Ta da! New chapter! Now, I can't tell you if you're going to need any paper bags, or dishtowels this time since I haven't finished writing the chapter yet (well, if you're reading this I have, but as I'm typing this, I haven't), so you should probably just bring them just in case…

Enjoy! :D

Leon and I didn't really speak much after that. We walked through a room with multiple people in it, and the most we said to each other was 'Look out!' or 'Hey, there's some ammo over here.', but that was it. It wasn't until we had ridden up an elevator and were standing on a metal floor when he actually spoke to me.

"Stay here. I have a bad feeling about this, and… yeah." We were about three stories above the ground, and there were only railings blocking us from falling and receiving serious injuries, if not death.

'You don't want anything to happen to me…?' I thought to myself. I was too afraid to actually say anything. I didn't want to say something wrong and have him hate me for the rest of eternity. I just nodded and he proceeded forward, with me waiting behind in front of the elevator.

It turned out Leon was right, because just then a man dropped down from one of the pipes on the ceiling, wielding a blade. Before I had time to do anything, the man spoke first.

"Been a long time… Comrade…" He said. His voice was almost as creepy as Saddler's.

Apparently, Leon was familiar with this guy, because his eyes widened and he immediately said "Krauser!"

"I died in the crash two years ago… is that what they told you?" He asked, making me more and more confused by the second.

"You're the one who kidnapped Ashley!"

The man named Krauser began pacing circles around Leon, twirling his sharp knife in his hand. "You catch on quick, as expected. After all, you and I both know where we come from."

Just then, Krauser lurched at Leon with his knife, and he dodged just in time. They were both going at each other with their knives now. I didn't know if I should've done something, or stay put like Leon told me to. I didn't want to get on his bad side after what had happened earlier, but I couldn't stand to see him get killed by this guy who had obviously been taking some form of steroids…

"What do you want?" Leon shouted, snapping me out of my thoughts.

The man didn't say anything, just grunted and jumped at Leon again. I didn't know how much I could take of this.

"The sample Saddler developed, that's all." My eyes grew wide. He was involved with this?

"Leave Ashley outa this!" Leon shouted.

"Oh, I needed her to buy Saddler's trust in me. Like you, I'm American."

He lunged at Leon again, and this time he just barely dodged his attack. Then suddenly they both dove over a ledge and I gasped loudly. I ran over to where they just were and stood by where they fell. It wasn't a long fall, and they were already fighting again. Leon had sprinted straight towards him, and sliced his chest. Krauser didn't look too pleased about that, and dove for him again. He swung Leon around, and kicked him down. I held back a shriek and kept watching.

"All for Umbrella's sake…" He said, mysteriously.

"Umbrella?" Leon voiced my thoughts, but it sounded as if that word had significance to something I didn't know about.

"Almost let it slip... Enough talk, die comrade!"

Just then, he lunged straight for Leon, who was still on the floor, with his knife aimed straight at his chest.

I couldn't help it. "NO!" I screamed, getting glances from both of them. Krauser looked confused, and I couldn't read Leon's face. Before either of them could move, a gunshot was fired, and the knife flew out of Krauser's hand. We all looked up at where the shot had come from. Both the men had jumped up and were now staring up at a higher platform where a woman stood with short black hair, and a long red dress.

"Ada!" Leon shouted.

Krauser looked at her smugly and said "Well, if it isn't the bitch in the red dress."

Wait- red dress? Was she the woman Ashley had told me about?

"Looks like we have the upper hand, here." She said coolly.

Krauser chuckled before doing a gravity-defying backflip up a ladder behind him. "You may be able to prolong your life, but it's not like you can escape your inevitable death, is it?"

He turned to me and flashed me a glare before turning around and leaving, leaving me to ponder what his intentions were now. The woman and I jumped down at the same time, both walking to Leon.

"You… knew each other?" She asked, referring to Krauser.

"More or less… maybe it's about time you told me why you're here?" He suggested roughly.

She rolled her eyes and looked at me. "So, this must be that girl." Ada grinned smugly. I looked quickly at Leon. Had he told her about me? He was giving the woman a look that warned 'don't push it'.

One glance at the look he was giving her, and all she did was roll her eyes. "Just be careful." She began walking away, but stopped and turned around one more time. "Leon's quite the man."

And then she was gone.

I opened my mouth to explain to him how sorry I was for not staying put like he told me to, but then a loud beeping noise came from his belt.

"Enjoy the reunion with your old friend?" Came Saddler's voice from the other end of Leon's communicator.

"As a matter of fact, I did." Leon retorted.

"Wonderful. I wouldn't want my special guests on my island feeling unattended." He spoke the last words like he was talking to a sad dog.

"Guess I'm supposed to thank you, right?"

"Ah, I have an idea! Since you're here, why don't I introduce you to 'it'." Leon and I exchanged looks of confusion before he nodded and turned back to the device. "'It' should keep you company."

"Can't remember the name, huh? A senior moment perhaps." He said, trying to pry whatever the creature was out of the man.

This just resulted in getting a very forced laugh from him. "Enjoy the fun." He said before hastily hanging up.

"Leon, I-I'm so sorry for not waiting like you told me to. It's just, I thought you-"

"It's fine." He interrupted. "I'm actually glad you came when you did; you distracted him just long enough for me to get away."

I couldn't tell if he was just saying that to make me feel better, or if he truly meant it. "But what about that one chick…?" I asked, looking up at him.

He sighed and shook his head. "I don't really feel like talking about it right now."

I looked him directly in the eyes, very sternly. "Leon. Please tell me."

He looked back at me, but I held my stare; I could see his eyes softening. "…Okay. Do you want the whole story or-"

"The whole thing." I interrupted. "Start from the beginning."

He sighed again. He had a habit of doing that. "Okay. It was September of 1998, you were about eleven, and it was my first day on the force of the Raccoon City Police Department…"

He continued to explain to me everything that happened six years ago, and I mean everything. Every inch of detail from finding Claire Redfield, Claire finding Sherry on the search for her brother Chris, then they found Ada who was looking for her fiancé, John, but she was really just a spy for a man named Albert Wesker. Wesker invented the T-virus, which turned people into zombies. Real. Zombies. I had a hard time believing it until I thought about everything that's happened here and came to the conclusion that anything was possible. I mean hey, I kissed the hottest man on the planet not even ten minutes ago.

It turned out that Wesker was the head of an International Pharmaceutical Enterprise called Umbrella. Ada had been working for him, and was sent to retrieve the G-virus sample, but all of the samples had been destroyed, except for one which had been used on Dr. William Birkin. The doctor's wife confronted Leon about how Ada was a spy, and then shot her, making her fall to her 'death'. He also explained how in 2002, he and Krauser went to South America to search for missing teenage girls, and there was this one freaky chick who totally messed up Krauser's left arm, but I wasn't very interested in that part; I was focused on the story about Ada.

"So… you love her." The pain was obvious in my voice; I didn't even try to hide it.

He sighed heavily. "Remind me why I'm talking about this with you?"

I was quiet, and looked down at my shoes. Maybe he had a point, what right did I have to discuss his love life with him? Then again, I did kiss him earlier…

"Come on…" He said as sincerely as he could, and he turned around to walk to a ladder beside us.

"Wait, is she still working for him?" I tried to hide the pain in my voice, and replaced it with curiosity.

"What?"

"Is she still working for Wesker…?"

He was silent for a second, but then he answered in a short statement. "Yes." He said.

My reply came quickly; I didn't have time to think about it before I was already saying it. "Leon, she lied to you, betrayed you, and faked her own death… can't you take a hint?" I was being harsh, I knew it. But it hurt loving someone when they loved someone else.

He thought about what I said for about two seconds, before walking away, leaving my question unanswered.

"Leon, wait." I called after him, but didn't move.

"Leon, please…" There was obvious desperation in my voice and he stopped, but didn't turn around. My eyes very suddenly filling with those dreaded drops of water, and I tried my best to hold them in, but to no avail. "Please…"

Before I realized it, his arms were wrapped around me. To be honest, it just made me feel worse. I was already a total mess, and after kissing him, I was almost positive some wire in my brain had begun to unravel.

To my surprise, I was the one who let go first, even though it only lasted around three seconds.

"I'm sorry." I whispered.

You could hear the confusion in his voice. "For what?"

"Everything." I wasn't crying anymore, but I wasn't necessarily cheerful either. "For coming with you, getting you hurt so many times, getting on your nerves, getting trapped and having you spend so much time looking for me, and I bet someone can find some way to pin me on what happened to Luis, and-"

"Hey," He snapped. "Look at me. That was not your fault. It was Saddler's. Okay? You are not responsible in anyway, how could you be? You were in that trap, remember?"

I nodded sheepishly. "Yeah… And Leon, about what happened earlier, I just-"

"You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to."

I was quiet for a moment. "You know, I'm not going to lie. It's going to be a lot harder being this close to you from now on." I gave him a small smile, and he smiled back.

"Am I that irresistible?" Hearing him joke like that again made me smile even bigger.

"You know we're going to have to talk about that eventually." I said as we were walking across the metal floor.

He nodded. "I know." He jumped down a ladder and I followed him.

When I landed safely I looked up at him. "I mean, you can't say you didn't like it." I smirked up at him.

He kept walking forward, never giving me a direct answer. I took it as a win.

We kept walking until we came across a very shiny metal door. Leon opened it with caution and we both looked around in confusion. This had to be the cleanest room I had seen on this island. There were two doors in front of us and I approached them carefully, but as soon as I was within three inches of them, they slid open revealing a white hallway.

"Let me go first." Leon said as he walked past me.

I nodded and after he took two steps, three lasers emitted from the walls. Two were vertical, moving left and right, and one was horizontal moving up and down.

"Follow my lead." He said. He waited until there was an opening and quickly rushed through, turning back around and motioning me to follow him.

I mimicked his actions and once we took a few more steps forward, more lasers shot out. There were five this time, and they kept crisscrossing with each other. Leon waited for a clear path and ran through them, but immediately halted when more lasers shot out. They were all crisscrossed and they began moving forward towards him at a fast pace. From what I could see, there was no way to dodge in time from where he was standing.

"Leon!" I shouted from behind him. When those lasers popped out, the ones behind me all disappeared. Just before they hit him, he dove straight through an opening in the middle. I turned around and began running back. The doors didn't open when I walked up to them, and the lasers stopped about four feet in front of me. But then, about twenty more shot out in front of Leon and he did a super amazing somersault in between them, just barely dodging the lasers.

"What do I do?" I shouted. They were racing towards me now.

"Just get down!"

I did as he said and I laid flat on my stomach, the deathly lasers just barely missing me. But there were more. Leon had pressed a button by the doors at the end of the hallway and more lasers had flashed right above me, moving towards him. He dodged them, of course, but I didn't get to see what happened because I was still lying on the floor, afraid there was going to be more. A few seconds later I heard a beep and looked up: Leon was at the doors and the light beside them had turned green. I assumed it was okay and jumped up, even though if I was wrong I'd most likely be dead.

"Are you okay?" I asked him, my eyes darting all over his body to check for injuries.

He nodded. "I'm fine."

I studied him. Even if he wasn't fine, he probably wouldn't tell me. But I just decided to go with it. "You have to teach me how to do that." I said as we walked through the doors.

He laughed. "Like I said, maybe after this whole thing is over."

That gave me more hope than I thought it would. After this was over… would that mean we'd stay in touch?

My thoughts didn't have much room to wander because this room was even more confusing than the last. There weren't any visible doors, and there was a throne sitting in the middle of the room, a single red light shining down on it, the Las Plagas symbol on the wall behind it.

"What do we do now?" I asked, turning to the man next to me. He seemed just as confused as I was, though.

He walked over and around the throne, revealing another motion censored door behind the throne, the place I thought was a wall. It was a circular elevator that was just big enough to fit a person and have enough room for them to move around in, making it very awkward for Leon and me; we were only about six inches apart, facing each other. I tried my best not to look directly at him, but as soon as the elevator went down it was pretty much impossible. We went down a very narrow and long tube.

"L-Leon?" I called out into the darkness.

"Yeah?" His voice came back louder and closer than I'd expected.

"A-Are you sure this goes anywhere?"

He was quiet for a second and then said, "Well, it has to. Why would you have a throne in a room that leads nowhere?"

He had a point, so I didn't say much. After a few seconds, though, I simply said, "I-It's dark…"

I could hear the smirk in his voice. "Well, I'm not going anywhere."

A broad grin appeared on my face. "I know."

The elevator came to a slow stop somewhere underground, and we stepped off into a well-lit room. The walls were carved from dirt, and there were lights every few feet. We walked down a few steps, took a right and began walking down a hallway when we spotted the Merchant. I was too distracted by everything that happened earlier to do my usual intro.

I walked up to him casually and Leon looked at me questioningly. "What, no accent, jumping up and down in place or anything?"

I snapped my head up at him. "What?"

The confusion in his eyes grew deeper. "You're usually all excited around this guy."

"Oh… n-no, I'm just…. Thinking."

"About what?"

I rolled my eyes. "Do you really have to ask?"

I had once again managed to redden the agent's cheeks. It was true, though. Just the mere thought of it made my lips tingle, begging for his presence again.

I had absent-mindedly brought my hand up to my face once we got to the merchant, and my thumb had begun to stroke my bottom lip; I could still feel him there. That didn't really help the fact that I already had to fight the urge every second to throw myself on him, back him up against the nearest wall and have my way with him. Not that he wouldn't be able to stop me if I tried- do I need to bring up his muscles again?- I just wanted him so badly, I'm not going to lie, that's probably what would happen if I had the chance.

Apparently, the merchant had heard our conversation, and picked up on the fact that I was staring off into space while stroking my lip, because he was giving Leon and I the biggest sly grin I'd ever seen in my life. It made it even creepier, though, because you couldn't see his mouth; he was wearing a bandana on his face. You could just see it in his eyes, and once I noticed I immediately snapped out of it, hoping Leon hadn't seen.

After Leon had finished negotiating with the man, he turned to me.

"Anything you want?"

I felt like I was five years old and in a candy store with a handful of twenties. But despite my wide eyes, I turned his offer down. "I-I'm fine."

He looked at me slyly. "Liar." He said with a large, cocky grin.

I shrugged. "I just don't like asking for stuff from you."

He raised his eyebrows. "Since when? You know I'd get you anything."

I looked at him, raising my eyebrows too. "Anything? Really?" There was a hint of sarcasm in my voice.

"Anything." He replied.

"You know… I'm not sure it's such a good idea to leave me with that kind of advantage…" I said awkwardly.

Leon rolled his eyes. "I meant anything from the Merchant."

"I know, but really I'm fine." I gave him the most convincing look I could and he thanked the man and began walking away. He didn't look convinced, but he wasn't going to push at something that wasn't very important. I just hoped he was at least thinking about the kiss as much as I was.

We walked through two giant double doors and began walking down another dirt carved hallway. Once again, everything seemed to be built over a giant trench, except this one was ten times bigger than the one in the village. There was bridge over a seven foot gap, leading to another hallway, but it was only about three feet wide, and there were no rails. Leon carefully walked over, but I followed him with extreme hesitation. One look over the side told me that if I fell, that'd be it.

"One step in front of the other, Em."

I nodded and slowly stepped off the bridge.

"You ready?" He asked, taking in consideration how tentative I was.

"It's not that I'm afraid of heights or anything…" I explained. "That's just a long drop…"

"Yeah."

We continued walking through another hallway, and started at what it led to. Another huge trench, but this time there were three large container rigs hanging over it, connected to chains dangling from the ceiling.

I turned to Leon, fear visible in my eyes. "Leon, please tell me we won't have to go through that."

He shook his head. "No, it looks like there's a lift over there."

I sighed in relief and we began walking towards it.

But just as we were about to reach it, Leon stopped and looked at something beeping in a puddle of water. It was flashing red, and was about the size of a dime.

"Ashley…" He whispered.

"What is that thing?" I asked, looking in confusion at the device.

"It's a tracker. I threw it on Ashley before Saddler took her away. I guess he saw it though and took it off…"

"Well, it is beeping pretty loud…" I said honestly. That must've gotten annoying after a while.

Before he could respond, the walls behind us shook and we turned around in shock as the shakes worsened. Leon quickly grabbed my hand, and, before I could freak out about it, began sprinting for one of the container rigs.

"What about the lift?" I shouted, barely being able to keep up with him.

"It's on the other side; we can't get to it from here!"

We jumped onto the first rig (well, more like he jumped and pulled me along with him.) just as a giant, mutant creature burst out of the wall and onto the rig after us.

While it has the upper part of a human torso and a human head, its appearance is horrifying and marked by strange scars all over its head, a clawed arm, and a tentacle in place of the other one. Below this, the rest of his body warps into a centaur-like deformed body that has two front legs and two hind ones bonded by a centipede-like fleshy piece of muscle. He had a long, serpent like tongue that kept swishing around everywhere and dirty, brown-ish stained teeth. When he landed, he took two steps forward and roared. My eyes were wide and Leon quickly took out his Striker and began shot gunning the giant thing in the head. This made it mad, or just irritated, and it jumped up and out of sight, but not for long.

"Here, take this." He tossed me his TMP and three hundred bullets to go with it.

"What, wh-" I didn't have time to finish my question because he had grabbed my hand again, turned around, and began walking around the area. "I'm going to go back behind this shutter and press one of the emergency buttons, you're going to hop this fence and press that one. It will save us time and ammunition."

"Okay, two questions. One: How do you expect me to get over that gate when it's taller than you, and two: how on earth do you know what to do?"

"I saw everything before we jumped on. There are doors that you get through, and my guess is that once you press both buttons, they open. Now come on, I'll give you a boost."

He lifted me up and helped me over the fence that had a button and a giant red door.

"Okay, you press that and I'll press the other one and run back as quick as I can. If that thing shows up, shoot it with what I gave you; it's fully upgraded."

I nodded weakly, and when he turned around I called out, "Leon, wait. What if you get killed or something?"

He thought about it for a second, and with a smile he said, "I'll try not to." Then, he turned around and was gone. The thing never showed up by me, I guessed he was too distracted by the hot guy running around. I pressed the button and it stopped flashing. A few seconds later, an alarm was sounded and the whole container-rig started shaking, but just enough to feel it.

"Leon…?" I shouted out, panic clear in my voice.

Just then, I heard a shot gun, and the shutter next to me opened, followed by Leon, who was followed by It.

"Leon, hurry!"

He ran up to the door, pulled it open, and the second we ran through, the one behind us dropped. One down, two to go.

"Did that thing fall, too?" I asked Leon as he was reloading his shotgun.

"I doubt it." He said. He began looking for the way to go. We went forward and turned right, but that was a bad move. Suddenly, the creature jumped down from the roof right in front of us. But, not to worry- Leon and I just shot it until it ran away again.

Just like last time, there were two red buttons to push. One was behind one shutter, the other behind another. Leon and I both went different directions, and once again I got the one closest to the door, and all I had to do was round a corner and I was there, but I waited for Leon before opening it.

"Last one." I said with a smile as we stepped onto the final rig.

He walked over to a button that was right by the front door and pressing it opened a shutter, revealing a long dark hallway.

But before we could enter it, the creature dropped down from the roof once more to reveal a giant tentacle that had sprouted from its back. It had a gaping mouth, lined with dozens of teeth. This tentacle also sported a very heavy pair of pincers, which acted as giant scissors and were most likely used to slice us in half.

Leon quickly threw out a Flash grenade, temporarily blinding the monster, grabbed my hand again, and bolted for the newly revealed hallway. The hallway lead straight to the door, but there wasn't a button anywhere to be found.

"Well what do we do?" I asked.

"Hold on…" We kept walking left and found a shiny green button. Leon shot at it and a shutter from the other side of the rig opened up. We ran back through the hallway, turned right, and there it was. Leon pressed the button, and we sprinted back down the hallway. He kept grabbing my hand, making me blush and wonder if he did it so I could keep up with him, or so he wouldn't lose track of me.

When we got to the door, Leon opened it and it lead to a balcony overlooking the deep abyss. There was a hook connected to a very long, fragile looking chain in front of it.

"Wh-where do we go now?" I asked, absent-mindedly squeezing his hand tighter.

Apparently, that gave him an idea. "Have you seen any James Bond movies?"

"Well, yeah but… what does that have to do with anything?" I looked up at him in confusion.

He grinned at me, squeezed my hand tightly, and said, "Just don't let go."

Suddenly we were running, and then we were in the air. Leon had jumped off the balcony, and grabbed the hook just before the container-rig dropped deep into the never-ending chasm below. I hadn't let go of his hand like he told me to, so at that moment, he was the literally the only thing keeping me alive. If he let go, that was it. I'd fall to my inevitable death.

"Smart move." I said, looking up, dangling below him. "Now uh… how exactly do you plan to get down from here?"

Apparently, he was stronger than I thought. He pulled me up with his one arm, the other hanging onto the chain, and held me close to him so I wouldn't fall.

Of course, my face was completely flushed, but that didn't stop me from being terrified of what was about to happen next.

"Just hold on tight." At those words, I wrapped my arms around his torso, buried my face into the side of his chest, and held on for my life as he swung the chain back and forth, and then let go. Those three seconds we were free falling in the air, I had squeezed him harder than I thought possible, probably leaving nail marks in his skin. But then we were safe on the ground, and I was still holding onto him.

After catching his balance he looked down at me. "You can let go now."

"Are we on the ground?" I asked, not looking up at him because my eyes were shut tight.

He chuckled. "Yes, we're on the ground."

I opened one eye, then the other, and then reluctantly let go of the man who had potentially just saved my life. Who knew what could have happened if that stunt didn't work?

I slowed my heart rate and looked up at Leon. "Don't you ever do anything like that again."

He laughed loudly. "Come on, it seemed like you were having a great time."

"We could have died! Why don't you leave stuff like that to James Bond?"

He laughed again. "Alright, come on." We began walking towards a grey door, but then a loud roaring came from the trench as the monster scaled the walls, climbing back up for revenge.

This time, Leon practically ripped my arm off as he grabbed my hand and began sprinting forward; ignoring the door we were headed for a few seconds ago. I couldn't keep up with him, and I felt like my legs were about to break off. 'It' jumped at us, just barely missing, and then bars shot down from an arch in the rocks, blocking us from going back.

"What do we do?" I shouted as we ran through a tunnel, away from the creature.

Leon quickly pulled out a magnum, receiving wide eyes from me, and began shooting the thing on the tentacle's mouth.

"Where'd you get that?" I shouted, pumping TMP bullets along with Leon's shiny new magnum.

"At the Merchant guy, earlier, while you were off in your little daze."

I froze. My cheeks were crimson red, and my finger relieved itself off the trigger for a split second. Turned out, that split second was just long enough for the monster to escape, burrowing underground and vanishing from sight.

We were silent and stiff as boards. That thing could show up at any time, in any place.

After about four seconds I looked up at Leon. "Is he gon—"

Suddenly a strong force pushed up and forward, coming from behind me, and I was shoved forward, screaming, into the man I was speaking to. He caught me just in time and stood me upright as it burrowed itself again. The things pincers kept shooting out of the ground, and we ran out of the tunnel, dodging the lethal attacks. There was a large boulder in the middle of the small field, and a flammable barrel right next to it.

"Come on!" The agent shouted, grabbing my hand roughly and sprinting forward. I swear, I was going to have bruises after that.

We ran behind the boulder and the barrel and waited until the monster was right in front of it, shot the barrel and it went up in flames. This stunned the creature just long enough for Leon and I to keep shooting it. Me and the TMP shooting the pincer, Leon and his Magnum shooting his head. In just five seconds, the thing was shrieking in pain, and it collapsed to the floor.

"I-is it dead?" I asked, taking a few steps back just in case.

Just then the bars trapping us in the little area rose.

"Yeah I think so." Leon said with a nod.

We reloaded all of the guns and I handed him his TMP back before walking back to the grey door we couldn't get to before. As soon as we started walking back I smirked and looked up at the tall man beside me.

"What, you're not gonna hold my hand this time?"

"Hey, I had to or else you would have gotten cut in half by that thing."

I laughed. "Yeah, and thanks for that and everything, but I think you could have been a bit more gentle." I said, rubbing my right wrist dramatically.

He smirked at me as he opened the door. "I'll keep that in mind."

He just has to find a way to turn my face red, doesn't he?

YAY! Three days! I think that's a personal record! :D I'm not sure how many of you even read this, but those of you who do, I have a sequel in mind… :) Yes, it's going to be based on something else created by Capcom, I'm not making it up. Here's a hint: It takes place a year after Resident Evil 4, but the actual thing wasn't released until 3 years after the game… I just wanted to tell you all that because I'm very excited. x3

Anyway, please review and tell me what you think about the story, and what I told you up there ^^^ :)

(Oh yeah, and I don't own James Bond or anything)