The term home sweet home had never been true to Eren before. Stohess was beautiful …but to see the familiar mansion tucked behind the trees; Eren was so happy he could die.

That night there was a welcome home dinner. They all sat in the cafeteria-like dining room laughing and sharing stories ; Eren felt like he was with his real family. From the look on Levi's face, Eren could tell Levi felt the same. Afterwards, the tired prince waddled to bed, and everyone else huddled in Eren and Armin's room.

"No way!" Armin gasped, "You met his mother!"

Eren nodded furiously, "She was incredible!"

"Isn't she," Krista swooned.

"How was Stohess?" Bertholt asked nervously, "I haven't been in years."

"Gorgeous." Eren laughed, "Insane but gorgeous."

Ymir smirked, "I can't believe he took you to his little town full of buddies. How romantic."

Connie teased, "Oh but they danced together Ymir!" He tugged Ymir to her feet and began to dance with her sarcastically.

Eren huffed, "You're all so mean!"

Jean nudged him with his elbow, "We have to make up for the two weeks of teasing we missed."

Eren grabbed a pillow and whacked him, laughing.

"Did…did those princes really do that to you?" Armin asked, tilting his head.

Eren swallowed- he had told them about all the harassment…but had actually left out the bit about Erwin being a part of it. He knew how Armin felt about the man, and wasn't quite ready to crush his dreams yet. "Uhm….yeah."

"How terrible." Armin hugged his knees and scrunched his eyebrows together, "I hope we never see them again."

Eren shrugged, "Probably won't. Levi kicked the shit out of 'em before we left."

"No way!"

"And I missed it?"

"Did you record it!?"

"Damnit we always miss out on the interesting vacations!"

Life returned to normal. Work resumed, date nights were on Friday, movie nights on Wednesdays; and on Saturdays everyone went to play mini-golf or ice skating or laser tag. Sometimes the prince came along, sometimes not.

There was something noticeable about how close Levi had become with the staff. Before they ate meals separately, and communicated on a "good morning" "good evening" basis; but now… everything had changed. The staff teased Eren, but they also thanked Eren. Levi had become happier, maybe even healthier.

"All because of me?" Eren would scoff, "No way."

But it was true. Even Prince Levi was willing to admit that.

It was early morning when there was a knock on Eren's door. He grumbled from underneath his sheets, "Come in."

The door was slammed open and a barrage of teenagers tripped over each other to get into the room, "Eren! Eren!"

"Look Eren!"

The maid jumped and nearly twisted off his bed. Across the room a tuff of ruffled blonde hair popped up to question the commotion.

"Wha?" Eren sat up, "What happened?"

"Look! You guys are on the cover of like, six magazines!" Christa squealed.

"Yeah look!" Connie threw a stack of magazines into his lap. Sasha sat next to him and giggled uncontrollably.

Eren slowly picked one out of the pile and read it out loud, "Infamous Prince and Mediocre New Boyfriend Make Commotion at the King's Conference- What?!" Eren picked up another one, "Prince Levi and Mystery Boyfriend Share a Moment?!" He threw them off the bed like they were on fire. Every magazine had the same picture; the one of them dancing, alone, and laughing as they kissed. He could still see his shirt slightly stained blue. It seems that someone in the ballroom that day had managed to whip out their cellphone fast enough to capture the moment.

Jean popped in the room, holding another magazine. He laughed manically, "Hey loverboy, you're on the cover of Seventeen Magazine! You're gonna' be on every teenage girl's wall."

Eren flopped back into his bed and shoved his face in his pillow, "Aghhh!"

"There's going be a lot of pissed off sixteen year old girls, man." Connie laughed. "The boss has always been a teenage heartthrob."

Ymir snorted, "Yeah, most of 'em are probably gonna have Eren's face being used as a dartboard."

"Awwh, but look at how cute this picture is!" Christa cooed, and picked one of the magazines off of the floor. Eren groaned.

Sasha tipped her head, "You don't like it Eren?"

"Of course I don't like it!" Eren growled, "I can't handle publicity shit- that's Levi's shtick."

"I see you guys found the magazines."

The room turned to the familiar voice- the prince stood smirking in the doorway.

"Good morning sir," Armin waved.

"Good morning," Levi nodded. He walked across the room and looked at the mess of magazines- all having that same adorable picture. He picked one up, "Hmm. I mean, it's not bad. It's not my good side, but it's not bad."

The whole room laughed but Eren, who proceeded to try and suffocate himself with his pillow.

"Don't be so dramatic," Jean rolled his eyes as Levi tried to pry the pillow from Eren's hands, "This will all blow over in like, a week."

Connie snickered, "Mediocre boyfriend."

Eren groaned and rolled off the bed.

He had managed to clean all the rooms he was responsible for before noon. With time to kill, he helped Bertholt and Reiner sweep the mega-piles of leaves that were falling off the trees like rain. Eren then shuffled around the house, looking for something to entertain himself with. He read a book, visited the stables, and walked around the estate until he just couldn't stay away.

The prince was doing work in his office when Eren shuffled in. Levi didn't even look up from his laptop, "Hey."

"Hi." Eren forced his way into Levi's lap. "What are you doing?"

Levi pushed back his chair to make room and wrapped his arms around the others firm waist, "Work."

"Yeah, no shit." Eren replied. Levi lightly pinched his side, and Eren asked in a fake-angry tone, "What kind of work?"

"I'm buying out a clothing company." Levi skimmed his fingers up and down Eren's back.

"Really?" Eren shifted to look at his laptop, "That's exciting!"

"Sort of. Not really. It's a lot of numbers and paperwork and everything I hate."

"Well, I know something you don't hate."

"What's that?"

"Taco Tuesday."

"Ugh," Levi rested his nose in the crook of Eren's neck, "Tell Sasha and Connie that I'm going to have to pass. I just have too much damn work to do."

"Oh," Eren nodded, "Okay. Do you want me to bring it up to you?"

"You don't have to."

"Well you gotta eat." Eren rolled his eyes and hopped off Levi's lap. "I'll be right back. Stay here, idiot."

Eren returned with a plate full of tacos, rice, and beans. He placed it on top of Levi's keyboard, forcing the prince to look up and meet Eren's eyes.

"Eat."

"Hold on." Levi pushed the plate to the side. "I gotta finish this email to the old C.E.O."

Eren crossed his arms, "I'm not leaving until you do."

"You don't have to fuckin' babysit me."

"Don't you think we notice you leaving plates full of food here every night?" Eren crossed his arms.

Levi rubbed his tired eyes again, "I just forget…sometimes."

Eren didn't feel like fighting anymore, so he just shook his head and stood up to leave. "Well I'm going to go help them clean up dinner."

"Get some rest."

"You too," Eren resisted the urge to both slap him and kiss him, and left the room quietly.

It was 3 a.m. and Eren couldn't sleep for various reasons. After about an hour of tossing and turning he finally tip toed out of bed and crawled up the large staircase towards Levi's room. He slowly opened the door and was ready to crawl in next to the prince when he found no body there. He patted over the bed, but it was still perfectly made from when Ymir or Christa or whoever the fuck made it that morning.

Eren growled and stomped over towards the office and threw open the door to see the prince still working on that stupid laptop.

"How could you?" Eren placed his hands on his hips to give off the impression of a disappointed mother.

The heir looked up with a surprised look on his face. His hair was messy and the top buttons of his shirt were undone. "Eren? You're supposed to be asleep."

"Yeah? Well so are you." Eren huffed.

"I've taken care of myself for my whole life. I don't need you nagging at me." Levi growled.

"I'm not nagging. I just wanted to friggin cuddle someone but that someone isn't even in bed."

The anger on Levi's face melted a little, and he resisted a smile, "Oh. Sorry. I'm almost done if you want to-"

"No, it's too late. Now you get to feel my wrath." Eren stalked over to Levi and straddled his lap. He pulled the princes face towards his with both his hands, and kissed him.. Levi was surprised, but only for a moment. He was quick to grab Eren's thighs and pull him closer. Their kisses started rough, but slowly melted into sweet ones. When Eren pulled back to breathe, Levi kissed his jaw, and his ears, and his neck.

"Your wrath huh?" Levi mumbled.

"Yeah." Eren cleared his throat, "I've also been hard for like the past two hours, so, you get to fix that too."

Eren felt a puff of air hit his ear, and he knew the prince was laughing. "That's fine with me."

They somehow managed to shuffle into Levi's room, losing random articles of clothing after they closed the door. Levi pushed the younger onto the bed and flopped on top of him.

"Hey! You're heavy-get off asshole." Eren laughed. The prince sat up between Eren's legs and reached up to dig his fingers into the elastic of his boxers. In one swoop, he had Eren's last article of clothing on the floor. Eren flushed and looked away as Levi buried his nose in his thigh.

"You're pretty."

"Apparently I'm mediocre." Eren quoted angrily.

Levi laughed and kneaded his fingers all over Eren's legs. "That magazine could not have been any more wrong," He kissed the side of Eren's dick and smiled with the younger let out a breath he was holding. He kissed it again, "You're anything but."

Eren groaned and held a hand over his eyes, "I hate you." A bottle snapped open and he held his breath again.

Levi ran his wet fingers up Eren's tan thighs and over his ass, "Sure you do."

"Honestly," Eren grunted as Levi's middle finger pressed inside him, "I should quit- this job is bullshit."

"Ah, but name another occupation where you can ask your boss to finger your ass?" Levi pressed another kiss to his inner thigh and slowly moved his fingers.

"Well, I'm sure if I asked nicely-" Eren let out a breath and arched is back a little. He reached behind his head and threaded his hands in the sheets, "I'm sure there are plenty of middle aged men who will do my bidding."

"You're a manipulative little shit," Levi laughed, and so did Eren. "I'd never let you quit."

Levi brought in a third finger as he swallowed Eren's dick, and the maid arched off the bed and moaned.

"Nn-shit," Eren's breath was labored, "Shit-"

Levi only had to bob his head a couple times before Eren was shivering and coming. The prince sat back on his knees to admire his handiwork; the younger had his hands over his eyes, and his chest was heaving and wet. Levi huffed out a laugh, almost to himself, and ran his fingers up and over Eren's knees.

"Not bad." Eren rubbed his eyes and looked up at the prince.

"Not bad?" Levi sounded almost offended.

"There's room for improvement," Eren smirked and reached up to pull Levi down next to him.

"You're an ass."

"Kidding," Eren laughed and pulled down his jeans.

He was hanging out with Hanji in the library when Armin said there were visitors at the door.

"For me?" Eren blinked. "That's impossible."

"They said they're looking for Eren Jaeger, so unless there's any other Eren's around here…" Armin raised an eyebrow.

Eren stood up, smirking, "Smartass… I'll be right back then Hanji."

She waved, "Don't worry!"

Eren made his way down the stairs and towards the big iron doors. He pulled it open, and saw two people waiting on the porch that he thought he'd never see ever again. All the air left his chest, and his left hand flew over his mouth.

The lady looked middle aged, with shoulder length brown hair and angry black eyes. She wore a business suit just like the man she was with. The businessman had round glasses and a light mustache. He had long hair pulled back in a ponytail.

The man spoke roughly, "Son."

Eren quickly stepped outside and slammed the door shut so no one in the house could see them. He gasped, "Dad! Rachael-what the… what are you guys-how did you find me?!"

"Eren, what the hell is this?" The lady held up a magazine- it was one of the thousands that had Eren and Levi's face plastered on it.

"Umm..." Eren blinked, "A magazine? I haven't seen you guys in a year and a half! Why are you-"

"How could you do this to us, son?" Grisha Jaeger growled and snatched the magazine out of his wife's hands. "How could you dishonor our family even more?"

Confused, Eren asked, "What the hell did I do? I left remember? You already gave me the whole lecture about how I've 'disgraced the family' and shit." Eren went to open the door again, "I'm not talking to either of you-"

"This isn't just about you Eren!" The father grabbed his shoulder and pulled him back. Eren yanked out of his grip and snarled at him angrily

He pressed his back against the door, "Don't touch me."

"First you tell us you're- you're gay, now you're showing the whole world by assaulting a prince!"

Assulting?! Eren looked at the picture of them kissing happily.

"Everyone in town is coming to us and showing us these damn magazines!" Rachael crumpled the paper in her hands, "Did you ever stop to think about what you were doing to us? Do you like causing us pain?"

"No! That's why I fucking left!" Eren raised his voice to match hers.

"It's not only us," Grisha looked to his wife, "Now you're bothering a prince! Tell me what I did Eren, tell me what I did to cause you to act this way-"

"Nothing! You did nothing!" Eren fought back tears. He couldn't believe this was happening right now. "I don't want to have this conversation! "

"After a year of not seeing you…and you yell at us like this?!"

"Is something wrong here?"

Eren whipped his head around to see Levi, who had opened the grand front door and was now standing with his arms crossed.

"Sorry sir, but I'm just having a conversation with my son." Grisha huffed. Eren clenched his fists.

"Ah well, as his employer I'm slightly concerned over all the yelling out here." Levi's tone was professional, but Eren could hear the annoyance. He gave Eren a questioning look, and the maid looked down at his feet in anger.

The adults suddenly realized who Levi was, both their eyes widening. "Oh, It's a pleasure to meet you…Prince Levi," the woman shook his hand, "My name is Rachel Jaeger. I'm Eren's mother."

Eren mumbled, "You're not my mother…" and looked away.

"And I'm Grisha, his father."

"Pleasure." Levi deadpanned, "Can I help either of you?"

"I apologize sir, but Eren must quit…whatever this job is," Grisha gestured to Eren's maid uniform.

Eren yelled, "What!" Levi held a hand over the maid's chest, keeping him from jumping forward.

"He has just caused you so much trouble," Rachel held up the magazine, "All this bad publicity! I can obviously tell that he attacked you."

"We deeply apologize for all that he has put you through," Grisha bowed, "And he's given you such a bad name now-

Levi, who had been silent, held up a hand to speak, "Well." He growled, "I'm also his lover, so you know." He pulled Eren so he could wrap a protective arm around his waist. "He's staying here. You guys can leave now, bye."

The parents looked horrified. Grisha yelled, "I'm sorry, sir, but that is just unacceptable! You're willing to commit such sins with him! Don't let my son drag you down to his level-"

"Wow, okay, you guys are fucking retarded." Levi snarled.

Eren covered his hands over his mouth thinking the price façade is gone now. Once again his parents held a shocked expression. Levi spoke, "Didn't you hear me? You have 60 seconds to get off my property."

"I'm not leaving without my son." Rachel argued.

"Real parents accept their kids no matter what, asshole." Levi slammed the door shut, and threw the lock. "He's not your son."

There was angry banging on the door, but Levi ignored it. He turned to Eren and pulled him into a hug. Eren didn't react at first. He slowly wrapped his arms around Levi, and then sniffled into his neck. Levi mumbled, "I'm sorry."

"I'm sorry you had to deal with them." Eren's eyes burned with tears.

"What fucking assholes." Levi growled, "You 'attacked' me? Fucking hell do they know what a smile is? It took everything I had not to punch them in the face."

"I left…thinking that they would be happy…but apparently I'm still making their life shitty from hundreds of miles away." Eren hiccupped.

Levi looked around and saw that staff was 'secretly' hiding around corners and whispering to each other. He frowned and pulled on Eren's hand, "Come on, let's go upstairs."

Eren was snuggled up to Levi's chest with a blanket. They lay on the prince's bed, with the T.V. on mute across the room. Levi ran his fingers through Eren's hair, pressing it away from his forehead, showing his green eyes.

"My dad's a priest," Eren mumbled after a long silence.

"I saw the cross necklace." Levi replied. "It still doesn't justify his actions."

Eren sniffed, "I can handle my dad. I can't handle Rachel- I hate her so fucking much."

"And she calls herself your mom." Levi shook his head.

"My real mom…she would never said any of that to me." Eren rubbed angrily at his wet eyes. "Ugh, crying is gross."

"Where is she now?" Levi asked softly, which was almost out of character.

"Dead." Eren answered.

"I'm sorry."

"It's okay." Eren threaded his fingers with Levi's. "She's with my sister."

Levi took another deep breath and looked up at the ceiling, "You don't deserve all the shit that's happened to you." Eren only shrugged in reply. After another moment of silence, Levi said slowly, "You know…everyone in the damn building saw that happen."

"Yeah, they think they're sneaky." Eren half smiled and shook his head, thinking of his friends. He sighed, "But they're the only family I've got."

Levi matched his smile, "Yeah, you're right." He tapped Eren's forehead, "If your parents come back, don't even answer the door. I'll take care of it."

"You're the real mvp." Eren thanked, and Levi actually laughed.

Eren was so sure that everyone in the employee hall would have something to say when he returned, but all he got was a hug and a smile when he came to bed that night. Everyone knew to keep their mouths shut.

It was 3 a.m. now and everyone was in the theater room playing video games. People were huddled around in their pajamas screaming at the giant televisions. Connie and Sasha came in with trays of hot chocolate, and Ymir yelled, "If any of you spill I'm pissing on your face in your sleep."

Eren lay across one of the couches, his head in Armin's lap, and grinned, "Marco."

The freckled boy flushed, "I said I was sorry!"

Marco was notorious for spilling, tripping, and falling.

Ymir did the hand sign of I'm watching you and the employees laughed. Eren had managed to forget about the troubles of the day, and laughed with his friends.

Levi waddled in about an hour later, and jealously pulled Eren out of Armin's lap and into his own.

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