As the days went by, Mikasa noticed how much time Eren seemed to want to spend with a shifty looking male with black hair and cold grey-blue eyes. He always wore black and was always clean and organides, unlike Eren. He was surprisingly short too. The male always seemed moody and Mikasa wondered whether this was the room-mate Eren had mentioned that he thought was hot. He seemed to watch him whenever they were in the library and sometimes he would run off somewhere when they had free time. She missed him. This person seemed to be moody just like Eren described and she hated the fact that she felt he wasn't bad looking either... So the 'hot' part of what Eren said fitted him as well. It must be him... She knew that Eren was gay, and didn't care who he chose to like, but she couldn't help but feel negatively towards this stranger clothed in black. He looked suspicious and she could have sworn that she saw some cuts on his wrist once when his sleeve slipped down. She wondered whether he was alright, whether he struggled with depression or something. She wondered what he was like, he looked like the violent type and she worried for Eren's safety.

A week after she joined the college, Mikasa went over to the 19 year old. "Excuse me, can I talk to you?" Mikasa said quietly, slipping into the seat beside Levi at the library. He looked through his dark hair at her and she felt uncomfortable under his stony glare. "U-um... Do you know Eren Jaeger by any chance...?" She asked, searching the male's eyes.

"Why?" He said in a monotone voice and she swallowed. She didn't like him so far.

"I-I was just wondering..." She whispered. "I'm his sister Mikasa."

"Oh... Yeah, he's my room-mate..." Levi mumbled and turned back to the work he was trying to finish. So she was right, this was Eren's mysterious room-mate. She wondered why Eren hadn't introduced her to him before. She held out her hand.

"Nice to meet you... And your name is?"

"Levi..." He grunted in response and didn't shake her hand. He didn't look up from his work. She sat there awkwardly for a number of long moments and he didn't take her hand so she slowly took it away. Why the hell did Eren like this guy? He seemed really rude and boring.

"Ok... Um, I'm going to go now... See you later..."

"No you won't." He said plainly, not looking up. Mikasa glared at him with fierce eyes. No. She didn't like this guy one bit.

"Thank goodness for that." She grumbled bitterly and got up from her seat. He turned a glare on her but didn't respond and just looked back down. She stuck her middle finger up at his back and without turning around, he said:

"Well that's rude, you shouldn't do that behind people's backs."

"Ha! I'm rude?" She cried out in complete disbelief, her eyes wide as she looked at his back. "Wow..." She hissed and left him on his own. She didn't just dislike that guy, she hated him... And she'd spoken to him for less than a minute.

"Eren? Can I talk to you for a sec?" Mikasa called Eren as they were leaving their lecture room. Eren turned around and looked through his hair at her.

"Yeah sure, what is it?" He asked when she caught up with him.

"It's about your... room-mate. He's not mean to you is he...? He's never hurt you...?" She whispered worriedly, watching Eren closely.

"He's mean to everyone Mikasa... Why are you suddenly bringing this up...?"

"Because I spoke to the short bastard for the first time earlier... And he was horribly rude." Eren shot her a glare as she called Levi a bastard.

"Don't call him a bastard Mikasa... And yes I know, he's always been rude. He has his reasons, ok? Just forget about it." Mikasa looked taken aback by Eren's protective reply.

"If he's so horrible, why are you standing up for him?"

"Because he's not horrible! Look, you don't understand, ok?"

"There's no need to get angry, I'm just trying to protect you!"

"I don't need protecting, ok? I'm fine! Just leave him and I alone, alright? God..." Eren turned away, hiding behind his hair in annoyance.

"Fine..." She grumbled through gritted teeth. "But if he so much as lays a finger on you, I'll kill him." She snapped and stalked away to find Sasha. Eren glared at her back as she left and carried on moodily going to his room.

When he got there he opened the door and saw Levi lying on his bed with his head upside down on the edge, looking at his phone.

"That's an interesting way to sit..." Eren mumbled as he shut the door behind him.

"That's an interesting way to look and I don't pick you up on that, do I?"
"Ha. Witty." Eren sighed, setting his bag down on his bed. He pulled out some work.

"Oh shut up..." Levi mumbled. Eren sat cross-legged on his bed with his folder in his lap, his elbow on his knee, and his chin in his hand. He tapped the end of his pen on the paper. Levi glanced at him from his upside down position. "I er... met your sister earlier... Bit of a bitch." Eren groaned and rolled his eyes.

"Oi, that's my sister you're on about... And I know, she told me..." He grumbled bitterly, glaring at his paper.

"Oh? What did she say?"

"She said you were really rude..."

"So was she."

"Well something tells me you were ruder than she was Levi..."

"Yeah probably." Levi huffed, not really bothered. Eren scoffed and rolled his eyes.

"I don't think she likes you..." He said quietly with a soft sigh.

"Do I look like I care?" Eren glanced up from his paper and over at Levi hanging upside down off of the bed, the top un-shaved part of his hair dangling down and his face slightly red from being the wrong way up.

"No, you never do."

"Correct answer..." Levi grumbled and looked back at his phone. Eren sighed and looked back down at his work.

"She says that if she sees you so much as lay a finger on me, she'll kill you..." Levi shrugged, not bothered or taken aback at all.

"Bring it on..." He mumbled in his deep voice and Eren couldn't help but smile slightly at the fact that Levi was prepared to fight for him... But he hated the fact that he was having to choose between his crush and his sister.

"You'd win the fight though... So what's the point? She's a good fighter but you're far better and stronger..."

"Well then I'd win the prize then, wouldn't I?"

"The prize...?"

"You, you idiot."

"O-oh..." Eren blushed and looked back down at his paper. He sighed. "Hey Levi, will you help me with my computing studies again? My lecturer's a twat." Levi looked over at him and huffed in annoyance but sat up and got to his feet, going to sit beside Eren. As Eren watched him, he realised just have much he'd changed. He was far more open with Eren, was more willing to be around him, was mucking about with him occasionally... Eren loved it. He was trying to make Levi happy and it seemed to be working. Sometimes he still had really down days and Eren would see a bloodstained knife on his bed, or a day where he seemed to be really worrying about something and avoided Eren altogether, but Levi also had days when he would actually be the first to start a conversation with Eren. Eren was falling in love with him even more...

(A/N:) Thanks for reading and thanks for all of the reviews, glad you seem to be enjoying it :) TONNES more to come, as in I'm only halfway through uploading the bits I've written and I have looooads more plans for chapters, this is going to be a loooooong story... ;)