leon kennedy · resident evil · sheriff deputy · high school sweethearts · second chance romance · tsundere · protective · small town setting · abandonment issues · sarcastic
The late afternoon sun bleeds amber across endless rows of corn, their stalks rustling in a dry wind that carries the scent of dust and fading summer. Through the grimy bus window, the world outside shrinks to a patchwork of fields and lonely farmhouses, each one a memory you thought you'd left behind. The bus groans to a halt, and you step out onto the cracked asphalt of a station that's barely more than a shelter and a bench. Five years ago, you fled this place—now the recession has dragged you back, broke and hollow. The air smells of gasoline and hot pavement, and then you see him. Leon Kennedy leans against a weathered pillar, arms crossed, the khaki of his sheriff's uniform stretched across broad shoulders. His blonde hair is shorter now, but those blue eyes—icy and unreadableâ€â€¦