Soul-
III
Trinity walked into the S.T.A.R.S office happily, even whistling a merry tune. Inside, Joseph, Brad and Chris were spread out in chairs, groaning from hangovers.
"Stop whistling!" Chris shouted and grimaced, regretting shouting as chipmunks with toothpicks stabbed at his brain.
Trinity just snickered and sat down, "Aaw, poor Chris, and here I thought I'd be nice enough to bring in some hangover cure, but..."
There was barely a second before all three men were in front of her like obedient dogs, pleading eyes looking at her for mercy. She laughed again and took out a small container, inside were white pills. Handing one out to each of them, she instructed them to have one with water and watched them rush off for water.
Shaking her head with another laugh, Jill walked over.
"Hey, do you want to go to the shooting range?" she tapped the guns at her hips.
Trinity went wide eyed before jumping up, "what are we waiting for then? Let's go!"
Following Jill, they entered a large room that was by far longer than wider. There were separate cubicles with barriers either side to stop bullet shells hitting someone beside the shooter. There were targets held up in the air by a pulley system that could be changed, moving the target further away or closer.
Standing in one, Jill moved to the one beside her and she slipped on ear protectors and protective goggles. Both of them set their targets in their sights. Trinity held her desert eagle handgun with both hands, keeping her gun steady. The lights overhead flashed green and she shot at her target. The recoil made her hands jolt from the power of the gun but it didn't stop her as she shot again and again, her face oddly serious once she held a gun. They stopped once their magazine was empty and the targets were brought back in. Trinity smiled at hers, she'd hit major shots to the head and heart but a few had moved to the chest but she wasn't overly picky.
Another hour of shooting passed before Trinity had the feeling someone was watching her. Sliding off her ear protectors, she turned to see Wesker stood there watching silently. Wesker inwardly smirked as she blushed once again, this time from embarrassment. Jill joined her and they faced Wesker.
"There's a riot downtown, we need to stop it before it gets worse."
Moving swiftly back upstairs, Trinity asked how they would stop it.
"Arrest any getting out of hand, the others should just leave after that," Wesker said simply.
Soon enough the S.T.A.R.S members were rounding up those who had started the riot, handcuffing them and taking them into the station. Trinity had hold of a man who kept struggling and swearing at her. Finally her temper burst.
"Carry on and I will shoot your crotch off," she growled and he shut up.
She wore a triumphant smirk when the same tactic worked on any man that carried on resisting. Chris heard her at one point and winced, avoiding her for a while. Jill however laughed with her over it as they tossed in another couple of rioters. Wesker moved past them with a large muscled man. He had tattoos all over him, even across his bald head and round his brown eyes. He glared, cursed and generally threw up mayhem as Wesker pushed him forwards. It was when Wesker grabbed a man who had tried to trip him up that Trinity noticed a glint in the muscled man's hands. Her eyes widened at the sight of a gun.
"Captain!" she shouted.
Wesker looked up at her before turning quickly to see the gun aimed at him, the man glaring.
"See how you like it asshole!"
Luckily Chris was behind the man and tackled him to the ground, the gun sliding across the floor. He punched Chris off him and scrambled after his gun but a female boot stood on the gun before he could grab it. He looked up to see Trinity glaring down at him evilly, cracking her knuckles.
"Attacking from behind? That's just cowardly."
Later that day Chris was sat laughing as he ate his ordered pizza.
"Then he tried to run for it but Trinity kicked him where the sun doesn't shine!!" Chris retold the story to Joseph and Brad who winced but laughed.
"Seems like Wesker's got himself a guardian angel," snickered Joseph.
"Chris!" Trinity ran in, her hair a mess, "have you seen my guitar?"
He thought for a moment before pointing under a far desk. Trinity thumbed up and dove under the desk before resurfacing the other side of it holding up a guitar covered in black, red and gold vinyl.
"You play?" asked Brad curiously.
Trinity nodded, "and I feel in the mood for some music," she sat tuning the strings for a few moments.
Giving it an experimental strum she was happy with the sound. Strumming a few random chords and notes, she listened carefully but it was perfectly in tune. Sitting on the desk she had previously dove under; one leg was propped up on the desk, the other hanging off limply. She leant her head back thinking of a song to play before one came to mind. Chris said she better sing too. Smiling she started strumming chords quickly, her hand almost a blur along the fret board. Her voice rang out beautifully.
"There is a darkness
I check my habit true
I can't erase it
Believing you'll come back to me
Now it's the notion
Just between you and me
(You got me urging)
No waiting out anymore
I'm in a maze of fears and sorrows
Save me from here
So somebody please
Desire burning out of control
I sacrificed my pain
To satisfy myself
Don't wanna lose your love
Instead I deal in lies
Your soul is worth a shot
To satisfy my soul
I'm calling out your name
Because of you I know I feel insane..."
Wesker sat in his office looking through folders - bored - when he heard music floating through the open crack of his office door. Intrigued, he opened the door and looked out to see Trinity sat on a desk playing guitar expertly. When she started singing he couldn't help but feel something deep inside him stir. Her voice beautiful, blended perfectly with her music, and the lyrics seemed to ring true. He stood there as entranced as the three men sat watching her in awe; Wesker noticed something else in Chris' gaze. Longing, and he had to suppress a growl in his throat.
"Sacrificed my pain
To satisfy myself
Don't wanna lose your love
Instead I deal in lies
Your soul is worth a shot
To satisfy my soul
I'm calling out your name
Because of you I know I feel insane
To satisfy myself
You're killing off my heart
It's why I give it up
This soul is worth a shot
To satisfy my soul
But never reach again
All I can do
Is always feel my pain."
As Trinity stopped, the guitar trailing off, she opened her eyes that she had shut once she'd started singing. Looking out at her audience she smirked.
"I got you all speechless," she breathed on her nails and made as if to clean them on her shoulder, "I still got it!"
Joseph and Brad were clapping furiously, Chris smiling warmly as he too clapped. Trinity caught movement and watched curiously as the Captain's door shut. Had he watched her too? For some reason the idea made her smile.
Bowing to her audience, she noticed the time, "I think its time for me to head home!"
Chris stood, "I'll walk you back."
She looked at him oddly; she could walk home without incident so what started this? Mentally shrugging she smiled and pushed him out of the door, "see you all tomorrow!!"
"Night Trinity!" the two called back.
Once out on the streets of Raccoon City, they walked in silence mostly until they came to Trinity's apartment. It ironically wasn't far away, the only reason she arrived late for work was because she never got up on time. All attempts at using an alarm clock resulted in it being smashed against the wall.
"See you tomorrow Chris," she smiled.
"Good night," he smiled warmly down at her, he was taller than her after all...then again so were most people...
Trinity nodded and made to head in when Chris suddenly pulled her back and enveloped her with his arms. She barely had time to gasp as his lips were pushed against hers. He wasn't rough, it was actually quite sweet. He slowly parted from her lips and looked down at her as she looked at him.
"See you tomorrow..." he whispered before walking away.
She stood there for another moment until he was gone.
"What...just happened?" she blinked confused.
Managing to use her confused brain to get herself into her apartment and lock the doors, she changed into black pyjamas and flopped backwards onto her bed, staring at the ceiling.
'I thought we were just friends?...Brother and sister, not...' she threw the blanket over her and buried her head under it, "why does he have to make my life more confusing?!"
"I suppose though..." she finally mumbled as she closed her eyes, "it could be a good thing...someone finally loves me..." the thought brought a smile to her face before falling asleep, thoughts of a man swimming through her head, and it wasn't Chris.
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