You Saved Me (Resident Evil) #wattys2015

You Saved Me~Chapter Twenty One

*Leon's POV*

We kept walking. Helena hung back with the kid. Chris and I walked about five steps apart. The dust kept puffing up in little clouds underneath out feet.

This reminded me of the training I had gotten before being allowed to fight BOWs as a career. We had to go through all kinds of climates- Sub arctic temperatures, deserts so hot all you wanted to do was strip down to nothing, and even jungles that were so humid your clothes would be soaked and your hair would either look like a limp mop or a rabid poodle.

It was starting to get dark when we noticed a small fire burning in the distance. Chris motioned to the kid who was walking behind us with Helena.

"Can you look through your scope and see what, or who, that is?"

The kid slipped his sniper off his back, raising the scope to his eye. "It looks like....Maybe three people. Two males. A female. They look kinda like those agents we saw earlier."

I stepped forward. "Mind if I have a look?"

His shoulders stiffened. The look he gave my as he passed me the rifle made me think he would start growling at me.

I raised the gun up. Sure enough, you could make out the fire, and at least three silhouettes. From here I could see blonde hair. Maybe it was Sherry.

Helena stood next to me. Her hand was still lingering over her stitches.

"Maybe we should try to catch up to them," I said. "They may know where we should go. Or who we should be chasing."

"We saw Jake earlier. He was on some kind of mission." Chris looked like he was thinking, trying to figure out some kind of problem.

"My point exactly. He may know something."

Chris nodded his head in agreement. "Okay. Let's get a move on then."

*Sherry's POV*

The kid was still sleeping. Landon was looking like the world pissed in his cornflakes. Jake and I could not stop laughing.

He had been telling stories from his childhood. Stories that would have made anyone other than Jake Muller red from embarassment.

"You two lovebirds need to shut the hell up before you wake the kid."

Jake stopped laughing. "How about you get the stick out your ass? Geez, I thought you acted like a princess, Sherry."

Landon's eyes sparked. "Well, excuse me for trying to take care of the burden you put on us. Jake Muller. Muller. Where did you get that last name anyway? Not from your Daddy. He left you in the dust before you could even see two feet in front of your face. Who could blame him though? I would never stay with a sick whore either."

Jake jumped to his feet. Landon did the same. Their faces were inches apart. Jake had his pistol pressed against the skin on Landon's face.

"Shoot me, pretty boy. You'd be doing me a favor."

I could see the vein in Jake's neck pulsing. His finger slipped down tighter on the trigger.

I threw my body weight into his side. The gun went off just as I hit him. The bullet flew into the night air.

Jake was trying to fight his way out from under me. "Jake! Stop! You know they let you go because you were a changed person- You are a changed person. If you kill an agent, they'll arrest you."

Landon laughed. "He needs to be in prison. He's going to wind up just like his father."

I stood up then. "You don't know anything about who he is. You don't know how he is going to wind up. And you need to stop acting like you have even the smallest fucking clue as to who he is or who he will be. People like you are the people that try to turn others bad Landon. I am starting to think we should be keeping an eye on you."