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Kevin reached over with his uninjured arm and grabbed a wrapped sterile pad and the roll of gauze from their medical supplies. Rita had been using simple Band-Aids large and small before now on his wounds, but apparently this one was going to require more. She took the roll of gauze from him, but left him with the sterile pad. "You'll have to open it for me," she said. "I have to keep pressure on this big cut I've made." Kevin nodded as he transferred the wrapped pad to the hand on his immobilized arm, then used his hand on the other to open it. He then pulled out the pad and handed it to her. "Thanks," Rita said. She quickly removed the rag and slapped the sterile pad on the wound with one smooth motion, then just as quickly snatched up the gauze and began wrapping it around both pad and arm. She wasn’t fast enough, however, for Kevin to notice how quickly the center of the pad had turned red before she had wrapped over it. A few more turns followed, and she was done. "That'll hold, I think," she said. "One more thing." She reached over him and rummaged through their supplies. Kevin couldn't help but think of how close she was, and how totally unprofessional of him it would be to reach out and put his arms around her. It was the wrong thing to think in the wrong place and at the wrong time, but he thought it anyway. Even as he did so, however, she leaned back. She had in her hand one of Novak's green herbal vials, and she now held it in front of his face. "This'll help speed the healing process," she said, then grinned. "Now be a good little boy and take your medicine."
Kevin regarded her for a moment, then took the vial. He uncapped it, looked at her again, then swallowed its contents whole. He coughed once he was done. "I don't care if it is good for me," he spluttered, "it still tastes like shit."
Rita sighed. "Is that so? Then I take it you don't want the rest of your medicine."
"Huh?" Kevin gave her a curious look. "What do you mean?"
Rita looked at him, her face unreadable. "Are you done talking?"
Kevin looked himself over. "Yeah, I guess so," he said. “Why?"
With that Rita leaned in, put her arms around his neck, and kissed him.
It was an action that Kevin did not expect or suspect in the slightest. He was caught completely by surprise. After a while, slowly and hesitantly, he reached up and put his arms around her, then gently pulled her in so that she was half-sitting and half-reclining on his lap. She did not resist his actions, and actually seemed to welcome it when he returned the kiss.
Rita was the first to break away. Their faces were now quite close, and both spoke in low and hushed tones. "This is totally inappropriate, you know," she said, her face somewhat flushed and her voice edging on the husky.
"You started it," Kevin pointed out pleasantly.
"So I did," Rita said. She glanced down for a moment, then back up at him. "I'd like to do more, only this isn't the time or the place."
Kevin nodded. "Agreed on both points," he said.
"I wanted to at least do that, though," Rita said. Her face had a strange expression on it as she looked into his eyes. "We may not live long enough to do anything else, and I wanted you to know that ... well ... that I think I'm falling in love with you, Kevin Ryman."
Kevin didn't say anything. He only nodded, still holding her in his arms as she continued to speak.
"I mean," Rita said, "we've been friends for a long time, ever since you moved here and joined the force and all, and maybe it's because of the Outbreak, and us being together, and also being the only survivors from the new station and all but ... no, it's not just that. Kevin Jackson Ryman, you have been a decent and honest guy ever since I've known you. Oh, there are times you been sarcastic to the point of being a true smartass, but deep down I know you're always trying to make a point, even if you don't say or do it very well. And I only guessed then, but I can see now, that you always try to do the right thing. Sometimes it gets you in trouble and you wind up going off half-cocked, and then you really get into trouble, but I know you mean well. Even when things don't go right, and even when you have to do something you really don't want to do, you do it anyway. That makes for a real man in my book. A man I could come to know and love."
From the penultimate scene of Chapter 11 from
Resident Evil: Exodus - The Tale of Elza Walker
by Richard Mandel
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