#i censored the date in the report update bc im still trying to figure out the timeline lol

[geddy-leesbian]

here's a snippet of the Miracle prequel :3

Luis didn't love that he was being taken off of the Nemesis Project and relocated from Lab 6 to a US Umbrella branch to try and pretend to be some random kid's new father. 

But he knew that you don't tell Umbrella no. You do what the company says you should do– no, you do everything they tell you to do and more– or they destroy you. The lucky ones will be taken to Rockfort and executed immediately. The unlucky ones will be used as test subjects or tortured just for the sake of torture.  So Luis stands in a white hallway by a door, holding a backpack and looking down at a piece of paper, trying to muster up the strength to look a child in the eye and blatantly lie to her.

He's one of the most charismatic people among Umbrella's ranks. He's a damn good liar too, it's how he survived life on the streets. That, alongside his specialization in parasites, was why he was selected for this task. He'd had time to contemplate his approach on the plane ride, because he didn't have all that much experience interacting with children specifically. Mostly he thought back to when he was first scooped off the streets and love bombed by Umbrella. But, other than verbal praise and validation that he was so smart and special, that had mainly involved taking him places and letting him pick out whatever he wanted. Not being allowed to take Lucia, the test subject he's supposed to pretend to adopt, outside of the Umbrella facility she was in, he'd just gone shopping himself, picking out a backpack and then filled it with an assortment of things he thought a little girl might like. The room he enters is even more depressing than the average hospital room. The shiny white walls are clean, too clean, unsettlingly sterile. All there is is medical equipment, and a hospital bed with a little girl. She's curled up in a ball, her face down on her knees. One arm is wrapped around her legs, the other is outstretched, connected to an IV drip. Luis had skimmed Test Subject #1's files and knew that their demise was caused by failure to thrive, the parasite leeching too much from its host, so Lucia's IV was likely extra nutrients to prevent that from happening again. The girl lifts her head up when she hears Luis walking in and lifts her head, sizing up Luis. “You don't look like a doctor.” “I'm not,” Luis says with a cautious smile. “Well, I'm not your doctor. I'm here because I've been thinking about adopting for a while, and when someone I knew mentioned there was an orphan in a hospital with no one to visit… Tugged at my heart strings.” “You're adopting me?” The girl's defeated eyes suddenly light up. “I get to leave?” Luis nearly breaks, but somehow holds himself together. “I would like to adopt you. They told me your name already, Lucia. I'm Luis. Can I sit?” Lucia nods and Luis sits down on the end of the hospital bed. “But you have to stay here longer. You're still sick, you have to stay here until you get better. But once you're all better, you'll come home with me.” Luis has done a lot of things he's not proud of, but he's never felt this dirty. “I'm not sick. Wasn't feeling sick when the orphanage guy said I was and took me here. And I don't feel sick now.” “That's because of the medicine,” Luis hates how easily the lie comes to him and slips out. “You are very sick, but they're giving you medicines here that are working so well that you don't feel even a little bit sick. If I took you home today, you would go downhill and start feeling real bad.” “But I hate it here.” “I know. Hospitals aren't fun. But I'm going to try to make things better for you, okay? I brought you a few things today,” Luis hands over the backpack. “And I'm going to talk to some of the hospital people and see if maybe we can get some things to make this room feel a little cheerier. And I'm going to visit you everyday.” “Every day?” “Every day. And I'll get you more stuff too,” Luis promises, as Lucia unzips the backpack and starts looking through the random little toys and coloring books Luis had stuffed it with. “It was just hard shopping before even meeting you, I had no idea what kind of things you would like.”