"Looks like my work here is done."

"Ada, stay where you are!"

Leon screamed at her as Ada tried walking up to him. She stopped about half way, hearing the hostility in his breath rise up. Leon could hear Helena breathing faintly causing him to grip her tighter to him. Ada just watched with curiosity, seeing the immense protection Leon had for Helena. Her face saddened and she put down her sniper, never breaking contact with Leon's venomous eyes.

"Does this make you feel better Leon?"

"Give me one good reason I shouldn't shoot you right now."

Ada looked down at the ground momentarily, taking in his harsh words. It hit her a lot harder than expected. For the last couple of months she braced herself for this moment, and now it was hard to keep herself intact. Leon's rage was so strong she felt as if he already came up to her and broke her. Ada closed her eyes trying to keep her composure before looking back up at Leon.

"Leon, I'll gladly take a bullet but right now we need to talk."

"Talk? How the hell are we suppose to talk?!"

"I need you to listen very carefully; it concerns the man you are working for."

"I have no time for your bull shit Ada!"

Leon quickly glanced back to Helena. She was still breathing but unconscious. Leon felt trapped, he knew he had to get Helena to safety but couldn't take the risk with Ada trying to pull a fast move. Leon for once in his life was utterly scared. B.O.W's, zombies, and conspiracies were nothing compared to the heart shattering guilt and loss he was feeling at this moment since Helena was shot. He was going to do whatever it took, even die to get Helena out of this mess.

"Leon!"

A familiar voice yelled out in the distance. Leon could see Chris and Jill running up from behind them with a small team. He had almost forgotten that Jill and Chris were given the opportunity to capture Ada. Jill's eyes widened upon seeing Helena's wound. Everyone had their weapons pointed at Ada. Chris came close to Leon's side and began to speak.

"We tracked her over here with the information you gave to Kent. There aren't any civilians here, we made sure everyone evacuated."

Chris realized his words went through one ear and out the other. He feared that Leon was snapping.

"Leon, let Jill take Helena."

"No…"

"Leon do it now or she'll die."

Jill crouched down and gently scooped up Helena and quickly walked back towards the other team members. The rest of the squad was closing in on Ada. She sighed sadly and closed her eyes.

"I'm not the real enemy here you know."

"Shut up!"

Leon shouted at her as he started to make his way closer to Ada. Chris looked over at Leon and could see his resolve was breaking. He knew it was only a matter of time before Leon would go for Ada.

"Ada Wong, you're wanted for crimes against humanity. Please don't make this hard on yourself."

Chris stated as Ada began to walk up towards her captives. She surrendered quietly, but right before one of the men could shackle her she broke his nose, stole his weapon and pointed the gun to his head. Everyone wanted to shoot but couldn't take the risk of killing their own comrade.

"Ada stop this now!"

Chris shouted as Jill looked on and could see Ada taking the squad member hostage. She quickly went back to taking Helena behind a tree and applied pressure to her injury. Ada slowly backed up with the hostage still her in grasp and she looked at Leon square n the eye with a look of betrayal.

"I didn't think you'd rat me out to Kent."

"You deserve it!"

Leon lost it and ran at Ada. By the time Chris tried to grab him it was too late, he had lost Leon to his madness. Ada quickly shoved the guard out of the way and actually tried to fire a shot at Leon but missed as he grabbed her arm and tried to throw her down. Ada counter attacked by purposefully falling and kicking him upward in the chin and with that she ran. Leon felt dizzy for a moment then took off after her. He fired a couple of shots here and there to make Ada get confused and fall, but she dodged him to no avail. Chris quickly followed alongside the other squad members and chased after them. He hoped with all his might Leon wouldn't do anything stupid.

Jill propped up Helena more on the tree and tried her best to bandage her shoulder. Helena's eyes slowly opened up a bit and she could see Jill smiling at her as best she could.

"Jill?"

"Helena you're going to be alright."

"Where's Leon?"

Jill gulped a little and tried to pay no heed to Helena's question.

"He's out there protecting you. Right now though, you need to stay with me."

Helena nodded and felt herself drift in and out of consciousness.

At this point in the chase Ada managed to get out of the vicinity of the park and headed towards a tumbled down building. She thought it would be a good hiding place for the moment. Ada spoke too soon however as she could see a couple of squad members were already set up there to ambush her just in case. Quickly she took the gun she stole and fired at them, managing to shoot one of them right in the head before taking off towards a stairway in the abandoned building. Chris and the rest of his company came and split up trying to look for her.

"Damnit! I think we lost her!"

Chris shouted as he pounded the nearest wall after seeing Ada had already taken the life of a member. Leon glanced around quickly and saw the stairs.

"Not quite."

He took off without hesitation up the stairs. As soon as he got up to the top Ada was nowhere to be found. Leon still held his guard though and tried desperately to hear anything out of the ordinary. It was dark in this building and hardly any light shown through. Leon knew from experience that Ada had the upper hand unless he could quickly counter her, she could kill him in an instant for the darkness was her cloak. Leon quickly turned around after hearing a piece of wood fall only then to be shocked as he received a hit out of nowhere. Ada had him pinned to the wall, and managed to almost break his arm. Leon shouted not before grabbing Ada and throwing her down. She got back up though and took off for the rooftop with Leon still giving chase despite his arm in being in seething pain.

"Ada!"

He screamed at her as he finally made the climb up the next floor of stairs to the top. Ada was just standing there before him. She panted hard and looking around, her means of escape wasn't there and she knew fully well she had been set up. Ada's eyes turned back to Leon, he couldn't hold the gun so well anymore now that she incapacitated him.

"Leon I told you I wanted to earn my freedom. You knew what was coming but you never bothered to let Helena know, did you?"

Leon's face was so tense from his glare, he could feel it pinch.

"I thought if you even had a shred of love for me you'd leave me alone. Now you've shot Helena and maybe murdered her in front of my eyes, and killed another innocent. I hope you're happy with yourself. Chris and his team won't ever be as merciful as I am."

Ada nodded with some sort of understanding. Leon tried to pull up his gun to finish the job, but the pain was too much and he found himself collapsing onto his knees while trying to keep his arm in check.

"Face it Leon, you won't be able to do anything in this state. I've broke you."

"You better hope that I don't find a way to get you back Ada. You better hope not."

Ada sighed and then took off one of her gloves to show the damage she had taken. A bullet hole went right through and Leon could only assume it was his.

"We've hurt each other pretty bad. In so many ways as a matter of fact. I won't be able to carry a gun right now so one of your wishes has been granted. Before Redfield and his cronies come marching up the steps let me give you a little piece of information: I didn't take the shot at Helena."

Leon's eyes widened as he thought back to the moment before Helena fell into his arms. Since it was a sniper bullet, there was no way Ada could have been facing them. No, Ada would have had to have been in a higher setting in order to get a clean shot right at Helena.

"If you didn't do it then who did?"

"Ask the man you call boss. Leon, he's Simmons cousin."

"You've got to be kidding me."

Ada shook her head and tensed up as the wound in her hand began to fester with pain. Leon caught his breath and managed to stand up. He wasn't quite ready to attack Ada just yet.

"How do I know you aren't lying?"

"Leon, before you and Harper got together know that we've been with each other for 15 years. I've told you the truth to the extent I could. I even gave you the compact in China to prove your innocence. Why would I be lying now?"

"Because you were ordered to kill Helena!"

Ada shook her head sadly.

"Believe what you want Leon, but you'll thank me later for not being the one who pulled the trigger on Harper, I wouldn't have missed so poorly."

Ada perked her head up and could see Chris and the rest of the squad now coming up the stairs. Ada quietly tossed down her weapon and allowed herself to be shackled this time with no complaint. Before the team escorted her down the stairs, she looked back at Leon.

"Kennedy, be careful."

That was the final words she spoke to Leon before she disappeared. Chris came up to Leon and helped him up fully. He could see that Leon's arm was dislocated badly.

"Are you alright?"

"I'll be fine. How is Helena?"

"Jill is taking care of her. She's conscious right now. We should go head back and see them. The team will take care of Ada."

Leon shook his head at Chris.

"She's not the one who did it."

Chris was taken aback by Leon's statement.

"But the information you had said she was targeting Helena because of Simmons death."

"Chris, I think she was set up. She said Kent is related to Simmons."

Chris looked at Leon with concern and a part of him felt like Leon was just making the scenario up because he still had feelings for Ada. But then he recalled the madness he saw in Leon's body when he had Helena tightly in his arms. It was a difficult call, but Chris made up his mind to investigate it later on once everybody was in a better state of mind.

"We'll deal with this together Leon. I'll be sure to look into it. Let's go check on Helena."

Leon nodded and they headed towards the stairs. It took them about twenty minutes to get back to ground zero of the park. There were a bunch of government agents and men there looking for evidence. His eyes were primarily focused on finding Helena as he scoured the area desperately wanting to be with her again. Chris then pointed over towards an ambulance and could see Helena sitting on the step of the vehicle with Jill already helping her arm get stitched. Helena instinctively jolted her head up and saw Leon not that far from her. She smiled at him and returned one as well. Just before he managed to even take a step in her direction, Leon was stopped by a couple of men from the squad.

"What's the meaning of this?"

Chris demanded as they closed in on Leon and him both.

"Kennedy should know quite well what the meaning of this is."

Kent appeared out from the distance and walked up towards Chris and Leon. He glanced at them momentarily then looked back at Helena who shot a glare at him.

"Hm, she seems feisty as always."

"Kent what's going on?"

"I'm putting you under arrest, that's what going to happen."

Chris and Leon gasped and before they could even react Leon was cuffed. Chris was then pushed back from Leon as he tried to help him get out it.

"What am I being arrested for?"

"Conspiracy to murder a government agent and aiding a bioterrorist."

Leon tried to get out of the grasp of the other men but couldn't due to his arms being trapped. He was angrier than ever.

"I didn't plan on killing Helena! You got this all wrong Kent!"

Helena could see in the distance what was happening and she tried to get up and go after Leon but she was stopped as well. Helena screamed as loud as she could.

"Leon!"

"Somebody get her out of here."

Kent motioned his hand and Helena was forced into the back of the vehicle alongside Jill and Chris. Leon's temper was soaring as he pieced together everything that was happening.

"If you lay one finger on her—"

Kent put a finger up to Leon's lips and told him to remain quiet. He grinned as mischievously as ever and looked back to see the ambulance leave with Helena.

"On the contrary I don't intend on having her hurt. In fact I am going to reinstate her especially since she survived an attack by her own partner. It's the least I could do for the poor thing."

"I told you I never wanted to hurt Helena!"

Kent hit Leon as hard as he could and watched him collapse onto the ground. His teeth gritted a little bit before his eyes made contact with Leon.

"I'm getting tired of you saying that. I have all the proof I need for it especially after the encounter you and Ms. Wong had months ago on top of your apartment roof."

Leon gasped for breath while he took in the information Kent spewed to him.

"How do you know about that? Kent are you related to Simmons?"

Kent's fists clenched as he heard the name of his cousin uttered.

"Simmons was but a fool and an idiot for what he did in Tall Oaks and in China. He let his obsession with Ada Wong get so out of hand he almost jeopardized the entire Family. I've been after that bitch since then. We were going to use the C virus in Tall Oaks for a war in the Middle East but thanks to him he ruined it, and now here I am doing damage control."

"So you are part of the Family!?"

Kent smirked and grabbed Leon by his hair and ripped at it to pull him up so he could be face to face with him. Leon sneered at the pain he was feeling as Kent's grin widened.

"I was once until they screwed me over, saying that I needed to work up in the ranks to come into power. My father was the only one who believed in me until Ada Wong killed him two months ago. Getting back to your question Kennedy, about the proof we obtained showing your guilt, I may not be a part of the Family in the long term but I still have friends in high places. Especially with the ones who hired Ada for her services in the first place.

They began to panic once she asked for her freedom and came crawling to me to help them out especially since Ada is a liability due to the work she has done for the Family the last 15 years, so they tasked me to frame her. I asked for them to bait her with Harper and went on from there especially since The Family had been grieving Derek's death. We tracked her conversations and whereabouts with transmitters placed on her grapple gun. I must say Kennedy you've been a really naughty boy. You knew in the first place Harper was going to be assassinated but didn't do anything until it was almost too late. Sad really, because it's quite obvious the girl had feelings for you."

Leon couldn't believe the words that were coming out of Kent's mouth. If Leon had the power to get up and break his neck he would have not hesitated.

"So then it wasn't really Ada who shot her then?"

Kent looked at Leon again, this time pondering in his own thoughts.

"Oh yes, I recall that Ada refused to kill Harper out of her "love" for you so we sent someone else to go ahead and take care of it. Ada came along and was planning on taking out our own sniper, but by the time she made it to the park to set up you were already clutching Harper to your chest and were ready to pull the trigger. It worked out quite nicely if I do say so myself."

Kent motioned to the other men to take Leon away. Leon still struggled against them and right before they placed him into a nearby car Kent had the men stop.

"One more thing Kennedy, Harper is not entirely off the hook yet. I still intend on carrying out The Family's request to be rid of her."

"I won't let you!"

"Kennedy, as far as you should be concerned, Harper will not even come to your aid after I'm through telling her about your involvement."

Leon managed to come close to breaking out of the shackles until he felt a huge pain seep into his neck. He blacked out not knowing what was going to happen next.