A/N: I am thankful to all the readers, who take out their time to read this story and I am more than grateful to the reviewers Mercenary Nemesis, Shirahane Aikawa and red machine destroyer.

Disclaimer: I don't own Resident Evil or any of its characters; they all belong to Capcom.

Chapter 13

(Leon's POV)

I joined the work just a day after I was discharged from the hospital, and Kate and I had huge argument on that too. She was totally against me joining work this early but I couldn't bear being away from work for too long. It had already been 10 days; I had to find out about the person for whom that BOW worked, who attacked us and wanted to kidnap Kate, and also about the lady intruder, who didn't take anything just infiltrated the house for unknown reasons, and of course the BOW, who was killing everyone. We thought that the BOW that attacked me was behind it all but even after him being dead there was a murder unfortunately Kate was there too but we still didn't have any solid proof, so the case was still on hiatus.

"I am going", I yelled to Kate as I was stepping outside the house.

"Go to hell and don't come back!", she said angrily, she was still against me going to work but it was not as bad as it was the last time we had a disagreement. She only got angry when I was heading out to work and the rest of the time she was her stupid cheery self taking pleasure in small things. She was even remembering a few things… well not actually, it was just that we sometimes observed that her reflexes were like before but it was almost involuntary because whenever we asked her to demonstrate it back she couldn't do it with her conscious mind.

"Oh c'mon Kate how many times do we have to discuss this?", I asked her.
"Till you get enough brains and stay home since you're hurt", she huffed almost glaring at me angrily.
"You worry too much", I said with a smile, "Now give me the keys sweetheart", I laughed a bit since she would always hide the keys if she didn't want me to go anywhere.
"I don't have them", she said crossing her arms.
"Kate", I said stretching my hand asking for the Keys.
"Here and go to hell", she said slamming the keys in my hand stormed off cursing me and I just laughed at that.

I drove to work and spent tormenting hours on my desk writing a detailed report about the BOW that attacked us. And then read a report by Rebecca on what she recorded all her findings about the said BOW. It said he was somewhat a hybrid between las-plaga's host and t-virus but I already knew that since he told that himself. What was new that he was infected by G-virus too, she really wrote 'infected' which made me laugh a bit, a BOW being infected but when I read further she had stated that it was his t-virus and las-plagas mutation that kept him safe from g-virus if not then he would be dead for sure, "Kate is better at explanations", I muttered.

"Kat, is better at explanations", John said entering my cabin.
"What brings you here?", I asked him closing the file.
"I am here to remind you that office hours are over", he replied.
"What's the time", I said looking at my watch and it really was, it was 8:00 PM, "Let's go or Kate would get mad at me again", I said getting up.

"So how it is having a wife?", John asked.
"I don't know, I don't pay much attention to her lately. I mean its not like we are romantically involved or something", I said and John gave me a look of disbelief, "She only hugs me and nothing more."
"So you want to get more?", John asked teasing me and I couldn't help but shoot him an annoyed look, as we both got into the elevator, "Don't tell me you aren't attracted to her even a bit."
"Well to be honest I am. I mean I am a man living with one of hottest women on earth", I admitted remembering the time when I saw her in just a towel. That was the only time I saw her like that and even though she considered me her husband I never got lucky again, it wasn't like I am desperate to see her again like that; I am just stating the fact.

"Having wild dreams are we?", John teased again nudging me.
"Well I can make this dream a reality, all I have to do is ask", I quipped back and he frowned in jealously, making me laugh.
"Damn! Why didn't David trust me over you", John said with a distant look in eyes.

We walked towards parking discussing Kate more and the different possibilities of her ending up with someone other than me. Once we reached our car, John took out his keys and unlocked his car while I fumbled in my pockets for them, "I think I forgot my keys in my cabin", I said checking my pockets.
"That's why you shouldn't day dream", John teased turning on his car's ignition.
"Look who's talking", I said turning back to head towards my cabin.
"See you later Kennedy", John said driving away.

"Yeah, yeah", I said waving him goodbye as I dragged my feet inside the deserted office building since John and I were the last one to leave. It felt longer as I got back on my office floor even with elevator. The elevator doors opened and I headed for my cabin and I was shocked to see someone inside my cabin reading the file that Rebecca got me, "Hey what are you doing here?", I yelled to the person pointing my gun in their direction and whoever it was turned to look at me. I figured out it was a woman as we stared at each other a bit and then even before I could think, she threw the file which she was reading, knocking the gun out of my hands.

"Great", I said smiling and ran towards her. She grabbed my hand and taking advantage of my speed, knocked me to the ground. She tried to run away but I grabbed her hand and pulled and she fell on top of me. She lifted herself off of me supporting herself on her hands and I got a look inside her shirt, which distracted me, and she punched me hard so that it shook my jaw. It was all she needed to get away from me and jump out of the window.

I rubbed my jaw a bit making sure everything was in place and my phone rang and I saw Kate was calling, "Leon it's over 8:00 PM, where are you?", she asked annoyed.
"Kate, some important work came up. I'll be home by 10:00", I told her moving to look out of the window, hoping to see the woman intruder.
"What?", she screamed on the other end.
"I'll explain everything when I get back", I told her in a serious tone, "Please try to understand."
"Okay", she said sadly and disconnected.

I sighed and then called David. I told him everything and it was not long before that forensics team was searching for fingerprints in my office, "Did you see her face?", David asked as we watched the team.
"No, it was dark plus I had to stop her from escaping rather than to switch on lights", I told him in an obvious tone.
"So tell us what happened exactly", David said and I explained everyone, everything that happened skipping the insignificant details.
"Can you tell us anything specific?", John asked once I was finished.

"I said I didn't get a good look", I told him yet again rounding to my cabin chair but I stepped on something and I looked down to see a fine piece of jewelry. I bent down to pick it up, it was a necklace, which had a broken pendant.
"What is it?", Claire asked curiously noticing it my hand.
"I think it's a pendant", I said holding it up to her; "maybe she dropped it."
"Finally some clue", David said taking the pendant in his hand.
"This can't lead us to her", Jill said being practical.
"Yeah but it can help us maybe we can pick up some fingerprints from it and maybe she comes back to get it back", David said being too much hopeful about it.

"Leon what sre you thinking?", Claire asked me all of sudden.
"Uh… it might sound strange but I think I have seen it before, where I don't remember but I have definitely seen it before", I told them turning the cogs of my brain, trying to figure out where I had seen this pendant.
"Try to recall it", David said encouraging me.
"I can't, I need sometime", I said sighing giving up to think about it.
"Take your time and also keep this with you", he said handing me back the necklace.

I moved towards my desk drawer to keep the necklace in one of the drawers. When I pulled it open, I found a file, which wasn't there before. I took it out and went to through the contents to confirm if it belonged to me or not. The contents of the file wasn't making too much sense to me, "Becky check this out", I said giving the file to her.

Rebecca took the file and read it for a while, "It explains how a hybrid can be created…", she muttered, "And have many more things. Where did you get this?"
"I don't know, it was there in this drawer…", I was saying when realization hit me, "Maybe it was that woman who left us this", I suggested.
"Why not give it to us directly?', David pointed out.
"I don't know, but at least we now know that she's not against us", I said with a shrug.
"Maybe you're right", David said thinking, "Becky, read the file and tell us what you can figure out from it as soon as possible. Leon, try hard to remember where have you seen this necklace before and we'll ask security for the tapes", David said, "Anything more you can recall?", he asked one last time.
"Uh… no…", I replied thinking then it hit me; I knew one more thing, "Uh… she has birthmark right over her left… uh… over her heart", I tried to put it decently.
"When did you get that pleasure?", John teased, speaking in a sly tone.
"Jealous are we?", I quipped back.
"Why does every hot woman have to go one-on-one with you", he complained crossing his arms.
"Stop being childish John", David scolded him, "Get to work everyone."
"From tomorrow", Claire said, "It's way past our working hours plus Kate might be getting worried for this idiot."
"Yeah almost forgot, we'll take it on from tomorrow. For now head towards home", David said and we all got in our cars and headed for home.

When I reached home it was a little above 10:00, I got out of the car and when I reached the door Kate held it open for me, maybe she was waiting for me and the moment I reached her she flung her arms around me, "Thank god you are okay! You know, I have been having these scary thoughts about you being in trouble", she said pulling away and I felt a bit annoyed since I liked it when she hugged me after a hard day's work.

A couple of days after my office's intrusion, I was put back on the Ashley's security and since the higher ups thought I was still recovering they forced me to partner with Ada. Ada was still angry at me for prioritizing Kate over her and didn't talk to me, and strangely it wasn't bothering me either. And somehow Ashley had sensed that distance between us and behaved a little extra seductively today, gaining immense about of glares and scowls from Ada. I felt really relieved when we left Ashley back in the White House, after her piano lessons, at which she's really terrible. Kate's cat could play piano better than Ashley could.

Ada and I separated our ways as we headed home and she just gave me look of disbelief but nothing was really affecting me today. I just got in my car and headed for home wondering about the new developments. I just hoped for Kate to regain her memories as soon as possible, so she could help us out. But somehow it seemed that possibilities of Ashley learning piano was far better than possibility of Kate regaining her memories. I let out an amused laugh at the thought parking my car on our drive way and headed inside.

"I am home", I yelled to no one in particular upon entering my home. Shadow came running down the stairs when he heard me, "It means Kate is upstairs", I muttered to him patting his head since Shadow had taken a habit of tailing Kate everywhere. I set my keys and case on the table near the door and ascended up the steps. I found Kate sleeping face down on the bed and it was really an odd hour for sleeping like that, she didn't even had blanket over her properly and it made me a bit worried. I walked towards her with heavy steps, I don't know why but I was a bit scared for her, it seemed as if she was dead. I sat close by her and ran my hand in her hair. She turned back to look at me and I was more than relieved, "hey", I said smiling, happy that she was okay.

Kate didn't say anything and tried to pull up the blankets over her shoulders but since I was sitting on it, she wasn't able to do that and I had to help her, "feeling cold?", I asked her and she nodded, "Are you sick?", I asked again feeling her head and god she was burning with fever. I hurriedly removed my shoes and jacket and got in the blanket with her. I wrapped my arm around her, pulling her close to myself. I could feel her shivering like hell and I really grew worried about her that I thought of calling Rebecca but on the other hand I didn't want to leave her either. Why was it like that? Why was I so concerned about her? Why I wished her to be alright as I held her? I couldn't be falling in love with her, am I?

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.