Chapter 2

The Man

Jake walked in the shit hole excuse for a bar when he found the man he was looking for. The man had shoulder length salt and pepper hair. He was setting in a chair smoking a cigar drinking whiskey with a sultry brunette setting in his lap. Jake walked over to the man "Cohen." The man looked up and smiled, "Muller, have a seat I'll buy you a drink." Jake sat down and accepted his whiskey and he and the old friend talked and laughed as the brunette kissed and slithered on him. "Jake I guess you didn't track me down to this shit hole for nothing, what do you need from me." The man said as he dismissed the girl in his lap. "Billy never one to really beat around the bush. Fucking Neo-Umbrella kidnapped my girlfriend Sherry Burkin." "I know that name. she was a survivor of Raccoon City." "How do you know about Raccoon City." Jake asked with suspicion in his voice, had his mentor turned and started working for Neo-Umbrella. "I was imprisoned for something I didn't fucking do and was on my way to my death when the outbreak hit, I know all about Umbrella and about New Umbrella." Billy stated with a sadness in his voice almost a longing for something or someone there. "I have to get her back Billy." Jake said, a coldness was in his eyes as he thought about the things he would do to the people that took his girlfriend.

Jake and Billy went back to the hole in a wall motel room that Jake had rented. Jake sat down at the ramshackle table across from Billy, the yellow dim light flickered as Jake pulled the files out of his bag and laid them out on the table. Billy picked them up and started going through them, he found a file about someone else who was kidnapped the same not as his friend's girlfriend. He opened it. "Those motherfucking bastards." he cursed with hatred in his voice and rage in his eyes. "What hell is that all about Billy?" Billy looked at his friend with murder in his eyes. "Why didn't you fucking tell me that they kidnapped another person that night?" Jake looked confused and had a flame in his eye as he spoke. "Didn't think it was important when we broke in to save Sherry if the doctor was still alive we would save her to, my number one priority was getting my super-girl back." Jake spat with venom in his voice. "I'm sorry Jake. I never thought I would see her again. I figured she died in the nuke that they sent to Raccoon City." Billy said visible shaken, the man looked older than his forty two years. Jake knew that the woman had looked familiar and he realized where he had seen her at. Seven years back when Jake was just 15 years and starting out as a new solider of fortune trying to pay for his mother's medical care, a man from the states named Billy Cohen had taken him under his wing and treated him like a little brother. One night they were hiding in some woods outside of some rich political figures house that they were to assassinate the next morning. Billy removed a picture out of his shirt pocket and looked at it. He rubbed his index finger across it and then kissed it softly. He folded it back up and placed it back in his shirt pocket, but not before the boy had seen the picture. "Cohen that your girlfriend. She's hot." Jake said with an innocence in his voice that should not be there in a man that was fixing to have to kill someone. "No Jake. She's not. This woman is the reason I'm still breathing today. She's my doll face." The man said and looked like he had aged forty years in a minute. "Doll face. That makes sense now." The boy said as if some big question had finally answered. "What do ya mean that makes since now?" Billy said with an edge to his voice. "Every night before you go to sleep you say goodnight I love you doll face." Jake said as if it should be obvious. "You pay me no mind kid. Just an old used up solider working for top bidder now."

Jake snapped back to the present. "This is doll face." Jake asked as if he had not thought about this in years. "That's Rebecca Chambers, my doll face or princess if I want to piss her off." Billy said with a sad smile.

Jake went to sleep hours after his friend had went to bed. He whispered thinking that Billy was already asleep as he looked at the picture that he had grabbed of the two of them at the party "Hold on Super-girl. I'm on my way. Saved me once now I'll save you." Billy smiled a sad smile in his bed, after all those years ago, the little boy had grown into a damn good man, Jake was no longer the boy he taught to kill and hunt other men, but a man that had plans for a future with a woman he loved, and maybe just maybe by helping him he would have a chance at the love of his life as well.

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Sherry woke with a start on a cold metal cot, stripped of all of her clothes. She had healed her injuries in the fight the night before. She heard a whimpering in the corner of the room when she saw another woman huddled up. Sherry got up and walked toward the woman and she flinched when she neared. "Hey you don't need to be afraid of me. I'm in this same damn mess. I'm Sherry Burkin." she spoke in a hushed tone as she went to reach for the older woman. Rebecca looked up at her and winced, the light hurt her eyes, apparently they had stricken her in the head hard enough to concuss her. "Sorry, I promise I'm not a wuss or nothing, I'm Rebecca Chambers." Sherry recognized that name. "You're the girl that Chris Redfield worked with in S.T.A.R.S." "How do you know Chris?" Rebecca asked curiously. "Claire Redfield and Leon Kennedy rescued me when I was a little girl. I'm William Burkin's daughter." she stated. "I remember studying the affects of the G-Virus in you. Shit." Rebecca looked scared. They two girls continued to talk amongst them selves when they heard a voice outside the door. "Ssssh. I recognize that voice." Sherry said. "Riley can you bring the Burkin girl to the lab to test and take Chambers to the medical bay. Don't want her dying before she can be of use to me." Sherry froze she realized who they were dealing with. "Jake I love you I hope you know that." She thought to her self.