You questioned whether it had actually happened? Did Levi kiss you? Or were you just being a nutcase? Either way you laid in bed, wide awake, Levi had gone to bed ages ago and you struggled to sleep, it had only been a second but your heart was racing half an hour later, the clock beside you glowed '01:40' in red numbers, you groaned quietly.
"God…Mother, Fin, what the hell do I do?" You rolled over as your eyes instantly widened, there he was. Ginning like a damn cat that'd just stolen a meal of a fish monger. You sat bolt upright as he sat on the window seal, it was Eleck.
"I know what you can do, _-chan." You growled and pounced on him, talking the boy to the floor.
"You killed him, didn't you Eleck?! Who di-mmmppph." He covered your mouth with a hand and laughed quietly.
"Let's take this elsewhere, shall we?" You bit your lower lip and nodded, he sat on the bed while you got changed out of your pyjamas in the walk in closet, as you walked out he held out his hand, you didn't want to go, but you couldn't risk waking Levi up if things got out of hand, so you took his hand and left though the window and into the night, whatever he wanted, whatever happens, you'd kill him tonight for sure.
You both walked around for a bit until you found a vaguely privet area, of course, there was never a fully deserted alleyway or dead end where thugs didn't hung out and people done other deeds of illegal goods this time at night, but you found an area and you both sat on a barrel, you hid the knife you'd picked out from under your bed before leaving Levi's in your cloak pocket,
"I thought you'd do something…ya know after I killed that dude." Eleck muttered sounding disappointed, running a hand through his hair, you raised an eyebrow.
"Really? You underestimate me." You chuckled as you crossed your legs and leaned back.
"No, you underestimate me." He smirked as he took out a paper wallet, you leaned forward, interested hoping it might be what you thought I'd be.
"I was going to give you this after but….I think this might actually fuel the fire." He grinned as he opened it a slow as he could, watching your face as it went from a scowl to somehow happy.
"My mother's killer?…" You breathed as he nodded, once it was opened he read a few things about the crime scene and evidence and such. As you'd suspected, it was someone from the underground hired to kill her, the reason unknown, not much evidence at the scene. He knew what you really wanted to see so smiling he handed a sealed photo to you, it was the killer.
"Try not to flip when you see…" He muttered as you tore the paper, the face you saw made you feel things, anger, sadness, stupidity you could never describe. You shook your head and stared at the picture.
"N-no…." Eleck shook his head and looked at the ground, grin fading and eyes going soft.
"This time I'm not joking _, I'd never joke about something like this…"
{Two days later - Levi}
"Where is she!" Levi stormed into Erwin's office as he slammed his fists into the wooden desk, not even flinching the blonde looked up, setting down his pen.
"Who Levi?"
"You know damn well who! _!" Erwin sighed as he pushed his paperwork to the side and leaned his chin on an open palm watch the annoyed corporal.
"A lot's happened Levi, she needs time alone."
"Two days! No one's even seen her, not at that bar, in her dorm, nowhere!" Erwin stood up and looked out the window, pondering what to do.
"I admit, this is very unlike her to hole up but I'm not going to send a search party."
"Why?!"
"Why? Levi, you've grown too close to her." The raven fell quiet.
"I'm not….it's just…she's been through, heck I don't know." Levi ruffled up his bangs and slumped into a chair.
'I kissed _, why did I even do that?! Stupid girl getting into my stupid head.'
"Is it because of that?" Levi's breath caught, the fact was, that was exactly it, he nodded slowly.
"Keep in mind Levi, she holds grudges, and once she knows who you are…she'll break." Erwin turned back and saw Levi holding his head in his hands.
"I know…" He muttered.
"Watch your back." The blonde said as Levi stomped out of the office in a foul mood.
{After opening the letter}
"N-no…." Eleck shook his head and looked at the ground, grin fading and eyes going soft.
"This time I'm not joking _, I'd never joke about something like this…"
You cried. And you cried some more. All the stress, anger and sadness was too much for you, finding out who really killed your mother broke you, shattered your very being. Eleck just sat there eyes down cast as if the news had affected him to, you wanted to kill him, see blood spilt but you couldn't raise the blade, not yet. Slowly you wiped your eyes as stood up, all expression gone from your face, Eleck looked up, almost regretting what he'd done but he put the doubt in his mind away and followed you out that dead end alley.
"I'll have it done." You muttered as you both walked in the three o'clock light, only illuminated by the pale glow of the street lamps, no MPs around at all; the town was dormant in sleep.
"What?" He asked as you both stopped, about to part ways.
"I'll kill him…no, I'll kill them both." Eleck gulped, you were right, he had underestimated the most wanted criminal in all of Sina and the entire walls for that fact.
"_..."
"I just need some time alone…to get this rubbish in order and then…."
"You'll kill them." Nodding, you turned swiftly on your heel, leaving Eleck under the street lamp alone. You walked all the way back to the bar and forced open the door, you didn't care if the lock was broken anymore, Finnian wasn't exactly around to serve and you weren't going to take up his job anyhow. You went up towards your room and kicked the locked door in, grabbing your cloak, gun and knifes. Without even batting an eye, you left the bar in silence with a can of beer which you drank almost after you'd opened it.
"Josh!" You walked into an inn you hadn't been in for years situated near the underground black markets, the place was silent aside from the old man cleaning the bar floor, the man looked up as his ginger hair was messy and unkempt as when you'd always seen him.
"_? Wow. You've grown a ton!" You smiled weakly as you took out a couple of notes and handed it to him.
"I need a room; I doubt you heard about the guy that got shot the other day." He nodded.
"Well he was an…..acquaintance of mine and I crashed there a lot so yeah, I need like two days and then I'll leave." Josh nodded oblivious to your lies as he showed you to a messy room, the smell of wine and beer still fresh, a large red mark stained the wood as you turned your nose up at it. On second thoughts maybe it wasn't a bad Idea to crash at Fin's bar and risk getting 'caught' by Levi.
"Sorry, this is the only room I have. Every other one's taken." As Josh left the room you sighed and slumped onto the hard bed.
"Yep, Fin's place any day…" You muttered as you fell into a more then uncomfortable sleep.