Out of dut-.. love

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LEON

It felt like time stopped. Everything was in slow motion for me. One moment we were happy that we made it on time and the next moment... "Ada!" I called out to her once the single bullet hit her. I tried to move over to her quickly. "Leon don't!" I looked back at Jake but it was too late. I fell down to the ground right next to Ada with a bullet in my leg. "Stop the shooting!" Chris yelled at his man but for them and everyone else around, it was too late. "Piers! Piers hey, hey! Look at me buddy!" Jake was trying to hold Piers back but once he saw his friends injured...he was gone. "How dare you!" The mutated flesh wrapped itself around his bionic arm as he moved over to former colleagues. I hated moments like these, moments where I can't do absolutely nothing to help. I came back to my thoughts when I felt a gentle tug on my sleeve. "Ada." 

"Move your ass Kennedy, hurry up." She pushed me away as we both crawled behind a huge rock. I checked her wounds. Blood covered my hands almost immediately. Not good. "Ada I need to get you out of here." I said to her but she waved me off. "We need to stop him. We need to get him out of here before he will be killed." 

"No! For once I have to look out for someone else than him. You need medical help Ada. Please let me help you." I placed my hand against her cheek gently while smiling down at her. "Okay?" She snickered but nodded. "Fine." 

I pulled her up to her feet, looking over at the scene. There was blood everywhere. Piers was killing them one by one. Using his electric powers to paralyze everyone. Jake ran towards Chris as he saw the man pointing his gun at Piers again. They started to fight. Chris was obviously much stronger than Jake. But no one was better in hand-to-hand combat than Jake.

"You should help them. Jake needs time to calm down Piers." Ada said as I helped her into one of the cars parked nearby. The BSAA won't need it anymore. "First I need to get you out of here."

"Later could be too late Leon." Damn it. I knew she was right but I was so worried about her. But I would never forgive myself for leaving Jake and Piers when they need me. "Wait here for me okay?"

"Yeah, like I could go anywhere with a gunshot wound." She rolls her eyes. Even hurt , she was sassy. I took a deep breath before running towards where Chris and Jake were fighting. I pushed Chris down to the ground, looking at Jake. "Go! Stop him and take him and Ada to someplace safe!" He gave me a quick nod before running after Piers. "Leon! What the hell are you doing? He is dangerous!" Chris said as he got up slowly. "It's Piers! It's your boyfriend." I told him but he shook his head. "That thing over there is not Piers. Piers would never kill his own people." A thing. He really just called Piers a thing. We both looked over when we heard a loud scream. Scream of someone we both knew so well. Piers. He was on the ground, holding his head in his hands. Jake was kneeling next to him, trying to pick him up. He succeeded and was now pulling him to the car where Ada was. I looked up as I heard police car sirens from not so far. I could see the BSAA cars too. "Jake! Just go!" He nodded and jumped into the driver's seat, driving away quickly. "What have you done?" Chris whispered as he stood up. A bunch of police officers pulled their guns out at me. "Detective Kennedy, please put your gun down, hands behind your back please." I did as I was told, letting them help me up. I looked over at Chris as I walked past him. "You don't deserve him. You never did. Remember that's all because of you that he is like that now." 

It felt like forever since the officers brought me to be questioned. Of course I haven't told them about what happened or where they went. Hell I didn't know it. Chris came to visit me next. His face was pretty beaten up. I was proud of myself and Jake. That's what he deserves. "Look Leon, I know you don't like me. But there are more serious things at stake than us not liking each other."

"What things?" 

"I don't know, maybe that you let two most important people in science just run away?" One of the other guys, probably Chris's boss, told me. "Science? These two are human beings! Not a couple of lab rats!" How could they talk about Jake and Piers like that? "Leon, we need to keep track of where Jake is because of his antibodies. And Piers can't control himself but he is still a human who can live with the virus at such a level." Chris said. As if that changes anything. "What happened there wasn't his fault. Your guys knew pretty well not to provoke him. But they still did. They shot Ada and me. He is just protecting people he cares about." Chris looked down and shook his head. "I signed those papers to protect him. I never thought about killing him. But I had to do what's right. He killed all of them. The whole unit."

"Except for you." Leon said. "You know, he loves you so much. He always did. And that's what hurt him the most. The love he has for you, killed him. He was a great soldier, a great man. But he fell in love with the wrong person." I said while watching him. "I'm loyal to him, Jake and Ada. I will never tell you where they are, even if I would know, which I don't. And stood saying you had to do what's right. That's just an excuse to help you process things easier." Just then I noticed the other guy left the cell. "Leon. There will be a moment when the virus will take over him. Sooner or later not even Jake will be able to control him. And it will be much harder to..kill him then. I just hope you know what you are doing. Make sure he won't go anywhere near the BSAA. You are free to go." He said before standing up and leaving the cell. I was then escorted out of the building. Great. Now where the hell did they go?

I was walking around for the last two hours when a car stopped next to me. The window rolled down. "Need a ride, handsome?" I shook my head and laughed. "Impossible. Ada Wong, you are impossible." 

"Get inside and stop talking. We need to go back. Jake got a big dose of shocks from Piers. We can't leave them alone now." As soon as she said that, I moved into the car with a bit of trouble because of my hurt leg. "Let's get out of here as soon as possible." 

Ada took us to an empty looking house. "It looks empty, no one will look for us here." She said as we walked inside slowly. Jake was resting on the old couch with Piers sitting next to the couch on the floor. "Hey, how are you feeling?" I said as I patted Piers' shoulder. He shook his head. "How many people did I kill?" He whispered softly. "Don't think about it, Piers, it's not your fault. They provoked you." Jake said quickly. "And I hurt you." Piers whispered while looking at Jake. Yeah they were doing fine. I walked over to another couch to sit down. I leaned my back against it and with a sigh I closed my eyes. "We need to go to the hospital guys." I said and the reply from everyone was a loud, annoyed groan. How are we going to survive this...