What Levi ended up doing while Eren was in the shower. Poor Levi and his sensitive hearing.

It had been a joint decision.

Hanji felt bad that Eren was covered in bird shit and Levi outright refused to get back in the car with Eren smelling the way he did. Under normal circumstances Levi would have made Hanji drive Eren home without a shower and he would have stayed back at headquarters and just disinfected the car the next day, but he also knew that Hanji was dead tired right now. Contrary to popular belief in the superhero-supervillain community, he was not a complete asshole and wasn't about to make an exhausted teammate drive across town at night to drop someone off no matter how inconvenient it was for himself.

He decided to get in the shower while Hanji went to go bring Eren inside so that he could get a hot shower before Eren used up all of the hot water.

He's spending at least fifteen minutes in scalding hot water and he had better be short a few layers of skin when he comes out if I have any say in it, but I'm sure as hell taking a hot shower myself.

Levi waited until the very last moment to take the ear plugs out of his ears. As useful as hypersensitive hearing could be, it was also frustrating and painful. He almost always wore ear plugs (flesh colored so that they were unnoticeable if you weren't looking for them) unless he was on a mission. He regularly had to explain to people that no, he wasn't Daredevil; he couldn't "see" using his sensitive hearing, but he was very, very good at guessing where people might be based on the sounds they made.

Unfortunately it was worthless if someone was standing almost stock still behind a door.

That was a fucking worthless mission. We got nothing out of that except for a dead body and the brother of a local superhero. I should have been paying more attention, but I really didn't need to listen to their neighbors fucking – I especially didn't need to listen to some guy's daddy kink. And of course I only come to when I thought I heard someonewhimper followed by a grunt in the apartment with the Titans. Fucking hell I thought they had a little kid in there and I know they deal in human trafficking and fuck if I was going to let that shit slide.

He started scrubbing his hair, nails dragging painfully over his scalp.

So of course I kick in the door and everything gets shot to shit.

Smiles ends up with a broken neck.

Another guy is definitely going to have a sore neck when he finally wakes up.

And then there's this teenager tied up on the couch.

I was ready to kill that third guy and the way that kid was looking at me. It looked like he shit himself when he saw me. I'm glad Hanji yelled after me when she did... I would have done it; stabbed the guy.

Levi shivered under the hot water as that thought sunk in. Old habits might die hard, but he had spent a lot of time trying to shake his and damn it if he was going to give in now.

He wasn't going to lose any sleep over the fact that Smiles had been the one who died, but it brought back a lot of unpleasant memories that he would have liked to stay buried. Memories not only of what he had done, but of the people who he had lost.

Now I'm getting fucking maudlin. I don't need this shit.

Exiting the bathroom, Levi realized that Eren and Hanji were already inside and that he had taken a longer shower than he had intended to. Because he misjudged the length of the shower that he would take he hadn't brought a change of clothes in with him and the kid was clearly checking him out. More importantly though, he hadn't brought a mask with him. Clothing he could deal with (he had a towel) but a mask... that was another story entirely.

Levi elected to glare at Eren, hoping that he would drop his gaze, but he realized that Eren had already looked down and was staring steadily at the floor.

He would be familiar with the rules, wouldn't he? Even if his sister doesn't really protect her identityall that well he probably knows other people who are serious about it.

Eren shuffled through the room, keeping his eyes fixed on the floor. He nearly crashed into the table at which Hanji made a confused noise and made the corner of Levi's mouth tick upwards ever-so-slightly. Eren was giving him a wide berth as he moved towards the bathroom. He was impressed with Eren's restraint (who wouldn't want to know the identities of the members of the Survey Corps?) and decided that it warranted some form of acknowledgement regardless of how unused to handing out praise as he was.

"You know the rules, brat. Not bad."

It was worth it to see the kid go bright red.

Hanji passed out almost as soon as Eren stepped into the bathroom. Levi let them have the couch. T hey had barely slept in the past two days trying to pull together this mission together with Erwin out of town and Mike still out of commission after getting slashed and re-spraining his wrist in his fight with Dagger Jack. Levi propped himself against the table and debated whether or not he wanted a cup of coffee.

That shit tastes vile, but at least it's caffeine and I'm going to be out for about an hour round trip dropping the kid off. I'm exhausted and it's only just after midnight, I'm getting old. Fucking hell though, that shower is loud.

Shit, I left my ear plugs in the bathroom.

Levi groaned and tried to ignore the loud noise of the shower running. It wasn't an unpleasant noise at all. It was, however, louder than he wanted it to be. In terms of volume, he assumed that it sounded something like a waterfall would sound to anyone else. Either way, it was late, he was tired, the shower was a bit too loud.

And that's when it started.

Jesusfuckingchrist. Is he seriously getting off in the shower? That's fucking disgusting. We offer him a shower and he decides to grace us with his biological emissions. When he walks out of that shower I'm going to send him right back in with some gloves and bleach. I do not need to hear this shit.

Levi tried to stuff his fingers in his ears, it muffled things a little bit, but not too much and it denied him the ability to do anything. At this point he was starting to get really pissed off at Eren.

Damn brat. Just finish up your shower so I can drop you off.

And then things got really awkward.

"Oh god, oh god, oh god. Levi, Levi, Levi. Fuck yes. Fuck me. Levi!"

He knew that Eren was probably saying it to himself just above a whisper. Nobody with normal hearing could have picked up on it from all the way out here with the shower running , but to Levi... Eren might as well have been whispering it right next to him. Levi gave up on trying to plug up his ears with his fingers and decided to fight noise with noise and turned on the coffee maker. Under normal circumstances he would be yelling at whoever was making coffee to stop the machine (it was almost painfully loud for him without ear plugs ) but right now it was perfect for drowning out Eren's moaning.

B y the time the machine had finished, Eren had stopped. He heard the shower turn off as he started to sip on his cup of coffee. He glared at the cup.

This coffee is disgusting. This brat is disgusting.

In retrospect, he was almost glad that Eren had decided to get off in the shower. Had it been awkward to hear and disgusting to think about cleaning the shower after? Yes. Had it stopped his thoughts from getting any darker than they had been? Also yes.