Chapter ten is up!
I posted an image on my profile of how I pictured Samantha, I think it might help imagine her during the story.
shippolove844: Leon is a knight in the shining armor, he will always help a lady in distress.
Leon had a hint of sarcasm that I find irresistible and the fact that he helped Sasha made me love him even more!
Well, if you promise reading it, I can write a story based on the film especially for you. :D
Ada is... A pain in the ass. I wish I could just kill her already.
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Disclaimer: I do not own Resident Evil or its characters, only Samantha Wright and every turn of events.
Chapter X – Under the lake we go
| Leon POV |
Panic took over me when Samantha got pulled into the water, I felt like I was hyperventilating and my heart ached. Without thinking, I did the only thing that seemed right: I jumped into the water.
The lake was dark and if it wasn't for my flashlight, I wouldn't be able to see an inch away from my face. I looked around and soon spotted the creature that had pulled her. It was like an octopus with much more tentacles and several eyes all over the giant body.
I saw Samantha fighting against the tentacle that embraced her waist, her face was becoming slightly blue and I knew she had no air left in her lungs.
I took my gun out and fired at one of the eyes, the octopus flinched in pain and let her go and seconds later she was swimming up and I followed.
We were reached the surface and gasped for air, but our relief lasted really shortly, the monster appeared behind us, a huge mouth opened ready to swallow anything in front of him.
To dodge, we both dived, the creature missing us for not more than a foot. After the octopus missed us, we went back to the surface.
"It won't let us through. We need to kill it!" Samantha yelled, taking her gun out, I nodded and flew back because of the wave created when the octopus emerged, it positioned himself between Samantha and I.
"We can make him get confused, he won't know who to hit!" I yelled and shot one of the eye, at the same time I heard another gunshot from the other side, the monster screamed in pain and begun waving the tentacles to every direction.
Something all my experiences taught me is that every monster has a weak spot, we just have to find it. Probably a bigger eye or a parasite hanging around, but there is no exception, this monster must have one too.
"Look for a bigger eye or parasite; it must be his weak spot!" I yelled and received no answer, but I could see Samantha's figure under me seconds later, she was looking below him.
I needed to keep him distracted from her, it was really dangerous being below a monster, but being below a monster and underwater was even more dangerous.
Every time I pulled the trigger and a bullet hit it on an eye, the octopus screamed and contorted, causing waves and sending me back. But I fired again the second later, attracting the monster to me and paralyzing it for at least a few seconds to gain us some time.
I was getting worried, she hadn't come out for minutes now and I couldn't see Samantha down there. I should have never let her go, it was too dangerous. I was about to dive when the octopus screamed and waved the tentacles with more strength than before, it's eyes strongly shut and he slowly begun sinking.
Samantha had done it. But where was she? Another minute passed and there was no sign of her, I was panicking again. What if she had been hit by the monster? Or he dragged her below with him? Or he crushed her on the bottom of the lake?
I looked at every direction, trying to find anything that pointed out where she was before I dived.
I heard a gasp behind me and turned fast to look. Samantha was breathing heavily and her face had a strange purple color because of the lack of air, but she was alive. She was fine.
She had no time to regain herself. Before she could do it I had touched her face with both my hands and pressed my lips against hers with full force. My eyes were shut, so I couldn't see her expression that was probably one of surprise.
It took her seconds to react and I thought she was going to push me away, but she didn't. She wrapped her arms around my neck and got closer while I begun moving my lips against her, every emotion expressed on a single kiss, including the fear of losing her.
Samantha pulled away shortly because of the lack of air and I kissed her cheeks, that were completely red from embarrassment.
"I thought you were going to die… Twice… Don't do that anymore." I said, my voice calm and low tone, she only nodded. "Let's get out of here…"
We swim to solid ground, everything on us completely wet. Samantha loosened her hair, letting it fall on her back and twisted her clothes trying to get rid of the excess of water, I did the same.
"I think it is safe for us to go down now." It was the first thing she said after the long silence and I smiled and nodded. I feared that things between us would get awkward now, but she did kiss me back, so that meant she had thought about it and perhaps even had feelings for me.
We moved to the passageway, this time without any interruption and we entered a really small elevator that forced us to be pressed against each other. Not that I mind it, but my heart was beating so fast that I feared she could hear it. Samantha was looking to the door and I tried to figure out what she was thinking that moment or if she had even realized how close we were to each other.
Judging by the increasing blush on her face, she did and I smiled to myself. I was about to touch her head with one hand when he elevator stopped. We had to get out and I felt a little frustrated because of the opportunity I had missed.
We were on an underground lab like we had guessed earlier. There was only one door on the hall, except for the elevator we had come from and we walked over it, guns in hand.
The door was electronically locked and Samantha pressed the buttons on the panel next to it before reaching for her pocket and taking out the ID card we had found earlier on the mansion.
"I hope it is water proof." The card had been hit repeatedly by the water and there was the small change it had been damaged.
She slid the card and the door beeped, announcing it was unlocked; she smiled triumphantly and returned the card to her pocket in case we would need it again later.
"Ready?" Samantha asked, a hand on the door, ready to open it. "Yes." I answered, raising my gun.
The door busted open and we jumped in, it was a quadrangular hall, filled with windows and four doors on each wall, we had three to investigate now, because one was from where he had come from.
"Still don't want to separate?" She asked, looking to me. "Yes, it is safer this way." I answered and she nodded simply. We walked to the door on the other side from where we came and looked through the windows, it looked like a corridor.
"Ladies first." I said, motioning the door for Samantha to go inside and she laughed before turning the doorknob, but nothing happened. "It is locked." She announced.
She looked around to see if there was a panel to open it, but there was nothing. "Next one then." She pointed to the door on our left and we walked toward it.
"You first this time." Samantha said and I opened the door without any difficulty and smiled smugly at her while raising an eyebrow, she just smirked. But my moment of arrogance lasted shortly because a zombie fell right into me, knocking me on the ground as he tried to bite anything on its reach.
Samantha shot once, hitting it on the back of the head and I pushed it away from me, immediately getting up. Samantha was smirking and I just ignored, trying not to smirk too.
We were on another hall, this time with two doors. We walked to the nearest one and opened it, it was a lab.
There were two zombies inside and they easily died with one bullet each. We looked at the many samples exposed and I looked at Samantha.
"What? Don't look at me. I was never good with chemistry. Maybe we should take them for our personal to analyze." I agreed and looked around for something that could be used as a container, founding a suitcase.
We put every sample inside it safely, not wanting to risk breaking one and being exposed to whatever virus there was inside the flask.
I finished closing the suitcase when I heard the door close, I hid the suitcase under some papers before Samantha and I turned with our guns in hand. I was shocked at the sight I just received: Ada Wong was standing there, pointing the gun to my chest.
"Leon, what a surprise." She said, the same tone she ever held on her voice. "Ada." I answered with a little hint of anger.
"You…" Samantha said, much to my surprise, she had nothing but anger on her voice. "Do you know her?" I asked, not taking my eyes off of the woman I had met years ago. "I do, she works for the people that caused my community's infestation!"
"What?" I looked from the woman at my side to Ada, who remained with the same arrogant expression on her face. "Aah… I never thought someone had survived. But there is always a bad apple, I see…" She said, not holding the surprise or denying what Samantha had just said. And her insult made the fury inside me grow stronger.
"Is it true?!" I demanded her to answer. "Umbrella might have had something to do with that experiment."
Ada had always been a big mystery on my life, I never knew who she really was, what she really wanted, what she really felt. In Raccoon City she said she had feelings for me and I believed her, but… In reality I had never felt the same.
She was mysterious and I was attracted to the mystery, but now I felt nothing but anger toward her. She had caused so many deaths, including Samantha's family and she thought of them like an experiment!
"What are you doing here, Ada?!" I asked, even angrier than before. "I came to retrieve something that is ours." I glanced at the suitcase from the corner of my eyes. "Sorry, but there is nothing here."
"Nothing here?" She asked surprised. "No samples, no viruses, nothing. You are too late and so are we." I lied, wishing Samantha had picked up and would play along as well.
"Do you see anything?" Samantha asked and Ada glared at her then looked around to see if there was anything, but there wasn't. I had lost to her before in Spain, it wasn't going to happen this time, we needed those samples.
Mixed feelings ran across her face and I knew she was trying to figure out what to do next, but she kept aiming her gun at me.
"See you next time, Leon." She said, leaving before we could do anything. I stared down to Samantha and she looked up to me, relieve all over our faces.
"So… Friend of ours?" She more hissed than asked politely. "I never knew how to classify her, but now I know, she is not a friend."
"Mind telling me how you met her?" She asked, this time with less anger on her voice. "I met her in Raccoon City, she helped me out there a few times, with the excuse she was looking for her boyfriend. In reality, she was working for Umbrella. I thought she died there, but I encountered her in Spain last year, she helped again, but stole the sample from the virus and left me in an island ready to explode."
Samantha stayed quiet for a few seconds, thinking about what I had just told her. "And emotionally? Do you have feelings for her?" I was taken back because of her straight answer.
"No. For a while I thought I did, but I don't. Before she 'died' in Raccoon, she declared to me, and I kissed her, but that was it." I decided that telling the truth was better, no good would come out of I denied that something happened.
"I see… " Was all she said before ending the subject. "Should we leave the suitcase here or take it with us?" Samantha asked, looking at the desk where he had left the samples.
"I don't think it is safe here, we should take it with us." I answered and she nodded before taking the suitcase and handing it to me. "I am clumsier than you." She whispered before leaving the lab.
We walked to the other door on that hall, but looked from the small window on the door before opening. The place was completely messed and there were lots of zombies roaming inside, too many to count.
"I don't think there is something inside there that isn't broken already." I said, not really wanting to go inside. "I agree." Samantha replied and we walked back to the quadrangular hall. Our destination now was the door on the right from the locked one.
I sighed and prepared myself for whatever we would find on the second that door opened.