AUTHOR'S NOTE: Alrighty, this is my second fan fiction and my other one was terrible, so I dropped it lol. In this one, I decided to make Levi a bit younger, so he's 25-30ish when actually he's in his early 30s in the manga and anime. I DO NOT OWN AOT AND NEVER WILL. So this is my first chapter 'Levi's New Squad' ! Thank you!
The top of his mouth stung from the hot tea. Although it was hot, he continued to sip, not allowing any distractions. There was nobody in the room, it felt so quiet, especially without Olou or Petra there. His mind burned just from the memory. It made the tea taste less sweet, and made his hands a bit numb.
His fallen comrades was one of the things that consumed his mind, though he hated to admit it. People assumed he moved on, but the truth was, there was nobody who could move on just after a few weeks.
The window was open, letting the rather extreme fresh air in. If you walk a bit closer, you could smell the lilies that Petra planted just a few months before. Levi didn't do so, but rather watched a sparrow perched up on the smooth, oak window. The sparrow twitched and twisted it's head rapidly. Levi could count about 7 times before the sparrow's little specks landed on him. He stared straight at it, wanted to read it's thoughts. Although he knew it seemed silly, Levi wanted to know what was on everyone's mind, even it was just a small bird.
There were footsteps leading outside the door, Levi flicked his head, but immediately turned back to the sparrow. The twitching bird was gone. The door abruptly opened with the sound of a familiar voice.
"Levi!" A loud moaning voice came into the room. It was Hanji. Levi looked at where the sparrow once was and continued to sip his tea, ignoring the lusty scientist. "Levi!" She shouted again, her hands on her hips this time.
"What?" He couldn't help but sound annoyed. Hanji sighed.
"Erwin wants to see you, says it's important."
"Tch"
"Aww, come on Levi, don't be like that, he wouldn't have called you in unless it was REALLY important." Levi sighed and didn't respond. Instead he got up and started walking, unaturely leaving his tea behind. Hanji noticed this, and called to him, but he was already out the door. "Wait Levi, your tea!"
Levi walked to Erwin's headquarters, which was displayed in a whole other building. Levi's heels clicked on each step, his eyebrows furrowing at the thought of what Erwin had to tell him. He had a feeling he knew.
Levi didn't bother knocking the door, Erwin knew he was coming. He came in with the same cold expression as Erwin silently pulled out some papers. He put a sheet in front of Levi's nose, expecting him to read it. Levi took the paper, but didn't move his emotionless eyes to look at it.
"What's this?" he asked.
"Your new squad." Erwin answered bluntly. Both felt the tension rise.
"New squad?"
"Yes, I know full well you whole squad was demolished by the female titan a couple weeks ago, except Eren that is." Levi gave him a disgusting look. Erwin continued.
"We cannot afford to lose time because of this, so I put together a new squad for you."
Levi's voice suddenly deepened. "Shouldn't I be the one to decide this?" Levi reasonably questioned.
"Usually yes, as you hand picked your last squad, but that would just mean looking at everyone's skills one by one, and our next mission is less than a month." Levi stood motionless, but flummoxed.
"Less than a month? We have the female titan, other titans wouldn't be able to break the wall unless it was a Collasel. And we don't exactly have a lot of soldiers at the moment, how do you expect to pull off a mission with what we have?" Levi tried to put Erwin at a break point, but Erwin answered all of them to suffice.
"Yes true, we do have her, and we still are keeping watch on her. And the Collasel is exaclty why we are heading out so early. We don't know the next time they are going to attack, and it's safer to see how many Titans are on the verge of the wall and if the Collasel did in fact have some kind of connection with Annie." Annie...he said her name so cooly that it made Levi shiver. He sometimes had to remember that she was an actual person. He preffered to call her 'Female Titan' because any other name made him just the slightest nauseous.
"And with the number of people we have, I decided to pull some new recruites from other teams and from places that you wouldn't even imagine." This made Levi a bit angry. Erwin just 'pulled' people out to fight. It didn't even sound like Erwin, he always gave people a choice, and never gave second chances, unless there was a good reason to. Levi finally gave a good look to the paper given to him, and saw names he did not recognize.
Erwin noticed this and started to read the names out loud.
"Polo Peterson, Liam Belle, Nora Belle and Mikasa Ackerman." Levi only knew Ackerman, the girl he shared the last name with, and Eren's childhood friend. Erwin continued to state their orgins.
"Polo Peterson, 25 years old, is a son of a family of merchants behind wall Rose. Graduated top of his class, and was a part of the 57th expedition outside of the wall. 3 solo kills, 4 team ones. He is being upgraded." Levi didn't look amused. He was focused on the Belle siblings instead.
"Nora and Liam Belle, are they siblings?" Erwin gave out a small sigh.
"Yes, they are." Levi continued to question him, his eyes never leaving the paper.
"So let's say one of them dies, and the other becomes too sentimental, wouldn't that hurt the team." Levi plunged into logical future contents.
"Then if they were not well enough to train, we would pull them out." Erwin crossed his legs. "You would pull them out." Erwin's eyebrows puckered. "Levi, stop asking stupid questions when there are more important ones on the rise. Let's take everything one step at a time. Anyway, going on, the Belle siblings. Th-"
"How come I've never heard of them?" Levi interrupted him, much to Erwin's surprise, but Levi didn't seem to care. Levi well new most of the recruits in the survey crops, or at least recognized them, since not that many join every year.
"I was just getting to that. The Belle siblings worked as engineers at the manufacturing of the weapons in the city of the king. Their group is responsible for some advances in the technology we have now, including our ODM gear." The very sentence put a picture in Levi's mind. A short, small women, with her tall doctor like brother, both smart asses. This brought up another question.
"If that's the case, then have they even ever faced a titan?" Levi finally looked Erwin in the eye, who switched sitting positions once again.
"They both graduated top of their class, and went on 2 expeditions outside of the wall after joining the survey corps, even before you joined. Heard they were quite young their first time. At least she was. Her 14 and him 18." Levi still didn't look amused.
"If their job is in engineering, then why not let them do it?" Levi asked another question yet harshly.
"You can ask them that later, they are arriving today." Today?! And he only told Levi this today?! Levi twitched, he was meeting them today.
"Oh, and you know Ackerman and her skills, and I thought her being by Eren would be best, since she's a friend of his." Levi opened his mouth a bit to speak, but Erwin immediately put him to a halt.
"Now now more questions, I have work to do." Levi closed the slight gap between his thin lips, but didn't break his eyes from Erwin's. He felt hatred, but also respect for the man. For those two reasons he listened to him. He didn't respect many people. Levi turned towards the door when Erwin stopped him once again.
"And Levi..." Levi did nothing but twist his head. "Don't be harsh." Erwin's tone suddenly softened, as if he knew how Levi acts when he meets new people. Levi didn't respond and shut the door behind him firmly. There standing was once again Hanji, leaning casually against the wall, as if she was waiting forever.
"What did he say?" She asked seriously. Levi stared at the stone floor, looking at it's unusual pattern. It took a few moments for him to answer.
"I'm getting a new squad." The dark haired man said. Hanji's eyes softened. He instantly looked at her before she could say anything. "And they are arriving today and the place is a mess, don't expect me to go easy now. Get Eren, we have to get ready."
I know, it's bad ^^, but please review!
