Chris Redfield

"What do you mean they're having martial problems?"

My words echoed throughout the dead quiet diner as the waitress warmly gave us our breakfast plates and gave us her usual Christian blessing. While I held no belief in one single deity I still loved the plump little woman's spirit: she was so warm and motherly. Too bad most Christians didn't like her or they would be even more believers out there. Like apparently this lovely couple that had made like bananas and split apart!

I could see Claire struggling to think of her next words but my sexy partner (take it however you wish) bluntly stated "It was something along the lines of opposite personalities to the extreme."

"That and they were looking for two different types of relationships."

"Let me guess she felt she was being neglected for his work," Jill never missed a beat. I picked up the coffee cup waiting for Claire to confirm when suddenly she said something that startled not me but also Barry, Jill, Rebecca, and poor Sherry!

"No, it was the other way around. Plus it seemed like she wanted to get a little bit more rougher but he wasn't willing to draw blood."

"What in the Hell?!"

"Sherry!" My sis always treated the poor eighteen year old like she was still ten. Sigh, that's never good.

"What?! I mean, that's just gross," the blonde pointed out firmly. We all nodded except for Claire who just frowned.

"They have their issues but I think this is a great way to kill three bird with just one single pebble."

Barry's big bushy eyebrows raised ever so slightly as he asked "What do you think will happen?"

"Well, Leon will find his purpose all over again since any reason to take him, the main survivor, back to Raccoon City and help him settle his demons there. Plus they will be around forced to deal with their problems and will get back together."

Without missing a beat Rebecca asked aloud "What happens if Leon just gets worse from jealously over not having anyone? Or worse they all go away angrier then before!?"

Silence fell over us like a wet blanket and we all began to wonder. I looked up from my very interesting empty coffee cup to see in a clockwise order starting with my sweet little sister to the Jill next to me.

Claire wore a mask of quiet sorrow showing up in a frown line between her eyebrows, Sherry looked close to neither crying or cussing, tender-hearted Rebecca seemed to be lost in unhappy thoughts, in his typical old man manner Barry grunted animatedly mulling over all the possible outcomes, and then there was Jill.

Clean cut brown hair tickled her ears as her eyelashes fluttered with the heaviness of all her thoughts. For so long she had held onto her own broken heart that she didn't even like to think of the broken hearts of others. It was then that she did something that snapped the world back into motion while sending chills of love throughout me.

"It's simply: we will not under any circumstances let them fail. Even if it takes me the rest of my days to complete the first really important mission in so long."

Yup, that was my girl! As she said this a single ray of sunshine spilt the shadows in the diner in two warming us up enough to laugh and joke about!