Behind The Guns - Chapter 6 (Jilleon)

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Behind the Repulsion





Jill frowned for a few seconds as she watched the papers carefully. Everything was perfectly detailed as she liked to do. The tests were done in stages, recruits analyzed in groups and individually. There were no failures and no step had been forgotten, there was nothing to complain or curse. Carter had done it with her permission so Jill could not say anything about it either.

Jill raised an eyebrow and looked at the three guys in front of her. Carter seemed apprehensive, Anderson looked desperate and Leon seemed curious. Leon did not seem worried about her reaction. Although Leon posture could bother her somehow, Jill did what she always used to, she put the differences behind and analyzed the situation with fairness and professionalism. Leon had corrected his slip in the presence of a B.S.A.A. officer with her permission and in an flawless way. Considering all these things coldly, there was only one thing to say.

'Very well done, guys." Jill nodded looking serious at them.

Carter dropped his shoulders, Anderson sighed with relief and Leon looked at her with his bright blue eyes and smirked. At that moment Jill felt annoyed again and she decided to leave that place before she could cause any injustice.

Jill took a few steps towards the double door and stopped. She turned her head to the side before saying:

"Mister Kennedy. Quint has already got news for us, I will ask him to be in my office in half an hour." Jill did not wait for his reply, she looked forward and walked again.

As she thought before, in so many years of working with so many different people and although she found people who she didn't like to work with, she had never felt such great repulsion over someone. Jill could not explain why his posture bothered her so much. Didn't she like the confident gaze he possessed? Would it be his voice? Or was it that smile? Yes, perhaps she hated that smirk that showed he was not afraid of anything or maybe that he didn't get worried about things.

Jill was pleased to have acted just like always, calmly and fairly. The guys did a good job and they deserved to hear that. But inside of her she wanted to reprimand Leon for no reason. Maybe Jill liked that people showed more concern about the job. Maybe Leon's way of doing things with confidence and lightness could bother her so much. Jill was not sure, but she thought that maybe it was the only explanation for feeling so uncomfortable near him. So many questions in her mind.

If at first she had titled the man irresponsible and undisciplined, this moment he fully proved her wrong. Jill had to assume that he acted as an official with true principles. For her it was possible to know the character of a person by the way they reacted before their errors. Leon at no time had fled from his responsibility, he had not blamed someone else and although he needed Carter's help for some procedures, he fixed his slip by himself.

When she walked into her office, she looked for the view of Northlake again. Maybe a therapy session with Dr. McLean could help her understand and overcome that problem. No, Leon was not her problem, but the way she was feeling about him, it was.

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And once again Leon was behind, watching a situation that he could not understand or explain evolving women. Although Jill was even more unpredictable, she had acted as a woman leaving in the air the question whether or not she had liked what they did.

A confused look followed by a satisfied look and words like "Well done" were not enough to tell Leon that she had been happy with what they did. Jill was too professional and used to avoid long eye contact, which made it even more difficult for Leon any attempt to approach for a friendship. He smiled amiably and everything he received back was a cold look in response.

Leon shrugged. He had done his part and that was enough for him. He tried an approach amicably, but she seemed to avoid this and Leon was not willing to break that barrier. He knew that a friendship between them would make that moment in B.S.A.A. more enjoyable, like it happened to all his partners before. But if she was away and professional, he would respect that.

Leon interrupted his thoughts when Quint appeared in the hallway. At that moment he closed the door of Chris' room, which was his now, and walked towards the man. Leon could have gone to Jill's room before, but he preferred to wait for the officer.

As they entered the room, Jill asked them both to sit down. Quint gave her a flash drive and asked her to insert it in her laptop. The image with the picture of a young man appeared on the screen.

"Officer James Grant" Quint went to the next photo "Officer Stuart Harrison, Officer Ben Newman, officer Matthew Simons, officer Paul Lopez. I Studied all the photos Leon gave to me and I found the location where the last picture was taken. It's the computing lab from the B.S.A.A. branch in Baycoast. The logo we see is just a reflection in the window from the picture on the wall. And these are the officers working in that place, they were on duty the day the photowas taken. We may even consider another person have done it, but I think it is not the case, because the area is well monitored. I think we can start investigating them."

'Very good" Leon nodded "We could have access to images of the security cameras?"

"I've checked that from here."

Leon opened his eyes surprised, Quint was really quick as Jill had said.

"In fact that's exactly what led me to confirm the day and time the picture was taken. The cameras stopped recording at 3:23 pm for about 36 minutes in a specific day. Then we see the room empty for five minutes and afterward the officers return to it one by one. It seems that they were in a meeting."

"Meeting ... Couldn't that mean that we may have a sixth person involved?" Jill asked.

"At first I thought so, Jill. But I checked the cameras of the corridors, reception and even the surroundings and nothing suspicious. All the people who circulated through the corridors near the laboratory at that time were only these five officers."

Leon shook his head satisfied, Quint was really good and fast. It was an organization with thousands of members and in just a few hours he had managed to reduce the number of suspects to five. That was impressive.

"What is our next step?" Leon asked the boy.

"I have found out that some of these guy do not work with us anymore, but I have no further details, then we need to check that. I have a mission in three days, so I can help you with that now. As we don't know if this is one more a case of infiltration in the BSAA I thought about going alone to Baycoast first to update the data system there, because it is a good excuse since it's really out-of-date and then I can manage to install my own monitoring tools. After that I can continue investigating them from here."

"And what can we do in the meantime?" Leon asked.

"Well, if you really want to do something, I think you should pretend to be joining the BSAA. It Could help not to raise suspicions from the other members. Make a few shooting and combat test these three days and get a uniform. This way you will draw less attention from our colleagues. You know, a cat among dogs must smell like one notto be chased"

Leon shook his head. Quint was right, he needed a second reason for being in that place and nothing better than to do tests.

"Well, I'll finish my reports. Someone has to do the papers" Quint said standing up -"I'll pack to travel today. I keep in touch"

"Thank you, Quint." Jill said, smiling. "Thank you, mister Kennedy." she kept smiling and accompanied them to the door.

For some reason, Leon knew that smile was not for him. To Leon that "thank you, mister Kennedy" sounded like a polite way to ask him to leave there as soon as Quint left.

Leon smiled back and said goodbye to Jill and Quint.

A uniform would not be a bad idea and shooting and combat tests could help him pass the time while Quint was away. He needed to ask Carter or even Jill how and where he should go get those tests, but before that he needed to go to the bathroom and eat something.





Jill walked down the hall even more dissatisfied than before. Nobody would realize that, but she was stressed out lately and she thought that the psychologist could help her, but she just left Jill worse than before.

"Repulsion and attraction are two forces that seem opposed, but in fact they are similar, Jill. The influence comes only from the side and direction that handles this force. So we can confuse them easily. Are you sure that what you feel for this guy is really repulsion? "

Those words from Dr. McClean echoed in Jill's mind like a broken record player. Of course, Jill felt repulsion for him and not attraction. How could the doctor say so? The psychologist point of view was unacceptable to Jill, it was nonsense. Jill was clear and concise when she said to the doctor she felt only repulsion for Leon. Maybe she had convinced the doctor, but she was so disturbed by those words that she didn't know whether she managed to convince herself.

Jill opened the door of her room and took two steps forward, stopping by the open door. She had things to do but at that time she didn't know where to start. The important thing was to continue maintaining her calm and professional posture as always.

In all hard situations since Raccoon City events Jill faced in her life nobody could notice what she had in mind and that should happen again. Deep inside Jill was always a woman with temperament and mixed feelings, perhaps every woman was a bit bipolar sometimes though they never assumed, but on the outside she always needed to be the same calm Jill everyone knew. So she sighed deeply looking at her room. Everything would be fine if she ignored the doctor's words and followed her life normally.

Jill then remembered something she loved doing that used to help her, shooting. The reports for Mister Garcia were ready so she could give herself one hour of relaxation in the Shooting Range. At that moment she felt better, she wouldn't allow a few words to destroy her peace, because if there was something that she no longer felt for men, it was attraction.

Excited with idea of shooting for a while, Jill turned sharply to the open door. At that moment she ran into Leon, who was walking towards her. Jill stumbled on his leg and lost her balance, but Leon grabbed her by the waist, preventing her from falling and bringing her closer to him.

Leon held Jill waist's firmly with one hand and her wrist with another. Their bodies got together in a quick but smooth movement. At that moment, still surprised by the situation she looked up at him. It was at that exact second their eyes met deeply for the first time.







Hi everyone!

Oooh it's been such a good experience to write these two. I never imagined I would love writing Jill with a different person that was not Chris. But as I said last journal, Capcom gave attention, passion and respect to only two characters, Jill and Leon. When we analyze their personality and appearance we realize why Leon and Jill are so loved.

I love other characters too, but unfortunately capcom failed with them once or twice. As it didn't happen to Leon and Jill I have to admit they are the best characters and of course this can only be a challenge to put the best characters together, that never met before, in a coherent way.


Thank you very much for reading this story and for your amazing support. Your faves and words mean a lot to me!
My special thanks to Mister-Valentine, romero1718, SenpaiXepher and BerryWatterson777.

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