A/N: So I decided to update earlier because I was super excited with the story and how it was working out. There are a few cute Lila and Chris moments in this chapter, I didn't want to put too many moments or interactions between them since the time frame they are in right now is a pretty hectic and dangerous one. Please, please, please drop a line and let me know what you think, because I'm not yet a hundred percent sure about this story.
It was the second night Alice and Claire had spent in the prison. While everyone else had taken a liking to the two, both Alice and Lila were still weary of each other. They made no effort to get to know each other or fix their relationship. Lila went about her business and Alice went about figuring out how to get out of the prison safely.
Walking around the roof of the building, Lila patrolled the area, keeping a close eye on Arcadia for any sort of movement. It was as if it was taunting her. Safety and protection was so close, but it felt like it was miles away. So untouchable.
"Lila, we're gathering in the max security cells. We're letting Chris free," Angel called for her by the door.
Lila's eyes widened. "Where's Cheryl?" she asked worriedly. Despite Chris' friendly nature towards Cheryl, Lila was still distrusting of him. He may or may not be a criminal, but she wasn't willing to take that bet with Cheryl around.
"She's with Luther," he reassured her.
Lila and Angel quickly walked to where the max security cells and the group were. They arrived just in to hear Bennett berating Crystal say that she wasn't even that stupid to let Chris out. Crystal looked at Bennett smugly and said that she was, agreeing to let him out.
"Lila!" Cheryl yelled happily, catching everyone's attention. They watched as Cheryl ran over to Lila and hid behind her leg.
"What's going on?" Lila asked. "Where's Wendell?"
"Wendell's dead. Apparently the infected have been using a swear system under the prison in the showers to get in," Luther informed her. "We need to get out of here and Chris is our only way out," he spoke. Lila knew that behind his statement, he was asking her if she was okay with it.
Nodding, Lila held on to Cheryl's hand. "So long as he doesn't harm Cheryl, I could careless if you let him go or not."
"Alright," Alice said, looking at Bennett triumphantly and made her way to the cell door.
Chris watched patiently. He couldn't lie and say that he wasn't excited, because he was. It had been over two years since he had seen daylight or fresh air. It had been over two years since he stepped out of that prison cell.
"Seriously?" Bennett asked flabbergasted. "This… this is a mistake!" he yelled out, making Lila want to punch him. "This is a big mistake!"
The doors slid open, Lila reached for her HK 45 hand gun, in case Chris decided to do something stupid like grab Alice's guns and started shooting the place up. Though the place was dim, Lila could see that Chris was sitting on the bench, before getting up and walking over to the entrance.
"I was wondering how long it was going to take," he said arrogantly.
Lila never really had a problem with Chris. She found him flirtatious, at least with her, and slightly arrogant. He was good looking, no doubt, and if he hadn't been locked in a prison, or this whole 'end of the world' thing never happened, he definitely would have been the type of guy she would be interested in.
He kept his eyes on Alice as he descended down the steps until he reached the bottom. Once at the bottom, he turned his attention to Bennett, making the former producer squirm in fear. "Boo!" he cried, making Bennett squeak.
"Alright, let's get the hell out of here," Alice said finally, and moved aside.
"Claire," Chris murmured, making Alice stop walking and turn around.
"What?" Claire asked, looking puzzled.
Chris walked closer to Claire. "Claire, it's me," he told her, walking closer and closer. "Its Chris," he said softly and raised his hand to touch her cheek, but Claire took it and wrapped him in a headlock.
"I don't know you," she sneered in his ear.
Lila raised her eyebrows and looked between Chris and Claire, and like everyone else, she stared at them in silence.
"Claire," he breathed out. "I'm your brother remember?" Everyone had a look of shock in their faces. It was rare to see family reunited after everything that had happened. Hell, it never happened. "What the hell's happened to you?"
Having enough of whatever was happening, Alice grabbed on to Claire's arm, making the amnesiac jump. "Hey, its okay. Let him go," she whispered. Obeying Alice's orders, Claire roughly pushed him out of her headlock. "She suffered some sort of memory loss. If you really are her brother, it'll comeback."
"Alright, this is a really touching family reunion, but if we could just get a move on before we're all eaten the fuck alive!" Bennett yelled angrily and for once, Lila agreed.
"So Pretty Girl, now that I'm free, still think I'm dangerous?" Chris asked in teasing tone, walking beside Lila, his eyebrows raised.
Lila smirked and just rolled her eyes. "As far as I'm concerned, I'm the one with the gun and I won't hesitate to shoot," she teased along and walked in a slower pace so she wasn't walking beside him.
The group stepped out of the building with Chris leading; they were instantly greeted with loud groaning from behind the iron gates. Lila felt Cheryl move closer to her leg, as if to make herself look smaller so that the undead wouldn't notice her.
Lila noticed this. Cheryl, having been born at the start of the apocalypse had her share of encounters with the infected, but she hadn't seen this many. Lila picked her up and led her to the farthest end of the grounds, away from the gate.
Chris was introducing the plan to the group, which Lila wasn't listening to, as she moved to the farthest end of the grounds, beside the doors everyone else was standing in front of, to remove Cheryl from all of the happenings and comfort her.
She crouched down to Cheryl's level and held on to her two arms. "I want you to stay here and just hold on to Jane, alright?" she ordered and received a nod from Cheryl. "Don't move from here no matter what happens okay?"
There was a loud bang from the iron gates, making everyone jump and look at the iron gates in surprise. Everyone's eyes widened when they saw a large man looking infected carrying a large hammer of some sort and started bagging on it gates.
Claire quickly sprung into action. "You go get the guns," she ordered Alice and Chris. "Luther, " she called for the two.
Chris and Alice ran back inside the building, Luther and Claire ran towards the iron gates. "My God," she gasped, taking a good look at the monster.
"Stay here Cheryl and don't move!" Lila ordered and handed Cheryl her HK 45 hand gun. "Use it when you need to." Lila went to help Claire and Luther who was warding away the undead.
"Luther, just shoot that mother fucker," Claire sneered at the monster.
Luther shot the monster straight in the head, but the bullet just went clean through his head. The three looked at each other in shock. So Luther shot again, this time Lila took out her twin Cold Double Eagle pistols from her shoulder holsters and joined in shooting it.
"What the fuck is that thing?" Luther gasped.
"I dunno, but it looks angry," Lila said and moved away from the gate. "We need to block it," Lila yelled, spotting a police car nearby. "Claire, Luther, help me with this." Lila ran over to the police car and opened the door.
Claire and Luther went behind the car and started to push it as Lila steered it to the gate. Nearing the gate, Lila noticed that with all the pounding that the monster was doing, it was breaking the hinges of the Iron Gate.
The hinges started to become loose, Lila looked to where Cheryl was and saw that she was gone. The blonde started to panic, trying to look for Cheryl and saw Kim carrying Cheryl inside the building, his face covered in blood. Lila looked over to the UVP and saw Angel on the floor dead. "Cheryl!" she screamed out.
Cheryl was crying, her hands out stretched and calling for Lila. Lila ran as fast as she could to catch up with Kim, but just as she reached the roof, it was locked by Bennett. Bennett was already in the plane, while Kim held onto Cheryl, who was still crying.
"Bennett, open the fucking door!" she yelled angrily. "If you harm a single hair on her head I will hunt you down," she threatened menacingly.
Claire and Luther joined her in trying to break down the door.
Bennett pulled out his gun and pointed it at Kim and Cheryl, paralyzing Lila in fear that he was going to shoot Cheryl. Her breathing stopped and her heart sank. Lila wanted to cry out for Cheryl, and tell her that everything was going to be alright, but she couldn't.
Even with all the noise from Claire and Luther's screaming, the plane, Kim talking to Bennett and the undead, all Lila could hear was Cheryl's crying.
Much to her relief he shot at the door beside of where she, Claire and Luther were and Kim ducked, along with Cheryl before the plane moved. Finally the gate was busted open and Cheryl went straight to Cheryl, pushing Kim roughly aside.
"Baby," she cried and hugged the little girl tightly.
"L-Lila," Cherly whimpered and hugged her tightly as well.
The two ignored everything that was going on and just hugged each other. After five years of battling the apocalypse, Lila had never felt fear like she had felt when she thought she was about to lose Cheryl. It scared her to think about what would have happened if she did lose Cheryl.
A gun shot brought her back to her sense and she immediately stood up, but it was too late the infected were drawing closer and closer to the two. She stood in front of Cheryl, pulling out her twin pistols about to shoot the infected headed right at her, but it was shot dead.
She snapped her head over to Chris, and saw him give her a smirk before shooting another one about to take a chunk at her. She smirked back at him, both Cheryl and Lila inching closer to the group until Lila was in line with Alice, Luther, Claire and Chris.
"Come on!" Alice yelled when they were soon becoming over run and ran to the elevator.
Kim went in first, then Cheryl, followed by Lila. She passed Cheryl over to Kim, giving him a stern looking, as if to say that he better guard her with his life or she'd be the one to pull the trigger on him and went back outside to cover Alice.
With precision, Lila shot each infected one by one right in the head until Alice emerged from the elevator and ordered them to head for the shower box. Lila moved Cheryl to the very end of the elevator, her eyes widening when she saw Alice throw a bomb at the top of the elevator.
"Crazy bitch," she whispered and wrapped Cheryl as much as she could to protect her from the bomb and for when they hit the bottom. Lila closed her eyes and hugged Cheryl tighter against her body, she felt Cheryl gasp her arm hard.
Once they hit the bottom, Lila let out a yelp and lost her footing. Expecting to hit the ground, Lila bit her lip, but she never felt it. Opening her eyes slowly, she saw Chris's arm wrapped around her. "Thanks," she said gratefully.
Chris nodded, and helped her and Cheryl out of the elevator. The group hurriedly made their way to the shower box just as Alice commanded.
