Ch.3

Claire awoke feeling hot and dizzy, she didn't feel good at all. She sifted a little in her sleeping bag causing Wesker to wake up.

"Dear Heart?" he asked as Claire had a coughing spell her face was flushed with fever.

"Wesker?" She croaked her throat was sore and her voice was hoarse.

"Its okay Dear Heart I'm here" he whispered, she started coughing again a little more forcefully.

"Claire?" Wesker asked but she gave no response just shallow gasps.

Wesker wasn't sure what he should do so he went to wake Jill up.

"Huh Wesker what's wrong do you need to use the bathroom?" Jill said getting up a little.

He pawed at her trying to get her to follow him, he didn't want to risk talking because it might do more harm than good with the condition Claire was in.

"Okay are you hungry?" Jill asked fully awake now.

"Oh for the love of god! Why won't she just follow me over to Claire?" he thought frustrated

"Come on Wesker I don't speak cat so what's wrong?" Jill said getting out of bed

Wesker ran towards Claire looking back at Jill who finally seemed to understand something was wrong with Claire.

"She's burning up!" Jill said touching Claire's forehead.

"I'll get my mom you go get Chris" Jill said running out the room.

"Hang on Dear Heart I'm going to get your brother." Wesker said taking off.

"Wesker don't leave…" Claire groaned weakly.

Wesker had went into the spare guest room where Chris was staying and proceeded to wake him. Wesker had meowed a few times but when Chris refused to move he pawed at him it only caused Chris to roll over and fall back asleep."

"Damn it why won't he get up?" Wesker sighed frustrated.

"Desperate times call for Desperate measures" Wesker said bitting down on Chris's shirt and pulling him out of bed.

"Wake up already Claire's sick and needs you!" Wesker snapped.

Chris snapped awake looking around to see where the voice came from his eyes settled on Wesker.

"What is it Wesker, did you hear something I could have swore that someone just said Claire was sick." Chris said sitting up.

"You have as much brains as a dog! Now get up!" Wesker hissed as Chris's eyes widened

"Wesker you talk!" Chris yelled

"Yes but now is not the time Claire has a cold!" Wesker said running from the room Chris not to far behind.

"Claire!" Chris said as he rushed to his sister's side

"She has a fever and a cough, but nothing to serious." Mrs. Valentine said looking at them.

"I've given her some cold and flu medicine, it should help with the fever and sore throat." Mrs. Valentine sighed

"I'm glad you decided to come to me now than waiting in the morning she could have been much worse."

"I'd thank Wesker he's the one who noticed she was sick, such a smart cat" Jill said patting Wesker's head.

"Well I'll say Claire is very lucky to have a friend like you Wesker" Mrs. Valentine said leaving the room.

Wesker had returned to his previous spot on Claire's sleeping bag placing his head on her chest, her heart beat was strong and steady. Wesker found himself being lulled to sleep by its majestic sound.

"Well I guess we go back to bed" Jill said with a yawn.

"Yeah I guess so" Chris said uneasy, Jill seemed to pick up on this.

"Christopher go back to sleep you heard mom she's fine just needs plenty of rest just like you do, now go!" Jill said pointing to the door.

"Okay Jill" Chris sighed tiredly

"See you in the morning." He said walking out of the room.

"Did I imagine Wesker talking?" Chris thought to himself

"Heh yeah right talking cat must have still been sleeping" he said yawning.

"No! Hell no! I'm not about to let some trigger happy, knife throwing freak take my money!" Hunk yelled.

"Jack Krauser is technically already on the assignment and he's probably covered half of our tracks by now all we can do is wait and see if we run in to him" Ada said sipping on her coffee

"Why are you so calm about this I mean your job is at stake too!"

"See that's where your wrong, I had a back up plan in case this job went down the drain and looks like it has." Ada said pulling her PDA out.

"So that's it Just let Krauser take all the credit for all of out hard work!" Hunk hissed

"In case you haven't noticed we don't have the cat and we don't know where it is so in other words you should stop worrying about it. Ada said getting up.

"Carefree as ever if she isn't gathering intelligence on rival companies she's stealing samples from labs typical."

Claire awoke to something wet on her face, it wasn't unpleasant but it was weird at first until she realized what or rather who it was.

"Wesker? What are you doing?" she croaked.

"Licking your face Dear Heart." He said still licking her.

"Stop it that tickles." She said giggling a little.

"Don't want to you taste good" Wesker whispered, but he did stop.

"Dear Heart how are you feeling?"

"A little tired but somewhat better I guess" Claire said rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

"I'm glad you had me, your brother and his girlfriend worried" Wesker said looking over at Jill who thankfully was still sleeping

"I'm sorry" Claire said sitting up.

"Hold on Dear Heart I'm going to get Jill's mother she seems to be a doctor"

Wesker pushed his way through the bedroom door to see Jill's mom sitting on the bed reading. Jumping on the bed he mewed to get her attention.

"Oh Wesker how are you this fine morning is little Claire doing better?" She asked putting her book to the side Wesker nodded his head

"Well if I didn't know better I'd say you understand what I'm saying" She said frowning.

"Lets go see how she's doing, shall we?" She said.

Wesker ran ahead of Jill's mother walking over to Claire who picked him up in her arms and hugged him.

"You're my good boy" she smiled

Jill's mother walked in with a thermometer before handing it to Claire to put in her mouth.

"How are you feeling Claire" she asked taking the thermometer to read it

"I feel a little better, but my throat and chest still hurt" Claire said.

"Hmm slightly feverish" Mrs. Valentine said

"Now Claire you need to stay in bed for most of the day I'll make you some soup to see if we can't make you all better." Mrs. Valentine said leaving the room.

Claire started to yawn, Wesker curled himself up in her arms to keep her warm.

"Dear Heart you need to rest." Wesker said watching her drift back off to sleep for a second time.

"My Dear Claire you need to save your strength we have so many adventures ahead of us"

Krauser had entered the outskirts of Raccoon City his tracker was working just fine until he got mid way into the city. However it did bring him to a pet store it was closed for now. He decided he'd wait around for the owner to open up because he had some questioning to do.

"Neo-Umbrella pets and friends, such a stupid name" Krauser said looking into the window.

"Huh the tracks lead here but they seem to fade else where" he said glaring at the machine in his hand.

"I hate this thing, one little cat shouldn't be so hard to find but I always did like a challenge."