I don't know if anyone who used to read this stuff is still around. I don't really know if anyone would care about this, but It's something I've wanted to do for several years now.

This story probably isn't getting finished. It hasn't been touched since '09, and a lot has changed since than. I no longer have the time to write fanfiction. I'm not really interested in these characters anymore. Other things too.

What follows is the last bit of the story that I was working on prior to my hiatus, unreviewed and unrevised by me. Afterwards, I'll put up some fun facts about certain elements in the story and where I got the ideas for them.

Homeland Security was already there when they got back home. They already knew what had happened and why it happened.

In spite of Rebecca's outlandish protection of her work, she handed over her research to the DHS willingly. Leon guessed that she knew it would be safer in their hands, and that they promised she could resume work on it freely later. Even so, it was a serious contrast to what she had just done.

Going up against Umbrella alone, to get research she wasn't supposed to have. Now Wesker knows we're out. Our element of surprise is lost. What was she thinking?

One of the DHS officers approached him, sitting on one of the chairs in the living room. Rebecca was near, wrapping her hurt elbow up.

"Due to the events of today we're going to have to relocate you. If you want, we can transfer you both directly to DC within the day." The officer spoke to him.

Leon nodded. "That alright with you?" He asked Rebecca, turning to look at her.

"Yeah. Let's do it." She replied.

A few hours passed and the officers left. "So what happened back there? What was so special about that virus sample that you'd go there without backup?" Leon asked her, his gaze resting on her downturned head.

Rebecca was leaning over with her arms on her knees, looking down at the ground. Her hands were clasped and they hung loosely off of her knees. Her face was emotionless and her eyes slowly drifted around, completely disinterested in everything around her.

"You already heard what I told the DHS. Umbrella wanted it, and I wasn't about to let them have it." She spoke quietly, almost distantly. "But it bothered me that they would go and get my research on the Virus. They're the experts on it, not me." She moved, raising her left arm up and leaning her chin against it. "I wanted to make a cure. That's what I've been doing with it. Why do they want it anyway?"

Hell if I know.

"You know Umbrella. Maybe they thought that you were trying to make another virus or something." Leon offered. "I certainly wouldn't put it past them, you know?"

Rebecca didn't move, her eyes falling back onto the carpet. After a moment she nodded, apparantly accepting the answer. "Sorry, Leon. I got carried away."

You sure did.

"You don't have to apologize. It's not like you have to run everything by me." Leon paused. "But it was pretty dangerous. Why not hook up with the CDC?"

That's it. I know, guys, I know. You're just dying to hear Rebecca's response. She doesn't have one. It was for the best. It probably included the phrase "cheese doodles".

"Because cheese doodles, Leon," Rebecca spat. "That's why."

FUN FACTS TIME

TINY CREATURES? TONS'O'CARNAGE? TUMULTUOUS CAESAR? The "TC" in TC Virus stands for Tyrant-Carver. The Tyrant virus from Resident Evil, and, for lack of a better name, the Carver virus from Far Cry: Instincts. Several of the descriptions and scenarios from the first installment in this trilogy were ripped wholesale from FC:I. It's a good game. Give it a chance. I liked Carver as a character: a rough, tough, angry guy who has superpowers and it's awesome.

DEAD RAIN? WHY, THAT'S A NAME THAT ONLY AN ANGRY TEENAGER COULD LOVE! Truly. Dead Rain was the name of one of the songs on the Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within soundtrack. I used it as a random name during a Halo 1 system link party one time at a friend's house and promptly forgot about it. Then he reminded me of it two years later, and it ended up sticking for... must have been almost a decade, now. It's undergone some changes; namely, "Raen", or "Ræn". I was such a badass when I was younger. I'm trying to stop using it and move on to something less awkward.

Coincidentally, there's a flash series on Newgrounds called "Dead Rain", and it's about zombies. But don't look it up. I watched it. It's horrible.

YOU DIDN'T SHIP YOUR OC WITH THE PRIMARY FEMALE PROTAGONIST. SON I AM PROUD. I am proud, too. Rain was never supposed to end up shipped. I sort of knew right from the get-go that he was going to die. Leon would never let him leave that shithole alive, after all. At least, RE4 Leon wouldn't. RE6 Leon might, the pansy. But anyway, I used an OC to get the ball rolling, and proceeded to use already-defined characters to keep the story rolling. He died to get Leon and Ada out, and therefore... stuff. I used him again in #3 to help explain some of Ada's otherwise unknown past, but I never really knew where it would end up heading. It was one of the few things that I didn't have planned out right from the start of my writing Redemption.

YOU HAD REDEMPTION PLANNED FROM THE GET-GO? AND YOU DIDN'T FINISH IT, YOU BIG JERK? U MAD BRO LOL

WHAT ARE THE PLOT POINTS, I'M THE ONLY PERSON READING THIS WHO WAS ON THE EDGE OF THEIR SEAT WAITING? Leon, Ada and Co would team up with some of Chris' war buddies, who would be Bad Company - you know, like in the game Bad Company. Not the exact characters or anything, but I wanted to team the super-serious group up with a bunch of guys who didn't give a shit and let it play out. Maybe give Rebecca a little R&R. Eventually the group would infiltrate Wesker's main base of operations, fuck shit up hardcore style, and leave in time for breakfast. And then RE5 came out and Wesker died in Africa, so that bit would probably have been changed. Leon and Ada would finally get together. Other things might happen too. Billy Coen would not make a showstopping appearance.

THERE'S NO SEX IN THIS STORY, WHAT GIVES? Writing a sex scene is hard. Writing a sex scene well is harder. Besides, I'm no romantic. I'm a warrior. Or, I wish I was a warrior. These days I'm just a tired young man.

HEY, SPEAKING OF REBECCA, IT SEEMED TO ME LIKE LEON AND REBECCA WERE, YOU KNOW... YES I KNOW OKAY, I ADMIT IT. I like Leon and Rebecca as a couple. Their initiations into the RE world were very similar, and they're about the same age. 'Becca's actually my favorite character in the series, and I'm very disappointed that Capcom hasn't made more use of her. Her presence in RE5: Mercs was wonderful, and she's easily one of the best characters. But anyway, no, the story was for Leon and Ada to hook up, not him and Rebecca. Such a shame. She's so damn cute.

HEY, I LIVED IN LOS ANGELES IN 2005, AND I DISTINCTLY REMEMBER JANUARY BEING INCREDIBLY STORMY THE WHOLE TIME, JUST LIKE YOU SAID IN REDEMPTION! Yup. Did my research.

ARE YOU GOING TO PICK THIS UP AGAIN? Never say never, but...maybe. Over the course of their lifetime, each complete story has netted around 3.5k views. That's a notable number. So I might. But then again, I once posted a 1.20 minute video on YouTube that contained a single, small joke that took all of twenty minutes to make, and that got 260k views. So it's hard to justify my taking potentially hundreds of hours that I can't really spare to finish a story that will reach so few. But you never know.

EVERYONE CARE AT LOW HP, KARTHUS' ULT IS UP. It's k, I'm Kayle. Divine Intervention all day, yo.