A certain someone requested some tea making...I wonder if they remember telling me...hmmmmmm ;)
See...I do listen to you guys!
With the cup of tea in my hand, I walked towards the room where Levi was. The snow had stopped falling, but it was still cold outside. Today the building department and I were going to take out our new rendition of Historia's snow pusher out onto the road to see how it would hold up. However, before I left, I wanted to give Levi some tea for making up for the previous night.
"Levi?" I called his name as I poked my head into the room. Levi was sitting on the sofa with his right leg slung over his left as he read some papers in his hands. He looked up and saw me. I walked into the room and he placed the papers onto the table.
"What is it?" I placed the cup of tea down on the table ad sat beside him.
"I brought you some tea." I pointed to the cup. "I made it."
"Are you trying to poison me?"
"No!" I slapped his leg at his question.
"It could happen." He shrugged.
"I made you tea to say sorry for using you as my personal foot heater." I apologized. Levi looked at me with his same bored expression before leaning over and grabbing the cup of tea. He took a sip from it and I waited with anticipation.
"I forgive you."
"Yes!" I pumped my fist in front of me with my excitement. "I told you I make the best tea." I winked at the black haired man in front of me.
"I didn't say that."
"But my tea is so good that you forgave me, so obviously it's the best." Levi didn't say anything. He just continued to stare at me as he drank his tea. I sighed in defeat and got up from my seat. "Well, I need to go. I'm shadowing the doctor that I was telling you about and the development team and I are taking the new snow pusher out later on today." I made my way to the door and was about to leave, but paused when Levi said,
"Don't blow up the new machine."
"Have some faith in me." I rolled my eyes before walking out of the room.
"So there are two different types of sutures you can do. The simple running suture and the simple interrupted suture." Doctor Edwards told me. Doctor Edwards was an older man with thinning white hair. He wore a round pair of glasses at al times for his bad eyesight. He was a slim man though, he believed in staying in shape, so he could practice medicine for longer. "Here's the thing though, you should only suture up a wound in a real emergency. If you can stop the bleeding and get back to the city in time then I suggest that instead of fixing up a wound yourself. Do you know why?"
"Because of all the chances for infection where we are in the wild with the Titans?" I answered.
"Correct. There's that and because suturing should be done with care and time. Sadly, Titans don't care if you're busy helping out a colleague, as I'm sure you know." I nodded my head. "These are fairly simple, so I'll show you how to do them." Doctor Edward grabbed a banana and placed it on the table in front of us. He already had his tools out and ready to go.
The first suture he should me was the simple interrupted suture. Doctor Edwards took his time to show me how each stitch was done individually and how much I needed to pull on the ends in order to close it. I watched in amazement as Doctor Edwards completed the task to easily and effortlessly.
"Now the next one is the simple running suture." Doctor Edwards pulled out another banana and began to show me the next suture. Doctor Edwards showed me how to use the one thread in order to close up the wound in front of us. I would ask questions as he continued to teach me before allowing me to try.
While practicing with Doctor Edwards, I found myself smiling more and more with him. Doctor Edwards was a nice old man who taught me many useful tips and tricks when it came to bandages, medicines and even surgical skills over the past few months. I began to enjoy working with Doctor Edwards. He had a presence about him that allowed me to trust him. It was a very fatherly presence.
"I told you not to blow up the new machine." I looked over to the door and saw Levi walk towards me. I was sitting cross-legged on a table in Doctor Edwards workroom with my shirt off. He was working on a burn I had sustained to my right shoulder.
"Levi?" I was surprised to see the man who was now standing at the end of the table. "Do you tell him?" I looked over my shoulder to Doctor Edwards.
"Don't move." He scolded me. I sighed and looked back forward as he continued to place the ointment on my shoulder. "I felt as though I should inform your Captain about what had happened."
"But we're not going on any excursions for a while. I'm definitely not going with the snow outside." I pointed towards the window.
"Stop moving." I brought my hand back to my lap and continued to sit still. "I was also made aware of your…relationship with your Captain and felt as though he should know."
"I would've told him." I rolled my eyes.
"I've only known you for a few months, but I feel as though you wouldn't have and he probably would've found out while you two were intimate."
"Doctor Edwards!" I was shocked by what Doctor Edwards had said. I would've never thought he would talk about my intimacy in front of anyone or even in front of myself.
"I'm an old man. If you think I don't know what goes on behind closed doors when a young man and women are sleeping together then you're a fool, Ryder." I huffed at Doctor Edwards words. I looked over to Levi and saw that he was looking at my shoulder with narrowed eyes.
"Levi, this is Doctor Edwards. The man I'm shadowing and also the man who apparently knows about my personal business. Doctor Edwards, this is Levi – my long time friend." I introduced the two.
"I hope she's not giving you as much trouble as she gives me." Levi said to the old man.
"She's usually a delight, but she's being awfully opinionated at the moment. I think it has to do with you." Doctor Edwards replied.
"I'm right here, you know." I rolled my eyes again.
"We'll just put this here and you're ready to go." I felt Doctor Edwards place a bandage on my shoulder and stepped backwards.
"So how did this happen anyways?" Levi asked as I turned around and began to put my shirt back on.
"Well, I was with the development team trying out the new machine and I told them not to tinker with it because I was near the engine trying to look at something, but they did anyways and it ended up blowing up. I was just caught in the-hey, Levi!" After I stuck my head through the hole in my shirt I saw Levi walking out of the room. "Levi!" I called after him, but he was already out of the room. "Thank you, Doctor Edwards, I'll see you later!" I said to him as I rushed out the door and down the hall to where Levi was. "Levi! Levi!" He didn't stop, so I quickly ran in front of him and stopped. I looked at him with my hands on his chest, so he wouldn't move. "Where're you going?"
"I think the development team need to be spoken with about their negligence." Levi said. He was looking down the hall instead of at me.
"Levi, it was just an accident. They didn't mean to hurt me." I said.
"They knew you were there and they still made the machine blow-up, Ryder. That doesn't seem like an accident."
"Hey, look at me." Levi refused. I placed my hands on his cheeks and moved his head, so he was now looking at me. "Look at me, Levi." With a sigh he finally did as I asked and made eye contact with me. "You can't go and kill them just because I have a burn on my shoulder."
"Whenever a Titan hurts you, I kill it." Levi said. His hands reached up and grabbed a hold of mine. He pulled my hands down from his cheeks and brought them in front of us. He never let go of my hands. "You get hurt and I look after you, so those idiots hurt you, so I'll hurt them."
"Levi…"
"I just don't like seeing you get hurt. You're pretty annoying when you're hurt and needy." He told me.
"But you're always the first person I see when I wake up in the infirmary." I said.
"I have to make sure you wake up. You said you wouldn't leave me." He said. A small smile formed on my lips as I heard his words.
"I won't."
Awwwww so cute! Levi showing that he cares in a very Levi way! Bless!