Levi walked into his apartment with a bag of groceries and another bag from the pet store in one hand and his keys in the other. The first thing he thought he would see was Eren, his cat, but Eren was no where to be seen, probably sleeping somewhere, lazy fucking cat. He put his keys on the hanger he kept right by the door and was a couple feet into his apartment when he heard a meow from somewhere behind him, he turned around but didn't see anything, he was just turning back to head for his kitchen when he heard it again. This time he saw the source of the noise, Eren was perched on top of the highest shelf. Eren always liked to climb to the highest places where Levi couldn't reach him. It wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the fact that Eren was apparently afraid of heights and Levi was always the one that had to help him back down.
"I told you to stop climbing up there, you stupid cat," Eren hissed at him, as though he knew he was being insulted, "I should leave you there for the rest of the night, see if you learn a lesson," he was about to go through with his threat, but he could see Eren start to shiver with fear. He sighed, "I'll be right back," he didn't know why he always found himself talking to Eren as though he was a real person, he didn't have to tell him he would be right back, but it seemed to cause some sort of relief for the cat.
Levi sometimes wondered why he even had Eren, oh right, Hange. She had insisted that Levi was lonely and needed a companion, and since Levi always refused to let her set him up on a blind date, she got him a cat. Well he was a kitten then, much cuter and slept a lot. Which was easier for Levi to take care of, now Eren was always getting himself into trouble, knocking things over, scratching things, leaving fur everywhere, never letting Levi just sit and relax somewhere. But at least Eren seemed to understand boundaries, he never tried to get on Levi's bed after that one time Levi practically kicked him off, and if Levi told him to get off of him, he usually would. Usually. Sometimes that cat was the most stubborn thing ever, demanding to be petted and not getting off of Levi until he got what he wanted.
He dropped off the bags in the kitchen and then walked to the closet in the hallway and grabbed the step ladder, which happened to be the first thing he saw since he found himself using it all the time. When he finally managed to open it and climb up, Eren was curled up in a ball all the way by the wall, "come on, stupid cat," Eren hissed at him again, "Eren," Levi scolded, "if you don't come here now, I'm leaving and not coming back and you'll have to get down on your own. Or die there. Your choice," it was almost funny how fast Eren made his way to the edge of the shelf, he walked right into Levi's open hands and let himself be picked up. But his tail knocked down a couple books Levi had on the shelf.
Levi held him close to his chest as he sighed and watched the books hit the floor, he barley realized that Eren was nuzzling his arm with his head, "my life would be so much easier if I didn't have you," he told the cat. Eren looked at him with his green orbed eyes, Levi couldn't help but think he looked sad. Levi felt sorry, but he wasn't about to apologize to a fucking cat. He climbed down the step ladder, not bothering to put it away, or pick up the books for that matter.
Eren was still looking at him with those sad cat eyes, so Levi sat down on the couch, and placed Eren on his lap, "but unfortunately, that would be kind of boring, and lonely," he softly added, Eren purred as Levi petted him, he made sure to scratch under his chin where he knew Eren liked it.
"I bought you another toy since you completely destroyed the other one, and some of that cat food you like," Eren stood up on all fours and turned to face Levi, he meowed happily and placed his front paws on Levi's chest and licked his cheek, "stop licking me, you know I hate that," but Eren didn't stop, "I also brought some of the kind you don't like so you better stop licking me and jumping up on any other shelves,"
Eren's response was to meow angrily and lick Levi again before he put his paws down and slipped his head under Levi's hand, asking to be pet again. Levi complied and petted Eren from the top of his head to the tip of his tail. But after a few of those, Levi found he was collecting a ball of fur at the end of Eren's tail, "eww, you're shedding, disgusting," Levi mumbled, he gave Eren a slight shove, "get off," Eren hopped off of him and onto the ground, but he paced a couple times in front of Levi before he sat down right on top of Levi's shoes and curled up.
Levi sighed and reached for the lint roller he had placed on the coffee table before he left. He ripped off the used sheet and started rolling it on his pants legs, he had made a mistake of wearing a white shirt, so each strand of Eren's chocolately fur was obvious, "I should take you to the groomers and have them shave all that fur off,"
Eren purred and rubbed his head against the Levi's shin, so Levi lifted up his foot, effectively getting Eren off of his feet and used the lint roller on his pants. Eren jumped on the couch and started rubbing his head on Levi's side while he was still bent over trying to get the fur off his pants.
"Get away, Eren. You're covering me with your mess," Eren hissed at him, "yeah I know, you're a cat, whatever, would it kill you to at least try?" he didn't know why he was arguing with his cat, but Eren seemed to be pretty smart and understand what Levi was trying to communicate with him.
Eren started to lick his paws, that was a cat's way of trying to rid themselves of their loose fur, right? At least he was trying. Levi got up off the couch and started for the kitchen, but Eren was meowing at him, "calm the fuck down, I'll be right back," he heard Eren purr as he went into the kitchen and grabbed the toy from the bag. As soon as Eren saw it, he was at Levi's feet trying to claw at it. Levi wasn't sure what it was called, but it was a stringy feathery thing attached to a string attached to a stick, Levi held it up at arm's length and taunted Eren with it, he would make it so that the play part of the toy was within his reach, and when Eren would spring up, Levi would move it so Eren couldn't catch it.
"This is much better than that stupid mouse toy Hange gave you, I'm not tripping over it every time I walk into a room," he sat back down on the couch and Eren trotted behind him. Levi placed both his elbows on his knees, propping his chin on one hand and holding the stick in the other, he shook it, causing the stingy part to move and catch Eren's attention, "I spoil you, you know that?" Eren purred, he was on his back with the toy held right above his face as he clawed at it happily. Levi sighed but smiled as he looked at how happy Eren was playing with his toy, "actually, Eren, I think it might be time for a bath. You're fur's starting to look oily," at the mention of a bath, Eren had sprang to his feet and darted across the room, and was now on top of the shelf again.
"Are you fucking kidding with me? You're more afraid of the bath than you are heights?" He walked over and picked up the books that were still on the floor and climbed onto the step ladder and placed them on the shelf, but Eren scratched him which made him recoil his hand, "fucking cat," he looked at his hand, he had three gashes across the back of his hand, they weren't too deep, but enough to have blood going down the side of his hand. He covered the scratches with his other hand to prevent the blood from dripping everywhere as he stepped down and headed to the bathroom.
"You're gonna stay up there," he heard Eren angrily hiss behind, "shut the fuck up," was all Levi said as he walked into the bathroom, Eren rarely ever scratched him, he really must not want a bath. Levi hated that he couldn't bathe him as frequently as he would like, but he knew frequent washing was bad for their fur. He turned on the faucet and put his hand underneath the running water. Once he could actually see the scratches he opened one of the drawers to take out the first aid kit, he was probably going to need to wrap it in gauze. He took some alcohol and cotton balls from a different drawer and soaked the cotton balls with the alcohol before he placed it on his hand and hissed at the sting.
He felt something around his legs and nearly jumped, he looked down to see Eren at his feet, circling him, "how the fuck did you get down?" Levi asked, not even feeling the pain anymore. Eren jumped up onto the closed toilet seat, and then sprang onto the open space on the bathroom sink, and watched as Levi wrapped his arm up in the gauze. Once Levi finished, he put his wrapped hand on the edge of the sink and with the other hand, started putting things back into the drawers.
He felt a soft pressure on his hand and looked over to see Eren was licking at his wound over the gauze, Levi moved his hands from underneath Eren's tongue and put it on his head, petting him, "don't worry about it. You're still getting a bath though, don't think you're getting out of it," he used his foot to close the bathroom door before Eren could even think about running away. Eren hissed at him "you scratched the crap out of me, so you're getting a bath and if you complain I'm going to take an extra long time, " Eren leaped from the sink and into the corner of the bathroom.
Levi grabbed a glove from the box he kept in one of the drawers for when he cleaned the bathroom and put it on his bandaged hand. Then he turned the faucet back on and started to splash water around the sink before he pulled the thing so the water couldn't go down the drain and filled up the sink. He took out the things he needed to bathe Eren and turned back to the cat.
"Alright, Eren, come here," he watched as Eren hesitated but began to slowly walk towards him, "good, if you continue to be good, we'll both be out of here in no time," he kissed Eren's head before he placed him in the warm water. Eren made a noise of frustration but didn't move as Levi bathed him. Levi tried to be thorough while still being quick. Five minutes later, he had Eren in his arms wrapped up in a towel, "now that wasn't so bad was it?"
Eren did something close to a growl and Levi chuckled, "I'll give you some of the good food tonight. You deserve it, even though you scratched me and dropped my shit off the shelf. So stop getting up there, would you?"
Eren meowed and licked at Levi's arm, Levi didn't scold him. He just stood him up on the sink and started to dry Eren's legs. When he got to one of his front legs, Eren let out a painful whine, Levi looked at him with a puzzled look on his face before he realized that Eren must have hurt himself getting down from the shelves. The worst part was that it was the same leg he had hurt when he jumped off the ledge in the backyard.
He carefully examined it, it didn't look bad, maybe he just hurt it. He pushed Eren a little to make him walk, he walked fine. "If it looks like it gets bad, I'm taking you to the vet. Why did Hange have to get me the clumsiest cat? I thought you were supposed to be graceful," he said reaching into the drawer to pull the medical kit back out so he could wrap Eren's leg up. Once he was done, he picked up Eren, still wrapped up in the towel.
He walked over to the kitchen and set Eren on the island so he could finish drying him off, Eren seemed to be more at ease when they weren't in the bathroom. Levi draped the towel over a chair once he was done and left Eren on the island while he prepared some food for himself. Once his food was ready, he grabbed Eren's bowl from its place near the island and took a can of food from the pet store bag and opened it up, putting it in the bowl. Eren had leaped from the island and was now on the table, trying to eat the food as Levi was pouring it in.
"Do you want to go to the vet? Stop jumping around, you're going to hurt yourself even more. Move, what the fuck," Levi pushed Eren away with his arm so he could finish. Eren just began to lick at Levi's arm again, Levi ignored him. Once the food was all in the bowl, Levi lifted the bowl in one hand and wrapped the other one under Eren so he could lift him up. He placed them down on the floor and went to wash his hands so he could eat his own food.
Levi contemplated whether he should eat in the kitchen or in the living room. He decided on the living room, at least then he could watch tv. He took his things and placed them on the coffee table, sitting down on the couch. It wasn't seconds later that he heard scraping on the floor and turned to see Eren pushing the bowl in his direction with his head. Levi couldn't help but smile as he got up and picked them up.
He set them down on the empty spot beside him on the couch, "if you get any food on my couch, I'm getting you neutered," he told the cat before turning back to his own food. He hated to admit, but Eren was pretty good company.
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