I was infuriated. Enraged. I hated every single second of every thought that kept running through my head. I didn't care about getting out of this city as much as I cared about finding out about what had happened to us. What had happened to the city itself. It all seemed to be wrapped around the same sick bastard. Whoever this Spencer person was, I itched to get my hands on him.

Valerie was obviously upset with me, despite the fact that our hands were locked together and we hadn't parted them when we began our walk. Not even when we stopped to search cars for anything that we could find. I almost laughed as I thought of the word boundaries again. Almost but not quite. She had taken it wrong when, a while back, I had asked "where are we?" I had meant to ask where we were as far as our relationship, but she had taken it a different way entirely. I still had no idea what type of status that we were claiming, but I honestly didn't care.

I couldn't even concentrate on the bliss I felt when I was with her because of this blind anger.

"There's a shotgun in that car." Val's voice broke through my thoughts, she didn't sound so happy about it.

I stepped forward and followed her line of vision and could see why. There was indeed a shotgun, but it was beside of a dead female body. I looked away quickly when a wave of nausea swam in my stomach. The girl was half naked and looked as though she had been mauled to death.

"We'll probably find some in the shop." I told her, dragging her away from the car. She looked pale. "Are you okay?""Yeah, I'm fine."

I smiled. "Fine. F-I-N-E. Freaked out, insecure, neurotic, and emotional."

"Where did you get that?"

"Dad." My heart ached when I mentioned him.

"You miss them don't you?"

"Of course I do, but not nearly as much as I would have missed you. So don't do that to yourself, you look as guilty as you would if you killed someone."

"Well technically that wouldn't be too new to me now."

"Technically." I agreed.

"Do you feel something?" She asked me suddenly, her tone changing from casual to tense. "Like someone is watching us?""Something probably is. But… It's okay, lets just keep moving."

Our pace quickened and we didn't bother to look into anymore cars. It didn't take much longer until we were in front of the gun shop. Val and I exchanged one last glance before she reached forward to open the door. I reached out and grabbed her arm.

"You always get to open the doors, I should be the man in the relationship." I told her.

"I have the gun."

"I have the balls."

She narrowed her eyes at me. "Could you promise me that?"

I laughed full out, and she joined me. We were remembering the time that I had told her the same thing when we were fourteen, and she had the same response. Except when I had promised she gave to a straight shot to my new and improved manhood. It hadn't been too funny then, or until now in that matter.

"Shut up." She hushed me, cupping her hand around my mouth. "As I said…"

But before she could open the door herself I beat her to it and held it open for her, looking around. The place was completely empty of any life at all. Compared to the trashed environment outside and everywhere else we had been so far, it looked completely untouched, as if some warm and grizzly looking old man should be waiting behind the counter to greet us. There were guns galore along with hunting cloths, and regular sporting wear.

"This is fantastic." Valerie said as she entered and passed me. "Finally!"

We spread out and started to look at the cloths first. I settled for some blue jeans and a white t-shirt. There were some chucks in the shoe section so I slipped them on, knowing that they would be much more comfortable to run in then the boots they had to choose from. I found a sports jacket with inside pockets that would be perfect to store spare bullets in, so I put that on as well.

When I was done dressing, I looked up to see Valerie still deciding on what to wear. I rolled my eyes and walked a few steps to her, but she caught me and held up her hand.

"I'm naked back here doofus." She told me, smiling.

"So?"

"So give me time to get dressed." There was a playful edge to her voice.

I could see her bare shoulders, but everything else was covered behind a clothing rack that she was searching through. I walked to stand on the opposite side, she kept glancing at me and grinning openly. Every time she looked back to the clothing I would side step, and then when she looked back to me I paused. She rolled her eyes when she noticed I was getting closer.

Val turned from me and walked to the next rack and I caught full view of her from behind. There had to be absolutely no body fat on her at all, it was all skin, bone, and muscle. Her legs were long and slender, absolutely perfect. But her ass… that ass caught me off guard. I had seen her naked before, but never from this angle. Despite myself I closed the distance between us until I was an inch behind her. I placed my hands on her hips and traced the dimples in her lower back with my thumbs.

"Nice Edward." She said sarcastically still facing the rack.

Then she turned to me suddenly and pressed herself flush against my body, resting her hands on my shoulders. The look on her face was brand new, and I bathed in it. I could tell what she was thinking, and I wanted nothing more to fulfill her wish. I leaned down and brought my lips closer to her mouth then lingered, inhaling her glorious scent. I dodged her lips as they came up to meet mine and took a shirt off the rack.

"I like this one." I smiled down at her slyly.

She narrowed her eyes at me and snatched the gray shirt away, pulling it over her head. I couldn't help but laugh. I walked over to the jean selection and quickly picked a pair. I handed it to her still smiling. I had to get her dressed or…

Well, I just had to get her dressed.

But even that didn't seem to help. The outfit complemented her every curve and flawless figure. I watched her as she went over to the shoes and pulled a pair of boots off the shelf. Before she put them on I walked over and snatched the box out of her hand, throwing it aside. In less then a second she was in my arms, her legs wrapped around my waist. She paid me back and dodged my lips but went for my neck, kissing me so tenderly there that it was devastating. I slid my hands and wrapped them around her bottom, better to get a grip on her and walk over to the counter at the back of the shop.

I almost threw her onto the counter top and kissed her so roughly that it hurt. She pulled away and I felt her hands travel down my stomach and go for the button on my jeans. I didn't stop her. Everything in me was screaming that this was wrong. The wrong place, the wrong situation, the wrong everything. I couldn't see why it took us to be in an unknown city full of monsters that could be waiting right outside the door to get to this point. I didn't even understand why it was happening now. But in the back of my mind I justified it by thinking that this could be the last chance we got. Every second we were alive I wanted this because I was afraid that we were already dying every minute. I assume that she was thinking along the same lines, because I knew that this wasn't the normal Valerie.

She was unzipping my pants and letting them fall away to the floor. I stepped out of them and jerked her knees toward me forcing her to lay back on the counter. I took my turn and undid the pants that she had just stepped into half a minute ago. Then with one swift motion I had them off of her again. She ripped off her shirt and threw it aside and then started kissing me deeply. My jacket was gone… then my own shirt.

I couldn't bring myself to have my way with her on a counter, so I took her off of it and lay her on the floor gently. I felt my nerves heighten, I knew she wasn't, but I was still a virgin. I never felt the insane need to have sex with anyone I had dated because I knew that it wouldn't have meant anything. I thought about the time she had lost her virginity and came to me to talk about it. She cried and told me that she knew that it was a mistake but she wanted to get it over with…

"Edward," Val panted. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." I snapped out of it. "I just… well, you know."

Realization dawned on her face, and she started to slow down. She wrapped her hands around my neck and brought me down to kiss her. The kiss was soft and loving, almost breaking my heart.

"I love you." She said quietly. "I love you with all of my heart Edward Anthony Mason. When we get out of here I want to spend the rest of my life with you, even if we have to run until I'm eighteen. I'll go to the ends of the earth with you."

"I love you too."

It was lame, but it was all I could bring myself to say. I sealed it with a kiss that I threw all of my meaning and passion into. When I pulled away I looked into my best friends stunning green eyes and saw that they were hazy with lust. A jolt of hormones overwhelmed me and I realized that I was so hard now that it was painful. But I wanted to take this slow. I had to take this slow.

I kissed her so softly that our lips barely touched, and then moved to her neck. I kept this up all the way down her beautiful body, feeling every inch of her with my hands. She squirmed at every touch and kiss, I was driving her crazy and I relished the fact. When I got to her stomach I slowly drug my tongue down the middle of it until I reached her hipbones. I ran my finger across her scar once again and kissed it lightly. She moaned and spread her thighs open an inch or so.

I ignored her offer for now and moved to the inside of her thighs, she whimpered and sighed. I looked up at her to give her a dark smile, and saw that she had her eyes closed and was biting her lower lip. I immediately abandoned my position and crawled back to her, kissing her lips again, this time with a hunger that I didn't know I had in me. I felt her wrap her legs around me lazily and her hands smoothly slide down my back and onto my ass, pressing me toward her, almost begging me to enter.

I felt the my tip brush against the warmth of her core. I almost lost it then and there, but held it together. A grunt escaped my lips just as a moan came from her.

"Edward, I cant take it… Don't do this to me anymore, get inside of me!" She was looking at me with a wild desperation.

I gave way to the force of her push and seized up, almost loosing it yet again. But I stopped myself and started to slowly fall into rhythm of the dance. It was beautiful, slow. I felt as if I were melting. Our breath and moans fell into an almost musical pace… But it didn't take long for the pace to quicken.

Almost in an animalistic fashion we suddenly went at each other. After a few minutes Valerie rolled me over and straddled me, taking over. I blissfully let her, my head rolling back and letting out a grunt that echoed around the empty store. I watched her, nothing in the world could have been more beautiful. The moans that escaped her brought me to the brink of my climax. I forced myself to sit up, kissing her swiftly, and then taking over once again. I gripped her hips and drove into her madly. Sweat poured from both of us and left droplets on the floor…

At the exact same moment we hit our peak. Her lower back arched off of the floor, and I felt my toes curl painfully. With one last united moan, we both collapsed weakly. I rolled off and lay beside of her, feeling as if I were floating on clouds.

A few moments of silence passed as we caught our breath. I closed my eyes and bathed in the golden feeling that I was experiencing for the first time in my life. What made it better was that my heart was swelling for Valerie. It felt as though every second that passed was a second closer to my chest busting open. If I thought that I couldn't live without her before it was absolutely nothing compared to now. I was in love with her. Completely and madly.

Before I could look over, she was turning to me and propping herself up on her elbow. I met her eyes and beamed.

"I love you." She repeated.

"I love you, too." I told her. "I love you so much. You have no idea how much."

She smiled at me and then curled against my body to cuddle close. "I think I have a pretty good idea."

I wrapped my arms around her, welcoming the heat of her body even though I was already blazing. I could care less, I wanted this to last forever. After a few minutes I started to brush her hair out of her eyes and play with the strands. I loved her hair too. I loved her face, her lips, her body, her eyes, her mind… God, I was going crazy. I wanted to be crazy!

"Mmmmmmm. That feels good." She breathed, her voice groggy.

"Does it now?" She looked up at me and I winked. "How did I do?""Really? Your really going to ask that typical question?""Every man has to know."

"Well, I'm sure that your not like every other man. Does that answer do it for you?""For now. Yeah, it'll do."

She kissed me again and then sat up. "As much as I would love for this moment to last forever, my female intuition is telling me that we have to get going."

I watched her stand, seeing her body in full view again made me feel like I had another round in me. But I was completely immobilized. "You can get started without me, I'm just going to lay here for a while."

I watched her get dressed slowly, keeping her eyes locked with mine and a small smile stuck to her beautiful face. When she was done I watched as she disappeared back to get her boots and my heart already missed her, even though I knew that she was only a few feet away. I slowly stood up and started to get dressed myself after a few minutes and after I was done I spotted Val looking through all of the weapons. I snagged another jacket similar to mine and brought it over to her.

"Bullets."

"Ah, great idea." She took the jacket and wrapped it around her waist.

At that moment the front door opened and Valerie quickly grabbed her tiny gun and aimed. I grabbed the nearest shotgun and followed suit. But no monster entered, it was a man. He had a police uniform on and appeared to be very young, in his twenties. His reddish brown hair was longer then your typical policeman cut. He spotted us and raised his own handgun.

"Don't shoot!" He told us. "My name is Leon Kennedy, I'm an officer with the R.C.P.D."

"You're a policeman?" Valerie asked cautiously. "I thought everyone evacuated.""Not quite everyone. There's at least a few other people I know about." Leon said, lowering his own gun. We copied him. "The two of you are survivors?"

"You could say that." I told him. "We aren't necessarily from here. We just happened to be crossing by, and we sort of got drug into all of this."

"Well, that's extremely unlucky." Leon said, coming to stand beside of us. "I just joined the force not too long ago. Nothing like having to fight a hoard of zombies and monsters in my rookie days. It should look good on future resumes, if I ever get out of here."

"You said you worked for the R.C.P.D?" Valerie asked.

"Yeah, the S.T.A.R.S program."

Valerie and I exchanged a quick terrified glance as he turned and looked at the weapons. "Do you know a Jill Valentine?" We asked at the same time.

He looked at us with surprise. "Yeah, you've ran into her?"

"In a mansion." I told him. "Along with Chris Redfield, Berry Burton, and… Albert Wesker."

"They're all apart of the S.T.A.R.S program as well. The mansion your speaking of must me the Arklay Mansion. That was their first assignment before the breakout spread through the city."

"Are they still alive?" Valerie asked with hope in her voice.

"I have absolutely no idea, I haven't seen or heard from them since the mansion incident. I'm partnered up with Redfield's sister Claire at the moment. She told me that she's seen signs that seem to confirm that they could still be alive. But we can't be completely sure about that."

"Where were these signs?"

"At the police station. I'm pretty sure that they returned after the mansion. All of them but Burton." Leon's head hung for a moment and his expression was far away. "It was a sad loss. He trained me before I joined, good man."

"How did Burton die?" Val asked.

"It was a self sacrifice, he saved Valentine." Leon shook his head and went back to the weapons. "So, just passing through huh? What's the story behind that?"

"We were running away from home, my brother was with us, but we sort of lost him after the mansion. I don't think that he's dead, something else must have happened. We were patients in the hospital when the evacuation happened." Valerie explained. I was surprised that she was being so honest, but there were obviously more important issues at hand.

And Leon looked trustworthy.

"How old are the two of you? And your brother?" He asked.

"We're both seventeen and Phil is a little older then eighteen. My name is Valerie, and this is Edward. To Valentine, Redfield and Wesker we went by Grant, Mandy, and Cameron."

"When I got into our hospital records they showed our real names so I'm guessing that Wesker found out who we really were. It said that Wesker was the one that brought us in." I told him.

"Wesker eh?" Leon gave us a quizzical look. "What happened to you in the mansion?""I think that we were knocked out by a type of gas. We passed out and I'm not sure what happened afterwards. I just woke up in this hospital."

"Hmmm… Wesker…"