A/N:ha I remember the times i put thought into my chapter titles, now I just write down the first word that pops into my head. Also, apparently this site doesn't allow me to post links to my blog where the additional information is. So I don't know what to do even, if you really want to, my tumblr url is 'mamabro' and you can go under the tag 'vampfic'. if you can't find it then maybe leave me a message, and i'll link you to it this way. Anyway, new chapter is here, as always I'm really sorry for any typos and such as I don't get along with proofreading. I hope you guys like it as much as my friend did, enjoy!

No matter how many times Levi explained it to Jean, he was still insisting on going to his own funeral. Levi felt he simply had no other alternative except for locking him in the apartment. These were the days he missed having Eren as his roommate, even if he sulked on the couch all day long. It was heaven compared to having Jean as his bunk buddy.

He was calming himself that soon Jean would have to leave his room, and not only the room, but the city as well. They hadn't told him this yet, but it was fairly obvious. To survive you need money, to get money you need a job (or to be a heartless asshole like Levi and steal it off dead people) and as for now Jean had no chance whatsoever of getting a job in a city where he had relatives and friends, who thought he was dead. He would have to skip town for at least a decade or so and start fresh there. But anyone with a brain could make the obvious conclusion that this needed to happen, which was why Levi was dreading the day when they'll have to break it down for him.

The vampire took out his umbrella and started walking towards the cemetery. It was one of those rare days when it was raining all day long, meaning Levi could handle being outside at least for a few hours. The fact that he had an umbrella helped as well. He saw the city during the day perhaps a few times a year, and every single time he felt happy he didn't have to see this view every day.

Everything was grey and mundane, lots of people rushing past, too involved in their own person bubble of everyday bullshit to have time for anything else. He hated how the world looked during the day. Levi would choose the quietness, mystery and danger of the night any time. But then again, maybe the world looked different in sunlight? Some part of him still held vague memories of the morning sunlight gently caressing his skin. However, imagining sunlight now made him slightly flinch. It was kind of like watching someone on TV getting kicked in the balls, you don't physically feel it, but you know fucking well how much it would hurt.

As the little wooden church came into his view, Levi saw another figure dressed in black heading in the same direction. His shoulders were slumped and his hair and clothes were already soaked from the rain.

"You're going to get sick you idiot." Levi remarked catching up to Eren, shielding him from the rain with his umbrella.

"I'm fine, I rarely get sick." Eren shrugged.

"So you decided to test mother nature until you get pneumonia?" Levi retorted sarcastically.

"No, I just know I won't get sick, I don't mind the rain anyway." He added with a little smile. "What about you? I thought being outside during the day was lethal- oh uhm…" Eren cut off upon actually looking at Levi for the first time.

"What?" Levi asked not understanding his penetrating gaze.

"It's strange seeing you in an actual suit." Eren eventually stammered, looking at him curiously. Levi didn't blame him, he felt awful in it. He was already missing his heavy leather jacket and worn out jeans.

"Don't get used to it. I'm just wearing it to fit in with the masses. I'm not enjoying it either." Levi fidgeted uncomfortably in his jacket.

"No, I mean it uhm… never mind." Eren shook his head as if to physically get away from his thoughts. "So you can go out at day?" he asked again.

"Yeah, at least while it's not sunny, but I won't go into detail. Hanji will be disappointed if you already know this stuff."

"Right." He nodded. The both of them walked the rest of the way to the cemetery in silence, yet it was comfortable. More than comfortable, it felt calm, like they've known each other for years instead of almost a month. This was one of the feelings Levi couldn't explain logically and it was making him edgy. It felt so human, feeling something just because you feel it. Perhaps Eren's humanity was rubbing off on him as well. However that was just his end of the stick, he still felt a great deal of restriction and distance from Eren. It was going to take more than physical training to make him open up.

Once they actually started walking through the graves, simple and humble, tall and fancy, old and fresh, he felt Eren tense up beside him. Levi frowned confused until he realized there were probably people he knew and loved buried here…Meanwhile, Levi didn't even know where his family was buried or if his old house or even old town was still there. Frankly, Levi didn't want to think about it. That was his human life, it didn't matter anymore.

"It feels so weird." Eren broke the silence first. Levi didn't resist the urge to step on a crunchy looking fallen leaf before asking.

"What does?"

"I used to visit this place a lot, this is where Mikasa's parents are buried. It would slightly amaze me walking through graves where the date of death was like before I was even born. For my tiny mind it was hard imagining that someone lived their life and was now buried deep in the ground without me witnessing that person's existence. Now I realize that you're probably older than the entire cemetery, yet you're walking right beside me." Eren explained keeping his head down, a sad smile playing on his lips. "It's a bit overwhelming."

"Yeah." Levi managed to answer. "I actually felt the same for a while about Erwin. It passes after some time, you stop thinking about it." Levi decided empathy would be his best move.

They were slowly approaching a large gathering of people at the edge of the cemetery, standing around a deep hole. Levi was surprised to see so many people. Who knew so many cared about horseface? Jean's parents glanced over to the slightly late guests, but didn't give any signs of recognition. Their faces were pale and drained; only their eyes were puffy and red from endless crying. They were staring at the empty coffin as if they wished they were the ones lying in it. Even Levi in his feeding state would look more human than those two did.

"If anybody asks, I'm yours and Jean's friend from work or something." Levi hushed quietly to Eren, who nodded curtly before going off to express his condolences to Jean's parents.

Levi stood a bit further back from the main masses, so that less people would remember his face. To be honest he didn't even have to come here today, but part of him was curious. He had never been to an actual funeral before. When he was little there were a few people around him that died, no one too close to their family so Levi didn't really experience true grief in his human life. He never went to the funerals as well.

He had to conclude from his current observations that this was a fucked up view. Even without the shitty weather it seemed like there was a large black cloud looming over the entire mass of people, threatening to break down into a shower any minute. It was the most depressing thing he had ever seen. The vampire also couldn't deny the pang of guilt he felt in his chest, because Jean was still breathing and they were spilling their tears over an empty coffin.

How many people would go to his own funeral? Levi suddenly thought. He had lived ten times longer than Jean and yet it would be miraculous if Erwin and Hanji would show up. He would end his life the same way he had lived it, not leaving much of a trace. Eren caught his eyes, he was trying to comfort Jean's mother who was back to sobbing over the coffin, which was being lowered into the ground. Would he bother showing up? Levi shook his head. There was a much higher possibility that Levi would be the one to go to Eren's funeral than vice versa. Somehow that wasn't a very comforting thought.

The longer Levi lingered there the more he felt like he was intruding on something deeply personal. He didn't really belong there, so without further ado he left the scene. Besides, he was outside for more than an hour now, he was starting to feel uncomfortable.

Levi was surprised to come back to a silent home. He sort of expected to deal with a raging Jean, but the newborn was soundly sleeping on the couch. With his undead body requiring more sleep than his human body did, there was a tendency for him to suddenly pass out. He heard Hanji rustling in the next room, there was no way she was going to sleep when there was a lecture to prepare for. Quietly as he could, Levi made his way to his room without Hanji noticing. The last thing he wanted to do was hear a test run of the material she had gathered.

The vampire decided to take a nap as well. With all of this bullshit going on, he was barely sleeping at all. Levi flopped down on his bed after changing out of his suit and remembered the time when his biggest concern was that he was sleepy. It seemed like a long time ago.

Levi awoke with a jolt from his dreamless sleep because of his bedroom door slamming.

"Could you please do that again a little bit louder? I'm not sure everyone on the top floor heard you." Levi snapped at Jean who flopped down on the couch with a tired face. Levi stretched comfortably under his sheets, and if it weren't for the fact that he needed a shower, he would've liked to stay in bed for the whole day-Levi checked his phone-or night in this case.

"Oh sorry, I guess I got up from the wrong side of the bed or had a disappointing meal or it just could be that oh, I was fucking buried today." Jean deadpanned. Levi sighed annoyed, that wasn't his fucking business and he wasn't going to apologize.

"You're still a guest so fucking act like one." Levi growled with his face buried in his pillow.

"And like you're the perfect example of a good host." Jean laughed. "Fine fine, sorry I woke you up." He apologized sarcastically. "I just couldn't stay a minute longer with those two." He motioned to the Hanji's room. "Oh right, Eren is here."

"I know." Levi mumbled. He could probably pick out his scent from a large crowd now.

"So are you guys like, a thing or something?" Jean asked leaning back on the couch comfortably, taking out his new phone to check something.

"That's none of your goddamn business." Levi sighed rolling to lie on his back.

"'Cause Hanji and Erwin get really quiet and start sharing looks whenever you two are brought up. Ha they probably think I don't notice it or some shit, you know, it's not easy to keep secrets away from me." Jean said proudly and Levi was wishing even for Sasha to be back in his house instead of him.

"If even a bonehead like you can notice it, that just means they're not trying to hide anything." Levi mocked, having the urge to roll his eyes even while they're closed.

"So you two are together then?" Jean misunderstood that as a confirmation. "I guess it figures. Eren hasn't stopped having googly eyes for you or talking about you like a pathetic school girl since that night at the bar. It's all, Levi did this, Levi did that, did you know Levi likes something I like? Man it was starting to get on my nerves. No offense, but you're not that interesting." Jean rambled, while Levi's eyes shot open. The vampire always sort of knew the kid was attracted to him, that wasn't exactly a big surprise. He wasn't oblivious, he felt the tension between them, but he always figured that was it. Anything more than attraction seemed unlikely for Levi. "But he's a good kid…I didn't think he or Armin would care so much, y'know, about me." Jean dragged on quietly. "Don't tell him I said that." He quickly added.

"I wasn't listening in the first place." Levi dropped, swinging his legs over the bed. Jean merely huffed under his breath and got back to his phone. The vampire took a clean towel and headed towards the bathroom, though his mind kept circling around the things he just heard. Even if they were true at some point, he doubted they were now. Levi considered himself lucky that he at least got Eren talking after the secret was out. There was still time needed for the trust to be rebuilt. Only then Hanji's idea of getting humans and vampires cooperating together could start working.

There was obvious commotion behind Hanji's bedroom door and Levi smiled to himself. Poor Eren. Maybe he should go in there and save him. He thought to himself as his hearing was starting to pick up the conversations between them.

"…So you don't get sick?" Eren asked curiously.

"Nope. The venom in our blood prevents any disease from entering our body. It's also the reason why we can't die, it just won't let us!" Hanji explained excitedly. "But venom isn't enough, we have to keep drinking blood to function properly. The more blood we have in our system, the more human we look." Eren almost gasped in realization.

"So that was why you were so pale a few days ago!" he exclaimed.

"Yes exactly! That's why by the appearance of a vampire, you can tell how well they're fed." Hanji agreed just as enthusiastically. Levi couldn't believe what he was hearing. There was something off about this… was Eren…enjoying himself?

"But what about digestion? I mean how do you even digest so much blood? Or does it all go to your body and starts surging through you veins?" Eren asked one question after another as Levi quietly opened up the bedroom door to take a peek. Both of them were sitting on the ground around numerous notebooks and folders and just random papers, most of which was Hanji's own observations and theories. She was flipping through some of them trying to find the answer to Eren's question. Levi frowned confused seeing one empty and another half empty bottle of wine on the floor. "Cause if all of the blood you drink goes straight to your veins and arteries, that means you don't even urinate, making the kidneys in your body completely useless." Eren rambled drunkenly. In the midst of his train of thought, he lifted up his head and spotted Levi standing in the doorway. "Do you guys still need to piss like humans do?" He asked Levi, looking at him dead seriously.

"Oh my god." Levi whispered before taking a step back and closing the door.

Levi had to stand there for a minute or so to let the image he saw sink in. While behind the door he heard Hanji hysterically laughing. He really needed that shower. With that thought he headed to the bathroom, which was the only place in his flat where he could be truly alone. A part of him missed that, being alone, though the other part of him knew that it wasn't good for him. That was why he was secretly glad when Hanji moved in with him.

The water was almost scolding hot, fogging up the bathroom mirrors in seconds, but that was how Levi liked it. He stood there under the stream for a minute or two, just watching the water drip down his bangs which needed cutting. Jean's words still kept ringing back at him and Levi found himself thinking about it more and more. Of course, his thoughts soon started drifting to the other direction, he realized as he gently palmed himself.

Levi heaved a shaky sigh at the pressure. God he missed it, it was nearly a month and it felt like he was going to die from a case of blue balls any day now. He didn't remember the last time he had gone this long without release. Perhaps when he was human and still awkward about the whole thing. But he couldn't do it, not now and not here, Levi reminded himself biting his lip. The house was full of vampires meaning they heard and smelled everything that was going on in the house. If Levi would decide to jack-off he wasn't confident he could keep quiet, and even if he did, his obvious rise in heartbeat would alert Hanji and maybe even Jean. And he really didn't want to give horseface another reason to mock him.

A quiet curse escaped his mouth as he took his hand away, taking the shampoo bottle in his hands instead. He was selfishly dreaming of Eren getting the fuck over it and finally accepting them, so that they could pick up where they left off. Sadly, his hands were tied, (which, ironically, was a position he would rather put Eren in) until the kid learned to trust them again.

Levi ended up spending a good half an hour in the shower. In that time he heard Hanji and Jean take off for their training. Jean had tried to put it off, saying he was tired and quietly added that he was still kind of sore from last time. Then there was a silence in which Levi presumed Hanji gave him the look which made horseface shut up and go along with it. Though, Eren's scent was still present.

He quickly wrapped a towel around his waist like he always did and went straight to his bedroom to dress up. It was a good thing he had managed to put on his boxers and shirt just before Eren stumbled in the room. With any more tension between them than there already was, Levi was going to break.

"So did you learn a lot?" Levi asked first, hoping in his casual sweatpants. Eren was leaning against the door frame, fiddling with a water bottle.

"Yeah, definitely. But Hanji said we're only halfway through so I'm going to wait till she comes back." Eren explained coming inside the room. He sounded much more relaxed and open compare to how he was at the cemetery, but that also could be just the alcohol.

"Halfway through the lecture or halfway through drinking yourself into a coma?" Levi asked turning around to face him.

"Oh that." Eren giggled lightly. "Hanji was telling me about how alcohol has no effect on you guys, but drugs do affect you. I didn't believe her, so we took turns drinking. I guess she was right." Eren nodded seriously. Levi sighed, of course Hanji wouldn't pass up a dare.

"You genuinely liked it?" Levi asked incredulously. Even Erwin couldn't sit through her lectures.

"Well I mean…yeah!" Eren frowned confused as he slightly swayed coming inside the room and sitting on Levi's bed. "It's a whole new world for me, of course I'm interested. Besides I didn't start writing just because of my uh well sense of purpose and shit. I like analyzing and finding out about new stuff." Eren smiled to himself. Fair enough, Levi guessed, maybe this kid really liked learning. "And to be honest…the whole vampire thing is kinda cool." He added quietly, almost to himself. This time Levi raised an eyebrow at him.

"We have to kill people or at least drain them to survive, and you find that…cool?" Levi clarified, squinting his eyes. "Just how much did you drink, Eren?"

"Oh shut up, I'm not that drunk." Eren rolled his eyes. Levi believed he heard the same thing from him on the very first night they met. "I mean when you put it that way it sounds horrible, but the whole concept of vampirism? It's kind of badass."

Levi scoffed under his breath, flopping down on the bed beside Eren. Never in his life had he heard someone label them as 'interesting' or even 'badass'. People usually tended to go for words like 'freak' and 'monster'. Either this kid was that drunk or he needed a wakeup call.

"Oh c'mon. Are you telling me, there's not one thing about being a vampire that you find even a little bit cool?" Eren prodded him.

"Eren, I can't ever die, settle down anywhere, go out at day or taste cheeseburgers which you humans seem to love. I have to change my name every other decade and I sleep throughout most of the day, so no not really." Levi deadpanned.

"That's because you've got a fucked up perspective." Eren stated boldly and Levi turned his head to look at him outraged. "What? It's true! What's the fucking point on being so focused on something that you can't change? I mean just take a look at Hanji and Erwin, hell even Jean is more positive than you are."

"You know why Jean is so laid back about the whole thing though?" Levi asked with an ironic smile. "The idiot passed out right before they started ripping him apart, he doesn't remember the pain and absolute fear of it." Levi explained, trying to go off-topic. He wasn't ready to talk to Eren about why he became so fucked up.

"Do you?" Eren asked shyly, he was slowly starting to sober up. "I guess that's personal, you don't have to-"

"But you want to know, don't you?" Levi interrupted, looking at Eren. The kid merely stared at him with his ridiculously green and shiny eyes not saying anything. Levi took that as a yes. "It's fine. Yeah I do remember. It's one of those memories that stuck with me as clear as day no matter how much time passed. I was young and at that time very patriotic." Levi started, leaning back to lie on the bed and staring off into space. "I came from a relatively small town, where people respected me 'cause me and my friends rebelled against the government. It was 19th century France, so government rebellion was sort of popular." Levi laughed slightly at his little inside joke. "For as long as I remembered I had wanted to visit England, so on my name day, which was celebrated like a birthday, the town pitched in and bought me a few days trip to England. I fell in love with it the moment I got there. Of course, it was the first time I had gone abroad so everything seemed like that to me. But you probably know, these two countries haven't gotten along very well. And I made the mistake of going through a bad neighborhood at night, without my friend who knew a little bit of English, and opened up my mouth to speak. There were 5 of them, but only 2 of them did the attacking part. The moment I felt their teeth sinking in and my body growing weaker I thought this is it. I'm going to die here in some alley without anyone knowing. They didn't even bother ripping out my throat or silencing me, I think they wanted to hear me scream. I have no idea how I survived, but I don't think it was on purpose. I just remember waking up two days afterwards in the same alley, with most of my wounds healed." Levi halted, finishing his story. He glanced over to Eren, who was watching him with a mixture of wonder and pity. For a moment Levi wondered if the kid was going to go for another hug.

"What did you afterwards?" Eren asked instead.

"I had no idea what happened or who they were, so naturally I didn't understand what I had become either." Levi sighed. "The only thing I knew was the boiling hot rage I had inside of me and strange cravings. At first I thought I was craving a good fuck or something, 'cause I felt my insides tense up and get excited any time a human walked by." Levi laughed. "I realized it was blood soon enough, and clouded by my new found anger towards England and its people I killed a few Englishmen to get my hunger under control. I hated every inch of my surroundings by then. After a few weeks, I had become strong enough, so I went after the ones who turned me and killed them." Levi said calmly. "Well…not entirely. I hunted down the 2 that turned me and another one from their group. I was in the middle of tracking down the ones that were left when Erwin found me and stopped me."

Eren leaned back to lie on the bed beside Levi. Both of them were looking up at the ceiling.

"Erwin? What was he like back then?" Eren asked, losing the shyness.

"He hasn't changed much." Levi replied after a short pause. "Maybe he used to be a little more adventurous and daring back then." He added with a small smirk playing on his lips.

"How did he get bit?"

"I don't know for sure. He doesn't like talking about it, so I don't think I should say. You can try asking him yourself though I doubt you'll get much out of him." Levi frowned. "I guess you know about Hanji as well."

"Yeah, she told me. Why do you think she can't remember?" Eren asked curiously.

"Fuck knows. I think that maybe something happened which made her completely block out that part of her life. Erwin had a theory it's some sort of amnesia- hey, don't fall asleep idiot, this isn't a bedtime story." Levi shook Eren slightly since it seemed he was drifting off to sleep.

"It's the wine, I can't help it." Eren whined. Levi rolled his eyes, that was why you never challenge Hanji to a dare.

"Get up." Levi ordered, sitting up on the bed. Eren did so very slowly, groaning along the way to show just how fucking displeased he was. "Lift up a little, I want to pull down the blanket, or do you want to nap on an uncomfortable couch?" Eren's eyes widened in surprise as Levi readied the bed for him. "Actually…" The vampire dragged on, taking his phone from the edge of the bed. "I guess there is one thing..." He muttered to himself, sitting back down on the couch while Eren was frowning confused. Levi thought it over in his head before taking hold of Eren's legs at the knees and swinging them over to his side, gently sliding Eren over to sit on his lap. Before Eren had time to react, Levi leaned in a blew a little bit of air right below his ear. Naturally Eren squirmed on top of him from the tickling sensation, meanwhile Levi lifted up his phone and snapped a picture.

"Dude what the fuck?" Eren asked outraged, rubbing the sensitive spot on his neck. Levi merely showed him the picture he just took. It seemed like Eren was suspended in air, hovering slightly above the bed, somehow sitting in a seemingly uncomfortable position and making a funny face, trying to push away someone who wasn't there. Levi wasn't in the picture.

"I always found that sort of cool." Levi added quietly with a smile, while Eren was gawking at the picture. Levi refused to tell anything more about it, telling him to ask Hanji instead. Eren still kept slightly rambling about the picture thing while lying down on the bed, and asking Levi to wake him up the moment Hanji got home.

For some reason the vampire felt an urge to laugh at the kid's enthusiasm, but kept it to himself, dropping a blanket over his shoulders and stepping out of the room with his notebook in his hands. Levi sighed looking over countless pages of crossed out names and about 7 new ones which were waiting in line, before dropping it in the trashcan where it belonged.