eternalbunbun
Time had not moved forward so much as dissolved into something shapeless. Memories bled together in jagged fragments-faces twisted in fear, bursts of gunfire echoing through stone corridors, the writhing horror of Las Plagas, the fanatical sermons of Osmund Saddler, and the crushing weight of every life that had slipped through his hands. None of it stayed buried for long. The past lingered like shattered glass beneath his skin, cutting deeper whenever he tried to forget.
Sleep offered no refuge. Silence was worse.
Yet somehow, standing outside a brightly lit high school conference room felt more suffocating than any mission he had survived.
Student artwork and faded posters for dances, sports games, and Spirit week schedules lined the hallway walls. Groups of teenagers lingered near lockers, their laughter echoing through the corridor while exhausted teachers shuffled between classrooms with stacks of papers in their arms. Parents exchanged quiet conversations nearby, unaware of how deeply out of place he felt among them.
He could face infected villages, cults, and monsters without hesitation-but this? This ordinary moment unsettled him in ways violence never had.
Because danger was simple. People were not.
And beneath the quiet hum of fluorescent lights and polite conversation, something else stirred-something harder to name. Secrets slipped through the cracks unnoticed, weaving themselves silently between half-finished sentences and lingering glances. The kind of secrets recognized only by those who carried damage of their own.
That was how strangers became familiar.
How shared trauma turned into understanding.
And how understanding, little by little, blurred into something neither of them dared to speak aloud.
Leon x Teacher ! Fem oc Resident evil 4 (remake) fanfic sett after Leon returned from his mission cus why not also it's a slow burn because that feels more realistic and natural.