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okay, this time no thank-you-stuff again. so just read on and enjoy the new chap. ^^
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~"Rain...?"~
The woman froze on the spot as she heard Alice call her name. Her dark eyes snapped to look directly in the direction of the blonde.
Alice couldn't believe her eyes.
It was her! Before her stood Rain Ocampo!
She had been a member of the unit, which had been sent to the Hive to search for the reasons of the events down there and destroy the main computer of the laboratory, called Red Queen. But she died like the rest of her team. Or at least that's what Alice had thought until a few seconds ago. She had seen how the other woman died down there, shot in the head. How could she be standing here?
A feeling of guilt crawled it's way up in her, as Alice remembered how Rain had fought against the virus after she got infected. How she wanted to sacrifice herself to save Alice and Matt. How Alice had failed to give her the antidote in time and how Rain finally turned into one of these monsters so Matt had to shoot her.
The picture of Rains dead body leaning against the wall of the train with an ugly bullet hole in her forehead, was crystal-clear in Alices mind as if it happened just a few minutes ago. The shock was clear on her face.
„You know each other?" Diago asked in a surprised tone. Like everyone else in the room he looked back and forth between the two women.
The angry look Rain had, as she stepped into the infirmary, changed into mild surprise. She raised an eyebrow as she looked to Alice. But a biting pain reminded the woman of her previous reason why she came to the infimary in first place.
„I guess you could say that...", was Rains dry answer as she tried to ignore the pain.
Blood soaked her clothing from her left shoulder, down the arm and dripped from her fingertips to the floor. The cloth, which she pressed onto the wound didn't help much anymore, but she still held it just to keep the feeling of still being able to do something about her wound. So the latino woman simply ignored the questioning and irritated eyes that followed her and went to one of the free loungers. There she sat down, as Sam immediately rushed to her.
„My dear, dear sister... I am deeply hurt! You had a girlfriend before me and never said a single word to me about it? Shame on you!", the younger girl dramatically scolded and pretended to be offended. Rain's piercing gaze shot to her immediatly and the young girl was silenced by it.
The Redfield siblings and K-Mart abruptly looked at Alice. The blonde, however, seemed spellbound, her gaze fixed on Rain, as if she couldn't realize that the other woman was really here in the same room with them. And above all, alive.
Rain still glared daggers at Sam. When the younger girl grined and opened her mouth to say more, Rain stopped her.
„First of all: YOU are not my girlfriend! Second: SHE is not my girlfriend!...", Rain nodded in the direction of Alice . „And third: Shut the fuck up and help me already, crazy-girl!", she spat annoyed to the younger one.
„Just fun, sis! Don't be so grumpy.", Sam grinned amused and helped the older woman out of her ruined and bloodied sleeve. Diago shook his head even though he had to grin a little, while Alice and the others didn't quite know what to say to this.
After Rain's shirt was taken off, Alice immediately noticed the severe gunshot wound in her left shoulder. Luckily it looked like the bullet had gone right through it.
But then something else caught the full attention of the blonde: Because she was only in a black sportsbra now, bite marks were clearly visible on Rains right arm and her neck. The places where she was bitten by infected people down in the Hive, had left noticeable scars on her skin.
Alice seemed to be not the only one who noticed this, because in one swift movement Chris pulled his gun and pointed it directly at Rain, his finger already squeezing the trigger slightly.
„Stay away from her. She's infected.", he ordered Sam, who was already busy to take care of Rains wound.
Chris's gaze fixed the dark eyed woman. He was not someone who was easily frightened, but the annihilating sight of this woman sent a slight shiver down his spine as he aimed at her.
„Well spotted, genius.", Sam just replied and looked at Chris with a warning glance. He did not move and kept his aim.
„Now take the gun down and chill out, would you?", she said slightly annoyed by his action, as she turned back to Rain to supply her wound.
„Don't worry, she's one of the good guys.", Diago confirmed calmly, as Chris lowerd his gun slowly with a skeptical look in his eyes.
„However..." Diago said after some moments in which everyone seemed to be lost in their own thoughts of this situation. The only sound came from Rain, she hissed a few times in pain as Sam took care of her shoulder.
„Alice, Chris and K-Mart, right? How about it, if I show you around a little bit? Nathan would certainly like to see you, too."
„I'll stay here.", Chris replied immediately. To leave his sister alone near an infected person didn't sound like a good plan in his eyes.
Alice finally managed to take her eyes from Rain and looked at K-Mart. „And you?"
„I'll come with you.", replied the younger, because all this aroused her curiosity, especially since it was a good distraction from the events at the Arcadia.
Alice nodded and went with K-Mart to Diago, who stood at the entrance of the infimary.
„And Rain... maybe you should come to Nathan too, when you're finished here. Soren is surely ranting one of his lectures down right now.", he said.
Rain rolled her eyes in pure annoyance and ran her free hand through her hair, as she looked back at Diago.
„I swear, someday I will..."
„...do nothing. Remember: always remain peaceful.", Diago interrupted her calmly.
„Yes, peaceful like a koala bear!", Sam said with a grin.
Rain looked at her and raised an eyebrow in pure disbelieve. „Koala bear?..."
Before Alice followed Diago and K-Mart out of the infimary, she looked back again. Her gaze met Rain's. The other woman just looked at her with an inexplicable look. Yet Alice reconized anger in Rains eyes, but she couldn't tell whom this anger was aimed at. Suddenly the other woman cut the eye contact and looked to Sam.
Rain had survived the Hive. But how? She had received the antidote to late. Matt had shot her down. But if Alice had known that she was alive, she wouldn't had left the other woman down there in that hellhole.
„So you know Rain?", again the blonde was ripped from her thoughts by Diagos voice, when she walked next to him through the underground colony. But she didn't pay much attention to her surroundings.
„Yes..." Alice just said.
„From where?" asked K-Mart curious.
„She... We have tried to prevent the outbreak of the virus... I've thought she was dead..."
„Ah, so you where in the Hive, too?" Alice looked a little surprised to Diago, that he knew something about the Hive.
„I don't know the whole story, but Rain once mentioned that she belonged to a special unit of Umbrella, which was send to this lab beneath Raccon City, from which the virus escaped. But that's not one of her favorite topics, since she'd lost her friends down there and apparently became what she is now..."
„One of these undead things?" asked K-Mart.
„Oh, don't call her that if she's around you. She has a short temper, especially when it comes to this... But no, she isn't one of them... not completely. Nobody knows how it happened or works, except of herself maybe, but it seems that even if her body is kind of undead like the infected ones, she has a human mind. There are guesses, that she was maybe an experiment of Umbrella, but i doubt that theory. Rain just said, that she couldn't remember. I guess she just don't want to talk about it... But important is the fact, that she isn't one of these undead."
„It seems, that some didn't share that thought..." guessed Alice.
„You mean Soren? Yes, he never was on good-friends terms with Rain, because he thinks that she's a high risk for all of us and dangerous. But after an incident some time ago he really hate her and tries to get the people against her to get her out of the colony."
„What kind of incident?" asked the blonde.
„Well... it's better you ask her that question, not me." said Diago and looked serious about it.
„But if she isn't undead, what is she?" asked K-Mart this time.
„Well... Sam once came up with the term half-life..."
A memory crossed Alices mind and she wasn't really listening anymore...
She injected the antidote to Rains arm.
„I don't wanna be one of those things, walking around without a soul..."
„You won't."
„When the time comes, you'll take care of me, right?"
„Hey, no one else is going to die, okay?"
She gave Rain the antidote back in the Hive. Maybe it was to late to cure her completly, but it seems that it still had an effect on her infected body. So Alice herself did that to Rain and kind of saved her, but left her down in the Hive.
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i really had some fun writing this chapter, since i like sam a lot. i thought i don't do everything ultra serious and try to put some fun-parts into the story. ^^
so i hope you liked it so far.
see ya!