So this going to be a flashback, from basically now until we catch up to chapter 1. Take it as Mikasa reflecting from the tub, I didn't know how to explain so I guessed this was the best way to do it. Thank you for reading, and please excuse any typos.

Truth be told he gained her fury from the first moment they had ever met. Granted he could have made a better first impression, if he had refrained from beating her best friend to a pulp. She watched helplessly as Captain Levi struck Eren again and again. The only thing that prevented her from jumping down onto the center of the courtroom was Armin's tight grip on her arm. She had half a mind to kill the Captain right where he stood, if only she weren't surrounded by heads of the army. Mikasa's love for Eren trumped everything, but even she knew that the only outcome that would result from murdering that asshole of a Captain would be execution. It wasn't like she could deny it, basically everyone that surrounded her was an honorary/decorated soldier. Not to mention they would be direct witnesses to her crime. So like a proper soldier she sat back down and bit her tongue. Thankfully Captain Levi proved his point, even if it was at the cost of Eren's wellbeing. The Judge granted the Survey Corps custody of Eren.

At the time she did not know that this was the plan all along, but even after it had all been revealed she refused to forgive the Captain. She kept her distance and would only speak to him if he spoke to her first. They had a typical superior and subordinate relationship, with an underlying hatred that she kept hidden. She would often give him a cold shoulder, or on her meaner days she could get under his skin by purposely disorganizing his paper work, or hiding a small items from his office. She found it hilarious that Humanity's Strongest, could remain calm when he faced the worst of the titans, but if he saw something messy or unclean he would lose his cool. He never caught her, but she secretly ravished in his reactions.

For a few months they went on like that, that was until Annie. After the female titan killed hundreds of her fellow comrades, somehow Mikasa stupidly thought she could kill the beast and save Eren. All by herself. Luckily Captain Levi was there to stop her, if it wouldn't have been for him she would not only have lost Eren but also more than likely lost her life as well. Captain Levi risked his life for Eren, and in the process injured himself. All because she stubbornly decided to do the job on her own rather than wait for the rest of the squad. However she felt relieved that Eren was saved, but the guilt of hating a man she had gotten all wrong bothered her. It wasn't as if they had ever been close to one another before that, so she had never truly gotten to know him. This was the first time she had saw him do something completely reckless and stupid, all of it was because of her.

Mikasa could never accurately pinpoint when exactly she felt differently towards the Captain. In fact she was almost certain that she hated him for quite sometime. Those feelings lingering for quite a while. After Annie it was safe to say that their relationship took a sharp turn. Those feelings of hatred soon took the face of affection. She constantly had to stop herself from thinking about him, it definitely was not love (or so she would repeat to herself). However it was certainly no longer hate. Up until that point her only source of a reference regarding love was only Eren. For a while she considered him the love of her life, but that was something she would never reveal to anyone, not even him. It was pretty obvious that the love was only one sided, herself being the only one with romantic intentions.

But even then those feelings for Eren soon began to dwindle, something in her had definitely changed. After the whole Annie incident, it was safe to say that the entire corps had been rattled by the recent discoveries. She blamed her newfound emotions for the Captain on Annie and she reasoned that they would disappear with time. Instead she tried to focus on helping Eren recuperate, even though he was obviously in no need of her help. Eren titan form or whatever let him turn into a titan, also came along with some nice self healing abilities. Eren would be fine in a few days, but it wasn't his body Mikasa worried about; Rather it was his emotional state. His frustrations over finding out that Annie was a traitor only helped isolate him from her even more.

Eren might still deny any feelings for the female titan but Mikasa knew him better than he would ever know himself. She knew that the only reason why he hesitated when it came time to rip Annie to pieces when he had a chance was because he loved her. Even after they returned back to the castle with the rest of the corps, things never regained the same feeling as before. Eren became distant with her. She could feel him slipping through her fingers, and along with it the romantic feelings she had bottled up for the last couple of years. Everything seemed to be changing in her world, and there was nothing she could do to stop it.

Erwin never imagined that both the Garrison and the Military police would turn their backs on them, he especially resented that it was done so quickly. He had little time to prepare everyone for what was to come. Due to what had just occurred at Wall Cena, Commander Erwin was on constant leave. He was expected to meet with the other branches of the military to discuss any further plans regarding the Survey Corps. There was serious distrust throughout the walls, and the other military branches believed that the Corps was to blame for the Female titan incident. Which was absolutely absurd, but regardless the Commander obliged knowing that this was just a ploy to gather control of the movement that was uprising throughout the military. By keeping Erwin away they could halt any new discoveries that may persuade people into trying to find more questions. Since they could not win the argument fairly, they would cripple the movement slowly. The Survey Corps was placed under high supervision, everything the corps did was reviewed a confirmed by the other branches as well. Commander Erwin knew that if he disobeyed or tried to fight these new expectations, the Corps could be seen as a threat. This was not ideal, seeing as the Corps was already on thin ice. So until everything got sorted out the Corps would have to resign to headquarters, and accept what was to come. Commander Erwin left his position to both Hanji and Levi, they were to essentially to look after the place until he came back. Secretly Erwin had left instructions for the next operation, Hanji and Levi were to make the necessary preparations for it in secret as well as prepare everyone for what was to come. Mikasa knew that their Commander would not sit idly by while the Military police and Garrison got away with their cowardliness. If they didn't want to fight it would be up to the Survey Corps to throw the first punch for humanity.

Mikasa admired that about the Commander, he was a man who was so taken over by a mission that he would do whatever it took to make it happen. He reminded her or Eren in someways. Both were crazy to an extent, but both strived for humanity to survive. However this new obstacle proved to be one that would be difficult. The Survey Corps as they knew it soon began failing apart at the seams, while Hanji and Levi transitioned as best they could it was quite obvious that there were problems. Little things would become big problems, and this was quite visible on the two. While Hanji was originally delighted to take the position, Levi only saw it as a favor for a dear friend. The captain began to wither away, and almost everyone could see it. He lost weight, and became even paler than what he already was. The usual bags under his eyes became darker, it was painfully obvious that he was not sleeping. While Hanji, basically controlled daily operations, and training exercises. Levi was left in charge of all of the paperwork which included the ordering of supplies and food to reports. Reports that only warranted more specificity from the other branches. He refused help from anybody, and while most of the cadets chose to just ignore the obvious struggle of the Captain, Mikasa could not get it out of her head. To make things worse Captain Levi had not yet recovered from his leg injury. Maybe if he had been in his full health, he would have been in a better condition to take on so much work. After all it was her fault, if she had listened to him and taken Eren away from the female titan instead of trying to kill her, Captain Levi would have never received such an injury. She owed him the decency to help him, if there was a way she could.

At first she reasoned with herself that she would only ask, and if he said no she would leave. In all fairness what she also wanted an alleviation from the guilt she had within in her. She thought that by asking him, those feelings would disappear. She did not expect to be so frustrated by his complete and dismissive refusal. Mikasa Ackerman would not take no for an answer no matter what he said. So whether he wanted it or not she would help ease some tension somehow.

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"Captain, you can whine and moan all you want, I am not leaving without an acceptance." Mikasa crossed her arms in front of her chest. Captain Levi had taken over Erwin's office, it was one of the biggest rooms in the Castle. The room had filing cabinets on the left side of the room, and bookshelves on the right side. The room also had a big window on the opposite wall of the room, and a desk right in front of it. Captain Levi sat there not even caring to look her way. Fire burned on her cheeks, she tried to suppress the anger that grew inside her, he wouldn't even look at her. She had spent nearly 20 minutes explaining why she would be a great addition to his office, but that had completely flown over his head.

"An acceptance to what exactly?" Barely even looking up from the report he was reading. However Mikasa could see that she was getting under his skin, as his hand shook with obvious annoyance.

Now she was assured that he had not been listening regardless she continued. "I would like to help you with your new job. Sir.I can assist you with all of this," she made a gesture towards the mess that sat on his desk. Papers upon papers, that's seemed to go on forever. "I don't have much experience but seeing the state of things around here, I'm sure I can be of some help."

"I think I'm managing just fine," Levi's jaw tightened a bit as he spit out his words. His blue eyes finally looking up towards her. For some reason Mikasa body gave a small shudder when their eyes met. "If you are done Private, I would like to get back to work." He gestured towards the door, his eyes looking back to the papers in his hand.

"With all due respect, you have seen better days." She walked closer to him, cutting the space of the room as she came closer towards the desk. "This is a huge task and even Commander Erwin had help-"

Levi got up from his seat with a loud sigh of annoyance, "Commander Erwin took all the people with a remote knowledge of this work with him." Levi retorted. It had been a low point but if Mikasa wanted him to snap into reason she would have to hit him where it hurt the most. To the captain the worst insults where those that put into question his work ethic.

"That is why I am offering help, sir. I am not here because of any other reason. She walked closer towards the desk. "Wall Maria knows that I would not be here if it were not to repay a debt."

"You don't owe me any money, brat. So what exactly is the reason you have?" He slowly walked over to her, stoping in front of the desk and leaning back onto it. He looked slightly amused when Mikasa took a step back. She was not expecting to be faced with him so directly. The first two buttons of his buttoned up white shirt were open, and his sleeves were rolled back in a way that made him look normal. Every time she had seen him he had been wearing that Cravat thing, but this was the first time he looked so casual. His undercut was bit longer than usual, but she had to admit something about him appealed to her. "Are you just going to stare at me? Or you actually going to tell me why you are wasting my time?" He rolled his eyes.

"I am making quite ass out of myself, Heichou the least you could do for me is give me some respect." His expression faulted a bit, but she continued hoping that her blush would be taken as anger. "You helped me save Eren. And for that I am eternally grateful." she cleared her throat. "Because of me you are hurt. If I had not tried to kill Annie you would be fine, but I would most likely be dead. I don't know how else to pay you back. I don't have money, and I don't have access to anything that maybe of use to you. That being said I am able to offer myself." She briefly saw a smirk form on his face but she continued. "I will assist you in anything you may need."

"Anything?" He gave her mischievous look, which briefly took the air from her lungs. His eyes wandering down from her face and onto her body.

If he wanted to play it like that then she could play as well, "Anything that you may need sir."

There was a tense silence for sometime before he spoke once more, "I'll think about it."

"I'm not going to take no for an answer." Mikasa repeated again her intent. "If you do not say yes now, you will say yes eventually. My advice captain is to stop wasting both our time and simply accept my proposition now so that we can get started on all that paperwork." She probably should have shut her mouth before she said her last sentence. The look Captain Levi gave her was one of disbelief and complete shock. She thought that he might kick her out of his office that instant but to her surprise he spoke once more.

"You know insubordination warrants a severe punishment, especially when it is aimed at your active commander." Levi continued, "Seeing as you are one of the few privates that have some sense of what you are doing, that last thing I would like to see is for you to set a bad example for others." He put his hand up to his chin, "I'll make you a deal, you can work as my assistant."

Mikasa had to contain a sigh of relief, "And what is my side of the deal."

"I'm getting to that part… you can be my assistant if you can tell me how you got access to my office."

Her face almost dropped down to the floor. "I don't understand what you mean?" Mikasa prayed that she had heard him wrong. There was no way he would have ever known that it was her.

"C'mon Mikasa, how exactly am I supposed to trust you if you can even tell me something so simple…" Captain Levi smirked. "So to refresh your memory, before we had the last training my office would constantly get broken into. Strangely nothing was ever taken, but things would be misplaced or my papers would be in a different order than how I had left them. I never had the slightest idea of who that person could be, until just now."

"Why? or well how?" Mikasa was caught red handed.

"The way you just spoke to me. No one in this entire camp would dare speak to me in the manner you just did. Mikasa Ackerman however had a grudge against me… maybe still does?"

"Mikasa Ackerman would no longer do such things to her Captain." she tried to mask the complete shock she felt. "Specially now that the paperwork could mean the life or death of the entire Corps."

"Her Captain huh?" Levi could not help but snicker. "How did you do it? My office was constantly locked, and when it wasn't I was in there."

Mikasa cleared her throat, "The janitor would do his rounds of cleaning, every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday. He was actually pretty punctual and you were always his last room on those days. He would get there at 7:10, clean but since you are pretty clean to begin with all he would really do was collect the trash and be out of your office at 7:15 at the latest. Then head straight to the closet leave his cleaning supplies and leave the keys to the entire castle on Hanji's desk. Of course Hanji never checked on the keys so I would just take them from her desk, create disorder in your life and then bring them back. If I felt like giving you hell I would sneak into her office on one of those days at around that time…." Mikasa sighed. "Heichou I am incredibly sorry for what I did." He was silent, almost as if he expected her to keep going. "At the time I was under the impression you just wanted to hurt Eren-"

"Ahh its always about the little brat isn't it?" The captain looked annoyed once more. "Mikasa does Eren know how you feel about him?" Mikasa face fell it was an unexpected punch to the gut.

"Eren is the closest thing I have to family." She tried to argue but her words came out weak and soft. She did not expect to be discussing her emotions, especially not with Captain Levi.

"Isn't it strange to have a crush on a family member?" Levi obviously knew the she was flustered but he had no mercy on her, he just kept poking her until she would surrender. "Or maybe thats just how they do it where your from."

She raised her hand and swung it towards him. Her arm was stopped by his hand instead, with all her strength she tried to pull it back but despite it all she could not shake his grip. "Let go of me." He held her arm over her head, drawing her closer to him. He was barely even trying and yet he overpowered her with ease. He spun her around still keeping a grip on her arm, but slowly moving it behind her.

"Is that really how you treat your superior, sweetheart?" His voice was a mixture of teasing and anger. She struggled to get free, but it was useless.

"This is how I treat a man who dares to insult me." She could feel her voice shaking, "All I am trying to do is help, I don't understand why you want to stop me at every step. Captain Levi, I am sure that you are incredibly capable of managing this on your own, but even greatly skilled people require help and practice at least at the beginning. If you don't want my help so be it, rot in your self-made hell. But when the Corps suffers because of your inadequacy then remember that I offered help, and you chose your pride." He released her, almost immediately she turned around to face him making sure that her body was pressed up against him. If he wanted to play the game she bring all the cards out as well. She could feel him tense up under her, and she did not care one bit. "I will not be made out to be a fool," she whispered into his ear. His face gave no expression at all, but his eyes were wide and darker than usual, he inhaled sharply. She felt his arms raise up to her waist, either to pull her off or pull her closer towards him. There was a sinking feeling in her stomach, because she almost wanted him to do the latter of the two.

Knock knock

Mikasa jumped back nearly 3 meters away from the Captain. Trying to compose herself as best she could, but inside she felt like she would burst into a million flames. It was like there was no air in the room. She turned back to see Levi, staring at her in a way that he had not ever looked at her before.

"What is it?" Levi practically spit it out. It was quite obvious that he had not wanted to be interrupted either.

"Do I have to make an appointment every time I want to see my fellow Co-Commander?" The voice of a woman echoed outside. Levi rolled his eyes and limped his way back to his seat.

"Come in Hanji." Without a moments hesitation she opened the door and ran inside. "What do you want now?" Levi did not even show her an ounce of respect.

"Why Hello Mikasa what are you doing here?" Hanji's full attention was aimed directly at her.

MIkasa prayed to Maria, Rose, and Cena that Hanji would not notice the full on redness of her face, or the trembling of her legs. She had truly been shaken the events that had just occurred. She was about to speak when Levi interrupted her. It was a good thing too since, she did not know what to say.

"Mikasa will be helping me with all of this." Levi gestured toward the pile of papers that lined the desk and the floor. "As my assistant.

"How ever did you convince him to get an assistant?" Now Hanji was even more interested than before, she turned once more towards Mikasa. "I have been trying to get him to that point, since we were given the job by Erwin. But you know how Levi is. Stubborn as all hell, there was no point in arguing with him. I guess I should have tried a cute brunette—"

"Hanji goddamn it." Levi looked annoyed. "She is going to be my assistant, theres no need to make her feel uncomfortable." Mikasa almost chocked, from his audacity. Maybe if the last ten minutes had not happened there would be a chance of it not being awkward, but simple words would not even phase her now.

Hanji winked at Mikasa. "Well if you get this man some sleep, I will be forever thankful to you."

"Trust me, the Captain's well being is all that I want." Mikasa gave her a brief smile, but as soon as Hanji turned back to face Levi, Mikasa rolled her eyes. She made sure that Levi saw her do it.

"That is very sweet of you Mikasa. Seeing as we are done here, I expect you to be here tomorrow at 500 sharp." Now she would have to wake up nearly 2 hours before everyone else, she almost wanted to kick herself for having the stupid idea of begging him to accept her help. He was definitely going to make life harder for her, and there was nothing she could do to help it.

With a fake smile she said, "Most definitely. Sir." With that she saluted them and left as best she could.

I went back and changed the Italics