“Jean!”
He looked away from his lunch to
glance over his shoulder
“Brittany?”
She clambered into the chair
beside him, gulping down his water as she caught her breath. The other cadets
watched her, they’d seen her hanging around Jean in training camp, but had
barely seen her since they all came to the survey corps.
“Where’ve you been?” Jean asked,
sliding his food towards her, it was obvious she needed it. His mother had
taken her in when they lived in Trost, and over that time, Jean had formed a
bond with the strange girl who used to scavenge in his dumpster.
“I swear, he hates me.” She said
through bites of sandwich.
The cadets looked at each other
warily, “… who?”
Brittany looked around, then
leaned forward and whispered, “Levi.”
“Oh don’t worry, he hates
everyone.”
“No you don’t understand! I’m
constantly doing chores, or running errands, or passing messages, he’s always
got jobs for me!”
“Cadet!”
Brittany grimaced as she heard
the voice. He hadn’t said a name, but she knew he was calling her. She stood,
and saluted. “Heichou.”
“Stables.
Now.”
“Yes sir.” She gave a parting
glance to Jean and ran out of the cafeteria. Jean looked at Levi, who had a
smirk on his face, as he turned to go back to his office. Brittany was right,
he was up to something.
***
“Brit?” Jean called out warily.
It had been hours since the cafeteria and she hadn’t come back. Naturally, he’d
come out to look for her, but the stables were dark and the only sound was the
occasional whinny of a horse.
“Where’d she go?” He muttered
under his breath, turning to walk back inside. Poor girl had probably been
given another job by Levi.
***
“Hanji!” Jean called. “Have you
seen Brittany?”
“Hmm.” Hanji mused, “she was
walking away with Levi a little while ago, why?”
“Levi keeps giving her shit to
do, he made her clean the stables three
days ago and I haven’t seen her since-”
His words broke off as Hanji’s
eyes sparkled. “What if they’re having a secret affair?”
“I really don’t think-”
“We have to set up surveillance.
You find Brittany and follow her, I’ll do the same with Shorty, and then we’ll
catch them in the act!”
Jean sighed, “oh boy.”
***
“AH HAH! We caught you!” Hanji
burst into Levi’s room, Jean trailing cautiously behind her. If this went
badly, he’d like Corporal Levi to not recognise that he was there at all.
Levi looked up at them, eyes
narrowing in a glare. “What are you doing?”
“I- but you- you’re supposed to
be kissing Brittany!” Hanji glowered, obviously disappointed.
Brittany was in the chair in
front of Levi’s desk, and seemed to shrink under Hanji’s expectant gaze, Jean
felt sorry for her. Levi was never going to let up now.
“Cadet,” Levi said, “Tell this
idiot why you are here.”
“I er… fell asleep and didn’t
finish my chores…” She rubbed the back of her neck. “Corporal was just
reprimanding me.”
“Oh.” Hanji seemed to deflate,
trudging out of the room in disappointment.
The door clicked shut and Levi
stood, casually making his way to the chair Brittany sat in. He leaned over,
bracing his hand on the top of the chair and his other on the arm. She could
feel his angry gaze penetrating her, but looked back at him anyway.
“I was reprimanding you?”
She chuckled, “I thought you’d
like the idea.”
Her hand raised up his chest,
fiddling with the buttons of his shirt, undoing them one by one. He shivered,
her hands were always so cold.
“The door isn’t locked.” He
said, his voice level as if her touch had no effect on his whatsoever.
Brittany chuckled, knowing
exactly what his words meant. Hanji might
come back. “Well,” She began, leaning up and lightly kissing the edge of
his jaw, “you’d better reprimand me
quickly then.”
Levi growled from the base of
his throat, turning his head sharply and pressing his mouth hungrily against
hers.
Damn Cadet.
*** Extended
ending ***
“Jean!” Hanji whispered.
He didn’t look up from his
sitting position in the hallway outside Levi’s office. Hanji had refused to
leave until she got her evidence, and had been stood with her ear to the door
for the last ten minutes. She’d laughed when he asked why they were staying, “Like I’d give up that easily!”
“Can we go now?” He drawled,
because of course he had been pulled into her experiment and been threatened
with lab work if he left.
She waved her hand at him to
quiet down as her grin stretched across her face in a way that unnerved Jean.
They waited another minute, and then her hand waved again, but a different
wave, a ‘come here’ wave.
Sighing, he heaved himself from
the ground and slouched over to the door, pressing his ear against it. “I don’t
hear anythi-” And then he heard it, a small gasp. One of those gasps that was
pulled from a lovers lips.
“That’s it, I’m done.” He said,
stalking away from the door and trying to scourge his mind of the mental images
it had conjured.
“Jean!” Hanji hissed, motioning
that he should re-join her at the door.
“No! You’re such a perv Hanji!”
He could feel the tips of his ears turning red as he stalked away. Hanji
watched him go, and then shrugged, putting her ear back to the door. After all,
every experiment needed evidence.
