A/N: Alternatively titled "#SaveNile2k17"

The meal finished with awkward silence, stolen glances and subsequent accidental staring contests. To say Eren was relieved when he was done would be unnecessary, just as would be stating his despair when Levi's hand on his shoulder stopped him from leaving. The look his mate gave him was expressionless but Eren knew. 'You're not leaving me here,' it said.

The omega felt like crying but he understood where the alpha was coming from. Not that the knowledge made him feel any better, especially when Armin got up a minute later, escaping the tense atmosphere all by himself, leaving Eren to his own miserable fate.

On his way out, the blond looked quickly over his shoulder only to get a betrayed glare back. Armin smirked, sticking his tongue out at his best friend cheekily. 'Traitor,' Eren mouthed, causing the beta to swallow a snicker as Eren huffed and crossed his arms angrily over his chest as he shot his mate one last death glare for good measure.

Levi ignored him, much to Hanji's amusement.

Dirty plates had been carried away and tea had been served, and Eren was still sitting there unhappily. From the corner of his eyes, Levi could see Armin peeking down at them from the top of the stairs, too curious to actually leave, yet too uncomfortable to stay. The alpha would laugh if it weren't for the fact he was kind of uncomfortable himself.

No one was exactly eager to speak, but finally, when they were about half-way done with the warm beverage, Nile cleared his throat.

"So when... err... did this happen?" he gestured vaguely between Levi and Eren.

The young omega tensed, blindly and carefully searching for his mate solid presence. He settled when his hand met with Levi's knee, squeezing it nervously. The alpha's leg, which was close to Eren's own as the alpha rested his ankle on his other knee, jerked and Eren jumped, easing his grip immediately.

As opposed to his mate, who was getting scared over the issue being addressed, Levi wasn't worried. Or maybe he learned not to show it, even to himself. Rather, he looked the Commander in the eye coolly and deadpanned, "I have no idea what you are talking about."

Hanji snickered when Nile rolled his eyes, but quickly quieted herself, picked up her cup and innocently looked away when Levi shot her a threatening glare.

Nile sighed, leaning back in his chair, a calculating look in his eyes. He knew it was safer if he knew nothing, only basing everything on speculations, but he was more than sure of what was going on. Come on, he had an omega mate who'd been pregnant three times already. He'd been watching them since he arrived. Of course he could see it, more so identify his own protective instincts. And the curiosity was killing him.

"Okay, let me rephrase it," he said slowly, thinking about how to go about this. "Let's say, hypothetically, if a high ranking officer were to make their omega charge pregnant, and this action might get them all killed, what could have had, hypothetically, happened to make them go through with it? Hypothetically?"

A beat of awkward silence and Hanji had to clap a hand over her mouth to keep herself from laughing. Levi only raised a brow at the other alpha, but he was undeniably amused as well, while Eren could only gape, mortified. How the two of them could be enjoying this was beyond him. Commander Nile Dawk knew for god's sake! What if he decided to do something with this information? What if he told someone?!

Eren wanted so bad to feel angry, to just scream and fight, to have something to take his emotions out on. Anger was familiar. But now, he felt so exhausted after his outburst the day before, after the long check-up with Hanji, after this... encounter. He could feel nothing but exhaustion and nervousness. He was nervous over what if something happened to either one of them. He was nervous over what Nile had the power to do. He didn't like it. He didn't like feeling anything other than anger. He didn't know what to do with emotions that weren't anger. He hated what this pregnancy made him feel.

Briefly, he wondered if maybe he should follow his superiors' lead. They weren't worried; they found Nile's squirming funny. Eren realized they knew the Police Commander longer, better than he did and thought that maybe, since Levi didn't feel worried, there might be no reason to be. He tried to latch on the thought. He closed his eyes, took a deep breath and focused on the feeling of Levi under his palm, on the feeling of his mate laying his hand over Eren's own. Slowly, he felt his heartbeat slow down and the knots in his stomach release.

When he opened his eyes, he found himself looking at his alpha, who had his brows knit together in concern, and smiled reassuringly.

Levi shook his head in what seemed like disbelief, bringing his other hand to lightly hit Eren over the head, however, his hand was gentle, as was his expression when he smiled unnoticeably back.

They held each other's gaze for a second before Hanji cooed at them and the spell was broken. Eren blushed immediately while Levi made a noise of irritation and hid his embarrassment behind his tea cup.

Only when Nile cleared his throat, interrupting the manic beta's giggling, did the three look at him again. The Commander raised his eyebrows with a sarcastic expression and Levi rolled his eyes in response. "Hypothetically, let's just say that it's their business and that they don't plan on getting themselves killed. Rather, they will fucking slaughter anyone who will threaten them. Hypothetically."

Hanji snorted humorlessly while the alphas glared at each other.

Finally, Nile smirked, "You're kind of intense for a hypothetical scenario, don't you think, Levi?"

Levi didn't say anything but the others felt the dominances ease up. Eren didn't even realize how tense he was until the pressure was lifted. He gulped, lightly squeezing Levi's knee again while his other hand moved towards his stomach.

Nile followed the movement with his eyes, shaking his head, before draining his cup and standing up. "Well, now if you excuse me, I'm going to bed," he announced, giving them a nod, before he disappeared in the kitchen.

Only once the Commander closed the door behind himself, did the others look at each other.

"Well, that was interesting," Hanji laughed awkwardly.

Eren sagged at the sound, leaning lifelessly onto his mate who immediately snaked his hand around his back. "Yeah, I'd never think Erwin would take us to an inn ran by Nile's fucking mother," the alpha growled back, rubbing at his eyes. He wasn't sure if he was angry or not, but he would have sure as hell appreciated a heads up.

"Can we go to back to our room now?" the omega whined. He was so done with this day, or more like these past three days. He couldn't wait to be back at the headquarters, even if it meant dealing with the fuckers who still thought an omega had no place in the army, or sneaking around again, or looking for that mysterious alpha. He didn't care; he just wanted to be home.

Levi nuzzled Eren's temple before giving it a soft kiss in response. "Sure, kid."

The omega returned a quick peck to the other's lips before heavily standing up and offering Levi his hand. Levi ignored Hanji's wide, fond grin and sparkling eyes as he took it, letting himself be led away.

Finally alone in their room, Eren collapsed on the bed, hiding his head under a pillow. If he pretended the world wasn't there, maybe it would actually go away.

Levi felt the urge to smile at the sight but found himself understanding the sentiment too well to find it actually funny, so he only untied his cravat and lied on the bed next to his mate on his side, running the hand he wasn't using as a pillow down the omega's spine.

The boy shivered lightly, moaning at the feeling as Levi lightly massaged the muscles of his lower back.

"Like it?" Levi asked, seemingly uninterested in the answer.

Eren paid no mind, knowing the other well enough to understand the care left unsaid. "Mhmmm," he hummed in response, moving the pillow so he could peek up at the alpha, who stared right back.

"Are you worried?" Eren asked after a while of silence only interrupted by several noises of agreement in reaction to Levi's attention to his tense muscles.

"Why should I be?" Levi asked back levelly, focusing at the task at hand.

Eren pulled his head out completely to have a better view of his mate as he continued, "Because of Commander Dawk. Are you worried he will do something?"

Levi took his time answering, thinking over how to best word his thoughts. "It's not that I'm not nervous but..." he paused, as Eren sat up to face him properly. He let his hand fall to rest on Eren's thigh as they talked. "I don't know him as well as Erwin or Hanji but I know he's not as much of a pig as the others around him. I know he wanted to join the Survey Corps until he fucked the omega Erwin liked at that time. He then decided he'd rather have a family with her than get himself killed for Erwin's noble cause along with the rest of us. Not to mention the atmosphere between two alphas who want to mate the same omega."

Eren listened closely to what Levi said as he didn't know any of this before. He knew there was some history between the two but he knew nothing about what it was until just now.

Levi sighed, beginning to trace small circles with his thumb where his hand lay on Eren's leg, and continued. "So I think he's not that much of a shitface as the rest of the police and he should understand how finding a mate and having a kid with them feels. Also, he doesn't have a single proof. It would be his word against ours, and after this fucking disaster he'd need a good one for Zackley to listen to him. He's a fucker and I can't stand him but Zackley's fair at least. And he hates the Capital pigs about as much as I do."

"So we should be fine?" Eren asked, more to himself, looking at his stomach absently.

"Well, he knows I'll gut him if he tries something, and he's a fucking coward so we're gonna be fine either way," Levi shrugged, stretching, signaling the discussion to be done.

Eren choked out something between a laugh and a horrified squeak and Levi smirked at the noise, receiving a smack over the shoulder from the boy.

Yeah; they were fine for now.

Meanwhile, Nile felt like he wanted to forget the last few days entirely, a tendency not unlike to the other soldiers in the inn. First he had to deal with the nobles who were disgustingly delighted at the prospect of having something on the titan shifter, or really, the Survey corps as a whole, then he had to deal with them when they found out it was a bunch of lies and they really had nothing and only made bigger idiots out of themselves, unfortunately taking the Commander along with them for the ride down. After that he had to talk to Erwin and warn him about the stupid assassination pseudo-plans the idiots he had to deal with on daily basis were plotting, and after that he goes to his mother's inn to wind down only to find those bastards still there. And if that wasn't enough, he finds out the bunch of lies unfortunately wasn't so much a bunch of lies as it was a lucky guess, and to top it off, not only is the shifter actually pregnant, Captain fucking Levi is the alpha responsible.

Nile needed a drink.

But letting him have the drink he clearly needed obviously wouldn't fit into the Worst Day of Nile Dawk's Life, oh no, on his way he got threatened by three different people, in addition to the threats Levi was throwing at him oh-so-subtly. First his own goddamn mother corners him in the kitchen, pointing at him with a kitchen knife and scolding him like a child, warning him not to mess with "the cute couple or so help me..." Nile couldn't understand what seemed so irresistible to his mother on Humanity's strongest and the titan shifter having a child monster together (Honestly, Nile didn't want to see what the kid grew up into; Humanity's strongest titan shifter with a thuggish vocabulary, no respect and anger issues? Nile would have to say no, thank you.) but apparently there was something that made her want to give her eldest son a heart attack, when he turned away from the cupboard only to be faced with the sharp steel of her gutting knife.

Then there was Hanji. He honestly should have expected that one but he was still taken off guard when she suddenly appeared in front of him, face shoved so far into his personal space he didn't think possible, with a deranged look on her face while she detailed what experiments she'd do on him if he decided to slip up and mention what he definitely didn't find out today. The light reflecting off her glasses also didn't help with Nile's uneasiness and he wondered if she was doing it on purpose.

By then Nile was crying inside for the alcohol waiting for him in his room as he was clutching the glass he somehow managed not to forget in the kitchen to his chest.

To be honest, however, the last attempt to threaten him was rather cute. The blond, tiny kid was more begging him while passively-aggressively making him feel like it was better not to say anything, for his own good as well as for the good of humanity and the walls and the goddamn Sun and Moon, and the kid did so while saluting stiffly with his eyes tightly closed. If Nile wasn't so mentally exhausted by then, he would laugh and maybe ruffle the kid's hair. But he could only stare as the kid bowed and ran off with a loud "Sir! Excuse me, Sir!" once he was done.

Nile was so done with this shit.

He locked the door to his room before going straight to the drawer where he had a bottle of alcohol ready, not bothering with the glass he got for himself while risking his own life, and took several big gulps straight from the bottle.

He so didn't sign up for this shit.

As soon as he got to work on Monday, he was filing for a vacation. Preferably a long one. Ideally until the time for his retirement.

A/N: I'm sorry this took so long, and it so short, too... again... OTL It's just been a really difficult time for me mentally, as well as time-wise. And finals are starting Tuesday so I don't see the update schedule normalizing for while, yet...

Hopefully you enjoed the chapter, regardless the wait :)