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"Evans, what the hell are you doing?"
Reina turned in the direction of the voice and found Levi standing a few feet behind her, his arms crossed over his chest and a disapproving look on his face. Just when he thought his disdain for the girl had reached it's limit, she went and did something like this. Made him worry.
"My ankle. I was going to bandage it." Reina answered after a long silence and Levi's gaze drifted down to the swollen ankle that Reina held slightly above the floor. She waited and watched as Levi scrutinized the offending skin and bone, before he let out a sigh and turned back in the direction in which he had come. Reina felt disappointment brewing at his sudden departure, until he twisted his head back toward her and his eyes bore into her.
"Hurry up, Evans." And Reina was suddenly hopping down the hallway to catch up with him, ignoring the slight throb in her ankle as she tried to keep up with his fast pace. He stopped outside the door next to his office and paused, his hand hovering over the doorknob, before he corrected his mistake and moved to his office door.
Reina knew that that door led into his captain's quarters and she knew that old habits were difficult to deny, seemingly for Levi as well. Reina silently wondered if his room still looked the same as she had remembered it, but realised this was not the day she was going to find out. She wondered if she would ever know, but decided that no good came from thoughts like that.
Levi opened the door to his office and walked inside, hearing the door close behind him as Reina followed. He muttered a vague command for her to 'wait here' and then disappeared into his bedroom. This was the second time Reina had been back inside his office, having put it off as long as possible after the air turned bad on her previous visit.
Alone and curious, perhaps seeking to gain confirmation that nothing much had changed, Reina carefully hobbled around to the back of Levi's desk and sat down in the plush chair. She inhaled deeply and was overrun by a familiar scent of spice. It had taken her a long time to decipher the smell, but Reina had eventually decided it was a strange blend of dark chocolate and musk. Levi denied that he ever ate dark chocolate, but Reina always refused to believe someone smelled like that naturally. Over time, she had accepted that Levi, in fact, did.
She pulled open the second drawer of his desk on the left hand side and hesitantly, she reached inside. A layer of paperwork – Levi had probably been hiding it there over the years and letting it accumulate, he always hated paperwork – hid the contents of the drawer but after Reina let her hand disappear beneath the sheets, she felt a rough texture graze her fingertips. Pushing the paper aside revealed a roll of thick rope and a riding crop used for the horses. Anyone else might have thought it strange for Levi to leave such things in his desk drawer, but Reina knew exactly why the items were hidden inside. It hadn't taken long for Levi and Reina to realise the other's desires in the bedroom, and Levi had often indulged in allowing Reina to dispel his sadistic tendencies for him. She felt her mind start to swirl as she remembered the rough feel of the rope against her wrists and the leather of the riding crop, and she felt red rushing to her face as she fell into her thoughts.
"What are you doing, Evans?" Reina slammed the desk drawer closed with a profound ferocity when she heard his voice, and she wondered if Levi had been standing there long. His eyes drifted down to the drawer as he remembered it's contents and for a moment Reina saw a spark in his dead eyes, but as quickly as it had appeared it was gone again, and Reina thought it best not to dwell.
Levi trudged around to the back of his desk and glared at Reina, who immediately sprang from his chair. He fell back into it, leaning forward to place a box of bandages and a bottle of whiskey on the top of his desk.
"Sit." He motioned towards the edge of his desk and Reina carefully leant back against it, watching as Levi scooted his chair backwards until her leg was fully extended, her foot resting atop of Levi's thigh. He reached forward and retrieved a bandage before carefully setting to work on wrapping her ankle, ensuring the bandage was neither too tight nor too loose.
Reina watched his fingers as they moved around her ankle gingerly. When he was finished, he secured the bandage in place and then moved his chair back in towards his desk, Reina's foot still resting against his thigh. He watched as Reina's leg was slowly bent up with his motion and after a moment he stopped, looking up at the woman with malice in his eyes. She looked back at him carefully, wondering how far was too far, but couldn't maintain the thought when she felt Levi's fingers lingering against her leg. He slowly sunk back into his chair, letting his posture droop as he relaxed.
Reina watched in silent adoration as Levi trailed the tips of his fingers over her calf, his fingers dancing atop her skin. He hesitated when he reached her knee, his fingers itching to crawl higher but his brain thinking, thinking, always thinking. Furrowed eyebrows, Levi reached forward and snatched the whiskey from its place on his desk, unscrewing the cap and tipping the bottle back. His grip on Reina's knee tightened as he did so, his thumb digging into the crevice of her kneecap. After downing a considerable portion he put the bottle between his legs and let it rest there, his gaze drifting back to Reina's skin.
"This is absurd." Levi stated, though his fingers left her knee and moved higher up her leg. He trailed them over the outside of her thigh, his nails scratching her lightly, before he twisted his grip and crept towards the inside of Reina's thigh. "You're absurd." He continued, and both of them breathed a little deeper when Levi stopped at her upper thigh.
He retracted his fingers abruptly and stood up from his chair, letting Reina's leg drop back to the ground. Levi took another gulp from the whiskey before placing it back onto his desk, his hand sliding down the bottle and gripping the edge of the desk. His body crept closer to her, Reina's legs inching open as he moved between them. His eyes were narrowed more than usual and looked icy, though Reina's were no more welcoming. Levi studied her but found she was giving away nothing, their usual stalemate making an appearance.
Levi brought his other hand up to rest on the edge of the desk on Reina's other side, his grip tightening when he felt her nimble fingers on his hips. She was pulling him closer, giving up, giving in to him. Levi reached his hands up off of the table and behind her, his fingers digging into the skin of her lower back as he pulled her roughly forward until they were wedged together tightly. Reina let out a gasp and moved her hands to press against his chest to stop her momentum, and after a moment she let one of her hands wander up to the back of Levi's neck.
Reina was holding her breath, terrified and craving of Levi's every movement. Although he would never tell her, Levi was holding his breath, too. She made the first move, tilted her head just slightly towards him, and Levi pressed his fingers into the skin of her hips in the anticipation.
"Completely," Levi was pulling her impossibly tighter, "fucking," Reina was wrapping her legs around him, begging him to stay between them, "absurd." His breath washed over her as he spoke, resentment in each of his words. Reina tugged lightly on the hair of Levi's that she could reach, which was difficult considering he shaved the bottom portion twice a month, and Levi gave in to her unspoken plea and pressed his lips against hers.
There was no tenderness in the kiss, only built up frustration and the lust that each had been harbouring. Reina bit down hungrily on Levi's lip and he let out a low growl, pushing his tongue inside her mouth and tightening his grip on her. Reina's other hand moved to join its twin in Levi's hair, her fingers gripping tightly to the strands as she tried to hold on to reality. She was completely overwhelmed, every one of her senses drowning in him.
One of Levi's hands released her hip and moved back down to her thigh, trailing down the skin and reaching behind him until he found the bend in her leg. He wrapped his hand around the bottom of her thigh and pushed her leg forward, bringing it further up his body and bending her at a deliciously tender angle. Reina moaned lightly into Levi's hot mouth and he dug his fingers roughly into the skin of her thigh, his hips unintentionally grinding against her because fuck, it had been a long time since he had done this.
Reina retracted one of her hands from his hair and gripped to his back, her hand carefully trailing under the fabric of his shirt to feel the burning skin of Levi's back. She dug her nails into his skin and dragged them across his back and Levi let out a hiss at the feeling. Pulling his lips from hers, Levi dipped his head into the crevice of her neck, just below her jawline, and bit down harshly. His hand snuck up from her hip and snaked around her neck and, as he sucked at her skin, he carefully tightened his grip around her neck. Reina let out a loud moan and Levi bit down harder, both telling her to be quiet and spurring her on further.
He didn't need to ask her if this was okay, or if she trusted him, because he already knew all the answers. He knew exactly where to touch her and exactly how far to push her, had a treasure map of her body engrained in his mind, x's marked on all the spots that made her writhe. He knew her like a book that had been read one too many times. He tightened his grip and she raked her nails over his back once again, her free leg wrapping impossibly tighter around him.
Further down the hall, Eren was thinking quietly in his room. He was still a little worked up from his encounter with Reina and was angry that he had given in to her so easily. He was annoyed, as well, that this girl had the nerve to ignore him for a week and then suddenly seduce him, before ultimately leaving him high and dry.
A quiet knock at his door made Eren's eyebrows furrow further in frustration and a moment later Mikasa appeared in the doorway.
"So this is where you've been." She stated quietly, waiting another moment before stepping inside the room and closing the door behind her. "I was worried, you disappeared after dinner." Mikasa moved to sit on the bed beside Eren, looking him over to ensure his wellbeing. She paused when she noticed the swell of his lips and, when she noticed the semi-tightness in his pants, she felt a sinking feeling in her stomach.
"Where have you been?" She asked quietly, averting her gaze to her lap. They sat in silence for a long time before Eren decided to answer.
"I went to apologise to Reina." He told her, and Mikasa felt her hands clench into fists. This girl, again.
They sat in silence a moment longer before Mikasa quietly stood back up, heading back outside and closing Eren's door behind her. She headed in the direction of Levi's office, deciding that confronting the woman directly would be useless given her apparent lack of empathy. Someone needed to tell Levi that this new girl simply was not working out, and Mikasa figured that Levi would be easily persuaded given his obvious hatred for her. After all, Captain Levi had never been so cruel to someone as he had been in the past week to Reina. Mikasa almost felt sorry for her. Almost.
She stopped by the dining hall on her way to collect a glass of water, feeling herself getting angrier with each second she thought about Eren's lips. She needed to calm down before she spoke with the captain, or anything she said would be useless. She sipped on the water the rest of the walk to Levi's office and tried not to wonder how willingly Eren gave in to the woman, instead knocking brusquely on the door in front of her. She received no reply, though the people who knew Levi well enough knew that knocking was only a courtesy. How could Mikasa have known that Levi hadn't heard the knock, because he was much too caught up in other endeavors?
She waited the appropriate three seconds before opening the door, at least six arguments already prepared in favour of transferring Reina to a different squad.
"Captain Levi-," Mikasa stopped abruptly when she was greeted with the sight of Reina and Levi, one of her legs pushed high against him and his hand around her throat. For a moment she thought that he was trying to murder the woman, but then she realised that his face was buried in her neck and her hand was pulling him closer and when Reina moaned loudly Mikasa was shaken from her daze and let the glass in her hand slip from her grasp.
It fell to the floor with a loud crash and Mikasa watched in horror as Levi halted his movements, his head rising slightly as his eyes darted up and locked with hers. Reina also turned her head and her eyes widened considerably when she saw Mikasa, though Levi's had narrowed into tiny slits. They all stayed frozen like that for a long, tense moment, before Levi untangled himself from Reina and took a step back, eyes still locked on Mikasa.
"What do you want, Ackerman?" Levi asked in a grunt and Mikasa bolted straight, too shocked to speak. Her mind was still processing the sight in front of her, too confused to understand what she had seen. Levi sighed, running a hand through his disheveled hair to try and restore some order to it. "What you've seen tonight is not to be repeated to another soul. Is that understood?"
Mikasa nodded her head slowly, because she knew that Levi would have it in for her if she defied him. She didn't understand it one bit, but whatever this was, she wanted no part in it. She didn't want to know about it, because it was just another reason to resent Reina. It was almost as though the girl wanted to be hated. But regardless, she trusted her captain and knew that anything Captain Levi did in his private life was not taken into his work, so she just nodded her head quietly and tried not to look quite so shocked.
"Dismissed." Levi muttered quietly and Mikasa all but ran the moment she heard the word, her head swirling.
Reina looked down at the floor between them, opened her mouth to speak but was abruptly cut off.
"You too, Evans." She looked up questioningly and saw a dangerous gleam in Levi's eyes and knew that they shouldn't have done this tonight. They shouldn't have done it. "Dismissed."
Reina blinked slowly and gulped down all the words that were threatening to spill out of her clumsy mouth as she sunk off of the table and, with no words exchanged between them, walked out.
a/n
...is there anyone still out there?
It's been two months since I updated this story and I am so ashamed that it has taken me so long. My only excuse is that I have been preoccupied graduating high school and organising university, but after so much stress I suddenly found myself with free time and decided the only way to spend it was to update this damn story.
I wouldn't be surprised if all my readers have long lost interest and, frankly, don't even remember what has happened in the previous chapters. HOWEVER... if there is anyone out there that is still interested in this story and wants me to continue writing it, please let me know! Otherwise, I will probably assume I was too terrible at updating and everyone gave up on me, which is totally understandable.
I wanted to make it up to you all in this chapter by providing some well needed Levi/Reina action (what should their ship name be? Leina?) but wasn't sure how much would be too much... What's the general consensus on smut? Yay or nay? Let me know, so I can include it in future chapters if possible!
Thanks to anyone who is still supportive of this story, I promise I will try my best to keep updating this story in the future. xxxx