Part 7 Night Springs

Jake was driving a small car down the Nevada desert road and he hears his phone ringing and opens the glove compartment and pulls out his phone and answers it "Hello?"

Jake instantly hears Coles voice ask "Hey Jake you almost there?"

"Just a few more seconds and I'll be there."

"Glad you know where it is, because I could never find it on a world map."

"No trouble for me I use to come out here every summer to see a cousin of mine."

"Sorry I couldn't come with you but there are some things down here I have to take care of."

"I don't get it. When one of your guy's go missing, doesn't the Organization try to find what's wrong?

"They do as long as it's a still working employee."

"Wait Becket doesn't work for the organization anymore?"

"No him and this girl he's with moved out to Night springs but I heard that Nicolai sent some men over there with a vial with the T-virus in it."

"You think they want to kill him because of his past?"

"I don't think! I know!"

"So is there anything about this job I should know about?"

"There's one thing, I'm aware of your resentment towards Claire Redfield."

"She's here? Oh great just damn great."

"And Jake thanks I'll cash in that favor you asked for if you do this."

Then out of nowhere another car crashed into him causing him to fall unconscious

He wakes up later in a dinner with his jacket in a nearby chair and his Black berretta 92F and holster in the chair, he sees two women talking one had long red hair and brown eye's the other had brown hair in a pony tail wit blue eye's around Steve's age

Jake forces himself up feeling the pain from the car crash and the two women walk over to him and the rd headed woman asks "Are you okay?"

Jake stands up and fits on the holster and Jacket then replies sarcastically "Oh yeah just peachy considering I was in a car crash."

Then the women with the pony tail say's "Sorry Luke was in a hurry."

"It's alright, my names Jake."
Then the woman with brown hair say's "Claire Redfield."

Instantly Jake draws his Beretta and say's "Redfield? You left my best friend to die!"

Then the red head woman gets between them and say's "Wait a second."

Jake became hesitant and he hears a familiar male voice say "Jake why are you pointing a gun at my girlfriend?"

Jake then turns and sees Becket standing in the room and lowers it and say's "Becket? Cole sent me."

"He did? How'd he know?"

"He heard that no one had been heard from Night springs in a day and he asked me to come check it out."

"Is Steve with you?"

"No him and Amanda are on vacation in Canada."
Then Jake hears Claire's voice "Steve? Steve Burnside?"

Jake instantly brings his gun back at Claire and say's "You don't get to talk about him! After what you did!"

"You know Steve?"

"That's none of your business."

"He was my friend! That makes it my business!
"Your friend huh? What kind of friend leaves someone to rot in a hell?"

"I thought he was dead."

"You had thirteen years to look for him, you could have tried to find him but you didn't so he spent time in that hell!"

Then he finally lowers the weapon and say's "But as much as I'd like to make you pay! I won't Sherry would hate me for it."

Then Becket say's "Well I kind of wish you hadn't come here when you did."

Jake looks at him with a puzzled face and asks "Why?"

Becket points to the window and Jake notices something he hadn't the whole time since he woke up, every window had been boarded up

Jake looks through the boarded window that Becket was pointing at and sees zombies had surrounded the building and Becket say's "After the Night springs went dark one night we heard screaming and before we knew it there were zombies, since then we've been bringing all the remaining survivors here."

"Have you tried to call the B.S.A.A?"

"Yes, we've been trying to find someone thou."

"Who?"

Then Claire comes into the conversation "Sherry and Shane."

Jake grabs Claire by the collar and asks "What the hell is she doing here?"

"She… Came to the B.S.A.A in 2011, Chris brought her to me and she asked to join Terra save."

Jake releases Claire's collar and say's "Where's she now?"

"Luke's going to look for them at the Mountain side observatory."

Jake turns to Becket and asks "Is there a car I can use?"

"Yeah after all this started we boarded up all the windows and we blocked the doors with whatever we could find and the only way in or out is trough the garage."

Jake goes through the motel to the garage and Claire follows him saying "Wait, I'm coming with you."

"Why?"

"Cause I promised Sherry when she came back that I would be there for her."

"Okay" they both get into the car and Becket readies a shot gun then open the garage door to let them drive out then closes it as soon as they were out

Jake drove the car but Claire gave him the direction, they drove for some time, Jake could see the stars in the night sky

Claire had been silent for most of the drive because of how Jake made it clear they would never get along but finally asks "So…How do you know Sherry?"

Jake stayed quiet for some time after the question but finally asks her "Why?"

"Sherry told me where she was after Raccoon city and you seem to know her well but the only Jake she told me she knew was a Jake Sheppard and he's dead."

"Really and who told you that?"

"There was a report that my brother showed us, it said he was shot and killed, they had his weapon but his body fell into a river."

"Then I guess I' not him."

"What about Steve? How do you know him?"

"The Jake Sherry knew was in the H.C.F, joined when he was eighteen, recruited by a Russian member named Yuri, he spent the years afterwards training and on mission then one day he was introduced to a man named Burnside and the two become friends."

"What about Steve now?"

"He has a girlfriend and he's far away from here."

"Good I'm glad he found someone."

They drive up a rock mountain side and Jake sees an observatory and asks "That the one?"

Claire nods her head and they park the car and Jake asks "You got a weapon?"

Claire leads him to the trunk and opens it showing some weapon and two flash lights, Jake takes one of the flash lights and Claire gets a glock17 and the other flashlight

Jake slowly opens the front door and they walk though the observatory and they hear a gunshot and they both stop then they hear a voice say "What the hell Luke."

And another voice that they both recognize as Sherry's "Why did you do that Luke?"

And they begin to walk faster to the source of the voices and they hear a voice say "You shouldn't have betrayed Umbrella Sherry. You brought this on yourself and Shane!"
And Claire say's "That's Luke's voice."

They slowly look into a room and Jake sees Sherry and a man with buzz cut brown hair and green eyes on the ground with a gun wound on his shoulder and in front of both of them was a man with blond hair and hazel eye's pointing a Desert eagle at them

Claire gets closer to Jake and whispers "That's Luke."

And Jake instantly shoots the gun out of Luke's hand and t turns to face them and Jake shouts him again in the leg and Luke falls to the ground

Jake walks over to Sherry and the wounded man while Claire had her weapon aimed at Luke, Sherry helped the man up and Jake asks "Sherry you okay?"

Sherry turns to him shocked to see his face and say's franticly "J…Jake? What are you doing here?"

Jake shrugs his head and say's "it's a long story."
Jake turns to the wounded man and asks "You okay?"

The man nods his head and say's Yeah thanks." The man extends his right hand and say's "I'm Shane Cross."

Jake shakes his hand and say's "Jake Sheppard."

Sherry smiles and say's "When I heard the B.S.A.A say last year that they found a man named Jake Temple I knew I'd be seeing you again."
"What can I say? I missed ya."

"Why Jake Temple?"

"It was my grandmother's last name before she got married."

Then they all begin to hear a laugh and turn around seeing Luke still on the ground and Jake asks "What's so damn funny?"

Luke looks up and say's "So you're Jake? He screamed you name you know?"
Jake looks at Luke's side and sees a Butterfly knife and in a second recognizes it as the same one his old buddy Gabriel would use and keeps is weapon on Luke as he slowly reaches for the knife and demands a answer from Luke "Were did you get this?"

Luke makes an evil smile and say's "I took it from him after I had my fun with him. Oh how he screamed. O e said 'He'll find you…and you'll pay'."

Claire stared down at Luke and asks "Luke how could you?"

Luke looked at the two who had their weapon aimed at him and Sherry and Shane and say's "It was his own fault for abandoning Umbrella."

Jake looks at Claire and say's "Sorry about this Claire."

He instantly switches the knife open and stabs Luke in the chest and quickly pulls it out, Claire was upset by what had just happened and looks away with Sherry as Luke began to rant "They'll kill all of you!"

Shane picks up Luke's desert eagle and say's "Do you ever shut up."

And Jake and Shane empty their weapons into Luke's head and Jake puts his weapon away and Shane drops his on Luke's body, Jake uses a piece of his shirt to wipe Luke's blood off of the knife and closes it and looks down at Luke's body and say's "You should of listened to Gabriel's warning."

He puts the knife away and begins to walk out of the observatory with the others behind him.

As he exit the observatory Jake, Claire, Sherry and Shane hear gunfire and look down at Night springs and Jake goes to the car and pulls out binoculars and looks down and sees two squads of B.S.A.A soldiers being led by Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine

He puts the binoculars in the car and say's "Come on!"

They all get in and Jake drives back to Night springs by then the infected we're all dead and the survivors had come out to the B.S.A.A and Claire, Sherry and Shane had exited the car to talk to them, Jake stayed in not wanting to get into another fight with Chris or Cole's sister

He planned to stay in the car as long as possible not knowing any other plan then Chris and his people ordered him out of the car and he was forced t comply

He opens the door and comes out slowly and Chris and Jill remember him instantly and aim their weapons at him and Chris yells "Put your hands in the air!"
Jake walks closer to them with his hands up despite their threats and Jake stops when he's between them and the car and Jill say's "Now! Who are you really?"

Jakes lowers his arms all the way ad begins to walk back in forth and say's "That's why you came here? All this just for old Jake Sheppard's name."

Then Chris say's "Sheppard? You're supposed to be dead."

Jake remembers the lie Lucy made up to protect him and begins to lie through his teeth "Yeah Your Williams girl shot me pretty good off the cliff but not good enough."

Then Jill asks "Where's Cole?"

Bryce begins to chuckle and asks "Cole? You came all this way to find Cole?"

Then he stops pacing and say's "I haven't seen Cole face to face since a job on that Island you people gave to the U.S., What did you do to make him hate you- his older sister so much?"
Jake took a close look at ill's face and could see what he wanted to know and laugh's out loud and say's "So that's why he resents you-You must have really hurt him."

"That's none of your business now where-

Then Jill was interrupted by gun fire and Jake sees Shane had killed some of the B.S.A.A soldiers with a SIG 556 that he took from one of them and a Humvee and yells to Jake "Will you quit screwing around!"

Jake begins to run and uses his Beretta 92F to kill some of the B.S.A.A soldiers and to disarm Chris and Jill

Jake gets into the passenger seat and Shane begins to back up then performs a 180 degree turn and drives away from Night Springs

After about two hours of driving and seeing they we're far away Shane stops on the side of the desert road and Shane runs his hands down his face and Jake could see he was still in shock over what happened and say's "Thanks,"

Shane turns to him and say's "No problem…But I'm pretty sure I'm goanna regret this later."

Jake felt some sympathy for him but the other part was mixed with a question and asks "Why'd you save me?"

Shane sighs and say's "I heard you we're in the H.C.F, a brother of mine in the B.S.A.A told em about you, the list with your name on it and I know what they would do when they got you back to their base."

"I don't think I want to know."

"You're probably right."

Sane again runs his hands down his face and say's "Oh Jesus Chris Claire and Sherry are goanna kill me if they sees me again."

"What'll you do now?"

"I'll have to turn myself in."

Jake again found himself in a feeling of guilt because he knew when Shane turned himself in they would lock him up until he told them what they wanted to know, which Shane didn't know that and Jake say's "There is an alternative."

Shane looks at Jake with one eye brow up and asks "What alternative?"

"I run a small group with a base in Alaska; I could take you with me back there."

Jake extends a hand and Shane was hesitant at first but finally shakes his hand and say's "thanks."

Jake smiles and say's "Welcome to Shadow Company."

"So where to now?"

"Drive for Alaska and I'll give you directions from there."

Shane starts the Humvee and they drive off.