A/N: So I used to write fic for this fandom and with seeing the last RE film I was inspired to write again. Also Claire and Alice back together it had to happen and why aren't they together?! It has been so obvious in the previous films, duh! The titles of the chapter have been inspired by Dustin Tebbett one of my favourite folk singers at the moment.
So first Chapter: Wolves Are Waiting
Enjoy and let me know what you think :)
The light breeze was inviting for the two women, they both just sat across from each other on the rocks not saying anything. Alice was processing what she had just experienced, the memories that Alicia Marcus had given her on a chip. Claire had wondered if she should have left Alice to view the memories on her own, it was a personal moment for the dark haired woman.
Claire gazed over at Alice unsure to say anything as she stared into the rocks at her feet, "So what do we do now?"
Alice looked up slowly with her signature smirk, "I have no idea but for the first time in this life, I feel free." Her voice was quiet as if she couldn't believe it herself.
Claire didn't say anything but her toothy smile was enough to show that she was happy for her friend, all the time she has known Alice they have both been fighting to stay alive in a world that was once dying. They both have lost a number of people that they have come across which they both will come to deal with later on.
They both stood up and looked to the distance feeling the warmth from the sun, "Shall we go find the settlements and lend a hand? Maybe find the ones who we've met in the past…" Alice suggested hoping for an insight to the whereabouts of two important people they both know of. Chris and Kmart.
Claire looked down to the dirt she could feel Alice was waiting for an answer, the redhead sighed and looked back to the distance, "Chris and Kmart…I don-… I don't know what happened to them after the Arcadia. I don't know what happened to them Alice." She looked at Alice in the eyes, "I never saw what happened after I got Kmart to get everyone inside and Chris I saw him go overboard. My guess he's dead but he lasted all that time until then but who am I kidding? It was a blood bath."
Alice sighed, she remembered how bad it was, she had hoped Claire knew what happened to them.
Claire started to ascend the rocks to studier ground, once she found clear ground she turned to Alice, "You coming?"
Alice scoffed, "Still the badass leader." She murmured to herself. "Where are we going?"
"You suggested going to help some settlements. Well let's not waste time, it'll be dark soon and we still need to eat and drink." The redhead replied straightening her jacket out.
"We might not find any settlements for days by just walking. The least we could do is find somewhere tonight, rest and start tomorrow."
The sun was setting and they both didn't know how far they'd need to walk before they come across a settlement, a settlement that are friendly at least.
Claire looked around the surroundings and noted how low the sun was getting "It's probably the practical option." She agreed with Alice.
They both walked side by side keeping there eyes out for any possible survivors, although they wasn't sure if any Umbrella would still be alive and if they do come across any what would they do with them.
"It still doesn't feel real." Claire admitted.
"It's going to take some time to sink in. I'm experiencing all these feelings that I haven't felt before, hunger, thirst, sore and just feeling at all. All I've ever felt is sadness, loneliness and guilt. It's strange." Alice expressed to Claire the changes she's feeling it was almost abnormal to feel all of this at once.
Claire listened intently and offered her view, "I don't know what that must feel like for you but the way you're feeling now, is what I've always experienced even before the outbreak. Maybe the virus stopped you from feeling, when I watched you watch the memories I could see the changes in you already. You're becoming more human than you may have ever felt before."
"I don't like it." Alice replied pulling a face.
Claire looked at her concerned, "What do you mean?"
"I'm so hungry and I feel like shit." The dark haired woman moaned.
Claire chuckled, "Welcome to the average human life."
The sun had completely disappeared and they had found shelter for the night, Claire had made a fire from the rubbish scattered and with her gold flip lighter, she had also managed to find some cigarettes for herself and Alice to share. They had tried to find some food that was editable but they could only salvage packets of rice that came from near the wreckage of some 'shops' or what was left of them 10 years later. Luckily water was easy to come by as they were by the lake they had to jump into early on.
Alice watched Claire use her lighter to light her second smoke and wondered how she had it, maybe the Doc gave it to her.
Alice couldn't help herself, "So how did you get that lighter?"
Claire took a long drag before answering, "The Doc, he gave it to me." She blew the smoke out, "That asshole." She muttered.
Alice drew out the last of her smoke and stubbed it out.
"I'm sorry he turned out to be one of them. You seemed to like him." Although Alice knew from the beginning upon meeting him she was weary of him but she knew Claire had took a shine to him.
"He was so nice, caring and I liked that. I needed somebody like that after what happened at the ship. You had disappeared, I think didn't I'd ever see you again. I just needed somebody." Claire said thoughtfully but scrunched her brows and took another drag before continuing.
Alice looked down she didn't know what to say, it was like it was her fault but she knew it wasn't but she knew Claire would end up with someone anyway. How could she have thought she wouldn't? However when Alice had noticed Claire had met someone back at the tower it hadn't sit with her right.
Claire looked over at a brooding Alice and wondered if what she was going to say next would clear some air that Claire couldn't digest since mentioning the Doc and her.
"When I took you to get looked at by the Doc. You saw our interaction and I was about to explain it, you cut me off…rudely. What was that?" Claire at the time thought it was because of how Alice was feeling from the whole ordeal of things but she hadn't been rude with Claire once until then.
Alice rolled her eyes that were caught by Claire.
"You're rolling your eyes at my question?" The redhead scoffed. "Were you jealous?"
Alice scowled and got defensive, "Jealous?"
Claire nodded.
"Of you sleeping with an Umbrella agent? No." Alice shrugged off.
"That's not fair, I didn't know what he-" Claire stopped herself and sighed.
Alice looked uncomfortable and stared at the fire.
"I'm sorry for bringing it up. I didn't mean to-"
"I knew who he was once I saw him. I didn't know how to tell you. I remember seeing his face when I got tested on back in the labs years before I had come across you." Alice confessed…partly.
Claire stubbed her smoke out, "I wondered why you told me to watch my back before. God! I should've known." She scolded herself.
"How could you of known, Claire? He was there and you needed someone to be close with and I wa-" Alice stopped herself.
There was a moment of silence until the redhead breathed out, "Damn we've crossed some arseholes."
Alice hummed in response and looked over at Claire, "I did miss you."
Claire smiled, "I did wonder if we would cross paths again."
"And here we are. Right I'm going hopefully get some sleep." Alice yawned avoiding any more awkward questions that she wasn't ready to answer truthfully.
"I'll keep up a bit more then I'll get some shut eye too. If I can." Replied watching Alice get comfy leaning against some wooden shack wall.
The redhead stared out at the fire thinking about what Alice had said to her about missing her. She had missed her too but something niggled at her when Alice explained her behaviour when they were at the tower. Maybe Alice was covering up the fact that it was more than the Doc being bad and more about her supressed feelings towards Claire.
Claire had hoped it was more than the guy being apart of Umbrella, maybe jealous of the guy instead, to clarify her suspicion of what Alice may feel for her. It hadn't gone unnoticed when they were back at the prison, the way Alice had kept an eye on her and the way she looked at her, there was more there.
Yet Claire is unaware of her own repressed feelings towards the dark haired woman who is sleeping opposite her.
After staring into the fire and hearing Alice's soft breathing the redhead was completely alone with her thoughts.
Why am I getting my hopes up thinking that Chris and Kmart could be alive and together in a settlement, they're dead. Face it Claire you'll never see them again.
She was getting sick of her own thoughts and decided to get some sleep, unsure how much sleep she would get once they start there lengthy walk to find settlements.
She looked out at the tower with her binoculars witnessing the pile of dead bodies in the distance, she was confused as the day before she could see them stood dormant. The tall blonde removed her binoculars and reached for her radio.
"Radioing anyone who is free to come to tower one and check out something I've spotted. Over" The woman awaited a response.
"I'm free, I'll be there ASAP. Over" The husk voice replied.
The blonde smiled at the known voice and she smirked before replying, "Don't keep me waiting. Over"
"I thought I got rid of a pain in my ass. Over." He joked back.
She didn't appreciate the joke but welcomed it anyway, "We know not to joke about the people we've lost. Over."
"It's just a way to deal. Over." The husk voice was less teasing this time.
The woman waited patiently for her fellow friend to come to her, she couldn't believe what she was seeing and how could it be even possible for such thing to happen.
"What is it you want to be looked at?" He asked as he approached the blonde.
She looked at him and handed him the binoculars and pointed where to look, "In the distance."
"I don't understand what I'm supposed to be seeing." He stated. "All I can see is a pile of dead bodies."
"Exactly! Dead bodies." The watcher blurted.
"So…?" Her friend replied confused.
She shook her head, "So, yesterday they were standing, they were infected and now they're dead. Also not to mention in the middle of nowhere. Isn't that bizarre?! Shouldn't you be going 'hmm' 'ahh' right now?!" She mocked.
He turned to her and raised a brow, "I don't make those sounds."
She stood there, arms crossed and giving him a knowing look.
"Okay maybe I do, I'm getting old." He admitted.
"So! What do you think?!" The woman needed an answer now.
"Look it could have been someone out there and took them out. How else would it of happened? Whoever did it saved us a job." He brushed it off and wasn't at all hyped like the blonde.
As he turned away to get back to his previous job the woman called out to him, "We know someone who could be capable of doing such thing."
He stopped in his tracks before ascending the ladders, "Don't even go there. I saw what happened, end of. Get back to your duty and don't mention it again."
The woman stood there burning holes in his head as he made his was down the ladders once out of earshot she muttered under her breath, "Stubborn asshole."
She went back to looking at the pile of dead zombies, "please prove him wrong, Alice." She quietly said to herself and prayed it was who she hopes it to be.