The Fight For Us Part I - Resident Evil

10 - Brother and Sister

In a huff, Henry runs up to the front door of the station. Throwing the doors open with bloody hands, immediately looking for any signs of his sister as he and Leon escape the rain. Henry hears a small shuffle from behind the front desk when a head pops up from behind it. Rachel locks eyes with him as he starts to run to her. At first, she was shocked to see his current state, blood splattered on him, scrapes and cuts all over, a bruise under his eye, and a shoulder soaked in dark red blood. But none of it mattered once she noticed he was okay,
"Oh my god, oh my god are you okay? You hurt?" Henry grabs her, holding her face in his hands as he looks at her. There's not a mark on her.

"No. I'm fine. Did you find Dad?" Rachel asks,
"Yeah. Yeah, he's at home, his arm's just messed up real bad." Henry lets go of his sister, lying to her for her benefit. The last thing she needs right now is the knowledge that their dad is dead.
"Is it broken?" Leon wanders over to them, taking a stand behind Henry defensively. Just in case that tyrant shows up for another showdown.

"I don't know," Henry says, wiping some blood that was begging to crust from his forehead.
"Who's this?" Rachel points to Leon who flashes her a polite smile,
"Oh, this is Leon. He's... uh..." Henry sputters,
"I'm just here to help." The blonde saves the conversation, placing a caring hand on Henry's non-stitched shoulder.

Henry briefly wonders what he should've said, is Leon just some guy? A friend? Colleague? Some dude I'm sleeping with? A boyfriend? No. That'd be too soon.
"Well... Thanks." Rachel smiles, she's not stupid. She can tell that there's something between him and her brother. But she doesn't mind, she's always kind of known Henry was gay. He never liked boy stuff growing up, he would steal her Bratz dolls, wear dresses, and always insisted on watching Disney Princess movies. His favorite was Alice in Wonderland for some reason.

Nowadays, Henry isn't feminine. He can't be, and he doesn't think he wants to be. If he were to be outwardly gay in any way, that would put a target on his back the size of a moon. He was already tormented in school for it after he admitted his feelings to the wrong boy. He got called a fag so many times he started looking towards the word like someone called his name. But that was just kid stuff. Being on his own outside, wearing something pink or flashy. He'd get beat up within an inch of his life. Or worse.

He's heard other cities are more tolerant of people like him but Raccoon City isn't, and he doesn't think it'll ever be.

He's pushed that part of himself down, he isn't even sure what he is. He's never thought about it. He likes Leon, he's attracted to men. But he also finds himself interested in some women, but not as often. Sometimes he'll be interested in someone, and he'll notice he doesn't care what they have in their pants.

Doesn't matter if he's gay, bi, or whatever. If it's not straight. It cannot be shown.
"Where do we go from here?" Rachel asks,
"We need a car, drive out of the city." Leon starts when a phone starts to ring loudly, it's coming from the bench Marvin was sitting on.
"I guess Marvin's got a buddy." Leon then grabs the phone, answers the call, and holds it out for everyone to hear.
"Hello?" Leon asks,
"Hey!? Marvin?! You need to get the hell out of the city, they're gonna bomb it all eleven, I don't care that you're hurt! Get the hell out of there before you're turned into vapor!" Suddenly the call cuts out and they pause.
"Did he say bomb?" Rachel mumbles,
"Oh fuck. It's 10:19," Leon says, they have forty-one minutes before they're blown into dust.

"Let's go find a car. There has to be one that works out there." The three of them then run outside. Rachel is a bit annoyed at how protective Henry is being of her, he's practically breathing down her neck. They open the gate and make their way to the street crowded with vehicles. One of these has to have the keys still in the ignition. Something. Henry wishes they could just walk back the way they came from the river, but that doesn't lead out of town. That leads into the town center. The other way is a short drive out into the farmlands. But they can't walk that way, there's fire and he can hear the zombies from a distance. But if they drive fast enough a car should be able to handle the fire and the zombies. They hope at least.

"Why would they just blow up the city?" Leon asks,
"To stop the spread of the virus." Henry mumbles, sounds like something the government would do.
"But what about the people who aren't sick?"
"We're a sacrifice the government is willing to make." With that sentiment Leon rips off his police badge, throwing his symbol of authority to the ground.

"Why'd you do that?" Henry asks as they continue walking to the street, past the gate to the station.
"It doesn't mean anything anymore." It's a sad realization that Leon doesn't want to accept. He just wanted to help people, but everything around here is just about money. The chief was covering up for Umbrella just for some cash. Cops bail each other out of jail all the time, even if they fucked up. It was all so backward, and this was not the reason he joined the force. This wasn't justice. He doesn't want this.
"Come on!" Rachel shouts,

Leon led the three, his gun ready in his hands as they slowly wandered through the mess of cars all over the road. Henry is looking in windows, moving bodies out of the way, and testing keys. He finds a fob on the ground, it's in decent condition. He also found a revolver on some dead cop. It has a full barrel.

Henry starts to repeatedly tap and push every button on the fob, hoping to hear some kind of horn or signal from a car. Amid his button mashing he sets off a car alarm. A pick-up truck was just in the distance. The alarm was a good sign that it was working, but it also acted as a fucking beacon for the zombies; And sure enough, they come in running.
"Rachel get under that car!" Henry shouts, taking out his knife along with his newly acquired revolver "Rachel! Do as I fucking say and hide!" She then immediately crawls under a mail truck.

A hoard of infected people came rushing from all directions, they ran around cars, and some even jumped over them just to get to the people in the center. Leon held his gun firm, but Henry held it in one hand and kept his switchblade in the other.
"I only have six shots, Leon!" Henry shouts as they're closed in on,
"Make them count!"

The zombies finally reach them and chaos breaks out. Leon opens fire on them, and with his excess of ammunition, he's able to take down dozens of them. Henry fired his six shots, each one of them taking down one zombie. But once he was empty he took out his knife and hid, running up to them didn't seem smart. Especially when he's pretty sure bites are how this infection spreads, so he has to come from behind.

With his knife in hand, Henry sneaks up behind one of the female zombies, using the cover of an Impreza to grab the zombie by her forehead. She groans and thrashes violently before Henry plunges his switchblade into her throat. She gurgles on her blood before the brunette drops the zombie to the floor. It going limp in a pool of red. As it did however, another zombie seems to notice.

As the zombie approaches him, Henry grabs a rock. He immediately throws the stone at the monster's head. The zombie groans as Henry rushes them, thrusting his knife up under their undead chin. Piercing their grey head. Blood pours to the ground underneath them, splattering onto Henry's Converse.

As Henry drops the zombie to the floor the monster knocks over some shrapnel, immediately alerting the other two zombies to his position. They break off from the group going after Leon to find him.
"Shit!" Henry mumbles to himself as the two closed in on him, shambling and growling with intent. With his breath held and steadied, Henry stands behind a piece of metal and waits for the zombies to get closer.

Just as he hoped they would, they stood on the other side to look at the body of the zombie he'd just killed. Using all of the strength he has in his upper body, Henry shoves the piece of metal over. He tips it onto the two creatures as they growl. The heavy metal sheet pins them to the ground. Why was there a large metal sheet leaning against a car? It's anyone's guess.

The two zombies groan and attempt to move, their grey hands flailing around in a panic. Henry thinks of just jumping on the back of the sheet until it crushes them but that seems like it'd take a while. So Henry does the quick thing, he takes out his knife and stabs them both in the head just once.
"Henry!" Rachel shouts randomly from behind him.  He flips around and watches as she tries to hold back a zombie crawling under the car to get her. The monster thrashes around, biting at her feet.

He runs over to her, pulls the thing out, and kicks it into a car before kicking it even more. He kicks, and kicks, and kicks, before it falls over and he stomps on its head. Brain matter and gore shoot out before he turns to his sister, out of breath and panting.
"You okay? Did it bite you?!" Henry shouts,
"I—" She starts only for a loud crash to echo out from the distance.

Leon, Henry, and Rachel all look towards the sound. With his gun emptied of bullets, Henry can only watch as the Tyrant burst through a wall. Leon walks over and stands beside the brunette as they stare down the mutant.
"I'm gonna kill this thing if it's the last thing I do."