Resident Evil 3: Regeneration
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This story is, obviously, lesbian, and I might be drawing
my own conclusions about how certain things work here, hopefully it
won't be too bad. I've used a possible Swedish translation error for
this story - the translation says "You are " this and that "like your
BROTHER AND SISTER" (in regards to Alice and Nemesis), but I am unsure
if the English line actually says this or if it ends "you are like
brother and sister.". I prefer it this way though, since the
possibilities are nice.
In this story I have replaced Olivera with Terri Morales as a surviving
member of the team. If you will, imagine that Jill Valentine did all the
things Olivera did in the end of Resident Evil 2. ;)
ARCHIVING: Only with the permission of the author.
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Eight days had passed since Alice's spectacular escape from the Umbrella
Corporation with the aid the close-knit group that through trial and
fire had become something more than just friends. In their own way, this
scarred and ragtag group of survivors had become family.
Eight days had passed since Alice's awakening and the events that
followed. Seven days since Jill Valentine and Terri Morales went from
just being ridiculed in media for the tape containing Alice's story to
being wanted criminals sought by the police. Four days had passed since
the lot of them, Alice, Jill, Terri, Angie and L.J, managed to get out
of the city and hole up in the unlikeliest of hideouts – an old
abandoned Umbrella Corporation research facility no further away than a
five hour drive from the city itself. And finally, one day had passed
since the transport that, in the extension, was supposed to take the
group out of the country had missed the appointed time.
One day since this odd family of ... rebels? Heroes? ...had gone from
the already present and adrenaline-pumping frenzy to something edging
dangerously close to hysteria.
Well, some of them anyway.
Terri and L.J were convinced they saw dead people, monsters or
SWAT-teams in every shadow, and Jill had tripled her efforts to not only
reassure the other two but also keep alert and keep the perimeter safe.
Unfortunately for the put-upon former S.T.A.R officer, the one she
relied on the most... no, the one they ALL relied on the most to keep
them safe had suddenly stopped her efforts to do the same.
When half the day had gone by since the appointed time, Alice had simply
nodded and turned to her young shadow, Angie, as calm as can be: "They
are coming. I won't run." An almost inhumanly calm blink at a young face
that also did not reveal any anxiety. "You?"
Angie had, predictably according to Jill, refused to leave as well, the
two of them making it clear to Jill, Terri and L.J that they were free
to go if they wanted to. Naturally that meant no-one had left, and Jill
was ready to scream in frustration because Alice had abandoned all
attempts at keeping battle alertness and Jill could not seem to shake or
scream or taunt any sense back into her. Instead Alice just spent her
time sitting near Angie, staring out into space.
Waiting.
Until the evening on the tenth day, when Alice suddenly stood, cocked
her head to the side, and informed in a voice that lacked any of the
urgency that by rights it should have held. "They're here."
None of the alarms Jill had rigged surrendered a single squeak of
warning, but they had all seen the super-human abilities Alice possessed
in action before and so, without question, they raced towards the
surface alongside the tall blonde.
Alice herself seemed in no hurry, as keeping their pace with her
frightfully enhanced physique equalled something like a companionable
jog. It got on Jill's nerves sometimes, the ease by which the other
woman did near impossible physical feats without even once appearing to
notice that it was not something not even Jill herself, with all her
physical conditioning and training, was capable of. The seldom used
psychic abilities were worse though, and left all but Angie, who had
manifested quite a few herself, shivering and uncomfortable.
Which was not to say that they did not have their uses, or that any one
of them had any hope of escaping Umbrella without all the inhuman
'gifts' the company had bestowed upon their unwilling recipient Alice.
Angie's abilities were the result of a near lifelong treatment with the
T-virus at her father's hands, and although perhaps the Umbrella
Corporation had their suspicions regarding the only child of the genius
that created their precious virus, it was fairly clear to everyone that
they had not yet grasped that what they had there was something akin to
a child version of their much coveted Alice.
They reached the surface all too soon, and there, in the dying light,
awaited a sight that was the only thing Jill Valentine could have
imagined that would have been slightly worse than having the entire area
surrounded by a teeming mass of T-virus-infected undead.
There were very few soldiers, strangely enough, only a few standing
guard next to the aircraft and then perhaps half a dozen scattered
around a familiar and impeccably dressed male. Spotlights were turned on
as soon as the group set foot on the concrete area that was the topmost
part of the compound, and the lights outlined a horror standing alone in
the centre of the concrete field, immobile and waiting.
"Alice!" Angie hissed, suddenly sounding frightened after all.
"I know." Was Alice's quiet reply, along with a small silencing hand
movement. The blonde turned her head to pin Jill with a stark stare from
over the shoulder, a brief flicker at the child by her side, then back
to stare at Jill again. Jill swallowed hard and nodded, carefully
pulling Angie to her and backing up several steps as Alice stepped
forward.
At the same time the man in the suit spoke up, his voice carrying clear
across the distance with the help of loudspeakers on the aircraft behind
him. Long, sinewy muscles tensed, and the tension began rolling off
Alice in waves. Gone was the supernatural calm, replaced by barely
contained animal energy.
"Alice." The words spoken were tainted with a smarminess that the man
might not even have been consciously aware of, and a smirk that was as
plain to hear as it was to see on his face despite the distance. "Your
playtime is over. It is time for your final exam. Are you ready?" The
man was amusing himself, and Jill glared at him in Alice's place. Alice
did not take her eyes off her opponent.
"You failed your first test, against Nemesis." There was fake regret in
his voice at those words. "But we... fixed that glitch in your
programming, didn't we?" He nodded as in reply to himself. "You are
quite precious, Alice... we have such plans for you. But you need to
pass this test. There won't be a third chance for you."
"Either you succeed this time... or your sister takes your place." He
lifted his hand displaying a black remote. "Program ALICE, begin end
phase. Initiate... program KALI." He pressed the button.
The figure that Alice had slowly been advancing on suddenly shook, once,
violently. Then with the hiss of released air the seamless black surface
of the bulky thing covering the creature's head, torso and arms revealed
cracks. With a small clicking sound, the cracks became interlocking
parts that, with a grating metal noise, slid apart and fell heavily to
the ground.
The lone figure standing there, unmoving as it watched Alice's suddenly
halted approach, was... not what Jill Valentine would have expected.
Short, a fair bit shorter than the tall Alice but also some shorter than
the more average-height Jill, but quite a bit wider in a dense
muscularity that, in other circumstances, would have suggested a
lifetime of hard physical training. Bronzed skin, what appeared to be a
leather outfit, and longish black hair tied tightly behind the head in
something that appeared to be part ponytail, part braid, and all
punishment.
Suddenly the figure moved... rolling her head from side to side as if
working out a kink.
"Ahhh... that's better." A husky voice purred, and then the woman opened
her eyes to give Alice a heavy-lidded gaze and small lopsided grin. "Did
ya miss me, babe?"
A brief, winsome and almost involuntary smile stole across Alice's
features. "Only every day, Rain."
The two no longer human women grinned at one another and began slowly
circling, their eyes never leaving the other's. The soldiers and the man
at the aircraft were all focused on the two combatants, and Jill tore
her own attention away from Alice to instead carefully nudge the rest of
her group further back against the relative shelter of the elevator
doors. Considering that Alice had captured a great deal of Jill's
attention ever since the tall blonde had come crashing down through a
church window and into Jill's life, it was no small feat but somehow
Jill succeeded.
"Y'know, I've gotta ask... which life is this for you, anyway? Third?"
Rain asked while flexing her hands, still circling.
"Fourth. One that began in a lab... ended in the mansion. The second was
with you, began and ended in the mansion." An exchange of strange
smiles. "Third began in another lab, ended in a helicopter crash. This,
the fourth, began in a lab."
"Makes my two seem puny." Rain grunted. "Where will it end this time?"
A shrug. "Who knows?" A flicker of uncertainty. "How... ?"
A hand gesture and a grimace. "We were all prepped before we were sent
to the Hive, apparently. The damn stuff backfired though, I was the only
one they could revive after contamination because I turned out to be
allergic to the stuff."
"Ouch."
Wry smile. "Yeah, you remember me puking my guts out, huh?"
Black eyes flickered away from blue for a moment. "Boss is getting
antsy. Time to move." Still circling each other.
"I'm game if you are."
They stopped moving.
"C'mon... give us a kiss." Rain smirked and held her arms out wide.
"Gladly... bitch!" With wild smiles and even wilder screams Alice
charged Rain and locked arms with her. The two spun around wildly
several times before Rain hurled Alice away from her and right into two
soldiers who were promptly knocked out. Laughing, Rain charged again,
ending in a kind of half-toss, half-wrestle combat with Alice.
The remaining soldiers made ready to fire at Alice as soon as she hit
the soldiers, but the man in the suit immediately intercepted them and
barked an order to hold their fire. Alice and Rain wrestled around, then
launched themselves further into the middle of the field by sheer
momentum of their fight. They had each other in a firm lock, and once
more, stopped to talk.
"So... how are you able to fight all that programming they've crammed in
your head?" Rain wanted to know. Alice grinned and shrugged.
"Don't know how or why, exactly... just know that I only take orders
from one place." The intense blue gaze swept back to indicate the fair
head of Angie peeking out from their meagre cover despite Jill's
efforts. "The White Queen."
Rain whistled. "The White Queen huh? Impressive."
"What about you?" Alice smirked.
"Me?" Rain grunted at the same time as the man in the suit barked out
"Stop talking and FINISH her!"
Rain rolled her eyes. Then, almost faster than the eye could follow,
Rain and Alice released one another... revealing that pressed between
them they had managed to hide the weapons of the soldiers Alice had
knocked out moments before. A swift motion and both hands came up armed,
Alice spinning around to take out the soldiers on her side. Rain calmly
turned around and aimed at the man in the suit.
"Shut UP, ya idiot!" She told him, and then made sure he would.
In the melee Jill managed to pick off a few soldiers as Rain finished
the rest and Alice sprinted into the aircraft to take care of whoever
was still inside. It was swift, brutal, and efficient.
Despite the confusion that followed, and the mistrust felt towards Rain,
the group quickly realised that they would not have much time to run
before more of the Umbrella Corporation's people would arrive. They
stole the aircraft, after a few re-arrangements from Rain and Alice, and
got far enough that they could abandon it and hitch a ride with a
late-night traveller to get to the place where the flight waited that
would take them overseas. The Umbrella Corporation controlled nearly all
of the US and also had large holdings in the rest of the world, but...
outside of the US the company's control was far from absolute. There
were many places, many countries left in the world where Umbrella not
only had no resources, but where the government of those countries
actively fought not to allow Umbrella to gain control.
There was still some distance to go, but they were heading for one of
those countries. They would continue their battle from afar, do their
best to bring the truth to light with the aid of resistance groups and
what media was still free. They might never be truly out of danger, as
troops were easy enough to smuggle in here and there, and accidents
could easily be arranged, but their chances would certainly be much
better at their destination. There was some hope to cling to yet.
It began as a quiet, anxious flight, with everyone jumping at shadows,
even, to some small degree, Alice herself. Eventually endless days of
stress took their toll on little Angie, who curled up in her seat and
fell asleep covered by Alice's jacket. L.J tried to follow the girl's
example, but his was a fitful rest at best, every so often he would
twitch and open his eyes to examine his surroundings suspiciously before
attempting to settle down again.
Jill Valentine could not settle down at all. Not only had the adrenaline
rush not quite cleared her system and made way for fatigue just yet, but
she was kept alert observing Alice and her interaction with the newcomer
with an increasingly dark expression.
The images burned on the inside of her eyelids, making Jill clench her
jaw hard against the urge to gnash her teeth in frustration.
It was as if Alice had been drawn towards Rain after stepping out of the
aircraft. She seemed barely able to tear her attention away long enough
to cast an intense look in their direction, immediately getting Terri,
Angie and L.J's shouts that they were all OK. Then Alice's attention
snapped right back to the smaller woman. Rain had not bothered to look
their way at all, instead she had been busy scenting the blonde, or so
it seemed to Jill, the two of them standing so close and staring at one
another in such a way that the heat was palpable even at her distance.
They had all clearly heard Rain's rasping comment to Alice that this was
twice now Alice had promised her a kiss, but so far she hadn't
delivered. Jill caught the expression on Alice's face then, and nearly
bit her tongue right through... as Alice pulled both arms around the
shorter woman and proceeded to give her a kiss that would more than make
up for any earlier shortcomings.
L.J had whistled and leered a little, while Terri gasped a soft 'oh my!'
and then tried to cover Angie's eyes. Jill had done... nothing, but
stared in horror as all her hopes of catching Alice's eye burned to
ashes before her eyes.
Angie had saved Jill, if by accident, by giggling and telling Terri
softly that she was not _that_ young... and besides, she had known this
would happen. That comment had caught their attention and forced the
girl to explain herself.
Jill didn't know what she had expected, but it certainly hadn't been to
hear a fairly comprehensible explanation for what the T-virus does to
the human brain functions, nor had she expected it when little Angie
then explained that for those that had adapted the virus, assimilated
their bodies to it like Alice, Rain and herself had, it was reasonable
to assume that their basic, more primitive, instincts would be strongly
reinforced. They had all gaped at the girl then, except for Alice of
course, who had disentangled from Rain at last and merely gazed at
Angie.
The urge to eat, sleep, find a mate, the girl explained while blushing
somewhat, and breed, would be extremely strong in Rain and Alice, being
that they were the only adults of this new race that Angie considered
them to be, and it was quite likely the two women had already been
somehow imprinted on each other for some time. Angie then tried to
explain the potential consequences of their growing mental abilities,
but Jill had stopped listening at that point.
Alice had smiled, a small, mysterious but oh so pleased smile, and bent
down to whisper in Rain's ear. Rain had smirked and pulled her arm a
little more snugly against Alice waist, causing Jill to wince and look
away.
Look right at Terri, for some reason, and the former reporter had a
strange look on her face, something compassionate but also something...
else. Jill couldn't quite decide what it was, but the brief touch of her
hand on Jill's arm was certainly compassionate enough. It was...
embarrassing for a supposedly tough and capable woman like Jill to be so
transparent, she thought, and she tried to put up an unaffected front.
Something changed in Terri's expression, bringing Jill to realise that
Alice had said something that had surprised both Terri and L.J,
delighted little Angie, and given Rain the goofiest, round-eyed look of
astonishment that Jill had ever seen. Rain had been reduced to
sputtering, and then they had all been ordered off to work, getting away
from that place as quickly as they could.
It wasn't until later, while Rain and Alice were in the cockpit steering
the stolen craft and the rest of them were keeping quiet in the back
that Jill found out from Terri that Alice had simply claimed little
Angie as their daughter, hers and Rain's, since they were a kind of
their own.
Now, hours later and aboard another flight, hopefully heading towards a
safer corner of the world for all of them, Alice had tucked the girl
into a seat behind herself and Rain, and then the two women had not been
able to keep off one another.
Trying not grind her molars to dust, Jill had to admit that it was not
as if the two were tearing one another's clothes off, but with the
heated looks and the long, intense make-out sessions that neither seemed
to care that everyone was witness to, it couldn't have been much worse.
In fact, Jill wasn't sure which she dreaded most, watching Alice and
Rain come to the point where they shredded clothing despite the fact
that they were not alone, or watching the two of them sneak off to the
bathroom. She dreaded the moment either women would realise there was a
bathroom up front with a lockable door.
Just as Jill was sure Rain and Alice had become completely ignorant of
their surroundings in their... heat, Angie made a tiny whimpering sound
in her sleep. Immediately Alice shot up and leaned over her seat to
stroke the girl's hair and speak to her soothingly. Even Rain leaned
over, awkwardly patting the jacked a bit more snug around the girl, and
Angie relaxed into her dreams with a more peaceful look on her face.
Something cold slid down Jill's spine to briefly lodge in the pit of her
stomach as she watched the identical expressions on both women's
faces... but more than the identical looks, it was their eyes that
suddenly seemed frightening. Black or blue did not matter, both had that
same intense, open and completely alien quality about them. It reminded
Jill briefly of how she as a child had stared right into the large,
wide-open golden eyes of a tiger at a zoo, and with a spear of ice-cold
insight known that what she was looking at was something so foreign, so
beyond her, that she could never understand it. Something... primal.
Closing her eyes with a shudder, Jill tried to let it all go.
A warm hand touched her bare arm gently, making a dark blue eye open to
peek in that direction. Dark brown eyes set in an always surprisingly
Asian-appearing face gazed at her kindly. Jill summoned up a wry smile
at the woman beside her, appreciating the fact that Terri tried to make
her feel better.
"Serves me right." Jill muttered, sending for a moment a dark thought to
her parents and their poor choice in family name and valiantly trying to
ignore the fact that judging from the sound of things Rain and Alice had
returned to their previous activity. "Bumbling into a crush on someone I
barely know like some oversized schoolgirl."
The hand remained on her arm, and it felt nice. Warm.
"We can't help these things." Terri whispered back, compassionately
stroking Jill's arm ever so slightly.
"Hmph." Jill muttered, leaning a little more towards Terri so the sharp
ears of the women in front would not pick up on their whispered
conversation. "Maybe. I just wish..."
"What?" Terri's face was so close that Jill was involuntarily distracted
for a moment. It hit her suddenly that Terri was one of the most
genuinely feminine women that Jill had ever known... granted Jill, as a
career S.T.A.R officer, had not exactly moved in the kind of circles
that Terri's brand of female charms were all that common, but even so –
it took a very special kind of woman to manage to look both dignified
and daintily feminine while running away from a mob of crazed man-eating
monsters.
"Oh you know..." A vague hand gesture. "That there could be someone for
me too, that's all. Kind of silly after all that has happened lately,
huh?"
That got a warm smile from the other woman. "It's not silly at all, and
don't give up on that. Especially not after all that has happened
lately."
For a brief moment both were silent, studiously ignoring other sounds
nearby including the snoring that L.J was sleeping soundly at least for
the moment.
"So... what would be the requirements for a... partner, Jill Valentine?"
Terri's eyes glittered with playfulness and something else, causing Jill
to grin a little in response.
"Oh, my wishes aren't that complicated really..." Jill replied with a
wistful tone that was only partly pretence. "Any nice woman that hasn't
thrown her lot in with Umbrella would be just fine. Of course she'd also
have to put up with all..." A gesture with her hands. "...this, so what
are the odds huh?"
For a moment it seemed Terri wouldn't respond. Then she leaned in, her
breath tickling Jill's ear. "You silly woman."
Her next move pinned Jill in place with a lingering kiss on the lips.
Stunned beyond mobility and words Jill just stared in shock when Terri
drew back and stared at her intently.
"Alice isn't the only woman who has been standing right by your side
through all of this, you know."
With those words Terri got up and made her way towards the bathroom,
leaving the open-mouthed Jill Valentine to stare – not without quite a
bit of appreciation at the view – after her retreating form, trying to
wrap her mind around the meaning of this.
And outside the window a different continent spread out as far as eyes
could see.
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