Leon
Leon and Helena were sticking together for this one. They had gotten explosives from Barry after a quick run upstairs. Ada was checking out another room. Just then, Helena's PDA went off. "Hunnigan? You're alive?"
The woman nodded, "Yes, listen I think you should know that in thirty hours..."
Helena told her, "We found this out already...but thanks...do you have any word on Sherry?" Hunnigan replied, "That's why Ive called you. She's at Rikers Island. Her and Jake Muller. We intercepted a distress call. We're not sure quite how she made it though we assume she must have reached the radio tower. She hasn't found Muller yet but she said they were brought there by Alex Wesker. I need you to go there and get word to them that this city is facing a possible Nuclear strike. We may have a solution though and you may want to get back to Claire. We've contacted her employers at Terra Save and we've got a chance to stop this outbreak."
Helena sighed, stressed. "We can't go right now. We have to destroy Empire Labs. It's an underground base beneath the Empire State Building. They're still getting B.O.W.'s into the city. I don't know how they're getting above ground but at this point we need to destroy it. Once we get out of here, then me and Leon will head out there. Whether this city gets blown up or not, there's no reason for them to die."
Leon addressed Hunnigan. "We'll go for Sherry as soon as we can but I know she can hold her own. Jake too. I know we only have a certain amount of time but thirty hours, even twenty four hours is plenty of time for us to get to Rikers and save them. And to deal with Alex Wesker as long as we can track him down."
Hunnigan reluctantly said, "I'll try and find a way to get a hold of Sherry."
They walked back into the hallway and saw Claire standing there. "Any luck?" Leon shook his head. "Nothing. You'd think in a lab that's creating enough B.O.W.'s to destroy the biggest city in America would be easier to find in terms of the place where they're keeping these things. All we've come across was some zombies. I guess an outbreak happened here too. Listen, we're going after Sherry. She's been kidnapped by Alex Wesker and she's being held at Rikers Island. She's held her own so far but we need to get word to her."
Claire told her, "I'd be more than willing to go with you after we finish here. I need to take my mind off of Steve."
He told her, "Hey, Hunnigan our supervisor asked us to ask you to get in touch with your supervisor and contact her right away. They may have a solution to this outbreak even in dealing with the lepotistas."
He handed her Hunnigan's card and the number to call her. Claire nodded. "If my own cell phone doesn't work I can find another one or take one off a body," She grimly added, "Plenty to choose from."
Helena offered condolences. "I'm sorry about your friend. I know how it is to lose somebody. I had to put my own sister down. It's not easy to move on but we're doing this for them and everybody else that's died."
Claire nodded at Helena saying, "So you were his partner back in Lanshang? From Ada to me to you and back to Ada..." Leon shifted uncomfortably but she said, "I'm not holding it against you. In any case, thanks for taking care of him."
Leon looked at Claire and said, "Look for what it's worth, I'm sorry...we had a lot go on between us we went through so much together...I thought I lost Ada...I did lose her and you lost Steve...we just drowned in our sorrow and we found comfort together. It's not that I don't have feelings for you. I do...it's just Ada...there's something about her that I can't stay away from..."
She sighed, hugging him only briefly and then said, "I don't blame you. I mean I did ten years ago when you broke it off...and I was mad at you that you told me and Sherry to just go...but I understand now. Maybe you and me, we would have been a real thing under different circumstances. But your connection with Ada is like mine with Steve. I care for you too I..." She said it so ftly and quietly enough that Helena did not hear, "I even loved you...we spent four years together...I don't know what we had it wasn't exactly a real relationship but it wasn't nothing. It helped me grow...and i think it helped you grow too. Made us stronger for when we'd face the other people we loved in our lives. And to deal with our demons..."
He felt guilty. "If I had been there for you at Rockfort Island...maybe I could have been to you what he was to me...and maybe that bond would have brought us closer together...like you said if things had worked out different..."
She leaned in saying, "Steve's gone though...I lost the only person I cared about. Maybe he could still be alive from the virus but even that doesn't make you indestructible. He wasn't as strong as Wesker...or his brother. You still have Ada...so you should cherish her if she's the person you want to be with...I just hope she does the same for you and stops stringing you along..."
Leon looked at the floor, Helena waited patiently but he suspected on the inside she grew a bit impatient. "I don't know if she can, Claire...and she has a concussion. Maybe we'll survive this she survived two more since Raccoon with me but we never know when we could die. What if...what if Ada was who I wanted but it was you who I needed? I wanted her but couldn't have her due to emotional unavailability but you wanted Steve and couldn't have him because he was dead. What if we need each other?"
She looked at him softly saying, "I don't know...you have some intimacy issues...and a lot of them have to do with her. You were traumatized when you lost her in Raccoon. You're right you weren't there for me in Rockfort Island but I wasn't with you the whole time in Raccoon. I needed to find Sherry I know that but you and me shouldn't have been separated either. We should have stuck together and maybe that would have made us closer too."
He grinned sheepishly, "Not exactly normal circumstances for a boy meets girl story though is it?" She smiled back at him, sadly but sweetly saying, "The viral outbreaks were terrible but...if nothing else I'm glad it let me meet you."
Leon looked into her eyes. "Well in case neither of us make, it, or even if all of us do, I'd...regret not doing this," He kissed her which took her by surprise her lips meeting his but she gently but firmly, though she broke it with a small peck, pushed him off. "You know Ada's still alive right...?" He shrugged. "Maybe...the heart is more complicated than we think.."
He told her, "I'm going to go look for these testing rooms. You coming?" She nodded. "I just need to go check on Steve and see if there's any change in his condition. Then I'll follow you."
With that he and Helena checked the next room down. She turned to him saying, "You sure are a ladies man, aren't you? Did you ever think that maybe it's not so much that you want the woman that you can never get but that no matter who you end up with, just like a guy in a restaurant he'll always want what somebody else is having?"
He told her, "Look if this is what went on between me and you I'm sorry okay...? We got drunk and we had fun a couple of times but...I think just like I was with Claire, we were just grieving."
Helena told him, "Yeah but...as unprofessional as it was I started to have feelings for you. Then again I guess that ship sailed when we had wine together. I'm not saying I'm angry with you, I just...don't see what you see in Ada. I'm just being honest with you. She's a great fighter and yeah she's really pretty but I've never seen her show emotion. She's more like a cliche you'd expect with a man. Everything all bottled up. What do you know about her really?"
They found a room that looked like a testing lab. "We found it!" He announced and he said, "We should go and tell the others but let's lay these charges first."
He then answered her as they began setting up explosives, "She told me about herself. She was born in China. Ada isn't her real name...she lost her parents at the Tienanmen Square massacre. She became a spy. I know she hides her emotions well but that's part of her job. For the longest time...and maybe even now I didn't know who it was she worked for exactly. She's still a mystery to me. But she's saved my life...and she ...kissed me in Raccoon...she told me she fell in love with me."
Helena told him with some resentment, "I know it wont mean anything to you but I had feelings for you too. Maybe it wasn't exactly love but it was more than just attraction. Just to clarify I can handle the fact that you said that it was just drunken sex. We're both adults here. But didn't you tell me that Ada was working for Umbrella all that time and didn't tell you? How do you know what she said even in her 'death that you told me about wasn't all part of the act? Besides even you and me kissed, we had sex, so did you and Claire and she has told you she loved you. Did it effect you the way it did when Ada did it? You need to know the difference between a woman who's being genuine and a woman who's just saying whatever she can to manipulate you."
Leon shot her a dirty look. "Well if we're being completely honest about my integrity and inability to settle down, and Ada's leading me along, what about how long you kept bullshitting me without telling me what your role was in the president's death? It took you until after we already died several times to tell me that you helped Simmons out."
She got defensive. "I was doing it for my sister and you and the rest of the DSO pardoned me," He wouldn't let up. "That doesn't mean you couldn't have told me the truth sooner. In your quickness to judge Ada, you overlooked the fact that you did the same thing. Ada had her reasons and you had yours."
Helena shook her head, "No she came and went during Tall Oaks and during China. It was me who was by your side," Leon scoffed. "What do you want from me, Helena? A proposal? I haven't known you as long as her or Claire!" She sneered, "Claire, sure, I admit that but Ada? You met her in 98' saw her again in '04 and then again this year. Just because you've met her at different points in time over the years and you both narrowly escaped death all three times doesn't mean you know her very well."
He looked at her, scowling. "One thing's for sure. She may have hurt me in the past, betrayed me, but she didn't assist in any attack that ended up killing 70,000 people. That's on you, Helena. Simmons is dead. He was responsible for it and he paid with his life. You're alive though. The president died, 70,000 people died, and then more than that died in China, all because you put the life of your sister over everybody else!"
She laughed bitterly. "How dare you say that to me! You think I don't regret what I did? I have to live with it the rest of my life and I don't need you to remind me of it! Besides, everybody puts the lives of a loved one over people they don't know. It's human nature. When somebody dies far away in another country or far enough away from you even in your own country so it doesn't effect you, its easy for those people to just be faceless with no names to you. Admit it! You would rather Sherry and Jake survive, even if I'm the one who suggested we go after them first. We might regret what happened at tall Oaks but don't you pretend lie you knew anybody other than the president who died that day. You didn't know a single one of the 70,000 people that died. All they are is just another statistic. So even as much as we might mourn maybe even shed a tear or two for those people, they never meant as much to you as Ada, or Sherry or anybody else. I think you still care for me, for Sherry too, but it;s just that nobody can ever reach the pedestal you put Ada on."
She turned away. "It's fine if you and I are never going to be a thing. I'm a big girl I can handle it. But Claire has wanted you in the past and you pushed her away. Ada hasn't given you any reason to love her any less than she has. She was your shoulder to cry on as much as you were hers. I don't have to be psychic to see that much."
He looked down and said, "Look I really am sorry... I would have done the exact same thing you did...I just got angry. You are a lot younger than me and you deserve better. Somebody maybe...out of this line of work. You know, Claire has been caught up in regular situations that turned to outbreaks and so have I and we're able to handle ourselves and survive but we don't have to throw ourselves in the middle of every crisis. And neither does Ada. You may not like her...maybe nobody sees what I see in her but me but you just would have had to have been there in Raccoon and as for China, she saved your life too. Remember the helicopter? She also told me she quit her job working for...whoever she is. I don't even care who she worked for. Maybe I don't need to know. I just don't want her to leave this time."
"I think I do understand why you love her...even if I don't know what you see in her. She was your first love. You were only twenty one when you met her. You might have been with other girls. Maybe not. She was the first woman to have such a big impact on you. I'm sorry for what i said...I guess I just want to find what you have too. With her."
He apologized too. "Yeah...I'm sorry too...those deaths...I don't mean any of that. That was on Simmons alone. He forced you to do what you did. You're right about us prioritizing people we know over people we don't. We're going to go and save Sherry and Jake too and I think we still have a shot at stopping this outbreak."
He told her, "I think you will find somebody eventually. You're a catch and even if you may have made some mistakes we all have and you ended up doing the right thing. At the end of the day, isn't that all that matters?" She smiled saying, "Yeah well, maybe I don't want a civilian. It's true I haven't gotten to meet that many guys since I started training for the DSO but with as much death as we've both seen I learned just how precious life is...and yet how fragile it is...to us it matters but to the universe every life is cheap. I wouldn't want to be with somebody who would have to worry about me all the time on my job, and I'd have to worry about him too because these bio terrorists are well connected. They could take revenge on me by going after loved ones. That's what Simmons did only I never screwed him over up to that point."
He admitted, "Look...I'm not ideal for you for anybody...even if you and I were in the same age group. Maybe I had a chance at being normal in some way when i was twenty one and maybe even in the six years after that but I didn't...now I'm thirty six with nothing to show for any of this except some scars and a broken heart. I...you're right though. In a lot of ways I let Claire down...I should have been there for her...I wasn't taken to Rockfort Island like she was. It was supposed to be easy...I didn't want to leave her but we were outside of the Paris facility in a van...me..John..David..Claire too...she went inside I was on my way to follow her in when I started hearing shooting go down and I tried to go after her but John, he held me back...I tried to fight but he was too strong...he pulled me into the van and we took off. I screamed at him...and David told me that there would be nothing we could do anyway. The building was locked down as soon as the shooting started...no way in no way out until they resolved it..."
He looked down, feeling like crying. "It's my fault...she got caught and she could have been killed. She sent me the coordinates to where she was in an email...and by the time she had emailed it to me I wasn't even on the continent...we tried to get ahold of Chris and we couldn't until he came back to the safehouse. The one in Paris. I was pissed off at John but I emailed him the coordinates. I wanted to go myself but I knew Chris was more in a position to get to her than i was. I was back on the east coast. Chris made his way there...how could I let her down like that? I might not have been able to fight off John at the time but if I'd gone inside to begin with, we would have been together."
She put a hand on his arm. "You can't blame yourself. Sometimes I think things happen for a reason. I don't know if it's a divine plan or just the universe having its own way of setting the wrong things right. When Deb died...I lost sight of that...but after we finished off Simmons and I got my pardon, I started to see that again. Maybe our pain is meant to make us stronger. To benefit us in some way in the future even if we can't see it? There's a chance you would have been together but didn't Claire just barely get out of that alive? I even remember reading about an attack on a Paris facility back then. They had helicopters. There wasn't much you could have done. It's like you told me. You're trying to do the right thing now. And no matter how much you and I have failed in the past, even if people forget us some day, the universe will remember for us. We can rest some day knowing that we did make some difference even if it was only a little."
Leon set the last charge. "Just what do you think you two are doing?" Boomed a deep menacing voice. Leon turned around to see Alex Wesker standing there. Helena drew her M4 on him and said, "You! You're supposed to be at the prison! What have you done with Sherry?" Alex removed his sunglasses to reveal his cat colored eyes. "Jacob has yet to meet his biological father. I intend for this to happen and he will but first he must prove himself worthy of surviving."
Leon chuckled. "What, surviving the outbreak in Europe and Asia wasn't good enough? He has to go through another bullshit obstacle course? Wesker isn't a father figure. He's a sadist! Now answer her question!" Alex smirked. "Sherry is just fine as is Jake. I was at the prison overseeing their progress. I must admit, those two make quite the cute couple and given their genetics as well as their connection through their father they would be perfect mating partners. Can you imagine the superiority of the offspring?"
Leon scoffed. "There's a little more to it than that, Al!" Alex sneered. "It's of no concern to me. What is of concern is the fact that I am the head of the Family and so any communication between you and them, I can easily pick up on should I so desire. I'm sure Ingrid Hunnigan is quite competent at her job...just not enough. And here I see you are trying to unfold our plans. You, the Redfields, Valentine, Ada Wong, you've all been a thorn in the side of me and my brother for years and we've suffered both minor and major setbacks in our cause for the advancement of humanity through evolution. But this simply will not do."
Helena asked him, "What about all the people in this city? Let me guess. You and Albert want this city to be blown up too?" Alex grinned staring at her. "It would not make a difference either way. By the time this city is destroyed either by fire or by B.O.W. it will be past the point of a simple cover up like before. There are some things even I am incapable of. I would not be able to contain the truth but by the time either scenario happens, it will already be too late to stop it. The outbreak will spread regardless of which fate this city faces. I also cannot allow either of you to reach Jacob Muller before Albert or I do."
He sped towards one of the charges to grab it. Helena fired a burst of rounds and nine rounds missed him but she kept him away from it. "Do you think you can fight me with those weapons? As a matter of fact do you think you can keep me from the charges before running out of ammunition let alone keep me busy in here, before I go to every other room and dispose of the rest of your rag tag group of genetically inferior team?"
Leon got his H&K ready, "We'll just have to find out! Even if we die down here stopping you and we blow up with this lab at least the job gets done and you go with us!" Helena switched her Rifle to semi auto. "This is as far as you go!" She fired and he easily dodged it and Leon fired too and he hit him in the chest with one round and four more in the right shoulder but he missed the rest. Alex charged at him hitting him in the abdomen sending the DSO agent flying back, the wind knocked out of him. Helena hit Alex with four rounds in the back. He snarled and charged at her pinning her to the wall disarming her with ease. He hit her with a blow to the abdomen. She cried out in pain falling and he grabbed her by the throat.
Leon fired his pistol seven times and hit Alex each time but Alex dodged the next three aimed for his head. He grabbed Leon's arm. Leon screamed in pain as it was on the verge of being broken. Alex punched him in the back of the head. Helena got back up retrieving the Rifle and firing, hitting him in the chest with two rounds but he flipped letting the rest of the slugs fly over him. He knocked the weapon from her arms again but this time she was ready giving him a kick to the abdomen followed by a kick to the face and she retrieved her own sidearm firing at his head. He grabbed her arm and swung her flinging her across the floor. Leon got the H&K and fired at him and Alex dodged it but Leon tried to fire, making the rounds follow him. The ebony skinned Project W child charged into him ramming him in the chest just as Leon was starting to reload.
Leon hit the ground hard and Alex picked him up and began bombarding him with punches. He crawled as he collapsed but he came up swinging driving his fist into the stronger man's groin. Alex grunted in slight pain and anger and he hit Leon in the face sending him crashing into one of the tubes. He left a crack in it and dropped to the ground coughing up blood. "You may have faced formidable adversaries but you have never fought me before. Why do you think I was the last surviving Wesker child? I don't go down so easily."
Leon groaned saying, "So why bring back Albert...? Or anybody else? You scared to take over the world on your own like all the rest tried to? Are you really that pathetic?" Alex smirked just as Helena reloaded and fired at him. He dodged her rounds and suddenly, Leon noticed the glass behind him was being thumped on and exploded with glass shards. Alex sped away from Helena and went to what looked like a panel and pressed something on it. The other tanks began to drain. Helena saw several Hunters emerge from the tanks. "Shit!" Leon told her, "You keep those off of me! I'll handle him!"
She did as he asked firing several rounds at the first Hunter as it came towards him and she wounded it but it got back up. Alex sneered at Leon saying, "Why don't we make this interesting since you are severely overpowered? I will not use my hands for one whole minute."
Leon agreed, "That's generous of you," With that he got his P99 and began firing and the man dodged, he fired a round at Alex's head and he veered to the right he fired for his neck and he turned his head to the left. Leon fired predicting where he would be next and hit him twice in the abdomen but the man knocked his pistol from his hands with a kick and followed up with a kick to the ribs. Since Leon felt he had broken them or at least cracked them when hitting the tank, it hurt so much worse. He had the wind knocked out of him again coughing up blood. Alex sneered pulling him to his feet. "Don't worry, I won't take time off while you're trying to get up. I want this to be a real fight after all..."
Helena had killed two Hunters so far but more had come out and now Leon saw two Lickers as well. Alex let go of Leon's collar and the man collapsed but tried to get back up blood dripping to the floor. "If you can't handle me, just how did you survive three Biohazard outbreaks? It really is quite embarrassing."
Leon weakly got to his feet. "You know what's really an embarrassment? Wesker children in general...only one of you has ever done any good for this world. I'll be damned if you or your sociopathic brother are going to bring him down to your level. Whether we live or we die...you're going down!" Leon gave him a kick to the abdomen followed up by a right hook, then a left jab to the chin. He hit him with blow after blow and surprisingly brought him down with the fourth punch. He began to hit Wesker in the face with rights and left just as he had Simmons. He hit him with seven blows before he was kicked off. Alex got to his feet with a kick of his legs not even using his feet for that. Leon swung at him again but this time Alex dodged ducking under the first and he easily moved out of the way of the next few punches. Leon roared with rage swinging at him as hard as he could and he missed again. Alex's voice sounded behind him, "Did you know it takes more energy out of you to miss than it does to hit?"
Before Leon could react he felt sharp pain in his back as the Wesker child kicked him and he fell on is face sliding along the floor. Meanwhile, Helena took one scratch on the arm from a Hunter but she had managed to clear them out but had used up a few magazines The lickers were still a threat and one of them darted its tongue out at her slicing at her neck. It cut her a biut but she unloaded on its skull blowing the things brain like head to nothing. The other she did the same too but it knocked the weapon from her arms and its talon raked her shin. She screamed but she got her kbife out and sunk the blade into its skull.
Leon got one of the herb tablets and took it. The pain wouldn't go away right away and the internal bleeding would take more time to heal especially if he kept straining himself in combat but he had no choice. He tackled Alex and did the same thing again, trying to ignore the searing pain in his side and he punched the man again and again each time as hard as he could and this time he drew blood, he already had from the bullet wounds but to think he could draw blood from punches was something else. He hit him a sixth time in the face following with a seventh. Alex tried to get up and fight back but Leon distracted him with a knee to the groin which caused Alex more pain. Leon snarled, "You were saying about hitting instead of missing?!" He hit him in the face, this time drawing blood from his nose and he hit him again, with a ninth punch to his already bleeding lip. Alex got him off with a punch.
Leon's face was bleeding too and he had cuts on the side of it as well as his lips. "I thought you weren't gonna use your hands?" He asked, from the floor as he snatched up both his automatic and his sidearm attempting to get up. "Your minute is up and as a matter of fact I gave you extra time but now it's time to finish this." Helena came over having finished the last of the B.O.W's and she fired from behind a single round striking Alex in the right cheek. He growled in pain and she fired the semi automatic rapidly but tried to aim. She missed several but one did get him in the left knee. He rammed into her this time sending her flying. The brunette hit her head and had blood running down the side of it. She was pretty banged up from that as well as the injuries sustained from the Hunters and the Lickers. Leon called to her, "Catch...!" He tossed her an herb capsule which she gladly took. Alex stayed on her but Leon tried to fire to kget him away from her.
Helena fired at him again, and he disarmed her. She was low on ammunition for her Assault Rifle as it was. Alex punched her several times in the face and the abdomen. She barely managed to get out of the way of one of his punches and she followed up with a kick to his wounded knee and tackled him. Leon fired several rounds from the H&K hitting him in the back while she fired her sidearm from the front. He was ambushed with rounds from both sides and he dodged after taking about sixteen rounds between the two of them but even where he began running to, and dodging they began to predict where he would land. Leon got him with several rounds in the jaw.
Alex spat out the bullets but he was visibly weakened. He charged at Leon knocking him back but the weapon landed near him and the DSO agent still fired from the floor. He let off the rest of the magazine which he hit Alex in both sides of the chest. Alex was also hit with the rest of the rounds from Helena's Handgun injuring him more. He spun around ready to strike her but she kicked him in the chest as she reloaded firing another round hitting him in the neck. He dropped to his knees and she tackled him this time and she pistol whipped him four times with one hand while brutally pounding his bloodied face with the other. "You piece of shit! You're just like Simmons! Another terrorist low life!" She hit him with all her might roaring with rage, triggered by the memory of Simmons and her sister, and how much this man was a lot like him.
He kicked her off and followed up with a punch to her belly, and he grabbed her by the hair. He kicked her in the stomach and threw her to the floor and kicked her in the side and the back. She weakly tried to get up but he kicked her in the face, seemingly knocking her unconscious. "Helena!" Leon cried out. "If I were you I would be worried about myself right now..." Alex remarked coldly as he dodged Leon's rounds as Leon had the P99 in one hand and the Heckler and Koch in the other firing a seemingly endless stream of rounds. "That's the difference between normal people and the Wesker family...if you could call it that! You only care about yourselves!" As both weapons clicked dry and he had no hands free to quickly reload, Alex drop kicked him in the stomach.
The Family leader then punched Leon in the side of the face and forced the man to his feet grabbing him by the neck. He knocked the wind out of him once again. He still would not stop and he punched Leon n the face and before he could fall backwards, Alex grabbed him from behind hitting him in the back of the skull. Leon tried to scream from the pain but no sound came out, his mouth simply hung open as he could not make any noise hoping the pain would subside just long enough for him to defend himself. Alex grabbed him by the throat and began to squeeze. "What's the matter, Mr. Kennedy? Nothing to say? No sarcastic remarks? I understand...it's not as easy when you're the one on the receiving end...having a hard time breathing...? That's the oxygen being blocked. Without oxygen your body will begin to shut down.."
Leon could see his weapons were out of reach. Out of reach both to him and Helena. All he had was his knife. He tried to grab that knowing that he wouldn't be able to pry Alex's fingers from his neck with strength alone. He got the blade from its sheath...he had never been choked this badly. His life flashed in front of him. He recalled the happier days wih his parents, he recalled the fist fights with bullies on the playground he had been choked back then too even when he had stood a chance against them when they had started choking him he was losing but when they choked him an adult who supervised recess pulled him off. He knew now there was nobody to do that. Helena was still out. He could see her crumpled twenty five feet away.
Alex forced his face towards his eyes. "Look at me, Leon. You have been a thorn in our side for a long time. So much so that even Albert wanted you dead in 2004. Ada did not follow orders. Soon that will come back to haunt her but as for you, you've fancied yourself quite the hero, haven't you? Nobody is as much of a pest as Redfield but it's not like you haven't tried. You are never going to see Ada again...unless there is an afterlife which from what Albert has told me, is not the case. I am the last face you are going to see..."
Leon tried to make a feeble attemp to stab him but with one hand Alex tossed the blade aside. "Nice try...I respect the effort. A fighter to the end..."
Leon felt weak. His eyes rolled back in his head.
"Wait...don't shoot!"
"Get down!" He yelled and the brunette did as he asked as he fired dropping the zombie with a head shot.
"We can't stay out here...head to the police station...it'll be a lot safer..."
He felt his strength slipping away.
Helena
Helena, woke up groggy and looked to see Leon being strangled by Alex. Her guns were out of reach and the Assault Rifle was empty. His were not far from her either but it was the opposite direction and she feared Leon would not survive if she didn't do something now. She spotted her own knife. It would have to do. She grabbed it and weakly got to her feet. She limped towards them the blade in hand trying to pick up the pace. Alex was saying something to him but she couldn't hear what it was.
Leon
"What's going on? I arrived in town and the whole place went insane!"
"Great...the radio's out!"
"You're a cop, right?"
"Yeah. First day on the job. Great huh? Name's Leon Kennedy...nice to meet you..."
"Mine's Claire...Claire Redfield..."
I'm sorry...Claire...I do hope...Steve comes back to you...I hope he makes you as happy...as I should have...He thought to himself as he knew his number was up. He remembered him laying naked next to her in bed. His fingers moved a strand of reddish brown hair from her face. Back in 99'.
"Do you love me?" She asked him. He nodded. "Yeah...I do..."
"Tell me..." She said to him. "I love you Claire..."
They kissed again.
His mind flashed to she first shot at him.
"Sorry...when I saw the uniform I thought you were another zombie..."
"Who are you?"
"Ada Wong..."
"And what are you doing here?"
He saw her in his arms as he held her for what he thought would be one last time the last time he thought he would see her. He had been wrong but it had not made the moment any less powerful. He'd dreamed about it for years.
"Leon...please...escape...
"No...we're a team...I can't just leave you behind..."
"I'm just a woman...who fell in love with you...nothing more..."
They kissed and she coughed up blood, her head sinking lifeless. "Ada...no...ADA!"
"I will always remember you...goodbye Ada..."
He thought to himself, I hope...you can learn to open up to somebody else some day, Ada...don't be afraid...to be vulnerable... His vision was blurry now and he thought to himself that maybe he would at least get peace. He didn't know if there was a God or an afterlife but he hoped that there was if for nothing else that he might see her again some day. Just then he fell to the floor, thinking he was dead but he felt oxygen finally and he coughed looking up as his vision came back, the sudden oxygen too much and he coughed hard trying to breathe as his face returned to a normal color. He tried hard to catch his breath, tears in his eyes. Helena was at his side. She had stabbed Alex in the back of the head and he had collapsed. "What...happened... ? I was dead..."
She told him, "It's okay, you're not now..." She helped him to his feet and they gathered their weapons. "Let's go get Chris and the others, and get the rest of these set up."
Alex pulled the blade from his head staring at the blood on it with anger. He snarled with rage, "YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS!" He roared and charges into them knocking both down but he grabbed Helena. He stabbed her in the stomach with her own knife and she cried out in pain. "Helena! Hold on!" Leon cried, his heart beating fast seeing what had happened. He reloaded as fast as he could and Helena tried to pull the blade out but Alex sneered, "By taking the knife out you cause more damage I'm sure you know that...but if you want it out so badly allow me..."
He withdrew the blade further ripping more flesh. She bled an excessive amount and she wailed with agony but not before she used what last bit of strength she had left and stabbed Alex in the forehead this time with Leon's knife. The man staggered back screaming removing the blade from his forehead. Leon aimed for him yelling, "YOU SON OF A BITCH!" He fired but the man was already out the door, seemingly dizzy. Due to the damage Helena had inflicted on him it would have been a possibility to finish him off were he not so concerned with Helena. She collapsed in his arms coughing up blood. "Helena...hang on..."
He made her take another green herb capsule hoping to stop the bleeding and he used a first aid spray can on the exterior wounds and tried to help her but it seemed beyond help as Alex had severed several arteries. "Leon...try and save Sherry...and Jake...and anybody else you can...it's what you do...it's what we do...and don't let Alex destroy this city...you were right...those lives in Tall Oaks are my fault..."
"No...no I didn't mean that...!" He said with tears in his eyes. She smiled, sadly saying, "I know...I haven't known you as long...but ...I wish I would have had somebody love me...the way you loved Ada...I can't help the way I feel...but you need...to make sure she's worth it...if not...find Claire...I didn't want to admit this but..I do love you... I want to hear you say it just once...even if you don't mean it..."
Tears rolled down his cheeks. "I do...and i'm not just saying it...I love you Helena...even if...I haven't known you that long...you saved my life.. we went to hell and back...in two different cities...I care about you too...I love all of you...just hang on...please!" Helena smiled saying, "I wish...I could have heard that sooner...I believe you...maybe you have grown...when I saved you just now...that's proof I love you...
He was shaking. "I'm so sorry Helena..."
"Don't be...I'm glad I met you...and I wouldn't change a thing...I get to see my sister again...the way she was before...I hope...I get to see you too...maybe...love will be less complicated...or less restricted...and our sorrows will be left behind...don't forget me."
With that she breathed her last softly. He tried to perform CPR on her bu all it did was push more blood out. "HELENA!" He screamed
So that's all for now. First character death and it was Helena. I know many hate her and some like her I kind of found her annoying but thought she had some redeeming qualities but I hated the implications that she was going to replace Claire and if you notice on the plane to China she had on a similar vest to Claire. Helena has some good qualities to her like I said but I don't think Claire would have ever assisted in attacking a US city even if Chris was in danger. I mean she cares for her brother but I just don't see her as that weak. Plus even if that is the case she would have told Leon what's up long before Helena did.
So there will obviously be more character deaths later on. I wasn't trying to be OOC with Helena and Leon but I showed they'd had casual sex before and while some women can do that without getting attached a lot of women because we are biologically different than they are, get attached to the person or it's harder for them to have casual sex than us without attachment not trying to generalize cause there's exceptions but am just saying. At any point did you think it was Leon who was going to die by Alex's hand?
Also the reason Alex fled after she stabbed him the second time is he was having vision trouble from the forehead. I mean this is all theoretical anyway you usually would die from a stab wound to the front or back of the head but the reason I am stating here is his vision became blurred his wounds healed from the virus somewhat after removing the first blade but the second he had to retreat. So I don't know if I made Alex hate able I'm sure to you Helena fans if there are any of you, I did. I mean any fanfitiction with romance where RE is concerned is OOC a little all though i will argue that Leon and Ada is somewhat cannon they are implied romance even if it's only implied. As for Helena and Leon, yes it was more of a fling but she got more attached to him more because of working with him after the fact between the time of Resident Evil 6 and where the story is now. Eventually i'm going to have to jump the story ahead to 2016 and I'm not sure at what point I will probably the transition will be between when they get out of NYC and the road to India. I'm basically having it be that all though the facility is in India, the outbreak has not started yet.
As far as Leon I gave him the life flashing before his eyes thing so some flashbacks to Resident Evil 2. As far as the cure to the C virus especially dealing with gas clouds what do you think it will be?
The death scene with Helena dying after stabbing Alex is a nod to the guy who Alex Wesker is visually based on, Richard Brooks, from The Crow City Of Angels and Alex Wesker is based visually on his appearance from that. The main character, Ash, the second crow who was brought back after him and his son was murdered, was facing Richard Brook's character Judah but then Sarah now an adult, from the first movie where she was a twelve year old skater, stabbed Judah in the head resulting in him stabbing her and killing her very much in the same way he stabbed Helena. Of course, Leon didn't kill Judah as Ash does in the movie but that's because there's still more to the story with him for later but it's still powerful all the same if you thought Leon was a goner and then Helena saves him but sacrificed herself in doing so.
In any case, I hope I did a good job with this. Please R&R the longer the better as always, I want to know what you thought about as many scenes as possible from the argument with Helena and Leon his talk with Claire, his fight with Alex, to Helena's death. Stay tuned
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