Heyyy so doing this instead of history homework, slowly but surely converting people to my OTP. Yay, procrastination! Aaand everyone should know that is your wonderful reviews and requests that made this second chapter possible. You all deserve guess what? There's gonna be another chapter or two- you guys hounded me into it. Aaand there will be another chapter. Yay~

Levi was not fucking amused. He was not amused at all. Whichever one of those snot nosed brats did this would pay for it. And they would pay dearly, Levi would make sure of that. They would be begging for a Titan to eat them.

"It wasn't Eren." Levi was pulled out of his daydream of making the guilty party clean the stables with a toothbrush by Petra's words.

"What?"

"It wasn't Eren," the ginger-haired girl repeated.

"How the fuck can you possibly know that?" Levi snapped. Petra smiled, too used to Levi to be offended by his brusque attitude anymore. "Well… for starters, this is a sneaky plan. Eren's not sneaky."

Levi pondered this for a moment. "Fair enough," he conceded. "What's your second point?"

"It ties into the first one. Whoever did this had to sneak into your room last night and steal your underwear, then sneak back out and hang them from the flagpole. All without anyone catching them. It's sneaky and cunning. And Eren's just… not."

"It could still be him." Levi said obstinately.

Petra shook her head. "You just don't like him and want to blame him because you don't like him." Levi did not confirm or deny this statement. "Well, then who?" he finally asked.

"Simple. Process of elimination," Petra replied, and Levi remembered why he brought her into his squad: clear, rational thinking, in addition to the requisite battle skills. "We're reasonably sure that the perpetrator is a cadet, right?" Levi tried to imagine Gunter or Hanji stringing his underwear up on the flagpoles. Instead he wound up with a mental image of Hanji wearing his boxers on her head. He shuddered involuntarily. "Reasonably sure."

"Okay, then, which cadet? Who would have the guts and ability to pull this off?"

Across the Survey Corps base, Eren was just as pissed off as Levi was. He was sparring with Reiner today, which was nothing unusual. Normally, Eren enjoyed testing himself against the huge blonde. Normally. Today, Reiner couldn't focus to save his life. He was constantly looking over his shoulder and smirking to himself, while taking Eren's hits. It annoyed Eren- how could he train to be a better soldier when his opponent wouldn't take him seriously?

Finally, Eren followed Reiner's gaze, just to see what had him so distracted. Reiner was watching Mikasa, who was also off her game today. Mikasa was sparring with Sasha, who was excellent at hand-to-hand combat, good enough to actually beat Mikasa a few times, but the expression on Sasha's face made it clear that she was as exasperated as Eren with her partner's lack of motivation. Mikasa looked up and happened to catch Reiner's eye. To Eren's absolute shock, he winked at her. And Mikasa blushed! She almost tripped over her own feet.

Eren had finally seen enough. "Reiner, what the hell?" Reiner jerked around, seeming to notice Eren's presence for the first time.

"Uhm, what?"

"You've been staring at Mikasa all morning and smiling to yourself. You just fucking winked at my sister." Eren glared. Reiner tried to look innocent, but failed miserably. An involuntary (at least, Eren hoped it was) grin splashed across his face.

"What? Nooo. No way, dude." Mikasa noticed the confrontation between the two males. Abandoning her match with Sasha, she made her way over to them. But instead of chastising Eren as expected, she turned her wrath upon Reiner. She grabbed him by the jacket collar, yanked him down to her level, and hissed, "What are you telling him!?"

Reiner started laughing. It was almost giggling, but Reiner was too… Reiner-y to giggle. "Nothing, I swear!" he choked out. "Unless you…" here Reiner waggled his eyebrows, "wanted me to te-"

"NO."

"Tell me what?" Eren was getting worried. Mikasa told him everything. "

You're not helping anything, Reiner! You're absolutely awful at keeping secrets!"

"Really? Because there's one tidbit I was going to take to the grave, but maybe Eren should know..."

"I should know what?" Eren asked, but Reiner and Mikasa talked right over him. The loud discussion was drawing several curious cadets.

"I swear on my parents' grave, if you say anything I will end you in the worst way possible." Mikasa warned. Reiner held up his hands on mock surrender. "Calm down, Mikasa. I didn't say anything. I don't break promises."

"Really? Because it sounded to me like-"

Reiner cut her off. "How could you even hear anything? You were way over there-"

"Were you saying something that I should have heard?" Mikasa snapped.

"No! For the love of fuck, just calm down-"

"Don't you tell me what to do."

Reiner's patience was growing thin. "You seemed fine with me telling you what to do last night."

Several mouths dropped open. Eren was debating whether to demand answers from Mikasa or kill Reiner first, and then ask questions. The silence stretched on for what seemed like cruel hours, though it was really only about five seconds. Mikasa threw up her hands. "You are so goddamn difficult, Reiner Braun!" she cried, storming away.

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