"Too Old" Leon S. Kennedy x Reader

Chapter 5: Myself in you

Wrong? How on earth could that mission have gone wrong?

Leon's blood ran cold at the sudden information, weren't the rookies supposed to get the easy missions?

"Im coming." Leon said bluntly as he quickly rushed to try and suit up.

"You can't, Kennedy. You're too close." Another man in a suit says.

Leon groans and shakes his head.

"Sir, it's just a mission for retrieval. Y/N has lost contact with base and sounded to be in distress, but I'm sure they're fine. They're your pupil, after all." Another man says, trying to reassure Leon before rushing off.

"Don't worry, Sancho. Y/N will be okay." Luis tries to reassure Leon, and prevent him from thinking the worst.

However, Leon was already thinking the worst. "What if Y/N is injured? Or worst.. dead? What if they leave in a body bag?" Leon thinks in his head.

There was no set time that they'd get an update, hell, an update may never come. But, Leon is willing to play the waiting game. He just wished that Y/N had never even left, or that the entire week before hand, he'd given them some kind of support instead of being an ass.

Next week..

Leon was worried sick. Due to his anxiety of Y/N's absence, he was lacking in sleep. Every time that Leon got even five minutes of sleep, he had a horrible nightmare about all the horrible things that could have happened to Y/N, playing on a fucked up enteral loop.

Leon is currently in his office, sitting alone with his thoughts.

Is it unhealthy? Yes. However, Leon doesn't care. He just wants to wallow in his sorrow and self pity.

That's when Luis bursts in, beaming. "Sancho! The rookie-! They're home safe!" He shouts happily.

Leon perked up at this information, seeming excited. "Where are they?" He asks while rushing to the door.

"Getting labs done, this way." Luis says and walks with Leon down the hall.

Leon was rushing quickly behind him, being right on his tail due to his excitement. Y/N is back.. Y/N is, safe.

"Sancho- Y/N's appearance upon entrance was ghastly, I must warn you." Luis warns with a grim expression on his face.

Leon stops in his tracks, seeming shocked. "What on earth do you mean?" He asks, his eyes flickering with worry. He was afraid of the possibilities.

"Covered.. in blood." Luis says, and suddenly Leon is dashing towards the Med Bay.

Luis rushes after him, shouting and holding a file. "Leon- Leon! It wasn't their blood." He says, making Leon stop and turn to him.

Luis hands him the file, a nervous look on his face.

It's Y/N's mission report..

Two days ago.. (Y/N POV) 🔪

Y/N is in the woods, running after a man who has a sample of the virus, gun drawn and ready to shoot.

As they reached a clearing, the man is surrounded by infected people, who seem ready to do anything to protect him.

"Let's not do this, kid." The man starts with an evil snarl. "Just walk away and tell your superiors that I escaped, you're not cut out for this job anyway." He laughs.

Y/N smirks and reloads their gun. "I would rather die than let you go." They say angrily.

The man shakes his head and laughs. "Then die you shall." He snaps his fingers and suddenly all of the infected charge at Y/N.

Y/N takes a couple of the infected out with their gun, but when they ran out of ammo they began using their knife and legs to fight them off.

Y/N kicked an infected in the jaw while stabbing another in the head, doing just as they were taught.

A couple of the infected lifted them up in the air and attempted to carry Y/N somewhere, to which Y/N struggled to escape.

They kicked one in the head, causing the infected to fall and giving themself an opening to escape the rest of the infected's grasps.

To their surprise, the infected dropped a chainsaw. They obviously dropped their knife and picked up the chainsaw, beginning to slice through the infected with ease.

Blood and guts began to spew everywhere and make a mess of the forest floor, and their clothes.

As they finished, they looked around at the mangled corpses of the infected, then at the spot where the man once stood.

He escaped, dammit.

A helicopter flew over the area, and Y/N knew it was most likely H.Q coming to retrieve them.

Despite the knowledge that they were going home, and that they were going to be safe, Y/N felt hopeless.

They felt like a failure, all those infected, dead for nothing. They were once people, and now they were just gone, and had no justice.

Y/N felt like shit, and that was an understatement.

Present day (Leon POV)

Leon's hands shook as he finished Y/N's report, a surge of sadness and fear going through every fiber of his being.

He was always able to see himself in Y/N, but he never wanted to see this part of himself in them.

As they approach the med. bay, Leon looks through the window. He sees that look in Y/N's eyes, that look that you have when you're questioning everything you once knew about yourself and the world.

Leon couldn't help but wonder, would Y/N go back to being his sweet, caring rookie? Or would they be a cold, pessimistic agent?

(To be continued..)