cherry

AO3 / Rules (Masterlist under break)

it was a spur-of-the-moment deal, something that just happened after yet another mission survived together. for the last twenty-and-some-change years, they were all the other had known.

but it made no sense to bind themselves legally. leon was in d.c. with the dso, ada moved around a lot depending on who she was working for. they didn’t get to spend a lot of time together, because when one was home, the other was across the country on a mission.

leon walks through the door, exhausted, body aching, throws his keys in the bowl by the door. even with the usual post-mission stress, he really does feel like a million bucks.

they found a cure. there are calls to make. jill, claire, chris—all of them will need to be seen soon enough. but there’s someone that leon needs to tend to personally.

and she’s curled up in bed, coughing as the infection spreads like wildfire in her blood. but that’s okay. because leon has a fresh vial of elpis ready to go.

she blinks awake steadily, making out the details of leon’s face immediately. she’s awake and alert seconds later, sitting up in bed as if it took no effort. but her skin is blackened, rough and peeling. there’s splatters of blood on the pillows from where she coughed in her sleep.

leon holds up the vial. “Present for you.”