LEVIHAN WEEK 2013

Date of Update: October 29th, 2013
Word Count: 841, excluding this.
Warnings: There's spoilers for people who hasn't read the manga or watched the whole season of the anime. Read with your own responsibility. Also for the language, and for some grammar-mistakes, sorry about them, I was damn tired when writing this...
Summary: Because missing someone is a sign of humanity.


Day 3: Distance

Lance Corporal Levi gave a quick glance at the window, sitting in his office. It was raining, a lot, and it seemed like the sky was missing his oh-so-sunny friend too. Drawing his long fingers from his lap he started to draw swirls on the cold glass.

She had been away for a week now. It took him a while before he admitted to himself how he missed Hanji's teasing and her smiles. Maybe if he would still have his squad or even Mike on his side he wouldn't be so fond of her presence.

However, right now he had nothing else to do than stare at the window. All he saw from it was trees, trees and little bit more trees.

Hanji had said something about a month. She had only a few of her colleagues, and with that overly loyal assistant of hers.. Moblit, was it?

Levi snorted, when he started unwillingly to go through the papers - notes and some other sort of paperwork he had to go through and accept.

However, he didn't find any will to start going through them. The papers actually started to annoy him. Levi tossed some piles of paper further the table, resting his head in his hands.

Three more weeks, almost completely isolated.

He recalled the moment Hanji told him about her leave.


He was at his office at that time when she unusally knocked the door before opening it without waiting for invitation.
Rising his gaze from the papers he was going through - well, they actually the same papers as the ones a week later - to face Hanji, who didn't seem too happy. Quirking his brow, he wordlessly asked her to speak up.

Hanji walked into the room, closing the door behind her. She sat down on the chair opposite him. Starting to clean her glasses, Levi groaned and asked:

"Seriously Hanji, what it is?"

Grinning, she stopped the cleaning and put them back on.

"I'm going to leave for a few weeks to research on titans! Then after that, I wish that we could finally catch a good abnormal, so I could investigate on it!"

Levi straightened at his chair.

"I'm going with you."

Hanji smiled apologizingly at him.

"I'm sorry, really Levi, but you can't leave. You have to look after Eren, and -"

"He can take care of himself."

Hanji started to grow slightly irritated, but wiped it off and sighed.

"I know he can, and he still has his friends with him. But since we don't have either Mike or Erwin's other hand, we can't take risks. You have to stay here. And I have to go outside to research! And to catch the-"

"It's dangerous! Why can't you just try to figure something out while you sit on your office, in here, safe?!"

Furrowing her brows, she started to feel offended, even though she knew she shouldn't.

"I've done that too much lately, if we really want to finally know something about the titans, we have to finally check out if our theories have been right! And trust me, I have my te- err, new team on my side. They'll take care of me. We have more brains than anyone!"

At the last statement she looked like her normal self - glasses shining, hands up in aspiringly, looking all so confident. Levi couldn't do much but sigh. He had losen this quarrel in the very beginning. But could he be so confident, all alone there?

"Hanji, take care. And don't go so fucking close to them when they aren't well-roped! You'll end up losing your head", at the middle of that Hanji bursted into a heartily laugher, grinning at him like a maniac.

"I will! Take care, I mean. And don't worry so much, Moblit and Armin won't let me even close to them, haha!"

"I'm not worried", Levi said with furrowed brows. Hanji just kept laughing, and leaned forwards enough to grab him on a tight hug. The man was surprised, and looked very unamused. But soon it turned into hesitation, but before he was able to return to the hug, she pulled away with the same grin.

"The time will fly! One morning you'll wake up to see that I'm back with my abnormal! Too bad that to catch one can take pretty much time.. maybe a few weeks. Let's say a month, and I'm back! Oh, have you heard about the spiderish-titan, who was about to eat Braus once, but her team led the spider to face the tree?! I would like to have one, too bad it was probably unique.. Oh, and -"

"Oi, Four-eyes, you're ruining the moment."

Hanji laughed while her other hand was playing with her locks.

"Oops, sorry!"


Levi let his gaze wander back to the window from his papers, and without a second though, he decided to finish them. Maybe then the time would go faster, and without even knowing it, he would wake up the next day only to see her smiling again.