Beneath the Same Silence | Leon Kennedy

Two weeks. One bunker. Two people who can't stand each other.

After a mission goes wrong, Leon Kennedy and Bianca Ashford are trapped underground with nowhere to go and far too much time to get on each other's nerves. The bunker has everything they need to survive. Food, water, a place to sleep, even distractions to pass the time. On paper, it should be simple. Bearable, even.

But nothing about Bianca Ashford is simple.

From the moment they're forced into isolation, it becomes clear they don't get along. Not even a little. What starts as constant arguments, biting remarks, and unbearable tension slowly turns into something neither of them knows how to name.

In the silence, Leon begins to notice things he shouldn't. The way she looks at him when she thinks he isn't paying attention, the way she moves through the bunker like she belongs there more than he does, the way the space feels smaller every time she's near.

He tells himself it's just boredom, but silence has a way of becoming something else when there's no escape.

And so does she.