Levi, Eren and you quickly left after you were instructed to join them. You met up with the other four members of The Special Operations Squad in the Trost District. The other members were Petra Ral, Oluo Bozado, Gunther Schultz and Eld Jinn. They were all exceptional soldiers and you quickly made friends with Petra
The seven of you were headed to the Old Scout Regiment Headquarters on horseback. They ride was silent, but not at all awkward. No one spoke until we were in front of the building.
"An architectural marvel, don't you agree? A proper royal residence once upon a time and more recently, our former headquarters. Fancy; yes, but absurdly impractical once the Scouts got down to business. Much, much far removed from any river or wall..." Oluo start going off about the building.
"Oluo I don't think he cares about your history lesson," you say from behind them. Both him and Eren look back at you. "I just want to make sure he doesn't expect the royal treatment-" he starts before he bites his tongue. Petra and you start laughing slightly.
"Does that happen often?" you question Petra as you all start to get off of your horses. "Quiet often actually," she replies. You walk over to some stairs and Oluo sits down.
"That's what you get for flapping your jowls on horseback," Petra tells Oluo. "The rookie needed to know his place," he says his voice slightly muffled from the rag he's holding up to his mouth. "Considering he was locked up for days before today, he probably knows his place," you mention looking over at him.
"Even so, first impressions are important," he says with a grin. You glance over at Petra. "Well you certainly made an impression on him, no question there," she says and you nod in agreement. "Indeed so, our exchange went exactly as planned," Oluo says. "Wait you planned to almost bite you tongue off? That's kind of masochistic don't you think?" you say with an eyebrow raised.
"Don't mind him Captain Y/N, he's been trying to act like Captain Levi for a while now. It's kind of embarrassing," Petra says with an eye roll. "I see, Y/N is fine too. I've never been one for formalities," you tell her with a smile.
"Petra dear, if you intend to hound me like a wife there's more of me that you need to be acquainted with before laying claim to the privilege," Oluo tells her looking at her out of the side of his eye.
"Gross!" you say loudly. "You disgusting swine herd," Petra says right after you. Eld and Gunther start walking over to you. You notice Eren watching all of you.
"Look at these weeds," Gunther says look down at the ground. "This place has gone to hell." Eld stops walking when he gets next to him. "It's been abandoned for years, but the insides are shambles," he adds.
Levi walks up from behind them, "In which case we have a problem, best grab a broom and get to work." You suddenly remembered Erwin telling you about Levi being a clean freak. You suppose it's better than being a slob. You head upstairs with Eren and start sweeping the floors.
After about an hour you're still sweeping all of the rooms and Eren is working on scrubbing the window sills. It hasn't gotten much cleaner, but what can you expect when there's only seven of us and one huge castle.
"I think were about done now?" Eren questions looking over at you. "I'm not I still have two more rooms that need sweeping," you inform him. "But if I were you I would clean everything twice, I've heard that Levi is a complete clean freak," you say looking up at him.
"Wait heard?" he questions you. You nod in reply. "You're both Captains, but you don't know each other?" You sigh and continue to move your broom from side to side. "We know each other, I just wouldn't call us close friends," you say with a laugh.
"Since we're both Captains it also doesn't require us to work together often because normally we have our own squads to attend, this being the exception of course," you explain to him.
"I guess that makes sense, have you met any of the others then?" Eren asks me. "I've had to work with Eld before, but beyond hearing of their accomplishments, I haven't had the chance to acquaint myself with the others." you tell him. Eren starts to make his way towards the door. "I'm going to inform Captain that I'm done," he tells you. "Good luck," you say hitting him on the back with the broom. You laugh as he tried to rub the dust of off him.
Shortly after Eren leaves Levi comes upstairs in his place. He looks around and scoffs. "He calls this clean?" he questions to no one in particular. "I tried to warn him," you say pulling the piece of fabric around your neck over your face. You try to dust the corners of the room, but you have no avail.
"You seem to be struggling there," Levi says from behind you. You turn around to see him with an amused look in his eye. "Like you could do it any better," you whine at him. He walks over to you and you notice that he's about two inches taller than you.
(I'm so sorry if you're not short or whatever but you will be in this!)
"Is that a challenge L/N?" Levi asks you. "You're barely taller than me! There's no way you'll be able to reach it either," you tell him. "Hm," he says grabbing the duster from you. He walks out of the room and returns with a stool. You can feel your eye brow twitch as he stands on the stool to dust the rest of the corner. "That's not even fair!" you claim as he gets down. "It's completely fair," Levi says handing the duster back to you and marching out of the room. You feel your face flush slightly in irritation.
Eren returns once again with a discouraged look on his face. You all finish your necessary cleaning by night fall and head to where the cafeteria would've been. You all sit down and chat about trivial things over a cup of tea.
"It's safe to assume that our standing order will stretch into next week," Eld says. "Word to the grapevine is that we're gearing up for a big mission a month from now. Where a bunch of wet behind the ears recruits are slated to be our main backup."
"That can't be right. Why do something like that? The cadets have been through enough with the last titan attack, why subject them to that kind of danger again?" Gunther questions. "You have to wonder how many of those snivel-drag-runts peed themselves," Oluo adds look at his cup. You finish taking a drink of your tea. "Or bit their tongues," you say mockingly at Oluo.
"Surely this can't be the case," Petra says bringing us back on topic. We all look at Levi. "Mission planning isn't my responsibility, but it is Erwin's and you can bet the man's obsessed over every angle," he says.
That's probably true, it's just a unique circumstance considering that now we have this hope that we don't even know how to deal with," you mention and everyone looks at Eren. He looks down at the table. "Most people have trouble believing it," you add.
"So how does it work? This whole changing into a titan trick, really?" Eld questions him. "Wish I could tell you, but fact is, my memory isn't quite clear. I guess it's kind of like being in a trance, I do know the trigger seems to be hurting myself in some way, like biting my hand," Eren answers him.
"Oddly specific if you ask me," you say taking another drink of tea. "You're not going to get anything out of him. Apart from what the scribblers have laid out in the reports," Levi says before picking up his cup. "Not that em style="box-sizing: border-box;"you know who/em won't have a go at it." Commander Hanji."You be lucky to be alive after that one lays into you, course it's only a matter of time."
"Who are you talking about?" Eren asks. There's suddenly a loud bang at the door and an "Ow!" following it. "Oh Hanji," you mumble putting a hand to your forehead. Petra gets up and lets her in
The brown haired woman with glasses walks into the room while rubbing her forehead. "I'm so sorry," Hanji says in a low voice. "Good evening Team Levi! How is castle life treating everyone?" she says more cheerful. "You're too early," Levi says. "By castle life do you mean how rubbing the floor is treating us?" you question receiving laughs from Petra, Oluo and Gunther.
"Section Commander Hanji?" Eren questions. "Hello Eren! In the event that you haven't pieced it together yet, it's my job to spearhead the Scout Regiments research efforts. Essentially I poke and prod our captive titan specimens. I'd very much like your help," Hanji says.
"My help? In what way? Like what would I have to do?" Eren questions her.
"Join me of course! On a quest of scientific discovery!" Hanji says a little too excited. "Well um, I'm happy to help, but I'm afraid it's not up to me. I'm under close restrictions by order of the higher ups, you see," Eren explains clearly weary. You groan a little bit. He should've just told her no.
"Levi! What's on the docket for him tomorrow?" Hanji questions. "Clearing out all the weeds," Levi replies simply. "Excellent then! It's decided! Young man, tomorrow will be grand," Hanji says grabbing his hand. "Uh... Kay. But, uh, just so I'm clear what exactly will I be doing?" You drop your face onto the table as he continues to ask her questions. "Idiot, shut up," you hear Oluo say.
Levi starts to get up and once he does the rest of you follow. "I think that's our cue," you say as you all leave Eren there with Hanji.
"So who's going to be taking care of the weeds tomorrow?" you question realizing that Eren will be gone. "You can do it," Levi says simply. "But I-" you start. You're interrupted by Oluo's laughing.
"Oluo you can take care of the bathrooms," Levi says before walking to his quarters. You burst out laughing at the ridiculous face Oluo made. "I'd rather take the weeds over bathrooms that haven't been cleaned in em style="box-sizing: border-box;"years!/em" you exclaim following after Levi, as for your quarters are across from his.
You enter your quarters to find a simple room. There's a bed, a dresser, a couch, and a desk in the farthest corner. You change out of your uniform and quickly make your way to bed.
"Captain Y/N! Come quickly," you suddenly wake up from yelling outside of your door. You quickly throw on your clothes and grab your raincoat. You secure it by fastening the button on your breast and quickly make your way down to the main hall. There seems to be panic in the castle as you pass people. You grab a Scout that was running past you.
"I demand that you tell me what has happened," you say with a serious tone. "C-Captain Y/N, Commander Hanji's test subjects have been killed," he says clearly nervous. You let go of his arm and then continue your way to the main hall. "All of this panic over her titans," you mumble. Once you get to the hall you meet everyone else there and all saddle up your horses. You rode to where they kept the two titans and get off.
Hanji immediately starts breaking down and the rest of you are just confused. The titans carcass is all that is left. "They must've been killed at dawn or later, otherwise they wouldn't still be smoking," You say aloud. "H-how did this happen?" Eren questions. "Let it go, this is a matter for the Military Police," Levi tells him before walking away.
You follow him to leave Eren to his thoughts. Levi stops in front of Erwin as do you. He walks forwards and puts his hands on Eren's shoulders. "He's going to come off creepy if he keeps acting like that," you mention. "Indeed," Levi says. Levi turns and starts walking once Erwin turns around. You follow once Erwin starts walking.
"So what exactly is this expedition you're planning?" you question him with interest. "I'm afraid I cannot share those details with you quite yet Y/N," Erwin responds. You stop walking and he continues on to Levi's side.
Once they're out of earshot you stomp a foot on the ground. "I'm afraid I cannot share those details with you quiet yet Y/N, but Levi's a different story and gets to know everything before you," you say in a deep voice trying to act like Erwin. "I didn't want to know anyways," you say tapping your foot on the ground.
"Oh great now the shorty's talking to herself," you hear Oluo say. "Oh shut up you Levi wannabe," you tell him before walking back to your horse. Not knowing where Levi headed off to with Erwin, the six of you ride back to the castle.
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