You Saved Me (Resident Evil) #wattys2015

You Saved Me~Chapter Seventeen

*Jake's POV*

We found another abandoned house to hide in. She needed to sleep, but there was no way I was gonna ask her to do that after what just happened. Still, she went to the middle of the floor and laid down.

I could see her shoulder shaking from here. She was crying. Why did this case have to involve protecting a kid? I'm not good with people my age, let alone kids.

I rested my head against the concrete wall. This was my choice. I didn't have to do it. The man I used to be wouldn't have. Hell, the man I used to be would probably have been one of those creatures.

I must have fallen asleep. The next thing I knew, I was on my ass and the little girl was shaking me awake. She looked worried.

"There's people outside."

I scrambled to my feet, snatching the little girl behind me. I could feel her hands on my back as I approached the window.

I put my back against the wall by the window. Down below, I could see that the little girl had been right. There were people. But just people.

From what I could tell, one was really tall. He was like a skyscraper. A skyscraper with really shaggy black hair. The other one was short with cropped blonde hair.

Who knows what they were looking for? I wasn't about to go down there and check.

*Sherry's POV*

Landon and I had reached another town. Just like in the town before this one, there were dead creatures. These looked like spiders.

Landon slid his knife out of his belt. I knew what he was doing. He was checking the creatures for the humans inside their bodies. Sure enough, they were there.

We kept walking. Up ahead, there was a huge dark shape laying in the road. When we got closer, we realized it was a horse.

I thought the horse was dead, but when we got closer, I saw that he was breathing. We kept walking toward it, and eventually he raised his head off the ground and looked at us.

Then he started neighing at the top of his lungs. It sounded like a piercing scream. The horse was scared.

We both stopped dead. We heard something behind us.

Our guns left our holsters and we turned in unison. There was a tall figure coming toward us, cracking it's knuckles. Behind that, way behind that, was a smaller figure.

Damn this country and all it's stupid ass dust.

Landon fired. The tall figure yelled. The smaller figure ran to the taller figure when it collapsed.

*Jake's POV*

Okay, so apparently whoever this was knew how to shoot a gun, but not how to aim. The bullet just barely grazed my skin but hot damn it hurt.

"Landon, why did you do that? They could be civilians!"

About that time, the shorter figure trotted over to us. As it got closer, I could see the gun swinging by its side.

And then she was there. I knew it was her, from the shaper of her hips to the alignment of her shoulders. Sherry Birkin was standing right in front of me.

"Jake?"

"Hey Princess."

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Sorry guys its been forever. I've got a lot going on. This chapter would have been longer but people keep calling me and I don't want to lose all of this when I answer them.

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~Breanna