Even though there are freshly dug graves just outside, the comendered dining hall is alive with the cheers of young adults attempting to make the best out of these few hours.
The weight of the world weighed so heavily upon them for so long but these moments of peace, where they could just be men and women, we're worth fighting for.
Only two glum faces weren't celebrating being alive. The Captain, who they'd still never seen smile, and Eren, who was still washing the blood from his hair from his days training.
The younger man can hear the jovial sounds of drunken singing as he turns off the tap, leaning heavily against the tile. He should join them. He should go be with his friends and comrades and soak up a few minutes of happiness before they all return to the slaughter. Yet, he feels restless and even after the exhausting day he still feels like there's more to be done.
He lets the air escape him in a soft sigh and steps out of the shower. He dresses robotically, thankful for the soft fabrics on his skin after so much harshness.
He makes his way down the corridor while drying his hair. The other's notice him passing the dining hall but say nothing.
Levi had finished his written work and is making his way towards the dining hall for some tea. It may not be worth the tiresome chatter he'd certainly be bombarded with, or the looks of admiration from the younger members that would cause a pause in the fun, but all was the payment for a warm cup.
Before he can get close enough to make out words amongst the noise, there's Eren, still a bit damp but fresh from a long scorching shower.
"It's not required to relax after facing what we have, but you're typically in the center of it."
The young brunet nods slowly. "It is important to not think about those sorts of things for a while."
"The mind needs breaks from difficult topics like death. So why aren't you in there?" Levi looks over the younger man. Eren always had fire in his eyes. The kind of passion that burns through his whole being. Unfortunately he'd been given too much to think about as of late. Those deep thoughts, and surely he was dwelling on them.
"I…" but Eren only looks at the stone floor, illuminated only by the half dozen lanterns alight in the corridor.
"I see." Levi's suspensions were correct. The younger man was lost in his own head, probably torturing himself with the images of the past. Maybe the past days, maybe the past years, either way it wasn't good. They all had regrets and worries, but he couldn't have Eren living in his past. "Come with me."
Eren is surprised by the request. The Captain motions for him as he turns, and the younger man follows, but is now full of bubbling curiosity. What could Levi want with him while they're off? While they're in plain clothes? They were never really free from the world and their duties, but now is a time meant for rest.
Levi stops to open his room door for Eren. When he turns to see those green eyes full of questions something inside him is pleased with the change. At least that look of negative self reflection and haunted memories was gone.
"What's going on?" Eren finally asks after entering the older man's temporary room. The bed has crisp corners and the room smells like citrus.
Levi didn't have a plan. He'd assumed he'd find a way to break the boy's trance like fixation on the recent or long ago bad by the time they reached his door. Instead of admitting he hasn't thought of what to do next, he simply says his purpose.
"You can't change the past. Reflect if you must but only to remember who are meant to be remembered and to learn what must be learned. Senseless dwelling will only drive you away from your goals. Don't waste these moments."
Eren's eyes widen at those sharp words, but his face softens when he gives them head. If the Captain didn't care, he would not have said anything.
"What about you? Why aren't you in there?"
Levi isn't prepared for the gentle tone or the matching emerald gaze. The boy has turned it to him. He could play many different hands. Tell him how very much not his business it was and make his own hypocrisy quite known. He could point out that he had been on his way over to the dining hall when he'd seen the crestfallen expression that had pushed him to act, but that would only tempt the boy to ask further questions about what he planned to do.
He was more than capable of holding his own in a battle of wits but when it came to expression, he was at a loss. Thankfully, Eren has that in abundance. As he sees the slight hesitation in Levi and starts to ramble, "Sorry, I'm sure you prefer your own company, and you were probably headed there when I interrupted. I didn't mean to make you worry about me. I'm fine. Feeling better al-"
Soft lips, but a firm kiss full of desire and the hunger for those blissful moments when the world's weight is a little lighter. Eren gasps in surprise. He'd never thought of anyone like this. He admires his Captain, but Levi... he didn't know him, but the rush that ran up his spine at the daring intimate touch, made him want to know him. His lips part, wanting whatever the older man would give him. Levi's sweet breath against his face fills his stomach with nervous tingling.
Levi had acted without a plan, and would be chastising himself for such foolishness, if only he hadn't felt the boy give immediately to his machinations and open his mouth for Levi to explore. Eren wants this? Levi leans in, testing the boy with his tongue.
Eren moans. His whole being was trembling in ways it only did at the worst of times, but this time from pleasure and surprise. He hadn't even known he'd want something like this, but now his desire has awoken, he can't get enough.
His hands naturally find purchase in Levi's soft hair sending the towel around his shoulders to fall onto the floor. The noise he makes is foreign to him, but it makes the older man chuckle softly before returning to their kiss, which sends a thrill though Eren. He could make Levi sound like that?! He pulls the older man closer, only for him to pull away. What?...
Levi looks at Eren, whose eyes are relit with passion and awe. His tan skin is glowing red even under the dim candle light. Mission accomplished.
"Go join your friends." Surely that was the right thing to happen next. He'd broken the boy's trance, even though it was with unconventional methods, and now he would be able to enjoy their company until they all retired to begin another hard day of training in the morning.
"What?" Eren's voice is airy. Completely thrown. Maybe he'd pushed him too hard. Levi is about to tell him without a drop of snugness that he would no longer be thinking about death, when the boy glares at him. "You can't seriously think I'd want to go out there, when I know what's in here?"
That wasn't right. Levi may have taken this too far. He hadn't considered Eren would want to stay. Disgust, confusion, anger, those were normal, but what could fuel Eren to want to stay?
"And what's in here Eren?"
It's Eren's turn to be daring, approaching his Captain with intention to attack. If Levi wanted to evade him, he could, but instead, Eren pins him to the wall and reclaims Levi's hot mouth for his own. He's delighted by the deep noise that comes from his superior as their bodies collide. A rush of victory flows through him in the form of tingles.
They let that question hang in the air as they explore the connection. Levi's fingers inch into his hair. Eren leans into the kiss, letting the spark of interest turn into a consuming fire. Eren would have never guessed it could feel like this. His body is heating up so fast. His thoughts are becoming scattered and the only ones coming to the surface are about Levi. There were so many things he'd never noticed, or has been too embarrassed to admit to himself. He smells incredible.
When Eren pulls away from the kiss, a string of saliva still connecting them, his captain's expression is unmasked. Gone is the calm but determined porcelain. Now there's want in his grey eyes.
Levi had to stop this before he did something to harm Eren. Eren was young and often naive. Surely he doesn't know what he's doing. It would be wrong for him, as Eren's superior, to act as his own desires at the younger's detriment.
So when Eren pulls away to get a breath, Levi looks up at his flushed face. His emerald eyes passionate and his lips parted, begging to be kissed again.
"We have to stop." It was surprisingly difficult to say. The look on Eren's face is harder. Rejected and panicked, but then determined.
"You don't want to?"
"That's not what I said, brat." Eren has made no move to make space between them and he can feel Eren's erection against his stomach. Levi would have to be the one to push him away, but as Levi slowly flattens against the wall, attempting to withdraw, it only shows room for Eren's hand to run down and grip Levi's own hardness making him groan deeply.
"You clearly want to. I want to. What's the problem?"
Levi didn't want to argue. He wanted to be selfish and take the enthusiastic boy right now but what kind of message would that be sending? What sort of doors would he be opening that he couldn't close?
"It's against the ethics of my position as your superior." Fuck did he feel stupid saying it aloud. Was he like that now? Was he really too good of a person now to do whatever he damn well pleased? This isn't a matter of ethics. They're both legal adults and he'd never blindly obeyed anything. "What the fuck am I saying? Lock the door."
Eren's face brightens instantly. He moves away only to turn and the lock with a satisfying click. Are we really going to do this?! All of... Wow. When he faces the man again his gaze is primal, hooded eyes dilated underneath dark lashes. Has he always looked like this?!
Neither is sure who moves first, but they unite smoothly. Eren wraps an arm around the older man's waist possessively trying to get as close as allowed. Another mirthful breath, and Levi's hands slip underneath his shirt. They're cool and make his stomach flex.
Levi tugs the younger man's shirt over his head to rake in the well developed tan body of the other soldier. Unscared and unblemished even after numerous battles. He lets the pads of his fingers skim down from Eren's collarbone to his waistband. They freeze as they hear footsteps outside, their noses brushing. The sudden halt in jarring, their quick breaths mingling between them as they wait for confirmation that whoever is outside has passed.
After what was likely less than a minute, but felt too long, Levi dips his chin to nip up Eren's neck.
Eren squirms. That sensation is new and he doesn't want to be too loud incase the others are returning to their rooms, but it feels too good. "They're probably gone now, right?" Eren whispers, his hands rubbing down Levi's chest undoing the buttons as he goes. Levi only responds with a more assertive bite making Eren moan as though a phantom has escaped him. "I just showered." He doesn't know why he's awkwardly whispering now, but he can't stop. He just doesn't want Levi to stop.
Levi has no intention of stopping, as long as his partner is willing. He understood his basic attraction to Eren, but hadn't expected just how deeply satisfying it'd feel just to have him close and his hands on him. Levi allows the boy to toss his shirt onto the ground, and get to work undoing his belt. The clink and subtle scraping of metal fasioners coming undone is unusually loud and followed by an intake of breath in the hallway.
Their eyes meet again, before they both narrow into matching glares. No one could come in. No one could stop them as long as they kept quiet. Eren's having none of it though as he continues his whispered encouragement. "Even got behind my ears and between my toes-" He gasps in a breath when Levi licks up his throat to his ear. Goosebumps raise on his nape and his forearms. The trail of saliva turns cold after a moment in the open air only to raise to the temperature of his skin.
Levi pushes Eren back onto the bed roughly. Eren's good at taking falls and only laughs softly at the impact silenced only by the molten look in the man atop him's gaze and the first knee pressing suggestively to his groin. Eren bites into his lip to not moan at the friction on his already leaking member. Seeing this as a challenge Levi sits back onto his heels to give him a squeeze right over a spot wet with precum. Eren covers his mouth but it barely muffles the primal noise.
Eren watches in anticipation and fascination as Levi, someone he'd never thought he'd seen in such a position, lowers Eren's waistband until his clothing is out of sight and then lowers his head to take Eren's tip into his mouth. He's gone silent as though a breath will shatter this reality and it'll all be a dream. Levi's having none of his silence, as he eases his mouth over Eren and sucks hard, swirling his tongue until Eren's whimpering with each bob of his head. When he looks up at Eren, he's prettily flushed, his eyes glazed over in lust, his breaths pants, and lewd noises come out on Levi's command.
Eren's heart is beating so quickly, but he can only watch the other soldier bringing him bliss. An hour ago, if someone had said this where he'd be, he wouldn't have even laughed. He would have glared and said the man currently bringing him bliss would never and they should be ashamed for sullying his name. Now all he can see is how gorgeous he is and how happy he is to be involved so personally with the man he admires. So when Levi comes back up for a kiss, Eren shows his appreciation by meeting it with enthusiasm and gratitude.
Eren wants to see the rest of Levi so badly. Here he is bare underneath the man with his cock smearing precum on both of them, and Levi's still half dressed. With a wicked smile he gets to undoing the remaining clothing. It feels so naughty the way he's sitting half up tugging the fabric away. Once Levi's erection is set free he gives it a stroke akin to worship causing a feral growl from the older man.
"Fuck," Levi barks, egging Eren on to stroke him firmer and squeeze his balls. He wants more. Eren would be satisfied with this much, but not Levi. If he's going to be enjoying Eren this night, it'd be all of him. Levi's hand embarrasses Eren's hips for a moment, enjoying the soft skin before lifting Eren, putting him more onto his back and allowing Levi access to his pert round ass. Levi just lets himself take in the sight for a moment.
"You smiled!" Eren accuses, utterly beaming.
Levi glares. "Must have been a trick of the light," he says teasingly without an ounce of malice. Eren's smile is breathtaking. It's been so long since he'd seen it properly. He gives Eren's plump ass a stinging swat, leaving behind a red print. Eren hisses and squirms away, but Levi has him securely by his hips, massaging circles with his thumbs into the flesh.
It dawns on Eren what the next move is. He looks up at Levi who's between his legs that the man has forcefully separated and his stomach somersaults. With Levi… Eren isn't scared of this, not after facing real horrors everyday. This is the happiest he's been in a while, and he wouldn't let some shy butterflies and some nervous goosebumps stop him from having more of this incredible man.
"Levi…" His voice is unrecognizable to himself, so dreamy and needy. He uses his Captain's name like a plea for more, but when Levi hears it his eyes go wide for a second before a real fiendish grin spreads across his face. Eren couldn't be any harder. "Please…"
Levi took immense enjoyment from the begging but won't make Eren wait any longer. He retrieves a bottle of oil without getting up from his seat with a view. The oil had plenty of practical uses but he hadn't considered he'd be using it for this particular one. He applies it liberally to his fingers and only glances up to make sure Eren's not panicking before slipping a finger slowly into the younger male.
Eren rises up to pull Levi into a kiss. Levi's kisses were just too good. The man fixes his posture to still slowly work Eren's insides with his hand while he sucks and nips at Eren's mouth. He put in a second without warning. Eren only moans into his mouth. When they part Eren's laughing playfully. "Scared to hurt me?"
Levi would roll his eyes, if it wasn't a dare. He withdraws his fingers and Eren whimpers as he falls back. He feels Levi's cock head running along the moisture that had been tactfully spread around his hole. Levi only has a single sobering thought, looking up at his partner. "Are you sure?"
Eren's smile is infectious. "Completely. Fuck me already." Eren's eyes shut tightly as he's filled. It wasn't painful, nothing outside of battle really was anymore, but the slight discomfort was also gone in seconds. His body willingly accommodated the man's length.
Levi had noticed how warm Eren's insides were with his fingers, but he was not prepared for just how hot it would feel around his cock. It's tolerable but the way he's being sucked in makes the heat an asset to his pleasure. Eren's cocky expression is still warming his face so Levi doesn't hold back. He lets the boy have his full size. If anyone can take a thorough rough fucking, it would be Eren.
Eren cherishes each moment, attempting to memorize each detail. Levi was sharing a private experience with him. The full feeling is gratifying, while the impact of Levi's body against his floods his senses with waves of euphoria.
Levi doesn't care his hand is getting sticky where it's balled into the sheets next to Eren's head. Not as long as Eren is looking up at him like he's a god. Levi pulls back. Eren whines, reaching out for him, but Levi only bats his hand away and lifts Eren's waist to deepen their exchange.
When Eren is filled again, a jolt consumes him. A shudder runs through him afterward. That had been different. He feels it being brushed again by Levi's hardened tip, and he can only manage a breathy plea, "There."
Levi obeys and watches the boy fall apart as he ruts into Eren roughly just where he'd asked. The boy's still so new to this. Levi understands by Eren's shy behavior toward sexual conversations among his peers in the past that he lacked experience. This was most likely his first time, or perhaps only his first time with a man, but either way, Eren wasn't going to last very long.
Eren had been trying to keep his wits about him when Levi was sucking on him, but the way he's being pounded now there's no hope, and he's climbing to a climax steeply. "Levi I…" He can't get it out, his breath is too wild, his body too hot.
Levi leans down, his lips kissing down Eren's neck. "I know. Cum for me Eren."
His own name was his undoing. He can feel himself squeezing more securely around Levi's sex as the man more slowly rocks into him, letting the younger ride out his orgasm. His cock pours onto his stomach and Eren can't even be worried about what a mess he's making of the neat man's bed. His mind is blank.
Levi watches Eren beneath him. His chestnut hair spread haphazardly against a pillow. His lips swollen and wet from their feverish kisses. Eren looked divine, and felt even the same around him. After Eren has relaxed, seeming gone from the world as he stares up hazily, almost romantically at him with a small smile, he continues for his own climax.
Levi's own builds quickly but he lets himself ravage the boy for all he's worth. Eren's own noises keep tempo, throaty moans to reassure Levi it still feels good. He was even getting hard again when Levi lowered his mouth back to his neck. "Can I bite you?"
"Please," Eren answers. Levi could have anything he wanted. He didn't have to ask. It was for safety, but after the suggestion is out into the world, they both know how much they want it. Levi sinks his teeth into Eren's neck when his center tenses and his seed spills out into Eren's ass. He sucks possessively, willing the darkest mark he can produce to appear.
Eren's trembling. This was all so intense… but also so deeply personal and intimate. Now that it's over and Levi's warmth is being removed as he slowly pulls out and moves away, Eren feels cold. He'd have to go back to his room… He'd have to leave Levi's embrace. The thoughts make him rather sick. Eren mauls over these things while Levi cleans them off with a damp cloth.
He's about to start begging to stay when Levi disrupts the blankets to cover them both and blows out the lantern. He… he's letting me stay? Eren smiles into the darkness and connects himself to Levi like a puzzle piece, hugging him. Levi only grunts, Eren takes it as approval and lets himself drape an arm around the older man and get himself comfortable.
It's only a minute later when they pick up on the whispering in the hall.
"What do we do?" "Should we just wait to talk to them in the morning?" "Are we just misunderstanding?" "How do you misunderstand that?"
Eren feels Levi pull away and sit up. He can see his shadow in the dark throwing on clothes. Eren raises on an elbow. Was Levi going to… Awestruck, he watches Levi whip open the door, no doubt glaring at the soldiers in the hall.
"Why aren't you all in bed?! Training starts in five hours." Levi hadn't expected such a crowd. Unbenounced to the lovers, it had been Hanji passing the room when they were just getting started, meaning they had to share their suspicion and discovery with any passing soldier, collecting them into a silent, confused swarm just a few feet from the door. They'd all wished to ask questions, but the noises coming from the room only got more incriminating and lewd and they'd all been too shocked to do more than listen to the spectacle.
"Won't Eren need more rest then that after…" Hanji is unable to hold in their laughter. Tomorrow they could worry about ramification and legality and anything else, right now, their serious friend has done something new and surprising… fucked the team's positive pup.
Levi looks back into his dark room, but those green eyes are closed and his body slack, still reaching out for Levi. "Actually he's passed out." He turns sharp eyes to the group. "Get lost!" They do as they are told, though reluctantly. Mikasa looks back at him with a thousand conflicting emotions, but her friends drag her away.
He gives them one more seething look before returning to the downed soldier in his bed. Upon entry, Eren immediately wraps himself around Levi, soaking him in warmth and his unique welcoming smell. Levi sighs with a small smile no one would see. This was all a surprise but he didn't regret it. He holds Eren close and lets sleep take him, thinking maybe this doesn't have to be the last time.
Author Note: For now this is a one shot. It may get a part 2. Let me know if anyone would like to see more of this. If not, I'm currently working on a Levi x Eren as time travelers fic that'll be longer and more romantic.