Chapter 1:
It was 10:25 PM and the Levi squad had just returned from their 4th patrol in 6 days, there were too many reports of titan activity in the area to just ignore, they were all exhausted. Levi, Petra, Eren and Oulo had sat down to eat their dinner, rice and beans as usual, not much can be distributed among the three regiments and the cadets, the occasional bit of bread was always a nice surprise though. Erd and Gunter were off tending to the horses before joining them five minutes later.
Eren was still nervous about being around the squad considering they were all higher ups and the fact he still couldn't believe he belonged to the scout regiment. Eren had recently been allowed to sleep outside his cell as it had been proved that he posed no threat to anyone inside the scout's old headquarters.
After dinner was finished everyone apart from Petra, Eren and Oulo left to go sleep as they were pretty much knocked out at dinner, after not even four minutes Oulo fell fast asleep on the table they were sat at, part of this was because of the amount of alcohol he had drunk at dinner to forget the day.
Petra and Eren moved to the table on the other side of the room because of this. as they sat down Petra was first to break the silence, excluding the sound of Oulo's loud and deep snoring echoing in the cobble room. "I don't know about you but I don't think I'm gonna sleep tonight after all this, knowing the captain, he will just ask us to patrol all day tomorrow as well" she said giving a huff sitting down opposite Eren "Neither, despite being out all day I'm surprisingly awake and sharp" he agreed.
Petra saw a screwed up ball of paper next to her, she picked it up discreetly and threw it surprisingly at Eren, to her delight, he fumbled and fell back off his chair onto the cold, merciless floor behind him with a loud bump. "hehe" Petra giggled "not as sharp as you think" she teased giving a yawn "maybe I will sleep tonight" she thought to herself.
Eren stood up and rubbed his rump tenderly "that wasn't nice" he said sheepishly as he was blushing from embarrassing himself by falling in front of a higher up.
On the other side of the room, Oulo was drifting in and out of sleep, eventually he picked himself up and carried himself away to his room, however he only made it 10 feet before passing out on the floor for good. Petra shook her head "remind me to never let that man drink again" she said to Eren, he nodded in acknowledgement, the time now was getting on to half 11 and Petra was pushing Eren for info on his personal life.
"I see you and that Mikasa are quite close?" she asked hoping she both struck an embarrassment nerve and got it right, again, to her pleasure, she did, Eren blushed heavily and spoke "yeah but it's not like that, I'm aware she likes me but i don't feel the same, for two reasons" Petra was completely interested, almost inflicted in the conversation "what are those reasons may i ask?" she asked not wanting to be rude, she would accept if Eren didn't want to say. "Firstly" Eren started, Petra was surprised he was actually going to tell "she is like family to me, I've never seen her as anything more than a sister to me" he explained quietly, sort of embarrassed but also a bit sad as he only just realised that he had been ignoring Mikasa's feelings all this time "and secondly, I'm into someone else".
Petra's eyes widened, she was completely infatuated with this conversation now "oh?" she asked plainly hoping he would go on, Petra crossed her legs under the table and had a neutral but somehow caring expression on her face, Eren was blushing heavily and seemed like he was stuttering, his hands were on top of each other on the table, Petra shot them a glance and she put her right hand on top of his.
Eren was startled by this as he wasn't expecting it and he also wasn't looking for "who?" Petra asked quietly but intrigued, Eren seemed reluctant to tell for some reason but finally spoke "I asked her for advice on this, Mikasa that is, I just have the fear of being rejected, as I'm not confident that a higher up like her would be interested in me".
Petra's heart stopped as he said this "is he talking about me?" she asked herself in her head over and over again in the space of a few seconds, Eren was now finally facing Petra but his eyes to the ground, he looked up suddenly and smiled "you, Petra" he said quietly, his face was deep red from saying this and he wasn't the only one, Petra was now blushing heavily, she stuttered but instead of saying anything, she kicked her chair back and stood up, she stared at Eren for a second with an expression that said something like "I'm sorry" then swiftly walked off out the door.
"Petra! wait!" Eren said standing up too but it was too late, Petra was gone. Eren sighed and carried himself off in the other direction to his room, everyone slept like a rock until 7:30 when breakfast was served, Levi had something important to talk about.