Shake

Shake is the het ship between Jake Muller and Sherry Birkin from the Resident Evil fandom.

Canon
RESIDENT EVIL 6

Edonia, 2012
In December 2012, Jake is hired to help take care of the intruding B.S.A.A. (Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance). A woman in a blue dress visits the soldiers and provides them with a supply of syringes and injectors that are full of the C-Virus, though telling them it was a form of energy booster to increase and improve their performance. Jake sits by himself and injects himself. He feels no effect, telling one of his mutated comrades as he burst through the door suspiciously. Before then, Sherry had received orders to locate Jake and bring him back to the United States in order for blood samples to be taken for vaccine research. Jake and Sherry first meet when Sherry confirms that he’s got the antibodies. She opens a garbage chute for the both of them to escape through as Jake’s infected comrades run at them. Jake goes first, with Sherry close behind him. At the bottom, Sherry attempts to show her National Security badge, which Jake waves off as a “good for you, but now’s really not the time”. Making his getaway, Jake asks Sherry if she’s coming with him. The two make for an exit where Sherry informs Jake of the B.O.Ws— the “J’avo”.

They find a relativity safe spot to break at where Jake tells her his deals for hire. Sherry informs him that she’s not there to hire him, but rather needs his blood to create vaccines for the C-Virus. After a long pause, Jake changes his offer to 50 million dollars for one pint of his blood, non-negotiable. Leaving the building, they notice J’avo outside, realizing they’ll have to “shoot” their away out of the country. Not long after they’re confronted by the Ustanak, a large B.O.W used in primarily for finding Jake. They manage to run from it, only to be found again inside a worn-down warehouse. Throughout the fight, Sherry tells the Ustanak that it’s “not taking Jake”. With the Ustanak down, Jake and Sherry fall through a weaken part of the floor, landing on a lower level. Sherry makes a comment that “this mission gets harder by the minute, but at least [Jake’s] still safe”. Jake huffs at this, and devolves into a story of how three years prior, while in South America, he was nearly killed by a man with a knife, saying how dying for money was one thing, as it was his choice, though dying for “no good reason” was another. Sherry tells him of the Ustanak and Neo-Umbrella being after him, and follows up with that she won’t “let anything happen to [Jake]”.

Jake and Sherry arrive to an opening where they’re met with the B.S.A.A, meeting Captain Chris Redfield. Sherry flashes her National Security, showing him and his team that she’s no threat. Piers Nivans, Chris’ partner/teammate, takes notice of Jake hanging behind Sherry, realizing he’s a “wanted insurgent”. Sherry is quick to defend Jake, telling Chris and Piers that Jake is “no threat to the B.S.A.A”. Right then, they’re attacked by a massive B.O.W, forcing everyone to work together. With the beast down, Jake and Sherry aboard a waiting Echo team helicopter. While there, Sherry calls her boss, Derek C. Simmons, informing him of Jake wanting 50 million dollars for his blood. Upon hanging up, Jake asks “if we got a deal,” which Sherry informs yes, they do. After minute, the helicopter is attacked by the Ustanak, having located Jake again. After a short battle, the helicopter they’re in falls and Jake grabs a parachute, then pulling Sherry with him. Holding each other, Jake opens the chute. The propeller of the helicopter comes down, slicing through the chute, sending them down fast.

Jake wakes on the snowy ground with Sherry face-down on his chest. As his hand lay across her back, he realizes she’s bleeding heavily. He panics and throws her off of him and sees she’s got part of the propeller sticking out of her torso. Sherry struggles for breath while Jake looks down, asking himself, “What do I do?” Sherry tells him to pull it out and Jake is quick to tell her no, that she’ll bleed to death should he. Sherry weakly begs and Jake gives in and carefully pulls the embedded piece of metal out. Upon the propeller being removed, Sherry groans in pain for a minute as the wound heals up. Jake sits there stunned, asking what just happened. Sherry merely tells him it’s a “long story”. Not long after, Sherry realizes the data chips of Jake are missing, after fallen. Knowing they need them, they must search a snowstorm for them. Jake tells her, “Well come on Supergirl, let’s get lookin’.”

Having successfully located all three data chips, Jake and Sherry find a cabin to wait out the storm in. After a period of time, a near awkward silence has befallen. After Sherry paces the room for a final time, she quickly proclaims that “she’ll go get help” as “it can’t be that much further to the rendezvous”. She makes for the cabin door where she’s met by Jake yelling at her to wait. The snowstorm raging outside slams the door open and Jake struggles to push it closed. Jake and Sherry stare at each other as Jake is still holding onto her by her waist. Sherry leaves for the other side of the room as Jake turns to look outside through the window.

A little later, Jake leaves his place at the window to find Sherry sitting down on the floor. Jake sits beside her, asking her if she’s “always been like that,” referring to her healing factor. Sherry devolves into her story, explaining how her father used to be a scientist and that the G-Virus had adapted and changed, saying how she “got something out of it”. Jake jokes that she got “super powers,” to which Sherry is quick to tell him of Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield, as they became her closest friends having rescued/protected her when she was 12 years-old during the Raccoon City indecent. Jake and Sherry have a moment where the two realize they share a bond, as each of them carries a unique burden, setting them apart from normal people, and it brings the two of them closer together. Seconds later Jake throws her to the ground, shielding her body with his own as bullets penetrate the cabin’s walls.

More J’avo working for Neo-Umbrella attack, forcing Jake and Sherry to leave on snowmobiles, attempting to also evade an avalanche. Closing in a ledge, they jump from their vehicles, landing in a mineshaft. With fallen rocks and ice blocking their path, they descend deeper into the mines. They come across the Ustanak again, working together to evade the B.O.W, before using a mining vehicle to drill it into the mountain. Jake and Sherry run for the exit where Sherry can see the rendezvous in the distance. Upon exiting, they’re attacked by more J’avo forcing them to engage in another shoot out. The Ustanak emerges from the shadows and hits Sherry, sending her down with hard thud. It goes for Jake next, hitting him too. As Jake lay there in pain, he looks over to Sherry’s unconscious form, whispering to himself, “Come on, Supergirl…”

The mysterious woman that had distributed the C-Virus to Jake’s mercenary group suddenly appears before their eyes. She tells Jake about Albert Wesker, a man who had nearly destroyed the world and, according to her, is also Jake’s father. Following the chase through the snow-covered mountains of Edonia, Jake and Sherry are abducted by Neo-Umbrella and taken to a facility in China. Here, they are subjected to test after test, day in and day out, for a grueling six months.

Lanshiang, 2013
One day Jake finds an opportunity to break free, and after eluding his captors manages to shut down the facility's power before making a run for it. Noticing the power-outage, Sherry also seizes upon this opportunity to escape from her room. After some commotion, the two are finally reunited; however, in contrast to Sherry's joy, Jake is brooding, harboring anger over thoughts of his father, Albert Wesker. Jake feels cheated by life, having been cursed with his father's blood.

Sherry admonishes Jake's sulking, arguing that how he lives is not up to his father's legacy, but up to him. To this, Jake has no reply.

Making contact with the U.S. government, the pair discover that Sherry's superiors are also in China and quickly make plans to rendezvous.

Breaking through wave after wave of J'avo, Jake and Sherry find a motorcycle and make a daring escape from the facility.

Desperately making their escape through the heart of the bioterror attack in China, Jake and Sherry are eventually surrounded by Neo-Umbrella's forces. Just when things are looking bleak, Chris and the BSAA show up and rescue the pair. However, under strict orders to avoid contact with others, Sherry and Jake part ways with Chris without so much as a word.

On the run once more, Sherry and Jake witness a U.S. government plane crash right before their eyes. When they arrive at the site of the crash, they find Leon Kennedy, who—years ago—had saved Sherry's life.

Leon informs Sherry that Derek Simmons, her superior, is in fact the man behind the bioterror outbreak. Having made plans to rendezvous with Simmons but now unsure of if she can trust him, Sherry tells Leon where Simmons is and agrees to meet with Leon again at her rendezvous point.

After arriving there, Sherry finds Leon and Helena facing off against Simmons. Simmons readily admits that he indeed is behind the outbreak, but claims that it was in order to maintain both U.S. and global stability. Simmons then orders his guards to shoot Leon and Helena. Having a personal score to settle with Simmons, Leon and Helena urge Sherry and Jake to escape, offering them cover.

However, Sherry and Jake run right into a nest of J'avo and are quickly overpowered. Despite their best efforts, the pair are caught once more.

Jake and Sherry find themselves trapped in Neo-Umbrella's undersea facility at the bottom of the ocean.

The situation seems hopeless until Chris and Piers, following a tip from Leon, show up to rescue them.

However, when Chris admits that he killed Jake's father, Wesker, Jake loses himself to emotion and reflexively pulls his gun on Chris. The situation is tense. Just then, Neo-Umbrella's massive B.O.W., Haos—a creature capable of bringing ruin upon the entire planet—awakens from its cocoon.

Understanding how valuable Jake's blood is to the world, Chris tells Sherry and Jake to make their escape while he and Piers fight Haos.

Jake and Sherry do not get far before they again run into Ustanak, and are forced into a brutal fight.

The seemingly unstoppable hunter refuses to be defeated even after having its body burned away by fiery magma—its pursuit unforgiving to the end.

Finally, Jake and Sherry manage to defeat the creature and make their escape from the facility.

Following their adventure together, Jake hands over a sample of his blood to Sherry and disappears—though not before lowering his original asking price of fifty million dollars to just fifty. From Jake's blood, a vaccine for the C-Virus is distilled, and the outbreak is gradually contained.

Sherry and Jake initially seem to be completely incompatible, with her optimistic and cheerful disposition totally contrasted with his cynical, harsh personality. However, they make a good team, Sherry bringing out the best in Jake, and eventually her unwavering faith makes an impact on him, changing him for the better. Throughout their time together, their bond becomes stronger and stronger, Jake saving her life several times and Sherry never faltering in her mission to protect him. Despite her natural sweetness, she is also not afraid to retort to Jake's many snarky comments in the same way.

Despite this, Sherry and Jake become close, shown by their conversation in the cabin, and Jake's protectiveness of her. Also, when Leon gets slightly aggressive with Sherry regarding Simmons, Jake gets between them and violently shoves Leon away from her, Sherry having to grab his arm to hold him back. Leon is shown studying the two of them here, possibly noticing Jake's protectiveness of her. Later, during an ambush, Leon tells Jake that he needs Jake to escape with Sherry so Jake can protect her, showing he's noticed Jake's protectiveness over her.

Fanon
On AO3, Shake is the fifth most written ship within the Resident Evil - All Media Types tag; Jake’s most written, as well as Sherry’s most written.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Sherry/Jake tag on FanFiction.net
 * Sherry/Jake tag on FanFiction.net

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Trivia

 * While Resident Evil 6 was in development, Jake’s campaign, along with Sherry, was called “Escape and Romance.”

Variations

 * Nivanshake refers to the ship between Piers Nivans, Jake and Sherry