A/N: I am grateful to all the reader making time for this story and I am much more grateful to my reviewer GrayFox786 and Shirahane Aikawa, for giving me valuable insights. After I replied to you both I realized that maybe Kate, doesn't really have that development you noticed missing in her character and so I'd like to apologize to you both as well.

Disclaimer: I don't own Resident Evil or any of its characters; they all belong to Capcom.

Chapter 36

(Leon's POV)

The irritating phone ring woke me up and seeing who the caller was, almost made me throw away the phone, "Yeah Hunnigan", I answered resting my eyes a bit, as I listened to her.
"Ms. Graham is fit again, resume your work back at the White House", she said to me.
"Hmm… will be there", I said to her and disconnected the call, and lied still for a moment. Hunnigan really had a bad habit of disturbing my sleep.

I got off the bed, stretched and headed inside the bathroom, "How do you do it?", Kate asked, both surprised and annoyed that I disturbed her shower again.
"It's just coincidence", I told her in an annoyed tone.
"Somebody is in foul mood today", she said from behind the shower curtains, as I heard a zipping up sound.
"I hate when they disturb my sleep", I said brushing my teeth, as she exited the shower.
"I thought you hate sleeping", Kate said opening the cabinet to get something. I watched her put aftershave and shaving cream on the bathroom counter, knowing that I would shave but as she was getting my razor she screamed and dropped the razor because it had cut her finger.

(Kate's POV)

I moved to put the finger in my mouth and Leon did the same as well, but instead we bumped our heads into each other. I rubbed my head with my other hand, cursing him under my breath but he was already sucking on my cut finger, "its fine now", I said to him.
"It's fine?", he said letting go, "Oh it totally defeated the purpose, I thought of sucking all the blood off of your body."
"Don't worry you do that daily", I quipped back and walked back to the bedroom.
"Still you look as if nothing happened", he yelled after me to which I didn't reply, since it would start another argument.

I sat in front of the dressing mirror and began drying my hair, during which I noticed Leon's phone was buzzing. I moved to pick up the phone but the call got disconnected. I saw there were 3 missed calls from Hunnigan and the phone started buzzing again, thinking it to be important, I yelled to Leon, "Hunnigan is calling, I think it's important."
"It's nothing like that", he yelled back.
"This is her fourth call", I told him as the call ended again.
"She calls me every five minutes", he said as his phone started buzzing again.
"It's her again", I yelled to him.
"Just tell her I am on my way", he said frustrated and I decided not to argue with him anymore.

"Hello?", I answered the call, when it was down to its last ring. I didn't hear any response so I thought it got disconnected, "Hello?!", I said again.
"Sorry I must have gotten the wrong number. I am sorry for the inconvenience", Hunnigan said to me, speaking formally.
"Hey wait!", I said before she disconnected.
"Yes ma'am?", she asked in a professional tone.
"Uh… you got the right number. Leon says he's on his way", I told her confused about why she thought she dialed the wrong number.

"Give me the phone", I heard Leon from behind and I turned to give him the phone but he simultaneously moved to get the phone from me and was now behind me. I again turned to give him the phone and again the same thing happened. And it happened a few times, before Leon grabbed my shoulders and turned me to face him and I noticed he wasn't wearing any shirt. I had seen him like this before but it was only now that I felt butterflies in my stomach, maybe I should grab some breakfast. Leon smiled and said, "My phone?"
"Oh yeah", I said giving him his phone, feeling a bit embarrassed for zoning out like that, "What do you want for breakfast?", I don't know why but I asked him, maybe because it's Saturday and it being my off day, I could put an extra effort in it.

Leon looked at me and thought for a bit, "Cheese omelet, fully roasted toast with butter and jam and a cup of hot strong black coffee."
"Okay", I said glaring at him a bit, since it was just a usual question and he answered me as if he was ordering something at some café. I had just turned to head out when he addressed me again.

"Hey", he said and I looked at him, "Put lots of cheese", he didn't let me reply and began talking to Hunnigan who was still on the phone, "Who?", he waited a bit, "Oh… that, it was my wife", he answered casually searching for a shirt with one hand while he held his phone to his ear with the other. I shouldn't be listening to this but a change in his expression made me listen as he said frowning, "Of course I am married", the annoyance in his tone was very clear, "I am not joking….What!? That's totally ridiculous, why would I do something like that?", he paused for a moment, listening to Hunnigan, "No I did not get married recently", he waited again and I noticed him getting frustrated with each moment, "I am Married! I am not lying to keep women away from me. No, the girl is not blackmailing me or anything. And Breaking News! I am married for almost five years", and I knew he was smiling as he said this last sentence. He turned and it was confirmed that he was smiling, as he listened to Hunnigan again, "No I am not lying, here talk to my wife", he said moving towards me and stretched his arm to hand his phone to me, "Talk to her."

I shook my head mouthing, 'I am not talking to her!'
"Look, she'll think that I am lying", Leon said to me.
"So what, it's not my problem", I almost whispered to him, acting indifferent about it.
"You are my wife, just talk to her", he said putting the phone on speaker. I couldn't say anything to him right now but just glared at him, "Talk to her sweetheart!", he just smiled at me.
"Okay", I said a bit furiously, taking the phone from him. I switched it back to handset mode and put it against my ear, "Hello?"

"This is Ingrid Hunnigan", Hunnigan said, "Uh can I know your relationship with Leon."
"I am his wife", I told her in an obvious tone. I can't understand why women have trouble getting the fact that Leon is married.
"You sure, you're not under the influence of Leon?", she asked me.
"What?!", I said surprised, "Look I am his wife. We've been for past five years and that's a fact."
"If you cannot prove it, its not a fact", she said from the other end.
"If you can come home, I'll show you our marriage certificate", I said it rather impulsively.
"Tomorrow exactly 5:00 PM", Hunnigan said.
"I'll be waiting", I said to her frustrated and angrily, and disconnected the phone.

I looked at Leon wondering if it was so hard for people to digest the fact that he's married. I don't know how he survived before he got married to me, this idiot couldn't cook, can't clean and can never find anything. But then again he always had girlfriends, so maybe they always looked after him like I do now and maybe the enormous amount of girlfriend he had, makes it hard to believe he got married to someone. And somehow thinking about it made me a bit sad deep down inside.

"You here?", Leon asked me. I didn't notice when he got ready let alone notice him walk close to me.
"Yeah, you said something?", I asked him coming back to reality.
"Yeah I just told you to forget about breakfast since…", he was saying when his phone buzzed, "I am late", he completed seeing his phone, "Hunnigan won't let me eat peacefully plus she's mad about marriage thing and all. I know she still thinks it's joke", he said descending down the steps.

(Leon's POV)

"It'll take only twenty minutes I promise", Kate said concerned.
"I know but I can't help it I am already late", I said to her, "I promise I'll have something to eat", I promised, seeing her concerned, and pulled open the door.
"Don't go like this. I know you won't be able to keep that promise", she stopped me by grabbing hold of my arm, "Ten minutes not more than that, please."

I couldn't say no to that face and nodded in agreement. She smiled and hurried towards the kitchen, and I followed. I don't know how she does it, but she always knows what I'd do. She knew because of work I would have to skip breakfast and she didn't want that. Why? I don't know, but it felt really good when she took care of me. I watched her as she switched on the coffee machine.

"You're not thinking of making what I said earlier, are you?", I asked her.
"I can't make those in ten minutes. I can only manage toasts and coffee", she said putting toasts in the toaster.
"I love toasts", I said as she busied herself with making coffee and within a few minutes, the toasts were ready.
"Jam or butter?", she asked pulling out the toasts and loading the toaster with bread.
"Butter", I said and she quickly put butter on the toast and gave it to me. She poured me my blend of coffee and moved to get more toasts for me and by this way I was considerably full and satisfied, and hurried off to work as Kate saw me off happily.

(Kate's POV)

"No Leon is not back", I told the twins as I stuck a note on the refrigerator for Leon so he could get the dinner easily.
"This is like the third time we call and he's not home", Leslie said to me.
"Why don't you call him on his personal number, if you want to talk to him", I said to them. I knew they wanted me to call him just to tell him that they were asking for him, just so he and I could talk but it's impossible to make two people talk when they don't know what to talk.
"You know he's not picking up", Jessica said to me, "Maybe you should check up on him, if he's okay or not."
"He's fine, I just received his text an hour ago", I told them a bit frustrated from all the nagging.
"You know, he said that you never call him", Jessica told me.
"Because I don't need to", I told her and before she could say anything I added, "I am not going to call him; I don't want an argument right now."
"You know, it's sometimes useless to talk to you", the twins said together as I climbed up the stairs to get in the bedroom.
"Welcome to my world", I quipped back referring to them and my husband, and they screamed like hell that I had to pull the phone off my ear, "What happened?", I asked them concerned.
"We just talked like you", they said together dramatically and I shook my head in disbelief, as I heard mom scolding them on the other end too, "Can't talk to you, if we talk more we would become like you."
"Okay", I said to them, taking out my night clothes, "Good night!"
"Goodnight!", they said together and disconnected.

I changed into in my night dress and noticed that the jug of water was empty, plus I had brought the cordless in the bedroom. I took both the things back down and set the receiver back on the phone, before moving to the kitchen to fill the jug. I turned off the light and just as I lifted the jug the top cover slipped and fell, making me curse inwardly. I just decided to look for it in the dark rather than to turn on the lights and then find it.

I heard somebody's footsteps as I picked up the cover and found Leon pulling up the note, a laugh escaped his lips, "She never forget to put these", he said, keeping the note in his pocket. Shadow barked in greeting and moved to me as Leon opened the refrigerator door to get water. He drank straight from the bottle as I moved to turn on the lights.

"Hey good you're up. I was wondering which one of these have tonight's dinner", he said looking in the refrigerator totally oblivious that I had seen him read the note.
"The note said it", I said smiling crossing my arms.
"What note?", Leon said flipping the door on purpose just to show me there was no note there.

(Leon's POV)

"What! There is no note, I forgot today too", Kate said in a surprised and concerned tone, moving towards me and then her expressions changed, "Or maybe the note is here", she dug in my pocket and found the note and looked at me in search for an explanation.
"It was fun", I replied shrugging.
"Fun?", she said monotonously and threw the note on the floor, "I was scared half to death", she said turning to get the dinner out of fridge.
"Why?", I asked picking up that note and again pocketing it.
"What're you doing?", Kate asked maybe she saw me doing that.
"I… I dropped a coin", I made up a lie.
"Whatever you were doing I am uninterested in that and you are bad at lying", she said telling me, that she can see through my lies.
"To you", I said the moment she completed her sentence.

"Flirting is not going to get you anywhere with me", Kate said setting the microwave to heat the dinner.
"Who knows maybe it would", I said and she glared at me, "I sure hope it gets me somewhere", I added hopefully.
Kate blushed a bit, "How… how was work?", she said in a possible attempt to change topic.
"Usual", I told her, "Tag along with Ashley while she's out. How was your day?", I asked her.
"Nothing much, housework and relaxing on weekend", she told me, "Went to see my family in the afternoon, oh that reminds me twins said they have some business with you."
"What business?", I asked her.
"Don't know, they called 3 times to check if you were home", Kate answered.
"Weird they didn't call my cell", I said pulling out my phone to check if I had any miscalls from them, "Did they mention anything?", I asked Kate as the microwave beeped and she moved to get dinner.
"No", she replied taking it out and putting it in plate and in front of me.
"I'll call them tomorrow", I said feeling really exhausted.

"Honestly I don't think it's important", Kate said to me.
"What makes you think like that", I asked her.
"Well you know they want us to get along so they just wanted me to call you. I mean think about it they called here three times, when they could have just called you on your cell phone", she explained.
"Yeah sounds something they'd do", I agreed with her theory and after a pause I couldn't help but say, "but don't you think we are getting along, I mean okay we argue and all but it's not like we take that to bed. We wake up with a clear fresh mind everyday and have fresh new argument every day."
"Leon", Kate said in disbelief, "anyways I am going to sleep now."
"Well I am done so I am coming too", I told her wiping my mouth on a napkin.

I put my plate in the sink and we both headed upstairs to our bedroom. Kate straight away went to the bed but I decided to have a shower, to wash off all dirt and sweat of the day. When I returned from the shower Kate was already fast asleep. I climbed on to the bed and lied next to her, and since I was already tired it was no problem getting the much needed sleep.

A/N: Thanks taking out time to read, I really hope you liked the story so far. I apologize for any mistakes in the text that might have caused an inconvenience for you. If you have anything to say, just leave your comments behind or you can message me on my account.