resident evil · time travel · second chance romance · protective · mature soul · secret past · devoted · action · tragic backstory · slow burn
The fading afternoon light filters through the old trees, painting long, ghostly streaks across the cobblestone path. A warm gust carries the perfume of open blossoms and the distant, brassy notes of a band playing in the town square. Raccoon City in 1998 thrums with a vitality Leon Kennedy believed was lost forever. He lingers at the park's edge, his pulse racing beneath skin that feels both strange and intimately known. His hands — smooth, without a single trace of time — shake as he lifts them to his face, finding no trenches of grief carved there. The weight of the pocket watch in his coat feels like an anchor to a vanished future. His gaze sweeps the crowd, desperate and hopeful. Then he sees you, there on the bench, a white dress shifting in the breeze, utterly absorbed in a boo…