Notes: Sorry this took so long to write, I had tech week for my play and exams to get through bblllleeeeggghhhhhhhh. I am now on thanks giving break so I can finally give you chapter two and hopefully a couple more before school starts again. I'm gonna try post every week in the future but it's most likely gonna be every two weeks. Anyway, I'll post when I can :)

Chapter Two: The Audition

Levi hated the morning with a passion. Any hour before 10am was ungodly in his opinion. Erwin had unlocked the building at 8.30am (he, Hanji and Levi were to be at the building then in order to start setting up) and the dancers were to arrive fifteen minutes after that. The auditions were supposed to start at 9am, which Levi took as an invitation to arrive at the studio dead on the hour. Needless to say, Erwin had not been happy but he would just have to deal with the fact that it was not going to happen any other way. Levi made a mental note to that he was not to let Hanji or Erwin schedule any rehearsals that involved before noon.

As he walked into the theatre he did a quick scan of the dancers who were all gathered on stage. The mood was light as many people talked energetically to one another and stretched out their legs. He dumped his bag next to the large wooden table top that had been set up in the middle of the ground floor audience section and fell into a chair. He signed and picked up the neatly stacked pile of profiles off the table so that he could rifle through them again. He appreciated the job that Erwin had done compiling all the critical information but it bugged him that Erwin didn't put pictures on them. It made his life a whole lot more difficult.

He heard Hanji and Erwin enter behind him.

"Remind me again why there aren't any pictures of the dancers?" Levi asked as he continued to look at the papers.

Erwin chuckled under his breath. "It's because I don't want to type casting someone before you've seen them dance. You are bound to do just that and then be stubborn about changing your decision."

"Especially if the male is attractive!" Hanji added with a wild giggle.

Levi turned his head slowly toward Hanji. His mouth was pressed into a hard line and his eyes were narrowed into such a petrifying death stare that Medusa would have been jealous. The raven considered throwing the papers at her face but then they would scatter everywhere leaving a mess that he would inevitably clean up. Instead, he just sighed again and picked out the profiles he thought had the most potential. It wasn't that he didn't like people knowing he was gay, quite frankly he couldn't care-less about who knew about it and what they thought, it was just that when Hanji mentioned anything about it, she'd be pretty much putting a red flashing arrow above his head that shouted 'gay'. Whatever. He looked at the smaller pile he'd made. In consisted of two females - Petra Ral (who was a decent dancer is Levi's memory served well), and Sasha Blouse - as well as five males - Gunter Schultz, Eld Jinn, Reiner Braun, Jean Kirsten, and Eren Yeager. According to the profiles, both Eren and Jean were younger than the rest of the members of the company, with Jean being 21 and Eren being 19, and both were reasonably tall brunettes. Levi watched the dancers again, hoping to pin point the boys within the crowd. He spotted one with short brown hair that was just long enough you were unable to call it a crew cut. He looked like the youngest member on the stage, so he assumed that he was Eren. But no sooner had he settled on that decision did a young blonde call "Jean" across the stage and the boy turned his head. He grumbled in frustration. Why couldn't Erwin just put pictures on these things?

Erwin stood up and walked to the front of the stage where he took role. Levi tried to listen and match names to faces but halfway through he gave up and decided that he wasn't going to remember any later. He settled back into his chair.

"Okay, so we're only missing Eren then." He tapped the clipboard with his pencil and shook his head before asking, "Does anyone know anything about Eren's whereabouts?" Levi perked up at this, and thought it rather odd that this Eren had not showed up.

"Hopefully fallen into a ditch." Jean smirked. "Armin would know."

All heads on stage turned to look at a petite blonde boy. He looked rather like a rabbit in headlights with his bob of golden hair and his round baby eyes. He stood a little taller before answering, "No, he hasn't been picking up his cell so I don't know anything." There was a pause and then Armin added quickly, "He's probably just late. Mikasa would have called if he was ill or injured." He looked back at Jean at that last part.

Erwin nodded before telling the dancers to proceed with the warm up. Several of the larger dancers exited the stage before returning with dancing bars in tow. The remaining dancers took up their positions and began to stretch out their bodies. After five minutes of watching an extremely boring display Hanji clapped her hands and told them to do warm-up drills followed by the ensemble routine. The bars were removed into the wings and positions were taken on the stage. They started with simple pliés, rond de jambes, and pirouettes before moving on to taking up their dancing formation. The ensemble routine began. It was well danced, it was just unfortunate that the Yeager boy was missing as there was an obvious gap in the formation and one of the females was left without a partner.

Levi dropped his head back. His heart wasn't into this part of the process. He wanted to be up there, enjoying the exhilaration of dancing, but instead he was stuck watching it. What he hated was the lack of passion these people had for their dancing. They had great technique and many of the ballerina's lines were flawless, it just missed that extra push. That push that drove them forward and what made them roll out of bed at ungodly hours in the morning. He let out a low groan.

"Still so sign of Eren then." Erwin mumbled and reached a long arm up to scratch the back of his head. "I guess the female soloists will just have to dance first then."

Hanji gave a small nod and proceed to yell instructions at the people on the stage. All of the males moved to the sides of the stage to watch the possible Juliet's dance. In turn, five girls danced a short solo of about three minutes. Both Petra and the Sasha girl were among the five who danced but as Levi knew that Petra was the best Juliet. Not only was she the strongest dancer of the few, but Levi knew he could rely on her to do a good job. She smiled at him as she left the centre of the stage and he returned her smile with a small friendly nod.

The company took a break. Levi was thankful as he desperately needed one. His back and legs needed to be stretched out and he wanted some coffee. No, not wanted, needed. He checked the time on his phone only to discover it had only been 45 minutes. He growled and pulled his hood up as he ascended up the stairs to the break room (or otherwise known as the Green Room). He didn't particularly want to talk to the dancers, but the Green Room had a better coffee machine than the one in the office. If talked to, Levi would simply not respond.

No one seemed to notice him at first but, while getting coffee, jeering and laughter erupted in the room. If this was about him, Levi thought, then people are going to walk away with bloody noses. Then, out of the corner of his eye, he noticed a panting mess stood in the door way.

"Shit! Did I miss the auditions?" The mess cried. His voice was so familiar. Levi turned his head and smirked. So this is Eren Yeager. He was surprised at himself for not guessing. Eren caught his eye.

"Hey! Levi!" He called, but Levi ignored him, picking up his coffee and walking out of the room.

Levi didn't really pay attention to the rest of the auditions. After all, he had made up his mind so why should he. A cast list had started forming in Levi's head and for once in a long while, Levi was excited…