Silent Hill fic: Outbreak (Chapter 17 - fic completed!)

Outbreak on AO3
Or directly to Chapter 17
Fandom: Silent Hill (video game series)
Rating: M
Ship: none

Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Illness, Canon-Typical Violence, Character Death

Summary:
"In memory of the sixty seven who died of illness and now sleep beneath the lake." -The Rosewater Memorial in Silent Hill
The town of Silent Hill has long been known for strange events. In 2016, a virulent illness tears through the town, progressing rapidly through an array of horrific symptoms before the patients die. Worse, it has no identifiable cause. Epidemiologist Anna Garcia is sent to record everything she can about the sickness, in the hopes of tracing it to some point of origin, or discover something to combat it. She finds far more to the history of the town and its strange past.

Alternates between epistolary "reports" and prose chapters.

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In chapter 17, Anna completes her epidemiological report. Symptoms are "miraculously" in remission for the remaining patients... so why doesn't it feel like everything is over?