CHAPTER 14

There had been so much more that Eren had gotten from Reiner, but since it would raise too many questions if he told it all to Pixis at once, we had to find another solution. Therefore, I had insisted on letting him come with me on a stakeout to do surveillance at the docks. This way, we would have a good reason for all the information that Eren had gotten from Reiners head. It had nothing to do with us being together again, since I had no interest in that. At all.

Nope. Not at all.

"So … We're just going to sit here?" He asked after we had arrived in the old warehouse where our stakeout would be.

"Yeah. Just sit and watch them from a far," I nodded shortly, before getting back to work. He sighed loudly, leaning back in his chair.

I could already feel how he had become comfortable around me again. There had been an awkward athmosphere in the car on the way out here, but Eren had always been famous for breaking the ice, and this was no exception. Even though we were exes, it didn't seem to matter to him. He was energic and loved to talk, even if I was the the one on the other end of the conversation. I really had no idea what was going on in his head, though.

It had been three months since our break up, and since it had been a clean cut, we hadn't seen each other since then. I had no idea what feelings he had towards me now, and it seemed impossible to tell just from the way he was acting now.

Did he hate me for what I had did?

Did he feel guilt for what he had done?

Did he still love me?

I wouldn't mind if he still felt hatred towards me, because then it would feel more equal between us. I still didn't know if I had forgiven him yet, so maybe it would be better if he hated me. The last thought, though, had left me with crimson cheeks. No, I wasn't even going to think about that. I wasn't allowed to do that, since I wasn't even sure if I would be happy, angry or sad about the answer.

"I don't get it. We already now that this blonde chick is in charge of the weapons there. Why can't we just go in there and arrest her?"

I forced myself away from the binoculars long enough to send him a deadly glare. It seemed to startle him at least, which was satisfying enough in itself.

"First of all," I started off, trying to use the most dominating, grown-up voice that I could. "There is no 'we'. You will not participate in anything else than this and back at the station. We only need you for that odd brain of yours, not for your non-existent skills in battle," I took a deep breath before continuing. "Second of all, we're doing this because even though you got a lot of information from Reiner, there could still be more that we can harvest from doing this. Third and last, we're sitting here because we need a reason to tell the people that we believe it's her. We can't just say that you heard Reiner thinking of the name Annie when we were interrogating her, or are you just looking for an excuse to get locked up forever?"

This silenced him, and he turned his head away from me as an obvious answer. Happy to finally have shut him up, I turned back to look through the binoculars. We sat there for another hour in silence, before Eren started moving around again.

"I'm hungry," He said, looking at me impatiently. "Levi, are we ever going to eat anything?"

When I didn't answer him, he started poking my shoulder until I slapped his hand away.
"God, you really are a shitty brat," I mumbled to myself, though I didn't move away. "Go get something yourself. There's chips in the bag,"

He turned around to get them, and soon he was sitting in his chair again, munching on them loudly. Every single bite was like torture to my ears, and I quickly found out that it was impossible to get any work done.

"Will you please, close that fucking mouth of yours?" I finally yelled when I couldn't take it any more. He was startled once more, but this time it didn't seem to bother him as much as before, as he kept eating away the chips, except this time he was making the bag of chips make noises as well. I grabbed the nearest object, it being a pen, and threw it at him.

"Ow! That hurts, you know," He complained, rubbing his head where it had hit him.

"I can't remember why I actually dated a brat like you," I said, leaning back in my chair. "You are so freaking annoying,"

He raised an eyebrow, looking at me with provocative eyes, as he took another handful of chips and shoved them inside his mouth.

"Oh yeah? Then why did you?"

I thought about it for a long moment, trying to remember what had started our little romance.

"Because of your tight ass, probably," I said bluntly, satisfied when he got the snacks in the wrong throat, and therefore started to cough uncontrollably.

"Whoops, sorry," I said grinning, before sending him a smirk.

"Pervert," He managed to say between coughs, which made my eyes squint in annoyance.

"You've got some nerve, little brat, to call me that when we both know that you were the kinky one in our relationship,"

"At least I wasn't sadistic," He snapped at me, throwing back another pen at me. I caught it in my hand though, to his disappointment.

"Yeah, that's true. You were the dirty, little masochist instead, weren't you?"

"I was not!" He exclaimed, though his blushing cheeks told another story.

"A-ha … Whatever you say, Eren." I answered with a shrug, just to piss him off even more. When he realised that he had no more comebacks, he snorted loudly before trampling out of the room, leaving me alone. I didn't mind though, since that meant I could finally concentrate on my work. I would probably have to stay here for the rest of the night, so it was probably better if he just stayed out of my way. After all, him being here was only for show to fool Pixis into believing that Eren was nothing more than a good body language reader.

Yet, it still amused me that we could joke around like this. I had no idea that the option to joke about our relationship was even on the table, and it was even more surprising that it had felt so easy – as if we were closer than we actually were.

Eren didn't come in any more that evening, and it was first at 2 am that he showed his face again.

"Levi, you should really go to sleep," He said sleepishly, as he came towards the chair that I was placed in. I was sleeping at that moment though, so I wasn't able to know how long Eren really stood in front of me, studying my sleeping face. Neither was I aware of how he carried me to the madrasses that we had brought, though that was what I would guess had happened, when I would wake up in the morning.

The familiar scent, that I had once been very used too, was apparently surrounding me again, and without further realisation of how it had gotten there, I embraced it, not remembering what was actually smelling like that.

"Mmmhhh … " I purred in satisfaction, as I curled up into a ball, and –

What the … I felt something surrounding my body, holding me in place, and only thinking that I was being held against my will, my body reacted on its own. My upper elbow was thrown back until it hit something and there was a breaking sound.

"Ow!" Someone whined, and as I felt the grip around me loosen up, I threw my body as far away as I could.

I stood up to get a overview over the situation. The two of our madrasses had apparently been pushed together – even though I clearly remember placing them very much apart from each other when we had arrived – and Eren was lying on the other one, though right now his arms were covering his head. I quickly walked over to him to see what the breaking sound had been.

"Oi, Eren, are you okay?" I grabbed his wrists, trying to remove his arms from his face to see better.

"You broke my nose!" He exclaimed, and as he finally stopped struggling against me, I noticed the blood on his face.

"This was your own fault. Don't try to spoon me again," I said calmly, though with a very dominating tone.

"I can't control what my body decides to do in the middle of the night!" He protested, trying to reach up to his face again. "It does things on its own, you know!"

I grabbed his hand once more, holding it down against the madras.

"How typical of you, always making excuses like that," I answered coldly, before placing myself on top of him.

"Wh-What the hell do you think you're doing?!" He exclaimed, looking astonished at me. I immediately rolled my eyes, while placing his arms under my knees so that he wasn't able to move, and I would still be able to use my own hands.

"Shut up, brat. This isn't what you think," I reached his face, grabbing his nose gently, but firmly with my fingers.. "Just try to lie still, okay?"

It was over in merely 10 seconds, yet he continued to whine about it for several minutes.

"I need to go to the hospital!" He exclaimed loudly, nudging my leg as I removed myself from him.

"Don't be so dramatic, you don't need to do that," I said, rolling my eyes. "We just need to put some ice on it, then the swelling will go down,"

His eyes were shut tight as he sat up, both his hands still covering his face. Blood was slowly dripping from his chin and down onto his bare chest, and my stupid heart skipped a beat when I finally noticed that he wasn't wearing a shirt.

Who was being hormonal now?

I quickly pushed his body down again, much to his surprise, as his eyes opened up and he looked at me in astonishment.

"What the hell?!" He groaned, but when I continued to ignore him, he just stared at me in confusion. I had found a handkerchief from my pocket, and after hesistating a bit, I finally started wiping the blood of him.

"Don't look like me like that, this is all – "

"... My own fault, yeah yeah," He finished my sentence, rolling his eyes. Silence dominated the room after that as my movements became a bit slower, his perfect skin distracting me from my original objective.

He really hasn't changed at all, I thought to myself, as I slowly slided the handkerchief just over his belly button. I stopped midway though, as I noticed something. He wasn't moving at all.

"Breathe, you idiot!" I scolded him, slapping a flat hand onto his stomach.

"I-I'm sorry … " He mumbled, looking away. It was still possible for me to notice his flustered face, though.

Is he … Blushing?

"I am not!" He immediately yelled, though now his face was even redder. He sounded like a child. I couldn't help but snicker lowly. "It's the blood doing that, I swear!" He added.

"Reading my thoughts again, are we?" I raised an eyebrow, making sure to look very judgingly at him, though it actually didn't affect me as much as it might should have done.

"I'm sorry … I can't help it, when I get distracted … " I heard him murmur, and when I realised what he meant, I quickly stood up again.

"Let's make this very clear, Eren Jaeger!" I said loudly, taking a step back. "We are … We are only working together now, alright? I do not have any more romantic feelings towards you, so you should be a good brat and keep that in mind!" I said, pointing my finger at him. It took a second for him to comprehend what I had said, but quickly after that, he had snorted loudly.

"Whatever, see if I care! I don't love you anymore either, hmph!"

I blushed as he said the word love, so I quickly threw the handkerchief at him to distract him.

"Well good, as long as we have that cleared up," I stated, crossing my arms over my chest. "Hold the handkerchief against your nose to stop the bleeding. I'll pack our things, and then we'll find some ice for that,"

" … Okay," He mumbled, sitting up to place the handkerchief over his nose. The hint of his abs showed up as he did that, and I had to turn around to stop the reaction that my body would be having if I had let myself indulge for too long again.

I quickly walked over to the door, turning around just to yell at him for the last time.

"And get a damn shirt on!"

Okay, so I have really mixed feelings about Levi and Eren and how their relationship should be developing ... I wrote Chapter 15, but it just felt weird and unrealistic, so I deleted it, and now I have to write it all over again. A part of me just want them to make up already, but neither of them is ready for that yet ...

But let's forget that for a second, and instead talk about how cute their bickering is, hihi ~