Claire Redfield

I walked down the halls of my school, Sherry and Jake on my left. "So, any plans after school," I ask them. "Uh sorry Claire," Sherry sighs, "We..." "Don't. It's okay," I smile. "Sorry," she smiles in return. "How's Leon and Ada, since you know, they hate me now," I say. "Well... Ada broke up with him," Jake almost laughs. "Good," I smile. "You going to go after him now," he asks. "Uh, no! He doesn't even want to be my friend anymore," I explain. "Yeah, but he's cute. You could convince him," Sherry smiles. "But I don't want to," I say with a straight face. "Come on Claire," she smiles. "BUT... I... DON'T... WANT... TO..." I say slowly so she understands. "Whatever Claire, I'll see you later," Sherry and Jake head into their class. I don't even know what they had. I had Health, which was a bullshit class and I couldn't believe I had to take it again because the school messed up my credits. I didn't mind that much. It was an easy class.

I enter the class to learn the seats had been changed. I'm next to Dave Johnson. I've never talked to him, nor have I seen him around, but he doesn't look like a freshman. Everyone else in the class was. I take my seat and he says a polite hi. He was cute, but I wasn't looking for a guy. After a few minutes of class, and a few attempts to sleep, Dave says something. "You have a brother?" "Huh," I ask not really sure if that's what he really asked. "Do you have a brother named Chris," he asked again. "Oh! Yeah, how'd you know that," I ask. "I know his friend Piers, we've hung out before," he smiles. "Really! How do you know Piers," I interrogate him further. "I knew Jill first, went to middle school with her. We randomly saw each other at the club and she introduced me to Piers," he explains, "You're a freshman?" "No," I yell. I couldn't have anyone thinking I was one of them. "I'm a sophomore, they messed up my credits so I have to retake this stupid class." "That's crazy! Me too," he smiles. "Really," I ask with a happy surprised tone to my voice, "What year are you?" "Junior, same as Jill," he reminds me. "Right! Middle school together," I say. How stupid of me.

After class ends, we walk out together. "So, any plans after school," he asks me. I was usually the one to ask that. "Not really," I shrug. "I was going to hang out with your brother, Jill and Piers, wanna join us," he asked. "Sure. Nothing else to do," I joke. "Cool, I'll meet up with you after," he says and we separate through the halls and make our way to our next few classes. Lunch comes and I'm sitting with Sherry, Jake and Leon. He didn't talk to me, but he was still there. We're all talking, excluding Leon, and Dave comes over. "Hey Claire! And friends," he smiles. "Hey Dave," I smile, "What's up?" He shrugs, "Can I join you guys?" "Sure," Jake shrugs. He takes the seat next to Leon and across from me. "Guys, this is Dave. He's a friend of my brother," I introduce him. "Nice to meet you," Sherry smiles. "You're a junior," Leon asks. "Yeah, went to school with Jill Valentine. You guys know her too," he asks the group. "Yeah, we've met her before," Jake says, "She's pretty hot!" Sherry punches her boyfriend and Dave and Leon both laugh. I smile. Dave was cool, I guess he'd fit in with my group of friends, but I'm surprised he's with us at all.

Jill Valentine

FUCKING SCHOOL! Why can't you just end?! It's only October and I already want summer to be here. Junior year is the worst! So much work, and college stuff! I want sophomore year back, so bad! It's lunch now luckily. If I had to wait any longer, I'd shoot myself. Chris is waiting outside of advisory for me. "Hey babe," he smiled before leaning down to kiss me. "Move," Piers shoves us both out of the way. We were standing in the middle of the doorway, blocking the rest of my advisory from leaving. Chris and I both laugh before following Piers toward the cafeteria. Forest and Richard are waiting at the table. "Hey guys," I smile as we walk up, Chris' arm is around my neck. "Took you guys long enough! Got your food already," Forest says. Five trays laid on the table. "How'd you even...? Never mind," Piers decided not to finish. No one really cared. We were just happy to have food and not wait on that ridiculous line.

I look around the room as I eat and notice Jessica is sitting with Excella and Ashley again. At least she found some friends, even if I wasn't too happy about who they were. She's also sitting with a guy, his hair is in a little flip to the side and looks like it's defying gravity. It also is a burning red color that isn't natural for anyone. Claire's hair was a similar color, but this kid's was a lot brighter. I return to eating and chatting with the group, but at one point Chris, Richard and Forest all go out for a smoke. I stopped doing it that often, I just got over it. Jessica and the boy come over. "Hey Jill," she smiles. "What's up, Jessica," I ask with a bored expression. "I just wanted to say I liked your outfit. Did you find it at goodwill?" I roll my eyes, "Your friends take you back and you become a bitch again?" The man pushes her back, "Don't talk to her that way!" I smile and stand up, he was trying to intimidate me. He needed to learn that I don't take that shit, and he needed to learn quickly. He was taller than me, not by much though, not like Chris. When he came back, this kid would shit himself. "And who the fuck are you," I ask. "Raymond Vester. Jessica's boyfriend," he says looking down at me. I let out a small laugh, and Piers is now standing next to me, "New kid's here for a month and you're already whoring it out to him?" "Hey! Fuck off," he says standing between me and Jessica. "Fuck you," I say looking right at him. "I'm from Detroit," he says. "And you think I care," I ask with a smile. I thought that was funny, using Detroit to scare me? He grew up in a shitty place, cool. But with a hairdo like that... He wasn't a threat.
"You should care," he says. Does he not realize I'm not taking him seriously? "I've taken on guys twice your size. Why don't you just leave," I ask. I'm talking about the senior last year. "She has," Piers agrees. "Oh, the gay kid's going to defend you," Jessica laughs. "And you're dating a guy who's clearly gay," I ask with the same fake bitchy voice she'd just given me. "Watch it," Raymond says. "Just leave. I didn't start this shit," I yell. "Yeah," Piers says. "What are you!? Her dog," Raymond asks. "I've been called worse," Piers shrugs. "Let's go," Raymond takes Jessica's hand, "We'll be seeing each other again." "Suck a dick," I yell. "No offense," I whisper to Piers on the side. "You bitch," he laughs. Chris and the others return as if on cue. "What was that," Chris asks. "Nothing, just Jessica returning to her asshole self," I take my seat. Lunch ends and on with the rest of the day.

Chris, Piers and I walk outside the entrance of the school. "So are we picking up Dave," Chris asks. His arm is around my neck. "Nah, he's meeting us here," Piers says. "Shit," I just realized something, "I left my jacket in my locker!" Chris sighs, "Well go get it!" "One of you come with me," I argue. "Ugh come on," Piers yells and we run back inside. We reach my locker a few minutes later and I enter the combination, grabbing the leather jacket and locking it again. I loved this jacket, even if Jessica was the one who gave it to me. I threw it on and we began running back through the halls to catch back up with Chris. Halfway there, the hallway is empty and all the sudden Jessica steps through a door. "Jill," she smirks. Piers and I stop running. "Problem Jessica," I ask rudely as I try to walk past. "Uh, yeah there is," she smiles as that Raymond kid steps out of a class room. Soon two kids come from a classroom behind us. They definitely planned this out, but I had to admit it was dramatic and badass looking. I'd be better if the people who came out weren't jokes, but either way. "Just leave us alone," I suck my teeth and begin to walk further. "Not so fast," one of the guys behind us grabs me. "Hey," I yell from the shock. He has my hand behind my back, his arm around my neck holding me in place. Piers moves to assist, but Raymond punches him in the face. "What the fuck," I yell. Raymond smiles. "You two shouldn't talk to us like you did back in the cafeteria!"

"Fuck you," I yell. He laughs and kicks Piers while he's down. "Come on fag. Let's see what you got," Raymond laughs again. I see the anger on Piers' face and watch as he stands up. He swings his arm and Raymond dodges. Piers can't really fight with one arm. "Are you seriously going to fight a cripple," Piers laughs. Raymond throws another punch, this time he misses and Piers grabs his arm the best he could and twists. I smile at Piers' effort, Raymond lets out a small noise, it sounded like he was in pain. Good. My smile quickly fades when Raymond grabs Piers' head and slams it into the lockers lining the wall. "Piers," I yell trying to run for him, but the guy is still holding me. "Where you going," he whispers in my ear. I grit my teeth before sending my head back and it collided with his jaw. It fucking hurt, but got him to let me go. Raymond's now punching the shit out of Piers, who is now bleeding. "Get off of him," I scream throwing him to the side. He stands up quickly and punches me in the face. "Shit," I yell as I recover. He comes closer to me, and I stand up straight. He looks down at me and I jump on top of him. Raymond doesn't fall over like I'd predicted but I wrap my legs around his waist and just keep sending punches colliding with his head.

He stumbles backward and makes my back hit the lockers. I'm surprised that all this noise didn't alert any teachers. I fall off and onto the floor. The pain shot through my spine. Raymond walks off toward Piers, and as he stood over him I jumped up without even thinking. I found myself on his back this time, digging my teeth into his neck. It was all I could think of. I taste the red liquid in my mouth and that's when I release. Piers looks up at me, a little bit of fear in his eyes. I jump off of him and Raymond limps over to Jessica. "You're fucking crazy," he yells. I spit the blood out of my mouth and onto the floor. I look back at the other two boys, who look terrified. "Run," I yell and the two do. I extend a hand to Piers and help him up. "Thanks Jill," he pants. "You okay," I ask. He seems to be examining his face with his hand. "Yeah, just a busted lip..." he sighs. "He bashed your head into a locker, you sure you don't want to get checked out," I ask. "He did the same to your back," he says. "Fine... Let's just go see Chris," I sigh and we both semi limp toward the entrance. "Piers," is the first thing I hear yelled. It's Dave running over to us, he was facing us, Chris facing the street. Chris turns his head and looks scared. Did we look that bad? "Piers! Jill! What happened," Dave asks. He takes hold of Piers' face and begins to examine the damages. "I'm fine," Piers says. He sounds like he's out of energy. "Shit! What happened," a girl's voice asked. It turns out to be Claire, what she was doing here I didn't know, but I didn't really care. "You okay," Chris asks. "Yeah, I'm fine. We were jumped," I begin to explain. "Jumped? By who," Chris asked. "Jessica... And that asshole Raymond Vester," I sigh. "Vester? That guy from Detroit that thinks he's all that," Chris asked. "That's him..."

"Piers, you're bleeding," Dave looks actually scared. "I'm fine, it'll heal," Piers sighs. "Where is he," Chris asks. He suddenly shifted to his crazy protective mode. Hadn't seen him this excited since the whole Carlos thing. "Don't worry... I took care of him," I said. "What did you do," Dave asks. "She fucking bit him," Piers smiles. "Really," Chris asks. "Yeah..." "How hard," he asks. "I stopped when I tasted blood," I tell him honestly. "Holy shit Jill," Chris laughs. "Well, he was going to hurt Piers... He already bashed his head into the lockers. I didn't know how much more you could take," I shifted to talking to Piers. "It was pretty cool of you Jill," Piers winks. I laugh. "You are the worst person to get in a fight with," Chris smiles. "Yeah, I know. Everyone should've known that from the senior," I say. "I don't think we should hang out now," Dave says. "I'm fine," Piers pushes Dave back. "I know... But you guys need to relax," he says. "I can relax while shooting targets at the gun range," I smile. "Well, I'll take Piers home," Dave says. "Ugh," Piers yells, "I'm okay!" "I know," Dave sighs, "But I want to make sure. She said your head was hit into a locker? That could give you a concussion, let's just make sure." "Fine..."

"Mind if I come with you two," Claire asks Chris. "No, Jill," he asks. "Sure," I shrug, "I just need to blow off steam!" Piers and Dave say their goodbyes and walk toward Piers' house. Claire, Chris and I head to Chris' car and drive over to the gun range, where Barry was waiting happily. "Hey guys," a huge smile covered his face where his beard didn't. "Give me a shotgun," I yell. "You sure," he asks. "Yes," I yell. "Okay," he says a little scared. I grab it and head into the actual range. "What's her problem," I hear him ask the others as I walk into the other room. I fire off a bunch of shots before Chris and Claire join me inside. Shooting does help, especially when all the targets are Raymond and Jessica in my mind. How the fuck did that all happen?

A/N: So, after a long wait, here's chapter 20! More connections to Claire, some Piers and Jill badass-ness and maybe Claire will find someone later on. Think the Piers and Claire thing was scrapped... Not sure yet...