AND I'M BACK! AFTER SO LONG, I FINALLY DECIDED TO MOVE ON WITH THIS STORY!

AS ALWAYS, NONE OF THE CANON CHARACTERS BELONGS TO ME!


May 24th

15 years later

Present Time

Fifteen years. Fifteen fucking years. He was supposed to be a retired man, sipping tea and cleaning his guns, for fuck's sake! But noooo, leave it to shitty Erwin to make him babysit a bunch of brats... The fucker was enjoying his new position as Chief way too much!

He neared the same HQ he had been entering as a detective once upon a time. For the past ten years, he had been entering it as a Captain, since the bastard he called one of his best friends had dragged him back in action after only five years of personal peace.

At the last minute, he changed his route and crossed the street. Opening the white picket fence door, he proceeded to enter the little cute garden full of blooming buttercups, passed under the pear tree's shade, and let himself in the adorable small building.

As the chime of the bell above the wooden door echoed in the wonderfully-scented room, the young female behind the counter raised her warm, electric blue eyes, smiled at him, and, without stopping sprinkling brown sugar on top of a pastry covered with what smelled like maple syrup, reached under the counter and produced a pot of coffee - labeled "Badass Wake Up Call". She pushed it towards him and he downed it in two long gulps. She giggled "Rough morning, Captain Levi?"

He tsked "I have to go babysit a bunch of geniuses - don't tell them I said that! - before they start doing something that might get them in jail - or worse. Every morning is a rough morning in my book..."

His phone chose that exact moment to ring, and he put it on speaker, murmuring "Case in point...". A voice, that of a young male's, filled the room with its anxious tone:

"Sir, Armin has started hacking on government confidential networks again!"

The Captain growled, giving the giggling young woman a "see?" look, and replied "Tell his blonde gay ass to calm the fuck down, coffee is on its way."

"I heard that, you freaking excuse of a midget!", another male shouted from the phone, before Levi ended the call.

"He's lucky there's no other tech geek like him, or I would have torn him a new one for that attitude long ago", he growled, his eyebrow twitching.

The woman passed him a warm styrofoam cup. "Well, you know how Armin is when he's out of caffeine, Captain. Here, take this to him, and send someone at nine o'clock to pick up the rest for the team. Oh, and this is some baked brie for Jean. If any of you wants some, too, there's a bunch of these babies coming out of the oven in five minutes", she winked, as she gave him a hand-sized, heavenly-smelling, warm packet.

The black-haired man blinked, staring at the golden halo that the sun created as its rays fell on her hair from the nearest window. He sighed as he turned to leave "Colleen, seriously, one of these days I'm going to hog-tie that horseface and force him to put a ring on that finger of yours. Though I might regret it, because you really deserve better..."


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"Nice ass, Chief."
"REINER!"
"Thank you, Detective Braun, but you're not really my type."