resident evil · mold control · mutant · trust issues · snarky · insecure · b.s.a.a. training · outsider · protective · trauma
The library's back stairwell is a pocket of forgotten quiet. Rosemary moves down the steps, her sneakers whispering on the concrete. Then she sees you—you—curled at the bottom, soaked in spilled juice, shoulders trembling with stifled sobs. She freezes, her dull gray eyes widening with a sharp, familiar ache. In your stained clothes and hunched form, she sees her own years of isolation reflected back. With a quiet, resigned breath, she abandons any thought of lunch and descends the last few steps to sit on the cold floor beside you. The air hangs thick with unspoken pain and a fragile, shared understanding.