Chapter: 8 Darkest Days
More J'avo fell from the hole in the roof as they battled on, they had been at this for over 20 minutes and their bullets were diminishing and so was their energy.
A scream escaped Sherry's lips when a loud shot sounded from above the barrage of bullets and incessant battle.
The bullet sank deep into her chest, causing her to fly backwards; the impact to the floor took her breath away even more than the bullet had.
Jake hadn't heard her scream over the hiss of dissolving J'avo, it was only when he turned after all the dead had been put to a final rest he saw her lying on the floor five meters away clutching her middle.
Running over immediately he saw her condition wasn't good.
At first he didn't feel worried knowing she would heal, but as the blood kept pouring out furiously and the wound not repairing, he knew something was wrong.
"NO!" Sherry shrieked seeing another J'avo emerge as if by magic behind Jake. She reached for her shotgun that lay next to her. Taking it in hand and lifting it shakily, she pointed it to the left of Jake and pulled the trigger just missing his shoulder by an inch and killing the J'avo instantly.
The force from the shotgun ricocheted up her arms and painfully to her chest causing another scream to escape her.
"Why am I not healing!?" She cried as shock flooded through her frail and painful body, Jake could only wonder and shake his head as he tried to keep calm.
Kneeling next to her, he grabbed his cell from his back pocket fumbling with the swipe keys he made a call to the BSAA HQ requesting an emergency e-vac.
"I… I'm sacred. Jake…" Sherry whispered through her silent tears. Her body shaking and growing colder by the second.
"Hey, hey, stop that." He said in a hushed tone as he grabbed her, lifting her gently into his arms.
Blood immediately covered him top to toe.
More tears fell down her face as she looked at him, all emotions and memories hit at once making it impossible for her to do anything but cry. "I…" love you, she carried the words on as the darkness took her.
The chopper landed five minutes after he called for e-vac and sooner than he knew they had already landed at the BSAA's nearest hospital, and was running down endless corridors alongside the medical team who were fighting to keep Sherry alive.
Other doctors and nurses in the vicinity watched with wide eyes as they ran past.
"Exactly what happened, Mr. Muller?" The Doctor asked as the Surgeons took Sherry into an operating room.
At first Jake was hesitant to answer due to him not witnessing the attack, he didn't even know when they got separated but he recalled the events regardless. The Doctor nodded taking a few notes and left the room hastily.
"Come on Supergirl." Jake whispered behind the glass that looked onto the operating room. "Stay with me…"
They operated on Sherry for hours trying to dislodge the broken pieces of bullet that had shattered very closely to her heart and other vital organs. Jake could see the Doctors were stumped by a few counter factors: One, Sherry wasn't healing and two, normal bullets wouldn't shatter and disperse like this.
Jake noticed a nurse running from the room holding vials of her blood, as another came in to take her place.
Long hours later all the bullet husks had been removed, and they managed to keep Sherry stable, but just barely and not once had Jake Muller slept or moved from that glass.
"That's my girl." He muttered aloud when the Doctor left informing him of her vital signs: they were barely stable and there was still something wrong with her blood.
Literally minutes later Jake's world slowed and became a cloudy blur as the machine attached to Sherry beeped threateningly.
The heart rate monitor flashed blood red as her heartbeat slowed.
"Sherry!" Jake shouted with all his might as he banged balled fists on the glass, rapidly whizzing out of the room heading for her.
Arms wound around Jake's shoulders as he was a hairs breadth away from the door. Whoever they were, they were holding him back with amazing strength as more nurses and doctors arrived flooding into the room wheeling a defibrillator.
"Lemme go asshole!" Jake shouted to his captor, wheeling around to find a familiar face he'd rather not deal with.
"Redfield. Get your Damn hands off me!" He seethed as his heart broke knowing the woman he loved more than anything was a breath away from dying. 'I need to be at her side!'
Chris kept his mouth shut as he dragged Jake back into the waiting room, he knew Jake was broken the moment he'd stopped cursing and threatening him with everything he had at the sight of her with the paddles on her chest.
They stood in silence watching as they kept shocking her; doing everything possible to jump start her heart back to life, even though her last breath had long since passed.
Jake kept whispering to himself 'If she doesn't pull through… I will never forgive myself… Please.' He pleaded to the gods aloud forgetting Chris was next to him - and he wasn't a religious man, but he would do anything to keep her alive.
'Anything.'
A knock came, and the two men turned.
"Mr. Muller…" The doctor began as with a remorseful look on his face, "I am deeply sorry but…" Jakes brain turned off, his blood went cold and his heart sunk, stopping for seconds. The words spoken echoed and made his world come to a halt.
He looked through the window in a daze to find a nurse pull a white sheet up and over Sherry.
"This has to be some sort of joke, right?" He asked, his voice high and uncontrolled, almost believing the words he spoke, but much to his despair the doctor shook his head.
She was gone.
"B-b-but she can heal!" He yelled further throwing a fist at a nearby wall, denting it severely.
"Whatever was in that bullet has prohibited her healing abilities completely, resulting in the wound being fatal. Also we found remnants of the C-Virus in her body, a strain of mutation we have never seen. We have tried everything to save Agent Birkin." The Surgeon looked deeply into Jake's eyes, "I am truly sorry for your loss."
Jake walked into the silent room with tears glinting in the corner of his cold blue eyes, never had he cared for someone so much other than his mother, and here he was again in the same predicament. Crying over a woman that had been his world.
"This is all my fault," He whispered as he sat next to her, carefully pulling the sheet down to look at her lifeless form. "I'm so sorry Sherry." Taking her frigid hand into his. "I couldn't save Mom, and now you?" He shook his head in disbelief."
A lonely tear fell gracefully from his eye, splashing onto her pale arm.
"I promised myself I'd never let anyone in when She died. Then you came along and changed all that… You saved me Sherry, you know that don't you? You made me a better man, showed me that there was more to life than just money… We saved the world together you and I, Supergirl."
Chris watched on as Jake spoke to Sherry, he couldn't hear what was said but it was as clear as day that Wesker Junior loved her. He felt genuinely sorry for him, for he knew his history: Jake had gone for many years knowing nothing and no one but the merc's life and death, and now finally there was someone in his life worth giving a damn about to have her taken away.
Chris thought to his own life to when Jill had been taken by Albert, that pain consumed him again.
"I promise I'll get the bastard whose done this Jake." Chris whispered as he slowly exited the building to call Claire and Leon, who would be devastated by the news.
"Sherry, if you can hear me up there, there's something I've wanted to tell you… Since we were separated in China." Jake touched her head, rubbing his thumb over her forehead reflecting. "You always looked so beautiful." He smirked looking at her, "Shit, you still look beautiful… Not one woman could ever compare to you."
He nestled his head near to her ear to make sure nobody could hear his words, "There will only be one lady for me Sherry… And that's you." He cut off as another tear rippled down his face, through his scar and landed softly on her cheek.
"Supergirl… Sherry, I love you."
UPDATED: 14/01/2015 - Spelling & Grammar.
- Oh god what have I done?! I'm so damn evil! Re-reading this I almost cried myself... And I know what happens!
- So firstly I know some people have had the same idea as I have, about Sherry having her abilities being taken away, but after watching the R.E films, I summed up the plan - like how Alice had her powers taken ;D