"All Of Me Loves All Of You"

Chapter 2: Stolen Secrets

It was Thursday and weekend was so far ahead. Sometimes jobs are headache. Especially when you are an agent who's been trained to stay on fight or flight mode at all times. Ask spiderman to stop swinging through the buildings and start a cooking show on television and see if he punches you in the nose or not. But in Leon's case, he didn't know who to punch. 'How many' to punch actually!

Leon exhaled silently as he finished another file regarding the government-al affairs. He was so brainsick of sitting in the chair all day that he stood up and stretched his fagged out muscles. He went almost unnoticed because this building was a place, where most of the people worked like ants. Always moving, and never stopping. He had only spent three hours in his office but he was already feeling like going home. It was one of those lazy days where he would dawdle here and there just because he had stayed up till late the previous night. Not that he complained.

"Taking a break are we?" a female voice said. Leon turned to see Ingrid Hunnigan smiling at him.

Leon offered a smile too before replying. "Yeah. Boring daily grind. "

"Care to have some coffee?" Ingrid said, adjusting her glasses. Leon raised an eyebrow considering her offer and nodded with a sigh.

Walking through other working ants, they made it out of the government building and to the nearest cafe. Not to mention that the nighest cafe was only across the street.

"I used to be so scared of crossing streets when I was a kid." Leon exclaimed, earning him a laugh from Hunnigan as soon as they found a vacant table.

"Almost everyone is, Kennedy." she said, making Leon feel a little stupid.

"Almost" Leon answered in mock attitude.

Ingrid shook her head on his reaction. Leon was well known for his little joke attempts. He possessed the natural ability to make others laugh, and light hearted. That was why she had come here with him. She had been feeling quite distressed and was proud of calling Leon her best friend.

Noticing her silence Leon became concerned. Not that she talked a lot, but with him around she wasn't this quiet either. "Hey, What's wrong?" he asked her in an implicated tone.

Hunnigan sighed heavily and took off her glasses, placing them on the table. She rubbed her eyes slowly and looked at the floor.

Leon understood what had happened. His training years had taught him a lot of proficient things. The best of them was being able to read the faces of other people. He didn't need a second look to tell what was wrong, specially when it came to his close friends. A wave of anger flashed through his eyes and he asked, "What did he do?"

Hunnigan smiled a bit on the fact that she didn't even need to tell what had happened. Plus she was thankful. She looked at Leon trying her best not to let the tears, that were dangerously welling up by now, come out of her eyes. She swallowed hard and said in a weak voice.

"He left."

These two words were enough to cause fire to build up in Leon's heart and mind. Hunnigan was like his sister, as he didn't have any. And seeing her mourning over some playboy was not doing any good.

"What the hell does it mean by he left? It's your wedding next month!" Leon snarled.

"It was" Hunnigan corrected. She remembered how many times Leon had told her to be careful about that selfish idiot. But she was so caught up in the moment that she let him fool her.

Leon sighed covering his face with both his hands as his elbows were resting on the table. He was crestfallen with the news. He imagined how bad Hunnigan would be feeling right now. All he wanted to do was scream at her for not listening to him. But it would only make her wounds deeper. Therefore, he decided to take the other turn around.

His expressions changed from disappointment to being neutral and then to a smile gradually. "So... how're you feeling after getting rid of an asshole?" Leon remarked with a playful smile.

Ingrid was a little taken aback first, but then her lips curled into a wide grin. She took a deep breath and placed her glasses back on her nose. With a funny face, she passed another smile to Leon and said "Fresh and Cool. He doesn't know I have a friend like you. So he can go to hell whenever he wants to."

Leon also smiled at her response. "That's like Ingrid Hunnigan of American government." Again causing her to chuckle. She was glad she worked with him. Or like most of the people, she would have become a robot by now. But she couldn't shake of the fact that Leon's sense of humour had blossomed since-

"Hey you two!" her thoughts were interrupted when she heard an all too familiar voice. Leon almost hissed as he just remembered something. They saw Helena marching towards them with closed fists.

"God! We forgot to tell her about coffee" Leon said feigning fear.

"Yeah you 'did' forget to tell me. And now you'll pay for it." Helena said, almost fuming.

"But Leena, we have already paid for our coffee" Hunnigan joked innocently.

Helena rolled her eyes. They didn't know if it was because of the joke, or her nick name.

"Stop wasting your time and come back inside."

"We're not wasting time. We're having coffee." Leon said in a fake serious tone.

"Like I can't see." she said annoyingly.

Leon and Hunnigan both chuckled slightly and walked towards the building followed by Helena.

Leon had just arrived at his table when his phone began ringing. He fished it out of his jeans pocket noticing that the caller ID was unknown. After a speck of indisposition, he answered the call with his signature "Hello?"

The other person seemed to enjoy his words as there was silence for a moment.

"Miss me, handsome?" a sultry voice asked, causing shivers to jolt down Leon's spine.

A smile found its way on his lips when he spoke her name... "Ada?"

He was sure she would have smiled too, on the way he always took her name. So deeply, yet so closely. This was the only name that Leon loved to pronounce, in reality, in dreams and in short, everywhere. Ada Wong. The woman in red. The woman who had kept him awake on countless nights. The enigma he thought he knew better than anyone else did, or possibly could.

"You know me too well, don't you?" she teased.

"Of course I do. After all, army chief doesn't have many daughters, does he?" he gave a proper answer, causing Ada to smirk wider at his response.

"Well... You're half right." she responded, informing the agent that she knew better.

"What would that mean?" Leon asked innocently.

"I'm afraid I won't tell that easily." Ada answered.

"No surprise" he exclaimed as a matter-of-fact.

There was silence again before Ada sighed. "Actually..." she trailed off, "I was in a bit of... you can say, problem." Leon couldn't help but tense at the sudden change in Ada's tone. She was worried about something, and that worried him.

"What's wrong?" he asked in concern.

"I can't tell that on phone. Maybe we can meet somewhere." she replied.

"Right Now? Where?" he questioned.

"No, not right now." she answered.

''But why not at h-" Leon started but was cut off.

"I'll text you the address. I'll be waiting." Ada remarked sounding grateful. This was what she admired about Leon Kennedy. He was always ready to help. Always.

"Uh-huh" Leon nodded though she couldn't see him.

With that she hung up, leaving Leon in confusion. His phone vibrated again to show a text message from the number Ada had called from.

'Cafe Lino at 6:00'

Leon sighed as he waited for the clock's big hand to reach 6.

It had been half an hour since he had been waiting for Ada. He had reached the decided venue at 6:15, thanks to the heavy traffic and it was 6:45 now. He never took Ada for the 'coming late' type. Hell she was NEVER late and this mere fact was freaking him out. Uncountable number of questions were filling his mind with innumerable possibilities, both good and bad. He glanced at his phone nervously and decided to wait for another fifteen minutes. But all to no avail. He stood up to leave and dialed her number again.

'The number you're trying to reach is currently switched off.'

The same voice again with the same words. He started walking towards his car while thinking what his next step should be. Whatever problem Ada was talking about, was pretty serious. And he's heart was already aching for why she hadn't showed up.

He reached his home apparently disappointed. Taking his time to unlock the door , he entered the dark hall and closed the door behind him. As soon as he flicked the lights on, the telephone bell rang piercing through the silence startling him.

He rushed to the phone and picked up the receiver just to hear the high panting of Ada on the other end. He was dumbfounded and almost shouted "Ada! Where the hell are you?"

The only response he got was her distorted voice."Leo- hel-" He couldn't make out anything and just with that, the call ended. He quickly dialed back.

C'mon Ada...

But no one picked up.

"Shit" he muttered and ran outside towards his car.

Wasting no time in locking the door he made his way towards his car and started the ignition. The black SUV came to life and was soon roaming the streets. Leon quickly typed a number on his phone keeping a careful eye on the road.

"Hello?" Hunnigan answered.

"Hunnigan! I'm sending you a number. Just give me the location right now." he said sounding to be in haste.

"Wait, what's wrong?" she implored.

"Just do what I'm saying" he shouted and hung up. Still driving carefully, he sent Ada's number to Hunnigan. In a matter of minutes, he got the location.

Only thing he could do was to pray to God for Ada's safety. After all, that was all that mattered to him right now.

Author's Note: So...What do you think is happening? Don't tell me that I'm unpredictable :D . Well a little gift here. The one who guesses right about what's going on gets his name as a character in the coming chapters of the story. I promise. (Yes! I promise :-p)

You can whip me with a stick for not updating for so long but you CAN'T. Because I'm soooooooo far away (grins in triumph) Yay!

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