Resident Evil Extinction

Chapter 4: A Glimmer of Hope

Chapter 4: A Glimmer of Hope

Alice shifts on the couch as she was fluttering her eyes open, Annabelle shot up awake, she then shields her eyes as they adjusted from the light that was shining in, Alice held up her arm as she tries to shield the light, but then notices a bracelet on her wrist, Annabelle then heard giggling, then looks over and saw that the kids that she and Alice saved were peeking in and then quickly ducks down. She smiles a little and then rotates her neck, but then she felt something cold on her neck and places her hand on it, she felt a necklace on her neck.

She then looks down and saw that it was a golden chain necklace with a little heart hanging from it. She smiles and then stood up stretches and walks over next to Alice and sat down. "You good?" Alice asks her and Annabelle nods at her, but then they look a the teen that was sitting in front of them. "Hi." she said, smiling at them, "Hey," Alice whispers as Annabelle smiles and waves her. She then places her hand on the necklace as Alice grips the bracelet gently and they look at her. "These belong to you?" they ask her, she just smiles "I gave them to you last night. For luck." she answers them. The two smile at her, "Thank you." Alice said as Annabelle mouth the same words to her, then Alice sat up, giving Annabelle room to sit down next to her. "What's your name?" Alice asks her as Annabelle rubs her neck. "K-Mart," she answers her. Annabelle smiles at her as she tilts her head "It's where they found me. Claire and the other... A few years back." she answers her. Annabelle nods at her. "And your birth name?" she asks her.

K-Mart just shrugs at her, shaking her head. "Never like it. Um, everyone I know is dead, so... seemed like time for a change." she answers her, the two nodded at her and just smiles.

Everyone else was outside, standing in front of grave crosses of the ones they lost in the attack. One removes their hat as another took a kneel. "Anyone wanted to say something?" Claire asks them. Alice pats K-Mart's shoulder as Annabelle pulls on a spear coat, then pulls on a shawl and they both step back away from the funeral, Carlos looks at Alice as her eyes caught his. L.J walks up to one of the graves and then places a necklace on it and Carlos pats Claire's shoulder and then walks over to the two with Claire in toil. Then the two walk up to the two women, "Alice, this is-" Carlos states. "Claire. Claire Redfield." Annabelle answers and the two look at her as Claire just smiles at her, then she hugs her. "It's good to see you again," she tells her, Annabelle just smiles at her. "Me too," she tells her then pulls away from her.

Annabelle then nods at her. "Where have you been?" she asks her, Annabelle just sighs. "We'll talk about it later. Claire, this is Alice, I met her on the road a few days ago," she informs her. Claire nods at her "I'm the one that put this convoy together." she states and then shook her hand. "Thank you so much for her help." she states and Alice nods at her, "Claire!" K-Mart calls out to her, she looks at her, nods and looks back at them. "Excuse me. I have some things I have to attend to. Annabelle, we are going to talk about what happened." she informs her, Annabelle nods at her and she walks away. Then Annabelle places her hand on her shoulder, "I'll give you some privacy." she informs her, Alice just nods at her. Then Annabelle walks over to the gas pumps and hid under than from the sky. People walk past them as they were walking slowly as Alice and Carlos walk slowly. "In the last six months, she lost half of the convoy. Pretty soon there with be more of us dead than alive," he informs her.

Annabelle watches them as the people walk past them, then Claire walks up to her and Annabelle looks at her. "Claire," she states as she leans back against the pumps. "Why did you leave?" she asks her, Annabelle just exhales. "Remember when you found me running from the facility in Paris?" she asks her. Claire nods at her, "Well they weren't just experimenting with me, they were installing a chip inside my head, but I was able to escape from the facility before that happened, but... they had my blood and were tracking me." she states, Claire crosses her arms and Annabelle rubs her neck. "I left, broke into the facility in Paris, downloaded the satellite tracker and stay off the grid ever since," she answers her with a shrug. "Why didn't you come back? We all missed you, Jacob missed you, Sherry missed you, I missed you and..." she paused for a moment. "Your husband misses you." she informs her, Annabelle exhales and wipes away the tear, "And I missed you all, but I had to stay away, Umbrella was going to find me either way, I couldn't endanger you." she informs her, "And when everything went to hell, why not come back?" she asks her, "The world may look like its ended but looks back be deceiving. I knew Umbrella was going to find me, I needed to be alone in case they did so." Annabelle answers her. Claire nods at her "If that's true, why did you come back?" Claire asks her, Annabelle just looks at her and smiles, "Old habits die hard, I guess." she answers her.