A/N - Okay, so this is really, really, cheesy oh my gosh it hurts how cheesy this is. But I haven't posted in awhile and I felt like writing crying Eren and this is what I shat out. Hope you guys like it somewhat. Cheers.
Levi didn't know it was possible to want someone this much, to touch someone this much, to want to be with someone all the time. Though in his current position it was not possible to be with him all the time. Fucking brat had him wrapped around his finger. His smile, his eyes, his voice, the way he laughed. It got to him every time. Every. Single. Time. And he hated himself for it. Hated the fact that someone like him made him feel so warm and fuzzy inside. That being the most innocent thing he felt towards the boy.
One night, he decided he would go check on him in his basement room where the squad kept him. He decided he would check and then leave, just to make sure the kid hadn't harmed himself or anything. He walked down the stone steps, being careful not to make too much noise. He didn't want the others thinking he had gone soft for the kid. When he walked in front of the metal bars he saw that the blankets were shaking. His face scrunched up. "What is he...doing. Don't tell me.."
"Oi, Jaeger. What are you doing under those blankets."
"C-corporal..?"
Levi heard a sniffle. Maybe it wasn't what he thought it was. He thought it best to go in and uncover what was going on. Pulling out his keys he unlocked the cell and walked in, not hesitating to lift the covers up to unveil wide, teal eyes slowly filling with water. Tears, he realized. "The kids crying."
"Why are you crying."
"I-I'm not, just something in my eye." Eren wiped his eyes with his sleeve in a weak attempt to hide the obvious fact that he was indeed crying.
"Do you know what happens when soldiers lie? Especially soldiers like you?" It was a bluff, but one that Eren would fall for.
There was silence as Eren quietly tried to stop his sobbing, and as Levi quietly tried to control the overwhelming feeling of wanting to put his arms around the kid. When after a couple minutes the sniffling and face wiping didn't stop Levi set down the lamp he was holding and sat himself on the edge of the bed. Eren, thinking that his crying was annoying the corporal tried to stop. But tonight, the tears just kept on coming, and Eren couldn't figure out why.
Eren continued to cry when he felt arms around him, holding him close to the man he thought hated him. His shoulders shook harder when he felt strong fingers running through his hair, brushing back his bangs as his tears left wet splotches on the man's shirt. And he held on, he held on to the shirt that belonged to the Corporal as the tears came and came and came. He held on to Levi like he was the last thing he would ever need. Like if he let go Levi would get up and walk away. Levi didn't say anything and that was okay, because there wasn't anything he could say to make the tears stop, everything had gone wrong. Everything Eren ever had was taken from him in the course of a couple days. His mother, his father, his friends.
After he had calmed down a bit and his sobs were replaced with hiccups he felt a hand rubbing small circles on his back.
"I see you've calmed down now."
"Y-yes, thank you Heichou."
The Corporal was resting his cheek on Eren's head, practically holding him in his lap. They sat like that for a long time, Eren keeping his head down, not wanting the Corporal to see how puffy his eyes were and how red his face probably was. Eren fell asleep, a small smile on his lips when he felt a gentle kiss placed on his head and a small whisper from the Corporal himself,
"I love you."