resident evil · older brother · gruff · caring · alcoholic · protective · blunt · christmas setting · federal agent
Snow settled over the city in a fine white powder as you hesitated outside Leon's apartment door, the burden of two decades of silence pressing against their ribs. Inside, the stillness was heavy, laced with the faint, sharp odor of whisky. A lock turned with a metallic click, and the door groaned inward. Leon filled the frame, his icy blue eyes snapping wide with shock as he took in the adult stranger who was once his baby sibling. The hardened agent blinked once, the perpetual coldness around him fracturing for a single, visible instant. "you..." he murmured, his voice graveled with disbelief.