24 September 2007

Well our motorcycles are gone. I had some weird psychic dream that I was running through a building that looked like the mansion I shared with Spence but then when I walked through the door I was suddenly in the Grid Room of the Hive, then after I survived that I was in a hospital trying to get outside. There were traps at every step. A giant guillotine like trap dropped from the ceiling and while that didn't get me, a mini machine gun popped up from the floor when you stepped on the pressure platform. I got shot in the stomach and as I lay there dying someone in a white biohazard suit walked up to my body. A voice I had hoped to never hear again said "Take a sample of her blood..." Dr. Isaacs "and then get rid of that." Followed by a "Yes sir." From one of the Umbrella agents. Then I was carried to a moving platform that came up to the surface where the agent dropped my body into a ditch… With hundreds of other bodies. I also dreamed of Angie and the others. They were together exploring a motel and L.J. was talking about getting a Jacuzzi and making the others laugh. They split up to search for anything useful when gunshots were heard and they all ran in to find L.J. struggling to not be bit when Carlos shot it. Just in time too or else L.J. would've been infected. I thought it was just a dream but as everyone headed back outside Angie turned around and stared at me. "Where are you Alice?" she asked me. "We need you. Please come to us." Then Ben woke me up. They're near here. I can feel Angie. I want to go to them so badly but I don't know how they'll take it. Will they be angry at me? Angie said they needed me but it seems like they're doing just fine. Besides would they even get along with Ben and Jules? Would they even get along with me anymore? We've all changed so much. Angie is all grown up and learning how to survive. No I can't go to them. They are still better off without me around…

Alice finished writing in her journal as Ben stretched and noisily yawned.

"Morning sleepyhead." Alice said smiling.

"Morning." Ben replied in a deep, gravelly voice. Looking around he noticed that Jules was nowhere to be see. "Uh… Where's my sister?" he asked siting up.

"We saw a large amount of crows circling over there" Alice replied pointing to where Ben could just see small black dots moving in the sky.

"I thought we should be avoiding birds, not heading towards a massive group of them." Ben said rolling up his makeshift bed.

"We should be, but if they're circling something then it's probably alive and may need help." Alice said standing up and dusting off her pants.

"And how exactly are we going to help whatever it is from hundreds of infected birds?" Ben said squinting in the bright dessert light.

"I…" Alice was about to reply when a voice suddenly cut it

"Alice? Ben you there?" Jules said

"What the…" Ben asked looking around.

"Walkie-talkies we got from the gas station." Alice said holding two up and throwing one over to Ben. "Yeah Jules we're here. What's going on?" Alice asked.

"Alice flip to channel 3 and listen." Jules said.

"Got it" Alice said before turning the dial to Channel 3. Ben stayed on his sisters channel.

"Carlos" A woman's' voice whispered out.

"I see them" A deep male voice replied.

"Is that your friend?" Ben asked.

"Yeah that's him. Alice said before grabbing Bens' Walkie-talkie. "Jules?"

"I'm here Alice…" Came the reply. "Hey was that your friend Carlos?"

"Yeah that was him" Alice said.

"He sounds hot" Jules said.

"Not the time Jules." Ben cut in. "What's happening over there?"

"Right sorry." Jules replied. "You guys won't believe this. There's hundreds of them. They're everywhere."

"Be careful Jules. Use one of your walkie-talkies and keep track of what they say on channel three. It might be important" Alice said

"Careful. Got it. You guys should probably get over here though" Jules said

"Yeah on our way" Ben said into the Walkie-talkie. "So we're going to go save your old friends?" Ben asked grabbing his stuff and turning to Alice with a wide smile on his face.

"It seems so." Alice replied returning the smile and messing with the volume on her Walkie-talkie, listening to station three, to Carlos's groups' station.

"…And keep quiet." A woman's voice said.

Alice and Ben held their breaths waiting to hear what happens next.

"Fire it up. Let's get out of here" The woman said.

"That's a hell of an idea." Another voice said.

"Alice hurry the crows are…. Oh god they're stuck! Alice! Ben!" Jules' voice rang out from Ben's Walkie-talkie.

"We're coming as fast as we can!" Ben yelled back. Alice and Ben dropped their bags and sprinted across the desert as fast as they could.

Seconds later Alice and Ben appeared over the sand dune and ran straight to Jules who was laying on her stomach snipping any crows who got too close to the convoy.

"Ben stay here with Jules!" Alice called out as she ran towards the convoy.

"Alice NO!" Ben yelled grabbing her. "What can you possibly do there that you can't do from here?!" Ben asked pointing at the Convoy then at the ground below their feet.

" .God." Jules whispered. Alice and Ben looked to see one of the Convoy members had started up a flamethrower, seconds later being killed by 20 or more crows, causing the flamethrower to spin wildly out of control. Just then Alice spotted a dark haired man chase after a teenager who was running from a flock of crows when the flamethrower spun in their direction.

"NO!" Alice screamed and ran towards the two, stopping in front of them and focusing on the flames with all her concentration.

"What is she doing?" Ben asked Jules who watched in awe.

"She's using her power to control the flames. Look she's wiping the birds out!" Jules said pointing.

"Alice?" Ben called when he noticed her swaying, he also noticed the other man approaching her. "ALICE!" Ben yelled when he saw her collapse, the other man getting to her first and cradling her in his arms.

"Alice!" Jules called running after Ben and going onto her knees when she neared them.

"Ha I can't believe it" The man said gently brushing Alice's hair out of her face. "She came back." He said with a smile.

"Carlos are you okay?" A teenage girl ran out.

"Angie what did I tell you about… Is that…" A dark haired woman walked over to the group around Alice.

"Alice." Angie confirmed. "I knew she was near us."

"How'd you know?" Jill asked. "…Wait never mind don't answer that. Stupid question. I can't believe it's really Alice." Jill said leaning down.

"What about Alice?" a badly dressed dark man walked over.

"She's here L.J." Carlos said to his friend.

"No way." L.J. said quietly looking over Carlos' shoulder. "I didn't think we'd ever see her again."

"Us either" Jill and Carlos said together.

"I knew she'd come back to us." Angie said with a smile.

"Well not that this isn't all very touching and everything but um… can you let go of our friend?" Ben said directing the last part at Carlos.

"And who the fuck are you?" Jill asked finally addressing the twins.

"I'm Juliette Clearwater and this is my twin brother Ben." Jules said stepping forward. "Who are you?"

"I'm Jill Valentine, this" Jill pushed the teenager forward" is Angela Ashford, he" Jill grabbed the badly dressed mans' arm" is L.J., and he" Jill pointed to the man cradling Alice" is Carlos Oliveira."

"How nice. Now can we…." Ben began to say but was cut off by Jules.

"Ben." Jules said glaring at her brother to silence him. She turned to face the group. "Are you trying to tell me that you are Alice's original group? The people from Raccoon city?"

"That's us." Angela said. "How do you know Alice?"

"She saved our butts a couple of years back. We both knew about her before that though." Jules said looking down at Alice.

"How?" Angela pressed.

"We both worked for Umbrella." Jules said gesturing between her and Ben. "I worked as one of their doctors, Ben worked their security. Once we saw how horrible Umbrella was and we heard about an agent who turned on them we decided to do the same."

At this point Alice begins to stir and looks around her seeing her past and her present mix.

"Alice?" Ben says kneeling next to her and grabbing her hand.

"Alice." Carlos whispers holding her tighter in his arms. "I can't believe it's really you" He says smiling down at her.

"Carlos?" Alice whispers, drowsily smiling up at him. "I can't believe it's really you." She repeats before again passing out.

Carlos stands up gracefully bringing Alice with him and begins walking towards the vehicles.

"Woah hey where do you think you're going dude!" Ben calls running after him.

"She needs rest, somewhere out of the sun, and lots of water. I'm going to take care of her." Carlos says without turning around.

"Hey you can't just…" Ben starts again but Jules walks up and grabs his arm.

"Let him Ben. You know how much these people mean to Alice. Let them nurse her back to health and spend a little time with them. What harm could it possibly do?" Jules says walking back over to Jill and Angie to talk.

"What harm?" Ben ask watching Carlos walk away with Alice…. With HIS Alice. "It could do all the harm in the world." Ben whispers to himself.

Ok phew finally got Alice to the convoy. This is about as far as I had planned in my head so now I'm kinda lost. Ben's a bit of a controlling dick now. Oops. Yay Carloooosssssss!