Decision

The day passed fairly quietly, everyone going out their daily tasks and it was hard to believe that there had ever been an incident. Hange and Moblit were with the titans, Eren was training and Levi was locked in his office doing paperwork and peace had settled over the barracks. It felt like an uneasy truce had been reached.

Not long before they finished for the day, Eren appeared by Hange's lab and hovered at the doorway. Mikasa and Eren had told him not to come but he wanted things to go back to normal as soon as possible. Moblit noticed him first and scowled,

"What do you want?" he asked, causing Hange to look up and raise an eyebrow.

Eren stammered but stayed inside the doorway, not risking going all the way into the room.

"I came to apologise. I am so sorry Hange, I feel awful for what happened. I didn't mean it to get like that. I know I can't make this better with words but I wanted to say it. I value you as a friend as well as a colleague. Anyway, I just wanted to say that," he shook his head, aware that he was making no sense.

Moblit was scowling at him, "Well you have said it, so you can go." He seemed angrier than

Hange who still had not said anything.

She stood up and touched Moblit's arm, "It is ok, I can handle this."

She walked over the stood in front of Eren, pushing her glasses up her nose with one finger. "You made a mistake and it is not going to be easy for me to trust you now, especially in titan form. I will be professional and we will work together as we always did, but if you look like you are a danger to me or any of my squad because you cannot control your titan, I will take you out without hesitation. Even if you look at me in a way I don't like, you will be skinned, stuffed and mounted on the mess room wall as a warning to not piss me off! Am I clear?"

Eren nodded, realising Armin was right. Hange was a scary woman when she was angry. Moblit was still glaring at him and he realised it was not just Hange he would need to be careful around. With a final nod, he backed out of the room and with as much dignity as he could manage rushed off to find Mikasa and Armin.

Hange looked back over her shoulder at Moblit, "Do you think we terrified him enough? That scowl of yours is impressive!"

"You threatened to skin and stuff him!" Moblit laughed, tears rolling down his cheeks.

With a laugh Hange walked back to her desk and carried on with the work they had been doing before Eren had appeared.

Eren had arrived back at the mess hall and Armin and Mikasa looked at him, noting the look on his face.

"How did it go? Are you forgiven?" Armin asked, sceptically.

"She said words that suggested I would be but they were very threatening so I am not sure she meant it. I mean, I will be careful because I don't want stuffing!" Eren muttered.

Mikasa laughed, "Say what you want about Hange but she had a way with words."

"She is insane!" Eren said.

There was laughter from the other two and the conversation drifted to other things, to take Eren's mind of his potential fate as the squad's stuffed mascot.

Levi

In this office, Levi had finished his paperwork and run out of excuses to hide away. He knew things had to be sorted today. Although, in general, things seemed calmer, his mind was anything but. He was not one for emotions and having things swirling around his head was annoying him. Evening was coming on and he had told himself that he would not let another night pass with all this crap hanging over his head. He had been turning his decision over and over in his mind and although, he had considered telling them both to get over it, he realised he could not do it as this whole situation had opened emotions that he had pushed deep down over the years as he had lost people who were important to him and he had sealed off that side of himself.

"Pull yourself together man, you are an Ackermann!" and with that he pushed himself up from his desk and walked towards his future.

Eren

Eren was in his room, he had had enough of Mikasa and Armin having fun at his expense and so he had left and gone to get some peace and quiet. He was laying on his bed staring at the ceiling, when there was a knock on the door ...

Hange

Hange had considered going to see Levi and trying to get an answer from him about whether or not things would be ok between them now that Erwin had announced her feelings towards Levi. She was not sure she would forgive Erwin for that. He had betrayed her! She had decided instead that she would let it blow over, it was stupid to expect Levi to admit feelings anyway, the man had the emotional range of potato. Chuckling to herself, she picked up her research notes and started to read. A few minutes later, there was a knock on the door ...

The End

Levi knocked on the door and waited until he heard a voice shout out, "Come in!" Taking a deep breath, he pushed open the door and walked into the room, taking in the dark-haired person looking at him, surprise on their face. They stood up and walked toward Levi.

"Hey there, you ok? I was not expecting to see you tonight!"

"Just shut up," Levi snapped and walking forward, reached up and kissed Hange hard. Then with a nod to himself, he walked out heading back to his office and leaving a stunned Hange standing in the middle of her room, an even more stunned Moblit standing beside Hange's desk!

Hange looked at Moblit and with a grin, ran after Levi catching up and grabbing his hand as she passed Mikasa standing outside Eren's room hand raised to knock again. Mikasa watched and sighed, "Well I guess he made his decision!"

Eren opened the door at the sound of the commotion and with a look at the ecstatic Hange bouncing along like an excited puppy next to Levi, sighed and shrugged. "Bollocks," he muttered and beckoned for Mikasa to come in.

Mikasa smiled slightly, "Well at least you didn't get skinned and stuffed so concentrate on the positives? Come on, let's go get drunk."

Eren laughed and with one last glance at the happy Hange, headed off to the mess room to drink away this disappointment.