A/N: Happy Birthday, crazysapphireangel darling!


Levi has been loitering outside Mikasa's room, debating the pros and cons of consulting his sister for the current shit he's in.

"Can you just enter?! You lurking outside my room is giving me the creeps like an old man stalking a young girl."

Trying his best to not stomp away like a petulant teenager who got caught with his hand in his pants, Levi turns around the corner and walks in as if he's done nothing wrong by pacing up and down outside her room for the past 30 minutes.

Mikasa swivels her roller chair around and crosses her legs and arms, looking pointedly at her brother who looks like he has not taken a dump for the past month. "Alright, speak up, old man. I don't have all day. Petra's art assignment is due tomorrow."

Levi's constipated mask cracks a little when he hears the lovely name of his girlfriend, rubbing his neck sheepishly and asks in a quiet voice that does not belong to him at all, "What do girls like to receive for their birthday?"

If she wasn't already sitting down, Mikasa legs would have buckled from the weight of Levi's words.

"Wait! Do even know what she likes in the first place?" She asks skeptically.

"Er… she likes to draw and go shopping?"

Mikasa raises a brow at his tone. "Okay. What else?" she prompts, waving her hand around.

Bubble bath and sex, is what comes to his mind but there's no way in hell he's going to reveal such secret even though he has the feeling that Mikasa totally knows he's not a stranger to the latter. "Chocolates and puppies?"

"Bro, what's with all the question-laced answers?!"

"I don't even know?!"


"Petra, I have something to confess."

Petra turns at the tug of her jacket and sees the serious expression her boyfriend is wearing and starts to worry if he has some bad news. "Don't tell me you're gonna break up with me on my birthday, darling, because I will totally make it your death anniversary too."

Levi shivers at the malicious smile and makes a mental note to never piss his girlfriend off for real.

"Do you really think I'm that much of a douche?" Petra opens her mouth but Levi interrupts her. "On second thought, don't answer that."

Petra chuckles and pinches his cheek lightly, not caring the people passing by giving them odd looks. "Just tell me, Levi."

"The only reason why I'm cooking dinner tonight is because I have no idea what to get for your present."

Levi glares at the pack of curry sauce in his hand as if it will miraculously tell him the answer to everything in this world because the floor will not open up and swallow him whole. Petra plucks the packet from his hold and drops it into the basket he's carrying, giggling as she steps forward to whisper in his ear.

"Do you know what I like?"

The sensual tone lacing her words and finger below his chin makes him gulp and blurts out the first few words that burst through his mouth, "Bubble bath and sex?"

"There's your answer, big boy."