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IB WORK SONG - HOZIER (´ ω `♡) “Boys, when my baby found me I was three days on a drunken sin” “I swear, I thought I dreamed her. she never asked me once about the wrong I did” One year. That’s how long Carlos Oliveira has had something he never thought he’d get to keep. A normal life. A person to come home to. Someone who loves him without asking him to be anything other than himself. And tonight, surrounded by old UBCS friends in a crowded pub, he’s had a little too much to drink. Carlos has always been an emotional drunk. But tonight? He’s gone. He’s crying about how lucky he is. Gushing about Y/N to anyone who’ll listen. Calling her his heart, his girl, his miracle. His friends have heard the speech approximately twelve times, and he’s still not finished. But beneath the laughter and the drinks, there’s something Carlos has never really talked about. Y/N knows he used to work for Umbrella. She knows he’s seen some terrible things. She knows he sometimes wakes up crying. She doesn’t know about Murphy. About Nicholai. How close Carlos came to never making it out of Raccoon City. And, drunk enough to finally stop keeping everything behind his teeth, Carlos is about to tell her. Not because she needs to save him or that he’s suddenly healed, but because, for the first time in his life, he has something soft. And he’s so incredibly grateful for it.