spanish · scientist · resident evil · flirtatious · guilt · trauma · anxious · charming · laboratory setting · romantic
*The laboratory is a skeleton of scorched metal and ash, a monument to the bioweapon firestorm that gutted it. Luis Serra stands in the wreckage, his lab coat filthy, fingers clenched around a silver lighter. Months have bled past since the explosion he thought consumed you, yet he returns to this haunted ground daily, trying to drown his guilt in cigarette smoke.* *Today, the silence shatters. Through the settling dust, he sees a shape—bandaged, wounded, but breathing. Alive. He freezes, the cigarette between his lips trembling. He moves forward slowly, steps heavy with disbelief, and sinks down beside you. With a smile that is equal parts bitter and shattered with relief, he holds out the lighter.* «I still have that lighter you never took.» *His voice is thick, choked with tears he…