The Isolated System

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• The Transitive Property by BettyBest2

  Fandoms: Biohazard | Resident Evil (Gameverse)  

  • Explicit
  • Major Character Death
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  16 Jul 2026

  Tags

  • Major Character Death
  • Grace Ashcroft/Leon S. Kennedy
  • Grace Ashcroft
  • Leon S. Kennedy
  • Sherry Birkin
  • Emily (mentioned)
  • Jill Valentine (briefly)
  • Claire Redfield (briefly)
  • Chris Redfield (Briefly)
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Grace-centric
  • Slow Build
  • Extremely Slow Burn
  • the slowest burn you will ever read
  • Friends to Lovers
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • lot of injuries
  • Mutual Pining
  • Touch-Starved
  • Canon-Typical Violence
  • Heavy Angst
  • Grief/Mourning
  • PTSD
  • Self-Harm
  • Suicidal Ideation
  • past stalking
  • Past Voyeurism
  • Trauma
  • Overthinking
  • multi-chapter fic
  • I didn't know Grace had a confirmed age the entire time I was writing this so she's 27 here
  • Leon is 49
  • Grace is a creation here as well
  • a B.O.W.
  • The Ring does not exist in this story
  • cooking as a love language
  • Sexual Content
  • Eventual Smut
  • Like really eventual
  • explicit - Freeform
  • Dom/sub Undertones
  • Dirty Talk
  • Praise Kink
  • Begging
  • Loss of Virginity
  • Unprotected Sex
  • Multiple Orgasms
  • Female Ejaculation
  • Dissociation
  • Anxiety Attacks
  • Not Beta Read
  • Tooth-Rotting Fluff
  • Implied/Referenced Character Death (Emily)
  • Character Study
  • self-indulgent fic

  Summary

  Grace has the math figured out: love her and you die. At least, that's what she's always believed. Survival was supposed to be the hard part. Loving him without getting him killed is worse.

  I started this fic from one question: What if Emily hadn't survived?

  Series

  • Part 1 of The Isolated System

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  40,805

  Chapters:

  8/22

  Comments:

  105

  Kudos:

  94

  Bookmarks:

  21

  Hits:

  1,999

• Mystery Work

  Part of Grace's Private Drafts

  Summary

  This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!