Disclaimer: I only own the characters Citrine, Mariah and Candice. Everything else belongs to Capcom and on other news I'm loving my new laptop I just got, pretty cool, something to use at my mom's for my fics maybe this will help me update faster...maybe.

Chris looked down at the suitcase on his bed, going back to his dresser he pulled out couple pairs of underwear and stuffed them into the suitcase before closing it. Checking what he had for ammo, a couple of clips for the beretta, some shells for the shotgun. Come on he would be flying his own jet so not like he had to go through any metal detectors or anything like that. Placing the weapons in the bag he quickly zipped it up as knocked on the door, looking through the peephole and saw Rebecca standing there, hands behind her back as she waited for Chris to answer the door. Unlocking it he opened the door. Rebecca smiled and waved at him.

"Rebecca what are you doing here so late?" he asked surprised at the sudden unexpected but not unpleasant welcome.

"I got your call...are you sure about this? I mean shouldn't you wait until we're all ready before you leave for Europe? If you wait we could all go together!" Rebecca said almost frantic when Chris placed his hands on her shoulders, calming her down. A small smile on his lips.

"I know you're worried about me 'becca, but please don't. You've been through enough and well..." Chris paused. He knew that after tomorrow Rebecca would be going with David Trapp, Captain of S.T.A.R.S Exeter team in Maine, to investigate some strange happenings in Caliban Cove. To be honest Chris wished that someone had chosen to go instead of her. But hey it wasn't that she couldn't take care of herself. It was just that...this WAS Umbrella, who knew what kind of tricks they had up there sleeves. Not that they didn't know since the engimatic Mister Trent decided to grace them with his presence not only to Jill and Candic but to David as well. Giving them clues to puzzles and other shit.

Chris still didn't know if he could trust the guy but hey who knew. The man had his reason for going against Umbrella, no doubt very similar to their reasons for fighting. Suddenly Rebecca was tapping him on the shoulder, snapping him out of his thoughts.

"You okay Chris? You kinda went into a daze there." She said, her hand still on his shoulder.

"Yeah sorry 'bout that...guess I'm tired. Been thinking about heading to bed soon." He said with a yawn and Rebecca smiled knowingly and eyed the clock on the kitchen wall. It read 1:30 in the morning. "you can stay here if you want." Chris offered. Rebecca looked up at him, her heart melted at the warm look he gave her.

"S-sure." Rebecca said with a shrug as he let her in. Rebecca reluctantly stepped in and looked around, okay so she'd admit it wasn't as messy as many homes of single men she knew but it wasn't quite as tidy as most. But all in all it was nice.

"You can have the bed if you want I'll..." he paused and moved to a tattered old sofa and swept some junk off of it and on to the floor. "Take the sofa." He Rebecca shook her head, she had come at and inconveinent time so she could at least take the couch.

"Nah," Rebecca said, shaking her head. "I intruded I can at least take the couch." Suddenly she noticed a small smile on his lips. When he finally said. "Then how about we share the bed then?" Seeing Rebecca's shocked look he began to chuckle and placed his hands on her shoulders, reassuringly. "Ah, didn't mean to spook you. Don't worry I'll keep my distance, I won't even hog the covers and I'll try not to snore." Chris said good naturedly. This in turn caused Rebecca to relax and giggle at this and nodded. Before shedding off her rain soaked jacket and handed it to Chris, who hung it up on the coat rack and lead to the bedroom. Despite feeling nervous Rebecca had to grin as he flicked on the light. Clothes, take out containers and other items littered the room, she could barely see the floor underneath all the junk. And she thought her room was bad, but then again the last tme she let her room get this bad was when she was twelve.

"Jeez, Chris haven't your parent ever told you to clean beore you have sleep overs?" she said good-naturedly, then quickly added; "Just joking by the way." Chris nodded chuckling again.

"Ah, don't worry about it that's what Jill says all the time when she's over." Realizing what he was implying Chris quickly added; "Sorry, I just realized how that sounded. Uh she would just come over to look over case files with me-"

"Chris, Chris calm down. I'm your friend not your mother what you do with Jill is none of my concern. Though the way you acted kinda just confirmed what Joseph once told me about you two." At this Chris' eyes widened and then narrowed, a smug smirk on his lips.

"Then remind to kill Joseph the next time I see him." He said jokingly. Rebecca smiled and looked to the bed, unmade and pllows and covers disarray, a few pillows fallen onto the floor. Quickly picking up the pillows and remade the bed and straightened the pillows and covers. Then turned to her.

"Ladies first." He said, jestering to the bed. Noddng her thanks Rebecca climbed into bed, followed by Chris soon after he turned off the light and pulled the covers over his shoulders and laying down. Closing his eyes and was soon asleep. But Rebecca on the other hand couldn't seem to get any sleep. Her mind hept going back to her friends, they had been like brothers to her and she would do anything to have them back. Suddenly she began to think.

Rebecca looked around nervously as she entered the Raccoon City police station, bewildered green eyes scanning her surroundings, not watching where she was going smashing into someone, causing her to stumble back, spilling her files everywhere. As if she wasn't stressed enough by now sh was close to becoming hysterical. Muttering a quick apology as she scrambled to pick up the fallen papers. When the person she smashed into knelt down to pick them up.

"Should be more careful next time kiddo." A voice spoke. Not hearing the the humorous tone in the tone in the persons voice, tears brimmed in Rebecca's eyes and stiffled a sob, before she started apologizing profusely.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry I should have been watching where I was going I just-" Rebecca sobbed again, and whoever was helping her muttered a small "Oh no." and helped her up and hugged her. Eyes wide the first thing Rebecca noticed was the tattoo of a pair of wings with a sword through it on his right arm, to the torn blue vest he wore, thn she finally looked in his eyes, calm grey eyes long brown hair and friendily smile on his lips.

"Yo must be the new kid right?" The man asked, still holding her against him. Rebecca nodded and sniffled, wiping her nose with the back of her hand.

"Before I forget my name's Forest Speyer. I'm Bravo teams vehical specialist." He said, pulling away from and holding out his hand out to her,smiling still on his lips. Nervously Rebecca took his and and shook it. Her hart sank this guy was with Bravo team? Oh boy, sure this guy maybe all friendly but she had her fair share of people like that during her school years, pretend to be her friend then turn and stabbed her in the back.

Suddenly someone lse walked up to the two and stood beside Forest. This guy had slicked back hair. Blue eyes and built and tall. Looking at him Rebecca wondered ho he managed to get anywhere without smacking into something, the dude was huge. Well not huge as in bodybuilder huge, but huge as in tall.

"And this is Edward Dewey one of our helicopter pilots." Forest said, jestering to Edward, who gave her a smile and held out hi hand as well. Rebecca shook his hand and mmbled a small hello.

"New kid huh? Enrico's waiting for ya." Edward said, jerking a thumb towards the hall. Nodding Rebecca walked past the two, ignoring the look she was getting from Forest. Though it wasn't one of those dirty looks she was used to getting from popular kids thought it was a look that made her uncomfortable.

"Dude don't even think about it." She heard Edward mumble. Coming to a door that had the words S.T.A.R.S office etched on it. Slowly she opened the door, and came face to face with Richard Aiken. Light brown shaved at he sides, beautiful blue eyes wearing a orange shirt and tight blue jeans that she was greatful for, considering the fact thet they did accent some of his best features, Rebecca noted as he walked past her after a breif hello.

Rebecca then turned to Enrico, who sat at his desk, file in his hand until she cleared her throat. His dark eyes fixated on her, as her heart began to flutter. It had been Wesker who recruited her to be the S.T.A.R.S medic and that guy just plain gave her the creeps, with those sunglasses of his and that stoic personality too. But with Enrico, Rebecca could clearly see the emotion in his eyes. He was definately pissed. Thought not at her but at something. Probably had to do with the file he was reading.

"You must be Rebecca. Wesker told me about you, kid that graduated colledge earily right?" Enrico asked, raising an eyebrow at her. Rebecca nodded.

Richard grinned reassuring as Rebecca tried in vain to hit the target, but was failing miserably. Rebecca looked over her shoulder at him and grinned sheepishly.

"Don't worry practice makes perfect." He said, then stood behind her, hands clasped over hers as he showed her how to aim and how to stand. Soon she was getting the hang of it. After her training session with Richard the rest of the team walked in on them Forest and Kevin grinned when they saw how close together they were. Quickly moving away from each other, blushing as a couple of the on-lookers gave a disapointed sigh.

"Rumor has it you don't trust me." Forest said matter of factly. His arms crossed over his chest as he looked down at Rebecca. Blushing Rebecca looked down at her boots. Well...akward. Suddenly his hand grasped her chin, not roughly or anything, just firmly, forcing her to look at him. His eyes burned into hers as they continued o stare at each other for a few more seconds.

"What have I done? I mean I've been known to get a little too friendly by putting my arm around your shoulders, but I mean I do that to everybody. Didn't mean to scare ya kid.". He said.

Pulling out of his grip Rebecca shook her head and turned away for a few minutes. Then said quietly. "It's not you it's me. All my life I've been used and betrayed by the friendly types. I promised myself never to be used, never to go through that misery again. But you know it was wrong of me to assume you were just like the rest. Sorry I jump to conclussions Forest." She said turning back to Forest who looked bewildered for a moment then grinned and spread his arms and said, "Well I say we start a new after all this ain't high school or colledge anymore honey...and do I look like the type of guy to cause a cutie like you harm?" he asked fuffling her hair, causing her to giggle.

Wrapping her arm around his waist as he wrapped an arm around her slender shoulders. The Southerner grinning down at the young medic as they headed to the office.

Kenneth watched as Rebecca punched at the punching bag and chuckled. "You're getting good at it kid, just use a bigt more force, the people we confront aren't four year olds, you really gotta put force into your blows." He said lightly. Nodding Rebecca took his example and began to use more force.

Yawning and barely able to keep her eyes open Rebecca turned ovr and so closed her eyes. Not noticing that Chris moved closer to her, his nose brushing against her forehead, his breath warm on her face, her hand brushing against his chest as she fell asleep.

Jill gasped as she pulled away from Joseph,and moved to the otherside of the couch, blushing furiously.

"Dude that was hot!" Joseph gasped and took a deep breath and then looked to Jill, who looked away from him as if ashamed.

"Jill, you okay?" he asked slowly moving toward her, watching as she flinched slightly.

"Man you can't be ashamed of that...man were you saving that for Redfeild? Dude I'm-" Joseph was cut off again as Jill kissed him once again, a breif kiss that lasted a mere couple of second but still amazing none the less.

"Joseph, I've been saving that for you for along time now. I guess should've waited. I mean we just through a lot of horrifying shit in that mansion. And despite my wanting to keep my feelings for you on hold I just felt them boiling over and I guess...either you felt something for me or..." Jill shook her head, she was rambling now, so it was best that she shut up. When Joseph smiled, not one of those carefree goofy smiles. A small, sad smile as he moved closer to her, wrapping his arms resting his head against her, nuzzling her, eyes closed.

"I love you Jill. I really do. But I know what you mean. With Umbrella spies lurking around every corner the last thing I want is to put your life at risk." He whispered into her ear, Jill closed her eyes and gave a shuttering sigh. He was right. If they truely cared for one another they would set their emotions aside until all this was all over and Jill hoped this got this sortid out soon as possible. Closing her eyes, a single tear slid down her cheek which Joseph reached up and brushed it away.

Citrine sniffled and lay down again. Eyes red and puffy from crying as she turned on her side. Things were just going peachy for her. Four of her friends were dead and so were her parents. Now she had no one. Noone. What would happen to her? Where would she go? Citrine rolled her eyes, no doubt she would be put in a foster home. Or maybe Jill some one else else would take her. She hoped Jill or maybe Brad, or any of the other S.T.A.R.S members. She desparately wanted to get out of the city, soon er rather than later. Call me paranoid but I have a bad feeling about what's going to happen to this city. And I think it might bu Umbrella related. She thought and sighed. Just as there was a knock on the door. Looking up up just as the door opened. Revealing; "Micheal?" Citrine asked, stunned well this was a surprise, she was xpecting Mariah or Candice even.

But nevder Micheal. Micheal had been her recent crush in her class. Messy brown hair and green eyes, wearing wire rimmed glasses much lik her own that lay on the pillow beside her.

"Hey, Citrine." He said quietly and sat down next to her.

"How did you know I was here?" Citrine asked.

"I spoke to Candice. You know to ask for you phone number and she told me...well everyting I guess but I had a feeling she was hiding something. Gosh sorry this had to happen to yuor parents." He said apoogetically. "And to the other four...what happened to them?" He asked. At that Citrine quickly turned away, Micheal's eyes widened and immmediately reached out touch her shoulder. But stopped, he could tell there was something much more going on. At a loss for words Micheal wiped his nose on the sleeve of his dark green hoodie, there were tears in his dark grey jeans, revealing scabbed over knees,

"What's gonna happen now?" he asked, a little hesistant. Citrine shrugged her shoulders and continued to look out the window.

"Well if worst comes to worst you can crash at my place. I'm sure my parents wouldn't mind. And if not..." Citrine heard paper crumpling, then he grabbed her uninjured wrist and placed something in her hand. Citrine looked up at him and watched as he looked at his watch and sighed.

"Well sorry for the unexpected visit, jact came by to say...get well soon." With that he was gone, leaving Citrine alone once again. Looking at the paper in her hand and slowly unfolded it. It read; Mike ules Great maybe whoever took her would have a computer, she'd talk to him then, who knew right?

Candice whimpered again and ducked under the covers as thunder rumbled over head. Now she didn't mind rain but she did hate thunder and lightning.

"Hey Candice." Mariah mumbled tiredly, rubbing at her eyes. "Yeah?" Candice whimpered, shivering.

"Your knee is digging into my gut do you mind?" she said tiredly. Nodding Candice streightened out her legs and turned away from Mariah as the older girl yawned as the older girl yawned and went back to sleep. Just as lightning flashed across the sky. "AHHHHHH!" Candic shreiked and huddled deeper into the bed. Causing both Mariah and Brad, who had been sleeping in the living room to awaken. Brad immediately grabbed his gun and ran to the girls room and turned on the light, blinding the girls momentarily.

"What's going on?" he asked, almost frantic. Blinking a couple of times until their eyes adjusted to the light.

"Lightning." Candice whimpered. Sighing in releif Brad walked over to her, his hand on he shoulder. A sympathetic look on his face as he said softly.

"Listen I know this might be a little weird but you could saty with me in the living room if you want. I'll take the floor and you can have the couch." He offered. Nodding Candice stood up and followed Brad out into the living room and turned the light off on her way out.

Mariah yawned again and stretched, pulling the blankets over her shoulders. Poor kid. She could help but feel sorry for them. But on the other hand she was surprised at how she and the other girls handled things in the mansion. But just because they handled things well in the mansion didn't mean it wasn't going to effect them in the future. But hey who knew.

Brad looked up at Candice, who lay comfortably on the couch.

"Feeling better?' he asked quietly. Nodding Candice turned away from and slowly fell asleep. Brad watched her fo a few minutes. If things were to get worst, not just with Umbrella but this thing with S.T.A.R.S as well he would probably to take the kids and hightail it out of here. But who knows. Yawning Brad turned on his side and closed his eyes and soon fell a sleep.

Day came all too quickly for them as Jill and the others gathered at the front of the police station. They looked at each other solomnly and headed to their cars. Jill with Chris and Joseph with Barry and Brad and Rebcca. None of them saying anything, just following the police cars and the motorcycles to the site. What was there to say, nothing to do, except to get back at Umbrella.

Sadly this is the last chapter of Curiosity killed the cat can't beileve how attached tohis I got over the years I've worked on it thought I am a bit sad that this fic had to end it's not like it's going to go anywhere, so yeah ANYWAY I got the first chapter to the sequal up it's call Two Dozen Roses check it out.