Chapter 11: Traitor

Their search to locate weapons and a way out proved to be difficult in the cold depths of the water treatment facility. Rebecca could only laugh at Billy. He had a nose for gun cabinets, and they were able to find two Glocks with ammunition, along with a hunting rifle that Billy shouldered right away. Rebecca was able to restock her first aid supplies at another box they found in a room. By this time, they felt exhaustion coming back to them. The sleep that they managed to get only seemed to wear their bodies down more, as it seemed they were craving more.

"What kind of teenager are you? You are supposed to be used to staying up for a couple days without sleep," Billy sighed as they reached yet another door in what was becoming the same sights in the plant over and over again.

"My all-nighters don't tend to have monsters and running and shooting and almost drowning while cascading down a rapid sewer river though," Rebecca answered dully. She paused when she saw a set of restrooms in the hallway. "Mine were usually spent studying…and studying…on yeah, and let's not forget studying."

Billy chuckled. "Mine involved alcohol and…I forget…"

Rebecca peered at him incredulously. "How the hell did you make into the Marines?"

"I didn't say anything about those being before the Marines, did I?" Billy chuckled. "Why the hell are you wiggling so much? " He then sighed and glared down at her. "…You have to pee, don't you?"

"No!"

"Yes, you do! You look like my five year old niece! There's a restroom right there, doll face! Go already!"

Rebecca glared at him, holding up the handcuffs. "Are you going to escort me, Mr. Convict?"

Billy heaved a sigh. "You are going to make me cover my eyes…aren't you?"

"Yep!"

They entered into the women's bathroom, relieved there were no zombies or monsters occupying it. Still wiggling, Rebecca went straight for a stall, and tried shutting the door, but it only smacked Billy in the face.

"Nice try," he chuckled.

"Just…close your eyes damn it!"

"But I need one arm to let you move and one arm to hold my gun just in case a monster-"

"Billy!"

"Alright, alright! Don't pee your pants, princess, I was only joking, sheesh. Just go before you damage your bladder."

After successfully, and awkwardly, going to the bathroom, Rebecca washed her hands and they moved on. They finally came upon a small elevator. Relieved to see that it still worked, the two entered and hit the button to the top floor that it would go, hoping that it would get them closer to where they had been before falling over the railing into the sewage drainage system.

The elevator music played on crackly speakers as the elevator shuttered and moved up several floors for them. Rebecca could have sworn she saw Billy trying to hide a smirk at the music that was so ridiculously out of place. The doors dinged when the elevator settled, and they slid open for them to exit. Billy had his gun ready and they cautiously exited the elevator. Slowly, the ventured out, turning right immediately. There was a wall in front of them, and rubble built up to their left. Right was the only option to go. Billy led the way, gun aimed and ready as they took cautious steps.

A large octagon platform sat silently in the musty depths of the facility. The yellow cable car was practically rotting away with rust and grime. There was a panel beside it with a keyboard. Studying it, Rebecca saw that the platform was locked. Looking up, she saw an open floor several more stories up. They needed to get the platform to go up.

"Look! There's another elevator and some doors!" Billy said, pointing with his gun.

They moved across the platform to go check it out. Rebecca wasn't enthused by the looks of the area. It was starting to remind her of some kind of laboratory or something. She quickly shook her head as they paused in the intersection. Ahead just a couple of meters was the elevator. To their left was a set of electric double doors that were locked. Beside them on their right was a normal door that looked to lead to an office, probably for the platform behind them.

"Well, want to check the office for anything useful and then try the elevator?" Billy inquired.

Rebecca nodded. "Yeah, sounds good."

Before they could move their feet, they heard a humming noise coming from ahead of them. It was the elevator, and they grunted just as it slipped into this place on this floor with the light blinking. Billy cursed under his breath and they darted for the room just as the doors dinged. Billy shut the door to the office right behind them, trying his best not to slam it. The office was empty of life but there was a desk, a computer, lockers along the far wall, a closet, and a key hanger that had several keys hanging on it. There was also a small mat in the corner. Billy and Rebecca were up against the door, their breaths minuscule as they stood rigid. There was a window just to Billy's left with blinds. He risked taking a peek, but not without hearing Rebecca whisper careful words.

"Oh shit, Rebecca! He's S.T.A.R.S!" Billy hissed.

Rebecca's eyes widened, and she quickly took Billy's spot to peek. Her face lit up immediately, almost groaning in relief. "It's Captain Enrico! I have to go to him!"

"But what about me? He'll arrest me!"

"If I just explain to him what happened, I'm sure he won't! Now if it was Captain Wesker, it would be a different story, but Enrico will listen to reason! Besides! He might have some handcuff keys!"

Billy groaned, shoulders slightly slouching. He moved out of the way from the door. Rebecca put herself to go first, seeing that Enrico was making his way towards the octagon platform. She opened the door, slowly letting it open. Though she did it quietly, the door still squeaked, and Enrico spun around with his gun aimed.

"Captain Enrico! Don't shoot! It's me!" Rebecca yelled, waving her free arm.

Billy reluctantly followed her, not that he had a choice with the handcuffs over to her captain who now had his weapon trained on him. Enrico gave Billy a hard stare, dark mustache twitching resentfully and cool, stony eyes watching his every move.

"Rebecca! It is good to see that you are alive! But why the hell are you with him?"

"Captain, I can explain! Billy is misunderstood! It's all been a ruse!" Rebecca tried to explain frantically.

"I bet he is playing you for a sap," Enrico growled.

Billy glared at the older man. "He has a name."

"I should arrest you right now," Enrico retorted, reaching for his belt.

"Don't we have a lot more things to worry about?" Rebecca insisted, getting in between Billy and Enrico.

"Shit! I lost my cuffs and keys when I got attacked by one of those clawed frog things!" Enrico cursed.

"That's just great. We were hoping you had the keys," Billy sighed, lifting his arm.

Enrico looked at the handcuffs and how they were linked to Billy and Rebecca. He kept his weapon on Billy, but his eyes went to Rebecca, who slightly blushed under his gaze. "Please don't tell me you tried to arrest him by yourself and this is what happened."

"No! It's not like that! It was an accident," she quickly answered.

Enrico sighed. "Alright, I guess the two of you better come with me so when I meet up with Richard I can properly arrest Billy. The last thing I need is embarrassment when I meet up with Wesker and the Alpha Team."

Rebecca's eyes lit up. "Wesker is heading in with Alpha? That's great! We need them! But...wait…where's Kenneth and Forest?"

Enrico lowered his eyes, shame showing itself on the features of his face. "Dead. Richard is the only one left that I have been able to keep a hold of. And you, thank goodness."

"So that just leaves the three of us," Rebecca mumbled, her shoulders sagging. First Kevin, then Edward, now Kenneth and Forest. How were they ever going to survive this?

Enrico peered at her worriedly. He twitched his lips, and tried to smile as if trying to reassure her. "Hey, don't worry, Rebecca. You are doing great, and I promise Wesker and the Alpha Team will help us get out of here any moment. In fact, I am going to go meet Wesker right now. He was able to send me a short message over receiver to meet him in the sewers that run beneath the mansion about a mile away. I wasn't able to get a response to him, but he may be stuck down there. In that case, you need to come with me."

"There's more?" Billy growled. "That's just great."

"What does it matter to you?" Enrico snorted. "Wouldn't you rather be sitting in jail than out here getting chased by these damn demons?"

"Not likely."

"Please! Captain! You must hear me out! Billy is a good man! He didn't murder those people! He saved my life countless times! He was framed!"

"Do you have proof?" Enrico asked, looking to Rebecca.

"Well…no, but-"

"I'm sure he only saved your life because your body is connected to his by a pair of handcuffs. I doubt he would want to drag your body around down here," Enrico growled, glaring back at Billy.

"That makes no sense," Billy replied icily. "If I wanted to kill Rebecca, I think I would have done it before the damn handcuffs were on! Besides, it's not too hard to cut a limb off is it? Like I'm about to do to you."

"Oh really?"

"Stop it! Billy, you aren't helping me or yourself!" Rebecca barked. "Captain Enrico, please believe me!"

Enrico chuckled, shaking his head. "Do you know what Wesker would do to me if I just let this convict go? Hell no! I am not taking the chance! You can whine your story to him when we meet up. At this point, Wesker might just put a bullet in Coen's head and say he was a zombie." Enrico glared at Billy again. "I would, but it isn't my place to do so."

Billy snorted. "Do you wipe this guy's ass for him while you are at it?"

"You listen here you-"

Enrico's threat was cut short by a loud, man-like howl. Jumping, Rebecca spun, hearing that it had come from across the platform where she and Billy had emerged from their elevator. There was the sound like that of a wall exploding. Soon, they were met with a horrible sight. A tall humanoid figure with white glistening skin was walking for them. It had a permanent grin on its face from the lack of lips, and the eyes burned with a fire, like a primal flare. The heart was on the outside of its chest, thumping in tune. There were strange purple and red veins sprouting from several areas of its sexless body. One arm was normal length; the other barely didn't drag the floor from the foot and a half long talons that replaced its fingers.

"What the hell?" Enrico barked, re-aiming his weapon.

By this time, Billy and Rebecca aimed their handguns as well and started firing. The bullets pelted the thing's body, but it only angered it to the point that it rushed them with a hungry roar. They tried aiming for the heart and head, and that seemed to do much more damage, but it put the humanoid monster into a berserk mode. Billy and Rebecca barely ducked at a lethal swipe of the talons. It immediately turned at Enrico's shots and went for him.

"Enrico!" Rebecca called.

Billy ran after the tyrant, dragging Rebecca along with him. Enrico's back hit the wall, and by that time he ran out of bullets. The monster raised its arm to strike the Bravo Team Captain down, but Billy rammed it with all his strength in the side. The tyrant stumbled back, almost losing its footing. Rebecca aimed and fired several more rounds into the thing's heart before it yowled out and collapsed dead.

"Of all the messed up shit we've seen!" Billy spat, looking disgusted.

"I know! This is horrible, Billy!" Rebecca gasped.

"This is all Umbrella's doing," Enrico informed, coming over to them after reloading his gun.

"Yeah, we know," Rebecca answered softly. "They…are doing horrible things. We have to get behind all of this…make them pay."

Enrico turned to Billy. "You…saved my life."

"You're welcome," Billy mumbled, glancing down to Rebecca.

Enrico took a moment to study the two of them. There was a certain way that they were looking at each other. He could see Billy's eyes so clearly now. The way he looked at Rebecca told Enrico all too well that Rebecca was speaking the truth about him.

He rubbed the back of his neck, slowly swallowing his pride and hoping he was doing the right thing. "Look…I'm gonna choose to pretend that I didn't see the two of you. Rebecca, if you say Billy isn't a murderer, then I believe you."

"Yes!" Rebecca exclaimed.

"But Wesker won't be so easy," Enrico added quickly, making Rebecca's shoulders slump. "I will go to the sewers to meet him on my own. How about you two take that elevator up to the surface of this facility? It's a small walk through the woods to the mansion. Rebecca, you should try to find Richard, or even Alpha Team. I won't mention this meeting to Wesker, if you don't mention it to him or the others either. With that said…please be careful, and make the choices you think are right."

"You mean…with Billy?" Rebecca added, lowering her eyes for a moment. "Like…what I should do about him?"

"Just be careful, especially if you meet up with the others and you are hauling Billy around like that. But…I do insist for the sake of your career, that you do something about him or the way you two are handcuffed before Wesker sees you. But I guess it really doesn't matter… most of Bravo is already gone…and it is all my fault."

"Don't say that, Captain Enrico. None of us were expecting this. Captain Wesker will understand. I mean, by this point Alpha Team are having to go through what Bravo Team did."

"Yeah, you're right. In that case, we better get going. Be careful, Rebecca."

"You too, Captain!" Rebecca called, already feeling an ache in her heart. She also felt sick, like a dark sense of foreboding was coming over her as she studied her supervisor. It was like she was never going to see him again.

Don't think like that! Enrico is going to find Wesker, and then they can meet us in the mansion and we can all get the hell out of here!

"Billy, I really don't know much about you…but I can tell that you really care for Rebecca. Please, take care of her."

Billy nodded solemnly at the Bravo Team captain. "I will with my life."

Rebecca smiled up at him, it only broadening when he ruffled her hair. Enrico twitched a smile. "Good. Tread carefully. That elevator will lead you to a large control room. There were lots of leeches swarming the place so be careful. From there, you will find a large, metal bulkhead that you need to open up to lead to a large elevator platform. According to the map I found, it should take you up to a hangar on the surface that you can use to escape to the outside."

"Thank you, Captain Enrico!"

He nodded, turning and heading for the elevator that Rebecca and Billy had came up in earlier. Billy and Rebecca watched him go, and then slowly turned to make their way to the elevator. Rebecca felt elevated to know that they were getting close to making it out of here. Though, she knew she had to turn around and find the next mansion, it wouldn't be so hard. She would be looking for her comrades. But the sick, dark feeling in her chest didn't go away, and she looked over her shoulder just in time to see Enrico get into the elevator and disappear. She frowned, having a sudden bad feeling about their separate ways.

"What's wrong? You are white as a damn ghost!" Billy asked, pausing at pushing the button to the next elevator.

"I just…have a bad feeling that I won't be seeing Enrico again," Rebecca mumbled, feeling hurt. "Maybe we should have gone with him."

"He'll be fine. He's gonna find that Wesker guy and they will meet you and the others back at this mansion."

Rebecca snorted, remembering a joke that Forest told her. She decided to help ease the pain that was swelling in her chest; she would try and mock him for his sake. "Yeah, if anyone will be cool in the craziest situations, it's gonna be Captain Albert Wesker."

"Are you alright?"

"Sorry, I was just trying to joke like Forest. Let's go before I keep worrying."

Billy slowly nodded, turning to push the button to open the doors, but then he suddenly paused. He looked down at her, blinking. "Wait, what?"

"Huh?" Rebecca asked, confused.

"What was his first name?"

"Who? Captain Wesker? It's Albert."

Billy grinded his teeth, looking back to where Enrico had left. "This…Captain of Alpha Team doesn't happen to be blonde with blue eyes, does he?"

"Wow, Billy that is a good guess! Well, I don't think I have ever seen him without his sunglasses, so I am kinda unsure about his eye color-"

"Shit!"

"What?"

"That asshole is a traitor!"

"What?"

"James Marcus's documents had him in it along with that Birkin guy. He always said Albert and William, but there was also documents saying their first name with their last initial…you know Albert W and William B. I even saw a picture I think…but it was from years ago."

"So? What does that have to do with Captain Wesker? He isn't the only man in the world named Albert, and the last time I checked, he wasn't a scientist either."

"Do you know the man personally?" Billy growled, turning to face her.

"No, not really…but you don't either."

Billy heaved a sigh. "You think it is just coincidence?"

"About what?" Rebecca asked, growing slightly annoyed. "That some guy that worked for Marcus has the same initials as Wesker?"

"Why are you so protective?" Billy snorted. "I'm just trying to point out something fishy when your boss is on his way to meet this guy alone."

"Because Wesker formed the S.T.A.R.S himself. True, that he can be kinda strict or harsh, sometimes even scary or cold, but we are all very good people dedicated to protecting and helping others, even in the most dangerous situations. Wesker has the best reputation out of all of us combined. We all respect him, and he respects us. He is a good leader, and he deserves his success because he has helped so many people. Wesker may be a lot of things…but he isn't a traitor."

Billy was stunned by the hurt in her eyes. He could feel that it wasn't so much Wesker that she was hurt about, no. She was hurt about the fate of her comrades. It was S.T.A.R.S in general that she was hotly protecting, and she was using Wesker as the strong frame to hold it up because of what he was within it. She did not want to hear that the man who gave her this generous position and formed S.T.A.R.S was the cause behind Bravo's termination.

Slowly, Billy decided to drop it. It didn't make the sense of suspicion and doubt in his mind ease, but he didn't want to upset her. He dipped his head at her, closing his eyes and hoping he had seen or read wrong somehow. That it was just conspiracy theories haunting him like what Regan did to him in the Marines.

"Alright, I understand. I'm sorry," he said.

There were tears threatening to spill from her eyes. Rebecca furiously rubbed them away, glancing back to where she had last seen Enrico. She heaved a sigh, shaking her head at Billy.

"It's fine. I'm alright. You are just trying to help. Let's go."

Billy didn't say anything, just pressed the button to the elevator. The doors slid open, and the handcuffed man and woman entered the elevator in silence. Rebecca lowered her eyes when the doors shut and the elevator stared moving up.

Wesker is a lot of things…but he isn't a traitor…but why do I feel that Billy could be right?

A/N: Holy snickerdoodle! I finally updated this story! XD Sorry for the long wait, and sorry for it being kinda short! So, here I am now trying to decide if I can continue this story past Resident Evil 0, and make Billy tag along with Rebecca into Resident Evil 1! Hmm, very interesting! That could surely add lots more chapters! If I don't end up doing that, then this story only has like three chapters left! D: Hmm, poor Enrico doesn't know what he is getting himself into going to go meet up with Wesker! Rebecca's feelings hold true, she won't be seeing Enrico again...poor sucker! And wow, I think this is one of the few chapters that William doesn't make an appearance lol! Thanks for reading and reviewing ya'll! Yes I said ya'll, do ya got a problem with that lol? XD Thanks!