The next day no one had heard anything from Arabella. She'd headed to her room after the incident and hadn't came back out. Even Levi was beginning to worry about her, but she hadn't done anything drastic. She hadn't done anything completely insane. She'd sat on her bed, back against the wall and drank her sorrows away. The usual, the normal, the right. Was else was she to do? Start crying to Levi again? He didn't love her, he wasn't there to console her. 'I'm a monster, I'm a poisonous flower. Everything I touch ends up dead.' She thinks. 'Maybe I should just leave here while I can. Maybe I should take Tara's advice. What was I thinking?' She didn't need these people here thinking any lower of her and she certainly didn't want to handle their stares everyday. She wanted to be free again, wanted to leave the Walls and go back outside and leave all this behind. She wanted to see the old man who ran the produce stand in her Village, she wanted to see how much the kids have grown up, she wanted to see the real sky again. She wanted to go back to her small, blood stained cottage. Nothing more, nothing less, but once again it was too much to ask. 'I'm so selfish, even now.' The morning sun was beginning to spill in her room and she shied away from it. She lay in her bed, eyes open, and stared at the rising sun.
'What am I doing here?' A chill runs down her back as she begins shivering. Her skin is cold to the touch and she can't heat herself up for once. 'Maybe I'll freeze to death in this room.' She thinks, almost loving the idea. There's a knock on the door, but Arabella doesn't answer. Her dead eyes slide over the door and then revert right back to the sun. There's another knock and then she hears the small, almost inaudible click of the door opening. 'Levi…'
"Arabella?" Commander Erwin's voice comes from the door. Arabella looks at him and he shuts the door. He stares at her nearly naked figure as lay in her bed with one hand under her head and the other hanging off the bed with a bottle of Gin. Commander Erwin walks to her side of the bed and kneels down to face her. 'Levi did that too.' She thinks and gives the smallest of smiles. "Are you okay? No one has heard from you and we were beginning to get worried." Arabella nods. Commander Erwin takes the alcohol from her hand and she clenches and unclenched her fist. "Your lips are…"
"Blue?" Arabella asks quietly. Erwin nods.
"Blue…"
"I'm cold." She says.
"Here, let me get you a blanket-"
"Please don't." Arabella says. "Please just let me lay here."
"I can't let you-"
"I'll be fine. Just let me lay here please." Arabella doesn't feel like arguing and says nothing more as Erwin leaves the room.
"Levi will be in here soon."
When Levi gets to Arabella's room the sight is tear worthy. Arabella's small figure is in the fetal position on her bed as one of her arms is wrapped around her stomach. Levi shuts and locks the door and walks over to Arabella.
"Are you-"
"I'm fine." She says not facing him. "You can leave." Her words sting Levi. Does she want him to leave? As Levi gets closer to her he can feel the cold coming off her body. 'She's freezing...' Levi thinks to himself.
"I'm not leaving." Levi says to her. Arabella sighs.
"Why?"
"Why would I leave?" He questions her.
"Because I'm crazy. Because I drive people crazy."
"Not me." Levi replies. "I think I might actually like your company." Even though Levi doesn't see it, Arabella smiles-a real smile. Levi takes off his boots and lays down, placing his torso along Arabella's back. The cold nearly overwhelms his body, but he stays. He wraps his arms around Arabella and she closes her eyes. "You reek of Gin." Levi points out. Arabella gives a small laugh.
"I know."
"Can you work on that for me? The drinking?" Arabella nods.
"For you." She replies and Levi puts his head on top of hers. The position is so foreign and the affection so incredibly alien to him, but at the same time it's so good. Too good to pass up. Levi closes his eyes as Arabella intertwines their fingers and soon enough the two both drift off to sleep.
Erwin sits in his office unable to get the thought of Levi and Arabella together out of his mind. The two are doing a very halfass job of keeping it covered up, even knowing the risk. 'I'm going to be the last one to report them having a sexual affair. It's awkward and their both humanity's last shots.' He thinks to himself. 'I just wish they'd tell me instead of keep it from me.' Erwin sighs. They share a stronger connection than Mikasa, Eren and Armin, it's incredible and scary at the same time. Erwin seeing Levi acting like a lover is something he'd never even imagined and now that Arabella's in the picture every time she's brought up he goes into Lover Levi Mode. Hange sits in Erwin's office fidgeting with something on his desk.
"Hange?" Erwin asks and she looks up from behind her glasses. "Can I have your personal opinion on Levi when Arabella's the subject of discussion?" Hange makes a face.
"Well sure, but…"
"I just need to confirm something." Erwin says before she can ask.
"I guess my opinion on him when she's the subject of a meeting or something would be that he's rigid. He gets all frenzied, and you'd have to know Levi for a long time to know when he gets like that but it only happens with certain people. Like Petra, and we all know him and Petra have done the do, if you get my gist. When Arabella's around he gets flustered. She just makes him turn into loverboy." Erwin nods.
"Thank you, I just needed to make sure I was right in my thinking...or at least that someone else thought the same." Hange's finger shoots up in the air.
"Don't tell I told you, but last night all the Captains-excluding Levi-and all the Squad Leaders went to Mike's room and we discussed a plan to see if Levi and Arabella are a thing. Ya know, mainly we just wanna see if our little Levi is actually the player he was thought to be." Erwin's eyes widen at Hange's confession.
"Really?" He asks, now interested.
"Mmm, but the thing was, we may need your help. When Levi goes in her room we try opening the door, but it's locked. You have a key, right Commander?" Erwin nods and opens a small compartment in his desk. Hange hears many things shifting and jingling before he pulls out a small key.
"This is the one to her room."
"Levi's in there right now isn't he?" Hange asks and Erwin nods. Erwin and Hange give each other the 'let's go fuck up Lance Corporal Levi's life' look and they race to the door. Right before they get their they both hear the familiar voice of Mike.
"Sir! Hange!" He calls out waving a paper around in his hand. "We have an important-" Erwin and Hange both hold their fingers to their lips.
"Shhhhhh!" They hush him in unison and he quiets down. They walk over to him and nod. "What is it?" THey ask.
"We found this Tara's body today. We hadn't noticed it until just now when we seen it laying in the grass."
"Well then how do you know it's Tara's? It could be Arabella's." Mike shakes his head at Erwin's words.
"Because Tara always wrote in French, sir." Hange snatches the paper from Mike.
"No way! She never taught us how to read French! Maybe we can study it-"
"But, it was reported by Eren Yeager that Arabella can read, write and speak in French. We believe this is why she came here yesterday, the real reason why she came here. Everyone thinks this letter is to Arabella." Erwin's face drops.
"But then why didn't she just have someone else send it?" Mike shrugs.
"We think the answer is in here sir, but we need Miss. James to read it."
When Arabella wakes back up all she can feel is warmth. She's no longer cold and there's something radiating heat behind her. She looks back and sees Levi pressed against her and his arms wrapped around her stomach. His face is almost that of a doll's as he sleeps, his brows no longer furrowed and his hair falling along the top of his eyes. She smiles upon seeing him in her bed. Had she missed something? Did they…? Levi's eyes fluttered open as she shifted in his arms.
"What time-" He begins. He looks down and sees Arabella still in his arms and presses his lips to her's, forgetting what he was asking her. She turned and kissed him back. Levi's arms brought her in closer as she arched her back.
"Is it?" She finishes Levi's lost sentence breaking the kiss. He frowns.
"Fuck the time." Arabella laughs and places her lips back on Levi's. The two roll over in the bed so that she's on top of him, she puts her tongue in Levi's mouth and begins exploring. She runs her tongue over his and the inside of his warm, wet mouth and smiles on his lips. Levi shrugs his Survey Corps jacket off his shoulder and Arabella begins unbuttoning her shirt. There was no doubt in his mind he wanted her now. She was going to be his. His hands went up to cup Arabella's breasts and she moaned. She stopped him for only a second to lift his shirt up and over his head and throw it to the floor. 'She could've at least folded it.' Levi thinks then turns his attention back to her.
She stares wide eyed at Levi's physique.
"Wow…" She says, her hands roaming over Levi's hard abs. She runs her hands along his sides and the leans back in to kiss him. "You're amazing." She says on his mouth. Levi grunts. His hands wander over her body this time, taking in the scene he looks at her flat, hard stomach and her perky tits. He sits up and breaks the kiss but takes one of her nipples in his mouth. Arabella gasps. "Ahh…" She moans. Levi flicks his tongue over her nippled and begins moving down on her body. His tongue makes a small trail of saliva from her breast all the way down to the waistband of her panties. Arabella smiles and get off Levi for just a moment. She pulls him to the edge of the bed and he throws his legs over the side. Arabella slides his pants and boxers off in one swoop. She grabs Levi's hard dick in her small hands and begins pumping him. Levi takes in a sharp breath as Arabella wraps her mouth around his cock. She flicks her tongue over the slit and Levi groans. Arabella begins bobbing her head up and down as Levi moans her name.
"G-go faster." He gasps and she complies. Levi wraps his hand in her hair and moves her head up and head. She doesn't once gag and Levi's impressed. "I-I'm gonna cum!" He squirts his come into her mouth and she takes it all in. Levi huffs out a breath. "Swallow it." He says and Arabella blushes. She leans her head back and swallows Levi's cum in one gulp. She opens her mouth wide for Levi to see and he nods. "Good job." Arabella crawls on Levi, pushing him back on the bed.
"Now the question is, can you get it up again? Or are you too old?" Levi raises and eyebrow and puts wraps his hand around his dick. He begins pumping it and stroking it as Arabella kisses and grinds on him. It takes barely two minutes before Levi's hard again and he pulls Arabella's panties off her body and throws them to the floor. She smiles and Levi places her on his dick before she can protest. She moans loudly at the feeling of Levi's huge cock going inside her. Levi doesn't move and Arabella groans. "What are you doing?" She questions and Levi grins.
"Move if you want it." Arabella blushes and begins moving up and down. She rocks back and forth as she begins going quicker and Levi moans. "Ah...shit!" He says as she begins bouncing. Arabella screams as her G-Spot is hit. She covers her mouth quickly and yelps into it. Levi grins.
"Ahh! Ngh!" She moans with her mouth covered. She continues moving until Levi quickly flips them over. He pounds into her tight hole and her eyes get wide. "God!" She yells. Levi continues to hit her G-Spot over and over again until he feels her walls closing in around him. Arabella gasps. "I'm cumming!" She yells.
"Me too!" Levi groans. He slams into her one last time and cums inside. Arabella screams as she has the orgasm of her life.
"Hah…" She pants out, riding out her orgasm. "...My God." She exclaims. Levi flops down on the bed beside of her.
"That," He begins. "Was incredible." Arabella nods in agreement.
"I don't even know what to say it was so good. We woke up and had after nap sex and it was the best thing I've ever experienced. I felt like I was in Heaven." Levi huffs out a laugh.
"Really now?" He says and Arabella nods. "Well, you are pretty religious anyways."
"That I am. I wasn't raised in church, but when I got to the Walls I thought it would be interesting to see what all the hype was and here I am today."
"You know you're not supposed to kill."
"You're also not supposed to steal, lie, or have sex until marriage and I think we've all done those things at least once in our lives." Arabella replies with a snort.
"Do you pray?"
"Before I go to bed, and when I...off someone I always pray they get to Heaven." Levi nods.
"Well thats...interesting to say the least." He says and Arabella laughs.
"I know, it's contradictory, but I don't really care. I-" Then there's a knock at the door.
"It's Erwin, we need to talk to you." Levi curses.
"Fuck!" He whispers.
"Uh, hold on!" Arabella yells. "Get in the closet." She whispers to Levi.
"That is expected." He argues.
"Just fucking do it!" Arabella stand and pulls Levi off the bed. He grabs his clothes and runs to the closet. Arabella pulls on her underwear and grabs a random purple chemise on the floor and throws it on. She throws the door open and Erwin and Hange stand outside of it. "What?" She asks and Erwin motions to the room.
"May we come in?" Arabella steps to the side and lets them in. She shuts the door behind her and Erwin sighs as he sits on the chair in the corner. Hange stands next to him. "Levi, get your clothes on and come on out here. We could hear you two down the hall." Erwin says and Hange begins snickering. Arabella looks down and Levi walks out of the closet. "Hange and I aren't here to get you two in trouble, we could care less that you two are a thing, but we do have some business to take care of." Erwin says. Arabella and Levi sit on the bed with their heads down. 'So we're not out of the Survey Corps?" Levi thinks. "There was a letter of Tara's found earlier today." Erwin hands the letter to Arabella.
"Why do I need it?"
"Because it's written in French. We believe it was for you." Arabella nods.
"Fine." Arabella reluctantly begins reading the letter. Her brows furrow at a certain part of the letter. Levi leans forward and watches as Arabella drops the letter and gasps. She covers her mouth.
"What?" Levi asks.
"What'd it say?" Hange asks. Erwin watches what Arabella does next.
"Oh my God…" Arabella shakes her head. "I have to go back to the Underground…" She says. "Someone needs to take me back right now or let me go."
"Arabella, you know we can't do that." Anger replaces her face as Erwin finishes his sentence.
"No, I have to go back. She didn't-she wasn't here on her own accord. It was his fault. Everything was his fault…" Arabella says.
"What are you on about?" Levi asks.
"Gary."
