"Captain Hanji, sure you don't wanna check up your shoulder at the infirmary?" Moblit asks her while they are in the high-ranking officers private elevator inside their HQ.
Hanji sighs.
"I am fine, Moblit. Really." she replies quickly.
And I don't want anyone else knowing that we are back yet.
Hanji and her assistant had just got back from a secret and last call mission.
Erwin had received bad news from one of his spies, and the urgency had made him contact his two traveling agents, Hanji and Moblit - who were traveling back from another city to the main HQ. Erwin's instructions were that when the pair got at the informed terrorist warehouse location, the two researchers should observe, report, and wait to receive further orders from Erwin. They followed the orders and as they got there, they stealthy observed what was going on in the terrorist side.
Hanji and Moblit noticed that there were three people being held hostage, already one dead body, and some weaponry research being prepared to move. Then, since the terrorists seemed about to kill the hostages in a minute or two, the pair would need to do something. And fast.
With the fair amount three terrorists confirmed in guard of the small warehouse, Hanji had assured Erwin that she and Moblit both would be able to handle it.
However, when they acted, things hadn't gone the way they had planned...
Ding
The elevator opens slowly at the corridor that leads to the main officers rooms, where Erwin waits for a full report of what happened.
It should be Hanji going there, actually, but since she has something really really important to confirm by herself right now, Moblit offered to go talk to the big boss about the mission.
But her assistant is worried about her health, and so he hesitates at her side one more time.
Moblit tries reasoning again.
"But Captain Hanj-"
Man, don't worry
"Let it go, Moblit, I'm not dead - it was just a shot.", Hanji stretches out her injured arm and shakes Moblit's arm strongly, just to prove her point. "It doesn't even hurt anymore, and my healers are doing the job well enough, so now go."
He insists.
"But what if… That person... When I finish the report of the mission at Erwin's office, if... Wait, no...", Moblit flinches while holding open the door of the elevator, and for a moment Hanji has to fight the small urge to laugh at the man's nervousness. "WHEN Captain Levi discovers it, he will…"
"He will what, Moblit?" Hanji rolls her eyes at the over worried man in front of her. "Please, this isn't even the first time I got a shot, much less a shot in a mission..."
"But, Captain, y-you-", the man chokes a little, "You might be… You can possibly be preg-"
"Sshhh" Hanji quickly shushes him with a serious face and looks down to the watch in her wrist. "We don't know it for sure yet, Moblit" she states firmly.
But I will get the results in the next minutes, so I have to goooo
And she almost can't contain her secret excitement to confirm the news any longer.
Then, Moblit tries to speak again but Hanji is faster.
"You know, in the end I'm also the one who will hear the most of Levi's irritation but - as you can clearly see - I'm not even a bit worried", but she almost bites her tongue noticing that, if she were indeed pregnant and got a shot in a mission, 'irritation' would not be even near the best word to describe Levi's wrath when he discovers.
He will freak the hell out as never before...
Bloody hell
But to her excuse, though, it wasn't all her fault for the situation - she was doing one of her standard all-body-check-up in the travel back to home when Erwin called. And then, when her nanos warned her about the possibility of her condition, she and Moblit had already reached the terrorist warehouse and were finishing things with the men there...
Levi would have to deal with that.
"But he's gonna… He is gonna...", Moblit seems about to cry.
Levi, you frightening Shorty!
Hanji knows that Levi had asked Moblit to keep one eye at her when they go in this kind of missions, and Moblit sure has done this - and much more - along the last five years, and this time he also did as much as he was able too to protect Hanji.
Then, the fact that she discovered she might be finally pregnant and got a shot when she was distracted for a second while he was inside the warehouse properly doing his job, are two things totally out of Moblit's control and responsibilities.
The man is not only a great assistant, but also a very loyal friend of her, and Hanji was almost always the one getting catch by trouble, so no one could blame Moblit for Hanji's wounds.
Especially who already was well aware of that - her husband, Levi.
But Hanji understands her assistant's preoccupations and works to soothe him.
"He won't do a thing, Moblit! You can trust me. I know how to handle my man", Hanji tries to make the personification of worry in front of her have some peace tonight because, besides his own worries about her condition, her amazing assistant would probably spend the whole night fidgeting in his bed: one, for Levi's fault; two, for the shot Hanji got thanks to the small lapse she had done.
Moblit definitely would be useless next day, full of guilt and deeper bags under his eyes, and it wouldn't be good for anyone.
Then, she says with her best smile.
"So, relax, as I will handle everything. Now, go talk to Erwin, could you?"
Moblit sighs, given up his stubborn chief, and slowly lets go of the elevator door.
"Right, Captain. Good night." he nods and starts to turn around.
But suddenly, Hanji remembers that Moblit is also very loyal not only to her, but to Levi after being saved from an explosion two years ago, so...
"Oh," Hanji calls Moblit's attention quickly putting her foot to hold the door of the elevator so she can look in her friend's face.
"Captain."
"After you are done with Erwin, don't you dare go flying to tell a word about it to Levi or I will hang you upside down in the lab for a week!"
The man flinches.
Not like I would do it, actually, she thinks to herself.
"Don't go running to tell him. Understood?"
"..."
He looks everywhere but to her.
Not good.
"Moblit"
"..."
"Moblit..."
"Ma'am"
"Moblit!"
Okay, I might hang him right now...
"Fine!", the man sighs and looks at the floor. "But what if he sees me or if he is also with Commander Erwin?"
Hanji retrieves her feet from the door, letting it slowly close.
"Then, you tell Levi I'm waiting him under his wonderful shower!", and she laughs at her assistant's red face until the elevator closes again.
At least Moblit looked better now than with the worried and guilty face from before.
A few seconds later, the door of the private elevator opens again, and Hanji goes straight to her and Levi's apartment.
Since they have been together for so long in the organization and they are also officially married for over three years - by Erwin's almighty papers and power -, Levi and Hanji had got one "apartment" room type at the main QG. It was a wedding gift from their awesome big boss.
Not that not having one shared room would get in the way of the smartest and the strongest, though, she smiles while unlocking the room's door and loving to be back at home.
As she crosses the door, Hanji's mind and body are screaming to find a way to relax since today's unexpected mission had gone almost terrible.
Being with Levi after missions would be the usual call, but she remembers that last discussion isn't done yet - what is a pain in the ass -, so this is why she doesn't mind telling her man right away that she is back.
A bit childish?
Maybe.
But she also wants her time alone to investigate the status of her condition.
And, well, he will also probably freak the hell out when he finds out what happened in this unforgettable mission.
Better she confirms her ultimate discovery of the day before meeting her angry Captain Shorty.
If Hanji is right, today she will give him the biggest surprise ever.
Can't wait for it.
Closing the door of the apartment, Hanji goes to the dark living room. Levi sure wouldn't be there when he himself is not in mission because he simply hates to wait for her in their own apartment when she is the one in outside missions.
Or when they fight.
And this two things indeed happened.
Well, Hanji stays in her lab, too, when she is in the same shoes, so they both are even.
She smiles to herself.
He is probably cleaning something huge in the HQ with only toothbrushes right now...
Hanji starts taking off her combat boots - they stay in the middle of the living room;
then her gear - beloved knives, blades and guns being carefully placed on the center table at the living room;
she takes off her blooded clothes - they go flying everywhere, letting her only in a black underwear.
She, then, prepare herself to walk toward the bathroom.
It would seem unbelievable to anyone that she is asking for a bath right now - yeah, she knows 'it's shocking' but deal with it yourself - and for the first time in ages, Hanji could say that she was indeed in real need of one.
She doesn't often remember to bath, and she has to admit that it really annoys her to be knocked out by Levi in order to get her 'filth body under steaming water and fresh soap'.
She rolls her eyes.
Levi's 'grandma' side never faded even after more than 10 years.
It is not that Hanji dislike being clean or hates water, though. It's just simply a matter of 'there is too much important things happening and bath is the last thing to cross my mind'.
Or, err, sometimes laziness too, since sleep is better...
But, as the time together with her beloved clean-freak goes by, even if Hanji still doesn't always remember to take a shower everyday… Well, when she does it, she actually enjoys the most. And her body is really craving for one right now.
Not that she would actually say all that to anyone, though.
Especially not to that Shorty!
She feels a nice shiver in her body and then she is already imagining the wonderful sensation of warm water wetting her bare skin.
And a certain someone's wonderful soap…
She hums...
Under hot water...
The image of a hot Levi under the shower... damp black hair covering partially his marvelous dark-grey eyes... while rivers of her beloved hot water runs down through his amazing collarbone... down his chest... his eight-pack... what a great abdominal muscles... like a waterfall of promised pleasures, and the better, all exposed to Hanji's hands...
Ahem
It is not happening tonight, though.
She opens her eyes and sighs as she remember that he is going to be really mad in the moment his amazing body crosses the door of their room.
He will definitely put up a fight - again - for her being in danger by getting distracted.
And worse: it will double the discussion if it was for the discovery of their upcoming child.
Just thinking how he will storm in their room in the next minutes makes Hanji groans, and the promise of the bath seems to become even more like a wonderful medicine and a fabulous compensations for Levi's temporary absence.
By the time he is back, her body might be well to face the rest of that night.
"Urg, that damn electric bullet!" she curses out loud, feeling the reminiscent pain in the injury on her shoulder. Hanji stops in the middle of the living room and without hesitation, she puts her left hand over her right shoulder blade, taking off the old soaked bandage.
She studies it for a minute and notices that the bleeding had stopped and the bullet hole had mostly dried and closed now.
"Finally!", she says to the wound, while fishing the small piercing bullet she had kept inside her bra.
She places it over a drawer in her way to the bathroom corridor. The strange electric bullet that got her did some pretty crazy damage to her nano healers, living her with a wet and open wound in the battle for more time she had liked. It was like it had silenced her nanos or caused a temporary short-circuit, what had forced Hanji to take three vials of emergency healers before she could 'black out' right within the reach of a final enemy's attack.
Or worse, like being temporarily hacked or infected with a random nano Titan-vírus.
As a captain, Hanji would be the perfect target for this attacks.
They could get classified information without her even notice, what would be more than a mess.
Unluckily for her enemies, though, she was also a chief scientist officer, and she knew how to improvise and deal with her creations too. That way, she had managed to deal with the situation without something really problematic happening.
Well, except for Moblit freaking out.
She keeps looking at her shoulder and use two fingers to trace the closing edges of the wound. "For a moment I thought it would take forever for you to heal…"
Hanji also had to admit that the terrorist's new weapon had proved that they were very effective in people with nanorobotics. If they had not being stopped today, how much damage couldn't they have done in the world that depends so much on technology?
'Oh! And…', her scientific side adds curiously to her speculations, 'What was in that? How they created it? Maybe it was indeed a small EMP bullet, huh? But with a electric charge to incapacitate the wounded? This is sooo deviously clever! Why I have never…'
Wait
She shook her head to not let her mind trails off too much.
There is something more important to think now, and she moves her sore arm a few times, back and forth, and contemplates the current level of pain she is in.
Well, it still hurts.
On the other hand, though, Hanji feels safe and sound about one thing: her lower body is concentrating the biggest part of her healers, something she had made the nanos to do in order to guarantee that nothing happened to the 'experiment' growing in her body. She was getting 96.8% certain that her biggest and more brilliant creation had finally succeed, and receiving a shot of that strange bullet could have been a threat to it.
So, her injure is still a damn wound that hurts like a bitch and will keep healing at grandma's pace too because Hanji can't do anything anymore. She had already used enough of the healers from the emergence aid, and certainly add more would be too much for her own blood's sake.
"No more of my babies," she talks to herself, and the "babies" part reminds her about the thing she is about to confirm.
And in 100%.
She checks the progress of her complete body data analysis by the speakers of her watch.
Data analysis for full body condition:
Date: 01/25/2085
Status of scanning:
- 100% completed.
Nano cells: a m ount of nanos left to recover (34%)
- Time until fully recuperation: 10 minutes
Virus and other Threats: none
Body Abnormalities:
- Injuries: 01
- Status: recovering
- Time left: 15 minutes
Others:
- Pregnancy test: positive
- Level of threat: not applicable
Hanji laughs loudly, and she almost wished Levi would be there right now too.
It worked.
It worked.
Eyes closed, she sighs excitedly.
Finally.
She takes the corridor at her left, going toward the bathroom door, and if Levi would be there, he would say she is again 'unable to be attached to the ground!'
Ha
The confirmation just made her night, day, year and century probably, so who could blame her?
And to make things better, knowing this new fact will also help her to counter all Levi's past preoccupations, proving that she is more than okay.
To the point of being carrying a child.
The impossible child of an Ackerman.
With Zoe-Ackerman blood.
Oh. My.
She jumps in her feet, squeaking and squealing, laughing out loud.
Our little Zoe-Ackerman is coming…
And all she can do is smile...
Hanji reaches the bathroom door, loosening her ponytail so her messy hair can fall heavily on her back.
Her mind immediately plans how would be the best way to tell this to him - to get the best of Levi's reactions - and when a plan starts to form in her mind...
If Shorty thinks he will have the upper hand tonight-
Hanji throws her head back and laughs to the shower
-after what I have to tell, he won't even know what hit him.
In a heartbeat she is under the shower, the feeling of water as amazing as she loves as muscles and mind surrendering to the growing and thrilling feeling in her guts.
When her mind suddenly trails off to a vision of a very wet Levi behind her, holding her hair up, right there above her neck, under the incredible storm of water, and she can't help but moan out loud in pleasure.
Oh, yeah!
This is how I love it
Hot
Hot
Hot
After getting out of the shower and towering her body, Hanji undoes her soaked messy bun, sliding her hands through her wet hair, feeling how good it is to have it cascading down her naked back. She lightly brushes her it with her fingers, undoing some knots here and there, and give them back some of their natural volume.
When she gets to the bedroom, Hanji wears one of her black shortie panties but doesn't bother putting a bra. She is well pleasing herself with the indescribable sensation of having her long brown waves moving left and right over her bare skin, just as she moves her head left-right, and repeats the same motion a few more times.
Sometimes it's incredible just how much small and simple things can bring so much happiness.
She keeps balancing slowly her head a few more times, left-right, left-right, left-right, and then her hands starting to massage her nape,her neck, until sliding down her now healed shoulder.
There is not a single trace of the injury anymore, and the only thing that could tell she had got a bullet was the ghost of pain still lingering there.
Hanji stretches both her arms above her head and then throws all her body over the bed, lying over Levi's side with her eyes closed.
I could very well sleep at any moment now...
She braces a pillow under her head.
...but, well, Levi is not back yet.
She looks to the clock on the left side of their bed.
It has been almost an hour since I parted with Moblit, but hell hasn't coming up yet...
She is about to let out a smile thinking about her plan to tell Levi, when there is the sound of the front door being opened and Hanji knows that Levi finally decided to make his presence known.