Levi picked me up at my house just as the sun started setting. I met him outside with a few stakes at my waist and a grimace on my face. Murders a few towns over have spiked within the last couple of days and if I hadn't already been planning on going out with Levi I would have been down there days ago. We should have been down there days ago. Erwin claimed that it was too risky, that we had to wait, but waiting meant more people died. Vampire's only needed to feed once a week and this one was killing every night.
"We should have been down there sooner," I told Levi as I climbed into the car.
"I know," Levi muttered, backing out of the driveway. "Trust me, but what Erwin says goes. He's been around long enough to know when it's safest to strike."
"You trust him a lot," I muttered.
"He saved my life," Levi shrugged. "I owe him everything I am."
I looked at him curiously at that before he turned on the radio trying to keep the car ride from being so silent. I don't know what I expected but Sum 41 was not it. I didn't complain though. I tapped my finger on my thigh to the beat and looked out the window.
Levi's phone chimed and he pulled it from his pocket. "Hanji found where it is."
"And that would be?" I inquired.
"The Elementary school," he sucked his teeth in disgust. "Fuck, what a scumbag."
I groaned and rubbed at my head, "Let's get this done and over with."
He flashed me a disinterested look, "Not excited?"
"You could say that."
We pulled up to the school, parking in the back. It was a huge rundown building from what I could tell in the dark, brick cracking and windows covered in dirt. I frowned at it. Kid's shouldn't be taught here, though my own elementary school wasn't any better.
"Hanji thinks it's in the basement." Levi told me as we crept towards it. "Mike tracked it down, it apparently just fed. We need to be extra careful."
"I'm not an idiot," I muttered.
"Yes," he looked at me without any amusement in his face. "You are."
I grit my teeth and followed after him. We walked down the hallways carefully, both of us barefoot to keep as quiet as possible. The shadows seemed to be reaching out for us and for a moment I was a child again, terrified of the dark under my bed. I shook my head and ran a hand over the goose bumps on my arm. We got to the door to the basement and I jiggled it carefully. It swung open and I looked at Levi with a raised eyebrow. The door should have been locked. The vampire was definitely down here.
Levi put a finger to his mouth to remind me to keep quiet before handing me a flashlight. He made a motion across his neck and I took it as a sign to not turn it on before we got to the bottom. We crept down the stairs slowly trying to make as little noise as we possible could. The closer we got to the bottom the more impossible it was to see but I didn't dare turn on the flashlight and give ourselves away. I reached the bottom.
And the breath was knocked out of me.
"Eren!"
My feet weren't on the floor anymore. I was flying through the air and I put my hands around my head just in time for me to crash into the wall. Pain exploded through my body and I couldn't even bite back a small shout in shock. I fell to the floor and gasped for breath, reaching for one of the stakes at my side.
The lights flickered on and Iooked up to see the vampire staring down at me. Her red hair fell around her face in waves and bright red eyes stared down at me. I grimaced. Vampires were even stronger after they had fed and I wasn't looking forward to how tough it was going to be to stake her. She grinned, "I was expecting you a little earlier than this."
I narrowed my eyes, "Well I'm here now."
I tried to roll out of the way as she reached for me, but I wasn't fast enough. She grabbed me by the neck and through me at a desk, the wood splintering and breaking underneath me at the force. I couldn't get a decent breath and it felt like one of my ribs had cracked for sure. The pain in my side made it almost impossible for me to focus.
I saw Levi from the corner of my eye, almost just a blur. He went to stake the vampire but she moved before it could hit her heart and instead he got her in the shoulder. She howled in pain grabbing the base of the wood and pulling it out.
Levi pulled another one out, keeping a keen eye on her as they circled. I heaved myself up and reached for another stake, my last one, and tried to take a step only for one of my legs to buckle underneath me. I cursed. There was a deep cut running down the length of my leg, starting from the inside of my knee and ending just above my foot. I was bleeding bad.
And the vampire could smell it.
She glanced at me with a rabid smile, distracted enough by the scent for Levi to lunge at her, hitting her right in the heart. Her eyes went wide and she choked, sinking to her knees and staring at the stake protruding from her chest.
Then she laughed, blood splattering from her lips, and looked at me. "You mom's murderer says hi, by the way." Before her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she slumped to the floor.
I couldn't move. I just stared at her in shock trying to process what she had said to me. It didn't make sense. How could she know him? How could she know me? It shook me to the core and my body grew cold with fear.
Levi set her body on fire. I watched her corpse disintegrate and the flames slowly burn out. She knew the monster who killed my mom, and he still remembered me. He knew who I was and what I was doing. He was watching me. Dread made it hard to breathe and I couldn't find the strength to even move.
That monster was watching me.
Levi grabbed my arm and hauled me up, "Come on, kid. Hang on to me. We're getting out of here."
I didn't say anything on the ride home, just kept my shirt pressed against the gash on my leg trying to slow down the bleeding. Levi helped me into my house and I directed him towards the bathroom. He hauled me up and put me on the counter before grabbing the first aid kit.
"I can take care of it myself," I muttered, leaning my head against the cool mirror. It felt good on my sweaty forehead.
He raised a thin eyebrow at me. "Kid, you look like you're about to pass out. I'm taking care of it this time. You have sutures in here?"
I nodded and shuffled around a bit to get more comfortable. I gritted my teeth as he cleaned it out trying hard not to focus too much on how much it hurt. I couldn't help but groan in pain when he wiped it down with an alcohol wipe.
"Don't be a baby," he muttered. He started stitching me up then. I kept my mouth shut tight until he was done.
"I think my ribs cracked," I told him.
His fingers reached for my shirt, pulling it up to look at the bruising skin. He trailed his hands over it gently, poking and prodding before he nodded. "Its okay, just a fracture. It should heal fine."
"You have experience with this?"
He only rolled his eyes, "I have to."
I couldn't argue with that.
"Hey, Levi?" I looked down at him. "I think you kind of saved my life. So thanks."
He just shook his head, "Well the only reason I was able to stake her without getting hurt is because of your bleeding leg distracting her, so if anything I should be thanking you."
I laughed a little, "For getting hurt?"
He smirked at me. "For being an idiot."
I kicked at him with my good leg, "Shut up, asshole."
"Bite me, Jaeger."
It was then that I realized just what kind of position we were in, with him between my legs like that. I blame the fact that I hadn't gotten off in a week, and that I haven't actually had sex with someone since Armin and I got drunk and did it back in highschool. I could feel my pants tighten up and I hoped to god that Levi wouldn't notice.
But he did.
His eyes lowered back down to check my cut and when he went to look back up they stopped at my crotch. My face started burning and I wanted nothing more than for the world to just swallow me up right then. Levi was attractive, I couldn't deny that, but he was also insufferable and I didn't want to get hard because of him. He looked back at me with a small smirk and amusement written all over his features. He didn't say anything thank god, but then his hand started trailing up my good leg, fingers slowly moving underneath the hem of my boxer briefs and suddenly I couldn't breathe. His eyes never left mine, burning straight into me in a way that made my chest ache with need and my stomach tighten with excitement.
There was a knock at the bathroom door, startling both of us out of whatever… whatever that was.
"Eren?" Mikasa called out. "Are you in here?"
I ran a hand down my face and Levi stood up and away from me. "Yeah."
"Is Levi here?"
"He's in here with me, I got a little hurt."
Thank god I was no longer hard because she barged in then, eyes wide with worry. "What? What happened?"
I held up my hands. "It's okay. It's already been taken care of. Look!" I didn't dare mention my cracked rib because she would for sure try to decapitate Levi over that.
I twisted my leg so she could see the inside of it. She checked it over carefully before nodding with approval. She turned to Levi with a glare. "How did this happen?"
"It wasn't his fault," I told her. "We were caught by surprise. I'm okay, really."
She stared at me for a moment before nodding. "Okay… Okay. You need to get to bed though, you're face is flushed. Are you feeling okay?" She put a hand to my forehead.
I pushed her hand off of me, "I feel fine!"
Levi started washing his hands in the sink next to me, "Well, I'm off. I'll see you two later." He stared at me, for a moment longer then he had to and my stomach fluttered nervously. "Take care of that leg, brat."
I nodded, and watched as he left the bathroom.
