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A/N:I'm not english native speaker, so you might find some typos or grammar mistakes, I do apologize for that.
Early March
D.S.O. Agency
It was a sunny Friday morning. The cold season was starting to end and the flowers blossoming yet discreetly, but the colors starting to show their enchantment. The small details of Mother Nature. Details that passed unnoticed by most of the people, including Agent Leon Scott Kennedy who admired the landscape from the window of his cabin, distantly in his thoughts.
He yawned several times, as his eyes seemed to weight like rocks. His new routine was demanding too much from his precious sleep. His daughter was now a toddler, full of energy discovering the world around her. Jill did her best by staying most of her time home to take care of their child until she will have age enough to start school.
However, due to Jill's recent and often sickness transferred more home and parenting responsibilities to Leon despite his work. He was really physically tired.
He made a long yawn as he stretchered himself in an attempt to wake himself up as he heard knocks on the door
"Come in" he yelled turning to the computer screen pretending he was working the whole time
"Good morning Leon." The sexy black haired agent and his sister-in-law greeted him as she carried a pink package placing it over his desk
"Morning Special Agent Nicole Portman!" he greeted her back
"How are you?" she asked taking the seat in front of him
"I've been better… what's that?" he asked pointing his head to the package
"My 'niece' birthday gift."
"Won't you attend her birthday party tomorrow?"
"Unfortunately not."
"Why not?"
"I'll be on a special mission…" she sighed
"Oh okay… I can understand, but I'm sure she'll be sad that her auntie won't be there."
"Yeah, but you know we can't control that, right?"
"Yeah, I know. By the way, do you know if Nick will attend?"
"I think he will. He didn't say anything in the contrary."
"Good to know, at least she'll have the cool uncle spoiling her." he joked
She giggled, "Yeah, she will… But you said you have been better, what happened? Is your shoulder injured again?"
He exhaled, "No, my shoulder is fine, thankfully! It's just that I'm tired… working 3 shifts is demanding a lot from me as I can feel I'm not in my 20's anymore..."
"Three shifts? Are they torturing you that much?"
"No, it's not this work, but being a father and house husband is demanding from me lately… you know?"
"Well, you asked for that, didn't you? Having a family, a child…"
"Yeah I know, but I'm not complaining. I'm just physically tired because I'm the one doing the most things at home because Jill has been busy suffering with often sickness this time."
"This time? what's wrong with her?" the woman asked in concern
"Nothing is wrong…it's just…" he paused exhaling, "Don't tell anyone, but tomorrow we are going to reveal she's pregnant again."
"What? Really? Congratulations!" she spoke happily
"Thanks."
"How long is she?"
"13 weeks next week."
"Oh this is so cool! Twins too? Triplets?" she asked referring to the Redfield's
Leon shook his head in denial in a fast pace, "Oh No, no! Thank god is just one."
She laughed, "This is irony of life, you two were so helpless about becoming parents and look now, cooking the second heir."
He giggled, "Right!"
"Now changing subjects to a serious one. Have you heard the news on the Neat Freak?"
"Nope. What about him? Killed again?" he rested his back on the chair
"Not yet. Nick hasn't shared that with anyone else, but the Feds might not take too long to do the same math."
"Okay, so tell me."
"In resume, maybe Nick found the possible killer. There was the same blond tall man in all the hotels where the victims were found. In each hotel, he registered himself with a different name and the most recent case he was registered as Dennis Dubois. It would be too much coincidence the same person in the same locations and not have any relation with the cases."
"Yeah, I agree. But did he search the fake names origin or something?"
"Yes he did. He didn't search all the names yet, but he found out that some of the used names belonged to deceased people from different nationalities; Canadian, Italian and British."
"I see, Dubois seems to be French related." The male agent commented with a thoughtful expression
"Probably."
"This different nationalities thing made me think that or his contractors gave him an easier access from that specific nation or whoever hired his services had access to such names randomly."
"Which seems very unlikely the latest one. And there's more, some of the deceased people were victims of biological incidents."
"This is insiders work." He commented caressing his chin
"Yeah, insiders from where? This isn't just a dirty thing from our Government…"
"It seems like an alliance of governments… but the question still lingers, what the Neat Freak victims did wrong to deserve such deaths?"
"Yeah and another question, who is the Neat Freak? We know he has a high knowledge in processing and cleaning scenes. Some victims he does have intercourse but takes the condom with him so his DNA cannot be tracked. He uses his own products or whatever he can use at the crime scene and always takes whatever he used with him and doesn't dispose of them anywhere near or far away from the locations, he just makes any evidence disappear. No prints, no hair, no marks…"
"Meaning he does have time to think about every detail of his attacks with anticipation. Not to mention he has the patience for that."
"Yeah, in the case of Dennis and a few others he checked in the hotels 3-4 days prior to the murderers and left on the day the victims were killed, but the check outs were previously scheduled so no one would take notice that he could be leaving and become a suspect."
"That guy is sick!" he frowned
"He is!"
"This case is taking longer considering the guy's master mind, he is cold, fake, patient…"
"Good looking…" she added without letting him finish his line of thought
Leon looked at her making a face
"I said that because he surely uses that in his favor or to disguise or to seduce and walk away like nothing happened… he's also a loner."
"Meaning?"
"He didn't interact with other people besides the necessary with the hotels staff."
"To avoid witnesses."
"Yeah, but the receptionist who attended Dennis said he was a man who knew how to talk. Always treated her and other staff members friendly."
"The freak is skilled calculating. He uses his charm because he knows weird and too silent people get more attention."
"Yeah." The black-haired woman looked at her watch and stood up from the chair, "Well, I have to go now. Nick might have more details and possibly will share that with you tomorrow."
"Alright, thank you for the info and for the pink package." He replied standing up as well and walked to her direction. They gave a goodbye hug before she left his cabin.
Flower Shop
Evana was at her store. Her daughter was at school and Chris once again was in a mission and wouldn't attend Jill and Leon's daughter birthday the next day. She was checking the paper work when she saw a little boy entering the shop carrying an envelope. She greeted him.
"Are you Evana Larssen?" the boy asked
"Yes, I am. Why?" she asked
The little boy seemed to be somewhat shy as he looked up at Evana almost blankly but didn't say anything. Before Evana could say anything to try and make the boy comfortable, the boy put an envelope on the counter and ran out of the shop. The blonde woman yelled out to him to stop, almost reflexively following him out of the store but the little kid was too fast for her and had already became a dot in the distance.
The incident had been quite odd experience; the boy was quite strange and the envelope he left was nothing less than a mystery itself.
Evana lifted the envelope off the counter; it was a bit heavy for having just a letter or note. She turned it around to see whom it was addressed to but unexpectedly enough it had no name on it. She wasn't sure if she should open it but she was a bit curious to know what was inside the envelope. She lifted up the flap and pulled out the content.
She was right that it wasn't a letter; there were pictures in the envelope. Pictures of Chris and Yana together.
The tears cored on her face, the pregnancy hormones influenced a lot too. The sheer shock of seeing her husband with her best friend in questionable circumstances made her stop breathing and she just stared at the picture for one long minute. She took a couple of deep breaths to regain her composure and gather the courage to go through the other pictures in her hand. She shuffled through the pictures with shaky hands, not really able to make sense of what she was seeing. It ached her heart to see them such a way and she didn't want to think of Chris and Yana such a way but she had no logical explanation for them except the obvious one. She could tell that the pictures were very recent since she recognized the clothes Chris was wearing the day he said he was going for a trip. She couldn't take this anymore; she needed answers, so she grabbed her phone and called Yana but the ginger's out of coverage area.
"Work trip!" she murmured wiping her tears
That moment she noticed a figure entering the store. She tried to be quick as much as she could fix her crying face. Her eyes widened when she recognized the blond man staring at her.
"Gianni!"
"Hi Eva… Evana. I can see you saw the pictures?" he exclaimed with a seemingly sarcastic tone
She frowned, "You did this?"
He nodded in confirmation, "Coincidently it happened that the three of us were at the same place and time a few times. I recognized Yana and then I recognized the man she was dating happened to be your husband since I had seen you two in a portrait."
"Dating…" her mind stopped at that word
"I wasn't impressed to think that you two were sharing the same man again, so I kept the pictures of 2 years ago with me. I have tried several times to contact you but you didn't want to listen to me…" he shrugged
"So you sent the pictures to hurt me!" she was in visible disgust
"Not really. Like I said, I thought you were sharing the same man. I'm surprised with your reaction now. I'm sorry for that."
She smirked, "You're sorry for that!" she rolled her eyes, "you did this on purpose!"
Gianni was calm the whole time, "Yeah, I didn't send the picture by accident, I just didn't know you would react that way."
"Liar!"
"Those meets aren't lie."
Evana looked down at the pictures on the counter once again and remembered another time she caught them, by accident, alone in the backyard talking. The old ghosts were haunting her again.
Flashback
"Please Chris, let's tell her. I can't handle it anymore!" Yana cried out, "She's offending me too much… we used to be the best friends!"
"What did she tell you this time?"
"She said my heart lies between my legs! I can't hide this anymore!"
"You have to! I don't like this situation either, but you know how she is…"
End of Flashback
That day she had the chance to confront them for the last time, but she couldn't. She didn't remember why she hesitated. Well, most probably they would deny again.
She swallowed hard, "What do you know about them?"
"What you see in the pictures." He shrugged
"It can be montage." She spoke appealing to the incredulity
"Well, I have this other picture, I wasn't sure if I should show you that considering your current condition…" he said looking at her belly
"What picture?"
He inhaled licking his lips and took another picture from his jacket pocket.
As soon as Evana looked at the picture, she couldn't help but tremble out of nervousness. She didn't want to seem weak in front of her cousin and would have liked to disguise her emotions but she had literally lost that capability once she saw the picture which showed Yana probably kissing Chris's lips, at least that's what it seemed to her but she couldn't be sure since picture was taken from an angle that made it seem so, but of course in reality the truth could be anything.
She bit her lips and took a deep breathe. She shook her head in denial, she didn't want to believe they were together - again. She had noticed their proximity the past two months, but she didn't think he was looking for consolation with her supposed best friend again.
She knew their sexual activity had diminished a lot for several reasons, but among several women he could get laid, why would he go after her best friend, the widow of HIS best friend? She just couldn't understand that! Why couldn't he just be honest and ask for her permission to release his testosterone with someone else? She knew he was aware he could ask for that without any problem… But no, he was acting behind her back again.
"I don't know what you're going to do about that, but in the envelope there were pictures of their trip earlier this morning."
"How did you know they were going on a trip? Are you following them?"
"Not really. Yana and I met a couple of weeks ago and she rejected me saying she couldn't do that to him…whoever him is. I admit that that day I did follow her because I was worried about her emotional state when she left my house and for my surprise, they were talking near your house. It's when he hugged her in consolation as you can see."
"So instead of walking away you just took pictures of them?"
"Instead of questioning my action you should stop to think why didn't she come to ask for your consolation since you are a woman and her best friend! Why she asked for his consolation and private meet? They are the ones who should be questioned and not me!"
The blonde remained in silence processing the whole thing.
"I'm not the bad guy you think I am."
"You're worse!" she huffed
"Cousin… I know you are hurt and I really cannot know what you're feeling right now, but I want you to understand and believe me that I just want your wellbeing. I am part of your real family and it bothers me what that guy has done to you! You are my blood and I know I have hurt you too, so I'm here once again to ask your forgiveness and tell you that you can count on me whenever you confront him; or them. You will need someone to rely on because of your current condition." He pointed his eyes to her belly
"I didn't need you before and I won't need you now. Right now the three of you are the same shit to me, so please, leave my store!" she spoke with a contended but firm tone
Gianni didn't insist and obeyed to her demand.
Evana caressed her 11 weeks twin belly. She needed to be strong for them and also reasoning. She continued staring at the pictures.
That whole situation once again…
Unknown Location
Moonlight Sonata played at distance. The blond man was doing his relaxation ritual or more exactly studying ritual. He was sitting on his king sized bed with a laptop on his lap too focused on whatever he was doing.
He was taking a sip of the wine over the bedside table when he heard an alert from his cellphone. Calmly he grabbed the phone and read the message:
"Next special target: Nicholas Marshall aka Nicholas Kennedy. He knows too much"
The man exhaled softly as he continued his studies on the computer and opened a new window on the browser.
Unknow Location, Evening
Chris and Yana with Kyan were standing still in a heliport looking at the helicopter ahead of them. The hazel-eyed man took two black eye covers from his bag when they entered the helicopter and took their seats.
"I need to cover your eyes because you can't know where we are going."
"Okay… humm, steamy!" she joked
Chris couldn't help his giggle, "It's good to see the old Yana getting back."
"Of course I should be back and all thanks to you!" she smiled fully caressing his arm
He smiled slightly and delivered one eye cover to her
"Will you blind him too?" she asked referring to Kyan
"Yes I will. He has age enough to keep memories."
The pair talked to the little boy to convince him to be part of the play so he wouldn't be scared to use the eye covers for so long. Yana made sure to entertain her son in the meantime.
About 30 minutes later, the chopper landed in another heliport. Chris left the helicopter first and took Kyan on his arm and then helped Yana to leave. He carried Kyan and held Yana's hand to guide her during the trajectory until an abandoned house. There was still little sun light illuminating the path. He didn't need to knock on the door as a man opened the door.
Chris smiled to him.
Thank you Xaori, HerpDerp, and DerrickValore for the reviews :D
I guess I'm on fire these days :D But lets see how long it lasts. xD
I hope you liked the chapter.
Derrick, I didn't understand this part of your review "I can see that whole 'Chris had a fling with Yana' getting to him since he's like a character with a huge heart."... Oh by the way, I loved your side note, I hadn't noticed that hahaha but you're right!
Herp, I'm dying here! xD Really close to an explosion xD xD
Xaori, be a bit more patient, things are coming to a resolution and I hope they'll make sense to you and readers as well :D
