A/N: I would just like to warn everyone in advance that this story involves questionable morals. If you find yourself wondering if you like Levi in this story or not, then I have done my job. Yes this is a spin on the movie American Beauty with enough alterations that I think it can stand on its own. Either way, I hope you enjoy and keep in mind that there will be sex and sexual themes through this whole story!

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I suppose I don't know where to start. I guess I should start by saying that, I know I was wrong in what I did and I didn't care. I knew the world would forgive me, I was a middle aged man trying to 'find' himself… at least that is what everyone around me would think. I counted on people hating me, I didn't care if I had to change jobs, I could easily get another. What I didn't expect when chasing after the seventeen year old Eren Jaeger was… falling in love. Let me tell you this now, love will fuck everything up, love for someone much younger than you… Will fuck everyone up.

My younger years were spent in the military, enrolling when I was just eighteen to runaway from my criminal teen years. I was not one special and honestly most people only noted that I was especially violent, but with time and dedication I actually raised up the the level of Captain. Hard work will get you almost anywhere huh? Just kidding, I slept with the Commander. Not that it was really a struggle, he was tall blonde and perfect looking. Why on earth would he desire me? It was a simple enough answer, a masochist can look like anyone… even someone as terrifying looking as Commander Erwin Smith. He had heard of my violent tendencies and called me into his office to discuss a promotion.

Things went the way someone would expect, he teased me until I snapped and jumped on him, intending to beat the crap out of him and get discharged. When I saw the dark look of desire filling his blue eyes though, I knew exactly what he was aiming for and well… I still beat the crap out of him, just in a more sexual sense. A few weeks after that I was made Captain of my own team, Erwin and I sleeping together almost nightly, for a while it was great. Then it came time that we were to decide either to leave the army or stay and mostly work from home until we were needed again. I choose to leave and take a job at a local Military school for orphaned youths, While Erwin kept his job, working from home. It was then that we decided that we were a couple… married in our own way and not by law.

The part you want to hear is not about how I ended up teaching in a dead end school with a mostly sex driven marriage, you want to hear about how I met the brat, right? It started on a cold drizzly fall day, I walked through the neat barren halls of the student dorms, intending to wake up all the students that claimed to be 'sick'. As I looked down at my list I was shocked to see only one name, though it was a name I had heard from other teachers in passing. The trouble student, Eren Jaeger, the kid who despite how often he got in trouble really did seem to want to try according to all the other staff… I would be the judge of that. More than likely he was just a sweet talking teen that wanted to coast his way through this place so that he could leave with a job right at eighteen. It was a standard that any student here that wanted one would get a job in the military. If the teachers liked them, then they would get a cushy office job… if they were hated, it was off to the frontline with them.

My footsteps echoing through the halls must not have sent any warning to the brunette, because when I stepped into the room and looked at his bunk I still saw a bundle under the covers. Looking down at the thin form that tried to hide from the cold of the barren large room by staying wrapped up in his school provided linen, I stared for a moment before bringing my foot up under the bed and shaking the whole metal frame with a swift kick. "Oi, wake up, I am here to check your health" I stated in a tired voice, watching the male that arose from the blankets. His eyes were a startling green-blue, the kind that woman always talked about…. they were large too, they had bags under them from sleep but that only added to the whole look of him. My unfiltered mind instantly thought one thing 'I am going to fuck this boy'. I was not the least bit ashamed in myself either, I knew all men had these thoughts about older teens, no one really talked about it, but we all did. I just happened to be gay, so my thought just happened to be about a boy.

"Crap… Already?" He moaned, hardly able to hold himself up from the rigid bed he had just been sleeping on. He had a thin layer of sweat on his skin and his brown hair clung to his forehead and the sides of his baby face. Well it seemed that this one was actually sick… too bad, I would have actually liked to have punished him for lying. "Hm, you look like crap and no crude language" Not that I cared, seeing as how I just used the same word, but that was the fun of it, I could say those things if I wanted. The teen shook his head and gave me a weary look, not sure how to respond, he must have really been out of it. With a sigh I just put a checkmark by his name and placed my hand on his shoulder to easily push his sick form back down on the bed "Stay in bed, brat". I could have been mean and actually took his temperature but it was obvious he had some sort of fever, but it didn't look bad enough to be too concerned.

He seemed relieved and laid back against the mattress with a groan, letting his eyes slip closed again. To him I had already gone, he was much too sick to properly thank me and for now I wouldn't blame him. I made my quick retreat out of the room and back into the hall just as the students were let out on a lunch break, some of them coming back this way to get something from their room. I dodged my way around them and went back to my class for the rest of the day, spending most of that slow time thinking of how exactly I would get the boy. It was disgusting, I know but like I said, people would forgive me. He was seventeen almost a adult and I was just a 'messed up' war veterian. All that coupled with the fact that he had no family to speak off, it was something easy enough to get away with.

When school ended for the day, I got in my car and took the fastest way home, my plan already set in motion. The school was getting over crowded and the government had been known to send some of the students to live with teachers of the school, seeing as how they were all ex military and 'outstanding' citizens. I would ask if they wanted me to take Eren in when they sent out the next round of emails asking for volunteers. All I had to do was get Erwin's approval and that wouldn't be hard.. he was very hands off when it came to these sorts of things and as long as he didn't have to do much to take care of him then it would be fine. I Pulled into the driveway of our modest sized house and locked the car as I stepped out, careful not to get too wet by the fall rain.

It wasn't until we were both having coffee at the dining room table, the blonde looking over his paperwork for the day and I grading papers did I bring it up. "Hey, Erwin?" I said in a distracted tone, still looking over the essays for mistakes with my red pen firmly grasped between my fingers, he didn't say anything but he did set his coffee cup down, signalling that he had heard me. "I think I want kids" I stated, plain as day and now the other looked up with a thick raised brow "Why on earth would you want kids?" He asked, unsure of my motives behind this topic. "I want to pass on my morals I guess" It was a normal enough answer but it only pulled a chuckle from the commander "Levi, You have no morals" he said, amused by the very thought. That was where we left it, He didn't say yes but he hadn't said no either… it was as good as a green light to me.

It was one week later that Eren was told he would be living with me and to pack his small amount of things up. He was shocked to say the least, well it seemed that way byt the way he barged into my class after school. "Why the hell do you want me to live with you? Did Jean put you up to this?... Damn apple polishing horse" The younger one muttered as I leaned back in my chair with a amused expression. "Of course not, I just thought you looked pitiful when you were sick last week and I didn't want to have to see that again, putting you in a room full of other teenage boys is just asking you to get sick" My answer perplexed Eren and he leaned forward, hands firmly on the wood of my desk "You want to screw me don't you? I heard you are gay and I will tell you now that I am as straight as a arrow" As a arrow in gale force wind maybe, I had heard about what him and that Jean boy had been caught doing. "I don't want to have sex with you, Eren" Lies. Fucking lies. I wanted to plow his skinny ass until he forgot his name and only remembered mine. I was good at lying though, so my face was full of honesty.

"...Okay. It isn't like I have a problem with you being gay by the way.." Now he was embarrassed by his outburst, how sweet "Gay people are pretty rad, world needs more fashion conscious people" I scowled at the gross stereotype that he had stuck in his head, I would have to work on that. I couldn't blame him though, he had been raised in the system after all and some of the people that took these kids in were more than a little judgemental. "I don't care what you think, brat, I just want you to be ready to go in fifteen minutes" I told him, a grin tugging on my lips at how easy this all was. He really was a sweet kid though, I didn't hate him. Honestly I was more attracted to him now that I know he wasn't some sort of bratty teen out for just attention and a cushy job.

As promised, fifteen minutes later I was at his door; tapping my foot at what I saw. He was only half packed and looking through some of his things in a slow manner. "Remind me to start drilling you on how to pack quickly because this is just sad; you have one suitcase of personal items." I sighed not as upset about it as I seemed. Looking up from his pile of papers, he seemed to be snapping out of some intense thoughts, taking him a minute to process what I had just said. "Oh.. sorry sir just let me throw a few more things in my bag, five minutes I promise." I let him pack without giving him too much trouble, as it was a excuse to watch him anyway. He was definitely not as coordinated as some people and he tripped over a few things in his flustered state. I started to feel bad enough that I headed over to him and started to help him; quickly grabbing trying to hold the smile at the gesture back.

Five minutes later we were in my car heading back to my home,"The ride is about a half hour just so you know." I glanced at him and he nervously fidgeted in his spot. I started thinking that this all must be new to him. "Why so nervous?" I said finally, "I promise you I am a lot kinder at home." 'Well sort of kinder in all the ways it counted and meaner in all the ways it felt good.' I didn't answer for a minute, watching the fall grazed trees pass by as we drove down the country road and when he did I couldn't help but feel something strange twinge in my heart "... I guess no one has wanted me before, I find it strange that you of all people asked if you could take me in" His voice seemed uncertain if he should be sharing this sort of thing with someone who was almost a stranger to him. "The world will kick people like us in the ass, kid, I am just looking out for my own kind" Part of me didn't think I was lying to him, after all I really was looking out for, it just happened to be something that came with my original reason for taking him in.

"Oh… How are you like me?" He asked, only having known the military refined version of myself. Oh if only he had known me when I was his age. "Just trust me, We are alike and with time you will catch onto why" He looked out the window again with a confused curl of his lips but didn't say anything else. It hadn't been much but I knew that Eren had just shared with me a moment that very few others had shared with him and on the inside it made me smile, I almost even smiled on the outside. If only I knew what kind of doom these moments were spelling out for me.

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A/N: It is a little short I know, but I wanted to see what sort of reaction I got, please give me some feedback~