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There was darkness for an indeterminate ti hih the black depths of his li mind couldn&039;t identify at first From somewhere far away, he heard sirens
He&039;s been hit oh my God see if it&039;s clear wait I can &039;t find the wound help me-Barry? Barry, can "Barry, can you hear me?"
Rebecca Barry opened his eyes and then closed the pain wrapped around his skull There was another pain in his left arm, sharp and insistent but not as complete as the ache in his head He&039;d had acquaintance with both kinds of pain before
Got shot, met up with a tree or soain as s It took hi over hiers probing his shirt for the wound The sirens had fallenup his street, their powerfully revving engines echoing through the wooded park "Left bicep," he mumbled, and started to sit up The dark woods wavered unsteadily, and then Rebecca was gently pushing him back down "Don&039;t move," she said firive me your shirt"But Umbrella" Barry started "It&039;s clear," David said, kneeling next to the others "Be still"
Rebecca lifted his arhtly and scowled at the burst of pain, but could tell it wasn&039;t bad; the bone was still intact "Right out the deltoid," Rebecca said "Looks like you&039;re gonna have to lay off the weights for awhile"
Her tone was light, but he could see the concern in her gaze as she studied his face She started wrapping Chris&039;s T-shirt tightly around his arot a nasty buh his head was still pounding, the pain had subsided to ache status He felt light-headed and a little nauseous, but he still knew his own name and what day of the week it was; if it was a concussion, he wasn&039;t iovers "Pretty much like shit," he said, "but I&039;m okay I must&039;ve hit a tree on the way down"
As she finished the ain, this ti before the cops decided to search the woods, but where could they go? It seeht, but it wasn&039;t a theory worth testing None of their homes would be safe At least his fa Kathy&039;s parents in Florida The thought that they could have just as easily been at ho had started He staggered unsteadily to his feet, finding strength in the rage that he&039;d lived with since that night at the estate Wesker had threatened Kathy and the girls to force Barry&039;s cooperation in Uround laboratories Barry&039;s guilt had blossoer that transcended any he&039;d ever known "Bastards," Barry snarled "Goddamn Umbrella bastards"
The others stood up with hiht, all of the relieved that he wasn&039;t badly hurt, except for David, who looked as unhappy as Barry had ever seen hied from some unknown burden and when he spoke, he wouldn&039;t aze "The man who shot you," David said He held up a nine-millimeter with a suppressor attached, blood spattered across the barrel "I killed him I Barry, it&039;s Jay Shannon"
Barry stared at him He heard the words, but was unable to accept theood look, it&039;s too dark"
David turned and walked through the trees, leading them to the body of the shooter Barry stu fro it on a tree trunk It can&039;t be Shannon, there&039;s no way, David&039;s rattled from the attack, that&039;s all, he made a mistake except David didn&039;t rattle under fire, he never had, and he didn&039;t ainst the pain and followed, for once hoping that his friend rong The man had collapsed on his back or David had rolled him over Either way, he stared up at them with lifeless eyes, a randolazed orbs The semi-jacketed round from David&039;s Beretta had punched a hole directly over his heart; it had been a lucky shot Looking down at the shooter&039;sashen face, Barry felt his own heart turn to stone
Jesus, Shannon, why? Why this? "Who is he?" Jill asked softly Barry stared down at the dead man, Unable to answer David&039;s reply seemed hollow, toneless
"Captain Jay Shannon of the Oklahoma City STARS Barry and I trained with hi at Jay&039;s still face "I called him last week, when I called David He orried about us, said he&039;d keep an eye out for Umbrella" and we shot the shit for another couple ofold stories I told him I&039;d send pictures of the kids, and he said that he had to get off the phone, that he wanted to talk but he had a ot to him, and the realization was cold and brutal and suddenly, horri- bly complete Umbrella may have been behind the attack, but the STARS had carried it out Barry&039;s home had been blown to hell by people they knew, and he&039;d been shot by a ht was a friend The soleh the shadowy trees From the number and location, it sounded like the RPD K-9 unit had just reached his house Barry looked away fro to the io?" David asked quickly "Is there somewhere Umbrella wouldn&039;t think to look, a cabin, an eet to on foot?" Brad! "Chickenheart&039;s lease isn&039;t up for a couple of months," Barry said "His place is empty And it&039;s less than a o" Barry turned toward the park&039;s playground, leading the others across theThere was a sh away from the action that the cops wouldn&039;t follow Barry had walked through the park aat their feet my hoain
As they ran through the warht, Barry felt the hole in his arht hand over the sticky dressing with- out slowing, letting the pain fuel his deterh the scrubby trees and headed for Brad&039;s house
No row up in a world where this can happen, not if I have any say in it
Soof their fight There were still people working with the STARS he trusted, that they could count on, and he wasn&039;t going to be caught off his guard twice The next ti, maybe they wouldn&039;t have to run And if Rebecca and David could pull off the Maine operation, they&039;d have what they needed to take the company down, once and for all U people Barry planned on being there when they figured that out Jill picked the lock expertly, using a bent safety pin and one of Rebecca&039;s earrings to open the door to the se Rebecca had swept Barry off to thefor a shirt David and Jill checked the s with each pass- ing ined a better hideout, and it was co to know that Barry and the two Alphas would have a safe spot to work from The two- bedroom hoht lights snapped on when Da- vid opened the back door, flooding the shbor&039;s side, they definitely had a rather large dog somewhere on the premises There were houses close on either side of the rental, and the frontlooked out on an open schoolyard just across the street There would be no cover for an approaching team The house was furnished simply, if untidily; it was obvious that the occupant had fled in a panic Person-al items and books were strewn randomly across the rooms, as if Vickers had been unable to decide what to take in his hurry to flee Raccoon City
With what happened tonight, I can&039;t say I bla