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    Even in the quiet aftermath, there would never truly be an escape from the aftershocks of a world brought into ruin. Neither Yuji nor Megumi would ever be able to forget what happened on that day— especially not when it has been so deeply etched into the planes of their marred skin, never to fade away.

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    Yuji misses those days in the aftermath of it all, when victory was still fresh and healing was made possible and the world was no longer dull and gray and riddle with smoke, ash, and bloodshed. Because at least then, he still had everything.

    Now, he has nothing.

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         Leon has never really been a good dancer. 

         He’d never quite had much of an interest in it, his taste in music only ever leaving enough room for the occasional head bounce or light tap on the steering wheel when the world was quiet and it was just him inside of it. It wasn't until he met Ada that he figured he should learn, when meetings between the two of them sat on a thin line and secrets were still an unsteady thing they never dared to share. 

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    To love is to be changed.

    Ada used to be afraid of that idea. She never considered herself to be someone who was built to be shaped and molded by something she could not control. But no one ever really does, she supposes. We just let it become a mere passing thought, this concept of being drowned beneath uncharted waters. A figment of an imagination we cannot seem to get away from.

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    Ada had never once thought that she could have something like this.

    From the moment she learned to think for herself, life has always had a way of teaching her that it did not matter who you were or where you came from, it would be just as unfair to you as it was to everyone else. There were no victors in a world full of cruelty and despair. Only survivors.

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    In the aftermath of repetitive near-death experiences and an incredibly short period of attempted healing, Leon and Grace meet up for a talk. Grace fears for the future. Leon dwells on the past.

    They face it together.

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    When Leon finally wakes, the first thing he feels is the warmth in his veins.

    It’s a stark contrast to the pain he felt the day before, the near constant state of distress during his most recent mission leaving him exhausted and bruised. He had almost forgotten that he wasn’t in his twenties anymore, unable to withstand the brunt of the physical burdens that come with his line of work like he used to, even though he is much stronger now than he was then. His body just doesn’t heal as well or as quickly as it once had. It probably never will again.

    But even though that may be the case, it is not the aftermath which he finds himself thinking about. He just doesn’t think that any of what happened in the previous days matters half as much as this.

    Nothing does.

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    Ever since he became a married man, there hasn’t been much Leon has fought harder for than to return home in one piece at the end of every week. Even if he didn’t manage to make a difference like he hoped he would, even if everything he did seemed like it didn’t matter in the moment, even if the odds stacked against him were impossible to combat— he still had to come home.

    Because he made a promise.

    They both did.

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    The ache in Grace’s side worsens with every step down the long hallway, warmth pooling in the material of her shirt and soaking it with the promise of death. Whatever supplies she had made useful simply weren’t enough to hold her together for long, only buying her just enough time to make it out of this terrible place before it went up in flames. She still doesn’t know if she’s going to make it.

    Not like this.

    Not when she has to carry them both.

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    Leon has felt this anger before.

    After Raccoon City, it was as if it was the only thing that kept him going. Anger at what happened. Anger at himself. Anger at all of the things he wasn’t able to change and probably still couldn’t even if he could somehow go back.

    But in all of the years he has been alive, with every call he’s responded to and every war he has fought in, he has never felt anger like this: consuming, unbridled, and burning hot in a way he swears will melt his own skin.

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    Ada doesn’t say anything to that at first, letting her thumbs stroke his skin until she’s tracing that old bullet hole the same way she always seems to do. Her response comes like a confession. “I think we need to retire.”

    Leon tips his chin in agreement, jutting his brows as his eyes find the foggy door. “Yeah. But I don’t know what I would do even if I could. I’m not made for that quiet life, you know? Not anymore.”

    “You could be,” she replies, soft and curious.

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    Ada doesn’t expect to find him like this.

    She knew she was running out of time to get to this place, loose end after loose end tying her up in knots and inevitably throwing her into a dead one. But as far as she had been concerned, everything seemed to be under control for the most part. Leon was doing his job, just as well as he always had, sending the undead back to their graves for good this time and putting all of his energy into tracking down Victor. Grace, despite being full of fear, was doing her best to help in whatever way she could.

    But something must have happened in between her last encounter with Leon and this one, because he did not look like this an hour ago.

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    Leon has never really let himself dream about a quiet life.

    That kind of thing is just something he was never meant to have, or ever could, considering the world has fucked him beyond measure ever since that day in Raccoon City. First came the duty and then came the fall and with the fall came an inevitable thing that eventually almost destroyed him completely. It made him half the man he could have been, once upon a time, and dried up any and all hope for anything different a long time ago.

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    Grace is traumatized and injured. She and Leon talk about what it means to be strong despite having fear.

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    Fear is good, some say. Fear is what keeps us alive.

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         When Ada was a child, her parents had once taught her that there was no need for attachments in a dangerous line of work. Attachments were a weakness— a means to destroy someone’s entire being with the snap of a finger. When the entire world is going up in flames, there is no room to worry about the lives of mere passerby’s. There is only you, and the only person you can rely on in this world is yourself. If you can’t even do that, then when the time comes to pick up the pieces of what has been lost in a world corrupted by fear and ruin, there will be no one left to collect the shards that remain.

         There will only be darkness and the ghost of something that once was, and will never be again.

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    Megumi struggles with violent inheritance. Yuji is there to remind him that the sins of their parents don’t have to become their own.

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    Sometimes he wonders if it were possible to reach the end— to live in Hell long enough to see that it does not actually last. But then sometimes he finds himself standing at the edge of the world, surrounded by corpses that had once looked human but weren’t anymore, and he thinks that would be impossible. There is no end. He doesn’t even remember a beginning. There was only a beginning for him, in a cursed place he had hoped he would never have to return to, but he knew was inevitable.

    Raccoon City was the birthplace of his Hell.

    And in this Hell is where he knows he will die.

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    Leon Kennedy has been many things in his life.

    A stupid kid, a rookie cop, a lucky survivor. A promising soldier, a deadly agent, a man who does what he has to and doesn’t think twice about it. A friend, a comrade, a savior. A machine who only knows how to follow orders. A drunk, a murderer, a failure. A man who is tired and doesn’t know how to be anything else. A shell of someone he doesn’t recognize anymore. A broken, rusty part. The ghost of something he had once been, but no longer was and hadn’t been for a long time.

    A husband, and a father who would give anything to make it out of this alive, even though he knows he can’t.

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    There’s a throbbing pain in Jill’s skin, beginning somewhere as deep as her bones. It’s been there for as long as she can remember, coming and going with the waves when the world turns to shit, never vanishing until she finds some inhuman will to forget about it. But recent events of the past months have made it increasingly harder to ignore— especially when there’s a more superficial ache searing her just above the surface.

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