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    She wasn't looking for anything when Claire Redfield put a stranger's number in her phone. He wasn't looking for anything either—or so he said. What followed was a year of coffee shops and late-night texts and a deployment that changed everything, a relationship built in the spaces between impossible jobs, and then the slow, brutal unraveling of a man who didn't know how to stop carrying everything alone. She loved him enough to walk away. He loved her enough to finally do something about it. This is the kind of love story that doesn't announce itself—it happens quietly, in the ordinary moments, in the getting better and the showing up and the specific, patient hope of two people who know what they had was real. The red string doesn't ask permission. It just keeps doing its work.

    DISCLAIMER: This is a Resident Evil fanfiction featuring Leon Kennedy x Reader. All characters and elements from the Resident Evil franchise belong to Capcom. I do not own RE; this work is fan-made and not for profit.

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