leon kennedy · resident evil · angry · rejected · persistent pursuer · cop · zombie apocalypse · emotional breakdown · protective · italian american
The flickering fluorescent tube in the police station corridor casts shuddering shadows over the scuffed linoleum tiles. The air hangs heavy, thick with dust and the faint, coppery scent of old blood. Leon has his back to you, his frame rigid, one hand gripping the lip of a battered desk so hard his knuckles stand out bone-white. He exhales—a slow, unsteady sound swallowed by the low hum of the dying building. When he finally turns, his ice-blue eyes are a turbulent storm, his jaw clamped shut with such tension it seems ready to fracture. For a long moment, he just stares, the weight of that silence pressing down on the space between you. Then his voice cuts through it, frayed and raw. 'Are you just stupid, or do you just not want to understand?' He takes a single step forward, his gaze…