Nine Flowers

Chapter Six

Leon sat alone against the wall breathing heavily and wincing from the pain in his side. He moved his muddy jacket to get a look at the wound, he grit his teeth at the mangled and wounded flesh that was visible through the massive tear in his shirt. Luckily the pipe wasn't rusty, he'd be really screwed then. All he could do right now was leave the peice of metal where it was, removing it would only make him bleed more and thus die faster.

His hand dropped to his side as he looked to where you had disapeared. He had to give you credit, you were being very brave to go off on your just to help him. Though in his own mind hes already convinced he wasnt going to make it out of this building alive. Either he would die from his wound, or a zombie would find him eventually.

He was about to close his eyes and risk a nap when his phone suddenly started going off. With a grunt if pain he reached into his right pocket and pulled it open. When he popped it up Hunniagan's face was waiting for him.

"Leon- oh my god what happened! You're covered in dirt and pale as a ghost!"

"I-I'm fine hunnigan..." He forced himself to look as decent as possible, not wanting to show his support just how much pain he was in.

Hunnigan didn't seem to believe him though and spoke slowly. "I'm sorry to call so soon after our last chat... But we received a tip from someone on the island and thr information is pretty important..."

"A tip?" Leon's brows knit together. "What kind of tip? Someone was abke to do that?"

"They were, and all the information is legitimate- we made sure."

"What is it?" Leon could only speculate what the messege had. It could have been a desprate cry for help- but then again how would they know to send it to the D.S.O.?

There was a clatter of fingers on a keyboard as Hunnigan typed away to bring up the email on Leon's phone. It shoerd several pictures of women and DNA samples along with a few notes.

"There isn't a hole lot unfortunatly. But we can tell is that these twenty three women were chosen because of their Recessive genes."

Leon never paid attention in biology back in school. "Their recessive genes?"

Hunnigan smirk a little before frowning again. "These specific girls are carriers to a specific rare disease. They aren't affected by bit but if they were to have a child with someone else with the sane recessive gene then theres a high possiblity of the child having the disease."

Leon had to stiffle a cough of pain. He coukd feel blood welling up in his throat but he quickly swallowed it. "Whats the disease?"

"I don't know yet, the notes just call it Beta Gene. They take these girls and inject them with a man made chemical called Gamma Gene and they want it to do something in the girls."

Leon scrolled on his phone to go back to the list of women.

"Leon, shes on the list."

"I see it Hunnigan..." The blonde agent said softly. He scrolled down just enough and clicked on your head shot. Your image was pulled into full view on his phone.

"Be careful Leon. You don't know what this thing will do to her..."

"I understand.." He muttered as he stared at your face. You were smiling in the picture, your (e/c) shining excitedly for the trip to come.

"You have orders to restrain her and bring her back alive if you can."

".....understood."