Give Me Freedom (a 'Resident Evil 0' fic)

Disc.: Only Capcom can claim ownership of this wonderful game series, so that means I can only borrow it for the purpose of writing stories.

A/N: So, here we are…another chapter. This one will have a WeskerxBirkin lemon, and William will never know about his lover's 'experiment' with Chris in the mansion…not as long as I control this story and the outcome of it. Anyway, time to get started.

Ch.11- Blondes Just Wanna Have Fun (Also, Secrets Revealed)

After making sure that he could make it back to the Arklay Mansion with enough time to explain his absence, Wesker found himself entering the Research Center once more. He knew that Birkin was most likely still there, waiting for him as he usually did every time the two lovers had to part ways. The blonde male thought it was cute the way his blonde lover always wanted to make sure he was alright, but Wesker knew that beneath that sweet and gentle exterior was a man who was almost as cruel as he himself could be at times.

The thought of Birkin ruthlessly dominating others and experimenting on them without remorse made Wesker feel something akin to arousal deep in the pit of his stomach, the heat traveling through his body and driving him to pick up the pace towards his awaiting lover.

When he finally found the blonde scientist, Wesker saw that his back was turned to him, which gave the other blonde male a perfect view of his lover's backside as he strode towards him and spun him around to face him…Birkin already used to this routine as he eagerly allowed his blonde lover to dominate his mouth with rough yet passionate kisses.

The sounds of moans, grunts, and panting filled the room as both lovers worked off their clothes until they were completely naked. Wesker then lowered his lover to the floor without breaking the kiss for more than a minute, both of them breathing in lungfuls of air. The blonde male scientist hissed at the feeling of cold metal on his back but his mind was diverted from that sensation as he began sucking on the three fingers being presented to him by his blonde lover, Wesker smirking at Birkin's eagerness to comply with his unspoken orders. When the blonde S.T.A.R.S. Captain deemed the digits sufficiently coated, he lowered them to his lover's entrance and pushed them all in at once before scissoring the ring of muscle open to accommodate something bigger than the thin fingers; Birkin was in pure ecstasy at the feeling of his prostate being stroked by Wesker's fingers, the blonde male above him then removing the digits and thrusting his cock into his body in one fluid motion.

As the grunts of discomfort turned into screams of pleasure, the sounds could be heard by the monsters lurking in the Research Center and they knew that a mating was occurring. Birkin had his arms around Wesker as he let himself be pounded into without hesitation, the two lovers reveling in the feelings of pleasure filling them completely; the blonde S.T.A.R.S. Captain knew both of them were reaching the end, so he started pumping the blonde scientist beneath him in time to his harsh thrusting and smirked widely at the sounds being emitted by Birkin.

"A-Albert, I'm-"

"I know. Me too, my love."

The blonde S.T.A.R.S. Captain gave a few more hard thrusts into his lover's prostate, Birkin throwing his head back as he screamed his lover's name in pure passion before coming hard between their sweat slicked bodies, Wesker coming not too long afterwards. The two lovers then shared a few more slow kisses before Wesker pulled out of Birkin, the two of them making sure to regain their professional composure before parting ways again after getting dressed.

Both of them had jobs to finish, but there was nothing that said they couldn't have a little fun while at work.

(With Billy)

The dark brunette male had heard Rebecca grunting and the screech of a monster in the room with her. He also heard her scream before the sound of tiles breaking under her feet reached his ears, his heart stopping in his chest until he heard her call for help over the radio.

Knowing that he had little time before she fell to her death, Billy ran through the Research Center and ignored all the monsters on the way. What felt like hours was really only several minutes as he finally found a door separating them, the dark brunette male throwing it open and running over towards the sound of water running and his partner grunting with effort as he finally grabbed her hand.

(With Rebecca)

The brunette Medic kept calling for help every few minutes, her voice becoming raspy from screaming and her arms were getting tired.

"I…c-can't…hold on…" Rebecca said as she felt her strength giving out, her hand slipping after replacing the radio back onto her belt loop. She'd been holding onto the metal beam for at least 40 minutes but even she couldn't hold on forever as her other hand started slipping off the metal beam. Her fingers were all that kept her from falling to her death in the running water below, and those too started slipping off…the brunette Medic knowing that she was gonna die, the only thing stopping her from falling now was a strong hand gripping her wrist tightly and the familiar voice of her partner reaching her ears.

"Rebecca! Hang on…I'll pull you up."

The brunette Medic grabbed onto Billy's hand with her other one as she let the other man lift her up away from the water below them, her shoes gripping into the soft earth beneath them and eventually onto the metal beam as she helped the dark brunette male bring her up towards the floor he was standing on.

After making sure they were both safe, Billy and Rebecca both panting from the effort of running and holding onto a metal beam for almost an hour, the brunette Medic looking at the dark brunette male before speaking.

"Thanks, Billy."

The dark brunette male straightened up from his bent over position and exhaled before answering her.

"Don't mention it. I'm just keeping my word. We promised to cooperate with each other, remember?"

The brunette Medic knew that that was the real reason why he saved her and had been helping her; because if he didn't, she'd report him to his superiors, but deep down it hurt to hear those words after all they'd been through in the last couple hours or days…the time spent fighting for their lives together having made the hours become a blur. When you've spent that much time trapped with the same person and relying on them to help you keep your sanity intact, that can make you liable to trust them, even if it's only a little bit.

Before she could voice her concerns, the radio on Rebecca's hip emitted a burst of static; the brunette Medic grabbed it off her belt loop and pressed the red button on the side before speaking into it.

"This is Rebecca. Over."

The brunette Medic was actually surprised to hear from her Captain, the man's voice dismissing her long present fears that she was the only one of her unit still alive.

"Rebecca, this is Enrico. Have you located Coen yet? Over."

Looking over at Billy, she saw him stiffen with slight worry that she was gonna rat him out to her Captain. She knew that, even if all she'd heard about him was bad things, she still needed his help to get them both out alive. Enrico's voice interrupted their silence, the Bravo Team Captain speaking over the radio again.

"Rebecca, answer me."

"N-No Sir, I haven't found him yet. I'll continue to search for him though. Over."

Rebecca removed her thumb from the red button on the radio in her hand, Enrico's voice being silenced and she placed it back on her belt loop. Billy was inwardly glad that his partner had lied about having found him, his posture unwinding slightly.

"Rebecca…"

The brunette Medic sighed, the atmosphere becoming tense and quiet before she spoke again.

"My first mission, and I've already disobeyed orders. So much for my great law enforcement career; oh well. Not like I'll live long enough to worry about it at the rate we're going."

At her words, the dark brunette male felt some part of himself realize that she was right. They were still trapped here, and if they didn't pick up the pace they would both die before they made it out of here…whether it be by the hands of any one of the monsters still inhabiting the Research Center, or from their sanity snapping and causing them to end it with a bullet to their heads.

She then turned to look at him again and knew that now was the time to find out the truth about her partner. If they were gonna depend on each other until they got out, Rebecca needed to know if Billy was really the killer he'd been written off as.

"Billy, I need to know the truth. Did you really kill 23 people? I'm not gonna judge you for it…I just wanna know the truth."

The dark brunette male sighed, the atmosphere once again becoming tense and silent. He hated the memories of that day, and had done everything he could to forget them; but now that Rebecca had asked him about that, he had no other choice than to tell her.

"It was around this time, last year. Our unit was ordered to Africa to help intervene in a civil war; our mission was to raid the hideout of some Guerilla forces located deep within the jungle…but the hideout was far away from our entry point."

Billy drew in a breath and exhaled it shakily, the memories coming back full force as he allowed himself to be reimmersed in everything that'd happened that day.

"Some died from the heat…others were killed by the enemy. In the end, only 4 of us survived."

Rebecca kept quiet and waited patiently for her partner to tell her the rest on his own, his eyes steeling with hate at a particularly bad aspect of that past time in his life.

"Only…there was no Guerilla hideout."

The brunette Medic looked at her partner with a confused expression on her face.

"What do you mean?"

"The idiots in charge had us operating based on wrong information. But we couldn't just go back home empty-handed, oh no. Our leader ordered us to attack an innocent village!"

(Flashback)

Billy watched in horror as the remaining members of his unit rounded up the villagers, the innocent people scared of those shooting at them. The dark brunette male himself had refused to attack them, his personal honor code not allowing him to take an innocent life as his Captain barked out orders that had Billy running towards them.

"Get rid of them! Kill them all!"

"Please, Sir! Cease fire immediately!" Billy said as he grabbed his Captain's shoulder, sympathy in his eyes and pleading in his vocal tone. The other man roughly yanked his shoulder out of Coen's grip, his face marred with an expression that suggested he'd just been burned by a hot iron.

"Shut up!" the Captain said as he rammed the butt of his rifle into Billy's temple, and then his stomach, watching without mercy as one of his soldiers went down and started groaning in pain from the harsh blows. He then returned his attention to the other soldiers awaiting his commands, the words leaving his mouth in an authorative tone.

"Do it! Now!"

The villagers looked at the man who'd tried to save them, Billy watching as his fellow brothers-in-arms opened fire on innocent people. The shell casings from the bullets hitting the ground, the screams of the innocent villagers being slaughtered, it was all too much and Billy couldn't let them die as he stood up on shaky legs and attempted to stop his fellow soldiers from doing what they had been ordered to do.

"No! Don't! Stop!" the dark brunette male said as he ran towards the other soldiers to put an end to the bloodbath, Billy wrestling the gun from his Captain's grip and knocking him out with a blow to the temple. He then tied him up, along with the other soldiers, and walked over towards the group of villagers that'd been gunned down.

He saw that they had all died, their blood staining the ground as he fell to his knees and sobbed for the 23 lives lost that day. By the time other soldiers had arrived, Billy looked like a broken man who'd just lost a close friend in battle as the other soldiers assessed the situation. They saw the last members of Coen's unit tied up, the dead bodies, and the blood on the ground.

It didn't take them long to conclude that Coen had tied up his fellow soldiers, lost his mind due to stress and heat, and then slaughtered innocent people in front of them as they hauled him to his feet and took him away in handcuffs. From there, it was a short trial convicting him of second degree murder and stripping him of his Marine Corps. status, and after that everything was a blur as Billy was thrown in jail to await his execution.

(Flashback ends)

Billy sighed as the memories subsided, his expression becoming one of far off remembrance. Rebecca had listened intently and waited before speaking again.

"So did you really execute those innocent people?"

"Forget about it, it doesn't matter anymore. That was then, this is now; besides, you said you wouldn't judge me." Billy said bitterly as he leaned against a brick wall, the brunette Medic shocked at his attitude.

"I'm not judging you, but it does matter. Look, now my people think that you really did kill those MPs in the van, but I don't think you did. It was those monsters, the dogs, right? When they attacked the van, you were able to escape. Isn't that right?"

Billy once again allowed his memories to come at him, the night that he'd gotten away with his life as clear as his time in the Marines.

(Flashback)

The brunette male fell to the ground on his side and grunted slightly when he collided with the metal floor of the vehicle. Outside the van, he heard the officers transporting him screaming as their throats were torn out by razor sharp teeth and deep growls were mixed in with their terrified yelling. After roughly 10 minutes, the screaming stopped and the sounds of their flesh being eaten off their bones was all that could be heard as the brunette male took this chance to kick the doors open and make his escape.

(Flashback ends)

Billy knew she was right about his escape, but he wouldn't let her know that yet as he spoke again.

"You don't get it. I've only got two choices left now: either report to the Marines and serve out my sentence, or keep on running as long as I can. That's all."

Deciding it was best not to push the subject further, Rebecca pulled out the map from inside her vest and looked it over. Billy looked at the map with her, both of them deciding on a path that would put them back on the right track to getting out of this nightmare Facility forever.

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T.B.C.- Done with another chapter, and I am on a roll! More violence, blood, and monsters await, so stick around for all of that and possibly more.