So I was on Zero-chan the other day and I saw this madly adorable picture of Levi carrying a child Eren, and OHMAGOB, IT WAS SO FREAKING ADORABLE! So with that picture as inspiration, two cups of coffee and one all-nighter, I present to you, this Shingeki no Kyojin fic!
"Stop! No! Get away from me!" Eren screamed, trying his best to squirm out of the tight leather straps that held his limbs and chest to a bed, while Hanji Zoe approached him with a manic smile and a large hypodermic needle, filled with a very questionable looking yellow liquid, in her right hand.
"Now, now, Eren, this won't be so bad, you'll just feel a prick, I promise." Her smile grew wider and she inched even closer.
"I'm not taking it until you tell me what the hell it is!" The titan shifter yelled, bad memories of his father resurfacing. Eren's squirming escalated to struggling as Hanji rubbed a spot on his upper arm with an alcohol swab.
"Oh, come on," she pouted, "Think of it, you're doing this for science!"
"NO! STOP!"
"Aww, come on!"
"WHAT ON EARTH IS GOING ON HERE?!" A new voice boomed interrupting the small argument that was taking place. Both Hanji and Eren turned their heads to the direction of the doorway and unsurprisingly found Levi standing there, fuming, with his arms across his chest.
"I repeat," He said in a dangerously low tone, "What on Earth is going on here?" He enunciated each word slowly. He took a look around the room, his eyes falling on Eren strapped to the bed before flitting to Hanji and the large syringe in her hand. He raised an eyebrow.
"Corporal!" Eren shouted craning his neck so he could meet his superior's eyes, "She's-mmpf!" Hanji's hand slapped down on his mouth preventing him from saying anything more.
"Hanji…"
"W-Well, you see Levi, it's like this…er…" The bespectacled woman paused momentarily before continuing enthusiastically, "This is a mandatory vaccine!"
Levi looked unconvinced, "And you had to strap him to a bed because…?"
"Well, that is…er…he's afraid of needles!" Hanji almost felt proud of herself for coming up with that on the spot, Eren shook his head violently in protest, Hanji's hand was still uncomfortably clamped over his mouth, effectively preventing him from voicing out to the corporal that everything the woman had just said was a lie, a big fat lie, except maybe the part where he was afraid of needles but other than that, A LIE.
To further her case the scientist added, "Would I ever lie to you?"
"Yes." The corporal answered without even pausing to think about her question, to which Hanji pouted comically before swiftly stabbing the needle into Eren's arm.
"Mmmpf!" The boy let out a muffled yelp in response to the sudden pain and watched in horror as the liquid drained into his bloodstream.
"HANJI!"
"What? It's all over now!" She said, taking her hand off Eren's mouth. The boy immediately began yelling at her in anger.
"THE HELL?! YOU HIT MY FREAKING BONE! AND "MANDATORY VACCINE", MY ASS! YOU JUST MADE THAT UP SO YOU COULD SHOOT ME UP WITH GOD-KNOWS-WHAT!"
A moment of silence passed as Eren regained his breath.
"Hanji…" Levi said with his frighteningly familiar low voice, "Is that true?"
A few beads of sweat slid down Hanji's forehead, "Maybe…" But then she steeled herself, "It was for science, okay!"
Levi let out an annoyed sigh before moving to Eren and snapping off the straps that restrained him, the boy immediately sat up and gingerly squeezed the area on his arm, where the needle had gone in. And hit my freaking bone! He thought sullenly, noting that it was swollen and red.
"Eren, go to your room, you have the rest of the day off."
Eren nodded numbly and shakily got to his feet, he was almost at the doorway when his whole body began to burn as though he had been lit on fire.
"AAARGH!" He screamed in agony and fell to the ground writhing.
"EREN!" Hanji and Levi cried out simultaneously, running towards him before stopping abruptly because…well…there was no Eren anymore, or to be more accurate, all that remained of the boy was a bunch of clothes.
"Oh my god!" Hanji squealed, to which Levi narrowed his eyes at how happily she was handling the situation, "I expected a fever with dizziness but not this!"
"Hanji, if you think this is amusing-" The corporal began hotly but was cut off by the sight of the bundle, moving.
"I saw that." Hanji breathed in answer to Levi's yet to be asked question.
"Stay back," Levi cautioned and slowly made his way to the bundle, which had mysteriously stopped moving, and flung Eren's jacket away, safe to say, he did not expect to see what he just saw.
"A child," He intoned in wonder, "A sleeping child, Hanji, what did you do?" He had expected thin air, a monster, heck even a mini-titan seemed more plausible, but, a child…? Realization struck hard, was this child…Eren?
"Wow! This is just, wow!" Hanji was ecstatic, jumping up and down before finally settling down to a kneeling position next to the peacefully slumbering child, "Aaah, I wonder what happened? I have to know! Maybe I should take a blood sample, wait! I should take a blood sample!"
"No." Levi said firmly, cutting off her excited jabbering and bent down to pick Eren up, trying his best to do so without waking him. His clothes were too big and his white shirt almost slipped right off. The man frowned and spied a soldier walking past.
"Hey, you!" He barked.
"Sir?" The soldier jogged up to him eying the child in the corporal's arms, he was curious but knew better than to ask questions.
"Run to the nearest care home and get a few sets of children's clothing." Levi then held up Eren, "His size."
"Yessir!" The man said with a salute and ran off to complete his task.
Levi turned to Hanji, "When will he return to his normal self?"
To this question Hanji thoughtfully brushed her chin, "Hmm…" She contemplated deeply for a while.
"Well?"
"To be frank…I don't know!"
The man almost dropped Eren in shock, "You don't know?"
"Well…" she whispered, "If you let me examine him…" She had a grin plastered on her face, a crazy one.
Levi instinctively held the child closer, "No." He repeated just as firmly as the last time.
"Please?"
"No."
"Oh come o-"
"Corporal?" A soft feminine voice asked and Levi recognized it instantly.
"Petra, yes?"
Petra Ral walked in with a stack of papers in her arms, "The reports from squad 7 are-Corporal! Is that your child?!" She dropped the reports and began hovering over Eren, cooing softly about how cute he was.
"Wh-what?" Levi spluttered but he was ignored by the girl.
"Is he?" She asked finally tearing her eyes away from the child, a mad blush formed on her face, "Who's his mother?" she asked in awe, wondering about what kind of woman could win the Corporal's heart and to even have a child with him. She felt a pang of jealousy tug at her heart.
Reading what was on her mind, Levi began blushing as well, "NO! He is not mine!"
It took a few seconds to compute what the Corporal had just said, "EH?!" She exclaimed in bewilderment and he head snapped to where Hanji stood looking yearningly at Eren, "Th-Then Hanji, he's yours? But, but it doesn't match up! We would've noticed if you were pregnant! I mean-I mean he only looks about two and…and…" Petra rambled in confusion clutching at her head.
"Petra." Levi said, trying to get her attention, a wave of frustration washed over him when the girl didn't respond, "Petra!" He called louder, balancing Eren on one arm and snapping his fingers with the other.
"Y-yes?"
"This is actually Eren."
"EEH?!"
Mikasa was running a few laps around the training grounds, a ritual she had always maintained before every meal, usually Eren would run with her, but today Hanji had called him to her office and Eren had asked her to go on without him. She tugged at the edge of her scarf absently before coming to an abrupt halt. Her Eren senses were tingling. Frowning lightly she decided to go check on him to make sure he was okay.
"Sir! I've got the clothes you requested!" The soldier Levi had called earlier handed a large bag to Levi before saluting and made his way out.
Petra and Hanji eagerly spilled out the clothes onto a nearby table after having snatched the bag away from Levi, who now hovered around them as the two sorted out the contents.
"Oh my, this is so cute! Don't you think this will suit him perfectly?" Petra gushed, holding up a small shirt with a rabbit sewn on it, "He'd look perfectly angelic with this on."
Frankly, Levi couldn't see what the point was, clothes were clothes. Although, he did grudgingly admit that while Eren was in his current form, he would look remarkably in it.
Hanji giggled and the Corporal felt the hairs on his neck stand up. She held up a pair of grey shorts, "This will go with the shirt you picked out, Petra!"
The two females began laughing and talking excitedly.
"-this jacket!"
"-oh but this coat!"
"-aww, look at these tiny shoes!"
Levi nodded in approval at the sight of the shoes, he had forgotten to mention footwear, but it seemed the soldier he had asked seemed to have remembered. The sound of approaching footsteps was heard and Mikasa Ackerman entered the room.
"Why are you here?" Levi asked feeling exhausted for some reason, he had a guess as to what she would say though.
"Eren, where is he?" He had guessed right.
"Well…" The corporal began but stopped when he saw Mikasa's eyes travel to the child in his arms.
"Corporal." She said, her voice devoid of all emotion, "What have you done to Eren?"
Levi sighed before answering Mikasa's question, "Hanji happened." At that point, Eren stirred and slowly opened his eyes, his large, expressive green eyes now had a look of childish innocence to them. He yawned and looked around him, sticking his thumb into his mouth, then his eyes fell on Mikasa. His face instantly lost all traces of sleepiness as he grinned widely and held out his arms to his now much older adoptive sister.
"M'kasa!"
Oh my god, the mental image I am getting of a two year-old Eren is just KILLING me, he's too cute! After this chapter most chapters will be seperate one-shots about little Eren and his adventures. I'm open to suggestions so if you want a particular idea to be written, PM me or drop a review!
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