Note: This story takes place after the events of Resident Evil 2 the game before Claire leaves to find her brother, Chris
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Leon Kennedy, Claire Redfield, and Sherry Birkin were upon an escape train speeding away from the exploding destruction of the underground Umbrella lab on the outskirts of Raccoon City.
The self-destruct sequence was automatically triggered to cover Umbrella's tracks as they created the G-Virus that caused an outbreak in the city.
Leon arrived in the city as it was his first day on the job with the Raccoon City Police Department. Things...obviously didn't quite go as he imagined. The police department had been overrun with zombies and other virus-mutated creatures.
It was with the help of Claire that he managed to escape the horrors of the city. Claire happened to arrive in town looking for her brother, Chris Redfield. She found his journal in the STARS office in RPD but no Chris. However, his entries left a clue as to his whereabouts and what would be Claire's next destination.
During their escape from the nightmare, Leon and Claire found Sherry roaming the police station and there was not a second thought to protecting her and taking her to safety. With Sherry's mother's death at the hands of her monster-mutated father, Claire's natural instincts as a caregiver took over.
Before leaving the laboratory, Claire risked her very life to create a vaccine for the young girl as she was infected by her monster-father as he attempted to implant embryos into her.
And here the trio was, hearts racing as they narrowly escaped the clutches of the reaper. The train's destination coordinates were locked in and couldn't be altered but anywhere that wasn't Raccoon City would suffice.
Another blast from the lab sent shockwaves that rocked the train sending the three tumbling to the floor. Claire, with Sherry's cure in hand, lost it in the fall.
"Get down!" Leon shouted as he leapt upon the girls to shield them from harm.
Once the train's rattles subsided, Claire scooted across the train's chilled floor and snatched the vaccine before it rolled away.
Leon scooped Sherry into his arms and hurried her to a nearby bench.
He looked upon the young one with his blue irises that shook with concern. "She's unconscious!"
Claire lifted the syringe for him to see. "I have the antidote!"
She scampered over to the child and administered it to her arm with haste.
They both locked their eyes upon her knowing she would wake. She had to!
The blonde kid was wearing Claire's pink jacket. It was another sign of how much she was cared for.
After a few moments of not even a stir from Sherry, Leon asked, "What's happening? Is anything happening?"
Claire glanced at him for a moment before focusing again on Sherry. "Please, not now!" She pleaded, "Come on Sherry! Wake up! Please wake up!"
A few seconds passed when she began to fidget a bit. Her eyelashes soon rose to reveal her eyes again to the world.
"Uh, Claire? Where am I?" Sherry asked upon sight of her caregiver.
A sense of relief washed over Leon and he released a deep, tightly held in breath. "It worked!" Leon, despite the terrors they'd survived and Sherry's scare, was feeling better than he had since setting foot in the city. He walked towards the front of the train and said, "It's finally over..."
Claire, from her knees, said, "No, I still have to find my brother."
Leon looked at her. "You're right. This is just the beginning."
He peered through the window in front. They were still speeding through the escape tunnel being carried away to parts unknown. Wherever they were headed, they had a feeling that at least for now, they would find a moment's peace.
Leon walked with care to a nearby seat. He lowered himself to it with ease as his muscles were aching and the gunshot wound through his chest began to nag at him.
"Claire, I'm going to catch some sleep while we have a moment!" Leon said but she seemed to be preoccupied with caring for Sherry. "Wake me up when we get to where we're going."
"Sure, okay..." Claire said while on her knees with the young one.
Leon stretched out with a groan. With visions of flesh eaters closing in on him and lickers leaping with tongues flying and razor-sharp claws to take his life, Leon found it a challenge to catch a nap.
When he was finally able to drift off, the image of the Tyrant monster punching the breath out of him entered his mind. He could still feel remnants of the power from his crushing blow. The resulting tossing and turning further tore him from any sleep he intended on getting.
His gunshot wound reminded him of Ada Wong, another woman he'd met in the police station. He shielded her from the raging bullets of Sherry's mother, Annette, who was trying to end her. Ada turned out to be a spy working for a rival company to find evidence against Umbrella. The spy was beautiful with a sexually magnetic aura about her. Leon couldn't help but be attracted to Ada but found it easier to let her go when he realized her true intentions. Her mission was the only thing that mattered. Leon was nothing but someone to use along the way. He began to wonder whether it was worth it but either way, his wound served as a memento of his encounter with her.
What
really
snared his attention was the pretty, lively woman with reddish brown hair nearby. Claire had the means, cleverness, and ingenuity to survive the nightmare. She handled herself like it wasn't her first encounter with the undead. She seemed to know what she wanted and wasn't going to stop until she had it. Most impressive for someone that appeared to be approaching two decades old.
How could one not have naughty thoughts about her? Young, cream-toned skin, red hair dangling in a ponytail, cute, round breasts, and a shapely ass would make anyone lose it.
He positioned himself on his side with an arm folded beneath his head. He had one blue eye with its sights on Claire.
When he wondered what it would be like to be inside her as one, his mind really went wild. The beast within was tempered somewhat as she seemed laser-focused on locating Chris. Having time for Leon didn't seem to fit in the plans. Leon faded into the land of dreams with his fantasy.
Leon was twenty minutes into his snooze when the train began decelerating and he awakened from the sudden change of speed.
Claire rose to her feet and stumbled towards the front to see where they wound up.
Leon, feeling like a man three times his age, held his wound as he groaned and sat on the edge of his seat. "Where are we?"
Claire peered through the windows to view a picturesque scene with open, green fields on either side set beneath a sky blue dome with scattered white clouds above them. Further down the tracks coming into their sights and growing larger by the second was a town with a handful of buildings arranged in a circle.
The train screeched to halt and stopped on its own in front of a platform on the edge of town.
Claire marched over to Sherry, took her hand, and right for the door they walked. Leon saw a look on Claire that said she knew—or
thought
