Chapter 7

Silence was in my room and Leon was still holding me and I finally stopped crying. His warm body gave me comfort and I looked at him, his dirty blonde hair was covering his left eye, staring at me with his dark, forest, green eyes, his skin was warm sand color, he had some muscle in his arms and he has a handsome face.

"You okay?" I nodded at him, but couldn't say anything, but I kind of needed to change before the police get here.

"I need to change clothes." I didn't look at him when I said it, but he got the message. He slowly let go of me and I slowly got up from the floor and went over to my drawer. I didn't feel like putting on jeans or anything so, I was going to put on my training sweatpants over my pajama shorts and a long dark blue sleeve with a v-neck over my black tank top. Leon didn't look even though I didn't really change, but his back was towards me to give me privacy. I walked towards him and put my hand on his shoulder. He turned around; we both stared at each other for a brief moment. "Thank you."

"For what?"

"For protecting me from the shadow figure. You almost took a bullet for me." He was silent for a moment. I wanted him to put his arms around me so I can feel warm body. Instead, he started to walk away. I looked at my window and saw blue and red flashing lights near the house, it was the police. I walked towards the window and saw three police cars and two ambulances. Dad was outside talking to the policeman and told them what happened. I sat on the little bench that was built in the window. Watching them talk was quite interesting because I knew what they are talking about. I didn't look at Leon nor talk to him; he was still in the door war, watching me. I felt his eyes on me along with his presence. Footsteps started to get closer and I looked down at the dead figure and then something shiny was glaring in my eye. It was coming from his neck. Leon looked at me weird as I got up from the bench. He also saw something shiny on his neck too. I kneeled down next to the dead body and reached for his neck. My hand was shaking from nervousness and I was kind of afraid. My hand almost reached his neck, and then gunshots were fired. Multiple gunshots. One of the shots hit my window and I covered my head from the glass. I felt a warm body on me and I know that warmth, it was Leon. He's using himself as a shield. He held me tightly towards him and I was short on breath because he was holding me tight. I put my arms around his neck and held onto him.

"I need to get you out of here! You're not safe here!" The gunshots stopped firing and everything was silent. Leon was still pressing against me. After a minute, everything was calm down. Leon was looking out the window seeing everything and everyone was okay.

"Looks like everything is okay."

"How many are dead?" He looks at me strangely for asking that question, but dad is okay? Did he get hurt? Was he shot at? Is he dead? All those questions were in my eyes and Leon felt my emotions through my eyes. He nodded at me and looked through the broken window again to see if dad was okay. He looked at the three police cars and the two ambulances. All of the cars had bullet holes in the metal of each car. Leon looked through the crowds to find dad. After going through two crowds, he found dad.

"Found him! He's okay, but he got shot in the arm. Nothing to critical though." After hearing that, I felt relieved. Leon looked at me with his dark, forest, green eyes. It was memorizing to me and I couldn't stop looking into them. It feels like I'm looking into the forest. "Wait, what the hell am I talking about! Stop looking into his eyes damnit!" I flinched from hearing my thought, more like yelling in my head.

"Anya. Anya! Answer me!" Apparently I must've spaced out and Leon was shaking me for two minutes and I guess I didn't respond to him. I was back in reality after staring in Leon's eyes. I shook it off and put my hand over my forehead, my head started to hurt. "Anya! Answer me! Are you okay?"

"Yeah, but my head hurts though." I rubbed my forehead, but it wasn't really helping. Leon put his hand on my forehead to see if I had a fever.

"You're slightly warm, but I don't think you have a fever." Just having his hand on my forehead made me flinch a little. Although, I didn't have a fever, but I was bleeding from my side, but it was only a flesh wound.

"Aaaagghhh!" Leon looked at me and cupped my face in his hand.

"What's wrong!"

"My side."

"What happened?"

"It hurts. I can't get up." Leon looked at me while I'm in pain. He looked at my right side where I'm holding it. He moved my hand and saw blood seeping thought my clothes. His eyes kind of almost were wide. He pulled up my shirt half way so he can see the wound. Blood still seeping out, but not a huge amount. He could see a bullet in the wound. I got shot during open fire. He ran his fingers across the wound and I hissed because it hurts. I was in agonizing pain. Leon looked at me and put my arm around his neck and grabbed both my legs. "What are you doing?"

"I'm getting you out of here. You're not safe here anymore. I have to take you back to headquarters." He picked me up like it was nothing. I groaned because of the pain, but being carried in his arms made me feel safe. God, I feel like a damsel in distress!

"I'm not leaving without dad no matter what."

"I have to get you out of here. You're my first prior."

"I won't go! Not unless he's coming with me! If he stays then so do I!" I said to him firmly. Dad was my whole world, my whole life. If he's going with a fight than I'll join him. Leon gave me a hard emotionless look to me. "If I lose him, then it's not worth me living here in this world." I got off Leon's arms, groaning of the pain while I was standing. I leaned against the wall, breathing hard, but I was still able to speak. "My father is my whole life and I am not leaving him here to die because of me! If he dies then I die with him!" Leon came closer to me and out nowhere out lips met. The kiss was firm and fierce. His soft lips were on top of my rough and dry lips of mine. A minute went by and he broke the kiss slowly. I didn't know how to react, but I just leaned against the wall.

"I won't let your dad die, I promise you, but I promise him I would protect you with my life and keep you alive. I'm not going to break his promise to him, but I won't break your promise either." I didn't know he made a promise to dad, but when he says it like that. If he made a promise to dad, then he will stand by his promise. "Look, I will do anything to protect both you and Gerard, but I have to protect you. You're my first prior and I refuse to let you die." His hands were on my shoulders firmly. I lowered my head because I started to doubt him. He cupped my face in his hands and I started to gaze into his dark, forest, green eyes. "When we get to headquarters and you're safe from danger, I will personally get him and bring him back, I promise." He was telling the truth. I could see it in his eyes. He was determined to take me to safety including dad.

"How do I know you're going to bring him to headquarters? How do I know?" He looked at me and once again the second fucking time our lips met. The feel of his soft lips made me shiver all the way down my spine. The first kiss I didn't kiss back, but now I was kissing him back. It was wrong, but so right. The kiss was passionate, but Leon broke the kiss. We were both breathing hard and gazed at each other. Finally, after catching my breath I said, "You really do mean, don't you?"

"More than anything, more than my job, more than my life." I started to believe him. After all of this happening for more than twenty minutes after all of this, I forgot I was wounded.

"You know, I still have a bullet in me and I would like to get it removed from my side." I knew I had a reason for holding my side and feeling pain. Leon looked at my side and forgot I was injured too. We were caught in a moment, can't blame that.

"I guess we should start heading out."

"It's getting late. The night is vulnerable for the murderer. We need to leave in the morning. It's the murderer's weakness, his only weakness." Leon knows that I was right and I'm the one who knows about the murderer than anyone. It was our only chance.

"Then we leave in the morning." He nodded at me and I nodded back. "Let's get that bullet out and get some sleep." Great, taking the bullet out equals more pain. This is going to be one long night and I thought last night was longer, but this one takes the cake.