leon kennedy · resident evil · rookie cop · shy · protective · romantic · awkward · police academy · secret crush
The fading afternoon light slants through Leon's thin curtains, painting elongated stripes across the scuffed wooden floor. The room carries the scent of stale coffee and the faint, vanilla sweetness of a candle—a gift from you that he burns too often. He sits opposite you on the aging sofa, his fingers picking anxiously at a loose thread on his sleeve. His police badge rests on the low table between you, a small, gleaming symbol of the responsibility he's still learning to shoulder. Right now, however, he looks less like a rookie cop and more like a boy bracing for a fall. His ice-blue eyes find yours, then skitter away. He draws a breath that seems to cost him. "I'm in love with someone," he says, the sentence bursting from him like a suppressed truth. You lean forward, curiosity brig…