Fic: When the Waters Clear (Alice/Claire, Resident Evil)

[fembuck]

Title:  When the Waters Clear
Author: Janine
Fandom: Resident Evil: Afterlife
Pairing: Alice/Claire
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I don’t own them.
Summary: Claire is having trouble adjusting to life onboard the Arcadia.

 

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Water battered against the side of the boat sending clouds of mist into the air. Claire breathed in deeply and closed her eyes, relaxing as the vapor washed over her. The air was chilly and the spray stung her cheeks, but Claire didn’t mind. She had spent so long in a stupor that she was desperate to feel again. Even the cruel caress of wind, and cold water biting at her skin was treasured.

Water stretched as far as her eyes could see. The seas were as calm as they were endless, and as olive eyes swept over the deep blue expanse Claire felt a sort of peace settle over her.

The emotion was so unexpected, so foreign, that Claire’s heart skipped a beat. Her body jerked back in surprise, her eyes snapped open and her hand automatically rose to cover her heart, as if she hoped that she could force it into beating normally.

“It’s strange, isn’t it?”

A small smile touched Claire’s lips as Alice’s voice reached her. She hadn’t heard the brunette approach, but then again she never did. She had gotten used to being surprised when it came to Alice.

“What is?”

“Feeling secure,” Alice murmured, her lips curving up slightly as if she was amused though her tone and her eyes remained staid. “Civilization fades so quickly,” she sighed thoughtfully. “We’ve forgotten stability. Tranquility makes us nervous.”

Claire sorted indelicately and smiled ruefully.

“It is strange not to be constantly surrounded by death and decay,” the redhead sighed as she turned so that she was facing Alice. “I want this to last so badly, but everything in me rebels against it. Out there,” she motioned towards the seas and all that lay beyond it, “nothing will ever be the same again. I think I’m finally starting to understand that I’ll never get back to who I was before either.”

Alice walked forward until she was standing directly in front of Claire, her thoughtful cerulean eyes lancing Claire with their intensity as they gazed at each other.

“Even before the world went dark nobody ever stayed the same,” Alice whispered, looking down to take Claire’s hand into her own, smoothing her thumb over the sparsely freckled back of it soothingly.

“Still,” Claire sighed though she unconsciously leaned towards Alice, “I miss how at ease I used to be with the world. As awful as it sounds, I miss the, I don’t know, the arrogance I had before.”

“Of youth?”

Claire shook her head and then smiled humorlessly.

“Of species,” she sighed, rolling her eyes at herself before she looked over at Alice through her eyelashes.

Alice smiled at the response and then leaned into Claire, wrapping her arms around the redhead, holding her tightly as she buried in her noise in flaming hair that smelt of the sea and the future.

“It’s no fun being on the menu, is it?”

“On the menu?” Claire sighed. “We’re the whole menu.”

“Not now,” Alice said seriously, pressing her lips against the soft skin of Claire’s shoulder before she nuzzled her face into Claire’s neck. “Not out here.”

“The rest of the world---”

“Is too big and diseased for us to save,” Alice sighed as she squeezed Claire’s hands with her own. “Noah couldn’t stop the flood. All he could do was survive it to ensure that when the waters cleared and the earth was fit for man and beast once more, that there were men and beasts to populate it. We’re doing all we can by living.”

“That’s … an extremely depressing thought,” Claire sighed, her eyes fluttering closed as she leaned back into Alice’s lithe but strong body, comforted by the warmth and solidity of her.

“I know,” Alice murmured, tracing her fingers lightly up Claire’s arms. “But this life isn’t all bad, is it?” she continued kissing Claire’s neck softly.

Claire smiled widely as Alice explored the soft skin of her throat and then she turned in Alice’s arms so that they were facing each other.

“No,” Claire breathed out. “Re-animated corpses and all, there is still much beauty in the world.”

Claire stared at Alice unblinkingly as she spoke, her hands lifting to take the brunette’s face into her hands.

“And many pleasures to be had,” Alice drawled, her voice a dry rasp as Claire’s thumb caressed her plump bottom lip.

That tone in Alice’s voice had a way of undoing Claire and the redhead found herself leaning forward to capture Alice’s lips in a deep, lingering kiss that left her feeling unsteady on her feet.

“We should go inside,” Claire said feeling parts of her body begin to warm though it was still cool out on the deck.

Alice smiled and took Claire’s hand into hers. The world had been wild for long enough that having a bed was a novelty to those onboard the ocean-liner, and Alice and Claire had been making the most of the large bed in the Captain’s – now Alice’s – quarters since they had commandeered the ship.

Claire leaned into Alice’s body as they made their way through the narrow halls and Alice held her hand more tightly.

It was an imperfect world they lived in, but Claire knew that she was lucky to be part of it, and that she was even luckier to have a woman like Alice at her side, waiting out the flood with her until the waters cleared and they could walk together on the earth once more.

The End

Comments

[darkensandor.livejournal.com]

yeah this should be a deleted scene for the movie cause any one who saw the movie would be blind if didnt think this story could happen for reals cause Alice+Claire=femslash win and I so cant wait for Jill in the next movie I missed that sexy bitch in action

[giacomplex.livejournal.com]

*gobbles Alice/Claire fanfic up*

You did post something! Yay! I really very much love your Resident Evil/ Alice/Claire stories but I was momentarily confused on which position they were both in. I imagined Alice standing behind Claire acting as the “big spoon” but then there were points when they were facing each other. Maybe it was just me misreading everything… or just getting too lost in the hotness that is Alice/Claire. Ugh, loved it! I may sound like an unappreciative broken record but, more? *gives you candy*

PS- if you ever need a beta for anything, I can most definitely help you out with the grammatical issues etc. I’m a whiz =]

[vvannoi.livejournal.com]

I ship them so, so hard! Loved last movie. They both were super hot and slashy in it, or maybe it's just my perverted mind. Anyway, super excited to see you wrote a fic with them.

[sinandmisery.livejournal.com]

HAVEN'T EVEN READ THIS YET BUT I'M CAPS LOCKING BECAUSE OMG MORE ALICE/CLAIRE!!!!!!! They are seriously my most under-appreciated OTP (Well. Alice/Rain is tied) so whenever there is new fic I have to squeeflail like a little girl at a Miley Cyrus concert. *RUNS TO READ*

[wickedpsychelj.livejournal.com]

Oh man I watched the entire film with my femslash goggles on! I was waiting for someone to write some Alice/Claire, i am so glad its you! For that matter how can we force persuade you to write more?

[orange-creative.livejournal.com]

I ♥ the Resident Evil movies for giving us this pairing.

[shemp-o2stk.livejournal.com]

so sweet, and that movie was so gay. i dunno what other audience members were thinking watching some of their scenes together but oh geez it was totally femslash.

[arkeis07.livejournal.com]

I love that people automatically assume I'm crazy for zombies because I keep talking about the Resident Evil movies. Oh, if only they could hear the dulcet femslashy tones I exude when I talk about how Alice and Claire make a great team~

I hope they keep making these movies if only for the fodder for you to write more stories <3

[nudeinthegutter.livejournal.com]

awesome! a really sweet moment between a clearly canon couple! Where can I find some more Alice/Claire fics?

[yukivampyra.livejournal.com]

I was waiting for you to write something for this movie. As soon as I watched it, I was going "Look! They're more couple-y than the last one!"

Amazingly lovely as always. ;)

[(Anonymous)]

While I was watching the movie I was thinking "I hope Fembuck's going to write fic for this..." and you totally delivered. So, thank you!

I can't believe there isn't a ton of fic out there for these two because Afterlife is so super gay that Alice/Claire is practically canon. My gf and I were chortling all the way through at the blatant femslashiness.

[mistressdenna93.livejournal.com]

Resident Evil never does disappoint in the femslash department, does it? At least not in the movies. I've always been more of an Alice/Jill shipper myself, but damn if Afterlife didn't make me ship Alice/Claire too! There was so much subtext in that movie that it officially ceased to be subtext at all. It's canon, people. CANON.

Thank you so much for this. It was a perfect little addition to the end of the movie. Before the big Umbrella Army of Doom showed up, of course. I was literally hopping up and down in my seat when Jill showed up. The next movie's gonna be so hard for me... Alice/Jill is my OTP, but now I have so much Alice/Claire canon in my brain...

Random question: You never posted your thoughts on the second half of the Merlin premier. I loved the follow-up story you wrote (and pretty much treat it as a deleted scene). I spent the entire episode entertaining the utterly hopeless notion that Camelot would actually fall to Morgause. I was truly disappointed to see the "good guys" triumph. Stupid Merlin. I was just wondering what your overall thoughts were.