Ahhh At last chapter 11 sorry for the wait. I know this chapter just feels like a "filler" chapter but meh it has to be done ;; sorry. Crap crap crap is all I can say, hopefully you'll like the next couple of chapters better, I'm working hard on them being not so crap as per usual
Thanks to all the new people reading my fic as well your comments really helped (got my lazy arse into gear actually "AGH new people are reading my fic eeep I better do something new!!!") erm soo....
Oh yeh disclaimer er yeh same as always. Nuff said.
Enjoy
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
How the hell....It crashed right out in front of me and Naomi. Out of a shoe shop of all things! I saw Naomi smile towards it, I think it's a female thing, they all gravitate towards shoes, and then suddenly there was the Nemesis on top of me! I could have been killed in a second, I wasn't ready at all. That damned girl was distracting me! Luckily Hunk had hung back and had a clear shot but he didn't need to, the Nemesis wasn't interested in me...hey why did he hang back? Piece of chicken shit. I dived between the Nemesis legs, Naomi ran into some alleyway. The Nemesis didn't care about me one bit, didn't even flinch when Hunk shot it in the head, it just stared at Naomi. She just stood there staring at it for a bit, her bottom lip started to quiver, then...I knew it, I just knew she was gonna bolt. I shouted for her to stop, if she ran it would run after her, it was obvious, but she didn't listen and she ran anyway. By the time Hunk had got down to me, and I had got back on my feet, Nemesis and Naomi were gone. Lost in the back streets of Raccoon City. It's been about 10 minutes now and Hunk still hasn't let up. He's got it bad. Me, I'm following Nemesis. He's following Naomi.
"Look down here...zombies, all dead. Nemesis again, they must have ran through here." It's not hard to follow them, just follow the path of destruction. Naomi's been running through buildings, over barricades, through groups of zombies, just to try and get away from the Nemesis, but none of them have stopped it yet. It just makes holes in buildings, crashes through barricades and has a field day with the zombies. You can always tell when a Nemesis has killed a zombie, the zombies ripped apart, limb from limb. I don't mind but I think Naomi's probably going to have a few nightmares after what she's seen in these past ten minutes, that's if she's still alive.
"I haven't heard anything for a while...it's probably caught her by now." Hunk's glaring at me. It's his way of telling me to shut up. He doesn't want to hear that, he's probably made her some soppy promise of not letting her get hurt again, some shit like that.
"You care about her that much? Jesus you've got it bad, take my advice and walk away, we can stand here for about twenty minutes, and I bet you a hundred dollars she'll be dead by then, and we won't have to waste a bullet on her later on." Shame to let her go like this, she was really hot, would have like to had a little fun with her, but I'm not running after her anymore, I don't need her, all this running is making me hungry...And sure it would be fun to play around with Hunk and Naomi, but after all this trouble I just cant be bothered, I've got enough on Hunk to make him do whatever the hell I want when we get back to Base, I don't need to play around...and that Nemesis...its...damn I'm not scared of it. I just don't see how I can get it back to Umbrella...its too dangerous, and I'm too tired now...
"Shut the hell up Alabama. Don't you ever think? We need her if we want to capture that Nemesis, it's following her, not us! It doesn't care about us!" Its bullshit, he just wants to save her. But he does have a point, Nemesis does seem to have a little crush on Naomi, she's perfect bait...
"Fine but...what's that?" A scream. From the building opposite us. Hunks already running towards it, jumping over a zombie, its legs have been ripped off, its trying to drag itself towards me with its one arm, don't know where the other one is...I'm not wasting a bullet on this thing, I'll just step on its head, hear that satisfying crack, feel the skull cave in beneath my foot...shame this thing has no sense of pain. I wonder what a zombie's scream sounds like...Hunks already in the building. Shit I'll miss the fun! I think I'll leave this zombie to crawl around on the floor, it won't do any harm.
"NAOMI?!" Hunks shouting her name over and over again, it's really quite annoying. We're in a warehouse, there's a few floors, she could be on any of them...That's if it was her, who knows, could be someone else...
"Look I'll take this floor, you take the second ok?" Before I can even nod Hunks run off round the corner, guess I should make my way up then. There's something on the stairs...a jacket. It's Naomi's jacket. She has gone upstairs then, must have dropped it running up. I half expected it to be ripped to shreds, or covered in blood, but its fine, nothing wrong with it, she must be ok then, well up until she dropped this that is...I can't hear anything though. I heard that one scream and that was it. Maybe it was her last scream. I won't bother telling Hunk about the jacket, if I do and she is up there, he'll come running to the rescue and be the big hero. This second floor is just mainly offices and the door to the room on the left of the stairs is slightly open....She must be in there then. Or whoever made the scream...Should be careful, don't know who or what's in there. The door creaks slightly as I slowly open it...I can hear a rustling sound in the corner, someone or something trying to hide perhaps?
"Naomi? Is that you?" I slowly look round the door into the room, it's a simple office, couple of desks, they even have a mini kitchen thing going on here, little hot plate and a kettle, think it belonged to the managers of this warehouse...Naomi's bag is on the floor next to a desk in the corner of the room.
"Hunk?" It is Naomi. And she called me Hunk? Damn it do I really sound like him?
"No, It's Alabama, its ok, you can come out now, its safe, there's nothing here...." She crawls out from behind the desk, sobbing, she's petrified. She had her hair tied back but it's fallen out now, all messy and tangled. Looks like she's been through hell, she's staring at me, almost as if she doesn't believe I'm really here...Damn she just threw herself at me, she got up so fast if I blinked I woulda missed it! And now she's crying into my shoulder. Great. Better comfort her then...Don't think I've got the energy too..
"I was so scared he kept on following me and I was running so fast and there was so many zombies and I tried to lose him and I couldn't and I didn't know where I was going and I couldn't breath and then I came here and then he..." The rest I can't make out, just muffled sobs into my jacket, doesn't she ever breathe? Ha if Hunk walked in right now he would be so jealous! Here I am, arms round Naomi, tightly hugging her, running my hand through her hair, comforting her, just letting her cry. I would love to see the look on his face if he saw us, what would it be? Shock? Anger? Hell I hope it would be something much worse, like devastation! Yes! Devastation! Here I am doing what he's wanted to do all along! It's not hard to hold a woman, make her feel safe, mumble things in her ear, but I know for Hunk its one of the toughest things in life. He can't handle it, never could and probably never will. How he's handled Naomi this far has been a surprise, I imagine she has had about twenty nervous breakdowns by now, every time she would have needed someone to comfort her, to tell her it would be ok...How did he do it? I can't imagine him comforting her. I guess he's probably slapped her, told her not to be so hysterical, in fact I feel like doing that now, all this crying is starting to get on my nerves. But I won't, that would make me the bad guy, I want to show up Hunk...Just let her cry, it's the best thing to do in these kinds of situations, let her get it all out, in a minute, she'll stop...
"It's ok, I'm here now, and I won't let anything hurt you..." Ah the usual reassurances, I've done this a million times, I have the whole thing rehearsed, she'll ask me if I promise, I'll say I will, she'll smile and depending on the girl she'll kiss me or just lay her head back down on my chest and rest awhile. I wonder what type of girl Naomi will be...
"I don't wanna see him again, please don't let him get me again.." Her crying has subsided a bit, but her voice is still so hoarse...I didn't notice it before, her hair was in the way, but I can see it now, her neck looks red...bruised. The Nemesis must have got her by the neck...no wonder her voice is so fucked. I've let go of her for a few seconds to slip off my gloves, she doesn't move, she's still stuck to me, head buried in my chest, sobbing, she's started to cry a little harder again. God I wish she would shut up...
"Did it hurt you?" She nods and lets me touch her neck, she has to move away from me a bit but I keep my other arm around her, to make sure she knows I'm still there for her. Her neck doesn't look all that bad at the moment, but it will get worse, bruises always do. Wait...Nemesis got her by the neck and she's still alive? How the hell did that happen? What did she do to it? Don't tell me she killed it? There's no way she could have....
"He grabbed me by the neck and..." She's crying again and can't speak anymore. I just smile and let her cry, I lead her over to a chair and sit her down. She's put her head in her hands now and doubled over. A stiff drink should help her calm down and shut up....Usually people tend to keep a bottle of something in their office. There's a box of tissues on one of the desks, I hand it to Naomi but she ignores me...
"Here Naomi..." I pat her on the back and she looks up at me, her eyes all red and puffy, her bottom lip still quivering, she's really in a state, she nods and takes the tissues. I think I'll start going through the desks...
"Where's Hunk?...He is ok isn't he?" Almost forgot about him. Na he's dead babe. Just you and me now...Would she burst into tears again if I said that? And then when he finally comes upstairs to find me and walks in the door what would I say, sorry it was all a big joke, he's alive really! No wait...that's not such a bad idea....if I can get Naomi out quick, Hunk would be left searching the bottom floor, we could slip out the warehouse and he wouldn't have a clue! I would take Naomi somewhere safe then....yes, not such a bad idea at all...
"Well...he's..." Footsteps up the stairs. Damn it. Well it was a good plan while it lasted, would have really pissed off Hunk. But this doesn't mean it wont work in the future...I think I'll just have to wait till the right moment...What's this? Naomi's jumped up, startled by the footsteps, she's moved over to stand right behind me...
"Alabama have you found....Naomi!" At first Hunk didn't notice Naomi, I suppose because she's so small compared to me, I'm totally hiding her. Silence. She's just staring at Hunk like she stared at me when I first found her. This is what you would call an awkward silence, but I don't find them all that awkward, I don't mind them at all...
"Naomi. You're ok?" Hunk looks puzzled. This is so not him, he never lets his guard down like this. Naomi's stumbled forward towards Hunk, but has stopped halfway, she probably wants to run into his arms like she did with me, but is embarrassed or....I hope scared. Yes, I hope she's still scared of what I told her, hope it's making her think twice about trusting Hunk...
"Uh huh....the Nemesis he...." She's crying again, I really want to know what it did to her now, this is annoying, I hate waiting around for the whole story...
"Here sit down, don't start crying again, take a tissue and I'll get you a drink ok?" I take the initiative to calm her down again, doubt Hunk will try, I mean he's taken a lot of risks in front of me, showing me he cares for Naomi, damn even telling me, ok so he didn't say "I care for her" but it was written all over his face! If he starts falling over himself to help her now, it would be VERY obvious to me that she means something to him...And that would be very bad for him, and not that much fun for me, because then what do I have to play with now? Granted when we get back to base I would, and will have a field day with this, but right now, it would be no fun. And anyway if we don't calm Naomi down now we'll be here all day...
"Help me look for something to drink Hunk...something strong if you know what I mean?" I wink at Hunk, I know he hates it when I do that, he's already glaring at me. I can see the frustration in his eyes, hah yes he wants to go over to Naomi and play with her hair or something stupid like that. But he can't in front of me, he's probably thinking 'Why the hell did I take the ground floor? Why didn't I think of checking upstairs first?!'
"Naomi's bag. I think we could all do with...a drink." Naomi's bag is on the floor...It's heavy, ah because it's full of crap. Ok a few bottles of water...a whole load of alcohol thank god, and...crap. Nothing of any interest to me, I pass the water to Hunk, he's already flicked on the kettle, the coffee will taste fowl with all the alcohol I'm planning to dump in it, but should keep Naomi quiet, and get her nice and drunk. I can imagine her now, stumbling all over the place, which means I'll have to keep a tight grip on her and that will infuriate Hunk even more.
"He's still........he's still human inside...." Naomi's talking to the floor, Hunk looks surprised, he must have just noticed how bad her voice sounds.
"He's...He's trapped in there! In that body! How could they do that to him? He's...He's just in so much pain..." Her voice has risen, but it's just like a high pitched squeak, hard to understand. She cares about the Nemesis, go figure.
"That's why we have to help him Naomi. If we run into him again....we put him out of his misery yeh? Don't worry, I wont leave you again ok?" Hunk looks like he wants to punch me, yup he's pissed. I said I wouldn't leave her, didn't bother mentioning him, and he shouldn't care but he does. Naomi just nods and looks up at me...and smiles. Glancing at Hunk I can see he is really angry now. Just from Naomi giving me a smile? Damn I never knew he could be so jealous.
"Naomi...I know it might be hard but, please tell me what happened, I have to know so I can try and figure out what Nemesis might do next." Hunks knelt down next to Naomi so he's at eye level with her. Great I'm left to make the coffee. He's handed her a tissue and she's now wiping her face. She stopped crying...how the hell? It wasn't anything to do with him...was it? No...he didn't say or do anything that could make her stop crying...
"Ok...I'll...I'll try. I ran, I know I shouldn't have but I just did I'm sorry...I'm sorry." Hell yeah, she better feel sorry, I had to run half way across the stupid city for her...God knows what could have jumped out at us! We might all be dead right now because of her! Stupid cow...
"He was right behind me...I know he could have ran faster but...but he didn't. I don't know why...it was like he was just playing with me...toying with me! I had to run through all these zombies and...over things and...it didn't slow him down. He just tore up those zombies...it was horrible! There was blood everywhere...I just couldn't lose him....oh, thanks..." I've handed a coffee, well a coffee topped up with a couple shots of whiskey. She takes a sip and winces, but drinks it down. Good...
"Sorry seems like we're all outta milk...shoulda popped into a store on the way here eh?" Naomi giggles a little and Hunk just shakes his head, I know what he's thinking 'making jokes at a time like this! How could he!' Blah blah blah whatever, at least I can make her laugh...
"That's ok...well..err I just couldn't lose him, then I saw this place. I thought I could hide in here but...he got to me before I could get in. I turned round and he was just there....staring at me. I didn't know what to do so I just stared back....it was like forever but I think it was only for a few seconds.....then he..." I hand Hunk his drink as she takes another sip of her coffee, she's started to cough, crying again, but she's trying to hide it. Hey why did I bother making Hunk a coffee? Damn I'm slipping, I need a cigarette...I just realised, Hunk has one hand on Naomi's knee...
"He...he touched...he touched my face..." That's it? He touched her face? Then how did she get all those bruises...
"He just touched your face? Then what did it do?" Hunk's keeping his voice low, almost soothing, his thumb is absently rubbing Naomi's knee. She takes another gulp of her coffee...she's almost finished it.
"I tried to get away but he....but he grabbed me...here..." She sits up straight and pulls her hair back to show Hunk her neck. Wow, he just gasped. I've never seen him be that shocked before. He's quickly composed himself though, and is just nodding now.
"He grabbed me and pulled me right up to his face...I couldn't breath and then...then he just threw me back down and...and just walked away and I couldn't breath I just couldn't breath!" She's finished the last of her coffee I'll take her empty cup and give her the rest of mine, she just looks up and smiles at me...I kinda wish I didn't give it to her now...I only got a few sips...damn it.
"Then you came up here to hide, and left your jacket on the stairs in the hope one of us would see it?" Now it's her turn to look puzzled...
"I...don't remember. I don't really remember how I got up here..." Hunk stands up and picks up Naomi's gun and checks it...Its fully loaded...hell she didn't even shoot at Nemesis? What a crazy bitch!
"You didn't try to shoot it? Why not?" She just shrugs and drinks the rest of my coffee, which is actually mostly whisky...
"We should try to get moving as fast as possible, I have a feeling the Nemesis will probably come back, and I certainly don't want to be here when he does. Alabama, you can carry Naomi's bag for a while can't you?" What? Me? Carry her bag? Why the hell should I, it's not like I don't have a bag of my own to carry! Naomi's smiling at me though, ah I supposed I could do it, make me look like a good guy, hell should give me a few more points, I'm carrying her bag, not Hunk...although he was the one that suggested it.
"No....no we can't...I can't..." I'm trying to get Naomi to put her jacket on, the faster she's done the faster we can get moving. I hate to admit it but Hunks right, the Nemesis will probably come back, and I am really not in the mood to deal with it right now. But Naomi just won't put her jacket on...great. I can tell this is going to take a while.
"It's ok, I won't let nothing hurt you ok?" Maybe if I try to comfort her again? It'll piss off Hunk which would be fun...
"No! He's watching! He said so! He said he would and I know he's out there!" She's shrugged off my arm round her shoulders, bitch. I really feel like slapping some sense into her right now, there's only so much crying I can take! Wait did she just say 'he said so?'
"He said? He talked to you?" Hunks giving me the same looks I'm giving him, for once, I think we agree. She's lost it. The Nemesis is highly intelligent, I give it that, but to come up with words on its own? No way, it aint got the brain power to do that! Course it can say a few words that's important to its mission, the scientists gave it that ability mostly to insight fear into its potential victim...but to come up with things on its own? Na. She's hearing things...
"You think I'm crazy don't you? He said he was watching! Watching me! Whatever...The point is he is out there and he's following me! I'm not going back out there!" This girl is so....annoying. What are we supposed to do? Just sit here all day? Just wait for someone to come save us? Wake up kid, no ones going to save you now. Its time she learnt about that whole survival of the fittest thing! It's up to her to save her own ass. I'm fed up with dealing with her shit, I'm tired, hungry and my feet are killing me. The faster we get moving, the faster we'll get back to base and the faster I'll get a big fat raise that I'll spend on whores. This shit is really getting to me now, I'm fucking bored! If she doesn't stop crying I'm gonna go over there and...
"Shussh, calm down ok? I believe you, the Nemesis is highly intelligent for a B.O.W. But we can't stay here. I'll be with you, the Nemesis wont get you again, as long as you stick by me you'll be safe..." I didn't even notice Hunk move towards Naomi, lucky for her he did. She's quietened down straight away, if she didn't shut up I swear....No calm down. Don't lose your temper here, not now anyway, not with Hunk in the way...How the hell does he do it? Just a few words from him...the same line I've spun her a million times, and he manages to calm her down. Yet when I do it, five minutes later she's screaming and shouting about the same thing again. It's like...it just feels like I'm not here or something...
"I.....I guess...I'm sorry, I just...he's...I'm sorry. Thank you...both of you, I mean I really don't know where I would be now if you didn't..." Her voice cracks and she starts crying again, where the hell does she the energy to cry that much! She trying to stop herself from crying but the harder she tries, the more she bloody cries! I don't think I can take it much longer. You think its over and done with then bam, she starts up again! But I have to learn stay cool, if I lose it now I won't get anywhere with her, and it will be much more fun to take her willingly...
"Come on, put your jacket back on, we have to keep moving Naomi." She's stopped crying again, I guess its Hunks voice, so calm and un-emotional, brings her back to reality. Why the hell can't I make her do that? Ahh now is not the time to start thinking like that again, again I find myself agreeing with Hunk, we really do need to get moving...
"Naomi. It'll be ok now..." She's made up her mind about something, doesn't look as fragile as she did before...Amazing how we humans can do that. One minute we're snivelling little wreck's, then the next ready to take on the big bad world. Not that I've ever been a snivelling little bastard...I always face my battles head on. There's no use for cowards in my world...
"Alabama...I er...thank you for ...you know..." I nod. I know she's thanking me because I held her for a while. Hunk's pretended he didn't hear her little thank you, I don't like it when he doesn't respond, I have nothing to work with...
"Here, keep your gun here, it'll be easier for you to carry this way" Hahaha I wish I had a camera to take a picture of Naomi's face. Pure shock, with a little embarrassment thrown in for good measure. Hunks stuck the gun down the back of her jeans, yes he's right, it's easier to carry there as she doesn't have a holster, but for someone else to do that, god knows what she was thinking when he went back there...She's blushing now, I wonder if the alcohol's kicking in yet...
"Right lets get moving then. Back out the front and down the main road...Don't worry Naomi, I'm sure Nemesis has moved on already, I doubt he's outside waiting for us..." She's chewing on her lip, frowning, no...Pouting. She doesn't want to go out the front, its obvious, that's where the Nemesis left her. She's pouting to try and get her own way, might work on Hunk but doesn't for me, we've already gone way off course and I'm not making another diversion just to make her feel better...She's turned her pout on to Hunk now, she knows its not working with me. Girls like this just know who it'll work on and who it won't work on. And if it's to my advantage I'd let her get her way, but I had to deal with her crying so fuck it, we're going out the front. She's still trying it on with Hunk...It's just like before...So odd. It feels like I'm just a spectator in their little exchanges, I don't really feel like I'm involved here. I mean I try to annoy Hunk, try to get in Naomi's good books but its like they have their own little secret club thing going on and I'm not part of it...Well we'll have to change that wont we.
"Let's....Let's go then. The faster we move out of here the faster we get to.....you know..." She's given up thank god. I really wanna get out of here and start moving again, we're losing time...If I don't mange to get to that pick up point...how am I going to get out of this city? Ha. I'm starting to get all melodramatic, of course I'm going to get out. I'm not going to let these two slow me down anymore, I'm going to move at my own pace, and if they don't keep up its their own fault. But I do need them to get that damned Nemesis...and I do want Naomi all to myself...Damn it. Let's just get moving!
"Good, come on then, let's get going..." Naomi's nodding at me, she's sorted herself out at last, her jackets not hanging off one arm anymore, and she's started to tidy up her hair...Hunks moved out the door, Naomi's decided to stay close behind him, well I better stay close behind her then...Ah shit, I have to carry her bag don't I? Great. Well...At least it's not pink....