Resident Evil Nightmare (Remake) By Linnafan (@)
Rebecca was holding on to the role bar of Jill’s jeep for dear life as they sped through the parking structure of the San Diego police department twenty minutes late for work. Rebecca jumped out of the jeep near the third level door as Jill headed for a parking spot. Rebecca headed down the hallway headed for the STAR room. The hallway eerily reminded her of the hallway that led to the STAR room in Raccoon city. Her footsteps echoed through the hallway even over the carpet. There had been a single ceiling speaker that was just outside the STAR door but it had long since been ripped out by Berry for playing a stupid Christmas song. That had gotten Berry transferred out of the San Diego Star’s team even though Captain Redfield had put up a fight for him. The police chief had brought in two new members right after Berry’s transfer and accepted another two new recruits. Chief Briggs had called in a favor from his old precinct in Chicago and had their best two STARS members Johnny McCarran and Kim West sent down to join the San Diego team.

Johnny was the kind of guy that most women dream about, handsome, funny, sweet but also completely insane. It was a few years ago just after he had Joined the Chicago STARS when they went out on a mission. Three men had barricaded themselves in a liquor store with several hostages, three of them children. After negotiations had failed the STARS team moved in tossing flash grenades through the windows as the approached. Johnny was the first man in and found one of the men standing in the corner of the store holding one of the children with a gun to her head. He pulled his weapon up and aimed at the mans head and order him to lay his weapon down. The man refused; instead he shot the little girl in the head then aimed at Johnny. Johnny fired three rounds all striking him in the chest. The other two men surrendered without a fight.

There was a formal inquiry on the shooting but Johnny’s shoulder mounted camera proved that he was not to blame for the little girl’s death. Although he has never forgiven himself. After that mission Johnny never thought he could draw his weapon on anyone again and moved himself to a radio operators position. Chris heard about is past and ordered Johnny to a forward assault operator much to Johnny’s disliking.

Kim was the overly serious kind that tended to annoy most people. In the year that she had been with the San Diego team almost no one had seen her smile. She quickly proved she was not the king of woman that anyone wanted to mess with when the team was out at a local bar one night and a man tried to pick a fight with her after she turned him down for a dance. He reached out and pushed her off of her bar stool and stood over her. Chris was on his feet and moving to tackle the man only to stop in his tracks after Kim snapped her foot up hard catching the man right on the inside of his knee. He dropped to the floor and before he could even let out a yelp of pain Kim quickly brought her boot down on the side of his face knocking him out cold.

The other two members that were added by Chief Briggs were Leon Kennedy and Julie Thompson. Leon had submitted a request to join up soon after escaping Raccoon city but was denied for over a year until he was finally accepted. Chris had to put in a special word for him to the Chief at Clare’s request and under threat of a severe beating if he didn’t.

Julie was a model officer in San Diego and her achievements didn’t go unnoticed. Once she was assigned to the STARS team she quickly made friends with her outgoing nature and practice jokes. On her first day she managed to superglue Chris to his chair and didn’t stop laughing for half an hour. She knew it was an immature joke but she loved the classics.

Most of the team was in the room when Rebecca walked in and sat at her desk.

“Twenty minutes late.” Chris said handing her a stack a papers that she needed to file. “That’s a new record for you isn’t it?”

“I’ll call Guinness.” Rebecca said looking at the top paper then looking around the room. “Where is Jill?”

“Not here yet either. But this is far from her best record.”

“Hey Captain Redfield have you noticed that most of the time when Rebecca is late Jill is late as well?” Julie asked.

“Fuck off Julie.” Rebecca said with a smile.

“Look how red she is turning.”

The team snickered at the Julies remarks before Jill walked through the door.

“Speak of the devil.” Julie said.

Jill stopped at the door and looked around. Once she looked at Rebecca and saw how red she was turning and turned even redder when Jill looked at her she looked at Julie and raised an eyebrow.

“Ok what did I miss?” She asked.

“Oh we were just picking on your girlfriend.” Julie said.

“Girlfriend?”

“Shut up Julie.” Rebecca said. “Jill is my friend nothing more nothing less.”

The group laughed again before everyone got back to work on whatever it was they were doing. Johnny was cleaning and oiling the team’s weapons and keeping one green eye on Julie’s leg that was idly kicking the air as she worked on her laptop. Chris was leaning over Kim’s desk as she explained the details on the newest explosives that the STARS have been authorized to use. She was always so enthusiastic when it came to some kind of explosive ever since she cooked up over twenty pounds of plastic explosive from the anarchist cookbook when she was fifteen. She claims that she lifted an old Toyota truck ten feet off the ground and left a crater the since of a small house in the ground when she tested it out at the local junkyard. Julie was pretending to work on a project but knowing full well that Johnny was watching her. Jill was sitting at her desk looking over old records of missions that they had been out on looking for any weak points but as always not finding any. Now and then she would look up across her desk at Rebecca who was sitting facing her at the opposite desk. Rebecca would never look up and Jill knew she wouldn’t but every time she did look up at her Rebecca’s foot would brush up against hers as if to say “I see you my love”. Jill smiled and went back to her work as the time ticked on.

After what seemed like forever to Jill, their shift was over. Rebecca walked out of the STAR room and headed down to the street like she was heading across the street for a burger like she did almost every night after work but instead climbed into Jill’s Jeep and they headed back to Rebecca’s house to get ready for their date that they had planned for that night. Jill had sworn to Rebecca that they were going to spend the whole night just watching movies and ordering in every kind of take out they could get.

Rebecca was sitting cross legged on the couch dressed in a tank top with form fitting red spandex shorts eating a chow mien and pepperoni pizza drinking a non-alcoholic beer and watching They Live and old movie about aliens that you can only see with special sunglasses. Jill was raiding one of the many bags trying desperately to find something else to mix into her “bowl of odd foods” as she called it. There was already pizza crust, orange chicken with sweet and sour sauce, carne asada, cheese, croutons and French fries with extra mustard. Not finding anything she simply sprinkled some salt over the whole mess and stirred it around.

“You are sick.” Rebecca said as she took another bite of her pizza.

“Don’t knock it till you try it.” Jill said as she took a heaping fork full and crammed it into her mouth.

She chewed for only a second until her eyes began to water and the most horrified look spared across her face. She tried to swallow it but it got stuck in her throat and she started gagging. Tears rolled down her face and she stood up and ran to the bathroom trying not to vomit before she got to the safety of the toilet. Rebecca was snickering when Jill came back out and took a big gulp of her beer and sat back down.

“Well now that you tried it can I knock it?” Rebecca asked.

“Bite me.” Jill laughed.

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