'Maybe I don't care if it does' … Levi's words repeated round and round in Eren's head, buzzing in his ears like angry wasps. Eren had demanded that Levi give him all of his cigarettes after that but Levi hadn't obliged straight away. It took quite a lot of urging until he pulled them from his pocket and handed Eren a pack.

"And the rest." Eren had prompted until Levi finally got up and pulled another from under his mattress and tossed it at his room-mate.

"Happy now?" Levi had said but Eren wasn't sure if he could ever be happy again. 'Maybe I don't care if it does'.

Eren sat on his bed, looking down at the offending packets of cigarettes lying on the mattress in front of him with disgust and hatred. He'd already given Levi one and he was outside with it now. Eren pulled the remaining 3 he was going to permit Levi that day and stuffed the stupid things into his pocket before getting up and going to his drawers. He had nowhere else to put them, he just hoped that Levi would keep his side of the deal and not go looking for them. Eren hid them in the middle of his jumbled, messy clothes that he couldn't be bothered to fold. There weren't many in there at all, even less that normal as Eren had had to go and take his and Levi washing to the dry cleaners. Usually it was Levi that did it because he was obsessive about making sure they were clean, but he hadn't exactly been in the mood to do it that week. So Eren had been left to do it. Eren slammed the drawer shut and glared at it with flashing eyes. He knew that what Levi had said would now haunt him forever and he would always be worried that he'd deliberately end his life. Eren shrugged on his hoodie and hauled his heavy rucksack over his shoulder before opening the door. Levi had been skipping classes over the past horrendous week as well which really wasn't like him and Eren would do the same now if he had to. Levi was his priority now. He had a lecture scheduled now but he was going to see Levi and stay with him if he felt it necessary. He wasn't ready to lose him. As the teen walked down the corridor and headed down the stairs, he wondered how this was going to end. Was he going to be successful? Would Levi actually be able to quit in the end? Or would Eren's efforts be for nothing and he would carry on, eventually killing himself? Eren felt a lump form in his throat and he shivered at the thought but he shook his head, trying to get rid of it. He would do his best. Levi WOULD quit, with Eren's help, he would. Eren was determined and he wouldn't stop trying. The brunette headed out of the college and walked down the street, turning left down the deserted alley he knew Levi now used for smoking. He trudged down to the black hooded figure at the end, wisps of smoke rising into the air. He leant on the wall beside him.

"You may not care if it kills you, but I do and I won't let it happen. I can't lose you, I just can't... I don't know what I would do without you." Levi just grunted in response and shook his head beneath his hood, taking another draw on the cigarette before breathing out and letting the smoke curl around them both before disappearing. Eren watched it, the smell rushing up his nose. He hated the fact that Levi was doing this. The ravenette tapped his cigarette, letting loose ash fall to the floor.

"Is that so?" He sighed, popping the end of the cigarette back between his cracked, cold lips.

"Yes. It is." Eren said quietly but firmly. "I can't imagine life without you now, I don't know what I'd do if you left me for good..." He whispered. The scent of the cigarette was disgusting to Eren, and he could taste the foul odour on his tongue.

"I don't think that's true at all." Levi muttered, pushing off the wall and walking away from Eren, leaning on the graffiti smothered bins a couple of metres away from him. "I think you'd feel like that at first and you'd be upset... But after what, a few days, maybe a week, you'd realise how little an impact I made on your life and you'll realise how much easier and better it is without me. You'd be back to normal with Armin and Mikasa, you wouldn't have to keep your room so tidy, you wouldn't have to get upset or hurt by some moody twat and you wouldn't be skipping class to go and see him either." Eren swallowed, shaking his head as he watched the hooded figure that was his room-mate and boyfriend take a puff on his cigarette and casually talk about what life would be like if he died. It was heartbreaking, he'd never wanted to stand and watch someone do that – EVER.

"Th-that's not true..." Were all the words Eren could muster. He didn't know what to say to that. Some of it was true but there was so much more. True he wouldn't be skipping to go and talk to him, but he would be skipping classes because he would be too upset to go. Mikasa wouldn't be the same, Eren would be more distant and he'd lose friends, his room would be cold and lonely with only the faint smell of smoke as a memory of who he'd once shared it with. To tell the truth, Eren would be completely broken. He'd probably resort to cutting like Levi in the end and Eren was well aware of this fact. He'd probably end up exactly like Levi was now, addicted to death. "I would feel like it was my fault and I would never forgive myself. You have no idea how much I'd miss you, do you? You really don't! Levi, I fucking love you, ok? This isn't just some stupid crush anymore, this isn't some kid watching someone across the library anymore, I am in love with you and I will do anything for you and I mean anything. I am not ready to let you go and if you died I'd probably follow you!" To his complete surprise, Levi smirked at that and Eren wanted to punch him. "You think that's funny, huh? Yeah, talking about you committing suicide is real funny, isn't it." Eren snapped and glared fire at him but Levi just smirked again and shook his head.

"That's not what I'm laughing at."

"Then what are you laughing at?"

"You." He sighed and took a last draw from his cigarette before extinguishing the left over stub. Eren wanted to cry.

"It's not funny, I was being serious!"

"It's because you were being serious Eren." Levi confused him so much, he still didn't understand his mind sometimes.

"Well I'm sorry, I don't get the joke." Eren snapped.

"Go on, go to class you brat."

"Don't call me a brat like this is nothing, because it's not! I'm not leaving because you are unpredictable. I don't want to find you dead afterwards!"

"Fine, I promise I won't, 'shoot myself' or whatever, happy now? Now go." Eren's eyes widened and he clenched his fists.

"How are you being so casual about this?! You're treating it like a joke! I'm staying right here you fucker."

"Fine, you do that but you'll get very bored seeing as I'm just going to stand here. At this rate it won't be me ending up dead, it will be you freezing from the cold. It's snowing you idiot." Eren blinked and looked up in shock. How had he not noticed that? There was very light snow falling down from the grey clouds and they tingled his cold face and melted on the ground as soon as they touched it. There with small crystals on his eyelashes and he blinked them away.

"I go wherever you go, so if I'm going inside, you're coming with me. So? What is it to be?" Eren watched him and Levi rolled his eyes before turning to go.

"Fine."

"See, I know you still care..." Eren mumbled, turning his glare on the cigarette stub. Rushing up to his room-mate's side, he made sure to thoroughly crush the stub with his foot in hatred. He shivered and looked down at the shorter male, still hidden by his hood. He would stick with him through anything.

(A/N:) Hey guys, thanks for all of your reviews, I just love reading your opinions and guesses for what will happen next in the story! Glad you're all enjoying it, thank you SOOO much for reading this far! There's loooads more to come. :) Bye for now!