What is Happening to Me (Part 11) (Patreon)

Leon x F!Reader

Words: 2,422
Contains: Blood, Angst, Hurt Comfort.

Driving down the roads of a foreign country, you try to remember what side of the road you need to be driving on. Luckily it was the same as the US, so you mainly had to figure out what the road rules were with all the signs in German. Also lucky for you, currently you were driving out in country, so not many signs were present, and Leon was giving you directions from the passenger side.
Making your way through large rolling hills, you begin to enter the designated area the sightings had been.

"It should be around here somewhere, we should go the rest of the way by foot." He suggests, pointing to the side of the road where you could pull over.

Giving a nod you follow his directions, pulling the jeep over, shutting off the ignition leaving the keys in there just in case you end up needing a quick escape. No one was going to be out here to steal it anyway.
Sliding out of the jeep you head around to the front of the vehicle, looking all around to see which direction you might need to go. You were basically surrounded by slopes covered in dried, fallen leaves and trees of varying sizes and shapes.

"I think if we head up hill we should be able to see more of the surrounding area." You suggest, Leon giving you a nod in agreement, turning to the tallest area.

"Then let's go." He starts walking ahead of you, yourself following close behind him as you both make your way up the sloped hill.

Some sections were hard to travers, the dead leaves covering the ground, not making the steep slope any easier to manoeuvre up. You had been climbing about 10 minutes now, Leon starting to slow down in front of you. His broken rib making it harder for him to breathe properly and hiking wasn't the best activity he should be doing with a possibly punctured lung.

"Leon, why don't we stop?" You suggest, catching up to him on one of his pauses he had been taking. He was having to take these pauses more and more as time went on.

"I'm fine, let's just get to the top of the hill." He assures, continuing to hike up the slope from the small flat area you had found.

His footing slips on a rock after trying his best to continue upwards, falling off the small climb up a dirt and rocky section you rush to try and catch him from behind. Your arms wrap under his arms, the force of his fall pushing you to your butt on the ground. Leon leaning back against your chest and on your lap, completely given up at the moment. Wincing at the shooting pain in your tail bone you feel Leon hadn't moved yet, a panting lump of man in your arms.

"Leon?" Your tone worried as you try shuffling out from under him, a hand holding to support the back of his neck as you lay him on the ground. Now kneeling beside him you see the red in his mouth, his teeth coated in the yellowy-red liquid.
You realised he needs to stay on his side so he won't drown in his own blood on his back. Rolling him over you rest his head on your lap, rubbing his upper back to help as best you could.

"You really should listen to your body, I know you want to get this mission finished, but you can't do that if you're dead." You say looking around, needing to keep an eye and ear out for any dangers.

"I know.. I just.." Leon Coughs up blood onto your lap.

"Shh.. I know." You didn't really know exactly what he was going to say, but it probably had something to do with protecting you, or trying to be strong, something along those lines.
"You shouldn't talk right now."

Leon just gives you a nod as you pull your phone from your pocket and call Chris.

"(Y/N)? Have you found it already? We just finished with the first sector of the outbreak." Chris sounded puffed.

"No, we haven't found it yet. It's Leon, he's punctured a lung and bleeding from the mouth. I don't want him to continue on, not like this. He needs to get to a hospital." You request.
Chris was silent on the other side of the line for a moment before you heard him start to call commands to his squads.

"Change of plans, K9, Lobo. You're with me. The rest of you, watch each other's backs and follow the plan." There was a moment of silence after his squad acknowledge his orders. "Two of my men and myself are coming to you with a medic. Send me your location and we'll be there soon, tell Leon to hang in there."

"I am..." Leon responds weakly, his voice strained.

"We'll be right here when you arrive." You assure and hang up, sending Chris your location. Placing your phone back in your pocket you continue to rub Leon's back, giving firm pats every so often. Yes it may hurt his broken rib, but you were freeing up some of the blood pooling, causing him to cough it out.
"Leon? you still with me?" You check after a good 5 minutes, your senses still cranked up to max.

"Yeah... I'm still here." He replied. "Sadly."

You could only snigger at his joke. "I think Chris is coming by car so he will take a while to get here, can you walk?" You ask running your fingers through his hair, brushing his bangs back so you could see his face. He had probably rest enough to be able to make the trek back down the hill, at least down was a lot easier than up.

"Yeah.. I can walk." He responds, his eyes had been heavy, trying his best to keep awake. Pushing off your lap you stand up and take his left arm to sling over your shoulders, Leon putting his weight into you, knowing you were strong enough to hold him on his feet.

As you start to make your way down, being careful not to slip you take a different rout down, finding the flatter sections. A clank being heard under your feet, causing both of you to stop in your tracks. Both of you share a look and Leon pulls his arm from over your shoulders, holding his own balance as you kneel down and start to brush away dried leaves and mud. A large metal hatch was uncovered, Leon brushing away more mud from one of the corners and the both of you sigh.

You rub the itch on your nose with the back of your gloved wrist. "Yup.. That's the Umbrella logo alright."
You take the latch of the large metal door and pull up, it opens with a loud squeak, both of you covering your ears at how piercing it was. Cement stairs lead down into the darkness, Leon pulls out a torch and shines it down into the hole, an iron bared wall with a gated door thrown off it's hinges.

"I think we found our destination." Leon says starting to step towards the stairs, stopping as he felt you grip his left bicep.

"Leon, wait.. You're going to a hospital, you're clearly not in any state to be fighting anything right now." Your tone was soft, but laced with authority and worry.

Leon looks from you to the hole in front of both of you, sighing he knew you were right, but you just found an Umbrella bunker with possible BOW activity.
"I don't feel comfortable leaving you alone."

"Hey you two." Calls Chris' voice as he walked up the hill with two men in combat vests and a medic carrying a bag following close behind him.

You turn to face them as they approach. "You're timing couldn't be better. We just found a hatch with the Umbrella logo."

Leon points to the hatch where to logo was to show Chris, he stumbled slightly but caught himself, Chris' hand quickly reacting and reaching to place on Leon's back to help support him. Giving the medic a nod, Chris helps Leon sit down on one of the many rocks in the area. Leon just allows himself to be moved and tended to by the medic.
"Leon, we need you to go with the medic. I'll take care of this from here with (Y/N)."

Leon swallows heavily, tasting the iron taking over his tastebuds, his head shaking. "I've dealt with worse." He brushed off the concern. "My chest is just slightly tighter than normal, I'll rest once we finish the job." He said looking to the medic who had a  portable x-ray machine.

"It's not life threatening, he has a mild case of Hemoptysis. His blood vessels have ruptured slightly from the impact of the crash, but the main cause of pain would be the broken rib and slight amount of blood in his body from the puncture itself, but that has stopped bleeding." He explains scrolling through the different medical levels that were showing up on screen. "The blood in his mouth just makes it look worse than it is."

"See.. I'm fine, now can we get on with the job?" Leon was starting to get very tired and just wanted this over and done with.

You look to the medic for confirmation and he gives you a nod, your shoulders relaxing then looking to Leon who was also wanting your confirmation. He didn't want to leave you, not here. It seemed the call was on you, knowing Leon would listen if you told him not to come, but you also felt like you needed him with this one. He was the most experienced with BOWs, other than you, but you couldn't remember.
"Fine..." You say pinching the bridge of your nose with a heavy sigh. "I think we should deal with this together."

Everyone agrees and Leon was given some oxygen before the medic packs up and heads to the vehicle the four of them arrived in, driving back to the city. Leon looked more alert after resting with the oxygen, giving you a bit more confidence he was going to be alright. Chris and his two squad members follow behind Leon and yourself, keeping an eye on the groups 6.

Walking through a large sewer, it felt like you were in a large pipe, except the walls were dark, stone bricks, your feet clanking as you walk along a suspended metal grate path. Many separate holes on the right and left of the group, blocked by iron bars the gates in them locked with a chain and padlock. 

Coming to a T intersection in the stone piping the 5 of you keep your guns trained, torches lighting your way.
"Do you think this place is abandoned?" You ask quietly, There had been no sounds of life, other then the sometimes dripping of a leak and your own footsteps echoing through the dark halls.

 Almost as if you had summoned it with your words, a deep growl echoes through the halls, seeming to come from the direction you were facing and shining a light down. Chris and Leon turn to face the right of the T intersection.

"K9 on our 3, Lobo on our 6" Chris orders, Leon and Chris walking to stand beside you, their weapons trained into the darkness, even with now 3 torches shining down it was hard to see anything.

"You had to say something, didn't you, (Y/N)." Leon snickered, you always seemed to have the perfect timing, and it looked like you kept that trait, even after your head injury.

"Sorry.." You shrugged.

Chris flicks his eyes to Leon over your head, Leon returning the look as he gives Chris a nod. Stepping forwards slowly, Chris makes his way into the darkness ahead of the group. You feel your heart racing as none of this seemed right, your aim slightly to the side as Chris would walk in front of you, not wanting to have him in your sights.
Without any warning a large fleshy appendage reaches out of the darkness and wraps around Chris, who lets out a cry of pain feeling some type of barb sinking into his abdomen, pulling him into the darkness.

"CHRIS!!!" You and Leon shout in unison, chasing after him.

The walls were covered in a deep black ichor, dripping from the the top of the stone tube, no wonder your torches didn't light up anything. Slipping in the ichor that thickly coated the ground all 4 of you end up on your backs or hands and knees.
"What is this?!" K9 asks, shaking his right hand to try and get it off.

"Whatever you do, don't ingest it!" Leon warns shining his torch around on one knee, a hand on his chest trying to catch his breath from falling on his back.

"There!" You point with your own torch, seeing the smallest amount of Chris' face and right hand sticking out of a wall, made of flesh and bulbus sacks in front of you and to the right. 

Leon helps you to your feet and you both carefully walk over to him, as soon as you reach out to touch his hand one of the sacks opens. A giant eye staring back at you, out of pure instinct you pull your knife from it's sheath on your chest and stab it. The creature/wall shrieks out in pain, more eyes opening and thrashing around.
Leon reaches for Chris, shoving his own arms into the wall of flesh and grips around his waist. Bracing a foot into the flesh he starts to pull him out, K9 and Lobo shooting any of the eyes that would open as you take Chris' right hand and help Leon pull him free.
Flopping to the ground with a wet squelching sound, Leon falls on top of Chris before grabbing his left wrist, you still holding his right.

"We need to get him out of here!" Leon calls to you over the loud sounds of gunfire.
You nod and hurry away from this ichor and flesh filled area, Lobo and K9 throwing a grenade each behind them, hoping to do some damage as they follow their Alpha being dragged out of this dark place, picking up his assault rifle he had dropped when grabbed.