A/N: Thanks for your review, Shirahane Aikawa =) And thank you all the lovely readers out there.

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Chapter 6

"She's very smart. She leaves not too many clues, is inconspicuous like a cat and is clever like fox", said David as he briefed on another early morning meeting in their conference room.
"And she's beautiful too believe me these are very dangerous traits in a woman", John added in the description.
"Yeah I mean she escaped right under our nose", said Rebecca, still under a shock.

"I think she might have gone back to that forest, where we found her", Leon said thinking very hard on it.
"How do you know?", Claire asked him doubtfully.
"I don't know, I just feel it", Leon replied still thinking.
"We cannot follow our instincts now", Chris said being practical.
"I … I think… Rebecca you said that she was in a sleeping state for at most 24 hours right", he shot at Rebecca and it was more of a statement than a question.
"Absolutely", replied Rebecca without a doubt.

"I saw her three days ago jumping down from the Chopper. She must have found something then must have gone somewhere else, probably somewhere near the area where we found her then she got into trouble and ended up in that sleeping condition, after which we found her. And knowing her I think she must have got something from somewhere which she must have probably hid there. So if we need to search her somewhere it must probably be there", Leon completed his whole theory in one breath.

"We didn't get anything Leon", said Jill holding her head and everyone was as confused as her
"There's no time to explain. The point is I have a clue where she might be, I am going there, you're free to join", he said lifting himself off the seat; the time was valuable here. He had walked out the room and as expected John followed. Everyone in the room looked at each other in confusion not being able to decide what to do.
"I'll take care of anyone's work, so you're free to go for now", David said and there were movements of many chairs as people hurried to catch with Leon and John.

"Leon buddy what we're looking for", asked Carlos in surprise.
"You'll know when we find it", he replied heading out in the random though nobody was sure what Leon said but they still followed him to the forest and were searching for something that they didn't even know about
"I think we should go back, this place gives me the creeps", said Percy to no one in particular in a shaky voice remembering his last time being there.

Suddenly they all heard distant gunshots and looked around to check on their friends, everyone was there except Leon, assuming that he was in trouble, they all ran in the direction of sound.

"I just hope the thing we were looking for is found by Leon and not Leon was found by the thing", "Yeah we are not in a condition to take down anybody 'cause we came in a hurry and haven't got that much fire power", said Sheva.

A few minutes earlier…

She was tired from running, it's been very long and she's been running all along. She didn't even remember how long it's been since she decided to run off but very well knew the reason why she's been running day and night. As she stood in the forest she was sure that she would stop running now 'cause she had found something that would definitely put a end to her running, if not her misery. Letting out a deep sigh which was due to relief or tiredness, she didn't know, not anymore. All she knew was the fact that from today she would be ready and free from all debts to accept her death. She turned to her left, she knew where she had to go even though the last time she was here was night time. Taking a couple of in different directions, she finally reached her destination. It was right at this place that she buried it; she bent down and dug in soil to recover what she hid. She took a small briefcase and opened it. Everything was intact the way she left it. She took one of the vials and closed her eyes trying to remember the past events.

It's been her… she doesn't even remember the count for the times she'd infiltrated Umbrella facility and others like it. It was a piece of cake for her to get past the security and it was much easier to get the stuff but as she was leaving… she saw something that made her stop in her tracks it was another BOW, whom she knew very well. She tried to destroy it. Yeah she killed it alright but she let the security know of her presence. She ran hard out of the facility which she blew just now. The security guards were after her with guns in their hand, which she also recognized too well. She ran towards the cliff, they shot at her and she jumped off the cliff. Assuming her to not had survive the fall they retreated.

She opened her parachute in middle of her fall, this time they had got her. She quickly took the vial from her back pocket and injected it into her arm. But she felt dizzy. She couldn't retrieve the briefcase which she hid before taking out the facility. As she slowly descend down into the wilderness she thought, 'perhaps some other time if she survived', as she slipped into the darkness.

She opened her eyes in community hospital, the nurse asked whether she was alright and turned to get her some water. She knocked the nurse out and took the gun which was lying close by and slipped out of the room. As she moved out somebody yelled at her taking her to be the nurse but by luck he didn't bother to notice her. She knew once they knew she was gone they would search for her, so she acted quickly and escaped the place before anyone knew that she was missing. As the door to elevator started to close, she saw the man she knew very well running towards it but her thinking ahead made her escape the scene as she went down a couple of floors and then went back up to the roof to get changed to something more normal. After changing her clothes she decided to get the briefcase and now she was here holding onto it.

Then suddenly the rustle of leaves told her she was not alone, she took out the gun and pointed at the sound of direction and said "come out whoever you are", she paused for a couple of seconds and then called again "don't play games with me I know where you are I'll shoot if you don't come out."

She meant it and she was not bluffing. If he hadn't come out she must have shot him in the head, even though she wasn't able to see him Leon knew too well she could have killed him just like that. After answering Carlos he heard something and followed it, to his surprise he found the girl she was right there holding the briefcase. But he was not cautious and she found him. So he decided to show up, he knew she won't kill him if she wanted to she would have killed him that night when they first met.. He also drew out his gun whose pair was pointing at him and aiming at the girl he walked in front of her.

"You have to come with me", Leon almost commanded her. She said nothing so he continued, "we want some answers and you are coming with me whether you like it or not."
"And what gives you the idea that I'll be coming with you", she eyed him intrigued with a slight smile on her face.
"I have the upper hand here, I have backup, one shot in the air and they will come running", he tried to threaten her.
"Is that so?", she gave him an amused smile, "First let me clear your doubts, I have the advantage here. The only reason you're alive because you helped me back at the facility but if you tried to stop me I'll forget about that and shoot you. And second put down your gun, it's empty."

She was right it was empty. How can he be that stupid he didn't even check the clips in his gun? She must have left one gun behind because if she would have taken it too, people would have noticed; how many nurses carry gun around; so she just took the clip instead. He saw her load the gun, is this how he's supposed to die not from any bio-weapon but from the hands of a woman.

'That's definitely not the sort of death I was looking forward to', he thought and then the next thing he heard was something like a gunshot but nothing happened to him, 'did she missed, Nah that can't, she's got a great aim', he thought again. He looked at the girl, and then saw her falling forward on her knees and then on the ground. He lunged for his gun, which she was holding, before he could think anything else and started searching for the person who shot her. It was possible that they'd shoot him down too.

"She was always pain in the neck; I knew she would survive that fall. She was too smart to die like that but too stupid to die like this", said a white haired man in cool Russian accent. He was holding a gun which Leon hadn't seen before. He saw the girl from the corners of his eyes, not taking his eyes off the man, it seemed that he was alone too; and was he following her or waiting for her? The girl was now sweating like hell and it appeared that she was in terrible pain. He wanted to help her but there was no wound to help with not to mention the crazy man who shot her.

"Nicholai!" in came the Carlos surprised voice.

Jill could not believe that she was seeing the traitor, who left her and Carlos to die in Raccoon City, standing in front of her she shot at him once. Others shot at him too. Seeing that he had a disadvantage against so many people he retreated. But he came back screaming and something jumped onto him and started tearing him apart eating him alive.

"Aaahhh… what are those?", Percy shrieked like a girl.
"That's a mountain goat", John replied, looking at the creature which was busy eating Nicholai and which looked like they were skinned, rotten flesh dangling from its bone and then shooting it down.
"They eat grass right", Percy said unable to keep up his pompous tone.
"I don't think that one does though", Jill said and they heard howling.
"Goats don't howl guys", Rebecca said and everybody readied their weapon as they saw a pack of wolves, running towards them.
"Didn't it remind you of old days honey", Chris said taking the first shot.
"Yeah but that time it was dogs weren't it", Jill said as everybody started shooting the wolves.
"They are just bigger dogs aren't they?", John said shooting them down.

"Jill and Claire move to the girl protect her and Becky check for any injuries; Carlos and Bruce provide backup to the ladies. Percy, just stop panicking and call the chopper and Sheva and Ark look after him. John and Leon up in front with me kill as many as you can", Chris commanded.
"I am running out of ammo here", Leon told him and his gun clicked empty and one of the wolves jumped on him wanting to have a chunk of him, he struggled hard and kicked the wolf off himself.
"You okay?", John asked and gave him a clip.
"Barely", Leon said and reloaded his gun.
"Chris if this goes on like this we are all gonna die here", Claire said, "I am also running out of ammo", and everybody's guns clicked empty at the same instant.
"Shit!", Chris cursed looking at the number of wolves surrounding them.

"Get down", someone shouted and they did closing their eyes and then there was a deafening roar of Gatling gun and when it died down, they saw that Barry had taken down the wolves with the combat chopper which they had accidentally brought here with them.
"Cool Wild gunman you saved our butts", John said and everybody laughed.

"Everyone, in one piece?". Chris questioned and everyone yelled a yes and then they moved to the woman, who was still struggling with Rebecca a bit.
"What happened to her?" Claire asked Leon.
"I don't know he shot at her", Leon replied. The girl was whimpering in the pain.
"Let me have look", Rebecca tried to calm her a bit.
"There's … there's no wound?", Sheva implied in astonishment.
"Like before… ", Rebecca mumbled.
"Her pulse is weak too", said John feeling her pulse in her neck. From nowhere suddenly the girl pushed them away and injected the vial which she was holding and closed her eyes and stopped moving.

"What the hell was that?", Ark spoke out what everyone was thinking.
"What… What did she inject to herself?", Percy who seemed as he was about to cry asked.
"I… I don't know", Leon said and shot his glance towards the briefcase which she was holding earlier. Chris picked it up and opened it.
"It's filled with that stuff which she shot herself with", Jill said now moving to Chris's side.

"Let's get her to the hospital she's still breathing, I mean to the hospital which is over ground our facility and I want us to look after her and before more of those things arrive", John more of ordered then suggested. Yep their facility was directly under the hospital which was meant for BSAA and US agents. The tall building also comprised their file room, interrogation room and some rooms for foreign visiting messengers and agents.

"How's she doing?" Claire asked Rebecca.
"I don't know about her conditions. All I can say is she's alive and is uninfected; all the test that I carried out shows that she's okay and not infected", Rebecca replied in soft tone.
"But how can this be we saw her shot something in her arm didn't we?", asked Chris sounding a bit confused.
"I don't know Chris but I am positive she's not infected", Rebecca still stick to word.
"Then it may be Las-Plagas or Urobros parasite can't it be", asked Sheva trying to make sense.
"I checked for them too but it isn't either as far as all the details which you guys and Leon have brought is correct, I am positive about it", Rebecca said explaining herself.
"So what's with those samples she had in her briefcase?", asked Jill.
"Our researchers did all sort of stuff on it and the result is zero. Now only she can tell us what's going on", Rebecca said and turned her face towards the girl.

A whole day passed and there was no sign of progress in the woman's health. Although they all left for their respective work, David requested for some officials so she could be guarded and monitored all the time to prevent her escape unlike the last time. By the night time everyone was back at her room, silently hoping she'd wake up soon and nobody wanted to leave and spent the night in the that recovery room either sleeping through the night or discussing things in low voices. And currently Rebecca was checking her vitals.

"It's normal again it would be few moments before she wakes up", she informed happily.
"Yeah the more early she wakes up the more early I can sleep", said John in between of his yawns, he was the one who stayed up all night.
"Yeah I seriously wanna know how we can destroy Umbrella once and for all", said Barry.
"Yeah may be she knows about their experiments and whether Wesker is still alive or not", said Claire.

Though hours passed but still the woman didn't come to consciousness and the room once again emptied as people moved to head to their work, once again. John, who was impatiently waiting on her to wake up retired to sleep, leaving her security to the men stationed there. By the evening of that day everyone started to grow impatient.

"What's taking her so long", Claire said barely keeping down frustration in her voice.
"Be patient little Sis", Chris tried to calm her down.
"It's not her fault Chris, Red's angry because the girl isn't waking up. Seriously Red I am on your side if she doesn't wake up in another hour, I'll just shake and slap her to consciousness", said John being a little impatient himself. As he was saying this the girl made a sound, everybody became quite and curiously looked at her.
"I think she's gaining consciousness", Rebecca declared in a joyous tone.
"About time", said Claire as she knew it was going to happen.
"Ah… who cares", John said as if he was not interested.

As she opened her eyes she looked at them all trying to take in the place and people. Jill and Claire helped her to sit up as she tried to get up and she mumbled a thank you to them as Sheva put a pillow to support her back.

"Do you want water", Rebecca asked her offering a glass of water. She nodded and took and glass from her and drank water and everyone couldn't help eyed her curiously.
Once she was finished her glass of water she asked the very obvious question, "Where am I?"
"In the hospital", Jill answered her warmly.
"Who are you guys?", she asked again.
"We're the ones who saved you right back in the forest, you probably don't remember us but you would recognize Leon", John said pushing Leon in front of her.
She looked at him for a long minute as if taking in his details and then asked again, "Do I know you?"
"No, but you must have remembered me back from the facility and forest", Leon tried to remind her.
"Facility? Forest? I… I don't know you, I don't know any of you", she said looking from face to face looking very troubled.

"Now calm down. First tell us your name it would be easy…" Jill was saying as everybody noticed a change of expression on her face when she heard the word 'Name'.
"My… my name… name… what… what is my name? I… I don't remember" she mumbled with tears in her eyes.
"Oh that's okay, it sometimes happen after the car accidents" Rebecca said to her, "don't worry I am a doctor I'll help you. But now you must rest."

Rebecca moved outside and asked all of them to do the same. So, they moved out everybody eyeing Rebecca for her such weird behavior and her car accident story, "Hey they told me she woke up. What did you find out", David who was hurrying towards them asked.
"That she was hit by a car", John told him crossing his arms, silently asking Rebecca for explanation.
"What?" David said looking confused.
"Ask her", said Chris and pointed towards Rebecca.
"Uh… David, guys I am sorry about that", Rebecca said feeling a little guilty.
"Will you guys make any sense please", David sort of screamed in frustration.

"This woman over here told the woman over there that she had a car accident", John said and then mumbled, "Did I really say that. Did I speak just as Leon was speaking before? Boy that really is contagious. Leon you stay away from me. If I stay away may be it would wear off."
"What ? Why Rebecca?" David asked Rebecca.
"She is suffering from an acute case of amnesia", she said.
"What's that a cross between America and Indonesia. Are you saying that her parents were from different countries", asked Chris stupidly.

"No… she lost her memory and if I hadn't made up that car accident story she must have stressed herself to coma and that's like death to tell you. We shouldn't tell her something that presses too much stress on her, like living dead and stuff, otherwise it would cost us her life", she completed with a little disappointment.
"So what do we do now", Jill asked letting out a sigh.
"Probably get some rest and give her some time to recollect her memories", Rebecca sighed an even heavier sigh.

Everyone dispersed and headed to their room, cursing their lucks that when they were finally met the woman, in the condition where they could have a proper conversation, she seemed to have lost her memories. Leon turned to look at the room, where David was instructing the guards about something as he half listened to John complain about how everything was ending on wrong note.

A/N: Thanks for taking out time to read.