Levi Ackerman one shot - The Trouble with Ignorance

So my first Levi one shot, I feel like I'll be writing more for him, so if this one isn't up to standards just keep your eyes out. I really tried to capture Levi's personality in this one, because he's such a complicated, dimensional character.

So read, comment, and enjoy!

.x.Hidden.x.Winter.x.

                Your name was Lina. You were new to the Scouts, you had originally joined the Rose garrison as a guardian of the wall, but that hadn’t turned out too well. You discovered that you didn’t sit well with walls, rules, hypocrites. You talked back to your commanders, and your comments were always true which only infuriated them more. In the end, the garrison did something unprecedented, they shipped you off to the Scouts.

                Everyone here was nice enough, you’d only arrived that morning. You’d met Commander Ervin who only seemed amused at your account of the move. Hanji was… eccentric, but friendly. She offered you a tour of the lab which you were going to take her up on. She seemed surprised, but ecstatically so. Christa and Ymir were strange, in each other’s confidence to a point where you doubted there was anything that could separate them. The same was with Mikasa, Eren, and Armin. Armin was a nice enough kid, you weren’t sure he had enough guts to survive out here, but his brain was fantastic.

                The other cadets had milled around you, pussy-footing their way by until you got up and punched one in the face. After that, the ice was completely broken and you all got along famously. Somehow, you had no idea how it came to this, all of you were sat in a room playing the old fashioned truth or dare.

                “Lina! Truth or dare?” Eren asked. You pondered for a second before answering, “Dare.” Truths were boring, you wanted a little fun. Besides, what better way to fit in with your comrades than to make a complete fool of yourself?

                Eren smiled, “what about…”

                “Eren!” Another one yelled out, you tried to remember his name… John? Jim? Jean, that was it.

                “She’s new.” He said, an evil smirk sliding onto his face. A second later, most of the other people shared the same face. “If I may?” Jean asked Eren, and when he got the gesture to continue, Jean turned to you, “You have to steal Captain Levi’s cravat.”  

                A hushed silence fell over the room, everyone stared at you. “What?” you asked, a curious grin on your face, “is this Captain Levi some huge giant who’s going to rip me to pieces.”

                One of them snickered before Jean elbowed him, “definitely not.”

                You were still apprehensive, but grinning, “Am I going to get court marshalled for this?”

                “Only if you get caught.” Ymir said. She seemed to be enjoying herself thoroughly, they all did. Ok, if this is how they wanted to play it, you’d bite. “Ok, I’ll do it. Where is he?”

                They were silent for a second as they realised that you’d called their bluff. “N-no Lina. You really don’t have to.” Jean said, his face turning closer to panic for a brief second. “It was just a joke, you haven’t met Levi yet.”

                “No.” You countered, enjoying yourself at the worried expressions, “you dared me, so I’ll do it. If you don’t tell me where he is then I’ll just have to go find him myself.”

                In the end, they hadn’t known where Captain Levi would be, so you left them to find him. You figured you’d start with squad-leader Hanji. You knew where her lab was at least, it was worth a shot. “Squad-leader Hanji?” You called, “Hanji? It’s me, Lina.” Your voice echoed through the room, and you saw a spatter of movement before the woman was in front of you.

                “You’re back already? It’s so exciting that you’re so interested in my experiments!”

                “No wait Hanji,” You said, stopping her before she could get too far off track. She turned to you with a confused look on her face, “I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of a, what was his name… god I’m awful with names…” You tapped your foot as you racked your brain. You gave up and asked on a whim, “is there a guy around here who wears a cravat?”

                Hanji’s face stretched into an untrustworthy grin, “Oh you mean Captain Levi?”

                “Yes!” You said, thankful that she had understood. “Could you point me in his general direction?”

                Hanji’s grin grew wider, “why?” she drawled.

                Her narrowed cat eyes were beginning to make you nervous but you stilled your resolve. “I have to take his cravat.”

                She paused for a second, then her grin turned manic, “Excellent. He’s this way, come on.” She grabbed your hand and pulled you along to the cafeteria. “The captain’s and the commander should be starting to eat around now, I should be there myself, it’s a good thing you came and got me.” She grinned. She was bubbling with excitement, and you couldn’t help but feel like you were out of the loop somehow, who was this Captain Levi?

                “Squad-leader Hanji, present.” Hanji said, saluting at the door to the cafeteria. “And Cadet Lina.” She added, pulling you into the doorway. Unsure, you copied the salute. Everyone was staring at you, why were they all staring at you? You wished Hanji wasn’t blocking the exit to the door…. She pushed you forward and walked beside you. “I thought Lina should join us, she doesn’t know the Captain’s as well as the other cadets, I thought she could use this time to bond with everyone.” Hanji sounded cheery, and in other circumstances you would have thought she was just being nice. But you knew, you knew from the way her eyes kept darting to you that she was planning something. She grabbed your food before you had a chance and you trailed after her.

                “This is Captain Mike.” She said, as she walked past him.

                “Er… Hello.” You said quickly, giving a brief nervous wave before hurrying to catch up with Hanji.

                Hanji dropped your food onto a table and sat down, giving you no choice but to sit beside her. She continued to chatter on about different people you hadn’t met yet, giving you the opportunity to look at the person she had sat you opposite from. His build was slighter than the others, but still probably as muscled. His eyes were focused, his face set in a scowl. It was then you noticed the cravat. Oh no…. “And this is Captain Levi.” Hanji finished cheerily as she dug into her food, casting a sly glance at you from the corner of her eye.

                “It’s nice to meet you Captain.” You said, pressing your fist to your heart in salute. He said nothing and continued eating. Naturally, this stepped on your fuse, the same fuse that got you ‘transferred’ from the Rose.

                “Hey, I was trying to be nice, the least you could give me is a nod.” The room was silent as he raised burning eyes to you, but at this point, you didn’t care. In your opinion, first opinions matter. They matter a lot. You were going to show this Captain Levi that you were no one to treat like dirt, and you were going to start now.

                “Glare at me all you want, someone looking at me doesn’t exactly scare me.” You said, your eyes biting back at his.

                “What’s she doing?” Someone whispered to Hanji.

                “She’s from the mountain towns, she’s never seen or heard of him before.” Hanji whispered back, glee in her voice.

                “So I’ve never heard of you, I suppose you’re some big shot who’s killed a load of Titans.” You said, your voice only getting bolder, “That doesn’t mean that I don’t deserve respect. I am a human being and I would die to protect my comrades, Captain. I know it’s not much, I haven’t made my mark on the world yet like you obviously have, but I think I at least deserve a hello!”

                You fell silent, your point being made. You watched him for response but when you received none you scoffed and turned to leave. You were halfway to the door when you heard his voice.

                “You think you can just insult me and walk away?” His voice was angry, very angry.

                “I see why they kicked her to us instead of keeping her in the Rose.” Hanji whispered, her eyes still alight.

                “I will see your blood against the wall by the time we are through!” He roared, and you could hear fast footfalls heading your way. You calmed yourself and listened, hearing them get louder until you dropped to the ground to avoid the kick aimed at your head. You sprang back to your feet, narrowly avoiding the punch, then ducking the elbow. You let your mind go and fought on instinct, the way you were taught in the mountains. Levi’s attacks only grew faster and harder to dodge as he grew angrier and angrier. He managed to land a few, you managed to dodge a few, but most of them skimmed by their intended target, allowing you to keep up. You deflected his hits to less important parts of your body, they had less impact and you didn’t have to move as much to dodge. You backed up, and with a brief glance behind you, you threw yourself backwards and then pushed yourself forwards off the wall. You launched over Levi and almost lost balance when you landed on a table you weren’t expecting. Levi turned and obviously wasn’t expecting the table either. You used his brief confusion to drop to your knees and let your fist fly to a solid collision with his nose. You brought back your fist but he didn’t move, his face stayed to the side with his hair shading his eyes.

                You hopped down from the table and through the adrenaline you noticed the cravat had come loose. With quick fingers you snatched it and stuffed it in your pocket before anyone could notice what you were up to. Then, you raised your fist to your heart and bowed to Levi.

                “A worthy opponent, thank you for the fight.” You bowed to the other people in the cafeteria who stared dumbstruck at you, “I apologise for interrupting your meal. I will accept the punishment handed to me for my actions.” With that you walked from the cafeteria and as soon as you were sure they couldn’t hear your footsteps anymore, you raced back to the dorm.

                “Lina, where’d you go-oh my god what happened to you?” Jean screeched. Looking down you saw you were a mess. Your uniform was crumpled, your hair was falling out of your ponytail in places, and you could feel a cut on your cheek dribbling blood down your face. Nevertheless, you grinned like a fool and waved the cravat. “I got it.” You said, laughing at the looks on their faces. Looking at it again, you noticed several specks of blood on it, and decided on a plan of action.

                “Later guys, I’m heading off to bed.” You said with a wave to the other cadets you left the room.

                The next day you knocked on the door to Captain Levi’s office. “Come in.” you heard, and before you could doubt yourself, you did. His eyes froze when he saw it was you. His eyes flicked over you, from the way your hair was pulled back showing a dark bruise spreading back into your hairline. The way your chin was held high, ignoring the blue and purple patch that coated half of your jaw and stretched down to slowly fade on your neck. Your hand was held in a salute over your fist and he could see the split red skin of your knuckles, and the spattering of bruises that coated your forearm where you had blocked his punches the day before. You were a good fighter, and had diverted his attacks from their intended targets, but you had paid a price for it.

                “Please sir, I’ve come to make amends, I know I was out of line. It’s true that my temper has always gotten the better of me, and I know you’re not the awful person I made you sound like yesterday, you can’t be if everyone looks up to you as much as they do. But sir you have to understand why I was so insulted.”

                He didn’t look away from you for a second. “Go on.”

                You gulped, he was giving you a chance to speak, this was good. “Well sir, it’s pretty much like I said yesterday, I would die for you, I would die for anyone here. It’s my duty as a soldier to give my life for my comrades and I promise you, I will do that to the end, our lives are lived out on a battlefield, and there, we’re all just people. Some might be better fighters than others, some might be better strategists, but we’re all just people. We are all equal when we’re fighting titans. And if that’s the case sir, then why should I treat people differently when we’re not fighting? If they are willing to give their life for me, then shouldn’t I respect that person? Don’t they deserve that?” You looked at him and sighed, “I deserve that captain. If I am going to die for you, I deserve a hello.”

                He didn’t move, and then you reached into your pocket in a last ditch effort to make things right. “I noticed yesterday that every part of your uniform was, well, pretty much perfect. In the jump I must have bled on your cravat, so I took it and washed the blood out of it.” You held it out to him, “good as new.” You said hopefully, with a hesitant smile.

                He took the peace offering, “the corners are crumpled.” He said nothing else but you knew you were saved, he had accepted your apology. “Anything else?” He barked.

                “No sir.” You said, and with a hurried salute you left his office.

                “How’d it go?” You jumped, putting a hand to your heart to slow its racing. “Squad-leader Hanji, you almost scared me to death. And I think it’s ok, he only seemed mostly angry, not entirely angry like yesterday.”

                Hanji laughed, “You’re lucky you escaped with your life after the stunt you pulled yesterday. You’re a good fighter, very fast.”

                “You have to be in the mountains, we don’t have any garrison stations up there.”

                “You’re kidding right?” Hanji looked at you. “I know they’re small villages, but the city doesn’t give you any protection from Titans?”

                You shook you head, “we fight them ourselves. Luckily the 15 metre and taller don’t seem to like it in the mountains, but the others, we deal with them or we die.”

                “Why don’t you just move into the city?” A voice came from behind you. You stopped walking and turned to Levi. “Because that’s the only place to mine the metal for the Titan fighting blades.” You said calmly, catching the fraction of a second where his mask broke and innocent confusion took its place. He began to walk away and Hanji’s expression clearly said to not push your luck but you called out anyway, “Captain Levi, may I spar with you after dinner?” His eyes flashed back to you, and he continued walking until you thought you had imagined it. Just when you gave up his voice called through the hallway, “don’t be late.”

                After dinner you raced towards the training ground to meet with Levi. He was already there, as you expected.

                You saluted, “thank you for agreeing to spar with me sir.” He waved his hand, “just hurry up.” You assumed fighting position and then dropped it when he flew away.

                “We’re sparring with our 3DMG?” you asked.

                “Obviously.” He said, flying down at you. You barely had time to whip out your blades and block him, and then he darted away. Hesitantly you joined him in the air and he seemed to notice your nervousness.

                “You… you can use the manoeuvre gear right?” He asked, slightly shocked. From your skill with fighting yesterday he just assumed you would be good at this.

                “Not really sir, when I was back in my village I fought a military guardsman of the Kingsguard, so they threw me in the training camp to ‘teach me a lesson’, but it was already half over, I never really grasped the basics of the gear sir.” You said, fearing how he would respond.

                “You said you fought Titan’s in your village.”

                “Well yeah, but it’s not like the city’s going to give us all manoeuvre gear, that’s a lot of money to waste on a small mountain village. We’ve got enough trees up there that if we climb high enough we can jump down on the Titans when they pass us.”

                “And if they see you?” Levi prodded, still astounded that the city was treating her village this way.

                “Well we either jump out of the tree or die, sir.”

                “And if you failed, if your village was overrun?”

                You didn’t understand the point he was trying to make, “well I suppose the villagers would all be eaten, and there’d be no one to mine the metal for the swords.”

                “So you’re telling me, that the one weapon we have to fight the titans is mined in a village where people are supposed to jump from trees to kill Titans? Do they even give you swords?”

                “No, all refined metal is kept in the city, we use sharpened rocks from the mine and just kind of, hack into the Titan’s neck until they die. It’s not that bad once you get the hang of it, like I said before, the bigger ones stay out of the mountains.” You were unsure why Levi was asking these questions, and unsure why he looked angrier than usual. You hadn’t said anything to anger him, had you?

                Levi’s mind was racing. The swords were the only think they had to kill the Titans, and now he discovers that the only thing protecting the source of the swords is a bunch of untrained villagers jumping from trees with rocks. How could the city treat the village this way? And then his thoughts turned to you, you had been dumped in training camp and told to survive, how had they let you graduate without making sure you were proficient with MG? And then after all this, you try to fight back, to speak frankly with your commanding officers in the Rose garrison and you get shipped to the Scouts. He understood now why you were so adamant to get his respect, because after everything you’d been through, you had sacrificed for people who treated you like you were nothing, when in fact you had been fighting Titans with nothing but a rock in your hand, just so they could have proper working Titan-killing swords. Frankly, the whole thing was disgusting.

                “Levi?” Your voice snapped him out of his revere. You jolted at the murderous expression on his face and hurriedly corrected yourself, “Captain Levi, sir. I didn’t mean any disrespect sir, I was just worried sir, Captain, Lance Corporal Sir.”    

                He motioned that you should quit your babbling and you shut up immediately. He lowered himself to the ground and you followed.

                “Sir-?” You began when he spoke over you.

                “You want your body to be balanced, you want to be able to hang in mid-air without any stress that you’re going to fall. It needs to be second nature, in a fight you’ll have bigger things to worry about.” He lifted himself slightly off the ground, and you did the same, “I saw you doing this minutes ago so I know you can do it, but you’ve got to catch up to the others. They’ve had a whole year ahead of you, you need to build up the core muscle strength to keep this up for an extended period of time.” Your heart melted a touch as you realised what he was doing. He was teaching you how to use the 3DMG from the very beginning.

                You thought originally that the tutoring was a nice gesture, and would be a good way for you and Levi to erase any final bad blood between you two, but you never figured it would be so exhausting. You collapsed on your bed every night, barely saying a word in passing to your fellow cadets. Every morning you rose before the sun, dressed, and ran laps as a warm up. When the sun rose, Levi would show up and drill you with a new exercise. You’re entire life was consumed with Levi’s teachings, and you had to admit, you didn’t mind. You used to think he was just a miserable bastard, but now you saw he was just brazenly honest, and you appreciated that. Before you knew it, you trusted Levi completely simply because he had never lied to you.

                You hung in mid-air with Levi hanging opposite you barely two feet away. You were nervous, he was so close to just be hanging there. You watched as the wind swayed him, his hair fluttered and his eyes were sharp and focused. Everything was silent, and then he attacked you. He didn’t use his MG as anything more than to hold him up, his position stayed the same as he sent a flurry of punches and kicks at you. Naturally, you ended up upside down.

                “Ah, Levi!” You yelled, only slightly embarrassed that you had failed compared to the mortification you felt when you realised that you were bent over and your ass was pointing directly at his very-close-face.

                “Get yourself upright!” He barked, and somehow you managed it. You barely got a breath in before he was at it again, this time you blocked them. His attacks weren’t overly powerful, they just got you moving, got you used to attacking and defending while being suspended and maintaining you balance. Unfortunately, they technique was harder to master than it was to understand.

                “Get yourself upright!”

                You did so and then stopped him as he was about to attack again, “just explain to me what I should be doing!” You were frantic, it was so hard to get yourself back up when you were hanging upside down, and you didn’t want it to happen again.

                Levi paused before pressing his fingertips to your abdomen. Your stomach fluttered and you prayed he didn’t feel it. It wasn’t that you had a thing for him, it’s just really personal to touch someone’s stomach… right? “Tense here, always tense here. This is your disadvantage, in your village you focused on arm strength above all others to climb those stupid trees. In training camp your focus is on your core. You need to develop it more.” He thrust his palm flat on your stomach and your body involuntarily tensed more than you thought possible. He pushed harder and you tensed more to stop yourself falling backwards.

                “That’s it, now let’s go again!”

                That night when you collapsed onto your bed your friends sat around you.

                “I hate you Jean, this is all your fault.” You mumbled, “You and your stupid dare.”

                He chuckled, “how was I supposed to know this would happen?”

                You groaned, “My whole body hurts.”

                “Yeah, you look like a walking piece of mould.”

                “Jean!” Christa scolded.

                “He’s right!” you wailed, going along with it, “I’m blue and purple and yellow all over!”

                “Do these bruises ever go away?” Ymir mused, poking the one on your forehead. You had gotten that one in your first fight with Levi over a month ago.

                “No! It takes forever!”

                “Downfalls of being raised in the mountains and never seeing the sun.” Jean muttered. He pat your forearm in parting, grinning at the groan you made.

                Eventually your bed was free of visitors, until Hanji burst in. “How’s training going with Levi?” she sang.

                “Fantastic.” You grumbled, grinning after.

                “You’re coming along so well.”

                “How would you know? You’re always in your lab.”

                “Levi was giving a report on your progress to Commander Irvin. But I’ve gotta say, Levi’s really taken a shine to you!” Ignoring your confused look she continued, “I never could have guessed it, considering how the two of you started, but now you’re pretty much inseparable! I haven’t seen Levi this tolerable of anyone since… ever! I think he likes you!”

                “Go dream on your own bed Hanji,” you said, “He’s making sure I don’t die.”

                “Is that denial I hear? Oh my god you have a crush on him too! This is too adorable! There’s going to be little baby Levi’s running around before I know it! Levi and Lina! What should I call you? Lena? No that sounds exactly like your name, it’ll have to be Livi.” she was pleased for about a second until she realised, “no that sounds exactly like his name! You’ll just have to be Linavi. It’s not the best nickname but since your names are so similar-”

                “Woah there Hanji, first off, Levi and I are not a couple. Second, we are not having babies. Third, you can never, ever, call me or him Linavi.” You glared at her to get your point across, but she just burst out laughing.

                “You’re so cute! You’re trying to defend him! You really do like him!” She squealed. Christa ran in the room with Ymir at her heels. “You have a crush on Levi? That’s adorable!”

                You collapsed back on your bed, this was just perfect.

                The next morning you woke as usual, and were putting your boots on when Hanji burst into the room. “Lina, come on, some villagers are in trouble, Commander’s asked us to join the rescue party.” You nodded and burst into action. You thought about going to tell Levi but then obviously, he would already know. You swung yourself up onto your horse and joined the rest of the group, Levi among them.

                As soon as he saw you he stopped whatever he was saying to the Commander. “What are you doing here? You’re not proficient with the 3DMG yet.”

                “I was told to come here.” You said.

                “She’s right, I sent for her.” Commander Irvin said, “She has more knowledge of the area than we do.” This struck a chord with you, the only place you would know better than the survey corps… was the mountain region.

                “Your village will soon be under siege from numerous titans, we are going to stop them.” Irvin said, closely watching your face for any sign of hesitance or weakness. You nodded, this was your home, and you would save it.

                You all rode hard, and then you joined Irvin at the point of the formation. You led them through a thin mountain pass, “Titans can’t get through here, it’s too narrow, it cuts through the mountain to the village while they have to go around. Hopefully it’ll give us the advantage.”

                Then you felt the footsteps. You charged through the pass to the other side, and saw wave upon wave of Titans.

                “Lina, wait.” Irvin said, as he could tell you were ready to jump from your horse already. “Squad Levi, take the right. Hanji, you and your men take the left. The bulk of our force will be in the middle.” He continued and you paid rapt attention, and as soon as he was done you were in the air with Levi. No matter how many Titans you killed, there always seemed to be more. The squads were pushed back into the forest surrounding your home and then you saw Levi. All of the Scouts were not used to fighting in this environment. A lot of the trees were unsuitable for 3DMG, and there was not as much space to manoeuvre, they were having trouble. You saw leaves shudder and looked back to Levi. A Titan was walking behind him, completely hidden from his view. The Titan reached out, and before you could think you had forced yourself in its path, and it caught you instead.

                “Aghhh!” You yelled as its fist tightened around you. “Levi kill it!” Seconds later, it collapsed on the ground and you freed yourself from its crushing fingers. You coughed, and then looked up to Levi. “Thanks.” You said, trying to ignore his furious expression.

                “What were you thinking?”

                “Well you didn’t have time to turn around! I just bought you a few seconds, I knew you’d kill it.”

                “Che. Come on, they’ve called a regroup.” He walked up and wrapped an arm around your waist before hauling you into the sky.

                “Levi? I can move by myself you know!” Did he really think you were so helpless?

                “Not with that crushed MG you can’t.” he growled back. Glancing down you saw that most of your gear was crumpled from the Titans grip.

                “At least my blades are ok.” You said, ignoring the glower. He dumped you on a tree branch while Irvin spoke.

                “Our numbers are greatly diminished, and we’ve been pushed back further than I would have liked.” He was right, pretty soon you would be clear of the forest and your village would be there ready for the taking. Levi moved efficiently, taking your blades and restocking his supply with them.

                “What are you doing?”

                “You can’t fight the Titans without MG, the swords are better placed with someone else now.” Irvin said. They all turned back to their discussion and your blood began to boil. You had lived in these mountains all these years, you had fought Titans without MG before, and you would do it again. You watched as the remaining Scouts prepared themselves. Hanji and Levi had shared the rest of your blades, and were now stood next to each other in the line, awaiting the Titans. Slowly, you crept to your feet. You wrapped your palms in strips of your ripped jacket, and when the Titans were almost in range you ran forward. Darting between Hanji and Levi, you took one blade from each of their stocks and jumped off the branch, into the open air.

                “Lina!” Levi yelled, before you landed on the shoulder of a Titan and sliced its neck. Landing safely on another branch you looked back at them in challenge. The rest of the battle passed in a blur. You were aware that Levi was always around you, ready to jump in and save you but you were determined to prove that you could take care of yourself. You turned to fight again but saw that everything was silent, all of the Titans were gone! Looking around you saw Levi slowly approaching you, also flashing his eyes around to ensure that no Titans had gone unnoticed.

                “What were you thinking?” He snarled. You could tell that he was furious with you, but at this point you didn’t care.

                “I was thinking that I had to help save my family.” You bit back, voice steady and unwavering. “I was thinking that this is my home! And besides, what do you care? You’d be happy to get your free time back. You hate teaching me and babysitting me-”

                You were cut off by his harsh lips forcing themselves on yours. He forced you back against the tree trunk and melded his body to you. The rough bark dug into the back of your neck and pulled at the tangles in your hair, but at that moment the only thing you could think about was Levi and the way his bruising hands dominated you.

                “Don’t think you know everything, cadet.” He growled, before lurching away to the village with his 3DMG.

                You stayed where you were, touching your lips to make sure it was all real. “Levi.” You whispered, but he was much too far to hear you. The stubborn man had stranded you in the treetops without any gear, you would have to get to the village on foot. Typical.

                You made it there, finally, and were crushed into a hug by your family.

                “Oh Lina! We’ve missed you so much!” Your mother said, crushing you to her in a hug.

                “It’s fine mum, I’m well looked after there.” You placated her, but didn’t expect her next words.

                “Oh we know, your boyfriend is a lovely man! A bit surly, but he seems very much in love with you dear.”

                You spluttered, your boyfriend? You were about to retort when you felt a presence next to you. Levi smirked down at you, “Squad Leader Hanji took the liberty of reassuring your family of your well-being.” He said, ignoring your paling face. You could tell from his smirk, and Hanji’s massive grin, that she had obviously exaggerated several points, and Levi found them hilarious.

                “Yes dear, soon to be fiancé she said. Oh she’s a lovely woman, Hanji dear, you must come around more often!”

                “Oh I will.” Hanji said, obviously enjoying herself.

                “So will you have the wedding here? I can’t imagine you’d have them in the barracks.” Your mother continued to gush to Hanji, who entertained her ideas and soon they were planning your wedding and thinking of baby names.

                “After you joined the corps I never thought I’d have a grandchild! Oh this is amazing!” Your mother seemed to have completely forgotten that you weren’t pregnant, or married, or even engaged. Levi looped an arm around your shoulders and led you to a secluded side of a barn.

                “I can’t believe they’re planning my baby’s names.” You grumbled, but Levi only chuckled. Your complete humiliation seemed to have lightened his mood. “Seriously Levi! I’m not even pregnant!”

                You felt your head jerk back as you were pushed against the barn wall, Levi’s body flush against your own. His head bent down until his lips were barely brushing your own.

                “Would you like me to fix that?”