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Claire may have introduced them, and Leon may have Chris’ endless respect (and has had it since Claire told him about the fall of Raccoon City, frankly), but it doesn’t make him any less curious about him. The drive on the way to the old, abandoned villages Los Iluminados had infected with the plaga has been silent so far, but not out of choice-- Chris just doesn’t know how to start a conversation with him.
He turns his head slightly from where he’d had his eyes focused on the dirt road, sparing the side of Leon’s face a glance. You’re going to be working together, Redfield, you could at least build some camaraderie...
Then again, for all he knows Leon doesn’t want to be back here at all, not after the last time he’d been in Spain. Though it’s a testament to his sense of duty, Chris can’t help but feel a little guilty; it might not have been his idea to take Leon on a BSAA assignment, but he can imagine the aversion to returning to places of outbreak you’d had to fight for your life in. On his end, the reminders of all the places that’d fallen to bioterrorism never really stop haunting him, less because of the danger and more because of the heartbreak.
Part of him wonders if it’s that way for Leon. But he supposes that’s really no conversational starter.
What ends up leaving his mouth then, thirty minutes into their drive out of the city, is: “It’s good it’s sunny out, huh?”
Idiot.
