Devil's Can Be Angel's Too...

Chapter 2

Never give up, No matter the odds …

Once in the parking lot at university, Natasha drives around until she finds her normal parking space next to her best friend’s car, her dark blue Audi R8 and looks down at her phone, 1 message from Chloe was on the screen like normal as she always sends Natasha a text in the morning right on time as Natasha parks. She read the message ‘hey red u need to come to hall as we r having a talk see u there xx’, she sent one back saying ‘hey thanks will see u soon xx’. With that Natasha started to walk across the parking lot towards the college, when a black Range Rover Sport parked up caught her eye. She walked up closer to it, smelled the air and that was when it hit her, it was his car. Natasha closed her eyes and shook her head, but she still couldn’t believe that his car was here, the only explanation was that somebody had brought the car, yes that was it and with that she walked off.

Once Natasha had gotten to hall, she was wondering what this talk was about, but the thing that stuck in her was that it was probably about their future and for Natasha all this talk didn’t really do it for her as she already knew what her future was ever since that day. Natasha had chosen to use what she was given by her parents to become stronger so she didn’t need to rely on people to keep her safe as she wanted to be able to keep herself safe and the ones she loved safe. Her future was for her to help the humans and keep the demons away. As no matter how strong humans thought they were, the demons are always stronger but to the unknowing humans there is a group of agents to fight for them and this is the group Natasha is going to re-join.

Natasha looks around the hall until she finds Chloe and starts to walk to her. Once she has got to her, she takes a seat next to her best friend. Chloe turns to Natasha and “hey you are just on time as the whole point of us being here is to listen to someone talk to us about their job” Chloe said with a smile. Natasha smiled back and said “I thought this would have something to do with our future and I was right.” Chloe laugh, as Natasha was right about things most of the time. Then their laughing was stopped by the voice of their tutor, Helen “Good morning students, the reason that you are all here today is we have a guest that is going to talk to you about their job, their reasons for taking it and how it makes them feel. The reason for this is that you all have almost finished your time at university and it is time that you choose what you are going to do. Also they are here to tell you about something very important which has been happening. So, let me hand over to our guest.” With that the tutor walks off to take her seat. Just after she has taken it, the guess gets up. Everyone turns to look at the guest. When Natasha turned to look, what she saw was a man a few years older than her walking towards the stand with a bottle of water in his hands, sunglasses over his eyes, a black leather jacket unzipped reviling a muscular chest and torso covered in a fitted dark grey t-shirt, over the t-shirt she could see the brown straps of what she thought were gun holsters and when her eyes travelled down his body to his legs, she saw a gun in a black holster over black jeans. All this made Natasha wonder what job he had, may be an undercover cop or something like that.

Once the man had got to the stand, he opens his bottle and took a drink from it then placed the lid back on and put it on the stand. The he just stood there looking at all the students in the hall before he took off his sunglasses and they were greeted with one ice blue eye as the other is covered by the man’s light brown almost blond hair.  As he placed his sunglasses down on the stand without taking his eyes off the students, he casually smiled and introduced himself, “hi, my name is Leon .S. Kennedy and I …” Leon’s speech was cut off at the sound of Natasha chocking. Most people in the hall turned and looked at her but the only pair of eyes Natasha saw looking at her was Leon’s. Natasha can’t believe what she is seeing, Leon standing there when she knows that he shouldn’t, that he should be dead because of her but no he was stood there looking at her with his ice blue eyes, the eyes she closed and never thought she would see again. Natasha felt a hand on her arm and Chloe asked “are you ok?” Natasha looked at Chloe and said “yes I am fine,” and added a smile. But she doesn’t really know how she feels.

Leon can’t believe what he is seeing, Natasha was here. This wasn’t what he had expected of her as he thought she would be a high up agent by now but no she was in university. Leon though that maybe she did give up after what had happened. Leon looked away from Natasha and returned to his speech. “So, as you know, I am here today to talk about my job. I am also here to talk to you about a very serious matter. Some of the things that I am going to tell you are disturbing  and some will sound unbelievable, well maybe most of it will sound unbelievable.” Leon looked around the room at some of the reactions of the students and a lot of them didn’t seem to believe what he was saying and some looked a bit shocked. Next he looked at Natasha and she had an understanding look on her face. Leon continued on “Well, I work for the D.S.O as an agent. Does anyone here know what the D.S.O is or who they are?” Leon looked around to see if anyone knew but was rewarded with one hand so he give them another minuet to see if anyone else would  try and guess.

Natasha sat there not really wanting to put her hand up as she knew what the D.S.O was, but in the end she did. Leon looked around once more and where was still only one hand and smiled at the person who the hand belonged to. “So what do you think ma’am?” Leon asked. Natasha took a breath and then replied “Well the D.S.O is the Division of Security Operations formed by Adam Benford, the President of the United States. The whole idea of the D.S.O was to select the very best agents from other branches of the United States federal government and bring them under one elite group that would act as the ‘sword of the President,’ answering directly to the President’s orders to take on any bioterrorist threat. The D.S.O was given preferential treatment as an organization, as their ruling – being the ruling of the President – was considered absolute justice. The group was created for the purpose of efficiently and quickly eliminating any crisis. There motto is ‘never give up, no matter the odds’. Which I guess you choose Leon?” Natasha looked Leon in the eyes when she said the very last part.

Leon noticed that her eyes were burning with anger, sadness, happiness, lust and love. Part of Leon wanted to go to Natasha and kiss her and tell her that every thing would be alright but the other part of him knew it would take more than that a lot more. “Seems that you are well informed and yes I did choose the motto as it is something I believe and tell other agents when they were ready to give up. Sadly it seems that not all agents keep going.” Leon replied and Natasha had a feeling that the last part was aimed at her. This hurt her, as he had no idea what she went through. So she decided to tell him. “Was that last part aimed at me Leon because if it was, it was the truth, I did give up, I lost myself that afternoon and for a while I contemplated weather to give up completely and I almost did Leon. I spent ages trying to get over the guilt I felt over your death. You know, there was a funeral as the D.S.O declare you dead. I left my job as I couldn’t cope anymore. I had nightmares nearly every night, the same thing over and over watching you die. Finally I manage to sort myself out, started university and having a life. The reason I know so much about the D.S.O is because I have decided to go back to work.” Natasha paused for moment wiping tears from her face. She didn’t expect that she would reveal so much in front of these people but it kind of helped her and she wasn’t finished. Leon wasn’t sure of what to make of all of this as to him Natasha always seem so strong and sometimes stronger than he was but now he realised that maybe she wasn’t as strong as he first thought. Before he could try to reply, Natasha started talking again. “When you died, I thought that I was strong enough to keep going but I wasn’t. It was hard and having no one to turn to made things harder. As before when things got hard you were always there for me but this time you were not. You were there when I lost my way, you were my light. When others wronged me, you did me right. When I looked in your eyes, you didn’t tell me lies, you told me the truth. You wanted to get me through. You were the one who helped me become who I am. You helped me cope with being different. You give me a purpose in life. Before I met you I had lost everything in my life and had nothing at all. And then you came along and gave me a life. You showed me what happiness, kindness and caring were and then you showed me what love was. But when you died a lot of that left and it took time for some of it to come back, Leon. I would go and sit at your grave for hours talking and well, just sitting...” Natasha stopped as she couldn’t carry on any more.

Leon looked at Natasha and he felt hurt and guilty as if he had tried harder to find her then hopefully she wouldn’t be like this. Leon walked around the stand so he was leaning against the side, then he started speaking. “Natasha I am so sorry, I had no idea how it affected you. When I got back to the D.S.O I tried to find you but I couldn’t, it was like you had gone. Part of me hoped that you had moved on with your life. I know that you feel guilty about what happened but you shouldn’t I choose to let them take me instead of you because I love you. I knew that it could end with me losing my life but I could live that. You are meant to never give up, no matter the odds Natasha. You are one of two people who are meant to live to keep mankind safe. I couldn’t let you be killed.” Leon stopped talking for a moment so he could calm his emotions as he could feel them getting out of control. Natasha thought about what Leon and he was right but she did still feel guilty.

Leon pushed himself from the stand and started to walk towards Natasha. “Natasha, I don’t know what to say. When you came into my life, you helped me deal with my demons. You were strong for me when I couldn’t be. You became the only person who I could be me around. I had forgotten how to smile until you came along. You taught me that even with the life we live and the nightmares we face, that there is always a reason to smile.” By then he was almost stood in front of her. He knew what he was going to do next but he had no idea on how Natasha would feel about.

Leon was stood right in front of Natasha. The students in the hall were shocked about what they had just heard. Chloe was confused about what was said and she was going to ask Natasha what was going, but she didn’t get the chance.

Leon took holed of Natasha’s face with his hands and kissed her. Natasha was shocked by what he did as this was not what she was expecting but it didn’t matter anymore, all the anger she felt went and was replaced with love. Leon wasn’t sure if he should keep going but as he was about to step away, Natasha started to kiss him back. Natasha doesn’t think about the other students in the hall, she just focuses on Leon. The way his lips feel on hers, the way his hair feels as she runs her hand through it and the way his heart beat feels under her hand.

For Leon the kiss doesn’t last long enough but they need to breathe. When he steps away from Natasha he is met by a slap around the face which nearly manages to knock him to the floor.

Natasha turns and looks at Chloe and asks “what did you do that for?” Chloe just looks at Leon with an angry glare in her eyes. “I did that because he can’t just come here after being dead and just jump down your throat like nothing happened!” Chloe shouts mainly at Leon. Chloe can’t believe that after all this man has put Natasha through, that she just stand there and lets him kiss her as if nothing ever happened. Before either can say anything Chloe turns to Natasha and says “are you just going to let him back into your life, just like that?” Natasha can feel the anger rising inside her at the way her friend is behaving. “Chloe you don’t understand me and you may never will. Out of everyone I know Leon is someone who knows the real me Chloe. He is the REASON why I am here in America.  He is the REASON why I am still alive. He gave me a life. He gave me something to live for. He gave me something to fight for. He taught me to how to live again. Chloe, the way I feel about him is not something I can just let go.” Chloe couldn’t believe this; she walked over to Leon so she was stood in front of him. She knew that what she was about to do could cost her best friend but right now she felt that it was the right thing to do.