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Paroxyism (Leon Kennedy X Reader) Report 6

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"No clue," he replied. "It'll be soon."

You frowned. "If only I-"

"Don't start with that talk," he cut you off and tapped his head with a bloody index finger. "That kind of thinking will lead you nowhere in life. You need to move on. Besides, last I checked, we can't time travel."

You let out a small chuckle at his attempt at a joke. The lieutenant did bring up a good point. Negativity was an enemy of success. The man let out a hiss in pain. Hearing footsteps, you turned to the source to find Leon jogging down the stair case.

"There you are... Come here, take a look," Branagh beckoned and zoomed in on the gate.

"Yes! I'd knew she'd make it," The blond rejoiced.

"You know her?" Branagh asked.

"Yeah, name's Claire. I came into town with her," Leon replied.

"You can get to that court yard through the second floor... east side," he muttered as painfully pointed to the staircase behind him. The cop let out a groan.

"I'm on it," the rookie paused. "Thanks, Lieutenant."

Leon turned away and took several steps. Noticing you weren't following him, he glanced back to you. "Are you coming?"

Your eyebrows lifted in surprise. You thought he would want to meet this girl by himself. Muttering an apology, you joined his side.

"Did you find out what was on the film?" He inquired as the two of you walked up the stairs.

"Yeah, it was a photo of a statue holding a scepter and a book. It didn't match the sketches in the notebook, so I feel like I got my hopes up for nothing."

"Well, someone had to take a picture of it for a reason," Leon answered. "How about we keep an eye out for it?"

You hummed in agreement as the two of you reached the only door on the east side. Both of you pulled out your guns.

"Ready?" You asked.

"As I'll ever be," he replied.

Pressing your back near the door frame, Leon paralleled your actions on the other side. With a nod from the blond, you slowly twisted the handle. You pushed the door open slightly, pointing your barrel through the gap. Only the sound of the creaking door broke the silence. Leon placed his hand against the wood and lightly pushed. Tension filled the air. Slowly, the door opened. Turning inwards, you walked through the door. The room you two entered appeared to be a waiting room of sorts. It may have been beautiful once, but the whole room was in disarray. Leon followed you as you both paused, searching for any signs of one of those creatures.

"Clear," Leon spoke. You let out a sigh of relief. "We should keep moving. The sooner we reach Claire, the better."

You nodded in agreement. The two of you approached the wooden door on the opposite side of the room. What caught your eye, however, was the marbled green spade carved into it. You watched as the blond pulled something from his back pocket. It was a key with a matching bow. God, it's like the both of you were stuck in some sick video game. As Leon unlocked the door, you readied your flashlight and gun once again. A click softly disturbed the air. Quickly, Leon put the key away. As the blond went to turn the door handle, your raised your gun and flashlight. You closed an eye, and focused on the space between Leon and the door. You stared at Leon before giving him the go ahead. Leon twisted the handle and flung the door open. A ray of light traveled down the hallway as the door creaked to a stop. The two of you were met with a fork in your path.

"We go right, right?" You asked. You had to hold back a chuckle. It wasn't the best time to laugh at a stupid joke despite how unintentional it was.

"Yeah," Leon responded. He pulled out his own handgun and promptly reloaded it.

Letting Leon walk through the doorway first, you followed after him. The floor creaked and groaned under your combined weights as you two began walking. A distance buzzing hit your ears. It was more of a hum compared to ringing. You stopped and looked around looking for the source of it. Leon noticed your lack of movement.

"Hey, is-" you cut him off with a shush.

Pointing a finger that was originally holding the flashlight to the ceiling, you whispered "Do you hear that?"

The sound was now alarmingly closer than before. The buzzing, now blaring, was identifiable. It was a helicopter. You quickly glanced out of nearby window to see the flying machine spinning out of control.

"Oh shit," you gasped once you realized where it was heading.

Before Leon could respond, you dropped your flashlight and grabbed his hand. Your shoulder screamed in pain. You didn't have much time to react. You pulled him as far away from the end of the building as you could before talking him to the ground. Leon reacted quickly. He flipped you under him. You quickly whipped your arm around his neck, protecting it from potential glass shards or other debris. Right in time too, as the helicopter sliced through part of the wall. The raucous sound of the machine crashing into the side of the building echoed in your ears. Pieces of brick and glass bounced through out the hallway. Unclenching your eyes, your ears begin to slightly ring. Leon laid onto of you, waiting quietly for the chance of something else happening. Your heart pounded wildly in your chest. The both of you breathed heavily before you let out a sigh of relief.

"You okay?" Leon asked you, staring into your eyes.

"I should be the one asking you that," you replied. Leon let out a small laugh before rolling off of you. He swiftly stood to his feet and held out a hand for you. You stared at him for a moment before sliding your gun into your holster and grabbing his hand. "My hero."

Leon rolled his eyes in response as he pulled you up. The two of you walked back to the end of the hallway. As you neared the window from earlier, you leaned down and grabbed your flashlight. You positioned it back into your belt. Leon opened the door and held it open for you.

You gave him a small thanks. Walking outdoors, you were hit with the sprinkling of water. Glancing up at the clouds above, you could tell they were ready to burst any second. You took a step forward towards the railing when your foot hit something. You glanced down to find a rifle. It was primarily black but the shoulder consisted of a dark walnut. You continued to analyze it as you saw Leon go to look at the helicopter out of the corner of your eye. You promptly grabbed the the rifle and and wrapped the carry strap around your body. You turned towards him. A body slumped over the controls of the helicopter. You could tell the pilot wasn't alive anymore.

"He's dead, you know?" You told Leon. He glanced back towards you for a second before returning to look at the dead pilot. "The impact would've killed him on impact."

Before you could say anything else, a voice rang out into the air. "HEY! LEON!?"

Leon rushed to your side as you both looked over the railing. Behind the fence, a brunette in a red leather jacket stared expectedly at Leon. You watched as his eyes lit up.

"CLAIRE!" Leon shouted excitedly. "HOLD ON! I'll BE RIGHT THERE!"

"OK!" She yelled back.

Seeing how the two interact made you wonder if the two were best friends. Your mind lingered to the idea of Kyle and the rest of the police force. Did they know if anything was wrong? If they did, had they send anyone to come find you? You doubted that and Kyle was probably the only one to notice something was wrong. You liked to get things done as quickly and efficiently as possibly. Leon hastily hurried down the steps. He paused for moment, looking back up expectedly. His voice broke your trance.

"You coming?" He asked.

"Oh, yeah. Sorry," you sheepishly apologized and quickly followed after him.

Leon almost skipped off the bottom to great Claire. She rushed to the fence. "Claire... It's so nice to see you." He grabbed the wire in his hands. Claire took a step closer to him as you awkwardly stood off to the side."How're you doing ? That helicopter came out of nowhere..."

"Yeah... I'm in one piece thanks to (Y/N)."

Leon stepped off to the side, dropping his hands to his sides. Claire's focus landed on you. She looked surprised. You guess she wasn't expecting another survivor. You took this chance to step closer to the two of friends.

"Hi. It's nice to see someone who isn't part of the living dead," you joked tiredly.

"I haven't seen you around before."

"State police. Forensic technician, technically," you replied pulling out your badge. Claire glanced at before you put it away.

"Any chance that help is on the way?"

You let out a sigh, grabbing the carry strap hugging your chest. "I doubt it. They probably think I'm goofing off or taking my time. The only one who would probably notice my absence is my friend back on the force, but they don't really listen to him either."

Claire looked at the ground briefly before turning to Leon. "I'm guessing you don't have a key in one of those fancy pockets?"

"Unfortunately, no... But, how are you doing?" Leon replied. Claire wrapped her hands around the fence wire.

"You know, just surviving like the two of you." She smiled.

"That's good. Any luck with your brother?"

Claire's smile dropped slightly. "No, not yet."

"You have a brother here?" You asked.

"Yeah, he's a cop here," she replied.

"What's he look like? It'd probably help if we could look for him too."

Claire's smile brightened. "He's a brunette with short hair. Really tall and buff looking. Kinda looks like a mama's boy."

You let out a small chuckle at the last comment. Leon took a step closer to Claire.

"Claire, don't lose hope. I'm sure we're going to find him-"

A loud explosion ripples through the air. You quickly cover your eyes as you turn towards the source. The helicopter now lay swallowed in flames. The fire escape you once walked down on began to look increasingly fragile from the explosion's impact. A quick ringing from a nearby fire alarm soon followed. You turned back towards the other survivors.

"Dammit. You know what that means..." Claire stated as she glanced behind her.

"Yeah..." Leon responded, scratching the back of his head from stress.

"Dinner time."

"Claire, I think you should go," you quickly replied, noticing a small horde of zombies getting closer.

"Don't worry about me, (Y/N)," Claire paused before taking a step back. "You two take care of yourself."

"Claire, you need to go- NOW!" Leon exclaimed.

Claire nodded in agreement, starting to walk away from the fence. The brunette stopped for a moment before turning back to the two of you.

"Hey... Let's get through this. All three of us." She stated.

You replied with a slight nod as she turned back around, heading into stream of oncoming zombies. Leon and you took a step back from the fence.

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A/N: Oh, geez. I knew I said I was taking a break, but I didn't think it was going to be this long. Sorry about that. Haha, oops. 2019 has just been a really shitty year for me, but I'm going to make 2020 my bitch if I have to. In other news, I made it into my dream college! I'm going to Loyola up in Chicago to study forensics! While my first year will be mainly looking over the basics, I can't wait!

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chrisodonline · 6 years

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I figured I'd send this as an ask, because I think you could write a novel or two with this: I mean obviously assuming they all survive this and whatnot, how do you see Callen moving forward? Do you see this as say him building the walls so far back up that he doesn't let anyone in again? Or do you see something else? And lastly, do you think the outcome of the ATF IA thing will relate back to his wall building. How's Arkady going to handle things if Callen's testimony ruins Anna's career.

I’ve been mulling this over for a week and trying to organize my thoughts and make them more concise, but I’ll just start writing and hope that I stop at some point.

(This went long, obviously. Sorry, mobile users!)

1.”How do you see Callen moving forward? Do you see this as say him building the walls so far back up that he doesn't let anyone in again? Or do you see something else?”

I think that really all depends on how things go, exactly, following the finale. There are certain narrative notes/arcs they may want to utilize the accident for, and, depending on which ones they choose, that would determine how everyone does following the incident. If they callback to the fight Hetty and Mosley were having over Callen and his plot with Mosley this season, then he’d probably be at least one of the ones seriously injured. (We’ll call this Scenario 1.)

If they focus on his desperation to keep the team together, then things would probably go differently -- still a few different ways. The only real personal stakes ever for G are his team; they’re his family. It often seems like the job is all he has, but that’s not really it. He’s always up for getting fired, and -- this is where I could go on about his self-destructive and risk-seeking behavior masquerading as performative cockiness -- often threatens to quit. That tells you how low the stakes are when it comes to his job. Someone in danger or his team/family even just potentially being in danger are the only times the stakes are high for him. Again, there are different scenarios to use with this dramatically -- and I’m sure they’ll go with something we didn’t see coming.

Possible Scenario 2A: He’s the first to wake up and seems to be the most “okay.” It looks really bad, and this is his worst nightmare come to life: his team is dead, or so he thinks at first and is in shock. This leaves a very serious impression on him as the season progresses. I’m waiting on a blow up with Sam when they get back if he gets even more injured -- and even he doesn’t. G knows Sam is Sam -- he had to go, it’s who is, and it didn’t pay to argue with him too much, but you know G’s going to beat himself up for letting him go. We could actually see a flashback to the beginning of S5, when G felt the Sidorov/torture stuff was his fault. (He also blamed himself for Kensi’s getting kidnapped in S2.) He’s the one who agreed to help Mosley, and who didn’t want to get anyone else involved, really. He’s the team leader, and he’s going to feel like he let everyone go despite knowing they should have taken more time to get stuff sorted -- even though none of them were going to stay behind, regardless of what orders he gave. None of them saw anything about leaving or not as a choice. Still, we may see that Callen return. That’s a long way to say I see some potential tension, even just temporarily, with Sam -- especially after Michelle’s death -- something I would have liked to have seen explored more as having an impact on characters on not just serving as a plot/catalyst for things with discussions about Michelle not her death’s impact on a relationship and not just passing mentions. I still get frustrated that more people seemed concerned and asking G questions about the whole Anna situation rather than 1. his dad’s being handed over for torture/death and 2. how important Michelle, as a person and honorary family member, were to him.

Still on Scenario 2A, sorry, got sidetracked: The “team appearing dead” or even just one member looking that way plus S5 guilt was relevant to where I was going, I promise. I’ll move on to 2B shortly. Losing them -- any of them -- is his worst fear. The possibility of it looking very real would haunt him and set the stage for a full or even partial return of...Janvier. Even if he doesn’t come back in full, if he just mildly starts screwing with G or hints at being a threat, it could throw him over the edge or send him spiraling into full-on paranoia. Maybe Janvier sends a letter addressed to Grisha sending him condolences on the “loss” of his father and/or asking if he can be his plus one to Kensi and Deeks’s wedding (with the date, once they pick it) since he and Anna seem to be on the outs.

Scenarios 2B & 2C -- not necessarily wholly separate from 2A: G is the driving force, with some help from Kensi, in getting, in getting the team to safety. I was thinking he might serve as a distraction, and I read a fic recently and some other thoughts that suggest I’m not alone in this, as one possible method. Spencer Williams will want answers for his son’s whereabouts when he realizes he’s gone, and I’m sure G can withstand some interrogation with cockiness. Plus, like father, like son. We also know that Spencer’s seen G’s face before when he was undercover. (He’s also seen Kensi’s.) Again, G coming face-to-face with Spencer and covering up for why his son’s missing and continuing to help Mosley would tie back to their arc this season while complementing that of his dad’s. The other way is that G could be the one who recruits Max for help, again, because they did focus on the relationship between those two specifically. I really do think Hidoko is alive, and she’ll help out. There’s something very odd about how she “left.”

Again, whichever direction they go in would help determine, potentially, how Callen comes away from all this. I think he’s been relatively passive with Sam’s distancing himself from everything, which is in character for him. His style of caring isn’t pushy, for lacking of a better word, and it’s probably a combination of how he likes to be treated so he assumes others are the same way (see also: leaving Anna alone following the investigation) and that he grew up with no good modeling of caring/support during his formative years. Even the people who did watch over him out of caring/obligation, as he later found out, did so at a distance. In order to get through someone else’s wall, you have to let yours down, at least a little, as well. There’s a certain level of vulnerability and trust in letting someone see how much you care for them, and that’s why he can build these fake relationships as false personas but not as himself. He often wants to help, he just doesn’t know how. So he uses the only skills/things he does know: smart ass remarks and turning something into a mission/op, which he has excellent strategy skills for.

At Christmas, he commented on how he felt everyone was avoiding him. I think that was more loaded than just a reference to Sam and Finn. (I can only theorize and headcanon, though, to account for the lack of mentions for his bio!fam and Anna.) As Hetty noted last season, his walls were starting to come down, but it seems like he’s now facing walls from other people -- which could cause some regression.

2. And lastly, do you think the outcome of the ATF IA thing will relate back to his wall building. How's Arkady going to handle things if Callen's testimony ruins Anna's career.

See? About 1200 words in, and I’m just getting to this second part. Oops. I’ll answer the end first. I would have preferred Anna’s being Arkady’s niece he was close to for that very reason. I think they’re friends, and it never really boded well that he’d date his friend’s daughter. I don’t think he sees Arkady as a friend, outwardly, but we all know he doth protest too much. Until the retcon in “Rage,” (Rageret? Ragecon?) Arkady really was the longest relationship G ever had. At the same time, I think Arkady’s feelings for G are even stronger than he lets on -- similar to how G is. Arkady’s probably known G for a long time, or even just known of him, and has a more uncle-y affection for him. I could see that he cares about Anna and he cares about G, and they’re two of the most important people in the world to him from a paternalistic standpoint, and he just wants them to be happy. That being said, of course there could be some strain on the relationship.

As with the ATF thing, I touched on that above, a little, I think. I do think if the relationship with Anna ends, that’s 2/2 that didn’t work out well. I could easily see G making jokes about just giving up and joining a monastery. That being said, the whole ATF thing confused me on several fronts. I’m not sure how G could either save or sink Anna’s career. There’s no way to actually lie about a weapon that wasn’t there unless he says he threw the gun away, which ???? Anna also seems to have made peace with things, so I’m sure she gave a statement saying exactly what happened. I get that G wants to help, and isn’t always great at knowing what to do (see above), but I see no way for this to actually be a decision he has to make. There is understandable hesitation as we saw in his testimony, and that’s the drama in it -- he knows what will happen, but does he really have a choice? (If they make him lie, I’ll be pretty frustrated because there’s no logical way, whatsoever, that a lie could save anything. He’s also already given a statement earlier.)

I know others have drawn very clever parallels to Anna/Kensi and careers, but this arc/plot still leaves me confused, if I’m being honest. They’re playing it for drama and relationship strain, but it’s not inherently a situation that brings it. I feel like Anna still could have made the comment about her career not being everything to her, but that it was where she was now -- and that sort of solidifies that she and G take, at the very least, a break because the distance is getting difficult.

She’s a rookie and has to prioritize the job, and maybe she is trying to figure out who she really is -- since she left a steady job and was more freelance, in so many words, for years. She avoided stability, and now she has to figure out where she wants to go. That’s where she is right now, as she’s still young. This would contrast with G, who, as he told Sam, was more than happy with the status quo. He’s not someone who thinks about his future, and never really has. He’s not a big plan kind of guy. Anna hasn’t been a big plan kind of girl, and that’s how they connected, but she’s also never stopped to try and figure out if she will always want to be that person. They could have parted ways for that alone, and it still would have had some effect. You could have had dramatic scenes, such as her being distant because she was busy with her job, and then she finds out that G never told her about the situation with his dad or his sister. She’s already mentioned to Sam how Callen’s walls go up and down, and she has a hard time figuring him out at times. With the job she pulls away, unintentionally, and he doesn’t pull her back when he needs her or reach out. She starts to realize that maybe this is just not the right time for the relationship.

Or, they could have gone some other route. Maybe they will. I just think there was more drama to get out of the situation with his dad and Alex, who, I know had other commitments but could still get a mention, than with this arc. Just my humble opinion.

As this is coming in at about 2,000 words, I think I’ll cut myself off.

Sorry it went so long! And sorry it took so long!

Thank you, as always, for asking!

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