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Breath stops just short of leaving Piers’s lungs with what feels like a fist burying firmly into his gut, footsteps faltering as he comes to a dead halt. No, there was no way--it wasn’t possible. He’d seen that stupid, shadowed smirk so many times before, even if mostly from the corner of his eye, that finding Alex in a crowd had almost become too easy. He knew that black coat overlaying a heather grey hoodie, he knew the posture the virus carried.
So how was it, that in the blink of an eye, Alex was no longer there? How was it that Chris, of all the people in this godforsaken city, Chris fucking Redfield, was the one that stood before him, looking ten years more exhausted than Piers remembered.
This was a dream. It had to be. It had to be. Just another wishful dream that had managed to creep up on Piers, even after he’d long buried the thought of ever tracking Chris down and telling him that he’d survived, that he was...well. Little more than a mutated corpse. Right. That’s why he hadn’t.
A flurry of emotions works their way across Piers’s face, and an undignified squeak is all that really leaves his throat, before he shakes his head, good eye burning up with unshed tears. “N-no, there’s...there’s no way this is real, you’re not...here, there’s no way you’re here right now...”