A/N: Hullo my lovelies! I hope you are all enjoying your summer ^_^ thank you all so much for your favorites, follows, and REVIEWS! I swear, every time I read one of them, I wrote like 3 pages more cause I was so happy!
IMPORTANT: back in ch 1, I had made Reiner the guy who Eren had a bad break up with, well NOT anymore! I changed Reiner to Thomas (that guy who dies in episode 5)
Disclaimer: I do not own Shingeki no Kyojin or its wonderful characters!
With all that being said, enjoy chapter three!
Chapter 3. Working for The Devil in Room 666
Eren cracked open the car window and let in the cold morning air. He was on his way to work and was about 20 minutes early. That was just fine with him though, The brunette had gotten up early on purpose because he wanted some time to chat with Petra at the front desk to get some insight as to what kind of person his new boss was. He shivered and enjoyed the icy wind that was filtering in through the window, both the cold and thoughts of his hot new boss succeeding in reddening his cheeks to a rosy tint. God, I'm so hopeless. I don't even know the guy, much less like him! He seems like a total jerk, and yet-
And yet, Eren couldn't seem to get the silvered eyed man out of his head.
Eren thought back to yesterday evening, after that fateful interview. He had gotten home around 2:30 after stopping for lunch at a cafè and Armin had come over a for few hours to watch some movies. The blonde had then made the mistake of complaining to Mikasa when she got home after work that his teal-eyed friend wouldn't shut up about his sexy new boss. That indelicate claim had led to colossal popcorn fight in which Eren almost choked to death on a kernel, managed to swallow it with some difficulty and survive, and repetitively pelted the blonde with popcorn until he got Armin squarely in the eye.
Mikasa had not been amused and had refused use her knowledge as a nurse to help her friend wash out the salt from his wounded orb.
The brunette chuckled to himself at the memory. His sister hadn't really grilled him on the subject like he thought she would've, considering how protective she was of him, and the only comment she had made on his new occupation had been an annoyed, "Just don't get fired, dumbass."
Eren entered the company's parking lot and parked at his newly assigned spot before making sure that his coat was buttoned all the way to the top. He got out and wrapped the thick scarf that Mikasa had given last Christmas around his neck, and jogged to the entrance, his combat boots thumping against the pavement. His parking space wasn't close enough that he could walk in the cold comfortably without freezing, so he quickly made his way to the front of the building. The brunette let out one last puff of winter air and walked past the automated doors. The lobby was nice and warm inside and he basked in it as his cold nose and fingers defrosted. The boy walked over to the reception desk and spotted a certain pretty blonde furiously typing away on her computer.
"Hey Petra. Working hard I see."
The girl jumped in place and looked up at the handsome new secretary. "Oh! Hello, hun. I heard you landed the job, I'm so happy for you!"
Eren laughed. "Yeah I did, thanks." His grin disappeared and he looked down at Petra, his eyes becoming serious. "Petra, I'm here to ask a favor. I need some help and you're the person I trust most at this company."
The shorter woman became captivated by that churning seawater gaze and nodded her her head dazedly. Oh this boy! He's trying to get me flustered so I help him with whatever he wants!
"Of course, sweetie. I'm always happy to help." Her cheeks reddened slightly, "Especially a cutie like yourself." I know what he's up to, but damnit, he's almost too hot to handle. Petra refrained from fanning herself to cool off her face and tried to focus on the younger's next words instead.
Eren gave her a dazzling and sexy smile, leaning down so close to her face that their breaths intermingled, "What can you tell me about my new boss, hmm?" He asked with a huskily.
"Y-you mean L-levi?" Her wide eyes were beginning to glaze over again.
The brunette let out a throaty chuckle. "The one and only. I don't fancy getting fired on the first day and you seem like just the person to help me. If you could give me some tips on what to do and what not to do so I don't annoy him, I'd really appreciate it." Eren looked at her flushed face and decided that she just needed one more push.
"What do you say... luv?"
It never hurt to break out the British accent.
The blonde gave him a murmured, "Of course...", before she suddenly gasped and snapped out of his spell.
"Eren!" She laughed and whacked him lightly on the shoulder. "Don't do that! I would've helped you without you- you- you..."
Eren laughed softly at her tomato-red face. "What, luv? Without me what?"
Her amber eyes blazed and she yelled, "I would have helped you without you- you SEDUCING ME!"
The blonde dragged in a deep breath, ignoring the stares she had garnered from her outburst, and openly glared at the male who was now clutching his stomach in laughter. Eren wiped the tears from his eyes and looked back at her, his ocean eyes dancing in amusement. "Ok, ok. I'm sorry, but I couldn't help it- you looked so damn adorable that I just had to mess with you! I'm really sorry. I promise I won't do it again."
Petra sighed and then giggled, blushing like a teenager at the 'adorable' comment, and watched as he gave her his best 'sad puppy-dog look'. "Yeah yeah, whatever. Gosh, I swear you'll be the death of me, Eren Yeager." She straightened up in her chair and looked at him seriously. "Ok, here's some tips from the How to Handle Levi guidebook, first-"
"Wait," Eren said, his hand in the air as if he were a student again, "I have a question. Why do you call him Levi? Hanji calls him that too but he told me to call him 'Rivaille'."
Petra nodded. "Well, that's actually a nickname that Erwin came up with in their elementary school years I believe, and it just kinda stuck. He doesn't let many people call him that though, just his close friends and family." She smiled up at Eren. "I've known Levi since college and we've been friends for a very long time- that's why I call him by that name."
Eren mulled the information over and motioned for Petra to continue with her advice.
"Right, well, like I was saying, when dealing with Levi you have to-"
Strong arms gripped the brunette from behind and squeezed all the air from his lungs. "Eren! My cute and cuddly little green eyed darling." Lips tickled his ear and breathed out a sultry, "I missed you."
The younger man whipped his head to the side and wheezed out, "H-Hanji?"
The redhead winked. "You know it, baby."
"Hanji!" Petra giggled happily, "what in the world are you doing down here? I thought you were swamped with work upstairs?"
Hanji sagely nodded her head, the brown eyes hidden behind her glasses glittering in amusement. "Oh believe me, I am. I'm completely swamped in work, buried under mounds of it, battling it as best as I can; I'm eating it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner." She swiveled her head and stared at Eren almost hungrily. "Buuuut, I decided to take a short, tiny, itty bitty, minuscule break and come get Eren before he's late for work."
"What?!" The brunette glanced at his watch and gasped. "Oh shit! I only have five minutes!"
With a arm still around his waist, the shorter woman cackled and propelled him to the elevators. "Bye Petra, dear! See you laaaater."
Eren struggled in Hanji's grasp- damn she's strong- and turned his head back to look at the blonde behind the desk. "But- the advice! I never got to hear it!"
Petra chuckled and called back, "Don't worry, you'll be fine! Next time, don't try to have sex with me with your eyes and just get to the point!"
Hanji hooted gleefully. "Trying to make the move on pretty little Petra, were you?" She laughed and looked at him sideways. "You're too late, I'm afraid. Auruo already called dibs on that cute ass."
The boy flushed and grumbled, "There was no sex of any kind- we were just joking and messing around."
The redhead looked up curiously at him. "Do you know, I said almost the exact same thing in highschool when I tried to convince my parents that I was still a virgin." She shook her head from side to side. "Oh, the good ol' days..."
They entered the elevator and she leaned over to press the buttons for floors 28 and 35. "So, from what I gathered, other than some serious eye-fucking; you were asking Petra for some advice about Levi, yeah?"
Eren decided to ignore the first part of Hanji's question and nodded. "Yeah, she was gonna give me some tips so I don't get fired on the first day."
The other woman looked delighted. "Oh, trust me- he's not going to fire your sexy self anytime soon. I'm about eighty-seven percent sure of it."
"Eighty-seven percent?"
"Weeell- eighty-seven, sixty-five. Give or take, really."
The green eyed boy peered at her. "Riiiight..."
The elevator emitted a small beep for every floor they passed and some quiet music was playing in the background. Eren tapped his boot on the floor and looked at their reflections in the mirrored walls before asking, "How about you? Do you have any last-minute advice for me concerning my new boss?"
Hanji seemed to consider this for a while until the doors slid silently open. She hopped out of the elevator and grinned toothily at the younger man. "Nope! You'll just have to figure him out as you go like the rest of us." She cackled madly and the elevator doors firmly shut closed.
The brunette sighed and checked the time. 3 minutes left.
A small ding sounded and Eren stepped into floor 35. As he headed to Levi's office, the brunette noticed people staring at him with varying mournful and pitying expressions as he walked by. What's up with them? They're looking at me as if I'm walking to my death... Eren faced forward and tried in vain to ignore the flurry of frenzied whispers he left in his wake.
"Look! It's the new guy!"
"Is that the poor bastard who's working for The Devil in room 666?"
"Poor thing- and he's so cute and young, too!"
"I bet nobody warned him about what happened to the others secretaries who worked for that demon..."
"I heard that one of them had to hire a therapist and check himself in to a mental hospital when he tried to kill himself after being yelled at for getting a permanent stain on that Devil's carpet..."
"I wonder how long he'll last working for the human embodiment of Satan himself... Fifty bucks says that he doesn't last longer than a week in that flaming office of Hell."
Eren scrunched up his eyebrows in disbelief at some of the comments that reached his ears. Are you shitting me? A person tried to commit suicide 'cause of that guy?! Surely he's not that bad of a boss... Petra and Hanji seem to like him well enough, and they wouldn't be friends with someone who was so inhumanly cruel as to earn the nickname 'Devil', right? The young man reached his boss' office with growing apprehension and took a deep breath. I'll be fine, I'm probably just overthinking things like usual. He knocked and entered the room. Levi was sitting at his desk just as he had been yesterday, typing and clacking away on his keyboard as the teal eyed boy nervously shut the door.
"Good morning, Rivaille."
The older man didn't even bother to look up from the monitor, he just grunted and tapped the binder next to him. "Take that to your desk in room 670 and work on it for the rest of the day. All the instructions for your position as my secretary are inside, and I expect you back here at nine sharp- not a single fucking second later- with my coffee."
"Oh, ok." Eren grabbed the binder and hesitated, put off by his boss' callousness. "How do you like your coffee?"
Levi looked up at the boy and glared. "Didn't I just say that everything you needed to know for this job is in there?" He asked, pointing menacingly at the binder in Eren's hands.
The younger man became a bit distracted by the piercing gray eyes that were completely focused on him and his own green orbs glazed over slightly. Oh god. He's so hot when he's mad. Eren bit his lip to hold in a soft moan and was brought back to reality by a pen sharply poking him in the ribs.
"Oi, are you stupid or something?" Another poke. "Answer my question you tall bastard."
The pen harshly pressed down even harder than before and Eren stepped away from the desk. Ok. Forget his sexiness- now he's just getting on my nerves. The younger man grit his teeth and counted to five before responding with a false smile, "Yes, you did tell me to look in the binder for my instructions. I apologize for my inattentiveness."
Let it never be said that Eren Yeager did not know when to admit that he was in a losing battle, and he was not afraid to kiss his boss' butt to keep his new job. Hmm... Levi's butt. I've never seen him standing, but I bet his ass is a work of art...mgghmm... No, stop! Eren, focus! Don't think about his ass, get it out of your head! Lalalalalalala~
"Whatever. Just get to work." The raven haired man turned back to the screen and started typing again. "You're dismissed."
Eren swiveled on his heel and wasted no time walking out of the room. Arrogant bastard... He headed a bit further down the hall until he reached a door with the numbers '670' on the front. Inside the large room were several cubicles lined up in rows, each with its own desk, computer, and cord-phone. There were numerous filing cabinets on one end of the room and a group of people were clustered next to the printers on the opposite end. One man with a sullen expression and short hair noticed the new occupant of the room.
"Hey, look. It's Levi's new slave."
...The... fuck? Did he seriously just call me a slave?
"Auruo! Don't call him that. God, you're such a jerk."
Eren started in surprise at the familiar voice. "Hanji? What are you doing here?" He cocked an eyebrow, "I thought you were supposed to be 'buried under mounds' of work."
The auburn haired woman gave an excited squeal before she skipped across the room and grabbed his arm. "Hello my pretty little flower, long time no see! And for your information," she said stoutly, "I am working! I'm delivering some documents to this grumpy son of a bitch." She dragged Eren into the group of workers and motioned to the sullen man. "Auruo, meet Eren; the famous sexy new secretary that everybody can't seem to shut up about. Eren, meet Auruo. He's the one who's got dibs on our favorite little receptionist." Hanji giggled and ignored the man's pissed off look.
"Shut up you little masochist." Auruo held out his hand, "My name's Auruo Bossard. Disregard everything this freak of nature says about me and Petra, she doesn't know what the fuck she's talking about."
Eren laughed and shook his hand. "Eren Yeager, it's a pleasure." He looked deviously at the redhead and grinned. "And don't worry, I ignore most of what comes out of her mouth anyway."
"Hey!" Hanji mock-frowned before she chuckled and pointed to the other the other members of the room. "This blondie over here is Erd Gin and he-" she paused mid sentence when Erd leaned towards the ocean eyed boy and sniffed loudly. "- has a strange habit of smelling the people he meets." She cupped Eren's ear and whispered, "Personally though, I think it's just a weird fetish he has." She giggled when the younger boy's eyebrows rose and pointed at a short woman with brown hair and bright red nails. "This lovely lady on your right is Nellie; she's Petra's big sister and does all the heavy lifting in here."
Nellie flushed at the compliment and tilted her head back to look at the handsome young secretary. "That's not true at all! Everybody works really hard here, not just me." She looked at him kindly. "I'm sure you'll fit right in Eren, if you have any questions about work or Rivaille, don't hesitate to ask." She smiled happily when he nodded gratefully and her face reddened a bit more.
The two other people in the room turned out to be a man with a buzzcut named Gunter something-or-other and a blonde, stoic faced woman called Annie Leonhart. Eren smiled at them all and quickly memorized their names.
"It's great to meet all of you." Eren said after Hanji had left- who had given him a sloppy kiss on the cheek for good luck on his first day and as a promise to visit him before work was over- and looked around the spacious room. "Do you guys have assigned desks or do you just sit wherever?"
He was led by Nellie to a cubicle next to Auruo and across from Annie, and was told to make himself comfortable. After he sat down he opened up the thick white binder. Holy shit... Eren thought, and felt his eyes widen into saucer-like proportions. The binder was brimming with documents of nothing but rules, directions, instructions, and a detailed schedule for the week- along with a less elaborate and less specific schedule for the next few months. He quickly scanned today's agenda and paled.
He's a demon. This is impossible- there's simply not enough hours in the day to complete all of this!
He closed his eyes and hesitantly tried looking back down at the schedule, hoping with all he had that he had somehow read it wrong. Surely he had read today and tomorrow's tasks. Comforted by his logical reasoning, he cracked open an eye before tightly shutting once more.
Nope. He hadn't read it wrong. He shuddered and read over what he had to do.
9:00- coffee. Black with two sugars. No milk.
9:05- begin looking over 50 pages on Word about the new business partner venture for any grammatical errors or deficiencies. The revised edition is expected to be emailed to me by 10:15.
10:30- another coffee should be brought to me along with Nellie's new energy-saving proposal.
10:45...
The list went on for two more pages and Eren suddenly felt like crying, defeated before he even started.
He's The Devil. Satan. A demon who feeds on people's souls. I now completely understand those strange looks I was getting this morning.
His loud groan made Auruo look over at him and chuckle. "Best get on it, fresh meat. Don't want to keep The Devil waiting."
The younger boy cursed under his breath and got up with a grumble, jogging to the lounge room so he could get started on his first assignment of the day.
XxXxXx
After a physically and emotionally draining day (his only break being the brief 15 minutes he got for lunch) spent completing all the tasks on his schedule and doing his best not to growl at his boss' snide remarks (most of them about his 'digusting' combat boots- Fuck you, they're sexy), Eren collapsed into his chair at his cubicle and rested his head on the cool desk. Oh God... I'm going to end up dying if this what I'm going to be doing every day for as long as I'm his secretary. The rest of the crew in room 670 were packing up their things and filing documents in the cabinets, getting ready to leave and go home. Eren distantly sensed movement behind him and seconds later he felt something warm and wet digging into his ear.
"FUCK!" He jumped up from the chair and turned around to face the culprit. "Really Hanji- are you fucking serious? A Wet- mother fucking-Willy?!" Eren touched his moist ear and cringed. "Bloody Hell!"
The young boy glared at the redhead who had collapsed to the floor on a fit of giggles. "Oh! Eren, I'm sorry! But you just looked so down in the dumps that I felt the need to cheer you up."
"Hanji," he groaned and wiped his ear as best as he could with his sleeve, "next time cheer me up some other way, okay? Jeez, gross."
Hanji grinned and shoved something cold in his face. "That's exactly why I brought you this!" She wagged the object back and forth and tapped his nose with it.
"A... Popsicle?"
"Yeppers!" The woman turned to the others who had been watching the small quarrel with thinly veiled amusement and soft chuckles. "My fellow wenches and wench-men, I come baring gifts!" Hanji bowed at the waist and shook the box of popsicles, flitting from person to person until everyone except Annie accepted one.
Auruo looked at her suspiciously. "You wouldn't be the person who's taken up all the freezer space with ice cream, would you?"
The redhead laughed and averted her eyes, "Of course not. That would be such an inconsiderate thing to do- and I am nothing if not considerate... Considerate is my middle name!"
Eren was startling to develop a headache from the overly hyper woman and his patience, after such a tiring day was, running so thin that it was basically nonexistent. "Are you here for something Hanji? I need to head home and it's already 4:00."
Brown eyes turned to him and he saw her nod. "Uh huh. I don't just go up and down the floors without reason, you silly goose. I'm here," she paused and made sure that she had everyone's attention, "to invite you all to Eren's welcoming party this Friday!"
"My... Welcoming party?"
"You betcha you sexy piece of shit. A party, you know- we go to a club, have some drinks, we dance. It's funnnn!"
Auruo scoffed. "We usually wait to see if Levi's secretaries last past the first month before throwing a party." He gave the young man a measuring look, "What makes you think that this scrawny thing is gonna make it through the rest of the week until Friday? It's stupid to throw a welcoming party for someone who's just gonna get fired soon anyways."
Eren completely ignored and bypassed the negative prediction, exclusively focusing on one thing that the older man had said. Wait, scrawny? I'm not that skinny... am I? Damn it, now I'm gonna have to ask Mikasa when I get home...
Hanji smiled enigmatically. "Ohhh I don't know... It's just a hunch that I have."
"Well, you can count me in! I haven't been clubbing in what feels like forever!" Nellie laughed and waggled her scarlet nails goodbye before leaving. "Text me the details, Hanji dearest."
The redhead crowed happily and began pestering everyone into agreeing that they'd go- even managing to get a reluctantly grumbled 'fine' from Annie, ever the sparkling socialite.
"Yay! Ok Eren, look forward to the best welcoming party you've ever had on Friday, 'kay? That should give you enough energy to last for the next few days as you toil and shed blood, sweat, and tears for The Devil." Brown eyes winked and she chuckled, "Every time you get frustrated or tired, just think; what's that I see in the horizon? Oh, yeah, the best fucking party ever, that's what!" She cackled and Eren joined in with a happy grin and a laugh.
Hmm, I've never had a welcoming party before, sounds like fun, though. I wonder what'll happen...
A/N: so this story has exceeded 50+ pages! O.o this boggles my mind cause I've never managed to go past 8 pgs before getting bored, but fear not- I plan to go more than 20 chaps for this story :) For the next chapter, get ready for party time Riren! Expect drunk Eren groping a blushing Levi. It's gonna happen ^_^ spin the bottle and tequila shots, here we come!
I started this account 4 days ago and in this span of days, I've written and posted 3 chappies and I feel like I deserve some lovin *wink wink nudge nudge* and you guys deserve some love too for being fantastic readers! So... Let's compromise. If I get at least 5 reviews for this ch then I will post the Eren-drunkenly-groping-Levi's-ass on Sunday or Monday(at the very latest). Until then, I'm holding tipsy Eren hostage! Muahahahah! You know what to do~ from account reviews to guest reviews, they're all greatly appreciated!