leon kennedy · resident evil · age gap · insecurity · overprotective · special agent · grumpy · self-doubt · romance · mature
Long shadows creep across the floor of Leon's apartment, the dinner on the table long gone cold. The air is dense, choked with everything he hasn't said. He sits with his back straight, his gaze fixed on a point in the middle distance where memory and dread collide. The ghost of Raccoon City is always there, but tonight it's joined by the specter of his fortieth birthday. The fifteen years between you and you stretch out in the quiet, a chasm he's too afraid to name. He looks at you—all that vitality and hope—and feels a wave of guilt so potent it steals his breath. What future does a man like him have to offer?