‘So Raine is actually Elizabeth, the daughter of one of the big twelve of Umbrella. Her mother was genetically enhanced…no experimented on, the outcome not as jolly go lucky swell as Malconin and crew, so she was terminated, courtesy of the UBCS. Not me though, off duty that day…’ Chrys leaned back deep into the chair, closing her eyes as she relaxed, concentrating. ‘Then her father…he was said to have been killed six years ago, at least that’s what his profile read. But he made that video less than two years ago so he must have been in hiding until then…he’s dead now though, he, unlike his other comrades, chose the path of humanity.’
Sighing, Chrys took out a Salem cigarette, only able to place it to her lips, resting her eyes on the darkened ceiling. ‘And the man training her…he was readying her for bigger things, once she’d fully developed, Raine would’ve been inducted into Umbrella…whether she’d wanted to be or not.’
Sticking her cigarette behind her ear, Chrys turned off the screen with the tip of her beretta. “What a fairy tale this has been…” she muttered heavily in sarcasm.
Two hands rested lightly on her shoulders. Chrys looked up once more, seeing Paul look down to her with a curious smile. “What’re you talking about?” He pulled back her hair from her face, kissing her on the forehead.
A calm overtook her, the situation temporarily forgotten. She adjusted herself up in the chair, moving her lips to his, and embraced him quickly, getting in a small kiss as she dragged his head down. Narrowing her eyes, she held onto his hair, head tilted back to look at him. “It is a long story.”
Paul stared down to her, kissing her forehead lightly. He dragged himself away from her plying hands, spinning the swivel chair around so that Chrys now faced him. Crossing his arms, he shrugged. “We’ve got time,” He looked around. “Where’s Raine by the way?”
“Keeping herself busy for the time being,” Chrys murmured, resting her head against the warm glass screen of the computer. She laughed a little to herself, smirking up to Paul, no humor in her eyes. “I…you know, I remember this movie I saw. Reminds me sorta of this…”
Paul looked to her oddly, then sat down, taking a seat beside her, imploring her to continue. Chrys looked up thoughtfully. Getting casual, she leaned forward, elbows resting on her knees as she sat spread eagle, quite un-lady like. “This movie, several strangers were gathered up into this location, trapped there for the night, no escape in sight, tempest raging outside. Sounds like your typical horror movie, right? Well, throughout the evening, they get to know each other, and they all realize they have a lot of things in common, a strange pattern among themselves. Oh, and lets not forget their all slowly being knocked off, one by one, by who or why it’s a mystery…”
Paul closed his eyes as he listened, keeping his arms crossed. He sat in a copied position to Chrys with the exception of him leaning back. “So these people are gathered up, strange similarities, all being hunted down and nowhere to run…what’s the deal?”
At this, Chrys chuckled rather bitterly, calming down her cold laughter quickly. “It’s all a dream, an illusion if you will. None of them exist, instead, they are all identity’s in one very twisted man’s head. However, one of they identities are evil so in order to root it out so that a good identity remains, each ‘person’ is killed off one by one in his head and for awhile all seems Hollywood style good.”
“But if it reminds you of this, all probably didn’t end well…” commented Paul dryly.
“Of course not Paul, life’s no fairy tale,” Leaning up, Chrys closed her legs, opting for crossing them instead. “They thought they ended up with the good identity, but out of the darkness, the bad identity, the innocent identity, the child, the only original one…out from nowhere he came and killed the good identity. And the man, the vessel, was consumed by his dark innocence, and he killed and killed and killed…” Chrys got out from her seat with a heavy breath, shrugging as stood up. “At least, that’s what you’re left to believe…” she trailed off, tapping her beretta against the screen. “What if this was nothing but a dream? We were all gathered here…just to die,” Chrys looked up to Paul, her eyes having lost all warmth, a bitter anger at what might be their fates. “Just to be witness to the end of the world?”
Paul stood up, about to say something, when a loud voice suddenly ran out. “Found it! Finally!” Raine came from around a still standing bookshelf, holding up a paperback book high in the air. At seeing the current scene, she lowered her hand, glancing about awkwardly. “Did I interrupt something?”
Regaining control of her emotions, Chrys shook her head, taking the book from Raine’s hand. “No, not at all. We were just getting ready to leave,” Eyes resting on Paul, she looked to him almost warningly. “Right?”
Paul hesitated, nodding after only a minute as Chrys headed back downstairs, Raine following after the duo as they headed back into the streets of the city.