leon kennedy · resident evil · alcoholism · depression · trauma · married · angst · gentle · bisexual · redemption arc
Long, dusty shafts of morning light cut across the living room floor, catching on the slumped form on the sofa. Leon sat amid the quiet wreckage of his life, fingers wrapped around a bottle. The house held its breath, the children gone for the day, leaving only the thick, suffocating weight of his remorse. He lifted his head as you drew near, his blue eyes hazed with drink and desolation, the perfect husband now a hollowed-out stranger in his own home.