Can't they just stay dead?

The Killing Lights - AFI - Decemberunderground

Leon Kennedy leaned against the wall looking back towards the main section of the library. They had ditched his rental a few blocks away when the townspeople had attacked them. Cole had lead him through the city managing to stay one step ahead of them. Which was how they had gotten into the building. Both of them had gotten hurt, though Cole was shoving it out of her mind. She had patched up his cut arm and was now trying to hack into a computer at the University in order to try to figure out what was going on.

"Fuck," She grumbled as the system booted her out again.

"What's the problem?"

"I think they have an idea I'm trying to hack in. What's it look like up there? Because I can't see anything from where I'm sitting."

He glanced around quickly. "We're still clear. Here let me take a look." Leon knelt by her. Cole let him take her laptop as she stood. "I'm going to go get a drink. Want me to get you one?"

"Sure we have time to hang out here?"

"It's Summer Solstice. No one comes to the library on a holiday." She grinned holding her sore arm. Unlike Leon, she had managed to just get a few scrapes, nothing that she could really bandage up. "We're safe for a little while at least." She had made it as far as the doors that separated the kiddie books from the rest of the library and froze.

"Great, looks like we have one of the two out of towners." A tall man in an Umbrella uniform smiled keeping his gun on her. She backed up a little, holding up her hands. "Don't move another step."

Leon quickly stuffed her laptop back into the hard pack she had before he moved around one of the book shelves. Cole stayed still as the man stepped closer to her.

Great... I'm going to have to deal with being eye candy for mercs now. To make it worse, Have to babysit for Redfield. Can my day get any worse? Before the man could get too close, a large shape barreled through the plate glass window at them.

Leon tackled Cole pulling her down and away as the man who had been aiming the gun at her was caught by the tongue of a licker.

Cole saw it and once she and Leon had hit the floor she scrambled back, her eyes shifting about, trying to find something to use as a weapon. Not again... I don't have a katana with me this time... She felt her back hit the check out desk and bit back a scream as gunfire went off above her. Curling up against the wall of the desk she willed herself to calm down.

Sweet Pain - Blues Traveller - Travelers and Thieves

Cole was seated on the bench, so far the Security Division officers believed the story that she had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Unfortunately they had recognized Leon on sight. Once the two were marched into a smaller meeting chamber, she had been told to stay on one side of the room. The man who was in charge of keeping her there had only grabbed her shoulder when she had tried to stop them from hitting him.

"Miss Ward, please, don't. I don't want to have to hurt you."

"But they're hurting him. Let me go. He was the one that kept them from killing me earlier." COle winced as the hand on her shoulder tightened it's grip. "Ow... Let go!" She fought the urge to grab the man's wrist and make him let her go. After all, she was supposed to be playing the act of a frightened college student. If there's another one of those lickers here... It won't be an act. I don't want to deal with them... Not without a missle launcher. She rememebered dealing with one three years before. That time she had broken two ribs, and lost a nine year old girl, whom she had promised to protect.

The man shoved her back into her chair and she stayed still, biting her lip.

Bullet With Butterfly Wings - Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness

Leon scowled a little. They had already figured him out. He had at least managed to keep Cole's cover intact. She had a little more to lose if she was found out. When they had been ushered to two different sides of the room, he had caught the scared look in her eyes. The licker... She said that she had dealt with one before... Could she be fighting the memories?

Over dinner, take out from a small local pub, and a stop at a liqour store to get a bottle of whiskey, she had told him about what had happened three years prior. Leon hadn't believed that the woman before him was actually a reanimated corpse. After all, she had better motor functions than the zombies had back in Raccoon. She had shown him the files on the virus she was infected with, as well as the alien technology that now gave her life.

In fact she had shown him she was stronger than he was by punching a hole in a tree.

"This is part of the reason I agreed with them to come. I know the town, and I owe Wesker big for doing this to me. My brother was developing nanites that could control the virus. I'm the only test subject."

I told her I'd make sure she'd get out of here. If they find out who she really is she's going to be taken into the labs as one of their lab rats.

"I'll tell you what you want, but not in front of her." Leon scowled slumping into his seat. They had cuffed his hands behind him. When the fist connected with his jaw he growled slightly, but didn't fight them.

"Actually, we've been here a few weeks, and no real action. The man who had taken command was eyeing her up. Leon caught in the corner of his eye the man near her moved before her, as if to tell the others to back off.

A bang at the door made everyone jump.

"Thought we dealt with that thing!" The smallest of the three remaining men yelped, he drew his gun in a shakey hand. Cole closed her eyes and gave a small whimper.

Shit, they just knocked the damn thing out. I'll have to blow my cover, the idiots locked us in the only interior room in the whole place. She looked up trying to figure out if there was a way out of the room from the ceiling. Glitch! Find me a way out of here.

There was a beep from her wrist, making the dark haired man near her glance over. Cole didn't have time to answer her wrist comp, before the door shattered.

She lunged for Leon, pulling him back as the Licker lunged.

"What the..." The guard that had been on her, drew his gun, firing at the eyeless beast. The tongue flicked over Cole's head as she crouched on the floor near Leon.

"Vicky, get a key." Leon hissed. She shook her head hearing the small man scream in pain. Kicking out, the oak leg of the table Leon had been near shattered. Without thinking, she waited another second, the small man was caught in the creature's tongue.

So Cold - Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone

"Fuck." Leon grabbed Cole's wrist as she seemed to freeze. Pulling her to the back of the room he watched, unable to do anything as two of the Security Division officers were killed. He had managed to work his hands in front of him at least.

"Shit... Out of ammo." She dropped her now useless gun as she pulled back to the wall. The girl with her huddled next to her hugging her cat tightly. This is bad. Went through a full clip on those things. Fuck. She rubbed her shoulder where she had hit the door in order to open it. "Detective..." The girl's voice startled her back to the present. Turning Cole saw the reason Sue had yelped. The eyeless head moved toward her. "Stay back." Cole drew the sword that was at her hip. It was the only weapon she had left. What the fuck was Umbrella doing here? The creature seemed to follow her around the landing as she moved from the child's side.

"Get her back." This came from the man behind him.

"You two go." She had snapped out of it, the table leg still in her hand. "I'll be okay, go." She tightened her grip on the wooden leg.

"You'll blow cover." Leon whispered keeping her behind him as they moved around the room, keeping out of the tongue's range.

"There's only one of them left." She remarked before she darted forward, staying low to the ground. Please time this right... She stabbed forward, where the thing's left eye should have been. Gore flowed over her as she pulled her arm back. The tongue lashed at her, throwing her against a wall.

Leon started for her, only to pause when the creature turned to him. The remaining Umbrella goon fired at the gaping hole in the creature's head. When it exploded he tossed keys to Leon. "Check on her, make sure she's okay."

"Why so you can shoot me in the back?"

"No. Have a feeling I know who the girl is, and I have a feeling that we both don't want her to fall into Umbrella's hands. Let alone the freak cult that's trying to set up here." He popped the dead clip from his gun, slamming another in it's place.