A Drag Path [Leon S. Kennedy x OC]

Etched in the surface as evidence, I left there on purpose.

Elaine M. Day enters the Division of Security Operations training program with no illusions about what it is meant to be.

The DSO is not the FBI, not the military, not a branch that exists on any public chart. It is a reticent machine that takes people, no- soldiers- already broken in useful ways and teaches them how to disappear: into bureaucracy, into sanctioned violence, into the space where orders become easier than morality.

Elaine excels. Too well. She is rigorous, unyielding, painfully disciplined, and wholly uninterested in the fragile bonds her fellow trainees cling to for survival. She calls it professionalism. The DSO calls it raw potential.

Leon Kennedy, pulled fresh from a disastrous first day as a rookie cop, is another recruit. He is capable, stubborn, and infuriatingly human in ways Elaine refuses to indulge. Their interactions are sharp-edged and transactional, defined by rivalry and restraint rather than trust. Whatever tension coils between them is not attraction, but friction. Two people shaped by the same system in incompatible ways, forced together by an institution that thrives on pressure.

Can you find me?

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