well well... here we go for the third chapter ^^
i'm really glad for every comment i get so i want to say thank you again to all of you who have the time to write one after reading.
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~What happened was her fault and too many had to pay a very expensive price for it. Those were, at least, the thoughts of Alice.~
K-Mart couldn't bear the heavy silence anymore, which reigned in the interior of the Humvee. Except for the conversation between Diago and Sam, who sat in the front of the car, no one said a single word.
They talked about their companion, the one Sam had called her sister, who had separated herself from them to fight Umbrella.
„Shouldn't we go back and wait for your sister?", K-Mart finally asked, just to say something.
Meanwhile Sam had removed her cloth around mouth and nose and turned to grin at her.
„Don't worry. My sister will be okay. She's the very best in ass-kicking!", Sam announced proudly.
„Okay, maybe right after Rodrigo I suppose ... ", she corrected herself in a lower tone with a thinking pose.
K-Mart didn't understand anything.
„Rodrigo?"
„Yes, once he killed a Licker, armed with just a machete...", Sam continued with a wide smile.
Alice didn't listen to anything they said. Untild the Humvee reached it's destination, after a seemingly endless ride, she had looked out the window and was absorbed in her own thoughts. She noticed that it was almost dark, so they must have been driving for several hours.
Only incidentally the blonde noticed, as the car pulled into a seemingly deserted town. The dark silhouettes of the ruined buildings made a disastrous impression, but nowhere were signs of infected. At least, no one running around.
Almost at the center of town they drove through a large, now destroyed glass front from which was no more than the frame left in the wall of a big train station. The vehicles stopped in the great entrance hall.
"You have reached your destination!", announced Sam, imitating the voice of an electronic navigation device.
Alice got out with the others and looked around. From the spacious entrance hall, which was illuminated by torches and a few lamps, wide corridors leading to other areas of the station. Directly behind the splintered glass front, were protective walls made of sandbags and even partly built of stone.
In the premises of information or shops, were some armed people and heavy machineguns for defense. Some armed men were interested in them and peered over. All in all the whole area made an improvised, but professional impression. These people had quite made thoughts about their safety.
A group of people came to Diago, Sam, and the newcomers, while some of their rescuers were busy driving the cars away. Someone came forward and spoke to them. He was probably in his mid thirties or almost fouty. Alice guessed that this man played an important role here.
„Good thing you made it. But ... shouldn't it be some more people? ", he said as his gaze went over the refugees with a mixture of doubt and concern.
"There were far more problems than anticipated ...", answered Diago with a serious look.
„Tell me later what exactly happened. First we need to properly treat the injured..."
The man's gaze wandered critically over a few of the injured.
„Who are you?", Alice asked, as the gaze of the man found her eyes.
„Forgive me, I haven't even introduced myself. I'm Nathaniel, Nathan for short. Welcome to our underground colony. ", he introduced himself and their new surroundings.
„But for other formalities we still have time later. Your injured friends should get some help first... Diago, Sam, bring them down to the infirmary."
The group followed the two colonists to the entrence of the metro under the train station, whose paths were divided among the entire city. The tracks were apparently removed some time ago, that the people could walk without problems with simple winching equipment along the tunnel. A sturdy ramp leading from one platform to one of the paths, where once before the subways stopped. The serious injured or weak people sat down on the carts, which were drawn by other helpful colonists.
They walked silently down the way, until they stopped at another metro station not far away from the first one under the train station. They went back up a ramp to the platform. Not far away from this platform were premises where a infirmary had been set up.
After they arrived Sam and some other colonists wasted no time to help the injured people. Chris stayed with his sister while she was taken care of. He and Alice were treated once more professional, too.
It took quite a while, until the bullet was out of Claire's leg and her wound was taken care of the best of what was possible.
„Well... that's it. You shouldn't walk around so much from now on and change the bandages regularly.", Sam finally announced.
„Thank you very much.", answerd Claire relieved, because she feld a little better now.
Even if the girl was apparently a little crazy, so did she a good job when it comes to first aid. At first the redhead had been a little worried when Sam told her that she would 'cut the shitty bullet out of the leg'.
After Claire was taken care of, Alice turned to Diago. The blonde and her friends wanted more information about this underground colony. After what had happened to the Arcadia, this seemingly safe place just seemed too good to be true.
„Nathan can explain everything much better than me. He founded this colony some time ago, when he got tired of running around from one place to another like some hunted animal. After the whole shit went off with the virus he, like many others, lead a group of survivors through the land and searched for food and stuff. Until he wanted to start anew at some point. And his plan has worked well so far." told Diago.
„When did he try to start the colony?", asked Alice.
„I don't know for sure, because me and some others joined the colony about two years ago. But Nathan said that he started all this about four years ago."
Alice's eyes widened slightly.
Four Years? These people lived here for about four years without that Umbrella had noticed anything about it? If Umbrella had known anything, they probably would have razed the colony to it's grounds. Let alone they wouldn't have invested the time and effort for the Arcadia trap, when here was a place full of uninfected people.
But how could it work? Umbrellas satelites would have caught such a crowd of people. Alice suspected, that far more people lived down here as she had seen until now. And how they had survived all these years, if they had not traveled and searched for food?
A forceful voice outside the infirmary took Alice out of her mind.
„...Diago and Sam have done it perfectly alone, they were safe!", an annoyed female voice was heard.
„If they could've done it alone is not the point! The point is, that something like you isn't allowed to walk around alone!" a man's voice shouted back.
„If you're affraid, that I could attack someone, then... tsh... you know what? Fuck off already!"
„Either you go out and take care of it or I'll shoot that bastard a second or third asshole !", said Sam gloomily and put a hand demonstratively onto her Uzi.
Diago sighed slightly as he turned away from Alice and her friends and went out to the two arguing people, which the others couldn't really see because of the misty glasses of the infirmary.
„Please go, Soren. Leave her alone.", interrupted Diago the argument .
„You idiots should have had an eye on this freak!..."
Alice could see how the smallest of the three figures, the woman at issue, apparently made preparations to attack the guy called Soren, but Diago held her back.
„Just let it be.", said Diago conciliatory to her.
„We're not finished yet, bitch!", snapped Soren and went away.
„If this guy goes on with this, then...!", cursed the female stranger.
„Stay calm, he isn't worth the effort.", Diago tried to calm her down, as they turned towards the entrance to the infimary.
Alice didn't know why, but the voice of the woman was familiar to her. Her brain was working at full speed, as she shifted through old memories to recall a face to the voice.
As Diago finally entered the room with the woman, Alice's eyes went wide out of pure surprise and disbelieve, because the memory came back immediately. This female stranger wasn't unfamiliar to her at all.
„Rain?..."
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okay i guess some of you already guessed that rain is part of this other group. i was a little tired of the idea that she survived the hive and went along with alice through the other movies or something. i was thinking: hey, what would be if rain maybe survived the hive (how will be explained later ^^) but alice was gone and they just meet again after all these time?
well... i hope my idea doesn't just sound interesting in my ears ^^