A/N: I highly grateful to all the readers and reviewers, Shirahane Aikawa and Mercenary Nemesis.

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Chapter 6

(Leon's POV)

It had been two days since the murder at mall. I haven't left the house and was by Kate's side all the time. Its 10:30 in the morning and she's watching a movie and I am sitting by her side pretending to be watching the romantic drama that she' so much absorbed in and my real status I am bored. I am very bored. It was very unlike me to be sitting around and doing nothing. I needed some vacation from work but this was not exactly vacation, it was more like working from home that too, 24 hours. Although my duties include keeping Kate safe and observing her for any suspicious activities or anything that would hint she's a BOW but the more time I spent with her, the more I doubted the Ada's theory.

"There's nothing on TV", she said switching off the TV and literally throwing the remote.
'Uh oh this means…', I was just in the middle of thought when she said.
"Leon, I am really bored", she sighed out of boredom.
'Please let me be wrong this time', I prayed silently to god looking at her.
"I think we should change the color of this room?", she said looking around the room and I cursed my luck, "this cream color is so dull, actually it's more of a yellowish you know almost like a banana", she looked at me, "I guess a little lighter shade of it or a combination of white and blue should do this room a justice. And in that corner…"

(2 hours later)

"… if we are changing the color of the rooms, shouldn't be get new furniture. But we'll keep the bed, it's very comfortable but we should change that dining table, its comfortable and all but it would look so out of place with the new decor", Kate said pointing it out, yes she was still talking about getting our house renovated. She always had something to talk over or discuss with me and I always felt a little annoyed listening to her talks, she reminded me of Ashley, wait no she was even worse than Ashley, "Are you listening?", she asked me and I took a deep breath looking at her. I guess I dozed off with my eyes open and her expression changed all of a sudden and she looked here and there to find another topic, "Oh look at the time its almost 1:00 and I haven't prepared lunch yet."

"I don't feel like eating", I said since I just wanted to sleep and then slapped my head for saying that since it means…
"Are you sure?", she asked me and before I could reply she touched my head saying, "You don't look so good either. Are you feeling alright? Should I call the doctor, or your friend Rebecca?"
"No, I am fine", I told her clearing my throat sitting straight, "I just don't have an appetite."

"Oh alright", she said in realization and she turned on the TV, "I really want to see this movie, its based on my favorite book", I really felt banging my head on the wall as Kate continued to tell about this boring romance novel she read, that I felt there was no need for that to be adapted to movie, why would someone adopt such a boring story to movie. It was all to torture men all over the world who'd accompany their girlfriends, wives and in my case fake wife to the movie.

(More hours later)

"… and then John told me that I am already married", the TV was on mute and Kate was telling her version of re-uniting with me. When she got over with her boring romance novel, she jumped multiple topic to reach this topic, it was definitely a talent I suppose, jumping from one topic to another unrelated one and I guess I was developing another of my talents called patience," and I was so shocked to know that, I mean I didn't doubt for a bit that I would be having a boyfriend since I am kinda pretty and all, but knowing I had a husband was a little shocking and then I was worried, thinking what would be my husband like and then you walked in the room and I thought wow that guy looks good, I hope he's my husband and then John said you were so I was really relieved but then you took off after that other woman and I was really taken aback by that but Claire explained that I shouldn't really think in a wrong way since you probably went to see your friend off and she was right. You are really a sweet and considerate husband, you've been spending time with me", she said happily smiling at me.

'Well I am forced to', I couldn't help but think.
"But then again why don't you go to work?", She asked me after a while.
"I am on a vacation", I replied rising from seat, moving away as my head started to ache a little.
"If you are…", she continued following me.

"Please give me some peace for god's sake", I almost yelled it at her face since I was really annoyed and frustrated with her talks but then her expressions changed and she looked sad, "Wait, I didn't mean that, give me some time and why don't you go make us a delicious dinner as always", I said trying to remain calm and ignore the headache.
"Oh okay", she said nodding moving in the kitchen's direction. I lied down on the couch my head ached like hell from listening to her talks.

"Leon! ", Kate called again and I looked at her.
"Make whatever you like", I said.
"I already made dinner you silly", she said smiling from the dining table, "Come quick before it gets cold, c'mon."
"So soon?", I asked getting myself into sitting position.
"It took me more than an hour, do you want to eat now?", she asked keeping her hands on hips annoyed at my question.
"Yes please", I said knowing that if I declined she would say something more, besides she was really good at cooking as far as she's compared to me.

Looking after her in these past two days, I could say that yes she lost every bit of her memory because she really was unlike herself. She talked a lot than before, she had those readable expressions on her face and the most noticeable difference was that she smiled freely and genuinely ever so often. And right now she could definitely pass as someone's housewife but not as the multi-talented researcher I was familiar with.

"Leon what are you doing here?", Claire asked when I entered my office building. She often acted as a go-between BSAA and US Secret Services and guess today she's going to work from here.
"I came here to work", I replied.
"What about Kate", John asked joining her.
"She's the reason I am here", I told them.
"What!? Did something happen to her", they both asked in a chorus.
"No, she's perfectly alright. Actually she was getting suspicious that why I don't go to work and stay at home all the time", I said feeling a little happy to be back. It was another good thing that Kate could do for me, "So when I told David about it, he asked me to get to work regularly from morning 10:00AM to evening 4:00 PM. During that time I'll monitor her every move with satellite cameras, which Percy installed at my place when I took her to movie last night", I told them moving to the, said place.
"Can I join?", John asked me sounding a bit excited.
"Do as you like; I have no objection if David is fine with it", I said and we moved toward the monitoring room, where all the arrangements were made for us.

"Hey Percy how's she doing", I asked and I took a seat by his side.
"Alright for now", he said, "She tidied your living room since you left and now she's in the bedroom", he said pointing at the screen and whole day we watched her tidy up the house, doing dishes, watching TV etc, etc. and before we knew it was lunch time.

"Hey how's it going guys, found something interesting?", Claire asked joining us for lunch.
"No, nothing she's just crying over a tragic movie", I said and John and I broke out laughing.
"I don't know but I feel this is not right watching her every moment", she said looking at the screen.
"Yeah it's kind of boring", John said yawning.
"I didn't mean it that way, I mean if I were in her place and found out that I was being watched like this then I would really feel very embarrassed", Claire said munching on her burger.
"She's too dumb to find it out", I said remembering all her silly talks.
"What do you mean", John asked and he seemed a bit offended at the thought of me calling Kate dumb.
"You should have listened to her talk, she's worse than Ashley I mean Ashley needs a topic to speak on but she doesn't need it she can go on and on, on anything and believe me her ability to switch from one topic to another is incredible", I told them and annoyance in my tone was very much noticeable.
"Oh so she talks a lot", John said making a point.
"A lot than a lot", I said and took sip from my cola.
"But still I don't feel right", Claire said looking up at the monitor which showed Kate spilling juice on herself since she forgot to put the lid on the jar of juicer.
"She's stupid", Percy said very disappointed in her, probably because he almost idealized the older version of her.
"Shut up Perce she's really a very nice person and does not deserve being monitored by a couple of idiotic men", Claire said getting up and walking out of the door.

"C'mon Red it's not like we're watching her take shower or anything", I yelled after her and then took a sip of my cold drink again.
"Maybe we'll have that pleasure too", John said and I turned and saw Kate taking her clothes from the closet with a towel on her shoulder.
"You have cameras in my bathroom?", I said shocked to hell, the image on the screen was streaming as if the camera were following her and not like usual when different camera showed different images, possibly some well done programming from Percy's side.
"Well David did say every room", Percy said goggling at the screen.

Kate walked towards the bathroom and placed her clothes on the hanger and turned on the tap to fill the bath tub, "Man this is great", John said and I realized for the time that they were here.
"Yeah it is definitely", I turned around and saw that a paper boy was also there, holding coffee for us and he set it down since he began to shake as Kate moved to basin washing some of the juice of her dress. I glared at him threateningly and he moved out.
Kate looked at the tub which was almost full, she turned off the tap and pulled her hairpin out, "Man its getting hot in here", Percy said fanning himself with a file.

'No, no they can't see her like this', I thought, "You can't see this", I said as Kate was about to unzip her dress.
"Why not?", each one of them said.
"Because you have a girlfriend and you are too young", I said getting up from my seat.
"I don't care; I am not missing this one, it's a life time chance to see Kat naked and we broke up already", John said pulling his chair close to monitor.
"I am 20, which mean I am not young", Percy said his eyes glued to the screen.

I looked at the monitor Kate had unzipped down half of her dress, "Some thing must turn this thing off", I muttered as I desperately pushed buttons to turn off the picture, 'They can't do this, well at least not to Kate', I thought and looked at the monitor when Kate hurriedly zipped up her dress up and I sighed in relief. I watched her hurry down the stairs.

"Shit man, I'll kill whosoever's on the door", John said hitting the arm of the chair.
"And I'll thank him for saving my wife…", I accidentally blurted out.
"Your wife?", John repeated in shock, looking at me mischievously.
"I am her pretending husband", I said in a matter-of-fact tone, trying to cover up the slip of tongue.
"But you don't have any sort of rights of husband, remember that", John reminded me.
"Sshh… guys she's going into shower again", Percy said cutting our bickering.
"Oh yeah sorry", John said as Kate got into shower after seeing the person at the door.

I don't know what took me over and I pulled out my handgun. I aimed and shot at the screen and it went blank, "That should keep that bath a private bath", I said smugly as John and Percy cursed me. I walked to Percy and hoisted him up by collar, "Did you see her in the morning too?", I asked him feeling a bit angry.
"I just missed her, when I started monitoring she was already out and was fully dressed", he stuttered and there was no doubt that he wasn't lying about it.
"And are you recording all this?", I asked him in the same tone.
"No, no, not at all", he shook his head in negative and it didn't seem like he was lying.
"Good, now I only have to speak with David", I said as I walked out to talk to him.

"You want surveillance cameras off your house?", David asked bewildered at the request.
"Yes, well you see uh… if it were a male we were spying on its okay but Kate is a woman and you know just to keep hot stuff under the covers and plus I want a bit of privacy. Instead I'll ask her to carry a tracer and I know she would agree to it", I said explaining all the matter.
"Oh yes, yes I never thought about it; we'll get the cameras off right away but as before you have to cause a distraction", David said adjusting some papers.
"No problem", I said moving out of his office.

"So you want her all for yourself", John asked trying to tease me.
"Maybe", I said shrugging playing along.
"You said you loved me", I turned around and saw Ada.
"Yes, yes I do love you; we were just joking. It was just that they put cameras in my bathroom and these perverts were about to see Kathleen naked", I explained, trying to clear her doubts.
"You do care about her", Ada said raising a brow.
"Yes, he does after all he's her husband", John said stifling a laugh.
"I am not her husband", I said annoyed at him for bringing it up in Ada's presence, "Look Ada it's my job and as David said you can protect yourself but she can't and if something happens to her then I would feel responsible for it and you don't want that do you? And besides we'll be meeting during work hours, won't we? And there's too much time together once all this is sorted and she regains her memory. It's only a matter of time."
"But stay away from that woman you get me; she's a BOW and she may kill you", she said understandably with a little concern in her voice and leaned in to kiss my cheek.
"Well believe me she's as harmless as you are", I said and pecked her on lips and we parted ways, as I headed towards home.

"But didn't you bring me to movies just last night, maybe we should do something different", Kate said as we stood outside the cinema hall.
"I've already got the tickets, believe me this would be fun", I said dragging her to our seats and the lights went off.
"Leon, I… I am not feeling right and I hate, hate, hate horror movies", Kate said getting a bit restless.
"Why didn't you tell me before", I asked her a little surprised. She is always talking and telling me stuff about herself how did she miss this small detail?
"I thought you knew. You are my husband you of all people should know that", she said her voice was wavering a bit.
"Okay we'll… ", I was about to get up and leave when Ada put her hand on mine stopping me. I told her about the plan, thinking that we could take advantage of being in the dark and spend some time together, while Kate is occupied with the movie.

"You're going nowhere, we're here to watch movie and we'll watch it", Ada spoke in an angry tone.
"But Kate's… ", I tried to tell her.
"Why do you care?", Ada said, "You have me here", she caressed my hand, "C'mon show me what you can do", she purred in my ear.
"Leon I… I am leaving", Kate got up to leave but the person sitting by her side didn't let her through and she sat back scared. When all this was happening I didn't knew what I had to do, I really was two timing them, "Guess I have no option but to watch the movie", Kate said and maybe I looked overly concerned or something that's why she added, "Oh don't worry I am not scared with these movies I just find them gross and nauseating", she smiled weakly, "Also you seem so excited about the movie, I don't want to spoil the fun for you. Don't worry, I am perfectly fine."

The movie began to play on the screen and Ada tugged on my arm to get my attention and I turned to her, "You're here on a date with me not to babysit her", she reminded me again, keeping my hand on her bare legs.

And I got distracted and started to enjoy her company as we played with each other without making too much noise since Kate was sitting on my other side. I didn't know how she would react if she came to know that her fake husband was cheating on her, right under her nose. But spending some time with Ada I totally forgot about her again. As if I came to movies with Ada and Kate came all by herself.

About an hour and half in the movie Kate grabbed my hand and it was all I needed to remind me of her. Her touch was so warm that it was stark contrast to Ada's touch, which was cold. She grabbed on to my hand tightly and I looked at her. She pointed to her legs and I saw a hand on her lap, trying to push her dress up, in an attempt to feel her up. I looked at the man, sitting on her other side with a pleased expression on his face, as it was best thing ever and I felt a sudden upsurge of anger from within. I slapped his hand off her legs and the man looked at Kate with a sluggish perverse smile, thinking that maybe she had done that but she pointed at me. I punched him in face without thinking twice and let out a scream in pain, making people look at him.

"We're leaving", I said pulling Kate up by her arm and dragged her out with me.
"You shouldn't have done that", Kate said once we were out of the hall.
"Yeah right because you should already have done that", I said angrily, not really understanding why it was making me this angry; she wasn't really my wife, hell she wasn't even my girlfriend, she was just somebody whom I knew.
"I already did that you know and also asked him to keep his hands to himself but he wouldn't listen and I couldn't really throw a punch at him so I had to disturb you", she said timidly again reminding me this was not the woman I used to know, she was very different from her old self. Her old version would have handed the guy his hand if he even so-much as tried to lay a finger on her but this version of her did what she could do, depended on her fake husband to help her out.
"If that was the case then you should have disturbed me really, really early", I said in a matter-of-fact tone, taking hold of her hand and walking out. We both got in my car and I took it out of the parking, "Where do you want to go next?", I asked as we got out on the road.

"Home, I guess. I have to make dinner, you made the plan for movie so suddenly that I wasn't able to fix anything then", Kate replied.
"Would you like to have dinner outside then?", I asked keeping my eyes on road. There was no way I could her home yet, when there might be people taking spy cams off my place.
"NO", she almost screamed.
"What!? Why!?", I asked astonishment. I was not used to hearing No(s) from women. Well not when I asked them out on a date, 'I am asking her on a date?!', I asked myself both surprised and confused.
"We can't go out dining wearing something like this", she said, "Okay if you consider the situation my clothes are fine but look at you… you… you… look like… I am at loss of words here."
"So, I look bad, is that what you're trying to say?", I asked her just to confirm her suggestion about it. I felt a little dejected to hear that from her.
"Not that you look bad but what you're wearing is not appropriate", she told me innocently.

And before I could say or ask what was so inappropriate with my attire my phone started ringing and I stopped my car just to delay our arrival. I took out the phone and it flashed Ada's number, 'Shit! I totally forgot about her', I cursed myself, "Hello?", I answered getting out of the car making an excuse to Kate that I wasn't able to hear the other person because of disturbance.
"You… left me alone just because of her?!", Ada almost screamed on the phone, in a tone of disbelief.
"Relax honey, she's just… ", I tried to say keeping my voice down.
"She's what?! She matter to you more now?", She asked and her voice raised, "Don't you get it, she's the BOW you are looking for.
"Ada please…", I tried to calm her down.

"I saw it so believe me…", Ada was saying.
"Wait, wait, wait… what? What did you see?", I asked her in surprise and she didn't reply. It seemed she accidentally let it slip, "You said you didn't know anything about her."
"I lied alright", she fumed on the other end, "I thought she won't be able to handle those experiments. It would be better if she died because of them and went to hell."
"Ada!", I could only said at such a revolting thought and looked back at Kate. She gave me a look of concern and I tried to smile at her, calming myself down, "We have to report this to others."
"Who are going to tell, those stupid people at work? They take you for a joke", she spoke bitterly and I couldn't believe that she had such harsh words to say about my friends, who were trying to accept her with open arms, despite the conflict, just because she was important to me. Sure they laughed at me, but I laughed them as well.
I took a deep breath, "We are telling them about it", I said to her firmly, pressing of the fact that I won't take no for an answer here, "I am going to gather everyone; you just get to the office building. I'll be there once I drop Kate back home."
"Alright!", Ada said in her usual tone and we hung up.

I called John the next, "Hey boy how's the movie?", he asked me casually, taking the call.
"Haven't got time for that", I said speaking in a serious tone, "Are you and Percy done with getting the cameras off my place?', I asked cutting straight to the point.
"Yep we're on the last one", he replied.
"Good… I need you to do it as fast as you can and then gather everyone at the office building. Ada has important information on the case", I said speaking in an urgent tone.
"Really that's great, I'll get everybody", he said and we disconnected.

I sighed out of what I don't know but I was stressed alright. I opened the car door and got back inside and Kate gave me an inquisitive look but I decided to remain quiet, "What happened? You look so serious", she asked.
"Nothing, you should worry yourself with", I replied starting the car to head home, "And please don't ask stupid questions because I am really fed up of answering them", I added as she opened her mouth to say something.

We drove back in complete silence in which Kate kept looking out of her car window and I kept looking at her from time to time from the corners of my eyes. It was hard to believe that someone like her was a bio-weapon. My reasons and beliefs were at conflict here. I believed that Kate wasn't a BOW but all the clues kept pointing to her and I couldn't just close my eyes to them.

"You go inside; I have to get to work", I said pulling the car to stop in front of our house.
Kate got out without saying a word and I was about to drive away when she asked, "Leon! Will you be having dinner tonight?"
"I don't know; maybe… maybe not", I tried to say it in a monotone.
"Okay I'll be waiting for you for dinner", she said sweetly and I just drove away without any words or gesture.

A/N: Thanks for reading. I hope you enjoyed the story. I apologize for any typos or mistakes in the context that might have caused an inconvenience. Feel free to share your views about the story.