A/N: I decided to upload this chapter too while I can since Ch.7 was a bit short. Hope you like it..

Ch.8 First Encounter

I was walking right beside Leon, he held his pistol very sturdy. We need to check every store on the right side of the mall and eliminate all of the corpses and we'll meet back by the fountain up front. I was very terrified because of how fast everything was happening.

"Leon?" "Yeah babe" I started to get teary eyed and Leon stopped walking. "I'm scared, I don't know what's going on, everyone around us is dieing" Leon hugged me. "Shh it's going to be ok, I wont let anything happen to you" "But how about if something happens to you or our friends or oh my god Chris!" "I promise I wont let it happen."

After that moment, we kept walking until we reached the next store. It was filled with all types of sports equipment. We split up to check the store. Walking out of the aisle of exercise equipment, I saw a man in his mid 30's wearing shorts and a ripped T-shirt, he just stood there. "Sir are you ok?" I asked walking over to him. He turned around…. Slowly, he had blood dripping from his mouth. I froze. He started moaning just then, I turned and saw another one of these corpses. The man lunged toward me as I tried to run for my life I fell and my pistol went flying, I let out a scream.

I was kicking him and trying to fight him but, never showed any reaction…no pain, no expression. I picked up a 15 pound weight on the shelf and started bashing him in the head, after 3 or 4 hit's the corpse, who I'm sure looked like a real human once, stopped moving. Leon came and shot the one behind me that was a foot away. "Claire!" Leon helped me up and started checking for a bite. "I'm fine, I didn't get bit." "I'm so glad, I heard you scream and my heart dropped then.." I cut him off. "Leon its ok."

We finished checking our side and started heading back. "Claire?" "Yeah" "I know I never said this yet and I feel like it's a good time to." I stopped and just stared at him. "I love you" "Leon…" so many thoughts hit me. "It's ok if you don't feel the same way, I just wanted you to know how I really felt." he started to walk away. "Leon" He turned back around. I leaped and smashed my lips onto his. After pulling away I looked into his eyes. "I love you too Leon Kennedy"

We walked back hand in hand to find everyone waiting. "Everything clear?" Chris asked. 'Yeah" Leon replied. "Alright, we found paint so lets head up to the roof and right help or S.O.S or whatever." Chris said. "Alright, lets go" Arc said getting up. We all started heading to the roof.