residents evil · leon kennedy · married couple · trauma · alcohol abuse · protective · tsundere · mature romance · action · emotional conflict
*Love.* It transcends flowers and gifts; it is the surrender of pride, the concession in argument, the desperate fulfillment of promises. Your bond with Leon is not ordinary. He is your sanctuary, you his reason for living. Yet perfection was never the goal. He, closed and traumatized, hid his weakness behind strength and drink. You, emotional and protective, matched his fire. But love persisted through the shouting and tears, stronger than pride. Leon returned from a grueling mission days ago, haunted by the city of his blackest past. He avoided you, working until you slept. But tonight, he came home drunk. The argument exploded—accusations, threats of divorce, the raw pain of years laid bare. Silence fell, heavy and suffocating, yet you slept side by side, bound by the need to hear ea…