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⋆ Summary: Your husband, Leon, has been out working for the past week. Missing him, you decide to text him, and surprise him with a picture, which then he sends one back, and even something more...
⋆ Tags: Leon & reader are married, sexting, NSFW, masturbation, & nudes.
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A week your husband had been away from home. He was staying somewhere a few hours away while on a mission for work. You missed him, but hadn't texted him a bit because you knew he'd been busy.
Though, on this particular day, you really missed him—missed him in the way that made you crave his body. The body you temporarily didn't have access to.
You squirmed on the bed for a long moment, but it was hard to get comfortable, especially with Leon so heavily on your mind. As a last resort, you decide to text him.
“Hey babe, you free?” You type out the message and send it.
Surprisingly, he responds within a minute.
“Yeah. Just got back to the motel a bit ago.”
You bit your lip. Now, you had it confirmed that he was free. Your eyebrows furrowed as you thought hard for a moment; you wanted to send him a nude. Mostly in hopes he'd send one back, which surely he would.
You got up off the bed and rose to your feet.
You stripped off all your clothes.
You held your phone upwards as you began to pose in front of the mirror of your vanity. The mirror was large, and the bulbs that ran up along the sides casted a bright glow that accentuated your body. You rested your hand upon your hip as you then took a few pictures with the back camera.
You scanned over each taken photo to decide on your favorite. Underneath, you added a text: “Miss you.”
You were a tad nervous to send it; after attaching it to the conversation, your finger hovered over the send button for seconds. You swallowed, pushed your finger down on the button, and then tossed your phone down on the bed.
You sat back down a bit fidgety as you waited for a notification.
Minutes passed, but nothing. Curiously, you picked back up your phone, unlocked the screen, and checked. Just a simple “read” underneath your sent attachment.
Then, he reacted. From Leon, your picture had received a “❤️” reaction.
You still waited for the big moment—to see if he was going to send anything back.
And just another minute later, he did. Your phone dinged with a sent attachment from him: a picture of your husband, Leon, standing in front of the bathroom mirror—no clothes. His cock was thick with veins that ran up along it. It was halfway hardened too. Your pulse quickened at the sight, and created a heavier sensation within your groin.
He said: “Miss you too, sweetheart.”
With the picture up on the screen you held in your hand, it made you wish to touch yourself. However, apparently Leon had the same idea.
Just another moment later, he sent you a video. The video was of him jerking himself off; his large hand was wrapped around his dick—stroking it. He softly groaned within the minute-long clip. The camera was still angled towards the bathroom mirror.
That did it. You sat up on the bed and rested your head against the propped up pillows. You held out the phone to where your body was visible and your face was just slightly out of frame. You hit record as your right hand slowly traveled downwards; firstly dragging down your bare chest and then abdomen.
With your phone filming, you began to touch yourself. You were already aroused—it began just from your X-rated thoughts earlier… and then the attachments Leon had sent really done it.
Though unlike Leon, you weren't stopping after a minute. You kept on touching yourself for the camera to see. You did for several minutes with soft moans until you orgasmed on screen.
Your breath became heavy as you came down from the high, and you stopped the recording. Then, you sent it to Leon.
He again reacted the same to the attached video. You waited to see if he'd send something else—biting your lip as the patience was difficult to maintain.
After a few minutes, there was a new notification; an attachment from Leon. You quickly clicked on it and felt a gentle, warm blush arise to your face at what you saw.
What he had sent was another video of him masturbating—a longer video too, and by minutes.
You listened intently when he moaned softly through his gritted teeth, and even noticed whenever his abdominal muscles would flex throughout.
He'd whisper soft things too—praises about you, your body, and specifically the attachments you had sent him.
After a few minutes into the video, he recorded his own orgasm too. Ropes of cum spit out from the tip of his hardened dick. His eyebrows furrowed and his eyes clenched shut as it happened. His hips jittered as well. Then, the clip ended.
The entire video flustered you further and made you feel all tingly. Your heart raced as you felt your groin stirring and fluttering once more.
You texted him: “I love you, babe. That was so amazing. You're so handsome.”
He responded: “Thank you, gorgeous. I love you too, and I miss you so much. I can't wait to be home.”
You stared at the conversation open on your phone screen. You really did miss him—and of course couldn't wait for what would go down when he returned home. It wouldn't be for another few days, but with the videos you now had access to, you'd be alright.
Summary: It's been five months since he ghosted you. You're home for the holidays hoping to avoid him entirely. Instead, you've got a demolished snowman in your front yard, a newly painted living room, and him sat at your family's table like nothing happened. You're still furious but you're still not over him. And you have no idea which one is going to win.
WC: 6.4k
Warnings: MDNI, mentions of sexting/nudes, angst, age gap, ghosting, fluff, yearning, slow burn
Notes: No smut this part but I promise there will be some in the future!
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The cold air hit you the second the airport doors slid open and you’d almost forgotten how the air out here bit in December. Back east the cold was wet and heavy. Here it was thin, sharp and stung your face like it had something to prove. It was the kind of dry cold that made your eyes water and your breath come out in hard white clouds. You pulled your coat tighter and stood at the curb with your bag while you waited for your mom.
You spent the whole flight trying to not think about Leon ghosting you a few weeks after you went back home and had failed somewhere over the middle of the country.
It was stupid. You knew it was stupid. It had been one afternoon and one night in July. You kept telling yourself that it was just a summer fling, it was just a hookup, and it didn’t mean anything. You were leaving the next day and that was the deal. You said it to Leon in his half-torn-apart living room. Tomorrow. You’d set the terms and you didn’t get to be surprised when they held.
Except. He did text you. That was the part you were caught on. If he’d let you walk out that door and never said another word, you could have forgotten about it. But he didn’t. For almost three weeks after you flew home you messaged each other. It was the same sarcastic back and forth you’d had over beers in your parents’ backyard but it was in your pocket all day. He’d sent you pictures of the kitchen cabinets that were finally hung. You’d said something obnoxious about the backsplash. He’d said something obnoxious back.
There’d been messages, late at night where the banter turned into flirting. Then the flirting turned into something more. It escalated in a way those things do when two people can’t sleep and won’t say why. You sent him nudes first, not knowing what his reaction would be. He didn’t seem like the type. But when you least expected it, he sent you one back and it made your breath catch. You waited for the typing dots with your heart going stupid in your chest. He complimented you and made you feel wanted, instead of just looked at. You fell asleep that night smiling.
And then out of nowhere he just stopped texting you back.
There wasn’t a fight. Just a few messages you’d sent that went unanswered. Then after a few days you decided that following up would’ve looked desperate. Days, weeks and then… Five months went by and now it was just a fact of life that whatever happened that night probably meant nothing to him.
Except it didn’t add up with how tender he’d been. The man who could go five months without a single word was not supposed to be the same man who’d taken his time with you in the dark, who’d cleaned you up after and kissed you like you were something worth being gentle with. Those two men were not supposed to be the same person. And the fact that they were had kept you up more nights than you’d admit to anyone.
You’d stopped trying to solve it after a few months. Mostly.
A familiar car swung up to the curb and your mom leaned across to push the door open. You shoved the emotions and thoughts of Leon down and put on the face you wore for your family.
“There she is.” Your mom walked out from the car and hugged you. “God, you must be frozen, why weren’t you inside? Here, put your bag in the back. How was the flight?”
“It was fine, Mom.”
“Well you look tired.”
You both got into the car and sat down. She pulled out into traffic with the particular fearlessness of a woman who’d driven this same loop for thirty years. “Your sister came in on Tuesday, did I tell you? She’s staying through the week with the kids, so the house is full, I hope you don’t mind the noise. The kids have been asking about you nonstop and I mean, nonstop. Mason had something he wanted to show you, I don’t know what it is, something with cards.”
“Sounds serious.”
“Deadly serious.” She glanced at you, with the warmness that mothers usually do. “It’s good to have you home, sweetheart. It’s been too long.”
“It’s good to be home.”
You meant it, mostly. The small talk carried you out of the airport and onto the highway. Your mom was talking about the sister logistics, who was cooking what for Christmas, the saga of the neighborhood’s collective failure to not shovel the snow off the sidewalks. It was easy and familiar to you. The mountains came up white on the horizon and the light went long and golden the way it only did out here, and something in your chest loosened a notch despite itself.
When you finally turned onto your parents’ street, you saw the house next door and the notch pulled tight again.
You knew it was stupid and impossible but you told yourself you weren’t going to look at his house as much as possible while you were here. But your eyes went to it the way a tongue goes to a sore tooth before you could stop them. The same gray siding and black metal roof looked somewhat different now. There were actual curtains in the front window and a wreath hung on the front door. The whole place had the settled look of somewhere that was lived in.
And in the driveway sat a car you did not expect.
A black Porsche.You knew the car was expensive and it probably cost more than you made in a very good couple years put together. It didn’t look like the kind of vehicle that would be owned by a guy who told you he moved to the suburbs because he wanted normal. It didn’t fit. Normal men who renovated their own kitchens did not have a luxury car sitting out in their driveway.
You didn’t know what he did for work. All he ever said was work moved me a lot in that flat tone. That closed the door you decided not to knock on because you didn’t want to pry. It seemed polite at the time but now it was another piece that didn’t fit the others. And the not-knowing had teeth in the winter that it didn’t have in the summer.
Under the mystery the old hurt crept back up your throat. Because whatever he was, whoever he was, whatever that car meant, he still hadn’t texted you. And now he’s fifteen feet away, all week, and you were going to have to look at that finished house every single time you walked to your own front door.
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When you walked inside it was filled with warmth and chaos. You noticed the christmas tree in the corner of the living room and the smell of food in the kitchen. Your dad got up from his chair to hug you and tell you that you looked thinner, which was probably true. Your sister, Dani, was there with the loudness of someone you didn’t see nearly enough and hugged you. Your niece attached herself to your leg and your nephew appeared with an expression of grave importance. He immediately began explaining a card game with rules that seemed to change as he described them. Everyone was loud but it was good, it was distracting enough.
Your niece pulled you toward the couch to show you one of her toys and that’s when you noticed something was different.
The living room was a different color.
It had been painted beige your whole life. Now it was a soft gray-green. It was a nice color and it made the living room seem brighter. It almost looked like a color you would have picked yourself.
“Hey, mom, when did you repaint the living room?”
“Oh. You noticed!” Your mom was pleased, wiping her hands on a towel in the doorway. “Doesn’t it look nice? We’ve been meaning to do it for I don’t know how many years. Your father kept saying he’d get to it.” She said it fondly, the way she said most things about your father not getting to things. “That nice man next door offered to repaint it a few months ago, he said he had the ladders and drop cloths already from his own place. Wouldn’t take a cent for it. Did the whole room in one day.” She shook her head, still a little amazed by it. “Nicest thing. I made him a plate of dinner but he wouldn’t stay.”
“That was nice of him,” you heard yourself say.
“Very nice man.” Your mom went back toward the kitchen. “Keeps to himself, but very nice.”
You stood in the middle of the living room with the paint job that your parents wanted for years, the room he had painted and you didn’t know what to do with yourself. You were a little confused and it added to the list of things that didn’t fit the story you’d spent the last five months telling yourself.
“It’s a great color, Mom,” you called and you let your niece pull you down onto the couch and show you her toy.
It took you the better part of an hour to peel away and haul your bag up the stairs to your old room.
It was the same as it always was. Your bed was still in the same spot and the same posters on the wall that you picked out in high school. The same window that looked out over the side yard and the corner of his house next door. You dropped your bag and sat on the edge of the bed. The noise of the family muffled through the floor and you were hit with a wave of sleepiness.
You took out your phone and you told yourself you were just checking the time but your thumb was already going to your messages. You tapped on Leon’s name and scrolled up to the kitchen photo and the messages that made your face go warm.
And then you scrolled back down to the bottom, the last message you sent that was still on delivered.
You looked at the date.
July 27.
Then you noticed over the hedge and through your window, a light came on in the house next door. The kitchen light, warm and yellow in the blue dark. You turned your phone face-down on the quilt. You looked at the ceiling and told yourself, again, that it didn’t matter but it was getting harder to believe it.
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You woke up to the weight of your sister landing on the end of your bed and her voice way too loud for whatever time it was.
“Up. Come on. The children have plans for you.”
You cracked one eye open. The light peaking out from your window was gray, the kind of gray that usually meant fresh snow. Your sister was sitting on the foot of your bed already dressed and a cup of coffee in hand. She had a smug look on her face that looked like she had been awake for hours and intended to make it your problem.
“What time is it?”
“Late enough. Mason and Ellie want to build a snowman with you after breakfast. It’s very important. There’s apparently going to be a committee.” She sipped her coffee. “I told them you’d be thrilled.”
“Sooo thrilled,” you said sarcastically into the pillow.
“You sound thrilled.” She stood, then paused at the edge of the bed, and her voice dropped out of the teasing register into something lower. “Hey. You haven’t told Mom and Dad yet, right? About moving back?”
You came a little more awake. “No. Have you?”
“No, God, it’s not my business to tell them. I just didn’t want to walk into it blind if it came up.” She raised an eyebrow. “You’re still doing the whole—”
“I want to tell them at Christmas dinner.” You sat up, scrubbing a hand over your face. “I’ve got the whole thing planned. I think it’ll be a good surprise.”
Your sister smiled, softer now. “It is a good surprise,” she agreed. “They’re going to lose it. Mom’s going to cry into the potatoes.” She headed for the door. “Mom said breakfast will be ready in ten. Wear something you don’t mind getting wet, the committee has demands.”
She left, and you sat there in bed with the thought of moving back warm in your chest. The job back east had run its course, and the new one started in March, and it was here. Not this town exactly but about thirty minutes from here. It was close enough to be home for real instead of twice a year. You’d been carrying this around for three weeks and Christmas dinner was going to be the moment you finally let everyone know.
You didn’t in any of your planning, let yourself think about what it meant that “close enough to be home for real” was also close enough to a certain house, his house next door.
You got up out of bed and put on thermals under an old pair of jeans, thick socks, and a chunky sweater you found in your childhood dresser that you’d left behind years ago. Not cute, exactly, but warm.
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Breakfast was laid out with eggs, bacon and your mom’s cinnamon rolls, the good ones she only made when everyone was home. Mason was explaining the snowman to anyone who’d listen. Ellie had syrup in her hair already. Your dad was reading something on his phone and making the small disapproving noises he usually made when watching the news. You were halfway through a cinnamon roll when your mom dropped the words in the middle of the table like it was nothing.
“Oh. I invited the neighbor over for Christmas dinner. The nice man next door. He’s coming Christmas night.”
You put your fork down.
“What?” The words coming out sharper than you meant. “Why?”
Your mom blinked at you, mildly surprised. “Why? Because it’s the right thing to do. He’s over there all by himself, that whole big house, no family that I’ve ever seen come by. And after he did the living room for free, I wasn’t going to just let the man eat a sad dinner alone on Christmas.” She said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world, because to her it was. “It seemed lonely. He seemed lonely. So I asked, and he said yes.”
He said yes. Of course he did. He’d say yes to your mother in a heartbeat. He’d paint the walls and come for Christmas, apparently, everything except message you back.
“Well,” you said, aiming for light and landing somewhere short of it, “I’m sure that’s his choice.”
There was a small pause. Your sister glanced at you. Your dad looked up from his phone. Even your mom paused, her head tilting a fraction, and you felt the whole table register that the temperature had shifted a couple of degrees for reasons none of them could see.
"...Right," your mom said slowly. "It is his choice. That's generally how invitations work."
“I just mean it’s nice,” you said, picking your fork back up. “It’s nice of you.”
Your sister was still looking at you but you didn’t look back at her.
Mason, gloriously oblivious, chose that moment to announce that the snowman committee would be convening in the front yard in fifteen minutes and that your attendance was mandatory. The kids moved on from the table and you got up too. But you could still feel your sister filing what you said away and you knew that at some point today you were going to have a conversation you weren’t ready for.
You also knew on Christmas night. Leon would be here, at this table, three days from now and you didn’t know what you were going to do.
But for now there was a snowman that needed to be made, and its demands would not wait.
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The front yard was untouched with a clean sheet of snow. It was about six inches deep and glittering. The whole street was quiet the way it does after it snows. Mason took charge immediately, assigning roles with the authority of a small general: you were on base duty, Ellie was on head, he would supervise and handle “the important parts,” which remained undefined.
You didn’t mind though, you crouched in your mom’s too big coat and showed Mason how to roll the base so it picked up more snow as it went. Ellie was patting a lopsided lump between her mittens with tremendous dedication and no discernible technique. Your breath came out in clouds. Somewhere down the block someone was scraping the ice off the windshield of their car.
The snowman came together into something that was, mostly, snowman-shaped. It leaned slightly to the right. It had two rocks as eyes at slightly different heights, which gave it a permanently skeptical expression, and Ellie insisted on donating her scarf, which she would absolutely want back within the hour. The three of you stood back to admire it and it held and it was genuinely the ugliest snowman you’d ever helped build. You loved it a little bit.
“It needs arms,” Mason said gravely.
“It does need arms. Go find sticks.”
He went, with Ellie following after him because Ellie usually went wherever Mason went. You crouched there for a second alone beside your terrible snowman, hands cold and breath fogging. You let yourself just be in it with the quiet as you watched the kids gather the sticks.
Then you heard a loud bark in the distance.
You recognized that bark before you turned around. You wished you didn’t but some part of your brain had somehow catalogued that exact bark and never let it go. Your stomach dropped a full second before the fluffy tan-and-white blur came running through the snow. You had just enough time to think oh no before the dog hit the snowman at a dead sprint.
It exploded. There was no other word for it. The head fell one way to the ground and the scarf went another and the skeptical rock eyes vanished into the powder. The dog barreled straight through the wreckage and into you. Sixty-some pounds of pure fluff, both front paws in the snow at your feet and his whole back half wagging so hard he could barely keep them there.
Ellie shrieked and Mason shrieked louder, delighted, the snowman instantly forgotten in favor of the vastly superior dog. You were down on one knee in the snow with the dog’s tongue across your jaw, you started laughing despite yourself, hands full of cold fur and your heart doing something complicated.
“Hey,” You said to him with a soft voice. “Hey, buddy. Look at you. You’ve gotten so fluffy.”
He remembered you. He shouldn’t have but he was pressed into you like no time had passed, whining, trying to get close, and you buried your face in the ruff of his neck for a second longer than you needed to. You knew it was easier than looking up because you knew what was coming next.
“Buddy. Hey, hey.”
Leon was jogging toward you, with no coat, gray henley, jeans and boots. He’d clearly shoved on in a hurry. He pulled up short about ten feet away when he saw you, and he just.. Stopped. The dog didn’t care about any of it, if anything, the dog was in heaven. But the two of you looked at each other across ten feet of trampled snow and a demolished snowman, and every easy thing you’d never even got to rehearse went straight out of your head.
Leon looked good. It was unfair and it was the first thing you noticed. A little more gray at the temples than July, maybe, or maybe you’d softened the memory. The same pale blue eyes. The same way of going still and reading a situation before he committed to it. But now you knew that stillness wasn’t calm, and you watched him do the math of you, here, in the snow, in front of him, and arrive somewhere that made his jaw tighten.
“Hi,” he said.
Five months of nothing. And hi.
“Hi,” you said back.
The dog looked between you both, thrilled, certain this was the greatest thing that had ever happened to anyone. Behind you Ellie was already demanding to know the dog’s name, and Mason was informing her that the snowman looked “way better now,” and the cold was getting into your knees where you knelt in the snow.
"He, uh." He gestured at the ruined snowman, at the general catastrophe, and something that wasn't quite a smile pulled at the corner of his mouth. "Sorry about your—"
“Snowman?”
“Yeah. Buddy.” Leon snapped his fingers. “Come.”
“Buddy?” You questioned.
“...Yeah.” There was a hesitation before it, small but there, like the name cost him something to say out loud in front of you. It caught you off guard but you didn’t know why.
And that hesitation, for whatever reason, was the thing that tipped the irritation over in you.
“You know,” you said, and your voice came out cold, “you really should get him a collar if he’s going to keep running out like this. And maybe keep a better eye on him.”
You watched the way he took it and didn’t flinch. He didn’t defend himself either, because he knew as well as you did that you weren’t really talking about the dog.
“Yeah,” he said quietly. “I should.”
He didn’t argue and that was almost worse. You wanted him to push back, to give you something to actually be angry at and instead he stood there in the snow and agreed with you.
You brushed the snow off your knees and stood.
“You kids want some hot chocolate?”
Your mom’s voice carried across the yard from the front porch completely oblivious. You turned to see her standing in the doorway in her slippers with a dish towel over her shoulder, beaming out at the snow like the whole scene was a Christmas card she’d staged herself. Her eyes landed on Leon and lit up.
“Oh. Leon! I didn’t see you out here. Perfect, come in, I was just about to make some hot chocolate for the kids. You’re coming for Christmas anyway, might as well start now.” She said it the way she did everything, like it was already decided and it utterly irritated you.
You watched him navigate her question. You watched him want to say no. His weight shifted with the polite decline already on the tip of his tongue and you watched him bite it.
Mason and Ellie were gone, thundering past him, Buddy chasing after them playfully into the chaos.
“I don’t want to impose,” Leon said.
“You painted my living room, you’re not imposing.” Your mom was already turning back inside. "Come on, before it gets cold. Bring the dog, the kids'll love him."
Bring the dog, the kids’ll love him. Those were the exact words you’d said to him in July, at his own front door. It landed in your chest like a stone dropped down a well, and when you glanced at Leon he was already looking at you like he remembered it too. For a second neither of you had anywhere but each other to put your eyes and then he looked away.
“Yeah,” he said to your mom. “Okay. Thanks.”
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The kitchen felt stifling hot and you were losing your mind.
Your mom had Leon sitting at the dining room table with a steaming mug of hot chocolate pressed into his hands with the determination of a woman who considered a lonely neighbor a personal project. The kids had gone feral. Mason had claimed the chair beside Leon and wouldn’t stop talking about Buddy exploding the snowman. Ellie had abandoned the table entirely for Buddy on the floor.
“What kind of dog is he?” Mason demanded.
“He’s some kind of shepherd.” Leon said. “The shelter wasn’t sure. Could be a little bit of everything.”
“Can he do tricks?”
“He can sit. When he feels like it. Which isn’t very often.”
“Buddy!” Mason spun in his chair. “Buddy, sit!”
Buddy was sprawled across the kitchen floor on his back with Ellie hugging him. He, of course, did not sit. He thumped his tail against the cabinet and wriggled deeper into the attention, one back leg kicking as Ellie found a good spot behind his ear. He looked like the most content dog in the world.
“He’s not sitting,” Mason reported.
Ellie had both arms around the dog’s neck now, her face buried into his fur. “He’s so soft,” she informed everyone. “He’s the softest dog. I love him. Can we keep him?”
“No sweetie, he’s not ours,” your mom said, delighted. “But I’m sure Leon will let you visit.”
“Buddy can come to my birthday,” Ellie decided. Buddy licked her cheek and shrieked with joy. Mason immediately demanded the dog to lick his cheek too.
“Alright, alright. Buddy.” Leon didn’t raise his voice and snapped his fingers once. “Come here. Sit.”
He got up off the floor, trotted around the table, and sat down at Leon’s feet.
“How did you do that,” Mason said in an amazed tone.
“He likes to make me look good in front of company.” Leon scratched behind the dog's ears. “Don’t get used to it, kid. He’ll be back to ignoring me by dinner.”
Leon watched the kids with that look you remembered. Like a man enjoying the warmth of a fire from just a little further back than everyone else. But this time there was something softer in it, like the distance had shrunk.
And that’s where your brain left the room.
You tried to be normal. But instead you were floating about a foot outside your own body, leaned against the counter with your hot chocolate you haven’t been drinking, watching Leon get along with everyone like he belonged here. The sound of everyone went muffled and far away.
“And you remember Leon, honey, from the Fourth of July, right?”
You were a thousand miles off with the question sailing clean past you.
“Honey.”
You finally perked up.
“Yeah.” You paused. “Hi.”
“Hi,” Leon said back, just as carefully. The two of you performed acquaintances so hard the air went stiff with it.
Across the table your sister’s eyes moved from you, to Leon, and back to you.
Your mom’s brow twitched. “You okay, hon?”
“Yeah, I’m fine.”
“You sure? You seem a little—”
“I’m fine, Mom.”
She glanced at your untouched mug. “Is the hot chocolate bad? I think I might’ve put too much milk—”
“No. It’s fine. It’s good.” You made yourself take a sip to prove it.
Ellie, meanwhile, had gotten up to follow Buddy around the table. She dropped back down beside him to bury her hands in his fur again. She petted him with the intense, wobbling focus of a five-year-old, and then in the way small children have no filter, she looked up at Leon and asked:
“Do you have a wife?”
“Ellie.” Your sister put a hand over her eyes.
But Leon just huffed, unbothered with that quiet almost-laugh. “No,” he said. “No wife.”
“Why not?”
“Ellie. Oh my god.” Your sister reached over and pulled Ellie to her side. “You can’t just — we don’t ask people that.”
“It’s alright.” Leon was still faintly amused, still scratching the dog.
Ellie, apparently done with her interview, reached up to the kitchen table and grabbed a marshmallow out of the open bag. She ran to the other side of Leon to feed it to the dog.
“Ellie, no—” You pushed off the counter, moving toward her. “He can’t have that, that’s not for—”
“He can’t have those,” Leon said at the same moment, reaching for her little fist. “They’re not good for him.”
And your hands met over Ellie’s hand.
It was just a graze. His fingers over the back of yours for a quarter of a second. You pulled your hand back, not in a dramatic way, but you felt it go all the way up your arm and settle hot somewhere behind your ribs. When you glanced up he was already looking at you.
Your sister saw it and you knew it.
“Okay, no marshmallows for the dog,” you said, too briskly, prying the squashed marshmallow out of Ellie’s fingers. “Buddy can’t have those, they’re bad for him.”
“He can have a piece of cookie later,” Leon offered Ellie in a soft tone. “The plain part. No chocolate, chocolate’s bad for dogs. But a little bit of the plain part, that’s okay.”
“Okay,” Ellie agreed and went back to loving the dog with her whole body.
You walked back to the kitchen with the squished marshmallow and threw it away.
Mason, who had been quietly assembling something at the table, slapped a battered deck of cards down in front of Leon.
“Do you know how to play Kessel?”
Leon looked at the cards. “I don’t think so. Is that a real game?”
“It’s my game,” Mason said. “I’ll teach you. It’s easy.” He was already dealing and slapping the cards down in uneven piles. “You have to get three of the same cards but not the same color, unless you have a wild, then it’s four, and you can’t look at the middle ones until someone says go.” He pointed at you without looking up. “You’re playing too. We need three people.”
“Oh, I don’t—”
“You’re playing,” Mason said as authoritatively as a seven-year-old kid can be.
You sat down across from Leon and Mason was sitting next to you. The card game rules seemed to change based on Mason’s needs at any given moment, while Ellie narrated from the floor. Your mom refilled everyone’s cocoa and pretended she wasn’t watching the whole thing like a hawk.
“Okay, go,” Mason announced.
You picked up your cards. You had no idea what you were doing and neither, blessedly, did Leon.
“So I need three that match,” Leon said, slowly, studying his hand, “but not the same color.”
“Unless you have a wild.”
“What do the wilds look like?”
“They’re the ones with the star. Or the moon. Not the sun, the sun ones are worth negative.” Mason said like it was obvious, like Leon was being deliberately slow. “Do you have a moon?”
“I have a —” Leon turned a card around. “Is this a moon?”
“That’s a sun.”
“They look identical, Mason.” You chimed in.
“They do not.” Mason was scandalized and Ellie from the floor told Leon he was “Very bad at this,” and Leon accepted the critique with grace. And you laughed before you could stop yourself.
Leon glanced up at the sound of it. Something a little wistful crossed his face before he looked down at his impossible hand. You felt the laugh die in your throat as you remembered, all over again, that you were supposed to be angry with him.
You picked up another card that was a sun and it was worth negative something. You had, apparently, already lost.
“You’re bad at this too,” Mason informed you.
“Yeah,” You said, smiling at Mason. “Yeah, I guess I am.”
The game wound down with Mason declaring himself the winner and no one argued.
Your mom took the moment to refill Leon’s mug one more time.
“So, Leon. What is it you do? For work, I mean. You’ve got that lovely car, we were all wondering.” She laughed lightly. “You’re not a bank robber, are you?”
It was meant as a joke, an easy question to fill the strange air.
“I, uh.” He turned the mug in his hands. “I worked for the government. For a while.” A beat. “It’s — complicated. Retired now, mostly.”
Government. You filed him saying government next to the Porsche and everything else that didn’t fit. The pile getting taller.
“Well,” Your mom said smiling. “We’re glad you ended up next door.”
Leon didn’t stay much longer after that. He read the room and read you, probably. He finished his cocoa and thanked your mom. Told the kids to take good care of Buddy for him. He was gracious and easy.
Your mom walked him out to the door, chattering about Christmas, told him to not bring anything, just himself. And at the door, Leon paused and his eyes found you across the kitchen. There was something in them, like he wanted to tell you something before deciding not to. All he said was:
“See you Christmas.”
He stepped out to the front porch with Buddy reluctantly following him.
The door shut and the whole house was quiet.
Your mom and sister looked at each other then at you.
“I’m going upstairs,” you announced. You set your mug down in the sink and fled with both of them watching you go the whole way back up.
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You didn’t even get to sit down on your bed before your door opened.
“Okay.” Your sister came in and shut it behind her, hot chocolate still in hand. “What was that.”
“What was what.”
“Oh, come on.” She leaned against the door. “The energy between you and Leon was weird as fuck.” She paused. “You know him.”
“I– it’s complicated.”
“Tell me.” She sat her drink down on your dresser and sat down on the end of your bed, pulling one leg up under her. “Go on.”
So you told her all of it. The dog. The barbecue. The fireworks. How easy he’d been to be around. And the part where you went home with him at the end of the night, and what that turned into.
“Shut up.” Her hand flew up over her mouth. “In July? And you didn’t tell me!”
“I didn’t think it was a whole thing.”
“It clearly is a whole thing.” She was grinning now, delighted, leaning in. “I can’t believe you hooked up with the hot mystery neighbor! I have to say, sis–” she nodded slowly. “I’m kind of impressed. I didn’t think you had it in you.”
“Hey!” You swatted her arm.
“Ow!” She laughed, rubbing it.
“You’re such a bitch sometimes.”
“I know. But you love me.” She bumped her shoulder into yours.
You looked down at your hands and started picking a loose thread on the quilt. You felt the grin fade off your face.
“I kind of wish we didn’t hook up.” You said, almost whispering.
The laugh went out of her. You felt her shift beside you, turning to actually look at you.
“Wait.” Her voice dropped. “What do you mean?”
“He– we texted for like three weeks after I went back home. Pretty much every day. And then he just—” You hesitated. “He ghosted me.”
“Oh.” A beat. ” Shit. Really?”
“Mhm.” Your throat did something and you swallowed it down. You wound the thread tighter around your finger. “I thought it was going somewhere. Stupid me.”
“Hey. No.” Dani reached over and put a hand on your knee. When you finally glanced up at her, her face had gone soft. She held your eyes for a second. “That’s — okay, that’s weird. That’s not a fun-summer-fling thing.” She frowned. “But men are weird. And he’s older, right?”
“Yeah.” You wiped a tear under your eye with the heel of your hand. ” What does that have to do with anything?”
“I don’t know. Maybe he got in his head about the age gap and freaked out.” She said it gently, offering it to you like it might help.
“Maybe.”
“Look, I’m just guessing, I have no idea what his deal is.” She leaned back on her hands, watching you. ”But I saw the way he looked at you today. He’s still into you. That much I’d put money on.”
“That’s the whole problem.” You gave the thread a final tug and it snapped loose in your fingers. “I’m still mad at him and I still want him, at the same time. I just wish he’d tell me why he stopped.”
“He’ll be here in a couple days.” She reached over and pulled a piece of hair out of your face. “So ask him.” She held your gaze. “And for what it’s worth. I don’t think him ghosting you is what you think it is.”
You looked out the window instead of her.
“It still doesn’t change what he did.”
“No.” She stood, gathering her mug off the dresser. “It doesn’t. But talking to him’s the only way you’ll find out. So talk to him.” Dani smiled and pulled you into a quick hug, then headed for the door. “And you have to tell me everything he says, immediately.”
The door clicked shut behind her.
I don’t think him ghosting you is what you think it is.
You didn’t want to sit in that. And you for sure didn’t want him to be weirded out by the age gap, though at least that would be a reason. A real one, even if it didn’t matter to you in the way it apparently mattered to him. You could live with he thought he was too old. You’d braced yourself for something like this since July. It was almost comforting, in a bleak way, to have your sister hand you an explanation that made him a nervous man and not a cruel one.
But it didn’t make it hurt any less.
You took off your socks and lay back on top of the quilt. The exhaustion from all of the events of the day had worn you out. You thought just for a minute you were going to lie down. But something about the snow falling softly outside and the familiar sounds of your family below made you fall asleep completely.
You slept, and you didn’t know for how long. Long enough that the gray sky outside had gone dark.
Then you felt a hard buzz just inches from your head and the loud ding made you jolt awake, heart going before your eyes were open. Your hand fumbled for the phone. The screen was bright in your dark room and you squinted at the words.
warning: age gap (reader’s mid 20s-early 30s), annoying brat!reader, piv, wet dreams, masturbation, pussy slapping, angry car sex (kinda hate sex but not really), minor choking, sexual tension, voice kink, mentions of dead bodies, themes of field investigation, violence, viral mutations, weapons and physical training (literally just DSO stuff)
w/c: 8.3k
notes: I just saw a tt of this idea, so I had to do this asap. hopefully this suits the person’s idea, if not, I’m glad I made this. you can find part two here. (@uzmacchiato for dividers)
-present time: month two, 9 pm-
The car was engulfed in silence, rain poured heavy against the vehicle slackening the roads and blurring the city lights into long, watery streaks. The wipers dragged across the windshield in slow arcs, Leon’s eyes remained firm on the dark road, jaw tight enough that you could faintly see the worked up muscle clench against the blue lights. One hand was white knuckled gripping the wheel, the other was glued to his inner thigh folded into a firm first.
You sat stiff and awkward in the passenger seat, arms crossed over your chest as if you were wrongfully reprimanded (some would say that you were). Neither of you had said a word since getting in the car, just sat in silence for ten painful minutes. You were too busy stubbornly staring out the window and he was busy giving you well deserved silent treatment. It’s been like this for two whole weeks. Constant bickering, constant arguing, constantly having to put up with your bullshit.
Leon exhaled through his nose, eyes set on the blur in front of him, ears ringing from how fucking quiet it was. And it’s weird because Leon has dealt with much, much worse, but something about you just worked him on his last nerves. He’s literally fought the worse of the worse, but you just got under his skin in a way he couldn’t shake.
You were assigned to him on a cold Monday morning, loud confident and painfully honest. The first three hours he had with you were bliss, you listened, you nodded all eagerly and got along with the others. The second you were fully alone with him, you completely switched, lips pouted, arms crossed, eyes rolling at every thing he said.
Leon had tried, really tried, to be patient. He’d even given you the whole, ‘I’m not as scary as I seem’ speech.
Didn’t matter.
You talked back, you argued, you sassed him.
-day one, 8 am-
Leon stood in the hallway outside the training room, arms crossed, trying to look approachable. It wasn’t really working.
You were escorted by someone whose name you kept forgetting, walking up to him as you eagerly scanned the place. You didn’t even notice that the person left, not even bothering to introduce you to Leon, but it wasn’t really like you needed an introduction. You heard a lot about him.
“Rookie,” he greeted gruffly with a nod, your attention turning away from the framed photo on the wall beside him. You blinked up at him, giving him a small smile as you tried your very best not to ogle. “Welcome.”
“Thanks.” It was quick, a little too friendly and curt, but the words stuck in your throat like your body was forcing you to not word vomit to Leon of all people. All 5’11, tired, stubble blessed calmness wrapped up in the hottest dilf you’ve ever seen.
You blinked, clearing your throat awkwardly. “What did you say?”
He eyed you once, exhaling slightly before nodding to follow him. “First day jitters is normal. Try not to let it get to your head.”
You followed him like a lost puppy, staring at the back of his head letting your eyes just naturally trail along down his shoulders and arms. You weren’t able to stop in time at his abrupt stop, colliding into his back in a quick smack that had you letting out a loud oof in surprise. He immediately turned around, barely budging as he looked down at you.
Silence.
Heavy, suffocating silence.
“Maybe try to walk beside me and not behind me.”
“Right, sorry.”
Leon lead you to the training room, giving you side glances every now and then to make sure you weren’t stumbling over yourself again.
“Are we immediately going to train?” You asked loudly, stepping in front of him and turning around as you walked backwards just so you could look at him.
“Did you think we were?”
“Aren’t we?” He stared at you silently, glancing behind you at the rapidly approaching wall, stopping a few feet from a nearby door so you couldn’t go smacking into it. “Can we?”
“I think it’s a little more custom to show you around and introduce you—”
“I just want to get to the good stuff.” You interrupted impatiently, looking down a nearby hallway before rocking back and forth on the balls of your feet.
“I’m sure we’ll get to that soon.”
“What’s down there?” You pointed with one finger, Leon looked down the hallway with you, turning to look at you again.
“Offices.”
“Oh, okay.” You trailed off, looking up at the ceilings for some type of directional cues. “Whose office?”
“Important people.”
“Do you have an office?”
“No.”
“I thought important people have offices.”
Leon breathed in slowly at that, eyes boring into you. “What was that?”
You looked at him again, eyebrows raised slightly. “Huh? Oh, I meant, just— y’know…”
He let you stumble over your words, eyes meeting your avoidant ones until you quickly turned to go down the hall. “You’re going the wrong way.” He said simply, watching as you did a full 180 and walked the opposite direction.
This is going to be a very long day.
-day two, 4 pm-
He could still hear your voice echoing in the back of his head, unnecessary comments, rapid-fire questions, annoyed sighs. Everything went down hill after showing you around, he blamed it on nerves. That was the only thing that stopped him from questioning his own sanity.
Leon stared at the ceiling.
He’d been through hell.
Literal hell.
And yet somehow you were the one testing his mental health.
Leon was focused on the briefing folder in his hands, blocking out your nonstop seven minute rant. He honestly wasn’t even sure what the fuck you were even talking about, or how you had so much to talk about. He hoped you would’ve just tired yourself out and stopped talking completely, but you never did.
“…and I’m just saying, why would he expect perfection out of me for our first drill? It was so unfair. I didn’t have breakfast either, I slept through my first alarm, so I had to drink some gross smoothie my roommate made. Do you like smoothies, or are you more of a milksh—”
Leon closed the folder slowly.
“You done?”
You blinked at him. “Well, no? I was just about to ask if you liked milkshakes more than smoothies. I can understand if you do, sometimes I prefer milkshakes more.”
He just let you ramble on, opening the folder again to quietly read the contents. Inhaled through his nose and reminding him that you were new, he was a professional, he’s been in your shoes before. It’s just nerves. It’s just nerves.
“Also, you walk a little too fast. Could you slow down a bit?” At your question, he immediately stopped walking, turning to the side to face you as he closed the folder.
“You have to keep up.” He spoke softly, extending the folder for half a second like he was debating on letting you read it but decided not to give it to you.
“But I can’t really keep up with you if you’re taller than me.”
He opened his mouth, closed it, and looked down at the folder for some divine intervention to help him out of this interaction. “Okay, I’ll walk a lil’ slower.” He looked back at you with a tight smile, walking in an awkward languid stride.
He was starting to miss zombies again.
-day five, 12 pm-
Leon crouched beside the evidence marker, gloved fingers tracing the edge of a blistered wound on the open neck of the victim. You watched as he examined the scorch pattern on the concrete, head tilting as he examined the body. You stood behind him, arms crossed, rocking on your heels.
“What am I supposed to be doing?” You stepped onto the tips of your toes, peeking over his shoulder to watch his gloved hand as he
“Observing.”
“I already am.”
“Then you’re doing what you need to.”
You fell quiet, staring at the back of his head before quickly crouching beside him, stepping so unnecessarily close that your shoulders bump together. “Is that a bite or a burn?”
Leon doesn’t look up, and you’re not sure if he’s aware of the close proximity or just doesn’t care. “Burn. High-temp, chemical.”
“Can I examine it too?”
“No.”
“Am I supposed to just watch you?” You asked curiously, turning at the sound of his knees popping as he stood upright again. Your gaze lingered on his legs, inching up slowly, slowly before craning your neck to look up at you. He was looking off into the distance, scanning something you weren’t able to see. “I could help you if you told me.”
“It’d help me if you were quiet,” you could tell he didn’t mean to say it, just a slip of his mouth that he wasn’t able to stop in time. Your eyebrows furrowed in defensiveness, lips curled into an offended pout as you stood up. His head quickly turned to you, eyebrows lifting slightly in recognition. “I’m sorry. It’s easier for people to focus on the evidence when it’s a bit… quieter.”
You looked away, mumbling to yourself before digging the tip of your shoe into the dirt. For the tiniest of seconds, he actually felt bad, watching your shoe scrape in the dirt and the way your shoulders curled in slightly. He approached you quietly, head ducking slightly to try to catch your eye, one hand hovering over your shoulder. “Hey..”
You finally lifted your head, eyes narrowed just a little in that bratty, dramatic way that had him immediately pulling back. “Is your lack of patience a compensation for your inability to be in full control of others?”
He sighed sharply, giving you a slow nod as his eyebrows raised quickly in that ‘figures she’d start something’ kind of way. He hummed lowly, blinking down at you before tugging on the edges of his sleeve. “I’m used to working alone. That’s all.”
You blinked, pursing your lips together to try to offer some advice, but he cut you off before you opened your mouth again. “Maybe you should wait in the car, hm? I think we could both use a break.”
For a moment, the air between you softened. Just a little. You stared at him for a long moment, eyes flicking along his face before shrugging slightly. “Fine by me.”
You walked past him, glancing over your shoulder to sneak another peek at him as he turned around, the broad expanse of his back moving slowly against the tight fabric of his shirt. You lingered by just long enough to watch the muscles move, eyes trailing up along his shoulders before hurriedly dipping into the safety of the car with a shaky exhale.
-day seven, 3 pm-
The warehouse was dark, cold and stuffy, reeking of mold and whatever organisms were too busy growing in between the walls. Leon figured it would be a good idea to bring you out to the field with him. Exposure therapy. It was more in hopes that whatever happened was scare you into not being an insufferable brat for two minutes. It was a terrible thought to think, especially about a new recruit, especially by someone he was training.
It seemed like you were purposefully stepping too close to him, he could feel the warmth of your body seeping into his personal space. You lingered exactly three inches away from him, chest nearly pressing into his back in an incredibly distracting way. He had cast you two stern looks to try to give you a silent reminder on this new thing called personal space, but nothing seemed to click.
He held up a fist, a clear signal to stop. You kept walking too distracted on the creepy, dark hallway to the right of you to notice his signal. You bumped into his back, hard enough that you were sent right back into a déjà vu moment of your first day. You quickly looked up at him, hoping he wouldn’t send another firm, cold look towards your way. Leon slowly turned around, eyeing you up and down once before walking forward after a long period of silence.
You winced to yourself, focusing on the back of his shoulder and the extend of his arm as he held his gun out. He took a sharp turn left towards a crate covered in yellow stickers, but you were a fraction too slow to turn. He quickly grabbed the back of your crate, tugging you towards him with such simple ease you were certain your stomach butterflies multiplied into frantic moths.
“Stop,” he said simply, keeping your vest firm in his grip, looking sternly at you in a way that had your cheeks warming. “Pay. Attention.”
“I am.” You rebutted to yourself, watching as he shook his head, but motioned for you to follow him before moving towards the safety of the crate. You listened this time, mainly staying behind him just to proudly stare at the way he moved.
-day thirteen, 5 am-
The sky was still dark when Leon stepped out of his car, eyes heavy, shoulders stiff. You were already waiting at the entrance of the building for him, quickly rushing forward at the sight of him stepping out.
“Good morning,” you smiled sweetly, handing him a small paper cup of black coffee. He looked down at it in silence, rubbing the side of his stubbled jaw before cautiously taking the cup. “Nice car.”
You peeked inside the car through its windows, squinting as you tried to scan the interior. Leon just wrapped an arm around your hip, politely turning you away. “Thank you.”
“I guess the higher ups had to repay for not giving you an office, huh?” You joked lightly, nudging your elbow against his, but he just blankly stared at you. Taking a long sip of his coffee, and maintaining that eye contact, he nodded once.
“Not much of a morning person?” You asked, quickly following after him as he took three steps off the street. He inhaled through his nose, taking another aggressively large gulp. “It’s a beautiful day out.”
At your words, he looked up at the sky, subtly looking around for the beautiful day you were talking about. “Where?”
You pressed your lips together, motioning around at the semi quiet area. “Everywhere.” Leon gave you a look, glancing down at the half drunken coffee in his hand before humming lowly.
“Drink a lot of these?” He motioned with the cup.
“How’d you know?” You tilted your head at him, skipping in line as he stepped up the stairs of the building.
“Just a hunch.”
You nodded to yourself, feet subconsciously pattering in line with his strides. He stopped at the top of the stairs, turning to you before he opened the door. “You seem tired, Leon.”
“Do I?” He said sarcastically, opening the large front door for you. He stepped behind you after you entered the building, quickly tossing the coffee into a nearby trash can.
“So, I’m taking it you’re not a morning person? Are you more of a night owl? Or maybe like an evening…stallion?”
“I’m always tired.”
“Why?”
“Because of you, kiddo.”
You paused, puffing your cheeks out at the very appealing fact of Leon being awake all night because of you. You cleared your throat, trying not to dwindle too much on thoughts of what he’d be doing all alone late at night. “You saying I keep you up?”
He nodded simply, but his head snapped around at the sound of your poorly muffled snickers. He tilted his head at you, a short, genuine chuckle slipping from his lips as he realized the hidden innuendo of his words. “Yeah, that’s real cute.”
Your brain literally short circuited at the sound of his laugh, eyes blinking once at him as if he had sprouted angel wings and a glowing halo.
-day eighteen, 1 pm-
You and Leon are sat side-by-side in the briefing room, legs pressed together in a professional, bordering on inappropriate way. The director drone on about mission parameters and potential targets. You weren’t too sure, you stopped listening six minutes ago. Your leg was jittering up and down, foot bouncing sporadically against cold tile. Every now and then, your foot would nudge against his boot, and even though he’d occasionally nudge his foot against yours to get you to stop, you physically couldn’t. It was like your body just needed the physical reminder that he was just within reach.
You sat up straight as the director glanced your way, eyes scanning the room to ensure everyone was still paying attention. You peeked a fast side glance his way, then another, trying to savor the look of his side profile.
You nudged his foot once.
Nothing.
Nudged again.
Nothing.
Nudged a third time.
Nothing.
He just sat there, actively listening to everything the director said, not even sparing you the smallest of glances. You nudged his foot again, and he was quick to reach down under the table to grab your knee. You stared down to where his hand engulfed your knee, forcing your leg still. His jaw flexed, muscles visibly clenched to keep from speaking while the director was.
You looked up at him again as he pressed enough force against your thigh that you could feel the heat of his palm through the fabric of your pants. You kept still, slowly blinking up at his stoic expression. After a moment of keeping you in place, he unfortunately pulled away from you, the warmth of his hand disappearing almost immediately.
You waited about two seconds before nudging his foot again.
-day twenty four-
The two of you sat silent in a filing room, sitting on a metal table, you watched Leon as he stared down at the newly filed report in his hands. You could see the way his eyes shifted back and forth as he reviewed the mission report, checking over for anything he might have missed. You leaned forward towards the edge of the table, legs swinging back and forth before you cleared your throat.
“How’d I do?” He set down a pen nearby beside you, running one hand through his hair before looking at you.
“If you hadn’t ignored two of my commands, you would have done better.”
You sighed softly, looking down at your thighs as you brushed off a small speck of lint from your pants. Leon’s eyes followed the movement, turning to look back at the report.
“So, like on a scale from one to ten?”
“Six.”
“A six?” You repeated in shock, eyes wide as your head snapped up to him fast enough there would’ve been a cartoonish whoosh of air.
He shrugged, patting you by the hip to motion for you to get down. You quickly hopped off, snatching the pen from the table and clicking it aggressively a few times. “Well, you did…better. Than last time.”
“Really?”
“Mhm.”
“By how much?”
“On a scale from one to ten?” You nodded at him, to which he looked away deep in thought. “One.”
-day thirty three, 10 am-
You handed Leon the file he asked for, but not before giving him a once‑over. He gave you a double take, eyebrows furrowed at the sudden look but turned to study the file. His eyes flicked up from the paperwork, catching the way your gaze lingered a little too long on his hands. He quickly looked down at the papers, trying to ignore the burning feeling of your eyes on him.
“You look like you slept well last night,” you said suddenly, and he had to force himself to not look up at you. “Did you?”
“I guess so, yeah.”
“Does that mean you’re not thinking of me anymore?”
At that, his eyes looked up to meet yours, eyebrows tilted up ever so slightly. “Excuse me?”
“Oh, I mean, like— a few weeks ago you said that y—”
“I know what I said.”
“Is that a no?”
He looked down at the file, not answering your question, but his silence was enough of an answer for you. You pressed your lips together in annoyance, shoulders squaring slightly like you were getting ready to pounce on him. You stared at him, chewing on the inside of his cheek as you debated on how to get his attention again.
“Maybe it’s a good thing then. People your age need all the sleep they can get.” He blinked at you, tucking the file under his large bicep.
Bingo.
“My age?”
“Yeah. Y’know, like… an older guy.”
For a moment, you could see the puzzle clicking together in his head, the loud debate on whether he was going to entertain your stupidity or not. He blinked slowly, turning around to start walking down the hallway. You huffed under your breath, rushing a little to catch up to him. “I didn’t mean it in a bad way. Sleep is important for everyone, but more important for older people.”
He nodded silently, stepping out the building and walking to his car, not bothering to check to make sure you were following because he knew you well enough to know that you were following him like a baby duck. “I slept really good last night too.”
“Yeah, that’s good, kid.” You hummed happily to yourself, hands behind your back as you rounded the car to reach the passenger side.
You swung the door open, stumbling inside before slamming the door behind you. You waited until he got in the car, door closing with a soft thud before grinning at him. “Do you normally stay up late thinking of me? Isn’t that a bit unprofessional?”
“I think this conversation is unprofessional.”
“You didn’t say no.”
He shifted in his seat as he clicked his seat belt on, leaning against the leather cushioning as he stared at you. He turned the car on with a quick motion of his wrist, resting his hand against the bottom of the steering wheel. “Put your seatbelt on.” He said curtly, looking out the window until he heard the soft click of the belt.
“…Leon?”
“Yes?”
“Are you embarrassed because of my question?” You leaned forward, hands on the center console as you pushed through his personal space bubble like always. He looked over at you, peeking towards the windows as he started the car.
“No.”
“But you didn’t answer my question.”
“Your question doesn’t need to be answered.”
“But not giving me an answer makes it seem like you do think of me.”
“Yeah, I see you in my nightmares.”
-day thirty nine-
The building was quiet for once, the kind of late‑evening lull where most agents had already gone home and city around had gone quiet out of respect for long days. You were exhausted, body heavy, eyes droopy, mind all foggy from a day of investigations and identifying viral mutations. The sights were burned into your head, staring at vials under a UV and spending hours trying to identify which one is which, what they look like when they take a host, which one is more deadly. And don’t even get started on the amount of filing you’d done.
Who knew the DSO required so much work?
The clock on a nearby wall ticked towards midnight, dim lights peered out from closed doors of other agents who were trying to wrap up their last bit for the day. You hadn’t seen Leon since that abandoned building earlier today, and honestly, you were starting to miss his brooding self, even if it had barely been only thirteen hours since you last saw him.
You’re holding a cup of lukewarm coffee that you’ve neglected to drink because you were too busy running around reviewing case files you didn’t fully understand. You’re sitting on the floor of an empty hallway, back against the wall and a small handful of paperwork spread out awkwardly against your lap. You reread the same sentence you’ve been stuck on for five minutes, trying to get your mind out of its temporary brain freeze.
Footsteps echoed from down the hall, you quickly pull your legs into a lopsided pretzel, blinking up at the pair of legs with a tight polite smile. You’re fully expecting to see some random person giving you a concerned look at the disheveled sight of you. Leon appears from the corner, jacket off, sleeves rolled up to his forearms, hair slightly mussed from running his hands through it too many times.
He stops when he notices that it’s you on the floor and not another stressed out newbie. “You’re still here?” He asked, voice low and hushed. For the first time since he’s met you, and probably for the first time today, you don’t speak.
Or complain.
Or correct him, or make fun of him for stating the obvious.
You were just quiet, brain running on 20%, body slumped over in fatigue and face completely calm in similar ways it would be when you’d just woken up from a peaceful sleep. He lingers in front of you, watching as you gave him a slow nod before crouching down in front of you. “What are you working on?”
“This...” You trailed off as you tried to find the right words, but eventually gave up and opted on giving him the report so he could read through it instead. Your eyes shift from his own, watching them flick left and right as he read, before dipping down to where his arms hovered over your knees.
“How long have you been at it?”
“Uhm…what time is it now?”
Leon watched you for a moment, arms crossed loosely. It was strange seeing you like this— not poking at him, not trying to get a rise out of him. Just… relaxed.
He gently grabbed the rest of the papers from your lap, standing up slowly. “C’mon, you’re done for the night.” He extended his hand out to you, to which you quickly obliged, reaching out to allow your hand to be blanketed in his.
He pulled you up with ease, his hand steady around yours as he tugged you towards him. You stumbled forward slightly, legs half asleep from the position you were in, standing closer to him than you meant to be. You quickly straightened up, smoothing the wrinkles on your pants as you took a small step back.
“Grab your stuff,” he looked down the hall as you quickly bent down to grab the coffee cup from the floor, his eyes flicking momentarily at the curve of your ass. “I’ll take you home.“
You turned to him with eyebrows raised. “No, that’s okay, you don’t have to—”
“I know,” he cut in gently. “I’m still doing it.”
There was no room to argue, not with the way he quickly turned to walk down the empty hall. You rushed after him, the building humming quietly around you as he glanced over to the side to ensure you were nearby.
“You shouldn’t be here this late.”
“You were here this late.”
“That’s different.”
“How?”
He didn’t answer, just pressed the elevator button and waited, arms crossed against his chest. The elevator doors slid open, and he gestured you inside with a small tilt of his head before following after you. The doors closed with an eery shut, sealing the two of you in a quiet metal box lit by soft fluorescent light.
You leaned against the wall, watching the levels tick down. “What were you doing?”
“Work.”
You looked over at him, glancing in his hands for the paper or files he would’ve been working on but you only found the ones he took from you. “Where’s your files?”
“Submitted.”
“Oh.”
He looked over at you, giving you a slow hum. “I’ll keep these in my car until tomorrow.” He just stood there beside you, keeping the files tucked under his armpit.
“Thanks.”
By the time you reached the garage, the air was cold enough to make you shiver, night air biting aggressively at your face. Leon unlocked the car with a soft beep, stepping around the vehicle to open the passenger door for you. You slid into the passenger seat, sinking into the warmth of the interior. Leon got in a moment later, shutting the door with a soft thud that echoed in the quiet garage.
He started the engine, the dashboard lighting up in soft blues. The radio stayed off. You provided him your address, but for a while, neither of you spoke.
You watched the way his hands rested on the wheel, the way his eyes darted around the roads as he drove. The ride was surprisingly relaxing, the perfect amount of comfortable silence needed for such a late night.
When he finally pulled up in front of your building, he shifted the car into park but didn’t say anything. Didn’t even look at you, just sat there, hands resting against the wheel, eyes forward. You unbuckled slowly, glimpsing up at him before swinging the door open. “Thank you, Leon.” At the sound of his name, he glanced your way, giving you a slight nod.
The cold air hit you the moment you opened the door, but the warmth from the car clung to your skin. You stepped out, closing the door gently behind you. You walked toward your building, your footsteps soft on the pavement. Halfway up the stairs, you turned back towards the unmoving car.
Leon was still there, still watching. Sitting in the quiet glow of the dashboard lights, eyes following you until you reached the door. He didn’t even look away when you turned back. You turned towards the front door with a shaky sigh, swallowing the lump in your throat as you unlocked it.
Stepping inside, you quickly peeked out the nearest window at the sound of the low rumble of his car pulling away. You smiled to yourself, biting your bottom lip before rushing up to your bedroom.
The peace was nice while it lasted.
-day forty, 1 am-
Leon could feel the weight of your body on top of him, the tight suction of your cunt around his cock had his head tipping back, guiding your hips against his own. Each breathy little gasps and moans filled his ears, cock twitching inside you.
Heavy eyes were stuck to your every move, watching as you bounced up on his length, trailing down to the jiggle of your tits. The slick sounds of your pussy rang in his ears, breathing heavy as he stared up at your face, soaking in every inhale you took. Leon gripped your hips tighter, one hand sliding down to grope at your ass lifting up and connecting down against the flesh in a firm smack.
Lost in the feeling of you, he was only dimly aware of a distant ringing sound until the shrill trill of his cell phone shrilled loudly, slicing through the haze of lust. Leon's eyes flew open, his body rigid as he jolted awake. The first thing he saw was the empty expanse of his bedroom, the rumpled sheets tangled loosely around his bare legs. The second was the unmistakable heat and dampness between his own thighs, sticky and cool in the wake of his precum his cock throbbed against his sweats.
With a low, frustrated groan, he slowly sat up against his headboard, staring off into space as his phone continued to ring. He didn’t even want to give his dream a second thought, but the painful heat in his gut made it incredibly hard to.
Leon cursed under his breath. “No fucking way.” He hesitated, glancing over at his phone as he reached out for it. He let the phone ring until the call naturally ended, watching the notification of a missed phone call from Claire. His cock throbbed angrily at its neglect, one hand fisting tightly around the blanket.
Leon laid back on his bed, the faint moonlight filtering in through the half-open blinds. His mind drifted to the thought of you, just for long enough that he could physically feel the leak of precum coating his underwear. He dragged a hand along his face, trying to wipe the thoughts away.
It didn’t really make sense. You were annoying. A sassy fucking brat who spoke back on every little thing he said, constantly pushed his buttons. But the longer he thought about it, the more he pictured you, like a flashing red light of warning that only made the straining erection in his pants worse.
As if summoned by his thoughts, Leon's hand drifted down to palm his growing erection straining against his sweatpants. He groaned breathlessly, eyebrows furrowed slightly. Shielding his eyes with one muscular forearm, Leon slipped his hand into his sweatpants and wrapped it around his cock. A shudder of warmth rippled through his body at the contact, his breath catching in his throat as he began to stroke himself with slow deliberate pumps.
He tried to block out the memory of you from his mind, but almost like it was on cue, a flash of you bending over popped up. His thumb pressed against the weeping head, dragging along the slit before sliding down to squeeze at the base. “Oh ffuckk.” He breathed shakily, and for a moment he could feel the warmth of you around him, could nearly hear the soft, breathless whines that left your mouth.
With a low exhale, he removed his arm from his face, dragging his pants down until the weight of him slapped up against his stomach. He moved his other hand, wrapping his fingers back around the girth base, the pinkish head flushed and leaking. His calloused palm glided up the thick length, circling around the swollen crown before sinking back down.
His climax approached swiftly, muscles tensing and stomach clenching as his hand worked over his cock. He breathed out laboredly, head pressing against the pillow under him as he mumbled out your name. At the last possible second, his hips jerked up into the tight fist of his hand, cock twitching and pulsing as thick ropes of semen erupted from the tip. Jet after jet of his cum splattered against his hand and stomach, painting himself with his own release.
For a long moment, Leon could only lie there gasping for breath, his heart pounding against his ribs as the lingering echoes of his climax slowly faded. The night was dark, the only sound the distant wail of a siren echoing through the quiet city streets outside. He sighed heavily, eyes fluttering closed as his cock slowly softened.
“I’m so screwed.”
-present time-
The rain had softened to a steady hiss against the car, the two of you both actively avoiding each other despite being within three feet of one another. Leon kept his hands on the wheel, jaw set as he was trying very, very hard not to think about how irritated he was.
You hadn’t spoken since the argument.
He hadn’t either.
Then you shifted in your seat, clearing your throat as you looked at him. “Are you mad?”
Leon’s eyelid twitched. Just barely. “I’m not mad.”
“You look mad.”
“I’m not.”
“You sound mad.”
“I’m not.”
You stared at his side profile, leaning forward to try to force him to look at you but his gaze remained steady on the road. “Did I embarrass you back there?”
“Rookie.”
“What?”
“Just say what you need to say.”
You perked up slightly, leaning back against the seats. “So, earlier, when you said I was being reckless—”
“You were.”
“—I wasn’t.”
Leon’s head turned so slowly it was almost mechanical. “You ran into a room without checking your corners.”
“But you were beside me, couldn’t you do it too?”
He stared at you. Actually stared. Like he was trying to decide if you were joking. He pressed his tongue along the inside of his cheek, turning back to stare at the road.
“Leon.”
He ignored you.
“Leon?”
Still silent.
“Are you seriously giving me the silent treatment? Aren’t you a little ol—”
“Rookie.”
“Yeah?”
“Stop. Talking.”
You raised an eyebrow at him, scoffing to yourself before looking out the window. The car fell silent again. Leon’s grip on the steering wheel had gone from tense to white‑knuckled, his jaw locked so tight it looked painful. You could practically feel the irritation radiating off him. You shifted again, just enough to make the leather seat creak.
“So,” you said, keeping your eyes on the scenery around you, “you’re definitely still mad.”
That was it.
Leon’s hand shot out, turning the car sharply towards the side of the road. Tires hissed against the wet pavement, his hand quickly turning the engine off which idled and hissed to sleep. He didn’t speak for a moment. He just sat there, deep breathing like he was trying to keep himself calm.
Then he turned to you.
Slowly.
“Sweetheart,” he said, voice low and tight, “I am trying, really trying, to keep my composure. But you are making it extremely difficult.”
You blinked once, pointing to yourself. “Me?”
“Yes. You.” He ran a hand through his hair, unbuckling his seatbelt to physically turn and face you. “You don’t listen,” he started listing things out on one hand, fingers extending at every annoying thing you’ve done for the past two months. “You argue with everything I say. You run into danger like you’re invincible. And then you sit here and poke at me like it’s a game.”
You opened your mouth, but he held up a hand.
“No. No. This is where you stay quiet and listen.”
Your mouth zipped shut. You swallowed, suddenly very aware of how seriously angry he was.
“You do realize, I’m responsible for you,” he asked, waiting for you to silently nod your head to make sure you were actually listening. “I cannot do my job if you won’t let me.”
The car went silent again, but it wasn’t the same silence as before. It was this heavy, tense kind of tension. You stared at him, blinking slowly as you shifted in your seat trying to relearn how to breathe.
Despite the harshness of his words, you couldn't ignore the way your body reacted to his stern lecture. A thrill raced through you, settling low in your belly as you met his heated gaze. The furious set of his jaw, the intensity burning in his eyes—it sent a secret, shameful pulse of arousal through you. You knew it was wrong, but the way he was looking at you, speaking to you with such authority... it was incredibly exciting.
“I’m sorry.” You mumbled softly to which he let out a curt chuckle.
“Oh, you’re ’sorry’?” He tilted his head at you, watching the way you immediately just nodded your head at his echo. He looked at you for a moment longer, taking in the way your face darkened in embarrassment and the slight downturn of your lips into the pout he knew all too well. Realizing he might’ve overreacted, he quickly looked away, arm resting against the center console as he scratched the side of his jaw.
He couldn't shake the lingering ghost of his dream, the feel of you against him still etched into his skin. “Leon?” You spoke hesitantly, gently tapping him by his elbow to check on him. His head turned to look at you again, but the more he looked at you, the more he thought of that fucking dream.
And then he an insistent, throbbing ache deep in his groin. He shifted uncomfortably in his seat, shaking his head slightly to try to ignore the pulsing heat building between his legs, but you took it as a silent shut down. You anxiously sat there, oblivious to his internal struggles.
He couldn't focus, couldn't think straight. All he could do was let the silence trudge onward, as he battling the temptation clawing at his insides. He finally looked at you, eyes darkened as he drank in the sight of your chest heaving up and down. With a low, muttered “fuck it.” he surged forward, one calloused hand cupping your jaw as he captured your mouth in an intense kiss.
You gasped, eyes flying wide open as you jerked back in shock. The two of you looked at one another in tense silence, and almost like he realized the severity of his actions he slowly pulled back. Before he could open his mouth to explain himself, you quickly reached out for his upper arm to pull him into another kiss. Your lips parted instinctively to welcome the warmth of his tongue.
Your hands fisted in his hair, arching into his chest as your lips moved eagerly against his. The kiss deepened, growing more urgent, until Leon's hands slid to your waist, ensuring you were unbuckled before yanking you out of your seat. In a single, swift motion, he pulled you onto his lap, one arm wrapping around your waist to hold you tight against him.
His other hand searched around for the lever to push his seat back a few inches, before sliding up to rest against your ass. His lips left yours, leaving you huffing for air as his mouth trailed down to your neck, nipping at your pulse point. Your head lolled to the side, warmth running through your body like a furnace.
His fingers dug into the soft flesh of your ass, kneading and squeezing as he pushed your hips forward. You could feel the hard outline of his erection against your thigh, sending a sharp throb straight to your cunt. He pulled away from your neck, hands traveling around your hips before sliding down to wrap around your thighs to force you to sit up. “Do you want me to—to take off—”
“Yeah.” He breathed out heavily, watching you with heavy lidded eyes as you nervously fumbled with the buttons of your pants. His hands lingered over yours to make sure you didn’t need help before sitting back as you wriggled out of them. He could’ve gotten a heart attack at the sight of your lacy, see-through underwear, damp path spreading in the middle.
You quickly undid his zipper, shifting back as he lifted his hips up and tugged his pants down until they pooled awkwardly around his knees. Three fingers dipped under his boxers to free his cock, the crown leaking a tear of precum. His hand disappeared somewhere by the seat, forcing the chair back to give him extra leg room.
You stared down at the sight of his length, not even attempting to blink in case this was the best fucking wet dream ever. “Can I take these off?” You glanced down at his hands as they hovered by your panties, immediately nodding. He carefully slipped the fabric down, down until they were free from your legs, jaw going slack at the sight of your dripping slit. “Holy shit.”
His large hands gripped your ass, fingers sinking into the pliant flesh as he guided your movements, pulling you down to meet his cock. The two of you gasped in unison, back arching at the contact as he slowly rolled your hips against his, watching the way his cock nestled in between your lips. “L-leon.” You whined lightly, his cock immediately throbbing at the sound of your voice, another glob of pre leaking out to rub against you.
Leon’s eyes stuck on your face, eyes dilated and breath labored as he struggled to speak. “I know, I know, just gimme a sec.” He strained out in between a rumbling groan as the head of his cock caught at your entrance. He continued to guide you against him, grinding up against you little by little until the tip of his cock started inching against your hole.
You clenched around the intrusion, sucking a strained gasp from his mouth. His hands tightened around your hips, one heavy palm rubbing against your ass before giving it a quick plap. “Relax a little for me, baby.” He squeezed a handful of ass, one hand moving to wrap around his cock the same way he did the other day, except this time he was nudging his length inch by inch inside you.
You tried to ease up a bit, but it was like your pussy was trying to suck him in one go, walls clenching tight around the head of his cock. “Fuck. Keep gripping like that and I’ll cum before I even get all the way in.” Leon grunted, pulling out just to bring his hand down against your cunt in a warning smack. You flinched at the temporary pain, a surprised moan slipping from your lips as he took the opportunity to slide his cock into your slick heat.
His large hands gripping your hips as he guided you to straddle him, thighs pressing against thighs. Your pussy fluttered around his length, taking a second to get used to the sheer thickness of him. Your slick arousal dripping down onto his thighs, pussy stretched obscenely around him.
“Oh god.” You muttered to yourself, attempting to roll your hips forward only to be met with the nudge of his cock against your g-spot.
“It’s okay, I got you.” He reassured softly, fingers rubbing against your skin as he experimentally jerked his hips up, studying the way your face twisted up into a whiny moan.
You started to move, lifting yourself up until just the swollen head remained nestled inside your entrance. Then, with a roll of your hips, you sank back down, taking every throbbing inch of his hard length deep inside your soaked, clinging heat. His eyes followed your movements, one hand sliding up to wrap around your arm to tug you against his check. You gasped against his shoulder, the sound sending straight to his cock as his hips bucked up subtly.
Your movements started to grow desperate, hips moving up and down to feel the drag of his cock against the spongy, sensitive spot. “Mm fuck fuck,” you grunted breathlessly, head leaning against his shoulder, tilting down to watch as your pussy sucked him.
“Doing s’good, keep going.” He praised, his hand firm around your arm to keep you arched against him. His other hand rested around your hip, lightly ghosting over your movements.
His words spurred you on, and you began to bounce on him in quick hops, your hips rolling down against his. His hand smoothed up along your back, running back down to give your ass another firm slap just to feel the way your pussy clenched around him. The slick sounds of your coupling filled the car, windows fogging and lewd slaps of flesh against flesh forcing the car to creak in time with the movements.
Leon thrust upwards to meet your downward pressure, hips smacking against yours with each bounce. His heavy-lidded gaze remained locked between your face and the fast bounces of your hips, eyebrows furrowed in concentration, watching every flicker of pleasure.
His hand slid up to your bouncing breast in front of his face, cupping the soft swell before squeezing the tender mound, rolling the stiff peak between his fingers. He pinched and tugged on your nipple, forcing out another strained moan as his fingers curled around your throat. His grip tightened slowly, enough pressure to make your pulse pound against his palm, thumb pressed against your jaw as he guided your face towards him.
He pressed a slow kiss on your lips, cupping your jaw in one hand as he breathed heavily at the eager clench of your pussy. “You getting tired?” He asked against your lips, to which you quietly nodded, moaning as he snapped his hips up again. “Gotta get that stamina up, hm?”
“Keep going.” He said shortly, glancing down at the ring of cream leaking down his length. His hips continued their relentless rhythm, the thick head of his cock kissing your cervix with each buck.
He could feel your body trembling, could see the way your eyes fluttered shut as the pleasure became too intense. But he didn't let you slow down, hips snapping up to meet yours every time you’d slow down. You gasped heavily, back arching as a wave of warmth rippled through your spine. You shivered against him, falling limp against his chest with a broken moan as your climax crashed through you.
Your cunt clenched down around his length, soaking his cock with your release as your toes curled and you spasmed over him. Leon watched in rapture, mouth slightly open as he felt the liquid squirting against his legs. But he wasn’t done with you. He forced you to ride out the waves of your orgasm on his cock, your body jerking and shuddering above him as he thrusted his hips up.
Only when your climax subsided did he slow down his thrusts, breathing still ragged as he watched you come to. You rolled your hips slowly, one hand resting on his shoulder as he tilted his head up to stare at you more. You looked in between your legs, pulling your hips up until his cock slipped free, coated in your arousal. “You didn’t— did you come?”
His hands rested on your ass cheeks, giving you a slow grin as he shook his head. “No, but it’s o—”
“Let’s go to the back.” He looked at you in a split second of surprise, watching as you stumbled off his lap and crawled to the cushions of the seats behind him. He turned to watch you, cock jerking in his grip as he rushed up to follow you. He watched as you laid back against the seating, legs spread apart.
Even though he appears confident, genuine compliments can fluster him. When someone tells him he's handsome or expresses pride in him, he is often left momentarily speechless. This reaction surprises those who know him, as he usually carries himself with an air of self-assurance. However, beneath that exterior, he values others' opinions deeply, making their kind words not just heartwarming but also a bit overwhelming. In those brief moments of silence, his mind races as he searches for the right words to respond.
RE4!Leon, who watches you from afar.
In any setting, whether it's a formal event or a casual trip to the grocery store, Leon's eyes are always on you. After sacrificing so much of himself for his job, the last thing he wants is to lose the part of himself that matters most: you. He understands that true fulfillment lies not in his career, but in the moments he shares with you. Every glance is a reminder that you're his priority, the anchor that keeps him grounded amidst the chaos of life.
RE4!Leon, who is scared of starting a family.
When Leon was younger and first met you, the instant connection with your family was enough to make him obsessed with starting his own. Initially. When everything went down in Spain, his desire for children started to dull and eventually dissipate entirely. Leon no longer sees himself as the family man he once did, now only a mess of nerves and suppressed anxiety. In his eyes, a man like him would never have what it takes to be a father.
RE4!Leon, who never forgets a date.
Leon keeps track of birthdays, anniversaries, and holidays in his internal calendar. You never have to worry about one of those awkward conversations because he forgot a special occasion. His thoughtfulness shows just how much he cares, making each celebration feel truly special. It's a comforting feeling to know that he cherishes these moments as much as you do. With Leon around, every milestone is honored and every memory treasured.
RE4!Leon, who's quick to get defensive.
A crowded bar, sticky chairs, and a man approaches you, drunk and inappropriate. "You're too pretty to be alone," he says, his hand brushing against you. You quickly scan for your boyfriend. Leon spots you and rushes over, yanking the man's hand away. "Keep your hands off her," he warns. The man raises his arms. "I was just being friendly," he says. Leon steps closer, his tone serious. "Friendly doesn’t mean touching someone without consent."
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RE4!Leon, who is extremely possessive.
He's had so many things taken from him, but he'll be damned if you're one of them. In public and in the bedroom, your eyes are to be on him, and only him. If putting a collar on you is something you'd be into, Leon absolutely would. Nothing flashy, just a small plaque placed elegantly around your neck with his name on it, 'property of' if he's feeling bold. If a collar is too much for you, his name or initial on a necklace is acceptable.
RE4!Leon, who pants.
Unlike when he was a young lad and would whimper like a puppy, pleasure paints itself on Leon's face like pain. Furrowed brows, lips, jaw, and teeth clenched, he breathes heavily through his nose. A particularly deep angle may cause his mouth to fall open, a soft "Hah—baby—" following.
RE4!Leon, who can be a bit of a pillow princess.
After all the hard work he's put in, Leon finds it difficult to muster the energy to engage intimately with his partner. The exhaustion from his long day weighs heavily on him, making even the thought of physical effort feel overwhelming. All he really needs is to lie down with his head on a pillow while his pretty girl strokes him just the way he likes.
RE4!Leon, whose dirty talk is elite.
We all know Leon has some of the corniest dad jokes. However, in the bedroom, his usual jocular attitude is replaced with a vocabulary that melts your brain the moment he opens his mouth. "You're so perfect, baby," or "Fuck, baby, I could stay buried in you all day," or my personal favorite, "Squeezing me so tight, pretty girl."
RE4!Leon, who'll fuck you hard after an argument.
He knows he messed up. Whatever he said to you, not that it matters, was enough to trigger the silent treatment. Unfortunately for him, spoken apologies are useless right now, only resulting in ignorance. Fortunately, though, he knows what will work. That's why Leon has you bent over the kitchen table, moaning his name and forgetting everything about what got you here in the first place.
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SUMMARY: nothing crazy, really… just you and Leon trying something new!
CONTENT: 18+ - mdni! piv - THEE. PRONE BONE SESSION (I drool), headlockinggg, reader’s a bit subby/soft-dom leon (maybe?), creampie, heavy petting, praise kink goes crazy in this. I implied that reader is a bit curvy/chubby, but it’s still fairly neutral so read it however you want. a really messy alternating pov but whatever. lovey dovey shit fr fr.
WC: 1.7k
NOTES: this is nothing more than a leon kennedy’s moobs-and-biceps appreciation fic (inspired by “my moon my man” by feist). **also! I had re4r Leon in mind while writing this but it’s not at all specified so you can honestly imagine whatever Leon you want.**
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“You okay, baby?” Leon cooes low at you, his voice smooth and dangerously molten.
“…H-hmm—uh huh.”
“Good. That’s good.”
Your boyfriend’s mouth drags along the ridge of your shoulders. With a light kiss of his teeth, and a few well-placed tentative licks to the sticky skin, he’s making the concerted effort to claim all of you. His. His, as you’ve been countless times before. His, as you will always be.
Your throat is dry; hoarse and cracked, and he hasn’t even entered you yet—but you can’t help it. He had already pulled one orgasm out of you earlier with his mouth and his hands, but now, as he pins you to the bed with his knees and chest, you swear you might come again at any moment.
You’re incredibly sensitive right now, having already been keyed up so high. Leon, of course, has absolutely no problem using this fact to his advantage.
“You’re shaking, baby,” he says quietly, warm breath curling around your ear.
“What?” you hiccup.
“You’re shivering.”
As if to prove his point, his hands—calloused and strong from years of use—dance along your sides. They move from the dip of your hips to where your breasts bulge at their sides.
Sighing, you say, “Well, when you do that…” and bury your face into the mattress.
Leon laughs and your body absorbs it like it’s your own. As if your bones are conductors, the sound sends an addictive jolt to the pulsing organ in your chest and between your thighs.
“We don’t have to do this, you know, if you’re too nervous.”
You’re quick to shake your head and even quicker to arch back into him. A little absently, you think then about how in this position, you two slot perfectly together—like you were made to fit.
“Want to,” you add weakly. “Wanna do this with you, Lee. Please.” For good measure (as if your words in all their breathy, whiney nature weren’t indicative of how you felt), you start to roll your hips back. Leon groans loud.
His flushed, hot tip rests just inches away from your weepy hole. He watches you flutter on nothing; as the slick pooling there catches the silvery moonlight strobing through the bedroom window. You look so pretty like this, he thinks. God-sent and lovely and all his. To take, to have, to hold…
Your hips move again, slowly, dangerously, and Leon stops you with a hard hand to the dip of your spine, making you squeak. “Baby…” he warns.
“Leon, please. Please, honey…wan’ you so much.”
Leon inhales, all sharp and shaky. “Alright…yeah, yeah, okay. …Whatever you want, baby.” He kisses your spine once more as he crawls up your body.
With his thighs bracketing yours, he pushes down on you with the hard line of his abs. His pecs—all swollen and round and slick with sweat—cement to your shoulders. The sheer mass of his body feels as if it’s swallowing you whole. You preen at the contact, letting out a mewl so pathetic you even surprise yourself.
Gradually then, with the kind of control and calculation he exhibits at work, Leon pushes his thick head through your gummy walls. He’s so painfully hard that it takes everything in him to go slow. And, by the time his pelvis is flush to your ass, he already feels spent.
The crook of Leon’s chin hooks around your shoulder ensuring his face is firmly pressed against yours. He pants heavy in your ear, and out of the corner of your vision, you see his face flush a berry-red.
“Fuck, baby. You—shit—y’feel—”
“Leon…‘m ready.”
The man nods, mainly to himself, before pressing a chaste kiss to your collarbone. Slowly—just as slowly as he entered you—his hips draw back. The languid drag of him has you grasping aimlessly at the sheets; the thick vein that curves around his even thicker cock is relentless in catching the ridges of your walls. In this position, you’re able to feel all of him. “God, Leon...”
Of course, sex with Leon has always been something else entirely…but this? There aren’t enough words in any language to describe the way you’re feeling right now.
“I know, baby, I know. I need you just as bad,” Leon purrs. You just nod along, jaw falling as Leon slowly slides back into you. He braces himself then, arching and tightly curving over your figure.
“How do you want it, baby? Like this?” His hips speed up then, shallow thrusts that have your thighs immediately stinging with the friction of being stationary. Still, you groan, eyes rolling back into your head as he keeps pace. After a while, Leon shifts over top of you again. “Or do you want it like this?” With steady hips, he suddenly slams forward, the action practically punching your soul straight out of your body. You cry when his head shoves directly into that spongey notch deep inside you.
Desperately, you reach for the hand braced by your head. Leon locks your fingers with his before bringing them to the soft skin of his mouth.
“Hm, you like that?” You try to crane your head so that you can meet your boyfriend’s eyes, but Leon ‘tsks’ at you. You aren’t at all ashamed by the attempt or his response, though. It’s done without any sort of malice. Nothing more than light teasing, born from a place of reverence and pure, unadulterated love. “Use your words, baby. Gotta know you want it. Need to know I’m making you feel good, y’know?”
“Shit, Le—yes. Yes, like that. Fuck—“ you manage to eventually get the words out, only for another thrust to leave you blubbering.
Leon lets go of your hand, but only for the briefest of moments, before his fingers come up under your jaw. He cradles your face as he finds your mouth, a curtain of his blonde hair hanging low over your eyes. He licks at your own tongue, at the corners of your lips, behind your teeth… Any and every inch of space he can reach becomes learned in a matter of seconds (as if he already wasn’t so intimately accustomed).
Because of the pillow beneath your hips, Leon’s able to fix his grip on you every once in a while—whether the pads of his fingers are digging into the tempting plains of your waist, or the fat of your shuddering thighs. Each thrust has his pubic bone bouncing against your ass in an even, but incredibly hard-hitting pace.
Leon nips at your earlobe, gently tugging on the loose flesh so as strengthen (or perhaps ground) his dwindling resolve. In little time, he feels the effects of his impending orgasm: his balls tightening against your puffy clit, dick swelling deep within your walls…
You’re just so warm, and so wet, and so…so good to him, so good for him, Leon can’t resist the flurry of emotions threatening to escape him. “Fuck, I love you. Love you so much, baby. Always so tight for me. Shit. Y’love sucking me in like this, don’t you?”
“Leon…” is all you can manage to say. It’s the only warning your hazy brain can conjure up; the only thing on the tip of your tongue other than another strangled whimper.
Leon understands though. He always does.
You’re close. Really, really close. The sound of your squelching slick as he rifles through you over and over; the way your spine arches and your feet start to helplessly kick out from beneath you—it’s all the confirmation he needs.
The muscles in his arms have begun to strain, a sharp tightness that blooms from his wrist all the way up to his shoulders. He takes the opportunity then to collapse onto you, carefully accommodating some of his weight with his knees so as not to smother you entirely (though he would without question if that’s what you asked).
The sounds of your whines pitch higher and higher with every snap of his hips. You’re shaking again, though this time it’s for sure an unconscious act. In relieving his arms from the awkward angle, Leon’s able to wrap an arm around your head, and you nearly choke on spit when you realize what he’s doing.
Leon’s arm—meaty bicep, veins, and all—rests safely against your collarbone, holding you snug to his chest. His cheek is pressed to yours again, so close that you’re convinced you’re practically becoming one (as if you haven’t already…). You’re both two halves of one heart stitched together; all haphazard, but terrifyingly real.
“I need you to come for me. Can you do that, baby? Can you make a mess for me?” His voice is a beautiful ragged sound—one that in any other situation would have you pushing your hips back to meet his. But not this time. Leon has you locked in place, pliant and safe as the knot of your orgasm pulls tighter and tighter, threatening to snap.
So with that, you opt to just nod into Leon’s arm, albeit rather weakly. Suddenly, you feel a different kind of pressure come up between your hips.
Leon somehow managed to sneak his free hand down to your cunt, calculated fingers once again toying with your clit in easy circles. And that alone that has you coming with a sharp and stuttered gasp. While you shudder and twitch, Leon continues his ministrations; humping and grinding into you while his own release crests.
He grunts and huffs as he spills into you, as if his fucked-out body can’t decide on which sound it wants or needs to make. Regardless, all that really matters is that you’re holding on tight to him, whispering something about how good he makes you feel and how much you love him.
Of course, Leon has to return the sentiment tenfold. He doesn’t say it exactly like how you did (he’s never been the best with words), but as he cleans you up, petting your head and kissing everywhere the damp cloth doesn’t—from the inner curve of your knee, to your navel, to the hollow of your throat—he knows that you understand.
Because this is how you love each other. You, through your words, and him with his actions and adoring eyes.
[TAGS] — rookie!leon, cowgirl, established relationship, normal!au, premature ejaculation, piv, no female orgasm (sorrae), virgin!leon, experienced!reader (somewhat), leon loves boobs, not proofread (it's 2am..)
[A/N] — I was supposed to write and post this like 2 weeks ago OOPS. I got caught up at anime expo and met real Leons (best experience of my life). But everything is slowing down now so I should get back to my regular schedule soon!
the morning started off with leon showing up at your door far earlier than he should’ve. he had a bouquet of your favorite flowers, messily held together with makeshift paper bag wrap. tucked between the stems was a folded note with a little “happy birthday :D” on the front.
the rest of the day was a constellation of little moments that fit together perfectly. breakfast at your favorite diner where he’d memorized your order. wandering through bookstores and record shops, pretending he wasn’t secretly buying something you eyed a little too long.
an afternoon at the arcade where he cheered for your victories and terribly failed to win you a plushie (then claiming the claw machine cheated). by the time the sun began to set, he took you to a quiet overlook of raccoon city with some takeout and a cupcake. he lit the single candle with a lighter he kept for emergencies and shielded the flame with his hands.
“I don’t know what you wished for,” he whispered, a grin spreading across his face. “but I’ll make sure it comes true.”
by the time you reached his apartment, the excitement of the day settled into something softer, more domestic. his place was dim except for the warm glow of a lamp in the corner.
“I’d say today was a success,” leon sighed, stretching an arm along the back of the couch behind you. “I avoided ruining your birthday.”
“barely,” you giggled.
“oh? barely?”
“you only worried about every little thing all day.”
his cheeks flushed a soft pink. “can you blame me, though?”
you leaned against his shoulder. leon glanced down at you with that shy smile he always wore when he thought you weren’t looking. “thanks for spending today with me.”
“as if there was anywhere else I’d rather be.”
his expression softened as he reached up to brush a loose strand of hair behind your ear, his fingertips lingering against your cheek for a second longer than they needed to.
then, his lips met yours with the same gentle certainty he’d carried through the entire day. it was soft, careful, and unhurried, like he wanted to memorize every second. one kiss became another, each one lingering just a little longer than the last.
but then, leon pulled away. his breath hitched and his palms grew slightly damp when he saw the intense desire reflecting in your eyes.
“I-I think I’m ready,” he whispered, a warm flush creeping up his cheeks. “I want to do it, I want my first to be with you.”
your eyes widened at his words. your relationship with leon had moved at a much slower, more deliberate pace than your past ones, but you wouldn’t trade it for the world.
“are you sure? we don’t have to do anything if you’re not completely ready,” you said softly, brushing his hair out of his face. “I don’t want you to feel pressured just because it’s my birthday…”
“n-no, I’m sure,” he said firmly, his hand gripping your thigh firmly. “I love you…and I can’t see myself doing this with anyone else.”
your heart melted at his confession. you couldn’t help but kiss him again. “I love you so much,” you murmured against his lips. “and I’m not just saying that because you want to give me your virginity.”
leon chuckled, his hands resting on your hips as you moved to straddle his lap. his breath hitched when your fingers danced beneath his shirt, slowly stripping it from him. “just tell me if I make you uncomfortable, okay? want you to feel good, too,” you said softly.
he nodded quickly, like an eager puppy waiting for a treat. his eyes went wide and followed your every move as you slowly slipped your shirt off as well.
“woah…” he breathed out.
you couldn’t help but giggle, your hands coming up to cover your chest. “what?”
“you’re gorgeous.”
he practically lunged for you, his lips making contact with your neck. his hands came up to gentle pry your hands away so he could see you properly. you sighed softly, melting into his touch.
“you’re too sweet,” you whisper, fingers tangling in his hair as he sucked love bites into your skin.
leon’s fingers tried to unclasp your bra but failed miserably. he looked up at you with sad, dejected eyes. “I’ve never done this before,” he mumbled, his cheeks turning pink.
you reached back, easily undoing the hook and tossing it to the side. “I know, baby, I know,” you cooed. your hands reached for his, guiding them to your breasts. his hands were clammy, shaky, but eager nonetheless. you moaned softly as he fondled you gently.
“holy shit,” he whispered, letting out a chuckle. “I’m so hard right now.”
you pressed against the raging boner beneath you, letting him feel your throbbing heat. “yeah?”
leon sucked in a breath, his head tipping back against the couch. he let out a strangled sound, somewhere between a whine and a moan. “baby, please,” he begged.
obliging, your hands reached for his belt. in a flash, his pants were discarded and yours were left somewhere across the room.
“do you wanna use a condom?” you asked, your fingers slowly stroking his length. he was already leaking and throbbing, looking as though he might explode any second.
“what do you want to do?” he breathed out, his eyelids drooping heavily. “wanna make…ngh~ you feel good…whatever you think is best…”
you cocked a brow, a soft smile touching your lips as you slowly slid him between your folds. “you sure?” you whispered.
leon’s fingers dug into your hips, his eyes squeezing shut at the feeling of your wetness drenching him. “y-yeah, I’m sure, baby.”
he let out a moan the moment you bottomed out. your body collapsed forward over his, completely overwhelmed by the intense sensation of him hitting all your most sensitive spots. your nails dug into his shoulders, desperately trying to stabilize yourself against the rush of pleasure.
suddenly, a sharp gasp caught in your throat as you felt his lips on your nipples. looking down, you saw leon eagerly sucking on them, his features contorted in pure bliss as his tongue lapped over the sensitive peaks. your core clenched tightly around him at the sight, drawing a sharp, breathless wince from deep within his chest.
“baby…’m not gonna last long,” he whimpered, his voice cracking as his eyes grew watery, staring up at you with utter devotion.
“it’s okay, just let it feel good,” you murmured, leaning down to press a soft, reassuring kiss to his forehead.
leon whined, a desperate, broken sound as his teeth scraped against your nipple. his hips jutted up beneath you, completely starved for the sensation, greedy for more of the agonizing friction. “I-I can’t-” he stuttered, his entire body suddenly going rigid beneath yours.
his fingers locked onto your waist with a bruising grip as he thrusted up one more time. you could feel the intense, rhythmic pulse of his release slowly filling you up, a deep warmth that overflowed until it was slowly leaking down your thighs. he buried his face in the crook of your neck, chest heaving heavily.
“w-wait, you didn’t…” leon breathed out, his voice incredibly small and raspy. his lower lip gave a tiny, subconscious twitch as he realized he finished without you.
“just breathe, baby. don’t worry about me,” you chuckled softly. you leaned down, pressing a tender kiss to the tip of his nose, your fingers smoothing the fringe clinging to his forehead.
leon whined, a sweet, embarrassed sound as he hid his face in the crook of your neck, his arms wrapping around your waist to pull you down flush against his chest.
“I’ll make it up to you,” he mumbled against your skin. “I promise. just,...give me a second…”
you couldn't help but smile, combing your fingers through his soft hair as he held you close, content to just melt into his warmth.
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Summary: Leon Kennedy just moved in next door to your parents, and you're only home for the week. It's the Fourth Of July. There's a barbecue, a dog that doesn't have a name yet, and the man next door who says he moved to the suburbs because he wanted normal, for once. You've got just one night. Might as well spend it wisely.
WC: 6.5k
Warnings: SMUT, MDNI, protected sex, P in V, consent, older man/younger woman, fluff, age gap, oral (female receiving), soft Leon
Notes: RE9 Leon, set the week of the Fourth. My first fic ever! Hope you enjoy!
Original post on ao3
Playlist I made for this fic
Link to part 2
Your mom had a way of filling the house with sound. There was a radio going in the kitchen, the news was murmuring from the living room and her voice echoed through the house as she was making a phone call. After two days of this you’d started inventing reasons to get outside. Today you decided would be the perfect day to go get the mail.
You slid your sandals on and opened the front door. The air outside was arid and hot. It was the kind of heat that sat on your skin instead of soaking into it. The neighborhood baked quietly, sprinklers ticking somewhere down the block, the mountains cut out past the rooftops.
Right as you opened the front of the mailbox a blur of tan and white came barreling around the hedge and then sixty pounds of enthusiasm planted both front paws on your stomach. It knocked the breath out of you. You staggered and caught yourself on the mailbox post. The dog’s whole back half was wagging with its tongue licking across your jaw before you could turn your face.
You laughed. “Okay, okay, hi!” You went down to a crouch, partly to greet it and partly in self-defense. The dog took the opportunity to try and climb into your lap. It was some kind of shepherd mix with one ear that flopped and one that stood up. “Where’d you come from, huh? Where’s your — you got a collar?”
You were feeling for the tag, the dog squirming with delight, when a voice came from the direction of the hedge.
“Sorry. Sorry, he does that.”
You looked up.
The man coming across the neighboring lawn was wiping his hands on a rag, he looked like he was maybe working. There was drywall dust ghosting the front of his t-shirt, a smear of something pale along one forearm, and his hair was dark blonde with streaks of silver that was falling into his eyes. It looked almost flattened like he had been pushing it back all day with the back of his wrist. He was tall and moved like the heat didn’t bother him. He crouched a few feet away and snapped his fingers once.
“Hey. Come here. Leave the —” He glanced at you. “Leave the poor girl alone.”
“Aw, he’s fine.” You scratched behind the flopped ear, and the dog leaned its whole weight into your hand. “He’s so cute. This is the best welcome I’ve gotten all week.”
“He’s supposed to be learning boundaries,” he said. “It’s going great, as you can see.”
You smiled. “Who needs boundaries, when you’re this cute.” You gave the dog one more scratch and then stood up. You brushed the paw-prints off your shorts. Up close the man looked several years older than you but his face was easy to look at in a way that made you not want to be caught looking. His eyes were a very pale blue and he had some stubble across his jaw. He looked at you, then the street behind you before settling back on your face.
“I don’t think I’ve seen you before,” you said.
“Yeah. I just moved in a couple weeks ago.” He gestured vaguely at the house behind him. It was a nice two story suburban home with gray siding and a black metal roof. “Still—” He glances behind him. “Still renovating the kitchen.”
“Looks like you’re renovating more than just a kitchen.” You nodded at the drywall dust. “You gutting the place?”
“Well the bathroom had some water damage too and the owners before had a real commitment to wood paneling.” He said dryly and you laughed. He seemed a little surprised that you did laugh.
“Y/N” you said, and you put out your hand.
"Leon." He took your hand, his grip was warm and careful, the kind that could be firmer but he was deliberately choosing not to be. "My name's Leon—" A beat, like there was a final part he was going to say.
“Nice to meet you, Leon.” You smiled and let go of his hand. You knelt down at the dog between you. “And nice to meet you too…” You give him a pet on the head and smooshed his face between your hands. He licked your hand in response and panted heavily from the summer heat. “What’s his name?”
“Still working on it. He came from a shelter with the name ‘Biscuit.’ and I refuse to yell ‘Biscuit’ across the yard for the next ten years or so,” He shrugged. “He’s temporarily nameless but he doesn’t seem to mind.”
“Well, he surely doesn’t look like a Biscuit to me either.” You scratched under the dog’s chin and he leaned into it with his tail wagging. “You’ll figure it out.”
You grinned. There was a beat where neither of you said anything and the sprinklers ticked and the sun sat warm on the back of your neck. You realized you should have gone back inside with your parents but you enjoyed Leon’s company. Something about him was mysterious and unspeakably handsome that made you want to know more about him.
“Hey,” you knew what you were about to say might have been a little bold. “My family is having a whole fourth of July party. It might be a little overboard but we’re gonna have a barbeque and light up fireworks later in the night. If you don’t have plans, we got enough food to feed the whole neighborhood.”
Leon looked at you for a second. Like he was maybe shocked that someone as young as you would want to invite over an older guy like him. Or maybe it was something else entirely that was weighing on him, maybe some old habit of not committing to things.
“I might have plans,” he said.
“Sure, yeah, that’s totally fine.” you said.
“I might not.”
“Also fine.” You bent down again and gave the dog a last scratch, straightening before it could climb into your lap again. Not that you would have minded. “Offer stands either way. We’re right next to you with the big ass flag in the front yard that’s impossible to miss.” You laughed.
That got a smile from him, finally. “That flag is pretty hard to miss,” he agreed.
“My Dad would be thrilled to hear you say that.” You started backing toward the mailbox that you still hadn’t actually opened. “Oh.. Hey. Good luck with the remodeling!”
“Thanks.” He whistled low, and the dog reluctantly peeled itself off the driveway and trotted to his side. Leon lifted a hand, partially waving with the rag still hooked in his fingers and turned back to his house. You watched him walk back a little longer than you needed to before you opened the mailbox.
It was only filled with grocery flyers and a water bill. You figured it would be and you took it back inside anyways. You decided to not tell your mom about the neighbor, though you weren’t sure why.
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The Fourth arrived the way it always had at your parents’ house, it was always way too loud and earlier than it needed to be.
By noon your dad had claimed the grill as sovereign territory and would not be taken over by anybody else. Your aunts had taken over the kitchen. Somewhere in the last twenty-four hours the backyard had sprouted a folding-table archipelago draped in plastic cloths and a small cooler that sat on the patio. It was packed to the brim with ice, cans and glass bottles. Your little cousins, nephews and nieces with two kids you were pretty sure belonged to a neighbor were running around with something that looked like a bubble blower of some sorts. They were shrieking and definitely high on sugar and freedom.
You were mostly useful all morning. You hauled ice, wrangled kids, argued with your uncle about the correct way to arrange a cooler. And around two, standing at the edge of the patio with a sweating glass bottle in your hand, you thought about the guy next door. You looked over the top of his fence and thought about him staring at his drywall. You set the bottle down and told your mom you’d be right back.
“Where are you going?” she called.
“Neighbor,” you said, which was true and explained nothing, and you were out the side gate before she could ask more questions.
You made your way up his driveway and you could hear something from inside the house, a radio and a saw. You knocked on the frame of the screen door and stepped back, suddenly aware that showing up at a near-stranger’s door was probably way too forward than you intended.
The inner door opened. Leon had a pencil behind his ear and a look on his face that shifted from wary to something calmer when he saw it was you. The wariness didn’t fully leave and you noticed.
“Hi,” you said. “So. It’s the Fourth.”
“It is.” He leaned a shoulder against the doorframe. “I noticed your dad’s flag has a friend now.”
“Oh. God. Yeah he’s really uh.. Patriotic.” You let out a soft laugh almost wincing. “Hey uhm, the offer from the other day. It still stands if you know.. If you still don't have any plans.”
Leon looked at you. The dog appeared behind his legs and saw you. He lost his entire mind and Leon put a hand down absently to keep him from bolting out the door.
“I don’t have plans,” he admitted.
“Okay, good.” You grinned. “Come on. There’s food and a cooler full of all kinds of beer if you want. Buddy here can come too, the kids will love him.”
“Buddy.” He hesitated and looked down at the dog like he was pondering on the new found name.
He then pushed off the door frame. “Let me grab a shirt that doesn’t have plaster on it,” he said. “Leave him here. He’ll eat somebody’s hot dog and start an incident.”
You laughed. “Okay.” You waited on the step while he disappeared inside and when he came back out he’d changed into a clean black t-shirt exposing the lean muscle of his arms. He pulled the door shut behind him and checked it was locked in a way that was more thorough than a suburban door really required.
You walked down his driveway and up your parents lawn. You opened the gate to the backyard where everyone was. You could sense some uneasiness in him with the way his jaw tensed.
Your dad clocked the stranger immediately, abandoned the grill for the first time all day, and shook Leon’s hand with the fervor of a man delighted to have a new audience for his flag. Your mom materialized with a plate before Leon had said ten words. Somewhere in the introductions you handed him a cold one from the cooler. You cracked another one for yourself, and by the time you’d steered him to a quieter corner of the patio he’d already been claimed, fed, and interrogated about his home renovations by three separate relatives.
“That’s my mom and dad who you just met,” nodding to your parents’ general direction. “Grill’s my dad’s whole personality this weekend. My mom is always making sure you have a full plate before you can refuse. The loud one by the cooler is my uncle, he’ll tell you he was almost a professional bowler. He was not. The kids are—” you scanned the shrieking pack currently orbiting the swing set. “Honestly I’ve lost track. Some of them are actually my family and some just showed up. We don’t ask questions.” You chuckled.
Leon took a pull of his beer and watched the chaos with an expression you couldn’t put a finger on.
“It’s a lot,” he said but it didn’t sound like a complaint.
“Yeah, it’s a lot, for sure.” you agreed. “You get used to it, though.”
“I like it.” He said it simply, and then seemed a little caught out by having said it and tried to cover it up by drinking again.
You leaned against the patio rail beside him, close enough that your shoulders were almost touching. You were both slightly apart from the crowd and the barbecue smoke drifted.
“So what’s the story,” you said. “You just moved out west. From where?”
“East, originally. Around, mostly. Work moved me a lot.” He said flatly. “I wanted to come out here. Always wanted to, honestly. For a long time.” He looked out at the mountains past the fence. “Never had the chance to.”
“And now you do?”
“Now I do.”
“Okay, but why the suburbs?” You said it lightly in a teasing way. “You could’ve gone anywhere out here. Mountains, the coast, a cabin in the middle of nowhere. And you picked a random suburb with an HOA.”
The corner of his mouth lifted up but when he answered, the humor had gone somewhere underneath it.
“I wanted normal,” he said. “For once.”
For once.
It was two words that sat there between the both of you. You took another drink. You wondered what he meant by that. Like normal was a thing he’d been priced out of for a long time. Like a boring street, with nosy neighbors and an HOA were a luxury other people took for granted and he was going into it deliberately, with intent, the way you’d buy something you’d wanted since you were a kid. You thought about the locked door he’d checked twice, and you decided it was better to not ask the question those things raised, because it was personal and you’d only known him for a few days.
Instead you said, “Well. You picked a good street for normal. Nothing ever happens here. The most exciting thing all year is whether my uncle is going to blow off a finger with the mortars.”
That surprised a real laugh out of him, short and warm, and you noticed the crinkle in his eyes that made your heart melt.
“I’ll manage my expectations," he said.
“Probably wise.” You knocked your glass bottle lightly against his. “Speaking of which, full disclosure, so you don’t get the wrong idea. I don’t actually live here.”
He raised an eyebrow.
“I’m just home for the week. Visiting. So. I’m not your new neighbor. I’m just the neighbor’s kid who ambushed you and dragged you to a party. I go home tomorrow.” You shrugged, keeping it easy, though you weren’t entirely sure why you felt the need to tell him.
Something flickered across his face, you couldn’t tell if it was disappointment or something else but whatever it was he tucked it away fast.
“Tomorrow.” He repeated.
“Tomorrow.”
“Good to know.” He looked at you a beat longer than the words needed, his pale blue gaze was steady, and then he tipped his beer back and looked away.
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The afternoon continued on with the kids throwing pop its nearby and lighting whatever daytime monstrosities that were allowed. You ate way too much barbeque and so many desserts that you lost count. Poor Leon was roped into a conversation about grill temperatures with your dad and he managed to keep a straight face like he found the whole thing genuinely interesting. You caught him, twice, watching the kids, and once you caught him watching you, and neither of you looked away as fast as strangers should have.
Leon was easy to be around, which surprised you. He didn’t fill silence for the sake of it. When he said something funny it was dry and quiet and arrived when you least expected, so it kept catching you off guard, and you started angling to make him do it again. He drank slow. He was good with your uncle, who was a lot, letting the near-professional-bowler saga wash over him with the patience of a man who had clearly waited out worse. By the time the light started to slant gold and long across the yard you stopped narrating the party to him and started talking. About the drive out west, about the worst apartment you’d ever lived in, about a neighborhood dog he loved to visit as a kid, which was the only piece of his past he offered unprompted all day and which he offered carefully, like it was fragile.
The sky went from gold to amber to the deep blue that means the show’s about to start, and word went around, mostly via the kids, that it was time to move to the front yard.
You smiled at Leon and motioned your head to the front yard.
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Everyone in your family migrated to the front yard. Lawn chairs were lined up in the driveway and grass. The cooler was relocated with great ceremony. Your dad set up a white folding utility table with mortars, fountains, sparklers and random little fireworks that you couldn’t quite name. Of course, your uncle appointed himself as co-director in a way your dad clearly resented but had no choice but to tolerate it.
You and Leon found a spot on the grass just by the sidewalk. You dropped down beside him, maybe a little too close to someone you just met. The warmth from his arm was nice against you and he didn’t seem like it bothered him. Your aunt put sparklers in the little kids’ hands, and the front yard filled with wobbling loops of white sparkling light. The kids were bouncing and shrieking as they wrote their names in the air that was too slow to read.
You got up and grabbed three sparklers from the table. “Here.” You lit one off of your nieces. “Write your name!” You swept the sparkler through the air in big looping cursive, and the light trailed behind your hand, the first letters were already fading to smoke by the time you reached the last.
Your niece tried it with her tongue between her teeth. She was still moving too slow with the letters dying before they connected, it was just a scribble of lines that dissolved in the dark. But she didn’t care, she did it again, faster while laughing.
You handed one of the sparklers to Leon. “Here.” He took it hesitantly. “Come on. Don’t tell me you’re too cool for a sparkler.”
“I’m too old for a sparkler.”
“That’s not a real thing. Have some whimsy in your life Leon.”
He gave you a look of confusion. “Whimsy?”
“Yes, whimsy.” You smiled and held the lit end of your sparkler to his. He looked at you again and moved the sparkler through the air in a slow scrawl, and you watched the light trail his hand and burn out before he’d finished, and he said, deadpan, “See, it died before I got to the end. Symbolic.”
“You gotta work on your whimsy-ness, Leon.” You laughed, he almost smiled, and your sparkler fizzled out too and left that sharp burnt-metal smell hanging in the dark.
Then the first mortar went up.
It went with the deep gut-punch thump that you felt before you could hear, there was a beat of silence, and then the street cracked open into gold. The kids screamed. Your dad, out in the street, pumped a fist. Another went up, and another, red and then a strange greenish-white that hung and drifted, and the whole street tipped its face up.
You’d done this every year of your life and it still got to you, that first big one. You glanced sideways to see if it got him too, Leon’s face was turned up to the light, and for just a second, in the flash, he didn’t look careful at all. He just looked like a man watching fireworks. Then the light faded and his careful stare came back, but you saw it just for a moment.
“You want to shoot one off?” you asked.
He looked at you.
“Come on. My uncle is letting anyone who asks.” You were already standing, tugging his sleeve. “You seem like a guy who’s good with —” you gestured vaguely — “things that explode. I don’t know why. Vibe.”
Something in his face did that confused thing again.”Vibe,” he repeated.
You nodded and he let you pull him up.
Out in the street your uncle handed Leon the lighter with the gravity of passing on a sacred trust, and talked him through it at length despite Leon very obviously not needing to be talked through it. Leon crouched by the tube, lit the fuse in one clean motion, and stepped back at exactly the right distance before the thing screamed up and burst into a huge crackling willow of gold that pulled an “ohhh” out of the whole yard. He came back to you with the ghost of a grin he was trying to suppress, and you bumped your shoulder into his.
“You look like you’ve done that before.”
“Maybe once or twice.” He said smiling.
You did one too, mostly so he'd watch you do it, and he did, and you fumbled the lighter and when he caught your wrist to steady the flame it made your heart skip a beat. The mortar went up casting a myriad of sparkles and colors that lit up the street. You came back and sat down in the grass next to him even closer this time, your arm against his arm and neither of you moved away. The finale started building over the street, flashes of light, explosions overlapping the sky. The noise and the light made you extremely aware of every point where his body touched yours.
Leon didn’t know you well. It had been only a few days, one party and a handful of jokes. But he’d laughed more this afternoon than he could remember laughing in a while, and he liked your mouth when you were being a smartass, which was often. He liked that you didn’t ask too many questions or pry at his personal life. You just let him be a normal guy at a barbecue, which was one of the reasons why he moved two thousand miles away. He wasn’t thinking any of that in words. He was mostly aware that you were warm against his side and that you’d be gone tomorrow, and that both of those facts were becoming difficult to ignore.
The finale broke over the street in a kaleidoscope of colors, the sounds echoing and thundering through the suburbs, if it was any other holiday someone might mistake it as a warzone. Everybody was cheering and under the sparkles of light you turned your head and found Leon already looking at you.
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The party started to die down. The kids crashed. A few of the people down the street were popping off the last of their fireworks down the street. Chairs were folded and stowed away. The cooler was much lighter now and got hauled back around the house.
Somewhere in the winding-down you and Leon had drifted to the edge of it. Both of you were loose and easy after you had a couple more beers. The careful thing in him worn down soft by the beer and the night and your company.
“I should let you go,” You said not moving.
“Yeah,” he said and didn’t move either.
You stood there and looked down. You started rubbing circles over the lip of your beer, you really didn’t want to go. You wanted to know more about Leon. You were trying to think of a way to keep him around for the night but nothing came to you.
“Hey,” Leon said. “I could show you what I’ve been working on.”
Something inside you lit up and you looked up to meet his gaze. “Yeah.” a soft smile formed on your face. “I’d like that.”
You both made your way to his house next-door. You were walking down in the dark with him, the smell of gunpowder still hanging over the whole street, and his hand had found the small of your back at some point to steer you around a stray lawn chair. His hand stayed there warm through your shirt and it made your heart flutter.
His porch light was on. The dog lost its mind on the other side of the door and Leon shushed it through the wood and let you both in. The house was dark and half-torn-apart and smelled like sawdust and fresh paint, plastic sheeting hanging in the doorway to the gutted kitchen. He didn’t turn on many lights. He put the dog out in the fenced backyard and came back to find you standing in his half-finished living room among the drop cloths and the stacked tools. For a second you just looked at each other across the dark.
“So, you go back tomorrow,” he said.
“Yeah, tomorrow.” You nodded.
“Tomorrow.” he repeated, his voice was low. He crossed the room to you.
His hand came up to the side of your face, carefully and tenderly. “I know I just met you and you’re leaving but I’ve wanted to kiss you all night.”
You looked up at him meeting his gaze. You looked down at his lips and back up to his eyes. You grabbed at his t-shirt giving him the invitation. The first press of his mouth was soft like he was still questioning it. You hand moved to cup his jaw and pulled him in closer.
He kissed like he did everything else, unhurried and deliberate and then suddenly all the held-back care burned off. His hand slid back into your hair and tilted your head and kissed you deeply. You made a sound against his mouth unintentionally and he groaned softly in response, the sound vibrating into your chest. He backed you a few steps until your back hit the bare stretch of wall between the plastic sheeting and the front window, he crowded in close, one hand braced by your head and the other cupped warm at your jaw like you were something he was being careful of.
“This okay,” he said against your mouth, his voice a little gravely and rough.
“Yes, it’s okay.” You pulled him back into you by his shirt. “Stop being so careful.”
He huffed a laugh into the kiss and kissed you more fervently this time before pulling away again.
“Where are you going?” Leon asked.
“East coast, my job’s there.” You pulled him in again pressing your lips against his and tracing his bottom lip with your tongue. He responded by softly biting your lip and swiping his tongue against yours.
Leon went back kissing you deeply again. His hand left your face and found your hip. He pulled you off the wall and your pelvis was flush against his. You could feel the whole hard line of him, the heat coming off him through his jeans. Your hands went under his shirt to the warm skin of his back and he shuddered at that, involuntarily. He dropped his mouth to your jaw, your throat, he found the spot under your ear that made your breath catch. The sawdust smell, the dark and the far-off pop of somebody’s fireworks outside. Everything started to go a little blurry but in a good way. There was just his mouth and his hands and the low sound he made when you dragged your nails lightly down his spine.
He got the hem of your shirt in his fingers and you lifted your arms and let him take it off you, you were wearing a black lace bra. He looked at you with something dark, warm and unguarded, the same unguarded thing you saw during the fireworks. Heat pooled low in your stomach and you could feel yourself getting slick. You reached for his shirt and he let you pull it over his head. The man looked like a greek god, his abs were perfectly sculpted and you gazed down at the V that followed down to his jeans. You traced it with your fingers in the low light and hooked your finger into the waistband of his jeans.
“You like what you see?” he asked.
You nodded and started peppering kisses along his jaw and down his neck. The smell of him was something musky and cedary, it was intoxicating. You went back up to his lips and pressed harshly and he made a rough sound. He started walking you back toward the hall.
“Bed’s the one room I finished,” he murmured against your mouth. You let out a breathy laugh and let him lead you into the dark.
His bedroom was plain and half-unpacked. There was a bed and a nightstand. He laid you back and followed you down, taking his time now in a different way, the urgency was something slower and more deliberate. He was mapping you with his hands and mouth, learning what made you arch. He was kissing you while his hand trailed up to your breasts, his hand cupped your still clothed breast and you let out a soft breathy moan. His thumb brushed slow circles over the lace, teasing the peak of your nipple until it tightened under his touch. You arched into his palm with a soft, breathy sound, and he swallowed it in with another kiss. He kissed you deeper and slower like he was savoring every second.
He pulled back just far enough to look at you. The dim light from the hallway caught in his eyes, turning them darker and softer. “Still okay?” he asked, voice low and rough at the edges.
You smiled and nodded, fingers sliding into his silver-streaked hair at his temple. “More than okay.” You pulled him down. “If you ask me one more time I’m going home tonight.”
He grinned at you and dipped his head. His lips tracing down your throat, across your collarbone, and lower. He unclasped your bra with one hand, slid the straps down your arms, and let it fall somewhere off the side of the bed. For a moment he just looked at your now bare breasts.
“Beautiful,” he murmured.
Then his mouth was on you. It was warm, wet and gentle. He took one nipple between his lips and sucked softly, tongue flicking, while his hand cupped and kneaded the other. You gasped, hips shifting restlessly against the mattress. He took his time, moving between them, learning what made your breath catch, what made your fingers tighten in his hair. Every pull of his mouth sent sparks straight between your legs.
When he finally kissed lower down to the center of your stomach, tongue dipping into your navel. His hands were already at the button of your shorts. He unbuttoned them and hooked his thumbs in the waistband and drew both shorts and panties down in one smooth motion, helping you kick them off the rest of the way. Cool air kissed your bare skin before he settled between your thighs, big hands gentle as he parted them. He looked at you like something religious, like you were to be worshipped.
He then lowered his head.
The first slow drag of his tongue made your whole body jolt. He licked a long slow stripe from your entrance up to your clit, circling a few times before sealing his mouth over you. You moaned, loud in the quiet room, one of your hands flew to his hair. He hummed against you in approval and did it again slower and firmer. He slid two thick fingers inside and curled them just right.
He worked you with patient, focused attention. Tongue flicking and sucking your clit in steady rhythm while his fingers thrust deep and steady, finding that spot that made your thighs start to shake. You could feel how wet you were and you could hear the soft obscene sounds from his mouth and fingers working you. Pleasure coiled tighter and tighter until it snapped like an explosion.
“Leon– oh— fuck—”
Your orgasm hit hard, back arching clean off the bed, a broken cry tearing out of you as your walls fluttered and clenched around his fingers. He didn’t stop, he just gentled everything, soft licks and slow thrusts from his fingers carrying you through it until you were twitching and oversensitive. You were panting his name like a prayer.
He kissed his way back up your body, letting you taste yourself on his tongue when he kissed you again. You reached down between you, found the hard line of him still trapped in his jeans, and palmed him through the denim. He groaned into your mouth, hips pushing into your hand.
You unbuttoned his jeans and shoved them down with his boxers at the same time. His cock sprang free. It was thick and flushed dark at the head with some precum already gathered at the tip. You wrapped your hand around him, stroked him slowly from base to tip, and he dropped his forehead to your shoulder with a rough sound.
“Careful,” he warned, voice strained. “I’ve been thinking about this since you showed up at my door.”
You smiled, stroked him again, firmer. “Then stop thinking.”
He caught your wrist gently, kissed the inside of it, then reached into the nightstand drawer. The condom packet crinkled. He rolled it on with quick practiced hands, then settled back over you, the heavy heat of him resting against your slick entrance.
He rubbed the head of his cock through your folds, coating himself, teasing your clit with every slow pass. His eyes stayed locked on yours the whole time.
His thumb stroked your cheek and you wrapped your legs around his waist and pulled him closer. “Fuck me, please.”
He pushed in slow giving you every inch, watching your face for any sign of discomfort. The stretch burned in the best way, filling you completely until his hips were flush against yours. He stayed there for a long moment, forehead pressed to yours, breathing hard.
“Fuck,” he whispered. “You feel… amazing.”
You clenched around him experimentally and he groaned, low and deep in his chest.
He started to move with slow deep thrusts, pulling almost all the way out before sliding back in, dragging against every sensitive spot inside you. You met him with the roll of your hips, hands sliding up his back, feeling the flex of muscle under warm skin. He kissed you thoroughly, messy, deep, and sometimes just breathing warm against your mouth.
The rhythm built gradually, still controlled but growing more and more urgent. His hand found yours and laced your fingers together beside your head. The other gripped your hip, angling you just right so every thrust hit deep and perfect. The room filled with the wet sound of him moving inside you, the soft slap of skin, the occasional distant booms from outside and your shared gasps and low moans.
The pressure of his pelvis against your clit and that perfect angle hitting all of the right spots made your orgasm build faster than the first.
“Leon— I’m close—-”
He panted against your neck and slipped his hand between your bodies. His fingers finding your clit and rubbing in tight, steady circles in time with his thrusts.
It pushed you over. You came with a sharp cry, body locking up around him, nails digging into his back as pleasure crashed through you in long, rolling waves. He followed you soon after, his hips stuttering, a rough groan of your name against your shoulder as he buried himself deep and came, cock pulsing inside the condom.
For a long moment neither of you moved, just breathing together, hearts hammering. Then he carefully pulled out, disposed of the condom from the nightstand, and came back with a warm, damp cloth. He cleaned you gently, tenderly, pressing soft kisses to your inner thigh, your hip and your stomach.
When he climbed back into bed he pulled you straight to his chest, one strong arm around your waist, the other stroking slow lines down your spine. He kissed your forehead, your temple, the corner of your eye.
“You okay?” he asked quietly, the same careful tone he’d used all night.
You nodded against his chest, tracing idle patterns over his heart. “Yeah. I’m more than okay.”
He held you closer, tucking your head under his chin. Outside, somewhere down the street, one last firework popped and fizzled. His fingers kept stroking your back in long, soothing passes.
After what felt like an hour cuddling in bed, you got up and grabbed your shorts and bra that were strewn on the floor. You threw them both on.
“You leaving?” Leon asked.
“Yeah, I gotta get up early in the morning. Don’t wanna miss my flight.”
“Ah.” he nodded and looked out the window like he was debating something.
You crawled back into the bed and asked for Leon’s phone. “Here let me put my number in your phone.”
Leon grabbed his phone from the nightstand and handed it to you. You put your number in with your name, you considered putting an emoji next to your name but decided against it.
“So. you’ll be back for Christmas?” He asked.
“Yes, Christmas.” You tried to hold back a smile but failed. "Feel free to text me though. I know it's not the same considering I'll be like two thousand miles away but I'd like to see the progress on the house."
"Oh, and here." You spotted your black lacy panties by the foot of the bed, scooped them up, and pressed them into his hand. "Consider it a housewarming gift."
Leon let out a breathy laugh and closed his palm around them. "Do you need me to walk you home?"
“No.” You shook your head. “I don’t think much will happen from your front door to my parents’. But thank you.”
You slid off the bed again and made your way to the living room. Leon followed you shortly after with only his boxers on. You managed to find your t-shirt on the floor and Leon let the dog back inside. His paws scrambled on the slick hardwood and came tumbling towards you as you put your shirt back on. “Hey! I gotta go, buddy.” You scratched the top of his head and underneath his chin and gave him one final pat. Leon was smiling watching you but there was something behind it that didn't quite match the smile, or maybe he was just tired.
You reached for the front door and opened it. “Bye, Leon.”
“Bye.”
He closed the door behind you.
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He watched you out of the window just to make sure you got home safely. When he saw that you closed the door to your parents house he let out a relieved sigh. He then leaned down to pet the dog that was lying at his feet.
"Hey.." he scratched the top of his head. "How does Buddy sound?"
The dog barked at Leon and rolled over.
"Yeah," he said with a smile. "I think Buddy is good too."
𝐜𝐰. 375 words, gn!reader x leon kennedy, established relationship (married), post-requiem!leon
"Leon, look at this." You lean over, extending your arm to display the TikTok you'd just found.
Resting against the other arm of the couch was your husband, reading glasses slipping down his nose while his fingers tapped absent-mindedly against the spine of his book. He turned his head in your direction, craning his neck to set up a good angle to read whatever nonsense you were shoving in his face. With a sigh, he set the book down and shifted in place, getting comfortable again. He pulled his head back, furrowed his brows, and squinted at the screen. You couldn't help but let out a laugh.
Immediately, his eyes left the screen and flew to you. After years of marriage and even more dating, he knew when you were laughing at him and not something else.
"What?" He questioned suspiciously. His voice was low and soft, the tone reserved for peaceful Sundays with just the two of you; no work or worries permitted in the calm before another grueling work week. You grinned and shook your head.
"You're just silly, that's all." His mouth twitched but he didn't badger you for a better answer, returning to his position of trying to read the text on the screen you were still holding up. He finally took your phone from you, holding it a considerable distance from his face.
You lifted your now-freed hand and ran your fingers through his gray-streaked hair while admiring his wrinkles—yes, the ones from his dorky phone-viewing frown, but also—from all the years of stress and fear and hopelessness. His shirt rode up a bit, letting you see a sliver of soft tummy between it and his boxers. How lucky you were to have him sprawled on the couch, not a care in the world, looking like a midwestern dad attempting to comprehend whatever it was the cool kids were up to online these days. And, you supposed, he kind of was.
He pulled his reading glasses from his face with one hand, passing back your phone with the other. He did not appear impressed.
"So who is Cheesy Michael and what's the deal with his door? This seems like a waste of time."
Leon was so unbelievably cute.
𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐞. i have not been locked into writing and i apologize my life has been get high, eat, watch tiktok, think about leon 😅
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Summary: Leon’s been your perfect wingman, because there’s no way he could be anything else. Right? Right.
Tonight, shit’s gonna go wrong. And then it’s gonna go so, so right.
WC: ~4.5k
CW: NSFW, minors DNI, you and Leon are friends, no mention of ages, no use of y/n, bar fight (loosely), mild jealousy, reader put in peril, implied attempted assault, reader is a strong independent woman, reader is injured, Leon patches you up, first time (together), oral (reader receiving), unprotected p in v, creampie, smearing fluids, sort of aftercare (Leon is sweet and attentive), showering together
Notes: MINORS DNI
“You got eyes on your six.”
You shift your weight, canting your hip a touch more provocatively, leaned against the bar.
“Please. It’s at least a ten,” you say. Leon’s to your right, casual on a barstool, communication hidden behind his whiskey glass; you’re addressing him but looking down at your drink, stirring your fingers through the condensation. He’s got eyes on the rest of the bar, watching you in his periphery.
At least a ten. But he’s not going to say it. That’s not his place.
You sip at your drink. “Who?”
“Black jacket. Glasses,” he says.
You turn around, leaning your elbows against the bar. Black Jacket & Glasses is definitely watching you. Up and down.
You snag your bottom lip on your glass and watch him back. Up and down.
That'll do.
“Mm. Target acquired,” you say, and push off from the bar.
Leon turns his stool around, setting his whiskey down next to a puddle of beer. He doesn’t need to watch what you’re doing, now. Next initiative; standby, wait for your exit.
He throws the last of his whiskey back, gesturing for a refill. It’ll do nothing to quell the writhing in his gut, but he’s learned to ignore it.
Fucking Black Jacket & Glasses.
Speak of the devil.
The man appears at Leon’s left, flagging down the bartender and ordering something fruity and strong. Leon side-eyes the guy, sour. He knows you can hold your own, but he doesn’t like the zero to sixty of it.
Going for blind drunk, huh? Working with some deficits?
The guy doesn’t order anything for himself. No card, no tab; he pays cash. He also doesn’t tip, folding a thick wad of small bills away before walking off. Leon snorts into his whiskey glass, the golden liquor thick and warm as it slides over his tongue.
What a catch.
He stays at the bar, hunched, a passive observer to the raucous, bustling life around him. He rations his whiskey, rubbing his thumb along the rim of the glass. Once, he catches your reflection in the mirror among the liquor shelves; your arms are up, dancing, Black Jacket & Glasses tight against your back.
He avoids the mirror.
Leon counts two more of the fruity, strong drinks leaving by BJ&G’s hand before he finally spots you heading for the door on the guy’s arm. You glance back, the usual acknowledgement. You’re leaning into Black Jacket’s side like you’re more than a few sheets gone, but your eyes are keen and alert when they meet Leon’s. You’re still in control.
Leon subtly raises his glass in a tiny ‘cheers’ gesture, only half looking your way.
You disappear into the night.
Leon looks down at his watch. He always stays for another fifteen, in case you come back.
He lifts his finger for another drink, shoulders low.
You’ve never come back.
His name is Jon, with no H. Lazy.
The hair at the crown of his head is thinning, but it’s just started, and it’s subtle. He missed a patch at the back of his jaw shaving, and he dances a little stiff, like he’s counting time or remembering choreography. To grind?
But it’s not nothing he’s working with while he grinds. So.
And he’s handsome enough. Athletic. Nice hands. You wish he had some scruff, a ticklish bristle to tease your neck while you were dancing, maybe some broader shoulders. But nobody’s perfect.
As soon as you’re out in the night air, he wraps his arm at your waist. It’s kind of tight. Not supportive, like he's just helping you walk after three (strong) drinks. No, it's a little bit… captive.
Like he expects you to run.
“I’m parked around back, baby.”
He steers you towards the dark alley that flanks the bar. There is parking at the back, but there’s also now a flag waving at the back of your mind.
It’s red.
“Ooo, hold on, hold on,” you say, and you keep it giggly. You stumble to a stop before the mouth of the alley, digging in your purse, making a show of it. “Shit. I think I left my card.” You didn’t.
His hand tightens at your waist, a little clench. Involuntary.
“It’s probably in there,” he says of your purse. “Come on, it’s dark out here. You can look in the car.”
He’s pressing you towards the alley with the bar of his arm. You keep your stance subtly wide, resisting.
“I think I left it on the bar,” you say, less giggly, more serious. “I shouldn't leave it, I’ll be right–“
You start to step out of his grasp and he redoubles it, crowding in close to mouth at your neck.
“Come on, baby. It’ll still be there tomorrow.”
“Jon, just let me–“
He shoves you past the threshold of sodium light, into the heavy shadow of the alley, and follows.
Leon glances up when the bar door swings open. He straightens, watching you push through the crowd, reading your tension, noting the hair fallen loose over your forehead.
You touch the firm, comforting heat of his shoulder, stealing his drink and knocking it back. You’ve put him between you and the door and your eyes are on it, sharp.
His eyes are on your hand with his stolen glass.
Your knuckles are busted.
Leon barely has time to open his mouth before the door swings open again, spitting Black Jacket & Glasses back into the bar.
Black Jacket & Busted Nose. His glasses are broken, clutched in his hand, and he’s holding his stomach, hunched over.
There’s murder in his eyes.
“Oh, fuck.” Leon deftly wraps you around behind him, and the motion draws Jon’s attention. Leon stands up, walling you off entirely. He’s taller than Jon. Definitely broader.
“Looks like she said no, buttercup.”
Jon’s apparently not firing on all cylinders, because he acts like he’s going to square up to Leon.
“Who the fuck are you?”
“Your next problem, unless you walk away.”
“That bitch owes me for the drinks.”
“Ooh, keep talking,” Leon says, low and dangerous, just as you step out from behind him, pissed off.
“That’s not how it fucking works, jackass,” you say, putting extra sauce on the fricative. “Take the L and go, you creep.”
Jon smiles, condescending, and there’s blood on his teeth.
“I’m not leaving without my money, sweetheart.”
“Better start selling blowies in the bathroom, then, sweetheart, ‘cause you’re not getting anything from me.”
The confrontation’s drawn a small audience, because of course it has. You’re not being quiet. Some women nearby holler YEAH in dark delight, and some guy whistles.
Jon growls and lunges forward, but you’d read the intention and you’re already in motion.
You step back, pressing Leon up against the bar as you shove his empty barstool forward with your foot. Jon trips over it and goes tumbling gracelessly to the floor, tangled, and voices raise in surprise and curiosity as nearby patrons back quickly out of the way or crane to see what the commotion is.
The bartender’s not having it.
“HEY! Take that the fuck outside! Get out!”
You raise your hands in surrender, heading for the door and shouldering out into the night without looking back.
Leon eases away from the bartop. It leaves a harsh impression at the small of his back. He feels it less than the lingering weight of your body, your heat down his front.
When he steps outside, you’re not there.
Oh. No, you are, you’re just halfway down the sidewalk, doing your Fast Angry Walk.
“Hey,” you hear him say, but you don’t slow down. You’re seething.
“Fuck that guy.”
He catches up, keeping pace beside you. “Are you alright?”
“Fine.”
“What did he–“
“Unlock the car.”
You’re standing at the Porsche parked on the curb, your hand on the passenger’s side handle. Leon pulls the key from his pocket and the lights flash; you get in and shut the door, firm, knocking your skull back against the headrest once. Frustrated.
Contained. You move your hand with the busted knuckles onto your lap. It’s throbbing, hot and stinging. You hide it under your other hand, loose.
Leon gets in on the driver’s side, another car swishing past on the road, uncomfortably close. He shuts out the night and bubbles you both into an intimate quiet.
He glances in the rearview.
“What did he try.”
“It doesn’t matter.”
“Let me see your hand.”
You think about refusing, continuing to play avoidance, but the adrenaline is waning and you don’t want to pick a fight. Not with Leon. You sigh through your nose and set your hand on his waiting palm.
His thumb is gentle, running parallel to the broken skin. Even in the low light you can see the dark beginnings of bruising.
You don’t regret it. You’d do it again. Harder.
“We should be icing this.”
“I’ll live.”
You both look up when you hear shouting down the street; Leon ducks to see by the rearview and you lean forward to check the side mirror, looking back towards the bar. Jon is out on the curb, arms waving, belligerent. He’s standing in a perfect rectangle of yellow light from the door of the bar, propped open by whoever threw him out. His broken glasses are on the sidewalk; he bends to swipe them up, still raging, but the yellow light narrows into nothing and then leaves him in the dark to yell at the disinterested brick facade, alone.
You sit back, shutting your eyes.
“Fuck.”
“What?”
“What a waste of a night.”
You hear Leon’s clothes rustle; he’s checking his watch.
“Still early.”
You roll your head to look at him, his face in shadow save for a vague streetlight-orange highlight tracing his jaw, his nose, catching the shine on his lips.
You lift your busted hand.
"I should be icing this.”
Leon starts the car.
“Roger.”
So, everything’s gonna be a trial now.
It's your dominant hand you’d busted on that jackass’ face; it’s turning the simple task of unlocking your apartment door into an impossible puzzle of painful workarounds. You give up and try your non-dominant hand. You’ve almost got it, and then you fumble and drop the keys onto the coir mat.
“Come on.”
You hear a car door and then Leon’s coming up the steps behind you, taking them two at a time.
“Here.”
He unlocks the door and swings it open, leaving the keys hanging in the deadbolt. You grab them on your way past but leave the door wide open, heading for the kitchen. You thought it was a clear invitation but Leon isn’t following. You roll your eyes and call out to him.
“Mr. Chivalry. You got somewhere to be?”
You’re carefully arranging your busted hand flat on the countertop, weighing it down with an icepack, when he joins you in the kitchen. He’s left his coat in the foyer.
Thank god. You didn’t want to be alone.
“I’m hungry and I’m not putting in the effort,” you tell him, bending over your phone on the counter and pulling up a delivery app. “What’s good one-handed food?”
“I could always spoon-feed you,” Leon says, leaning back against the sink and crossing his arms. You throw him a look.
“Let’s save that for the nursing home.” You scroll past a menu photo that snags your attention; you scroll back up. “Ooo, fuck. We’re doing that.”
You put the order in and straighten up, lifting the icepack and checking your hand. It’s even more stiff than it was, cold and swollen. You eye the purpling bruises, the cracking scabs, the violent picture it all makes in the bright light of the kitchen, and remember the crunch of the would-be one-night-stand’s nose, the way it seemed to reverberate up your arm.
Leon’s mind seems to be on a similar track.
“Remind me never to piss you off,” he says.
“Yeah, you’re not an asshole,” you say, stashing the icepack and heading down the hall to your bedroom. You wanna get cozy before eating your weight in expensive takeout.
So then of course you can’t get a handle on the fucking zipper of your dress.
Leon’s quietly perusing the exploded gallery that is your fridge doors – photos, postcards, receipts, novelty magnets, save-the-dates, recipes, stupid doodles on post-it notes – when you come back out.
“I’m starting to regret my life of crime,” you tell him, and turn your back. “Help.”
His fingers brush your skin as he gets the zipper started. You keep your head tipped down, holding the front of the dress in place as the sides come apart and gape open at the back.
“Hey,” he says, and you feel his fingers press by your low shoulderblade. It burns and you flinch, turning your head like you can see anything without a mirror.
“What is that?”
He pushes the fabric aside, his thumb tracing a frame around something on your skin.
“That bastard forced you into the wall, didn’t he.”
“Goddamn it,” you mutter. You need a mirror.
He follows you to the bathroom, watching you twist to try to see your back, catching the tiny slump of your shoulders when you see it.
“Great.”
There’s a livid scrape the size of a matchbook where you’d caught the brick wall of the alleyway. It’s red and raw like rug burn.
Leon’s tone is tight, to match his jaw.
“Where’s your first aid?”
“Under the sink,” you say. You’re not going to argue, not going to insist you can do it yourself. It’d be a difficult spot to reach even with full mobility in both hands. You can let him take care of you.
You stand out of the way, still holding the front of your open dress, feeling a bit like a child watching someone else clean up your mess. First aid open on the sinktop, Leon rotates you gently, hands on your waist, to put your back in better lighting. You hear a foil packet tear open.
“It’s cold,” he warns you, and he’s right. You hiss when the antiseptic touches, stinging against your raw skin, but he soothes the wipe over it until the burning fades and all you can feel is the way he’s touching you. Careful, thorough.
Tender.
He rips open a card-sized bandage, places it methodically, smooths the adhesive edges down. You shiver, your skin raising goosebumps under his fingers.
“Okay,” he says, quiet. You open your eyes. When did you close them?
“You’re not gonna kiss it better?”
You go to throw him a smirk in the mirror, because you’re joking.
He must've missed it. He’s getting down on his knees.
Your pulse picks up.
“Leon,” you start to say, but you don’t know where to go with it. You were kidding. Maybe you don’t want to be. Don’t stop?
Don’t stop.
His hands are on your hips. There’s heat coiling low in your belly.
He kisses over the patch of the bandage. It’s not right. You can’t feel it.
“Lower,” you whisper.
His lips are warm and soft brushing your skin, his breath humid, his scruff a pleasant rasp that makes you shiver hard. Your breath tumbles from your open mouth.
He slips his hands under the open sides of your dress, palms dry against your naked skin, fingertips pressing in. He kisses over your spine, follows the low curve of your ribs, climbs to your shoulderblade, his mouth leaving wet impressions. You’re swaying, body warming, your heart thumping wildly.
“More,” you breathe.
He stands to mouth at your shoulder where it meets your neck, his hands sliding over your stomach under the dress, hugging you back against him.
You let go of the dress. He slides his hand up between your breasts, tips your head back. You receive his tongue with yours, meeting his kiss, and your body ignites.
God, you’re already soaked. You can feel the air of the bathroom cold against the wet fabric of your panties. You’re also feeling something else, pressed flush as you are against Leon’s front. You shift your hips, rubbing your ass against his fly, and he breathes hot into your mouth. You smile, grinding firmer on the hardening line of his cock.
“What’s that on my six?”
His fingers slip into the creases under your asscheeks, squeezing you, lifting as he rocks against you.
“It’s at least a ten,” he says, voice smoky and right by your ear.
“Damn right.” The roll of his body is hypnotizing, but he’s still wearing far too many clothes. You reach back, tugging his shirt from his waistband, and he lets you go so you can turn, helping him take it all the way off. He wraps it around his wrists, belting it under your ass, keeping you trapped. Like you want to go anywhere.
“Fuck, look at you,” he says, low.
“You’re one to talk.” The jingle of his belt echoes, your fingers deft as you open it, open his jeans, pushing the sides wide. You run your hand over his shaft, already straining the front of his boxer briefs, and he watches your face with half-lidded eyes, lips parted. You lean in, brushing his lips with your own, stealing his groan when you dip your hand under his waistband and squeeze him, so hot and full and satin-soft.
His hands are back on your ass, twin handfuls pulling and squeezing as he kisses you, and you laugh into his mouth.
“Can I interest you in something?”
You feel his teeth, nipping at your lips.
“Bend over the counter,” he tells you.
“Fuck.” Yeah, you’ll do that.
He smooths his hands down your back, going wide to avoid the bandage, and hooks his fingers under the waistband of your panties, pulling them down your legs. You step out of them, kicking them to one side, and feel his hands on your thighs, widening your stance. He kisses the rise of your ass, gently squeezing the flesh in his teeth, and travels lower.
“Hips back.”
You give a breathy moan at the first touch of his mouth to your drenched pussy. He kisses you there, firming his tongue to tease your clit, laving back through your folds and sucking light, releasing with a pop. You cry out when he turns his head, breaching you with his tongue, humming, fucking you with it before easing back, breathing out hot against you. You feel his teeth scraping your ass cheek again.
“Fuck, you taste sweet."
“You’re gonna spoil your dinner,” you gasp out, almost delirious. You moan when he rubs through your dripping slick with his fingers, slowly pushing one inside you. You rock back against it, fucking yourself on it, greedy.
“God. More, Leon. Stand up.”
His second finger stretches you; your hips stutter, breath hitching, then you press back and take him to the knuckles, groaning.
“Fuck.” He’s thrusting shallowly into your grip, your good hand tight around his cock, his waistband shoved down under his balls. You look back over your shoulder, watching the flushed pink head of his dick as it pushes through the tight circle of your fist, his tip leaking. You rub your thumb through it and he drops his head back, the luxuriant roll of his body almost too much for you to watch, his belt buckle clinking, cold against the back of your thigh.
“Jesus, Leon.”
You twist your wrist on the upstroke and he gasps, looking down at you, chest flushed pink, eyes completely blown.
That’s too much.
His back hits the wall; you’re shoving his clothes down his legs and off, his belt smacking the baseboard when you fling his pants away. You grab his shoulders and he hauls you up onto his waist; you belt your legs around him, your hips shifting as you try to catch the head of his cock where you desperately want it to go. He adjusts his grip on you, reaching down to line himself up, and you both gasp as he breaches you.
He lets you sink down on him, easing you, careful, pushing up with shallow thrusts. You take all of him, every throbbing inch until you’re flush against his pelvis. He stays there, letting you adjust.
You stir your fingers in the hair at the nape of his neck, looking down at him.
“I think you’re fired,” you tell him, a little shaky. He just looks at you, studying you, half his brain too blissed out to function.
“You’re a terrible wingman,” you say.
“Yeah?”
“How is anyone supposed to compete?” You rock your hips, biting off a groan as his cock strokes along your walls. He can reach deep, thick and hot inside you. “Fuck. You’re not supposed to ruin me for anyone else.”
“Oops,” he says without a shade of remorse, and snaps his hips in a short, deep thrust. You cry out, bouncing with it, and he does it again. And again.
“Oh my god, Leon, ruin me,” you whimper.
Your ass hits the cold sink countertop, Leon leaning forward to brace as he starts fucking you in earnest, your legs falling wide from his hips. He gathers them back in, blunt fingernails scraping down your thighs, and you press your hand to the mirror behind your head, body rocked by every thrust, the countertop unyielding against your tailbone. You can’t find it in you to care.
Leon reins it back for a stretch, going slow and deep, dipping his head to kiss the swell of your breast, drag the flat of his tongue over your nipple, circling it, sucking. You keen, digging your heel into the small of his back, sighing as he sucks lightly on your other nipple, scraping his bristly cheek along the skin of your chest to bury his face in the side of your neck, bracing his arms on the countertop again. The sound of skin slapping skin picks up, echoing around the bathroom, obscene.
“Since I'm not on payroll,” he starts conversationally, against your shoulder.
“You volunteered,” you say, breathless.
“I hated it,” Leon says.
“What?”
“Playing wingman.”
You push him back so you can stare at him. “You never said–“
“Yeah. Cuz I'm a quitter,” he says, gruff. “And I'd love to let you down.”
He pulls you up, down off the countertop, slipping out of you. He bends you over, rubbing the head of his cock through your folds, lining up and pushing back in slow. He brings your leg up, the side of your knee against the countertop. You sigh, then moan loud when every new thrust starts slapping his balls against you.
“Oh, fuck, Leon!”
He grips your ass, his breathing harsher, fucking into you hard and fast. You feel the coil start to build, your toes curling, canting your hips just so, pushing yourself back against every thrust.
“God, like that,” you whine, face pinched in desperation as you near the edge.
“That’s it, shit – I can feel you,” he says, and then his fingers are circling your clit and you cry out, clutching at his arm. “Come on, sweetheart, I got you.”
And that’s you gone.
You crash down into a white-out orgasm that has you jerking and writhing beneath him, groaning brokenly, grasping at the countertop, grasping at him. He curses around your name, drapes himself over your back and fucks you through it, slow and rocking, then manages only a few more rapid thrusts before he’s bottoming out and pulsing inside you with a guttural moan, hot cum coating your walls that still convulse with aftershocks.
You both slide down onto the bathroom rug, gelatinous and spent. Leon slips out and you feel his cum following, trickling out onto your thigh, but it’s not on the rug so it’s not worth moving about.
Neither of you so much as twitch when the doorbell rings.
“Food’s here,” you say, eyes closed.
Behind you, Leon hums and drapes his arm over you.
“Don’t get up all at once.”
“Thanks, I won’t.”
He kisses your shoulder. “Shower?”
“Seems excessive,” you say, your eyes still closed. They flare open when Leon drags lazy fingers through the mess spilling out of you, smearing it up onto your stomach.
“You’re a monster.”
He smiles and pulls you to lie on your back, bending to kiss you slow and deep, fingers dipping inside you, gathering more of his cum. He paints it onto your thigh in little circles and swirls, languid and ticklish, and you can’t even be mad. The shower’s right there.
You pull his hand from between your legs and press it flat to his own chest, dragging it down.
“Better start the water. Our food’s gonna get up and walk away.”
The hot water stings your busted knuckles.
You hold your hand clear, smiling quietly while Leon massages shampoo into your hair and then tips your head back against his shoulder to rinse. You sigh when he runs his slippery, soapy hands all over your body, kissing your shoulder, your neck, your mouth.
You turn in his arms, push his wet hair back from his eyes, run your hands down his face. The pad of your thumb fits perfectly at the corner of his mouth; you run it along his bottom lip.
“Can I be honest?”
“Probably unwise.” You can see his eyes tracing arbitrary paths between your freckles; over your cheeks, nose, forehead.
“You’ve always been my metric,” you tell him, quiet. “I was always looking for someone like you.”
His gaze settles on yours, a pinch forming between his brows.
“And where was I?”
“Out of my league.”
He snorts. “You've gotta be shitting me.”
“Don’t give me that.”
He holds your chin, tips your face up to kiss you.
“Couldn't read me for shit, could you.”
“That's not fair, you're trained to be unreadable.”
“Guess I played myself.”
You study him, searching his eyes.
“What?”
“Why didn’t you say anything?”
“I told you.”
“No, I mean, when the door was wide open,” you say. “When I broached the subject of a wingman. Could’ve saved me a lot of trouble.”
“It wasn’t right,” he says. “You were looking for fun.”
Your brow creases. “What are you looking for?”
For a moment, he doesn’t answer. Then,
“Keeps,” he admits, quiet.
Your heart does something probably medically suspect in your chest.
“Yeah?”
“Yeah.”
You kiss him, winding your arms around his neck, loose.
You’re smiling.
“Good.”
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⤷ 𝓼𝓯𝔀. leon is a stray dog of a man. first kisses. 𝟸.𝟿𝓀
leon is overly tired and very grumpy. it’s no surprise really when he rolled home in the early hours of the morning, bruised and so battered from his recent assignment—spain, if you remember it correctly—but since then, he clearly hasn’t slept and his mood is suffering for it. so, you take it upon yourself to fix it for him
“hey, leon?” you call out softly from your spot on the couch and then wince when you hear a cupboard door slamming shut in the kitchen. he’s been banging around in there for a while and truthfully, you have no idea what he’s trying to accomplish and you find it best not to ask, “c’mere for a second, please,”
it takes a moment but eventually, he leans around the kitchen doorframe with a frown pulling at his brows. he looks exhausted, his eyes are sunken in and the dark circles that are discoloring the tops of his cheeks can’t even hide behind the blonde hairs that hang in front of his face, “what’s up?” he asks, grumbling
his voice is rough, scratchy and faintly worn out, causing it to sound far deeper than it usually does. butterflies swarm low in your stomach over it—like they always do—but you try to ignore it this time whilst you smile and stretch your arms out towards him, “come and lay with me for a while, please,” you plead
the frown that’s painted across leon’s face deepens, his eyes get distant on the surface but you can see behind it—you can see right through him. something soft and melting hides behind the ice of his eyes, something that he doesn’t allow himself to feel often, much less indulge in it when you’re offering, “why?”
answering that with honesty is complicated. telling leon that you’re trying to lure him in, make him relax, force him to be pliant so that he can be tempted with sleep won’t ever work, you learnt that early on and because of it, you’ve had to get creative with telling little white lies that’ll benefit him in the long run
“because, i want you to,” you answer simply, keeping your tone light and airy, treating him as if he’s a shelter animal that’s at risk of backing into the corner, that’s furthest away from wherever you are, with his teeth bared. it’s not really a lie either, you would like him to lay with you but your motives behind it don’t need to be discussed
“but, why?” he asks again, this time sounding desperate and slightly pathetic. he knows that you’re lying in one way or another and he’s letting you. he’d never admit it but you’re the only person that can get away with it. if it were anyone else, he would’ve turned tail and left without even entertaining it
your head tips to the side, eyes raking over his face—the scars, the bruises, the cuts—whilst you make the decision to be somewhat candid with him, if only for his sake, “i just don’t like it when you shut yourself in your room after an assignment, that’s all,” you explain, carefully, still watching him
leon nods, his tongue darting between his lips, “do roommates lay together often?” he snarks, though there’s not a whole lot of heat behind it. he’s trying to deflect your offer, make himself out to be someone that you wouldn’t want near you at all but much to his dismay, it won’t work. it never does and it never will
“i don’t think roommates is the right word anymore, leon,” you point out with a knowing look—one that reminds him of the times you’ve patched him up, scrubbed dried blood from his body and washed gunpowder and god only knows what else from his hair, all without a complaint. “stop being difficult and come over here,”
the change in his eyes is the first thing that you notice, the first sign of submission. the distant look gets overpowered by the softness in an instant when he realises that he’s too exhausted to argue and what good would it do, he’ll only give into you in the end anyway, “yeah—yeah, okay,” he murmurs
finally, he steps out from where he was hiding against the kitchen doorframe. whatever he was doing—or rather, trying to do—in there seemingly becomes irrelevant as he shuffles towards you slowly with the telltale evidence of an ache that spreads throughout every single one of his limbs without his say so
still though, your eyes wander selfishly. his t-shirt is a size too small and clings to his biceps in all of the right places, his grey sweatpants hang low on his hips and one of the legs is caught up around his shin, exposing a ring of tanned skin between his clothing and his socks. he looks comfortable, for once
when he gets close enough, his teeth graze over his bottom lip and his gaze flickers between you and the couch and then over to the television that has been muted ever since you spotted him slinking out of his bedroom. he’s stalling but it only takes a soft flutter of your lashes to get him to cave and fall into you
it’s rather unceremonious and kind of clumsy. his limbs knock against your own and the couch creaks rudely with his added weight but eventually, he just gives up and sort of flops down on top of you, leaving his cheek smushing into your stomach and your legs spreading to accommodate his body
leon sighs. it rattles out of him while his arms snake around your waist, holding you pretty close for a guy who made out like he didn’t want this. it makes you smile, not that he can see it and for the first time ever, you hope that he can’t detect that butterflies that are still whirlwind-ing in your stomach, right under his head
instinctively, your fingers start to card through his hair. it feels like silk against your skin and it’s hard for you to imagine that not all that long ago it was thick with dirt and someone else’s blood—you try not to think about it as leon gives a small grunt of contentment, barely there and muffled but, it’s something
minutes pass by languidly, like time doesn’t really exist when leon is cosplaying as the most handsome weighted blanket. he stays quiet, enjoying the drag of your nails against his scalp and slowly, his breathing starts to even out as sleep starts to entice him but then he goes all at once and he jerks—hard
muscles pull taut all over his body while he goes from being on the edge of slumber to almost wide awake in the blink of an eye, “shouldn’t be—be doing this, i have work to do, reports and stuff” he rambles under his breath, trying to push himself up and away from you and this time you sigh deeply
guilt holds him in its grasp. survivors guilt—maybe. the constant feeling that he’s not allowed to relax, he’s not allowed to indulge in the simplest of things. the feeling that he has to keep going, an act of penance that’ll never be satisfied, no matter the amount of people saved or the heavy toll that it’s taking on his body
“leon—no, lay down,” you urge, though you sound more sympathetic than you’d like to. leon doesn’t like sympathy, he doesn’t like pity either but as your fingers slide underneath the neckline of his shirt and splay across tense muscles, he pauses, forces out a shuddered breath and then reluctantly relaxes again
“why do you even care about this?”
you flinch when leon can’t even ask why you care about him. he swaps the word with ease, leaves it unsaid but implied—even if he doesn’t mean to, “because i just do and if i didn’t, then who would?” you ask. it’s rhetorical, open ended if he wants to respond but there’s no pressure for him to try
strong arms loop around your waist again and large hands flatten against your spine, touching and committing the most ordinary parts of your body to memory, like it was made just for him, “you shouldn’t,” he whispers and the worst part is, he truly means it. he really doesn’t believe that anyone would care about him
“mhmm—sounded like a rough one this time so i’m trying to extra care of…this,” you breathe, repeating the same phrase that he used whilst shifting the subject ever so slightly. leon grunts in agreement—it was a rough job—and it gives you the chance to ask your favorite question, “do you want to talk about it?”
“no,”
just as you expected, the normal response. you have to ask him though and you won’t press the issue further, you won’t try to force him to open up about what he went through. instead, you leave it be and let an easy silence fill the space between you and him. you’re there if he changes his mind and that’s enough
in the meantime though, you drift your fingertips up and down the back of leon’s neck, tickling and just barely scratching your nails up through his hair and right back down to the top of his spine whilst leon seems to lose himself in a deep thought, one that allows you to see the proverbial cogs turning in his mind
a moment later, something shifts. you can’t pinpoint it and it’s odd because you feel it before anything really happens, almost like something prepares you for the shaky lungful of air that leon sucks into his body but then it leaves you high and dry, caught wholly off guard, for the gentle press of lips against your hipbone
it’s not a kiss—it can’t be. leon must’ve done it accidentally. too engrossed in his thoughts to realise that he did it but it felt like a kiss. fizzling beneath your skin, blossoming throughout your veins, a thing that you’ve wanted for too long. fleeting and sweet, causing you to overthink it, spoiling yourself with it. and then,
“i nearly died this time,”
your heart sinks. swooping low, stealing the air from your lungs. it hurts to hear, especially from a guy who has the most awful habit of consistently downplaying every single thing that happens to him, “w-what—oh my god—wait, come up here, please,” you gasp, screwing your hands into his shirt to haul him upwards
leon moves promptly, clambering and collapsing into the sliver of space between your body and the back of the couch. he slots in with ease and rolls you to face him, pressing his broad chest into yours as he settles his head against the armrest. he’s so close, more so than he’s ever been before but it's not enough
before you can think better of it, you’re draping your thigh up and over leon’s hip and tentatively resting your hand on his ribs but it doesn’t quite have the desired effect when leon flinches. a bruise from his assignment makes his body jerk and immediately, you feel awful and try to snatch your hand back
“no—don’t,” leon mumbles, vulnerable and out of his depth, while he catches your wrist and pulls your hand back to put it in it’s place. his own hand hovers over yours, displaying a size difference that makes you feel a little bit dizzy before his hand flits to your thigh and smooths tenderly up the outside of your leg
seconds bleed into minutes as you take the time to just exist with leon being so close. his breath fans over your cheek with every exhale and his hand squeezes lightly at your thigh but ultimately, you build up the courage to ask, “how did you—how did you almost…” you trail off, unable to say the words out loud
“that part doesn’t—it doesn’t matter,” leon answers you, too fast and frowning. his walls go back up—albeit, they’re only half the size that they normally are and ready to crumble at moments notice—while he attempts to draw your attention away from his confession. though, all it does is leave you feeling confused
an incredulous laugh bubbles in your throat, “leon—that’s insane, it does matter—you matter,” you rant frantically, hung up on the fact that you really almost lost him this time. sure—it’s a constant risk with his job but hearing him admit it makes it all too much for you to handle, “i mean—how can you even say that it—”
“i thought about you,”
oh. your previously sunken heart swells when leon cuts you off. your eyes widen as your breath hitches in your throat but your mind muddles with every single plausible implication of his words. maybe it’s wishful thinking on your part but it all leads back to one singular thing. still though, you blurt, “why?”
“i don’t know—i just—” leon stops himself and then presses his lips into a thin line. his eyes harden, only slightly, and his walls build themselves up to their full height. he’s struggling and you don’t blame him but you need to know and your fingers screwing into his shirt urges him on, “all i could think about was you and—”
you can’t take it anymore. you crowd into the small amount of personal space that he has left and press your lips into his and his walls collapse. he doesn’t hesitate, he doesn’t waste another second before he’s kissing you back. soft, slow, sweet, all of the things that you weren’t entirely sure that he was capable of
his hand finds your waist, squeezing and tugging you closer until your bodies are flush against each other. your hand slides over his jaw and he doesn’t wince when you brush against the bruise that’s blooming underneath your palm. if it hurts him, he doesn’t show it because he’s too busy. he’s right where he wants to be
it’s all consuming, swallowing both of you whole where you lay on the couch until the air in your lungs begins to thin, causing you and leon to part your lips in an effort to breathe. he’s smiling though, you can feel it against your mouth whilst your chest rises and falls with every gasping breath
“shit—if i’d known—would’a told you ages ago,” leon mumbles in between kisses that have turned needy. it’s like he’s been teased with the taste of you and he’s worried that if he pulls away now, he’ll never get it again. somehow, the thought of that is far more harrowing than anything he’s ever encountered on a job
“what do you mean—ages ago?” you whisper, also refusing to interrupt the lazy flow of kisses that are being shared between you and him, as your fingers ghost up his jaw and into his hair once more. not pulling or tugging, just playing deftly in a way that makes him grunt low in his chest and grip your waist harder
he hesitates now. stuck somewhere between wanting to wear his heart on his sleeve and wanting to keep all of his secrets under lock and key. there’s a lull in his kisses, a moment where he’s too stuck to remember that he’s supposed to be kissing you back but when you threaten to pull away, he makes his decision quickly
“i think about you every time—all the time,” leon concedes with his bloodshot eyes wildly searching yours. he sounds sure of himself, no mumbling or muttering under his breath, he’s admitting it and you can practically see the weight of it lifting off of his shoulders, “it’s always just—you,” he breathes
inside of your chest, your heart is preparing to burst. it aches with happiness and an overwhelming sense of fulfilment and you can’t stop yourself from surging forwards to kiss him again. leon gasps as his bottom lip slots between yours—a sound that you haven’t ever heard from him—and then when you pull back, he grunts
“think about you too,” you giggle, sharing his sentiment, before you wriggle in close and tuck yourself against leon’s body. you fit together like puzzle pieces, your head slotting under his chin while his muscular arms wrap you up. you’ve found your place and you never plan on leaving, “miss you when you’re gone,”
“yeah?” leon chuckles, deep and throaty, muffled by his lips pressing a soft kiss to the crown of your head as you yawn and nod in response, “thought you were trying to trick me into sleeping,” he teases, revealing that he knew what you were trying to do this entire time—you’re not mad about it though
still though, you playfully huff, “yeah—well—i am,” you mumble and press your ear against his chest to listen to the thrum of his heart beating. it’s an even thump, not panicked or rushed, just satisfied, “you’re gonna nap with me,” you garble around another yawn as leon’s exhaustion becomes infectious
“am i?” leon asks, though he’s already rearranging himself to get comfortable and tightening his arms around you, holding you close and trapping you against him. you nod again, not giving him a choice, but he doesn’t seem to care when he’s kissing your temple and whispering a peaceful, “yeah—i am,”
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