Left 4 Dead: Gemini Strain.

Chapter VI: Flare Burst – Adam

I would say that was a smart move of him, it makes me wonder how things would have played out if he did not throw that flare. Would I find him? Would things have turned out the best in the end? Whatever the case would be it shone brighter than anything in the darkness

"Latvia, tell me what you see outside." I asked her as my hand motioned her to the window to see what had caught my eye. She came calmly to me, something that did not seem to match her expressions. She would every now and then shift her eyes to Cassius, hoping that his fixation on examining the weaponry was on a more intellectual basis.
"Looks like...a flare, Adam. At the old orphanage" She said softly to me as her eyes squinted at the structure.
"Apparently so, it would seem that you two could make it in short time if you climb down the escape ladder and hustle across the adjacent roof." Cassius said between us in a low voice. Let us just say that his presence terrified us to an extreme now.
It took me a moment to get my bearings as I looked at him wide-eyed. I noticed that my hand had gone to my SIG 226 without realizing it. Cassius did too and arched an eyebrow as if to mock me. Bastard.
"I'm sure that you two sure are packing heat by the looks of it." he said with a chuckle. "Have these guns..." He said brandishing the shotgun to Latvia and the Uzi to me.
"That is generous..."
"Very..." Latvia agreed with me, her voice with the same air of suspicion.
"The longer you two look at me with those eyes the longer whomever threw that flare has to stay alive" Cassius said with a laugh as he opened up the window.

"You're going to stay here?" I asked with no hint or desire of wanting his presence.

"Oh no, you see I have done my good deed. Next time we meet, who knows?" Cassius said with another laugh as he sat down and began to clean the rifle he had kept to himself.

I turned back to the window and saw that Latvia was already on her way. For some reason I smiled at this and quickly caught up. We made haste. I hoped as we rushed to the orphanage that we would make it.