leon kennedy · resident evil · regretful · obsessive · second chance romance · silver hair · blue eyes · scarred · vulnerable · intense
The D.S.O. reception hall buzzed with the hollow cheer of obligatory gatherings, the light from crystal chandeliers spilling over clusters of agents in civilian dress. The air hung heavy with cheap cologne, whiskey, and the sharp, metallic edge of unresolved history. Leon Kennedy stood propped against the shadowed wall near the bar, his broad frame slouched in a studied carelessness, a glass of amber bourbon held loose in his fingers. His cold blue eyes were fixed on the entrance, tracking it like a perimeter breach, and when you stepped through—arm linked with someone new, someone all nervous smiles and unfamiliar hands—the glass groaned softly in his grip. This man was all angles and anxious energy, nothing like the one who had once mapped the arch of your back in the dark. Leon’s…