The Engineer's Obsession

Chapter 18

July 2021

Months have passed ever since I got out of the village with the help of Richard and the BSAA. 

A big man called Chris Redfield came to the BSAA Europe HQ, claiming that the organization owed him an explanation about what happened in the village.

It turns out that BSAA was making bioweapon clones of him which goes against the organization's ethics that they fight against bioterrorism. 

I can understand the reason behind utilizing bioweapons against itself and I can also understand where this Chris guy is coming from. They are wary of the idea that the organization will take after the Umbrella Corporation.

I didn't bother to know what they agreed or disagreed upon, my focus was on reviving Karl.

They agreed to let me in on their team and I started to study hard, researching what I could.

My baby bump has also started to show and boy let me tell 'ya, it's been hard without anyone supporting me mentally. Still, I'm grateful that the agency covers all my needs down from basics to security.

I've also had an amazing team that teaches me and helps me with my projects. This project also benefits the association as they believe it is the key that will lead them to create the perfect bioweapon to fight against bioterrorism.

I miss Karl so much and so does my baby, I started to feel some movements in my womb. I hope my hard work will be fruitful soon so we can be reunited as a family as soon as possible

October 2021

My pregnancy has started to become unbearable, having contractions, back pain now and then, cramps, swelling, and all in all just pain.

I wish Karl was here with me to get through this, I've been crying a lot more lately whenever I remember him. I started crying as I was writing this down my journal.

There has been a bit of progress with the project and we started by putting the remains of Karl's body inside a pod filled with sorts of liquids that help us to maintain the remaining part of him.

It has grown a bit ever since I came here and started working. I was very happy knowing that our hard work didn't come into failure.

...

The lab was attacked by some bioterrorists who stumbled upon a leak of information. I forgot to mention that this project was confidential and a "rat" from my team sold the information.

Thank goodness that I managed to save the data from the lab and terminated the copies before they got to it. We were escorted and fled to the main headquarters in the United Kingdom.

I guess the adrenaline helped and I felt a whole lot more level of contraction pain that I passed out before we even got to the headquarters.

They advised me to rest for a week, I didn't want to but, I had no choice since it would risk my baby's health if I didn't listen.

Only a few weeks left until the day our baby will see the world, I hope we can revive Karl sooner.

Early November 2021

I was having dreams of what seemed like reality where Karl was holding our baby in his arms, singing him lullabies while feeding him. He was also calling him Aiden, I guess that's what would he like to call our baby.

I holed in the laboratory working overtime to make the project faster. No, I was not neglecting our baby, I have been eating at the right time and resting when I can but I never left the lab.

I was scolded by some of my colleagues, implying that I should take it easy and take a walk outside the lab and feel the fresh air, I just can't do that knowing my child will not see his father the moment he's born. 

Maybe they were right after all, after a few more hours at the lab I started aching, my water broke and I was due in labor. Luckily, some of my colleagues were there with me and assisted me.

There I was lying on a bed with all the people that helped me give birth to my beautiful and healthy baby boy. I cried out of fear and happiness when I held him in my arms.

"Welcome to the outside world Aiden, your mom and dad love you very much" I whispered to him.

"I wish your daddy was here so he could also see how beautiful you are my sweet boy" I became emotional and cried, Aiden felt my sadness so he cried with me too.

They took him from my arms and I started to panic, the nurses calmed me down explaining that they would check up on my boy to see if there was something wrong with him.

I was too exhausted to fight them off that I just gave up, so this is the feeling of first time giving birth and the anxiety that someone would take their baby away from them.

I fell asleep and saw Karl again in my dreams, smiling at me and all his usual self.

"Well done, baby" It felt real when I heard his voice even if it was just a dream. I woke up having tears on my cheeks.

December 2021

I decided to take it easy and followed the doctor's advice, I rented out a small but cozy apartment for us during Christmas.

I was strolling down the streets of the United Kingdom with Aiden in my arms. We visited shop after shop buying necessities and for the holiday season.

I also bought gifts for Karl even if he's still not with us and cannot be with us anytime soon. 

I sat on a bench in front of a giant Christmas tree, trying to take a rest from all the walking. A beautiful woman sat beside us rubbing her hands from the cold weather.

"Here, this should warm you up" I handed her over my extra hand warmer and she gladly took it.

"Thank you so much, you're a lifesaver" She bowed her head.

"It's quite cold during this season, you should dress heavily to avoid freezing" I laughed.

"Well, yeah... I'm used to cold seasons due to my brother's training but I guess it has been a while so... hehe" she awkwardly laughed.

"You somewhat look familiar, have I seen you somewhere?" I asked her.

"Oh yeah you might have heard or seen me from one of the news years before, I'm Claire. Claire Redfield" She smiled and lent out her hand.