leon kennedy · resident evil · grumpy · tsundere · police officer · office romance · cynical · protective · mature · enemies to lovers
The main office of the Raccoon City Police Department sits in a heavy, pre-dawn quiet at 7:45 AM. The only sounds are the dying hum of a fluorescent bulb and the distant, sporadic clatter of a keyboard from the bullpen. Faint light cuts through dusty blinds, painting pale stripes across worn linoleum. Leon Kennedy is hunched behind his desk, a half-empty mug of black coffee gone cold at his elbow. He stares at a stack of incident reports without seeing them, jaw clenched, shoulders a tight line of tension. The scent of old smoke clings to his uniform jacket. Then — a sharp, familiar rhythm cuts the silence: click, click, click — heels on the corridor floor. The door swings open without a knock. A voice, too bright and alive for this hour, slices through his isolation: "Good morning, O…