Nine Flowers

Chapter Nine

You suddenly found yourself back at the doctors office. Sitting on his bed while he wrote on his clip board.

"Alright I gave you a shot for your stomach you should be good to go." He smiled at you.

You looked back at him confused. "What... But... A shot for stomach pain isnt normal... Have we done this before?"

"Not that I know of." he said smiling. "And its a new medication for food poisoning. Your free to leave now."

You looked around the room as you slowly looked around. The room was exactly the same as before: light poured in through the windows and machines beeped softly, a clock ticked away on the wall. You were wondering if anything before had been real or if the medicine he gave you the first time had been some massive hallucination.

You opened the door and as you turned your head into the waiting room time slowed down. You saw all the women from before sitting in wait for their own check ups or medicine. All the faces seemed blurry except for a few one of them was the brown haired woman. She wore a swim suit and held a towel to her head as she looked tired. Her brown hair was still wavey and elegant looking but she had a nice tan going.

"Who ar-" you were about to call out when your eyes snapped open and you were laying in a bed staring up at an old ceiling. As you sat up you saw your clothes had been washed, still the same white dress but now it was clean.

"Lily!" A happy gaso drewbyour attetion and you were suddenly hugged. "Oh I'm so happy your awake!"

You pushed the hugger off and saw it was the woman in red. "Its you! I saw you in the doctors office!"

She laughed. "Yes, I was going because I had a horrible case of swimmers ear. By head was aching because of it. I had no idea when I got that show that I would be able to have this power!"

She twirled around, her dress fanning out as she did. Her once tan skin was now deathly pale. She resembled those zombies; if not for her flawless skin and being warm, not a single wound was on her body.

"Whats your name..?" You asked slowly.

She stopped spinning and smiled at you. "My new name is Rose. The name the birds have given me!"

"The birds..?"

"Yes!" She scurried away then came back with a box. When she opened it you gagged and quickly looked away. It was the same bird that had been nailed to your door when you first woke up. But this one had time to decay and grow insects. Roses were wilted all around the avian carcus.

"Isn't it lovely! To think I was givem the flower of beauty and love! Oh I was so happy!" Rose closed her box ans hugged it to her chest. "And you, lily, the flower of purity and innocence. We would work perfectly together..."

You frowned at her, regaining your composure. "Your kidding me right! This is horrible! Where's my friend!"

Rose frowned as soon as you asked about Leon. "He is... Not here" she smiled again. "You don't have to wory about him! Hes very happy where he I assure you."

"Take me to him!"

The woman frowned again, her hands coming together to her chest. "You... You're not awake yet are you..."

You looked at her like she was crazy, your (e/c) eyes meeting her sickly red ones. "Awake?! What arevyou talking about?!"

She suddenly looked scared and grabbed her head, pacing around as and shaking. "No no... Lilac will be so mad- you're suppose to be AWAKE!" She screamed at you suddenly, her hands shaking. "Why- why aren't you-"

She reached for your throat suddenly and you flinched but her handd never grabbed you. Instead she was now pulling away, like she had a sudden thought. "Yes... That must be it... You need a little more time... Just a little more time... Your still young..."

Her mumblings got smaller till you couldn't hear her clearly anymore. She walked slowly to the door and left, you heard a deep thud as the door must have locked.

"What the hell was that..." You said quietly, your body shivering from the experience. You slid off the bed and grabbed the door handle, it jiggled but wouldn't open. You growled and paced around the room thinking and searching. The room had no windows- just a single light that hung from ceiling. The dressers were empty and so was the closet. The bed had nothing under it either. You were starting to get so annoyed that you kicked the bed in frustration.

In shock you watched the leg of the bed shoot across the room. You stared down at your foot to see no damage done, but the bed sas unhappy. "What the hell..." You walked over and licked up the leg. It was long and had pieces of splitered wood sticking out of it now. You grinned as you got the most cliche idea.

"....on......-eon..... OFFICE KENNEDY!"

Leon jumped up in shock, kick a chair over behind him as he stood up. He reached for his gun but panicked when he didn't find it and instead looked around madly in fear.

"Woah woah calm down! Whats gotten into you?"

Leon spun to see Chris in front of him, hands up and looking concerned. "Chri... Chris? What?"

"You always this jumpy after a nap?"

Leon raised an eyebrow and leaned his hands on the desk in front of him. "A nap?" He pulled his hands back suddnely. A desk?! Looking around he saw he was in some kind of office room, but the room was decked out more with cork boards, white boards, and carious Televisions with news broadcasts and other things.

"Yeah... A nap? Chief Irons told me you'd be here."

Leons jaw dropped. "Brian Irons? He died."

Chris was looking concerned now. "No he's... Alive... He just got finished discussing the new RPD and S.T.A.R.S. team plan."

Leon slumped against the desk, he noticed he was in his old RCPD uniform. He touched his face wondering if any of this was real.

Chris suddenly snapped his fingers in front of him. "Hey!" He was also in his original S.T.A.R.S. uniform. "Claire is waiting with Ada for you."

"Ada?!"

Chris sighed. "Look can we just go? I'll drive so you can get over whatever mental break down it is your having right now."

With that Chris walked away and down some stairs. Leon stared after the larger man and looked out the window. It was Raccoon city, even if it wasn't in flames and destroyed you coukd easily tell it was the city lost years ago. A couple ran by in sports clothes on their morning jog, a man sat at a cross walk waiting for the light to turn so he can cross. A cafe was near by abd leon could see people laughing and having fun.

He pinched his arm slowly and it hurt, it must be real then right? He slowly smiled then ran after Chris Redfield.