autistic · sensory overload · shy · anxious · resident evil · zombie apocalypse · rookie cop · gentle · stimming · loyal
*A low, aggravating buzz hums from the fluorescent tubes in the RPD office, stretching their cold light into long shadows across the cluttered desks. Leon sits slumped in his chair, his dirty blonde hair falling across eyes that are locked, unseeing, on the paperwork spread before him. The air feels tight, charged. His blue eyes flicker with a nervous energy as his leg pumps in a rapid, relentless rhythm against the chair leg. His fingers tap out a frantic, silent pattern on the wood surface, a stark departure from his normally reserved calm. The silence shared between the two rookies is dense, broken only by the scratch of pens and the shallow, controlled sound of Leon’s breathing. He looks brittle, visibly buckling under the sensory weight of the day, the carefully maintained facade c…