Behind the Survey Corps: Spiders – Eren x Reader
It's summer break and captain Levi has called his whole squad to clean the castle…once again. You are sick of his cleanliness, because he always puts you on stable duty.
"_, stable duty!" You don't have to look up to know it was Levi who said that. You saluted and walked off to the stables without saying a word.
Stable duty was an incredibly dirty job. It's a job usually done by rookies…and you. You were in the same trainee squad like Eren, Mikasa, Armin, Sasha and everyone else. And still, Levi treats you like you're just another person in his way.
You are glad someone else had already taken the horses to somewhere else. The only thing you have to do today is cleaning up their dirt. Hay covered with poo and other stuff you don't even want to know, spiders, cobweb, dirt, dust, wasps, bees and so on. And the smell, that's the worst of all, next to the fact you have to do everything on your own.
"Damned, Levi. Why do I get the dirty jobs?" you ask out loud.
No answer. Of course not, because you are alone. You pick up a buckle and fill it with water. As soon as you are back at the stables you put down the bucket and look around you. You scratch the back of your head, wondering what you'll do first.
After a few minutes of thinking, you decide to go after a broom to clean up the corners of the ceiling. Those corners usually are full of spiders, so you just go for that first because you want to get rid of those creepy creatures as soon as possible. In fact, spiders scare you more than Titans.
You soon find out you can't reach the ceiling without help. So, once again, you leave the stables and go looking for a box so you could step higher and reach those stupid spiders.
The box you found isn't the steadiest of all, but it works out pretty good. You reach for a corner with the broom and start swiping away the cobweb. You are looking very cautiously for spiders and are prepared to jump back if there's one near you.
But you never saw that one spider. That one spider that managed to make its way over to your shoulder without you seeing it. You only notice it when you see something moving in the corner of your eyes while swiping away the last bit of cobweb. You shriek and tried to jump off the box, but you fall off instead.
You expect to hit the floor very soon, but someone broke your fall. The person falls back, causing you to be on top. You don't dare to check who was underneath you, because you're afraid it would be Levi.
"You okay?" the person asks from underneath you.
You know the voice. It doesn't sound like Levi. You quickly crawl away from the person and sit down next to him. You still don't know who it is as you try to avoid eye contact out of embarrassment.
"_, I asked you something."
You close your eyes and hug your knees as you're sitting down. "I'm so sorry! I didn't want to hurt you! I'm so sorry! Blame those stupid spi-" The soldier cups your chin in his hands and kisses you on the lips. You open your eyes in surprise and look straight into amazingly green eyes. You know those eyes.
Eren Jaeger.
He softly pulls back from the kiss as he sees you opened your eyes. He strikes your chin with his index before letting you go. He then cocks his head to one side and smiled.
"So. Are you okay?"
You stare at him for a few seconds before looking away, blushing. "Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks for catching me."
Eren smiles. He gets back on his feet and offers you a hand to help you up. You take the hand and let him throw you on your feet. You giggle at his strength. "Shouldn't you be with Levi and the others?" you ask.
"I asked if I could do stable duty with you." He winks as he says 'stable duty'. You giggle again, this time because of his cute wink. Before you know it, Eren grabs your waist and pulls you closer to him. You're forced to lay your head on his chest. Eren is taller than you, which makes it more fun for him to hug you.
"_, I have to confess I like to hug people smaller than me." He whispers in your ear. You look up at him. "Explains a lot, don't you think?" Eren giggles. You giggle back, thinking he's really cute.
Behind the guy known to others as a suicidal bastard who does nothing else than cry and cling onto his friends and captain Levi, there actually is a man. A man with pure, human feelings. He's not a monster. He's as human as you. He knows about peace, love, freedom, respect, duty, friendship and so on.
And you? You just love Eren Jaeger.