The night was quiet in your private office, filled with only the soft sounds of pens meeting paper and a ticking from the clock on the wall. Leon sat across from you at your desk, doing his best to keep his eyes from occasionally flitting up to look at your focused expression.

The two of you had stayed behind after everyone else had left the headquarters, both determind to finish up and sign off the report from your latest mission together, but while you were dilligently writing away, Leon was a little distracted.

Ever since he had reunited with you during the mission in Spain, he had looked at you differently. The disheveled and terrifying girl he had met and lost in Raccoon City had become someone incredible.

Ada Wong had kept him on a tight leash during that disaster. But you had kept him calm. Soothed, hopeful. And you were still doing that now, but the feelings he had in reaction to it had become a lot more intense.

He had a crush, and he wouldn’t admit it. It wasn’t like with Ada, when he had just been enamored. You and your good heart had snuck up on him and he had no defense.

“Do you… uh, do you want some coffee?” He suddenly said as he looked up at you again, his voice a little hoarse from disuse. Stoic and distant as he was, he loved doing little things for you, to make your life just a little bit easier.