Oh hey guys :D This was supposed to be a one shot but then it got long so I separated it into two parts - plot and porn! This is the plot and is very much about the importance of the proper use of safe words and the importance of communication as well. Part two will come next week, hope you all enjoy :D

"Such a good little cock-whore," Levi said softly, running his fingers through Eren's hair and pushing him down further onto his cock, watching it disappear down his lover's throat. "You're so desperate for it, can't even think straight unless you've got a cock in your mouth."

Eren looked up at him from where he was kneeling in front of him. Huge green eyes stared up into grey as he swallowed around the head of Levi's cock. Levi was right, he did love having him in his mouth especially when Levi forced him to his knees and made him suck him off until he came either down Eren's throat or all over his face. Eren loved being used by Levi, just a tool to extract pleasure from and nothing else. Well that wasn't strictly true; he loved it when Levi humiliated him, caused him pain and pushed him till tears of frustrated pleasure were streaming down his face. Hell, he just loved Levi.

With a particularly hard thrust Levi shoved his cock as far down Eren's throat as it would go and held him there. The force of the thrust made Eren choke and as he wasn't able to pull back he tried to swallow, tried to breath but all he ended up doing was coating Levi's dick in even more saliva as his throat closed. Tears pricked his eyes and he looked up again to see Levi staring at him, coldly, making a shiver run through his entire body and straight down to his rock hard cock, practically throbbing between his legs.

One of the things Eren had always been quite good at was keeping out of his head enough during a scene like this to be able to tell Levi when he needed to stop. There had only been one instance where he had failed to do so, settling into a head-space that completely consumed him and ended with Levi fucking him until he passed out. He had promised Levi, after that, that he would be more careful about how far into his head he disappeared. It was now, in his half in half out state that he heard something from the other room.

"Rose," he said with great difficulty, trying to talk around Levi's cock. Levi used his grip on Eren's hair to pull him off his cock, coughing and spluttering as he tried to catch his breath.

"What was that slut? I didn't hear you," Levi said coldly.

"Rose," Eren said, his voice hoarse from throat abuse.

Levi suddenly froze, eyes widening. He bent down and began undoing the ropes binding Eren's hands, his own shaking slightly.

"Shit, I'm sorry," he said hurriedly as he managed to steady his hands enough to get Eren free. "I'm so sorry, are you okay? Did I push you too hard? What did I do?"

"Nothing, it's fine," Eren said coughing to clear his throat.

"Please tell me," Levi said. "I need to know so I don't do it again. God, please tell me I didn't hurt you."

"You didn't hurt me, I promise," Eren said pacing a now free hand on Levi's arm, hoping to comfort him. "Everything's fine. My phone's ringing, I need to answer it."

Levi's jaw dropped and his eyes widened to the extent that it was almost comical.

"Are you fucking serious?" he asked once he had seemed to process that thought. He had definitely heard that right, Eren wasn't having him on.

"It might be work," Eren said as if that was enough of a reason or explanation. He got up, pulled on his boxers and headed to the other room. "I'll be back in a minute."

Levi sat and stared after him, unable to comprehend what had just happened. Eren had used their safe word – the one both of them had said that would only be used in emergencies – so that he could go and answer his phone?

When they had first started seeing each other and Levi had told Eren that he was into BDSM he had been sceptical about whether Eren could handle it. He was headstrong, always pushed himself passed his limit and wasn't great with admitting that if he was in any kind of pain it was severe, always passing it off as nothing. That didn't always made for a good sub. Eren was perfect in practically every way and once he had done a few scenes with Levi to ease him into the concept had been amazing. There was that one instance where he should have said something long before he reached the point of blacking out but he had obviously been desperate to please Levi and maybe hadn't wanted to.

This, though, this was a whole new level of not okay.

He shook himself out of his stupor and began to gather his clothes, no longer in the mood for finishing the scene. He just couldn't quite believe that had really happened. There were hundreds of things Eren could have done; let it go to voicemail – if it was that important they'd leave a message – call back and say he was in the shower, tell Levi that he needed to take the call some other way. Anything but using the emergency safety word.

He had just finished doing up the buttons of his shirt when he felt a warm pair of hands on his chest slipping inside to run along his abdominal muscles. He stiffened, making no move to either pull Eren closer or push him away. He felt Eren's lips pressing soft, feather light kisses against his neck and his resolve hardened.

"I'm back," Eren purred. "What do you want to do with me?"

"Nothing," Levi said pulling Eren's hand out of his shirt and walking away.

"What?" Eren sounded so surprised and hurt that Levi almost caved. He turned to see Eren looking at him with those huge, beautiful green eyes of his so full of shock.

"You heard me," Levi said.

"I don't..." Eren began but tailed off as it sunk in that Levi was actually serious.

"You used the safe word so I assumed that you wanted a complete out," Levi stated. "You know, what it's there for."

"That wasn't..."

"What you meant?" Levi finished for him. "Maybe you needed to be clearer about that and not use the word designed to get me to stop completely."

"I'm sorry," Eren said, his lip was trembling and there were tears pricking the corner of his eyes. "I just sort of panicked and said the first thing that came to my head."

"Maybe you need to think more before you just blurt shit out like that," Levi said.

"I'm sorry," Eren said again. He blinked back the tears of rejection and closed the distance between himself and Levi. He ran his hand gently up Levi's chest, fixing him with the best seductive look he could, and slipped it round the back of Levi's neck. He expected Levi to melt at his touch and was a bit disappointed when he didn't but carried on anyway. He leaned in close to his ear so that he could softly run his teeth over Levi's earlobe. "Let me make it up to you."

"You can make it up to me by not touching me," Levi said.

"What?" Eren asked pulling away but still keeping his hand on Levi's neck. "I can do whatever you want me to." Still with his hands on Levi, Eren sank down to his knees staring up at him but getting nothing in return.

"What I want is for you to get your hands off me," Levi said coldly. "If you just going to throw something as important as the safe word around then maybe you need some time to cool off for a while."

"Are you serious?" Eren asked the seductive look that had been in his eye flashing through hurt to indignation.

"Deadly," Levi replied. "Consider this a full love embargo; you're not going to get any from me until you've learnt your lesson."

"You're impossible," Eren snapped, angry at being rejected and began to furiously pull his clothes back on.

"You brought this on yourself," Levi stated as he began to tidy away the rope they had just been using.

No he can't be serious, Eren thought. If he could just keep his hands on Levi then eventually he would change his mind and forgive him. He crossed the room to where Levi had his back to him, slipped his hands around his waist and began to undo the buttons of his jeans.

"How about we just forget all about this and start over again?" Eren purred in his ear. "What do you say? You can have me right where you want me, doing exactly what you tell me to and I won't say anything at all this time."

"I'm fucking serious Eren," Levi snapped taking hold of Eren's wrists and pulling his hands away from his body. "You'd better start finding some good porn because you're not getting anything from me."

"For how long?" Eren asked in a small voice.

"As long as it takes until you've learnt your lesson."

"Fine," Eren huffed, blinking back angry, frustrated tears. "I guess I'll go do some cleaning or something." Saying that he'd clean; one last ditch attempt to get Levi to forgive him. He really was scraping the bottom of the barrel with this one but it was worth a shot.

"If you wouldn't mind," Levi said. "The kitchen is fucking filthy and I've got some paperwork I need to do."

"Okay," Eren mumbled. He made his way to the kitchen and surveyed the damage when he got there – Levi was right it was kind of a sty as both of them (Eren especially) had been a bit lazy when it came to the washing up. Well if Levi wasn't going to touch him for a while then he'd have time to get some decent cleaning done – anything to win him brownie-points and get Levi to lift this stupid embargo.

After about a week Eren was beginning to crack. It wasn't just that Levi hadn't made any kind of move to fuck him he had barely touched him or kissed him either. Most of his time at home was spent in his office working, he even slept in there more nights than not. When he did actually come to bed he would stay over on his side, making no move to touch Eren at all and would shrug off any advances made by his lover.

Eren was beginning to feel the strain on his sanity tighten. He had never thought about how much he needed Levi's affection. Levi had always been kind of cold and detached but never with Eren. With Eren he was always attentive, affectionate and loving but now Eren was discovering what it felt like trying to break through that shell. It had caused him to be overly affectionate – he could feel Levi slipping away from him so he clung to him in the hopes that he could stop himself from losing him all together.

"Hey," Eren said as he knocked on Levi's open office door, holding a tray. "I bought you tea."

"Thank you," Levi said barely looking up from his work. Eren laid the tray down on the edge of the desk and went to stand behind him.

"How's it going?" he asked. Levi sighed, dropped his pen and ran a hand over his face, leaning back in his chair.

"Erwin keeps giving me extra shit to do that isn't my job and it's a fucking nuisance because I keep having to bring it home," he groaned.

"How about," Eren said pulling the chair out and sinking to his knees so that he was between Levi's legs, "I help you relax for a little while?" He ran his hands up Levi's thighs to grasp the firm flesh at the top.

Levi grit his teeth. He couldn't deny (not to himself anyway) that having Eren between his legs willing to take his cock in his mouth was a very welcoming distraction but the brat clearly hadn't learnt his lesson. He still kept trying it on and pushing his luck, doing things like this, to get Levi to lift the embargo he had placed on him. Mustering as much will power as he could he took Eren's hands away from his thighs and pushed him back. Eren looked up at him with wide green eyes, unable to believe that he was still being rejected.

"Eren I need to get this finished," Levi said. "Erwin's already riding me all the time because, apparently, I take too long to finish the mountain of work he keeps piling on me so I really need to get on."

"Well... maybe later then?" Eren asked hopefully. That hadn't been an outright rejection – Levi had to work that was completely understandable.

"Thanks for the tea," was Levi's only reply. That was disheartening. That probably meant no but Eren had no idea whether that was because Levi was likely to be working all night or because he still wasn't going to forget about this stupid embargo and touch him.

"No problem, I'll let you get on," he said. He tried not to sound too disappointed but knew that it wasn't working in the slightest. He got to his feet and left the office. He turned back as he reached the door to look at Levi, who was already hard at work again. He sighed silently to himself wondering what to do with himself before he had to leave for work. Guess the garden could do with a weed... Despite Levi being a clean freak the house had never looked cleaner as it was all Eren could do to relieve the frustration of constantly being left wanting.

After two weeks of having virtually no physical contact with Levi at all the cracks in Eren's sanity were starting to show to the outside world. He had text his friend, Armin, asking if he wanted to meet up for coffee. It had been a while since they had spent any significant time together and Eren really needed to see a friendly face. He had wanted to ease into the subject gradually, seeing as he hadn't had the chance to warn Armin about his rapidly shredding sanity but that didn't quite go to plan.

"Levi and I haven't had sex in two weeks," he blurted out just as Armin was taking a sip of his coffee making him choke. Armin coughed, trying to compose himself and actually swallow the coffee rather than send it to his lungs, before he looked at Eren, his face practically screaming 'oh yay, I do not want to hear about this'.

"That's quite an opening statement," Armin said, his voice a little hoarse from coughing. "Trouble in paradise?"

"Something like that," Eren replied.

"Well you just made me inhale coffee so you have to tell me now," Armin said. Eren bit his lip, he should have come up with a better opening than that but he had said it now so he might as well continue.

"So you know how Levi's into BDSM and stuff?"

"Yeah," Armin replied. Eren could see his eyes screaming this better not be going where I think it's going.

"Well about two weeks ago we were... having some fun with it," Eren said, hedging around the subject slightly so as not to make Armin any more uncomfortable than he already was, "and I heard my phone ringing. I thought it might be work because they've been calling people up recently about more shifts or I thought I might have missed a shift or was late or whatever. Either way I needed to go and check so I said the safe word."

"I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to do that unless it's an actual emergency," Armin stated. Having never been in a BDSM relationship before he didn't have that much knowledge on the subject but he was almost certain that safe words weren't something that people threw around lightly.

"I know," Eren said placing his head in his hands. "I heard my phone and I suddenly thought 'hey that might be work... oh god am I supposed to be at work?' and I just sort of panicked."

"That's one hell of a panic response," Armin said.

"I know," Eren groaned.

"What happened after that?"

"When I came back, Levi was really pissed..." Eren said.

"Understandable."

"And he's placed this full love embargo on me until I've learnt my lesson," Eren continued as if Armin hadn't spoken. "At first it was fine, I can handle a couple of days without sex no problem..."

"Sounds like there's going to be a 'but' there," Armin said.

"But it's not just no sex," Eren said. "No touching, no kissing, no hugging, nothing."

"Oh wow so he really is going the whole nine yards with this?"

"Yeah," Eren replied, "and I have no idea how long he's planing on keeping it up for. I mean I knew he was always kind of cold to everyone else but now I'm finding it out first hand for myself."

"So what are you going to do about it?" Armin asked.

"I have no idea," Eren shrugged. "I mean I've cleaned the house from top to bottom, I've even done the garden and I've tried a few times to just get him to show me some kind of affection but he's just not. I mean I get it, I understand why he was angry and I know I really fucked up but I can't take it anymore. I mean I'm going crazy here and I don't know what to do about it. I just want him to touch me or hug me or do something other than just ignore me. I just feel like I've fucked this up completely; I think I really hurt him and I don't think he's going to stay."

"Don't be silly; Levi loves you," Armin said. "I'm sure this will blow over eventually. He'll see how sorry you are and if you just talk to him and tell him how much this is screwing with your head I'm sure he'll lift it."

"I hope so," Eren mumbled, absently stirring his coffee. Now that it was in front of him he didn't quite feel like drinking it. Just talking about Levi had a lump rising in his throat, he felt like crying again but he knew that if he started then he wouldn't stop. Armin reached across the table and placed his hand on top of Eren's. Eren looked up and saw him smiling at him.

"It's going to be okay," he said. "I promise you that if you just talk to him then he'll see how sorry you are and you can talk things through and get back to normal. I don't think he meant to make you crazy, I think he just wanted to show you how much you might have freaked him out by using your safe word."

"Okay," Eren said. Armin was right, he should just talk to Levi and everything would be fine. He would tell him how sorry he was, Levi would forgive him and maybe they could even have make-up sex (and that would be amazing). He shook himself. He had been in his funk for long enough. He needed to snap himself out of it for a bit and have some fun with his friend. "So change of subject, how's that girl you were seeing?"

"What Annie?" Armin asked. "We broke up."

"How come?"

"She turned out to be a psycho," Armin replied.

"When did this happen?" Eren asked.

"About two weeks ago," Armin said. "I didn't say anything or make a fuss about it because I didn't think it was important and I didn't want her to get even crazier on me."

"You seeing anyone new?" Eren asked. Armin blushed and looked away. "You are, aren't you? You sly dog, who is it?"

"I'm not telling you," Armin said, his blush deepening. A huge, wicked grin spread over Eren's face.

"I know them, don't I?"

"Maybe," Armin replied.

"Come on Armin, you can tell me," Eren said. "I won't laugh or anything."

"It's not a question of you laughing."

"Okay I won't judge you," Eren said. "Tell me."

"You remember Jean?" Armin asked. "From uni."

"Kirschtein?" Eren asked and he couldn't hide the mild disgust in his voice.

"Look I know you and he didn't get on and I kind of thought he was a dick too but he lived next door to Annie and he was really supportive when she went extra strength crazy on me."

"So you and he..."

"We're seeing how things go," Armin said, "but he's a really nice guy now that he's grown up a bit and we have a lot in common."

"Then I'm happy for you," Eren smiled.

"Thank you," Armin said smiling back. "I know things are difficult between you and Levi at the moment but I know things will get better."

"I hope so," Eren sighed.

"Levi I'm home," Eren called as he pushed open the front door. He dropped his keys into the bowl on the hall table as he kicked off his shoes. The rest of the afternoon with Armin had been nice; they had had a proper catch up until Armin had to leave for work and for the first time since Levi had placed the embargo on him Eren felt at ease. Now that he was back home he felt that tension that he had been feeling creeping back.

Levi was still nowhere to be seem so Eren went on a search for him and finally found him in their bedroom, fresh out of the shower with a towel around his waist. Eren's breath caught in his throat. He had forgotten just how good Levi looked out of his clothes and it suddenly all came rushing back to him just how long it had been since he had been able to touch him, to hold him, to kiss him.

"Hey..." he said, his voice coming out slightly breathier than usual.

"Hey," Levi said nonchalantly, running a towel over his wet hair to dry it. "How was things with Armin?" Eren cleared his throat, trying to get his mind to focus on something that wasn't the small droplet of water running down Levi's chest to the low hanging towel. Oh god that towel is so low it's almost criminal!

"Armin's good, he's got a new fella," Eren replied.

"Really?" Levi asked, looking confused. "What happened to Annie?"

"Apparently she went all extra strength crazy and he had to break things off with her," Eren said.

"Fair enough," Levi shrugged. "She always did strike me as the crazy type so it's probably a good thing Armin's shot of her."

"He's going out with Jean now," Eren told him pulling a face. Levi chuckled as he finished drying himself off and began to pull on his boxers. Eren wanted to protest but he didn't think that was the best idea as they were having a conversation about Armin and he hadn't worked up to broaching the subject of his own relationship yet. Armin was right he did have to talk to him but there was a part of him that was too scared that Levi was going to end things.

"You not a fan?" Levi asked.

"He was kind of a dick when I knew him at uni but apparently he's changed and is all caring and affectionate now," Eren said.

"Well good for Armin," Levi said as he began to do up the buttons of his shirt. "He needs someone nice after having to deal with a crazy like Annie for so long. I thought he would have snapped long before now."

"Yeah," Eren said. "You look nice by the way," he added as Levi tied a tie round his neck in a complicated full Windsor knot. Levi looked over at him as if he hadn't expected any compliment on his appearance.

"Thanks," he said.

"Are you going somewhere?" Eren asked.

"Yeah," Levi replied, "Erwin's called me into work... again. I would tell him to go fuck himself but we've got the big bosses coming in next week and not getting fired would be really good."

"Do you know when you'll be back?" Eren asked. Just his luck! Talking about Armin's relationship had been a good way of slipping into talking about his own and now Levi had to run off.

"No," Levi replied. "If you were thinking of waiting up for me I wouldn't bother. If I get home late I'll crash on the sofa."

"Okay..." Eren said a little dejected.

"See you later," Levi said as he pulled on his suit jacket.

"See you later then," Eren said. He moved toward Levi to hug him but a hand in his chest stopped him.

"You'll wrinkle the suit brat," Levi told him. "If Erwin's going to be on my case I can't turn up looking scruffy, despite the fact that he's called me in on my fucking day off."

"Sure," Eren said in a small voice as Levi left, willing himself not to just start crying. He waited until he heard the front door close before he pulled out his phone and typed out a text to Armin.

Embargo's not over but I think my relationship might be

He waited, perching on the edge of the bed, and a few seconds later his phone lit up with a reply.

I'm sure everything will be okay in the end. Try not worry too much and just talk to him

Eren sighed. He would love to talk to Levi if he was ever in a room with him long enough for that to be a possibility.

After three weeks Eren had lost his mind. He was over-thinking everything and reading way too much into every little thing Levi said and did. He just about managed to hold it together but if anyone asked him if he was okay tears would start to well up in his eyes. He would always stubbornly push them down and say that he was fine but it was clear to everyone that he was way beyond fine. He felt as if there was a chance of him losing it completely every single day.

He hadn't worked up the guts to talk to Levi – of course he hadn't, that would have been the sensible thing to do – and Levi hadn't touched him, held him, kissed him or made any physical contact with him in three weeks. The only time they had touched was if they accidentally knocked into each other.

"I'm home," Eren called as he pushed the front door open. He had had a particularly gruelling shift and he wanted nothing more than to sink into bed and go to sleep. Working as a waiter was never a fun job; the hours were shit, the pay was lousy apart from the occasional tip, the customers were usually dicks but he had just about managed to save enough money to go back to university for his Masters degree. Occasionally though there would be a night like tonight and, while Eren usually thought they were kind of cute tonight, if a little corny, he had not been mentally prepared for it.

A guy on one of the tables Eren was waiting on, with a number one all over, suddenly got down on one knee in the middle of the restaurant and had proposed to the girl with the wavy brown ponytail in front of him. She had said yes, of course, and the entire restaurant burst into applause and even the owner had told them that the meal was on the house. It had been a nice enough evening but it had just reminded Eren how insecure he felt about his relationship with Levi at the moment. Speaking of he was nowhere to be seen.

"Hello?" Eren called again hoping to get some kind of answer. When he didn't he sighed and ran a hand through his hair. I guess he's out then... If he was spending the night alone... again... then he trudged up the stairs planning on having a shower and watching stupid films on TV until he fell asleep. He pushed the bedroom door open and the sight before him made him freeze.

Levi was holding a large suitcase and seemed to be in the process of taking it over to the wardrobe. In his already agitated state Eren's mind connected the dots and jumped to the conclusion that Levi was packing his things because he was going to leave, leaving Eren with nothing but a note that said 'it's over'. His sharp intake of breath was obviously loud enough to hear as Levi looked over at him, looking completely nonplussed that he had been caught in the process of packing up his things.

"Hey," he said as if Eren walking in on him holding a suitcase was a normal occurrence. "I didn't hear you come in." Eren's head was spinning. He couldn't take it; Levi was going to walk out of his life and he was being so blasé about it.

"Rose," Eren said, his voice barely above a whisper.

"Pardon?"

"Rose," Eren said again, this time a little louder, as tears began to flow freely down his face. He dropped to his knees and wrapped his arms around his chest as if trying to hold himself together while he broke down. "Rose, rose, rose!"

"Hey," Levi said coming to kneel down beside him, "Eren what's wrong?"

Eren couldn't stop himself. He didn't care if he was about to get pushed away, if this was the last time he was going to be able to hold Levi then he was going to. He threw his arms around Levi's neck and hugged him, sobbing into his shoulder. To his surprise Levi's arms wrapped around him, pulling him close and hugging him back tightly.

"I'm sorry," he sobbed, holding on to Levi as if he would just disappear if he let go. "I'm s... so sorry just please... please don't leave me." He felt Levi hug him tighter.

"I'm not going anywhere," Levi told him. "Shh it's okay, I'm staying right here, I'm not going anywhere."

"But the suitcase...?" Eren said looking up into Levi's face. Levi grimaced.

"I just needed to stand on it so I could reached the top shelf," he said.

Eren could have laughed out loud. Of course that's what Levi would be using it for, now that he stopped to look at it, that was the only thing that Levi ever used that suitcase for because it was broken and of course he looked so grumpy about it he hated admitting that he wasn't very tall. He buried his face in the crook of Levi's neck and continued to sob, unable to hold back the tears that had been building for far too long. He felt Levi soothingly stroking his hair, holding him close, until he finally ran out of tears.

"I'm sorry," Eren said softly wiping his face with the heel of his hand. "I didn't mean to have a meltdown, I just thought that I'd fucked things up so badly and that you didn't love me anymore and were going to leave." A few stray tears slowly made their way down Eren's face and Levi wiped them away with his thumb, cradling Eren's face in his hands.

"Oh Eren," he said softly before leaning in and pressing a gentle kiss to Eren's lips. "Of course I still love you. I'm sorry that I've been really distance recently."

"I... I understand," Eren said softly. "I fucked up. I shouldn't have just said the safe word like that without thinking."

"No you shouldn't," Levi said, "but I shouldn't have let this go on for so long. I just wanted to make my point clear. When you said 'rose' I thought I had really hurt you and I was so fucking terrified that I had so you can understand why I was angry."

"I'm sorry," Eren said again, burying his face into Levi's shoulder and tightening his grip on him as if he still thought he might suddenly disappear.

"I'm sorry too," Levi said. "I didn't mean to make you think that I didn't love you anymore. Of course I love you; you're my Eren."

"I love you too," Eren said smiling. He leaned up and kissed Levi's lips. "I've missed you so much."

"I haven't gone anywhere," Levi chuckled.

"You know what I mean," Eren said. He pressed a soft kiss to Levi's lips before immediately diving back in for another and another before licking Levi's top lip, asking for more. Levi placed his hands on Eren's shoulders and pushed him back. Eren looked at him with wide eyes. He could feel them welling up with tears as he thought he was about to be rejected all over again. "Levi... you don't..."

"I do," Levi cut him off with another gentle kiss. "God, Eren, I do but I don't think you're in any emotion state for it tonight."

"But I..."

"No buts," Levi said stroking his thumb over Eren's cheek before leaning in and kissing his forehead. "I don't want to actually hurt you and I know what you're like; you'll push yourself too hard because you think that's what I want."

"No I..." Eren began but the sceptically raised eyebrow from Levi said that he could see right through him. "Okay... I probably would."

Levi chuckled."There is no probably about it, I know what you're like."

"Okay," Eren nodded. Levi knew him too well. He would have pushed himself to his absolute limit just to please him. "So what do you want to do then? Do you have to work at all tonight?"

"No Erwin gave me the weekend off as he realised he's been riding my arse for no reason," Levi said, "so I'm all yours for the entire weekend."

"So can we...?"

"Like I said not tonight, you're in no emotional state for it but..." But was good, Eren liked the sound of but. "How about tomorrow night I take you out to dinner, we can have a proper date, and then when we get back here I can fulfil any fantasy you want. How does that sound?"

"That sounds good," Eren said unable and unwilling to stop the smile spreading across his face.

"Good," Levi said and pulled Eren into a long, slow kiss that made Eren's heart melt.

That night the two of them spent the evening curled up on the sofa watching daft movies that just happened to be on TV. Eren was curled up with his head in Levi's lap, Levi stroking his hair for most of the evening. When he could no longer keep his eyes open Levi had taken his hand and taken him to bed, pulling him close and whispering affirmations about just how much he loved him in his ear. For the first time in nearly three weeks Eren felt at ease, wrapped in Levi's arms.