Levi scrubbed his hands under the stream of water from the faucet using copious amounts of soap. He wrung his hands out, dried them, then used the same towel to shut off the water. Her waited for the green eyes nurse and once Eren was done washing his hands, turned and walked with him to the elevators.

"Brat, I'll warn you right now, the food isn't the greatest here. But it's filling, and you'll need it," Levi growled at his nurse.

"Yes, Dr. Levi," Eren said.

The two made there way down to the cafeteria and got trays filled with nutritious food yet slightly bland food. The sat down at a vacant table and commenced eating. Levi watched as Eren took the first bite of the hospital's food.

"It's not bad," he said defensively when Levi raised an eyebrow at his eagerness to refill his mouth.

"By all means, love it while you can," Levi replied, taking a bite without shedding crumbs.

They ate in silence for a little, watching doctors and patients and nurses come and go.

"Dr. Levi... Could I ask about where you were trained?" Eren said, almost mumbling as he looked down at his plate.

"You just did, brat," Levi replied. Eren looked up at Levi through his chocolate brown bangs, chewing slowly.

Levi swore quietly and said, "Fine, fine. Undergrad was at UC Berkley, then I did med at Vanderbilt in Tennessee." He leaned back in his chair to look at the young nurse. Eren looked at him, eyes bright, willing to absorb any information given to him. "What about you, brat?"

Eren swallowed, looking hurt. "I'm not a brat."

"You're a nurse fresh out of school. You're a brat to me."

Eren pouted. "Fine. Went to UA Birmingham, then did my med with all of the guys there."

Levi stared at him and Eren shifted uncomfortably. "Can you not do that?"

"Do what, brat?" Levi asked. He saw nothing wrong with what he was doing as he crossed his legs.

"... Staring at me like you're going to go pick up a scalpel and plunge it through my jugular," Eren gulped.

Levi barked out a short laugh, "First off, I think that's illegal. Second, that's just how I look. You'll have to get used to my shitty ability to express emotion."

Eren looked mortified with the casual use of the swear word, "Levi! There are patients here!"

"What? So long as I'm not using it against them."

"Just... Okay. Fine."

Eren had the sense to shovel more food into his mouth before he said something that made Levi carried out his implied threat that he reserved for people who pissed him off.

"Levi!" a voice called from the other end. A doctor came up with her nurse.

"Hello, Dr. Kamadar," Levi said, face still stony.

"Who's this?" Dr. Kamadar commented, looking at Eren.

Levi sighed through his nose, "This is Nurse Jaeger. He came in with the 104th division of trainees. He started this morning."

"Wasn't there around 3 surgeries this morning?" she asked.

"Yeah, why?"

"You survived three surgeries with him?" Dr. Kamadar looked shocked and happy. "He must really like you."

"Thank you Dr. Kamadar," Eren said.

They shook hands and Dr. Kamadar walked off, shooting Levi a wink behind Eren's back.

"What does she do?" Eren asked, oblivious to the slight tightening of Levi's jaw at Dr. Kamadar's insinuation.

"She works in the lab, head of MicroBiology. She lets us know if there's any nasty bacteria we should worry about," Levi said.

"Eren!" a few voices called.

Connie and Sasha approached them, hands intertwined, Erd putting their trays away.

"How was surgery?" Sasha asked, sliding a stick of gum into her mouth.

"Fine, how was nursing?" Eren replied.

"Fun! We made lots of patients laugh," Connie grinned, kissing Sasha on the cheek.

Eren looked at them with a little sadness behind his eyes and watched as the couple walked away. The sadness intrigued Levi. It darkened his emerald eyes to the color of grass on a stormy day. He gave an almost inaudible sigh and moved to put his tray up. Levi's stormy eyes followed him, narrowed slightly in curiosity at what the sadness could be.

Mikasa then appeared next to him, nudging him and grinning. Eren smiled back at her, the sadness leaving a little. Levi's heart clenched in his throat and he felt anger bubbling behind his heart.