Chapter 2

Claire and Leon went downstairs to the living room to meet up with the others. Claire sat down on the couch and she forced Leon to sit next to her. Ark looked over at Claire and gave her another smile. She rolled her eyes and began to watch t.v.

Chris came down a few minutes later and shut the t.v. off

"Hey, we were watching that!" whined Lott

"Yeah!" said Lily

"We all need to talk." said Chris as he stood in the middle of the room.

"Can't we do this later Chris? I mean we just got here today." said Claire

"All the more reason. I think that they need to know what happened to us. This is really important."

Claire turned her head in the other direction. She didn't want them to know what happened to them. She didn't want them to hear about the crazy Ashford's and how they tried to kill them. She didn't want them to learn that their old Captain is still alive and now has superhuman abilities. And she definitely didn't want them to find out about Steve. She just wanted to forget everything that happened to her since Raccoon City.

"Claire?" Leon whispered into Claire's ear. A shiver went up her spine and she looked over at him.

"Yeah?" she whispered back.

"Chris just asked you somethin'."

"What?" Claire rose her head up and saw that her brother was staring at her.

"Like I was saying. Do you want to go first or second."

"I'd prefer neither."

"Claire, they gotta know. Plus it helps when you talk about things. Especially St-."

"Shut the hell up! I can deal with my own fucking problems!" screamed Claire at the top of her lungs. She leapt from the couch and ran upstairs to her room and slammed the door.

"What was that all about?" asked Jill

"Oh shit, she met up with this kid on the island. They got out together but they got taken to Antarctica, then a crazy bitch injected Steve with something and he mutated into a monster and tried to kill Claire. But now I think that she didn't tell me everything." said Chris.

Leon got up from the couch and started off to Claire. Chris grabbed his shoulder to stop him.

"Don't go up there." Leon ripped off Chris hand.

"Don't tell me what to do." Leon stormed up the steps and knocked on Claire's door. She didn't answer so he opened it and entered.

Claire was laying on her back staring at the ceiling. She glanced over at Leon and then continued to stare back at the ceiling. Leon shut the door and walked over to the bed and sat on the edge.

"Care to talk about it?" asked Leon

"No."

"You know that it doesn't help to bottle up your grief."

"What are you a shrink? Just leave me alone."

"I know how you feel Claire."

"No you don't." Claire shifted over on her side and began to stare at the wall.

"Did you love him? Steve I mean."

"No. He told me he loved me before he died. But I didn't share the same feelings as he did. And that's why I feel so bad." Claire began to cry silently to herself. Leon rubbed her back with compassion.

"Didi I ever tell you about what happened to me back in Raccoon?"

"No you didn't, but I figured it out after I found you in the hallway with that bullet wound. Ada right?"

"...Yeah. Ada Wong." Claire chuckled a little bit after he said her name. "What?"

"Nothing, nothing. Her last name is... Wong." Claire gave another little laugh but quickly stopped and got up. "Leon, I'm sorry."

"It's alright, I laughed myself when she told me too. Anyways, I pushed her out of the way when Annette shot at her, and that's how I ended up with this." Leon pointed to his shoulder indicating the wound.

"I know that, but what happened to her?"

"I met up with Annette later and she got hit with some debris from the ceiling. She was caring a sample of the G-Virus, so i took it, Then I was walking in Umbrella's Labs trying to get to the train. But Ada stopped me by pointing a gun at my face because she wanted the sample. I refused to give it to her, but when I finally did Annette came out of no-where and shot her." Leon stopped a little bit and Claire put her hand on his shoulder.

"She died?" Leon shook his head and looked at Claire in the eyes.

"Ada dropped her gun and fell over the side, but I caught her hand. I couldn't really use my other arm to help her. She fell down into darkness and died. Then I got Sherry and we got on the train with you. But the funny thing was that Ada's gun wasn't loaded, she wasn't going to hurt me at all to get the sample."

"You loved her didn't you?"

"I thought that I did for the longest time. But then I came to realize that I was just doing my duty to help her and I got my emotions crossed." Claire got close to Leon and pulled him into a hug. They stayed like that for a few minutes until there was a knock at the door.

"Come in." said Leon. Ark emerged into the room. Claire put a scowl on her face as he entered.

"Heya buddy. Redfield wants all of us to be downstairs now."

"Tell him we'll be down there in a little bit." Ark exited the room and Leon looked back at Claire.

"So Claire, don't blame yourself for his death. And then I wont blame myself for Ada's. Deal?" Leon put out his hand and Claire accepted it.

"Deal." They shook hands and got up from the bed. Claire had her foot caught in the covers and almost fell face first to the ground. But Leon caught her and put her back on her feet.

"Thanks, you really do like helping people don't you?"

"All in a days work ma'am." Claire lightly hit Leon on the shoulder and he flinched a little.

"Oh shit Leon, I didn't mean to hit that shoulder!"

"It's fine Claire, you just hit like a man ya know?" Leon laughed a little bit and put his arm over Claire's shoulders.

"You'll pay dearly for that Kennedy. I'll make sure of it."

"What you gonna hit me with another one of you man-hits?"

"I'm not a man and you know it!"

"I sure do, that outfit you were wearing in Raccoon definitely told me that you

were a girl."

"What was so wrong with my outfit?"

"Nothing. I just REALLY liked it that's all."

"Oh Leon you perv!" Claire ripped Leon's arm off her and darted for the door. But Leon wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her back. "Oh no, you're not getting away from me Redfield."

Leon flopped her back on the bed and sat on top of her. Claire's breathing began to dart as she stared at him.

"L-leon... what are you doing?" gasped Claire.

"Just a game that you and Sherry used to play. That's all."

"Wha- YOU WOULDN'T DARE."

"Oh I dare. And since you wouldn't let me come with you to Paris it'll be even worse than normal." Leon brought his hands up to his face and intertwined the fingers. He pushed them back until all of his fingers emitted the same cracking sound. He placed his arms next to Claire's sides.

"Leon. LEON. I'm serious don't do it or you'll regret it." Leon's hands came closer and closer to her. "Leon I-" Leon's hands contacted to Claire's sides and she immediately screamed. Leon began to furiously tickle Claire while she was pinned down on the bed. Claire started kicking and trying to punch Leon, but it didn't work. Claire continued to scream and laugh while Leon kept on attacking her ribs. It went on for a few minutes and Claire still tried to break free of Leon's grasp.

"Leon stop! P-p-please!!!" Claire's eyes began to fill with tears and then Leon stopped. He still sat on top of her and looked down at her tear stricken face.

"Now there's the Claire Redfield I knew."

"Rookie you got two seconds to get off of her or I'll kill you." Claire and Leon turned their faces to the door and saw that everyone was at the door frame. Leon got off of Claire and stood up. Leon looked behind Chris and saw Ark giving him two thumbs up.

"Jesus Chris we were just playing around." said Claire

"It didn't sound like that downstairs. It sounded like you two were having a little 'fun'."

"Chris."

"Claire we really don't need this right now. What if you and him got 'together' and you got knocked up huh? What the hell would we do!!?!!"

"Woah, woah, woah." said Leon as he put his hands up. "Who said anything about that?"

"It didn't have to be said. Claire getting all excited and anticipated to see you. You sending me the email about her being kidnapped. You even tried to force me to take you with me to rescue her. I shoulda know all along."

Chris pushed people put of the way and went downstairs.

"What the fuck was that all about?" asked Claire as she looked at the others. They all shrugged her shoulders and went downstairs. She looked over at Leon and saw him dumbfounded.

"Sorry about that. I thought that you knew Chris could be a little overprotective. Well hopefully it couldn't get any worse."

"Huh." Leon snapped back to reality and looked over at Claire. "What?"

"Leon you really gotta pay attention sometimes. Come on lets go down stairs." Claire walked out of the room and left Leon by himself.

"No. I don't believe it. Leon you got the hotts for Claire. And you didn't even fucking know it until now." thought Leon as he stared at the door frame. Claire popped her head in and looked at Leon once again.

"You comin' Kennedy? Or do I have do go downstairs by myself?" Leon looked at Claire and smiled at her and walked over to her. He put out his arm towards Claire before they descended the steps.

"Shall we?"

"Lets." Claire grabbed Leon's arm and the went down.

A/N: Holy crap I updated! Even i'm surprised. Sadly I didn't write a new chap. for DC. I'm writing this story to make up all the loose ends about the pairings in DC. I also want to write some action scenes, because all RE stories should have them. So there will be some Umbrella facilities taken out in this story. Also in Darkness, but it's takin' a little time for that, but they will be soon. (Because something happens to Bruce and Fongling!) Oh shit I just let the cat outta the bag. I'm also thinking about writing in the Russia levels from UC (Umbrella Chron.) w/ Jill and Chris at the end of this story... Yes now I just figured out something else. Brilliant. I have it all planned out amigos. All of it. If you like this story (what's so little of it) check out my other story The Darkness Continues. It about what happens after RE 4. It'll kinda spoiler this story, but eh it has more chapters and it's getting a little suspenseful. Plus I wrote it WAY before this one. If you have any complaints/ ideas just message/ review! Also thanks for the reviews, it appreciated!