"Oh dang it… What am I going to do..?" Biting your lower lip, you slowly paced back and forth in the captain's office. "How on earth I were able to forget something like that? Now there's only few days to come up with something…" You furrowed your brow as you tried to think of something, scanning the room with your gaze for ideas. "Maybe a book? He likes reading…" Levi had quite a collection of books in his office, which in the other hand lead you to another problem: "He must've read all military tactic books there are…" You sighed to yourself as you picked a book from the shelf, lazily flipping through the pages before placing it back to its place. "If he'd be into… fiction or… poetry… selection would grow significantly. But… Ugh, no." It was almost impossible to even imagine Heichou reading poetry— There was just something so wrong with the image. "Roses are red, violets are blue…" You muttered under your breath. "I don't have a gift for him, I'm totally screwed." If you'd ask him what he wanted for christmas, Levi would surely just say that he didn't need anything. "And I want it to be a surprise, anyways… Whatever it is I'll give him, that is." You were forced continue your struggle for some other time when Levi finally returned from Erwin's office.
"Having a break?" He asked, closing the door behind him as he entered the room.
"Yeah." Fighting an urge to yawn, you flopped back into your chair and started going through the documents you had worked on earlier. "A deserved break, if you're wondering; I got everything done… Except these." You handed the papers to him. "As you can see, there's something missing…"
"Oh for fuck's sake…" Levi cursed when he realized what you meant. "Shitty-glasses hasn't signed these— Stupid of me to think she would've remembered..! Why today of all of the days… I literally don't have energy to deal with her." Raven haired man sighed as he crashed on the sofa next to wall, seemingly exhausted only about the thought.
"I can take care of it." You suggested, standing up to grab the forms. Levi didn't care too much about dealing with Hange, to put it mildly— You, instead, got along very well with the section commander, so you could do Levi a favor and get the signatures for him.
No-one seemed to be present when you arrived to Hange's study. It was a total opposite of Levi's office; First word you could think of was cluttered. Tons and tons of books and papers piled on top of each other in every corner of the room, a bookcase stuffed full of all kinds of unsorted items that could fell onto your head at any moment. Tiptoeing across the messy floor filled with mixed papers and trash, you placed the forms on section commander's desk to wait for her return.
"No wonder he doesn't like coming here…" You thought as you scanned the messy room with your gaze. "If all this clutter is enough to make me feel slightly claustrophobic... I wouldn't be surprised if it'd give Levi a panic attack."
"Well said." A voice from the other side of one of the book piles made you startle— Not a moment later Moblit's head peeked from behind it. "I try to tidy up the place every once in a while… But it's like fighting a losing battle, if you know what I mean." He sighed.
"I think I do." You snickered, quickly grabbing a hold on the dangerously tilting book pile so Moblit could safely squeeze from behind it. "What's all of this stuff anyways?"
"Section commander's research notes. Most of it, at least."
"Oh wow…" This really piqued your interest. "Hange knows more about the titans than anyone— All this information must be invaluable..!"
"True. It's not much of a use like this, though." Moblit sighed again, placing the books he was holding onto the side table next to the door.
"I can only imagine what everything I could learn from these…" You muttered half to yourself as you snatched few documents from the pile to eye on. "I'd love to take a closer look sometime..!"
"Be my guest~!" Hange chuckled and gave a pat on your shoulder, seemingly pleased for your interest towards her work.
"What the-?!" You shrieked in surprise when you found section commander standing next to you. "What..?! When..?! Argh, why she always has to do that?" You exchanged looks with Moblit, still trying to recover from your mini heart attack.
"Some of the notes may be a bit… scattered around, but—" Hange chanted as she made her way over to a book pile next to her desk. "I think the most important ones are right... here!" You and Moblit could do nothing but to watch in terror when the tower of books came crashing down after Hange roughly snatched a thick pile of papers and a notebook from the bottom of it. She didn't seem to even notice, handing the documents to you with a happy smile. "There you go~! These should get you started. When you're done with those, you can freely take a look if you can find anything else interesting." She gave you another wide smile. "So, what did you need? Ah, running an errand for Captain Shorty?" She didn't even wait for an answer after noticing the forms on her desk, swiftly scribbling her signature on each one of them. "Are these the ones from the last meeting? I tend to forget…"
"Section commander, please read the documents before signing them..!" Moblit pleaded, giving you an impression this wasn't the first time he had to remind Hange about doing so. "Or at least give them to me so I can read them for you—"
You were too wrapped up in your thoughts to follow the conversation as you flipped through the papers Hange had given you— Most of the text was written in a messy handwriting and rather difficult to read, not mentioning all the notes and little scribbles all over the pages. It wasn't unreadable, but challenging to make sense of to say at least.
"...Titan types and variations… Scouting and catching methods… S&B experiments/results…" You read the titles quietly under your breath, still astonished by the amount of information in your hands. "Hey, Hange? Do you think I could borrow these for a while? I got an idea."