*A/N: Now, do not kill me after reading this chapter. Leon will never be a romantic possibility and I'm bringing in someone with a little kick. It will be a little shorter than what I usually write, but it's just a little filler. Most of the chapter will be from Chris' POV. Expect the next update before the end of the week. Enjoy :) *runs and hides*

I don't own anything, promise O.o

*NB: Anything written in Italics is the thoughts of said character.

Chapter 14

It was almost as if Chris could see Alice moving in slow motion. Her limbs pushed the chair out from under her with immense force, which in turn caused Chris to push Leon into the path of the oncoming chair, to keep it from hitting the wall and alerting all the very nice people outside that they were in here. Alice darted toward the nearby sofa to grab the shotgun resting on it, but Chris was faster. He had moved closer to Alice with lightning speed and caught her wrist with his right hand, using his left hand to take hold of her left hip. He knew she would struggle, he knew she would try to kill him with her mind and body, and most likely succeed. Just because she looks small and fragile doesn't mean that she is.

Alice stared at Chris, making sure that he felt the murderous daggers flowing in his direction, but it didn't seem to faze him one little bit. While Alice had been distracted with her plot to kill everyone and everything in her path, she didn't even notice Chris and Leon. Leon was cradling his groin, curling over the back of the chair making a sort of wheezing sound. The wheels started turning in Alice's mind. A flash of realization came to her in a sort of "aha" moment. Alice grabbed Chris' hand and put a finger on her lips, pointing to Leon shortly afterward. Leaning forward she whispered an instruction to Chris and looked into his eyes to support her emotional blackmail moment. Chris nodded curtly and moved away from her almost immediately.

Alice bolted up the stairs and got all of her weapons strapped to her within seconds. She had her revolvers and 9mm's strapped to her waist, two more sawed-off shotguns strapped to her thighs, a small dagger strapped to her ankle, two large pump action shotguns on her back along with a rather handy sword thrown into the mix. She was ready for action, and pulled her boots. Bolting back down the stairs, Alice noticed that Chris and Leon were gone, all the guns too. Alice sighed and bit her tongue as hard as she could to remind herself that she knew what she was doing, and that going with them was stupid. She wouldn't survive this, and that was okay with her. Chris knew what he had to do, and Alice trusted him enough to know he would never bail on her, or go against her wishes.

"Showtime…" Alice mumbled and turned to the door. Throwing it open and drawing her sawed-off shotguns at the same time. However what she saw on the other side of the door was enough to make Alice recoil, gasp, pray, kill.

"I don't wanna do this man." Leon mumbled as they packed up the remaining weapons.

"Neither do I, but it's the only thing that makes any sense right now. Come on, we need to move." Chris said, only a tinge of regret lacing his voice.

Leon and Chris moved slowly out the back of the hotel and jumped over the wall that sectioned the courtyard off. The moved as fast as they could without drawing any attention to themselves. Chris motioned to Leon that they needed to stop, looking up; he saw an emergency exit ladder. Both men scurried up the ladder, right to the top of the building.

"Let's get the guns set up. I don't want Alice to be out there without any cover." Chris said in a whisper. Leon merely nodded. Chris could sense that Leon didn't want to leave Alice alone, period. He saw the mutants outside, yet in the back of his mind, Chris could be sure that Leon was afraid that Alice wouldn't be as strong as she made herself out to be.

Crawling forward, both men set up a sniping position on the roof of the building right across the hotel. Chris bit back a gasp of surprise when he saw the amount of men waiting right outside the hotel. The front door slammed open, and Chris saw Alice visibly recoil in shock at the amount of men that had surrounded the hotel. Almost immediately Alice slipped a mask of indifference onto her face and walked slowly, purposefully out of the hotel. 'Damn, that woman has a fucking good poker face.'

Chris saw Alice speaking to someone, but he couldn't see the persons face. He did however notice that the person has a dark, sunburned skin. As soon as he saw the realization flash across Alice's face, the person she was talking to pulled out a gun and shot. A single bullet could be heard, but for some reason Chris heard Leon cock his gun, loading death.

Alice moved out of the way of the bullet in a blur of movement. She had already drawn her weapons when she exited the hotel, now she was aiming them. Without any hesitation, Alice started firing on the group in front of her. Leon looked to Chris, a look of panic on his face.

"I'll cover Alice; you get that big mamma jamma." Chris said quickly and moved to look down the sight of his weapon. Chris knew that Leon had a smirk on his face, and mere seconds after Alice started shooting, both men had joined in. Leon kept firing rounds off into the back, neck and head of the executioner. Problem is that it now started stalking Alice, a fact Chris was sure she had noticed while killing off some more Umbrella agents. She had dropped her sawed-offs and pulled the pump-action off her back and continued shooting.

Chris could have easily compared her to a ballerina. The ease and grace she possessed while killing people was unmatched. Not even he could shoot so accurately. Leon kept shooting, and Chris kept covering Alice, shooting agents that got a little too close to her. Chris was anticipating her next move. As soon as the gun was empty, she would drop it and move on to hand-to-hand combat instead. Alice however didn't follow that one either; she pulled out a dagger from somewhere and threw it into the chest of the man she was speaking to earlier.

The choice she made by throwing the dagger, had caused the executioner to get dangerously close to Alice. He started waving his axe around, and very nearly killed Alice. She got a few cuts on her arms that Chris could see.

Suddenly Alice stopped moving, she opened her eyes and Chris knew that her pupils were dilated. He knew what was coming. Leon didn't. Alice started walking toward the executioner, who too had stopped moving. Alice started shooting rounds into his chest, but the thing didn't even flinch. For a few minutes they just stared at each other. The next thing Chris knew, Alice was clutching her head and let out an agonizing, blood curling scream. The executioner fell to its knees and just keeled over. Just like that.

"What the FUCK?" Leon nearly yelled. Chris shook his head that he didn't know what was going on either, but jumped to his feet when he saw Alice had collapsed.

"We need to get down there." Chris muttered, and started packing up. He was halfway down the ladder already when he saw Leon's ass hovering a few feet above him. Skipping the last few steps, Chris jumped down and had a running start around the block to get to Alice. He knew that leaving Leon alone wasn't the greatest idea ever, but he couldn't leave Alice alone either. Leon had a gun to protect himself, Alice was passed out. The situation left him no choice to be honest.

Chris rounded the corner and sprinted over to Alice. Chris sagged to his knees when he saw the cuts and bruises that littered Alice's face. Her clothes had blood spatter on them, and it was clear that it wasn't her blood. Chris pulled Alice into his arms and started talking to her, soothing her with his words. He brushed the hair from her face and just kept her close to his chest. She was breathing but her heartbeat was faint. It was there, but faint. Just like all the previous times she had collapsed after using her weird power. Leon came jogging around the corner and bent down next to Chris.

"You think she's okay?" Leon asked.

"Yeah, she's strong. Just give her a few minutes. She usually comes around about ten minutes after she passed out." Chris replied.

"Sounds like she's done that a lot." Leon said, turning his back and pulling his gun into his arms. Even in the middle of the street, with no one around, he would still keep guard.

"Yeah, only when she goes nuclear." Chris said. He was about to ask Leon something else but what cut off by a groan from Alice. Her eyes fluttered open and she stared into Chris' eyes. Chris could see how clear and bright her eyes were. He very nearly kissed her, but refrained from moving. He knew that she had to be comfortable when she woke up, otherwise she might just go a little nuts. She usually woke up with bruises she received when using her power, and always had questions as to why she got them. Not this time though. She merely stared at Chris.

Alice opened her mouth, but a dry croaking sound slipped past her lips. Swallowing, she tried again. Chris had to move his ear to her mouth to hear the words she was uttering.

"Carlos. I saw Carlos."

*A/N: *peeks around corner* Please review, they give me the happy dance… you should see my T-Shirt, it says "Don't kill the author." *laughs nervously*