Chapter 5
Their pain...
The walk to the helicopter was silent for the most part.
Agent Ginovaef had just got the phone and turned around to face Natasha and Leon. "When we get back you will be going to see the medics Leon." Leon just nodded his head as an answer. Leon was hoping that one day he would be with Natasha, but he didn't know how she really felt.
Once they were outside the helicopter, Leon helped Natasha in before sitting next to her. While they were sat, he notices that she kept on pulling at her sleeves. When she moved that was when he saw why. On Natasha's pale wrist where slightly darker lines, which Leon knew where from self-harming but why she did it he didn't know. At first he thought that they were old ones from before but when she moved her arm, he got a better look and could see that they were newish. Leon thought that she had stopped doing things like that, as when something was getting her down she would normally talk about it, but then it would normally be him that she spoke to and of course he hasn't been there.
Leon hated the fact that Natasha couldn't find anyone else to talk after he 'died', but he knew how she felt, as he felt like that the only person he could talk to was Natasha. He used to self-harm, well that would be lying as he still does but he makes sure that one will see it by doing it on his legs or somewhere else which isn't normally seen. Well, it had been a while since the last time his hurt himself which was a good thing, but that was only because things have been going well. Last time was about a few months ago, after his last mission, which didn't go so well...
Everything had gone according to plan, they had stopped the bad guy and saved the girl but after that things went wrong. Leon was sat with the girl on the helicopter floor while his team mate was sat in the seat. All of a sudden the girl started to glow and her skin flecked of into glowing ash. "I'm sorry but it is time for me to go. Thank you Leon for saving me" and with that she floated away as glowing ash. Leon just sat there looking at the ash in his hand wishing that there was something that they could have done for the girl. His team mate looked down at him that said "at least she got away from him, Leon." Leon let the ash fall through his fingers before looking up, "yer, maybe so."
As they flew over the river, the helicopter started making beeping sounds and as the pair looked out the open door they saw a rocket coming towards them. Leon's mate then pushed him out of the helicopter just in time as then the rocket hit. As he fell, he saw part of the helicopter coming towards him and he thought that his life was going to end. Leon felt it hit and then felt the ice cold water before everything went black.
When Leon awoke, he thought that he was dead but when a nurse came into view he knew that he wasn't, but he still felt like he had been hit be a high speed train. "How are you felling Leon?" asked the nurse. Leon looked at her for a minute before answering with a smile "like I have been hit by a speeding train." The nurse smiled back before leaving.
A week later Leon was aloud out but he had to have 2 weeks off before he could go back to work, to recover from his injuries. He hated the time off, as all he could think about was the fact that his friend lost his life protecting him. So then it started the cutting to keep the pain away.
Leon hoped that now Natasha was back that things would get back to normal. He wondered what kind of pain Natasha had been through for her to do this to herself again.
Natasha sat there not wanting to talk to anyone right now, as she felt that they will try to make her think that her best friend works for the wrong people and that she was really going to try and get Natasha to work for them. Natasha knows that she would never work for Umbrella, as they have messed her life up many times, including taking away the one she loves and the fact that Umbrella has messed up countless lives and killed countless people over the years. Natasha hoped that she would be able to get over what they did and get things back to normal which hopefully would include being back with Leon but who knew. Natasha hoped that she would never do it again, but after he died, she did as she didn't have anyone to talk to. Well she had Chloe but some of the things that made her hurt herself, Chloe would never believe yet understand. How do you tell your best friend that you saw your boyfriend killed by a real monster, well the answer is you can't.
Natasha can still remember the sound of the monsters claws ripping through Leon's chest, and the way the monster smelt, rotting bodies. She still has night meres about it, even now. She can still feel the pain in her wrist from where she last cut into it, which was only two weeks ago. Natasha did after she kept on having night meres every night for last few weeks and she needed something to take to pain away, even just for a moment.
Leon didn't want to sit there in silence, so he poked Natasha and said "we will get Chloe back and she will be on the right side, I promise." Natasha turned and looked at him and said "don't make promises that you can't keep Leon." "Look Natasha, I have all ways kept my promises. Trust me you will have your friend back, ok." Natasha smiled "ok, I do trust you; it's just that Umbrella have messed up so many lives over the years including ours. I don't want them to make things worse." Leon did agree with what Natasha said, as Umbrella has and still is messing up lives and their lives. "Well, isn't the point of our jobs, to stop them from doing this?" Leon said. "I know that but it gets harder and harder every day to stop them. They are getting stronger and one day they will be unstoppable Leon. You know that it isn't just Umbrella anymore it's the whole of hell that we are up against now." Leon wasn't sure what to say, as he didn't realise that hell was now involved too. He thought that's what you get when you are friends with the devil's children. "So what happens now then, if we have to fight hell too?" Leon asked. Natasha turned to him and just said "we win." Leon smiled at her, as this was the Natasha he knew. The one who saw the bright side of anything no matter what, even if it may lead to death.
Natasha turned to look out the window and she could see the White House in the background. "We are nearly there Leon" she stated while turning around. When she turned she looked at Agent Ginovaef and then said "isn't your name Nicholai and didn't you used to work with Umbrella?" Agent Ginovaef looked at Natasha and said "yes that is my name and yes I did work with Umbrella but it was only..." "Yes I know, about that, so there is a chance that Chloe will be with us instead." Natasha interpreted. "How do you know about stuff like that, as you are only just starting again?" Agent Ginovaef asked her. "I know many things that even you don't know about yourself," Natasha answered, turning away from him to look out the window again. Agent Ginovaef turned and looked at Leon and was about to ask him a question when Leon said "yes, that is normal for her, she always seems to know things that we don't even know. It's the way she is and the way she has always been. You will get used to it over time. Natasha even knows things about me that I didn't even know until I meet her." Agent Ginovaef just nodded his head and left it there, as he could tell that there was something going on between Leon and Natasha. He could also tell that there is something different about Natasha, as he has seen many different people and things while working with Umbrella.
Natasha turned to Leon and whispered "why is Nicholai looking at me funny?" Leon looked over at Nicholai and when he did, Nicholai tuned away. "I don't know, maybe you could ask him." "Nicholai why were you looking at me funny?" Leon didn't think that she would ask him. Nicholai looked at Natasha and said "because you’re not human." Leon was shocked that he knew from just looking. "Very clever, but how did you know?" "Well, with working with Umbrella you learn to notice when someone isn't completely normal." Leon wasn't sure what to think really, as if he could tell by looking at her then that meant that maybe the other Umbrella agents could do that to. "Well, but how can you tell by looking at me? By the way I am half human," Natasha asked. "Well, just from the way you hold yourself, as you walk and sit like you are stronger and more powerful than you should be. From the way you talk, as you talk with authority that others don't have including Leon and the fact that you were talking about hell, which normal people don't talk about." Natasha nodded her head and then said "well, I was talking about hell because that is what we will be fighting against as well as Umbrella. Hell is where my father comes from so yer." Nicholai was a bit shocked by that as he didn't know that people could really come from hell.
The pilot then shouted "we are here." Leon then said "thank god, I hate these things." Natasha turned and looked at him and asked "really?" "Yes really, normally when I am on one something goes wrong."
The three of them got off the helicopter and walked towards the White House.