Lost Girl

by CallMeHillbilly

Elsie wakes up in Trost District in 849. Knowing the course of events that will follow in the next year, she becomes an informant to the Scout Regiment and warns them of the Colossal Titan's looming reappearance, forming close bonds with Levi Squad. Some, closer than others.

61. Tulip Home: Part Two

Levi refused to let Elsie sleep in and not in the way she dreamed - his head between her legs.

She ran the entire village, huffing and panting and coughing. He kept pushing. "Don't stop!" "Move it, move it!" Sometimes he kicked the back of her heel to make her go a tad bit faster so that he didn't feel like they were going slow. Rocks were seen as places for Elsie to use for high lunges and trees were meant for her to do standing squats and everything fucking Levi saw he was making it into an obstacle.

The remaining Scouts took it upon themselves to maintain the village they were isolated in. A crop farm started and seemed to be well underway, the dark soil healthy and watered by the early birds of the group. A scarecrow was being decorated, left half-finished on a rock in a stained Scouts uniform, shredded grass being the chosen stuffing. Hibolt appeared to take over the cooking and hung around the fire pit - he waved happily to Elsie (red-faced, dragging feet, groaning as Levi jogged casually at her side) when they passed - and by the time Levi considered taking a break, there was a heaping serving of eggs and sausage.

Besides the workout being the thing killing Elsie, it felt cooler by the ocean side than it had ever felt in Karanes or Stohess. The ocean breeze sometimes was strong on the winds and pelicans flew loudly overhead only to disappear for days on time. Granfer rose with Hibolt and dealt with the horses, yawning loudly and choosing to go shirtless for his morning chore. Elsie easily ran past him. Levi seemed to have trouble tearing his eyes off. She made a joke about it and had to do twenty push-ups.

The recruits started laundry somewhere deeper in the woods. When they'd ran past the trail Levi made an off-hand joke about how she would be well acquainted with it, womanly duties and all. Still jogging, Elsie pivoted to the right and tackled Levi to the ground. He grunted, losing his air, and fell to his side. She knew better than to stay in his proximity for long and stood up, fixing her ponytail as she looked around for witnesses.

"Sorry, just thought I heard you being a dickwad," She said, out of breath.

Levi shook his pants of dirt when he stood and glowered darkly, "Fuck knows you need to learn how to do laundry. I haven't seen you do it."

"Will that make you break up with me?" She mocked, rolling her eyes and beginning their jog again. "Do I not hold up to your insane cleaning standards?"

"Absolutely not. You're the most disgusting human I've ever met."

"Fuck off!"

Levi caught her by the waist. His arms, warm and everything she wanted, wrapped around her tightly and pulled her to his chest. Instantly Elsie became goo, humming when she turned to look into his eyes.

"We can do that," He murmured, wet lips dragging against her ear. She felt him against her back, hard and growing. She dropped her hands to grab his thighs, clenching in excitement. How could she feel so safe in his arms? "Sneak into these trees... You'll get on your knees for me, won't you?" His voice turned husky with sin.

She nodded in a daze, "Yes."

"And you'll open that pretty little mouth of yours," His thumb forced entrance into her mouth. Elsie instantly groaned, licking at his finger and trying to find his eyes in all the lust that blocked her vision. "Let me fuck your face until your chin is dripping with slobber..." He dragged his wet thumb from her lips to her chin. "Maybe I'll fuck you. You want that?"

She's nodding and he's pulling her to the woods without breaking his cool facade. She wore her sleep pants and a white shirt, nothing she cared to stain, and Levi looked bigger than the trees with the way he was leading her. Her excitement began to wet her underwear and she gripped the back of his shirt to keep close, knowing that holding hands wasn't exactly his forte.

"Captain Levi!"

Levi froze and Elsie groaned, turning to see Erwin crossing the crop field. It's strange, in the back of her mind, to see Commander Erwin in nothing but a shirt and khakis, casually dressed for the day ahead. His eyes seemed to burn with excitement and Elsie knew his line of questioning before he reached them. She'd rather fuck off into the woods.

"Erwin, we're in the middle of a workout-"

"This will only take a few minutes, Levi," Erwin spoke to Elsie. She couldn't blame the man. He knew to get it while he could. "To keep it that way I will be very blunt. I expect the same from you, Elsie."

Anything to get her mouth around Levi's cock, "Very well." Levi huffed in annoyance at her answer. He clearly didn't understand what she did.

Perhaps Erwin assumed their urgency to touch each other had passed in the last twenty-four hours because he rubbed his hands with intent. She knew a dozen questions were going to fly from his mouth and Levi clicked his tongue with the same aggravating realization.

"Let's start with the day you left us..."

Her soldier leaned darkly against a tree while Elsie tried to describe her kidnapping as vividly as possible. Small details could mean something months later but nothing changed in Erwin's expression from the first time she'd given him a summary. She felt her knowledge lacked what he'd gained with Zeke and Eren reuniting.

More Scouts rose as the day officially began. Laughter formed around the crop as they raked soil and picked weeds, horses neighing as they were led for morning patrols to relieve those waiting miles out. The slap of wood being cut and nails brutally being beat by a hammer give background to Erwin's dark frown, the weight of his army echoing with each sound.

"And this Seer business," Erwin remained indecisive with her title. Would there come a day that he'd wrap his head around Elsie's unique circumstances? "You said you prayed every day. Will this continue?"

Her cheek burned from Levi's harsh glare. He'd say fuck yes and fuck Freyja. She felt Freyja in her, a whisper here and there that made her think she was being haunted for leaving Marley. Yes would make Levi happy but it wouldn't keep the voice from coming back. And maybe praying would only allow Freyja further into Elsie and it's a trap to punish her.

"I-I don't know," She wanted to leave it behind. Levi even pointed out that her Seer abilities had never been a choice. Once she'd visited the church in Stohess, she'd started her downward spiral into Freyja's cold, stone arms. "There may be a day that I need to."

Levi wore blinders when it came to Elsie. Erwin watched with a keen awareness that she was a viper in his den, either a Seer to bring help or cause destruction after her awakening. Elsie finally got the answers she always wanted but would she still support Erwin? Of course, he should know with her standing before him.

Erwin zeroed on Elsie and she felt tight in her chest as if she'd been caught in a lie. What could she have said to earn a reaction? His eyes held a look saying he knew all her secrets and she wondered if he could tell Freyja whispered to her.

"When you pray, do you speak in another language?"

Elsie blinked and Levi shifted in her peripheral. His presence filled her side when she said, "Not really. There is an old language that was lost. I wouldn't put it past Zeke to learn it. For me, I drink rose tea and meditate until Freyja chooses to show me something."

"Is there a way for someone to become a Seer?" His line of questioning is leading Elsie to believe one of the prisoners was whispering dark words when they shouldn't be.

The last thing she wants is Eren and Zeke in the same room together, "If there was there would have been no reason to summon me. No, it would have to be with their titan abilities that they can speak to Freyja. The High Priestess barely had one vision in her forty years."

"Time to start gagging the prisoners," Levi separated Eren from the equation with his usual trick of nicknames. "Which one is it?"

"Zeke. He seems very invested."

Was he the reason for the whispers? Could he be stirring Freyja and dragging her attention to Elsie's betrayal? "I need to hear what he says. Freyja is bigger than Marley."

"Freyja isn't fucking real." Levi brutishly growled, eyebrows scrunching in defiance.

Elsie held her hands out, "Titans literally eat humans, how can you say that she doesn't exist? I have fucking visions, Levi, that's not normal!" He'd tie her up if she dared to mention the whispers haunting her since they've landed in Paradis.

"Are we to assume that all titans have this ability?" Erwin asked in slight horror.

Elsie remembered Annie's sudden inclusion in the Scouts yet couldn't remember seeing her around the development. Then again Elsie had been wrapped in Levi's arms the past two days. She barely took a look around until this morning's workout.

"No, no. Just the brothers, it's their titan's abilities and Zeke's knowledge of Freyja. It's a recipe for disaster," She hesitated. What she really wanted was to demand she be taken to speak to them but with her person at her side, she knew they needed to talk it over. She needed to explain to him what exactly she desired. "Hopefully gagging them will stop whatever Zeke is up to. With Eren's support, they could establish a connection with the people of the island."

"A connection?"

"A hive mind. They could make them go mad, happy, flirty... Turn into titans with a single scream."

Levi cursed a word Elsie never heard and Erwin nodded in resigned fate. It seemed the world had given its best shots so far and he remained standing. He could take a few more. With a curt nod of his head, the Commander strode away to gag the prisoners. Elsie watched his broad back disappear between the corner of a faded blue house, lost in the disarray of life.

Elsie barely turned her wide, hazel eyes to Levi. He sighed and seemed to lose his confidence when he dejectedly agreed, "Yeah, I know. You have to talk to them. Fuck, I knew he'd be a fucking cockblock."

---

Thin strips of sunlight snuck into the tight upstairs bathroom. Streaks of yellow crossed her shoulder blades as she pulled her top off, releasing it to freely fall wherever on the stoned floor. There was no hot water in the village but there was a well in the center that they stopped at before returning to the house. Levi patiently waited downstairs as it boiled in a pit in the backyard, a fenceless land of green that Elsie claimed essentially.

She lazily kicked her pants to where she thought her shirt landed and raised her arms to undo her hair, catching the sound of steps in the hallway. Double checking that the large horse barrel was clean, she stepped out of Levi's way as he hauled in two boiling pots of water. He dunked them over without looking back and slapped the pots on the floor. It filled halfway but they just needed warm water.

Elsie attached herself to his back, pushing his shirt forward to help. Her fingers explored the divets of his hip bone while he pushed his sweats to the floor. Quickly he caught her wrist, pulling until she stood before him. Briefly she wondered if it was because he didn't want her tracing his scars. He helped her into the barrel, the water already cooling from the spring temperature.

"I'm offended," She told her naked companion. Something about sitting in a barrel beneath Levi made her feel small and cared for. Warmth grew in her chest without the help of the water. "You didn't even look at my ass."

"How would you know? Your back was turned," Levi rebutted. Elsie pressed against the back of the barrel and pushed her legs out, raising an eyebrow when she fit. "Hold on, where the fuck are the towels?"

She giggled when he turned in bewilderment only to disappear into the bedroom. The patter of his feet brought a smile to her lips. Crazy to think that not a week ago she took exquisite baths filled with the finest oils and bubbles. Now she sat in a functioning shower with no running water in a horse barrel. She was still laughing when Levi returned.

"Has it finally happened? Have you lost your mind?" Levi snarked, hanging the towels over the door before waving his hand hastily. Elsie curled her knees to her chest and he sunk in, trapping her on either side with his legs.

Elsie rested her own on his stomach and leaned back, losing the laughs but not her smile. She couldn't with him around, "I did have a servant and she made these lavish baths with expensive oils so I smelled like coconut or lavender and bubbles that would change color."

"And now you're in a wooden barrel with an island devil," Levi's hair fell over his face when he bent to watch her toes wiggle against his sternum. He trailed his fingers over her ankles before resting his hand on top of her shin. "Fucking glorious, isn't it?"

"This is the best bath in my entire life," She declared.

He chuckled, "Pass the soap, shithead."

She grinned at his hidden I love you and turned to grab the bar of soap and washcloth from the shower holder. He sudded the cloth and began to rub at her legs, losing his carefree grin and settling into a serious routine. He circled the tender underside of her legs, probably subconsciously knowing she'd be sore from their workout, but mentally elsewhere.

Elsie rested her head against the lip of the barrel and whispered, "What are you thinking about?"

Hadn't there been a time he'd asked her those exact words? Levi's gunmetal gaze hardened, briefly considering not discussing before he exhaled and dipped the rag in the water. Once clear it began to turn a light milk color around their bodies.

"You and those fucktards tied up are probably the only people who know what's really going on," He dropped her legs so they could soak and grabbed her right arm. He began with her palm, tickling the inside of her wrist, before taking his time at her elbow. "I can't keep you from being in the middle of this."

Elsie sat up, their noses brushing. She looked so deeply into his eyes and wished he could understand that she didn't want this either but it didn't scare her anymore. Not like it used to. Like how he's not scared as much as he used to be on missions. The fear is still there but pushed back, calmed by the idea that they've beaten life this far.

"If we're in the middle of it, we will be ahead of everyone else."

He grinned, "When did you become so sharp?"

"When you started punching me around."

"It's the way of the world," Levi brushed her damp hair back. The tips were soaked from the water, and the rag was forgotten against her elbow. "You handled being in that shit hole by yourself, didn't you?"

She caught his hand and pressed her cheek into his palm, "I never want to do that again. I hate sleeping alone."

"You're too pretty to be alone." His thumb rubbed soothingly into her skin. His lashes seemed longer this close and his lips barely parted when he spoke.

"And no one made tea." Levi watched her lips form the words before dropping to her chest, catching on her Iceburst necklace.

He gave a parting tap to her cheek before his hand moved to the back of her neck. She slowly leaned closer when he murmured, "A fucking crime against humanity. Is that why you drink shitty brandy?"

"I prefer wine but I left it," Elsie grinned, proud of herself for her next line. "You taste far better."

"You're the worst Lady Seer there ever was."

Elsie barely restrained herself from cutting his sentence off. Her mouth fit perfectly against his, hungrily devouring his last breath. The water sloshed against the sides when he pulled her into his lap, one hand on her neck and the other holding her hip. She thought she was in control but it was a lie he let her believe. His teeth clung to her bottom lip, demanding her return. His hand controlled the swivel and pressure of her bare pussy against his growing cock. He didn't allow her to breathe. Levi dominated her in all possible ways he could.

Elsie lifted herself, hooded eyes carefully watching for a reaction. He laid his head back and observed her as he would a cadet making a bad decision. His eyes trickled to her breasts and she hurriedly dived her hand into the water. Levi tried to stop her but she lined his hard cock perfectly to her clenching entrance. He barely smacked her hand when she sunk onto him, moaning more at winning than in pain. Just as he filled her, the pressure of his cock swelling inside, he grabbed her by the neck and yanked her eyes to his level, truly settling them as one.

"Fucking shithead, just take what you want?" He snarled yet did absolutely nothing to stop the slow rotations of her hips.

Persistent banging suddenly infiltrated their steamy bath time. Levi and Elsie turned as one to stare through the bathroom doorway, neither breathing too loud as they listened to the knocking from below. Elsie hung her head.

"No," She whined, pouting when Levi was the first to move. She fell back into the lukewarm water, leaning on her elbows so the water lapped at her perky nipples. Her legs fell apart when Levi, dripping in water, stepped out. "Didn't you say I was too pretty to be left alone?"

"Not during work hours," Levi rapidly towel-dried and didn't seem all too bothered to put his clothes on with damp skin. Her nose crinkled and Elsie sunk further into the water, refusing to move. "Hurry up, you have ten minutes."

"I'm going to finish myself off!" She taunted.

Levi caught the doorframe and swung back in. He bent into the tub, yanking her up until she bared her naked breasts to him, water dripping down her torso. She lost her breath with how attractive he was.

"Your impatience will get you a half-assed orgasm leaving you itching for my fingers," Levi called her out. She practically panted at his dire tone. "Go ahead, fuck yourself. I won't fuck you later."

A sudden shot sounded from their bedroom. Levi rounded the corner into their bedroom and she recognized it as a flare gun, knowing as much when she clumsily tripped to the window in a towel to see the green smoke filling their doorstep and creating a streak down the street. Obviously misfired. Levi pushed the window open so they could see Connie and Jean yelling at each other on the porch steps below.

"See what the fuck happens?" Levi harshly reprimanded her. Although how this was at all her fault she couldn't connect the dots.

She blinked at him, "Does this mean you'll spank me?"

"Fucking hell." Levi pushed from the window pane to march downstairs and figure out exactly what happened with the squad.

Elsie pondered the possibility of ever having sex without someone knocking at the door while she dressed. Levi's angry beratement floated through the window, mixing with the mid-morning bustle of the birds outside. She smiled to herself as she strapped her military-issued boots and tucked her shirt into her uniformed pants. Nothing felt better than being home. Instead of seeing the negative and grouching over the interruption, she took it to add as a reason for the sex room.

Voices filled the once barren house. Elsie skipped down the stairs and twirled into the kitchen, smiling to her ears when she saw Levi's squad casually leaning against the counters. Mikasa was the only grouch in the environment, slumped with pouty lips she attempted to hide behind her precious scarf.

"Just because you're the Captain's wife doesn't mean you get out of duty," Ymir immediately took the chance to call Elsie out. She stopped, refusing to blink as she dangerously stared the taller woman down. Her heart was beating too fast for her to consider checking Levi's expression. "Honestly, where's the equality?"

"Ymir, don't waist your breath. You're going to need it when you go down on the Queen," Levi retorted. His sarcastic drawl drew Elsie's deadly attention, slightly curving her appeal in murdering Ymir in front of everybody. "Since you brats knocked down my door for a debrief guess we'll start. To answer the only question you have; Eren will be prisoned until further notice."

Mikasa and Armin didn't go down without a fight. Elsie credits them for passion and radical belief as their cheeks turned red and their eyes began to glimmer with pent up frustration. It did nothing to change the outcome of Eren's decisions. The Seer preferred to mad-eye Ymir with the intent to tackle her the moment they stepped off the porch. There was more of a chance knocking insult to pride before releasing Eren.

Ymir raised an eyebrow as if she didn't remember Elsie threatening to end their lives if they called her Levi's wife. Elsie ensured she retained the memory by slicing her thumb across her neck, insinuating that Ymir was going to die soon. The Jaw titan did little to look nervous. She rolled her dark eyes and turned her attention to the bickering.

"Elsie!" Armin turned to the one girl not paying attention. She blustered beneath Levi's dark gaze, knowing damn well the answer was already no. "Tell him you haven't had a vision of Eren doing anything to harm us!"

Levi remained blasé, "Yes, Elsie. Do tell." His crossed arms gave the impression of restrained anger.

"I haven't had a single vision since I've come back," She innocently held her hands up. "I'm sorry, Armin. I don't know what to do about this one."

She had an inkling of an idea of how to solve this situation but it would enrage Levi. Not worth bringing up in front of the younger kids who still believe there's a chance to save everyone's lives. Elsie discovered there's better turnouts with ending lives instead of giving second chances.

"You said you would look!" Mikasa turned with rage. She stomped towards Elsie, filling the once ambient room to a gas chamber. "Are you not going to help us now? Because Captain Levi said no?"

Elsie couldn't lie, "I don't know what to do, Mikasa. I'm sorry." She'd listen to Levi to keep him. That's all she knew to do in life.

"So you can't have visions?" Mikasa demanded. She wanted answers. She wanted Eren back. Elsie had no idea how to get those things into her hands. "What's the use of you then?" Her voice cracked from emotion and she shook her head, catching herself.

"Mikasa..." Armin raised his hand to comfort his best friend. The older girl shrugged him off before storming out of the kitchen. She made sure their shoulders connected and Elsie swayed from impact.

The front door slammed in betrayal and Armin hung his head. Elsie seemed to have lost the courage to meet Levi's eyes and focused on Sasha's tapping feet. Commander Maggath had said the same thing the night of Liberio's attack. She knew more than she let on but wasn't that what Seers did? Keep the trouble so they could solve it?

"When the fuck will you two get along?" Levi asked rhetorically. Mikasa's hatred for Elsie was long-lived and didn't seem to be dying out anytime soon. "Tag along with the idiots for chores. Everyone else, routine chores, and they better be fucking done well. We'll meet when the sun begins to set for further updates."

"Idiots?" Elsie echoed.

Connie wiggled his eyebrows from across the way.

---

Elsie, Connie, and Jean were sentenced to do grueling work in the crop. Her flabbergasted expression seemed to give the guys enjoyment. They taunted she wasn't the Captain's favorite anymore and she wanted to gloat about what they were doing when the cadets knocked but kept her lips shut. She was already being punished for what he knew she was going to ask.

Levi probably read her face when Erwin explained someone was praying. She couldn't hide it from herself. She needed to speak to Eren or Zeke, especially since the whispers started the moment they landed on Paradis Island. It led back to Zeke, to Freyja, to the lines and the beginning of titans. And Levi couldn't keep her from it if he chained her feet to the ground.

Sasha and Mikasa disappeared to help Levi with Historia errands, whatever that meant. His agitation from Elsie's threat seeped out of the bedroom although she doubted that's what started his tantrum. He had a feeling she'd need to see Eren just as much as she did and it was a rabbit hole into Freyja.

"Hey, stop stabbing the ground and actually shift the soil!" Connie berated Elsie. The sun burned his bald head, his hair slowly beginning to grow longer after the winter months.

She huffed and took a breather, leaning against the rake. She knew how to use a rake. She chose not to do it properly out of a fit of anger. Fuck Zeke. He was the real cog in the machine. If it wasn't for him then Eren never would have been led to this path. She should've dealt with him instead of Willy.

Heh. What a true politician she's become. Plotting murders across the board to get to her main goal. Willy would be proud.

"I heard you returned," A cool voice said from behind. Elsie paused from her raking. "All regal and shit."

"I wouldn't say regal. You look good, Annie." More surprised the female titan wanted to speak to Elsie. She looked far more healthy than when they'd last spoken. She filled her clothes with filled out cheeks and sharp eyes prepared for a rapid firing of questions. Elsie couldn't see the prisoner she'd once been.

The blonde narrows her blue eyes before gazing into the distance, "You went to Marley?"

"Stayed in Liberio mainly. Sometimes went to the internment camp. It's a beautiful nation."

Annie snorted and shook her head, "You don't have to lie to impress me."

"You're right. It's shit over there. Everyone has a stick up their ass."

"It does feel nice to have someone to talk to about it. Isn't it crazy how they walk with their noses in the air?"

"Okay, I thought I was the only one that noticed that!"

Annie and Elsie fall into a conversation regarding the stalls in the internment camp. She understood what Annie meant instantly. She knew who Gabi and Farlan were, understand the difficulties with Ron at the gate, and even had some stories about her own run-ins with the guards. They talked shit about Willy's pristine outfits and Commander Maggath's gruff attitude. Although at him there was a sense of devotion and love that Elsie couldn't quite find common ground on. She ushered them past that subject fairly quickly.

"So what do you do now that you're a free woman?" Elsie asked.

Annie shrugged and tried to act indifferent, "Not necessarily a free woman but close enough. Before they took off with Zeke I was helping Eren with his hardening ability. He managed to fill the hole in Shiganshina shortly after you disappeared. Things were going good until Zeke showed up."

"Aren't you happy that he did?" Elsie treaded lightly. Who knew what could set the Female titan off. The others had months of time with her while Elsie was playing catch up. She seemed to be doing good so far. "What about Bierthodlt? I haven't seen him around."

"I would have much preferred Pieck but beggars can't be choosers. He made things tense between the Commander and I," She frowned before her crystal blue eyes met Elsie's. "I've worked hard to survive here. I have to make it home alive. Bierthodlt chose to take matters into his own hands and left. Where he ended up, I don't care."

"Why didn't you join them on the boat?"

"The Commander."

"Makes sense. Two titans against his one. That wouldn't play out very well."

She nodded, "Now they're back."

"Now we're back. Zeke's tied up and you're talking to me," Elsie grinned and Annie seemed to relax slightly at the reminder. "Looks like the Commander picked his side."

"Oi," Connie raised a hand to block the sun from his eyes. He squinted, sweat dripping from his hairline and catching in the crevice of his eyelids. He fruitlessly tried to sweep it away. "Are you planning to break into Eren's cell?"

"No!" Elsie quickly rebutted. She checked to make sure Levi wasn't conveniently hanging around the corner. He had a way of hearing the worst possible things.

Annie called, "Yes!"

The first reason to stop Connie and Jean from dropping their rakes was Levi. He'd break up with Elsie. Her choice to remain in this world would literally be pointless without him. There was nothing without Levi. She's lived it and she can personally say it fucking sucks in this third world dimension. The second reason to drag Annie, Connie, and Jean back was because she didn't want to lose Levi.

"I can not go with you," Elsie desperately explained. Annie and Connie ignored her in favor of grabbing Elsie's elbows and luring her out of the crop and towards the path. She shook her head, stabbing the toes of her shoes into the upturned soil. "I need to find Levi."

"When did you become so dick obsessed?" Annie tightened her grip, chin clenched in determination. Connie whistled happily ahead, leading his little kidnapping committee. "Talk to Eren so we can figure out why he turned so titan and get him out of there. You know it's the right thing to do."

"It's what Mikasa wants and not what I want," Was it nature's curse that Levi was never around when Elsie was in trouble? "It's not the time to speak with him. I'll do it tomorrow!"

Mediating did not go in her favor. With three Scouts flanking Elsie there was no escape. She wrestled and tripped their ankles but little deterred them. She had a suspicion that this plan had been concocted before ambushing Levi's house. Set in motion by the younger soldiers, Annie and the boys were determined to follow orders through.

"Just talk to the kid and you can go about your day," Jean tried to ease the situation. Elsie's panicked expression made him wince and rub his the back of his head. "Listen, he has the biggest crush on you and it'll go a mile if you do this. Even Mikasa knows it."

Connie snorted but it sounded miles away, "He has a thing for girls in relationships."

"What great friends you are, airing his secrets out." Annie dryly stated.

Elsie gasped and choked and struggled more. She struggled so much that her feet lifted and they ended up carrying her to the prison house. Every moment spent with Eren replayed, a fast forward of their first meeting to sitting on stair steps and talking about brothers to standing up against Levi with him. She always stood by his side - to support his growth as a person. She took his adoration at an idol standpoint, a person who knew more than anyone else that he worshipped.

"Is this it?" Connie stopped to stare expectantly at his prisoner. He pointed to a house that looked oddly familiar but considering Elsie wasn't forthcoming, she returned his blank stare. Neither blinked. Nor moved.

"Are we going to do this forever?" Neither moved at Jean's annoyed scoff. "Oi, fuckers, knock it off. How old are you again?"

He must have been a statue in his past life. Elsie felt the twinge of an itch beginning behind her knee and a hair shift from her ear to her cheek and it began to bother her. Why was she noticing such small things about herself at this moment? Why was she suddenly thinking of wide-eyed, beaten but smiling Eren greeting her when he came out of his cell in Liberio?

Annie snapped her fingers and Elsie blinked. Connie laughed at her impotence, rousing her anger.

"Which house is it? Come on, give it up. We're already here," Connie spun in the empty street.

She highly doubted that Erwin left the house without protection. With her Iceburst that didn't matter. Discretely using her Seer gift? That's another problem for another day.

"Look at me," Elsie demanded in her Lady Seer voice. Loud and decisive. Annie glanced down, Jean tipped his chin, and Connie stopped to turn. "Take-"

"There you are!" Fumio waved eagerly from a porch two houses down. His voice echoed the otherwise empty street. "We got about an hour before Captain Hange and Hibolt show up! Let's go!"

Fuckers! The whole fucking Regiment wanted to prove Eren's innocence. They truly believed that it was Zeke who convinced to commit such cruel acts against humanity. Elsie had an inkling that it was all Eren's radical decision to end the world's problems. His golden heart went too far this time.

Trapped between her own squad and Fumio, Elsie clenched her teeth and tried to save her dignity by walking herself the rest of the way. Nervous she was going to take her chance to run away Annie and Jean still kept their hands on her shoulders. Feeling like a child more than she liked, they led Elsie up the steps and into the house holding Zeke and Eren.

She felt Levi's warmth leave her the moment she met Zeke's taunting gaze. As Erwin's orders, the brother's were gagged and chained with four Scouts standing guard. None of the guards seemed surprised at their arrival. Fucking traitors. Her lips curled in disdain and she refused to meet Eren's gaze in her last defiant stand for Levi.

"Mmfjlf Phmph!"

Connie sneered at the bearded titan, "Shut up, asshole."

"Come on, do your weird magic that you learned over there," Jean encouraged Elsie closer. Annie remained further back and that didn't go unnoticed by Elsie. "Sounds like they worshipped you for doing something."

Elsie fantastically could do nothing at all. She stared at the boarded window above the brother's dark heads and stated, "No."

"Why are you being so bitchy about this? Did Captain Levi threaten to kill you?" Annie sarcastically asked.

Elsie muttered, "Pretty much."

"Talk to him and we can all go about our days," Connie sighed and leaned against the wall behind Eren and Zeke. It did nothing to compliment his height between the two other guards. "At this point Hange will tell Captain Levi you were here."

"That I stood here for an hour refusing to talk to Eren? Good plan, really paints me in a pretty light," Elsie forced her flattered tone. "Let's see who can wait longer. No fucking cheating, Annie!"

No one noticed Zeke's dirty hands curl into his lap or how he slowly seemed to grow into a small ball onto the floor.

"Eren, look, Elsie came to see you!" Jean cooed, crouched at Eren's side and trying to make him look even sadder than he already did bound and gagged. He inched Elsie closer and she shook his disgusting hands off. "Your best friend!"

Crooked, malicious fingers dug into Elsie's ankle. She screamed more in surprise than pain, felt Jean's hands on her, but suddenly streaks of lightning burn her eyes. She clenched her eyes shut to keep from seeing the raining lines of light but they follow behind her eyelids and she's suddenly seeing through Zeke's eyes. She sees his childhood and plays baseball with a man hidden by the sun. He's growing, once so full of hope only too morph into a hardened veteran. And he's putting her beautiful vial liquid into wine and giving it to friends in Liberio and friends on Granfer's ship to Paradis Island and to the thirsty travelers he met along his way.

Just as fast as she's blinded with Zeke's sight, she's thrust back into reality. Her head jerks back, a reaction from the sudden darkness in the house. Zeke's vision knocked her on the floor, laying on her side with Annie cradling her head. Realizing that very situation, Elsie pushed herself away and tried to stand on her wobbling legs.

She drank the wine Zeke brought to Willy's house. Granfer and no doubt Sasha, even maybe the people in this room with her, drank that wine. What did the liquid do? She needed more answers but it required taking Zeke's gag off.

The Beast titan seemed proud of Elsie's reaction. He hungrily watched her pant in the corner, stricken and watching him for a sudden attack. As if he could move from where he crouched chain to the floor. Jean and Connie, including the two guards, delivered a good round of kicking for her attack. Only Annie and Eren stared at Elsie as intently as Zeke.

Anxious beneath the Titan's attention, Elsie gathered her wit and walked out of the house.

---

Following the road of chatting people, Elsie eventually found the house claiming to be HQ. She declared it such when she caught sight of Erwin and Hange talking on the porch in the fading after noon light. Hibolt waited at the edge of the stairs, kicking at rocks and talking to another of Hange's squad. They were on their way to see Zeke, who probably would tattle the second they removed the cloth from his mouth. She only had the night to enjoy Levi's company before shit hit the figurative fan.

"Hello there!" Hange happily greeted with a beaming smile. Erwin seemed put off that their conversation ended. "Done with your chores?"

"Is it crazy to say that I missed them?"

Hange shrugged one shoulder, "It'd make more sense why you ended up with Shorty of all people."

"A match made in heaven," Elsie clarified. She didn't want them to think she didn't obsess over him, of course. Just in case they missed that part. "Is he inside?"

"Still talking to Historia. They're planning to make a visit to a local Lord for support against the crown," Erwin glared at Hange for saying too much. The scientist continued casually. "Pastor Nick will be there as well, we heard."

"That's great! She has the Church's support!" Elsie couldn't find a negative in that. The Church held the majority opinion among the people.

"More chance for assassins to strike," Erwin never missed a chance to reprimand Elsie for not seeing the bigger picture. "Everyone will be involved."

"Even better." Levi couldn't leave her tied to the bed for this mission. She couldn't help the tingle of excitement in her fingertips. Things would be somewhat normal in the Regiment for a while.

Erwin wasn't all that surprised at Elsie's eagerness. Her need to be in the front lines constantly caused Levi heart problems. He glanced at Hange as if they had spoken about this before and neither was surprised with her answer.

"Levi is finalizing the details with Historia then we'll know the rest. Do you need something to do?" Erwin looked down the street. Multiple Scouts were finding themselves finished with chores and relaxing for the day.

Elsie hurriedly shook her head before he found an idea, "Nope, not at all. I have so much more to do actually, this list he gave me is just gruesome."

"Sweeping roofs?" Hange guessed. She lacked her usual energy at playing a guessing game. "Cleaning the bottom of the river?"

"Among other things," Elsie noticed certain changes among the group. Mikasa still hated Elsie, as she has and always will. Hange wasn't following Levi's footsteps like she was programmed. "Are you waiting to talk to Levi?"

Hange pretended that she had objects to fix in her pocket and shook her head. She muttered something about being late and took the steps by two to meet Hibolt at the end of the porch. Relieved to finally be doing his job, Hibolt didn't ask questions and led his Captain to the prison house. Elsie watched the scientist leave, more puzzled than she'd ever been.

"Are they not best friends anymore?" Elsie asked rhetorically. There could be a million things on Hange's mind. It'd be fickle of Elsie to assume only Levi and titan limbs filled her brain.

Erwin double-looked before making sure the door was perfectly shut behind him. He bent so he was slightly closer to the shorter girl and softly asked, "He didn't tell you?"

"Tell me what?"

---

Levi commandeered his time with the Queen. Did he sense the dark cloud lurking outside the front door? An inkling of a feeling must latch into his stomach because he keeps the Queen, two other Regiment soldiers he assumed were capable enough to comprehend their discussions, and Ymir - who attached herself as Queen consort - for another forty minutes. Elsie suspected she gained the title through Regiment gossip instead of policy.

Erwin left after divulging the catastrophic birthday party Hange planned for Levi. No time soon did the sun plan to set, allowing more than enough time for Elsie to steal Levi's attention and resume her afternoon chores. There was mention of feeding horses after lunch and it slid a knife into her already festering heart. Sunni, her precious mare that died during Zeke's first attack in Shiganshina, wouldn't be in the stall beside Levi's black stallion.

Sitting on the porch sure did a lot to rile Elsie's festering grudges. She sat and sulked over Zeke attacking Paradis Island, sniffled and almost cried over not having a horse, and grew rapidly annoyed with Levi the longer he took in the house.

Eventually, the door creaked a resounding release. Elsie spun, having found it comfortable to wait on the steps of the porch, and anxiously watched the two senior Scouts walk down the steps. They both seemed to have glazed-over eyes and a slow, waddle to their gate. Historia and Ymir appeared hand in hand, and not so lovey-dovey as Elsie last remembered.

She stood when her eyes met Historia's blue ones. She held her shoulders straight and didn't curl into herself when making eye contact like she once did. No, a woman stood before Elsie, and she barely recognized her. Ymir proudly coated her side, cat-like eyes feasting on Elsie's reaction when Historia spoke in a mature, slow murmur.

"I'm so glad you're back, Elsie," Historia smiled but it didn't reach her eyes. Although embodied with power, she lost the playful mirth that attracted the squad to her in the first place. "I've heard so much about your trip, join us tomorrow to speak more about it?"

Levi filled the doorframe and he almost turned back at the end of Historia's question. Elsie watched the weight of frustration and gloom press on him, dragging his eyelids down and his lips into a forever straight line. Gravity seemed to add fifteen pounds to him alone.

"How about dinner?" Elsie mediated. Secrets were never hidden for long from Levi. Eventually, he'd discover she was dragged to speak to Zeke. Eventually, she'd spill the beans on her vision and how she'd drank wine related to her ultimate doom. "I think the whole squad deserves to hear it."

Historia smiled in pleasure, "Even better. I appreciate the idea," She led Ymir past Elsie. She paused at the last step and looked over her shoulder, golden hair crinkling slightly but doing nothing to deter her angelic appearance. "I like your necklace."

She controlled the twitch in her fingers to keep from grazing the Iceburst. The retreating Queen did little to keep Else's attention once she turned her back. Elsie spun to watch Levi shut the door, knowing she'd pressed a button when he didn't immediately sweep her in his arms and beg to pick up where they'd left off. She braved the steps separating them and wrapped a hand around his wrist, pressing herself into his side.

"I won't be in the meeting tomorrow." Elsie coerced. It was barely the tip of the iceberg but it did enough to melt Levi into the conversation.

Levi broke her hold to turn for the stairs, "It's not you. I'm pissing them off."

"Who?" Elsie doubled her steps to keep up with Levi. They were the same height yet he managed to sweep her out the ballpark.

"All of those greedy fucking twats," His pristine black combat boots smudge when he kicked at a clump of dirt. It broke into a smithereens of flying dust, straight for Elsie, but she continued to blindly follow him down the empty street. He'd left his cloak in their bedroom so his white shirt burned bright beneath the sun and highlighted his bulking arm muscles. "They're trying to take the easy way out and that's not how we fucking do shit. We're the Goddamn Scout Regiment, fuck, we can do fucking anything."

It wasn't the time to bring up her questions surrounding his thirtieth birthday party. He continued to rampage through the street, kicking lumps of dirt and cursing those above to the darkest pits of hell. Elsie pondered her line of attack. She knew he loved to burn steam by having a good round of punch Elsie around, but she wasn't exactly in the best stamina to be taking rage-fueled Levi on. Not entirely her favorite thing to do anyway. He always grew grumpy over their plans, dating back to when she landed under his squad's care. Elsie didn't have to spare second guessing on how to bring him back to her.

"Levi," She called when he was too far from her. Elsie stopped walking, planting her worn, hand-me-down boots into the ground. She spoke when his stormy gaze met hers. "Whatever the hell happened in there, you're going to figure it out," She rolled her eyes and closed the distance between them. He was sure trying to stomp off his problems. "You always get what you want."

Her speech sucked because she didn't feel any better when he desperately peered into her gaze. Usually, she'd barely get a word in before he was claiming that she didn't know what she was talking about and then they'd be screaming and fighting and she hoped it would turn into kinky sex in the woods. This time Levi only barely nodded, a stiff jerk of his chin, and he grabbed the back of Elsie's neck so tightly that she was scared someone was coming for them this second.

"I'll figure it out," He murmured, dragging her forward to press his lips firmly against her forehead.

Elsie learned that lying didn't get them further in life, "I feel like this is a big problem. You can talk to me."

"I already solved it," His lips dragged against her dry skin and it hurt when he didn't try to look into her eyes when he spoke. "I got you back, didn't I?"

"If that were true you wouldn't be upset," Elsie refused to let him slink out of the conversation. He released her neck and expected her to be okay with walking on. She dug her nails into his wrist and begged. "What's going on?"

He told her to never lie but she knew before he parted his lips that he was lying to her. She wanted to hit and cry and kick him from their shared bed. The unfairness doused her honeymoon phase of returning and she remembered every instance Levi kept her true potential from prospering. He feared letting her leave his bubble of protection. His love for Elsie kept him from seeing her ability to protect herself.

"It's Hange. She's rejecting my proposal for camping near the shores to detect ships approaching. She wants the soldiers to remain stationed on the wall for optimal ODM usage. Does she not realize it allows the enemy so much further into our land?"

He continues to rant and her hands fall when he turned to continue their march to wherever he chose. Levi assumed control of everything. It was Elsie's fault for letting him. She always ran to Levi no matter how many times she told herself that she could handle Annie, or Hange, or Reiner alone.

Elsie followed with nothing to say. His overindulgence in the problem stirred discomfort deep in her stomach. Her fear came true. She returned to Paradis Island with no more help than when she'd first arrived in this world. Levi seemed to know when he called her the worst Seer in existence. The ODM gear lay unused in the corner of their bedroom. His grey eyes traced over it with founded curiosity yet he never asked and Elsie couldn't find a way to form the words on how it came to be.

Guess that's the thing between them. Little lies are allowed to avoid the hurtful truth. No matter how hard Levi tried, he couldn't turn back time and take back her fall into the rabbit hole but he could keep her from continuing. Was this one lie worth letting him run away with?

"I heard a rumor," Elsie taunted, forcing more enthusiasm necessary into her rapid skips to catch up with him. "Maybe it has something to do with how you threw your birthday cake at a wall."

Levi refused to meet her steady gaze. Their walk ended at the tulip-covered porch and he stopped short of the first step. Elsie found more peace examining dark strands of hair breaking free around his ear instead of the flowers.

"No one told her to fucking do it," Levi eventually muttered. He was known for picking on soldiers for fidgeting during line up and he would've given himself a good ass beating for the way he suddenly shifted feet and tucked his hands deep into his front pockets. "Shitty four eyes."

Remorse dripped from his pores when Elsie said, "She was trying to make you feel better."

"I know."

She gave him space in the form of picking the closest patch of tulips and pulling at weeds. The late afternoon sun burned hot against the back of her neck and she prayed for a breeze to pick up so she could smell the ocean. Soft chatter floated further down the road and the clopping of horses passed intermittently.

"So what, she showed up at your door with a cake?" Elsie probed for more information. Erwin managed to spill about a crying Hange holding crumbled cake in his bedroom before guilt wrecked him for gossipping. The fucking nerd scrambled before Elsie could delve deeper into this fascinating topic.

"I took one look and got fucking pissed. I tried to talk to her but it doesn't seem to mean much."

Elsie piled the weeds for a future trash day before standing. She wiped the soil from her fingers on her thighs and Levi clicked his tongue between his teeth. He refused to take his eyes off her now.

"Hange listens more to tone than what you're saying," Levi never learned how to seem empathetic toward people in trouble. A very get the fuck up and don't be a pussy type of man, Elsie couldn't imagine him speaking to Hange no sooner than a month after the incident. Probably assumed time would help her get over the destruction of a home-baked sentiment. "When's her birthday? I'll bake a cake and you give it to her."

"Fuck off with that," Levi grouched and suddenly his hands returned to the comfort of his pockets.

Dangerously Elsie asked, "Do you know her birthday?"

"No one celebrates that shit, how would I know?" Finished with his cross-examination, Levi strode up the porch to open the front door. "She broke into government files to find out about mine. She's a felon."

Elsie laughed at that one, "Go ahead, try to make her sound more dangerous than you. You've worked with her for at least ten years, how can you not know? Do you know my birthday?"

"Sometime this year," Levi's tone implied it was obvious and not to take it personally. "You'll tell me when it gets close."

"I'm not your personal calendar," Elsie wandered the layout of the kitchen before deciding nothing held her attention more than Levi. He headed upstairs for who knows what. She assumed they were going to head for lunch before returning to the house for the day. "Where are you going?"

He ignored her shouting and continued up the stairs. The hard thunks of his boots cross from the front of the house to the back until settling in one place. Elsie huffed and pressed her back against the kitchen counter. She let him skirt by with a lie, there wasn't a reason to tell him about Zeke. It's nice to pretend that everything was fine but she knew the next time Zeke prayed Freyja would whisper in Elsie's mind again. It grew more dangerous each time Freyja managed to make a connection.

"Hey shithead," Levi hollered. She smiled to herself, lifting her chin to stare into the sunny living room. His love filled the house with buzzing electricity suddenly. "Are you going to cry over that freakshow or come up here?"

Elsie harnessed all the control she could muster to not race up the stairs. Her clothes itched to be on the floor, never feeling so stuffy and tight as they did when she entered their bedroom. She'd never seen a finer bed made, even if it was a sack of hay sewn hastily together with old furs used as blankets. She caught sight of his rolling shoulders disappearing beneath a familiar white shirt. He left it half unbuttoned to pluck his cravat off the counter. He spotted Elsie when she slowly inched into the mirror's reflection.

"What are you doing?" She lost her breath. How foolish of her to think he'd been up here washing his face or better yet getting undressed to fuck Elsie.

Once his cravat perfectly rested against the bottom of his throat he buttoned the rest of his shirt, hiding the pale skin that she'd imagined licking and dragging her teeth along. He reached for folded tan pants laying innocently on the porcelain sink. Elsie flashed across the space to slap her hand over the material. He groaned when wrinkles appeared beneath her pressure.

"Squad Klaus failed to report from patrol and before you bitch about not coming, I tagged along because Nanaba suddenly fell sick and can't join Erwin," Trying to decide if there was anything to read behind his words, Levi managed to dislodge Elsie in her momentary distraction. "Want to give me a blow job before I leave?"

She spluttered to form words under the wave of anger that crashed over her, "How could- I don't- You fucking bastard!"

Nostalgia came to her when she lunged for Levi's face, claws out. Her fierce but inefficient scratches only make his cold facade break to form a smitten smile. As if her brutally trying to blind him wasn't making him worry for his safety. Trapped in the small bathroom, Levi had no choice but to swivel so he could wrap his arms from behind Elsie. Suddenly she faced the mirror, her pelvic bone roughly shoved into the lip of the broken sink.

Desperately she pushed against the edge of the counter and swung her head around, "You're leaving me! Two days, Levi, and you're fucking leaving me!"

The devil smiled through wisps of her blonde hair. They caught eyes, one full of righteous fury and the other lustfully feeding off of her reaction. Each jerk of her shoulders caused her ass to rub against his groin. He clapped his hands over hers and bracketed her into his chest, steadily holding on.

"You're acting like I spent the past two days planning it and not balls deep in you," Levi berated, sounding more like her Captain than the man she slept with. His arms straightened on either side of her, the barest graze of their skin sending goosebumps across her arms. "He trusts me, Elsie. Klaus depends on us. There is no one else who can do this, not with the Military Police and Kenny's squad on the lookout."

"Erwin will let me come."

If he didn't then this would be the perfect time to use her Iceburst necklace. Panic settled at the prospect of sleeping alone. How could she spend another night staring at an empty pillow?

"No," Levi kissed beneath her ear, trapping hair under his kiss. It tickled and she squirmed in his hold. He plastered himself against her, truly trying to make her disappear between him and the sink. "They want visions. You can't give them that."

Elsie easily controlled her visions once she found peace while praying with Freyja. It was Levi who couldn't give Elsie over.

"I'll make myself blind to keep you here." Elsie proclaimed so Freyja could hear. Fuck the Goddess lurking in the fringe of reality, waiting for the perfect moment to drag Elsie to her eternal darkness. To the blind rage that infected Zeke and Eren, leaving them loveless and desperate for an end that only led to a fire.

Levi chuckled at her puny threat. He tenderly kissed the bottom of her ear, unaware of the truth spilling from her lips. Johanna Seherin went blind from her visions, what's to keep Elsie from diving into the madness to keep Levi from straying out into the unknown? How many visions until the lights went out?

"Good thing you don't have to do that. I figured it out," She realized this is the secret he was keeping earlier. Levi had to walk off his own anger about the mission before speaking to Elsie about it. Typical. "Erwin and I will travel out so that you don't have to hurt your pretty eyes over it. With a small group, we'll travel fast without the worry of being sighted."

He released one hand to trace her eyebrow to the line of her nose. She leaned into his touch habitually, no matter how badly her blood sang with betrayal. His pointer finger gently fell to her top lip, patiently tracing the line of pink flesh until Elsie's stressed hazel eyes met his in the mirror. When he returned she'd tell him about Zeke. There may be a silver lining to having a day without Levi treading in her shadows.

"How long?" Elsie cataloged praying to her list of activities to do while Levi was gone. She could brew rose tea without his avid obsession coming into play. "I swear if it's more than a day-"

"Depends on if there is a trail to follow," Levi appeared unbothered with the daunting idea of not knowing. She oddly felt comforted. If he wasn't stressed and there weren't titans involved, the worst that could happen would be adding to his kill list. "Will you miss me?"

In an instant, he managed to zap the animosity from her body. Elsie melted into him, accepting that as a grown adult, Levi chose to go on this mission to avoid her use of Seer abilities. Just as fast as she planned to brew rose tea, it disappeared with the loving graze of his fingertip dragging across her parted lips. He refused to break their gaze in the mirror.

"Terribly," She murmured, scared to disrupt the path of his curious fingers. "I'll be all alone in this big house..." He used a fraction of his strength to pull her bottom lip down. It caught on his dry finger before releasing and his hand continued to tickle at her neck.

"Dreaming of you..." One of her hands is free while Levi explored closer to her breasts. Her heart raced when she dropped her hand to spread against her stomach, barely grazing above her pussy. "I'll fuck myself and think of you."

Elsie managed to catch his top lip curl before he clapped his hand against her throat and held her captive. Her heels lifted to keep herself breathing and she forgot her plan to rub her aching clit in favor of grasping his forearm. She met her own wild eyes in the mirror, watching in what felt like a fever dream as her breasts rapidly bounced to keep up with her panting. Her hair mushroomed over his forearm, a blonde puff beneath his sizzling glower.

"Is this what you did?" His dark voice slinks straight between her legs. She felt her pussy clench onto nothing and rubbed her thighs together, desperate to be filled. Levi released her throat to coast his hand between her breasts, over her belly button, and straight to cup her soaking pussy. "Did you lay in your satin sheets and imagine me between your legs?"

Elsie moaned at his barest touch. Dressed in her casual choice of slacks and shirt, the fabric only was used as a sponge for the amount of arousal dripping for attention. He rubbed his palm against the seam of her pants, sideways, back and forth, and her knees give out. Stars of pleasure exploded in her veins. The counter and Levi keep her upright. She caught sight of her red cheeks in the mirror, baby hairs frayed around her forehead and looking as desperate for his cock as she felt.

Levi grinned from above her shivering body and taunted, "I bet you shoved two fingers in and ravaged yourself. Too impatient to work yourself up. What a pity." His palm left her cold and empty only to return with a sharp, brutal smack. He firmly pressed himself back onto her core.

Truth be told, Elsie couldn't bring herself to masturbate without wanting to cry. It never felt right. It reminded her of what she missed. Now? With his palm against her electric clit, she'd agree to any story he told. She shook from the aftershocks of his smack, tingling, desperate, and Levi watched it unfold on her face.

"Pretty girl, you never have to do that again."

Levi burrowed his mouth against the corner of her neck. His mischievous tongue drew her attention more than his hand leaving her. She felt the waistband of her pants lift as he hungrily bit. Elsie curled into him, giving more than space for him to wiggle his hand and in bring the pants beneath the apex of her thighs. Her panties were only foreplay for him to finger aside.

"This pussy is mine," His bare palm rubs against her dripping folds and they both moan at his first touch. She puts her weight into him, the sink more bruising than ever in her stomach, and he bit over his mark once more on her neck. "Think you can keep your hands off for a day? Be a good girl and let me be the only one to stretch you open?"

She's shaking her head before Levi ruefully nods along, both of them playing a part to reach their end goal. As much as she knew she could wait, it was knee buckling to have him imagining her touching herself the entire time he was away with Erwin. When he slept on his bedroll and stared at the stars he'd see Elsie's leg spread with her fingers coaxing an orgasm.

"I'll have to convince you then." He spoke casually but his grip tightened concernedly. A flex in his jaw, darkness forming in his eyes that only came when they were on missions. She grew excited at the idea of Levi being brutal to her. He smirks to himself, leaving her to wonder what sick joke he thought of.

Levi grinds his palm in farewell before retreating to one finger lazily, barely, circling her clit. Elsie whined and jerked her hips, trying to roll herself to meet his touch to gain just even the smallest amount of pressure. It wasn't enough. Her legs quivered from her upheld squat and the sink hurt, but fuck was his finger not enough.

He teased her clit, her arousal his own lubricant to spread, and when she whispered for more Levi answered with another smack to her most sensitive area. He held her captive when she wiggled, pressing his growing dick into the crevice of her ass cheeks. He took advantage and ground against her, relieving his own pleasure while leaving Elsie gagging for more.

Elsie wrapped her hands around his wrist to force him harder on her, ignoring his indignant huff at her childish attitude. He just gave a speech about being eager to please herself. Elsie ignored it all in the sight of a blinding orgasm. He allowed her the briefest moment of using his hand for her to rigorously grind onto and she chanced a look at him in the mirror.

Levi's own cheeks turned red from her performance but he seemed more amused at her desperation. His once pristinely placed cravat now hung crookedly from the constant bump of her head, his shirt wrinkled, and the tan pants on the sink long forgotten. She suddenly had an odd sense of ownership, knowing that when Levi arrived late to Erwin he'd sport the traces of Elsie's love in his clothes.

She released his wrist only to blindly feel for the waistband of his underwear. Thank Freyja she'd come up before he'd managed to put his pants on. Just as her fingertips grazed his leaking head, Levi rutted into her backside. Her hand caught between their bodies, trapped, and he chuckled at her whine of frustration.

"Tell me you won't touch yourself," He bribed deviously. His wet finger slipped between her folds and sunk into her hole until his palm rubbed against her clit. "Tell me it won't feel good when I come back to your tight little pussy," A second finger joins, his pace rising with Elsie's rotating hips. "Go ahead, pretty girl. You love to talk so much, tell me how wrong I am."

Annoyance flares in her heaving chest. How dare he taunt her when he so happily plunged his fingers between her legs? She barely focused on his words with the reflection in the mirror demanding her attention. His wrist flexed with every thrust and she drooled at the way his veins highlighted each rough movement. Elsie's pants were at her knees and she wished her shirt would disappear as easily. Wish he would stop teasing and just fuck her already.

Elsie murmured her agreement between moans. Levi wasn't pleased. He lifted her chin so their eyes met and he coyly said, "Speak clearly."

"Fine," She spat the word. His grip tightened almost painfully against her chin. "I won't touch myself. So bossy."

"If only you listened the first time," Levi rewards her. He released her pussy to drag his wet fingers to her belly button, shimmying her shirt upwards with his drag. Eventually, he reached her breasts and cupped one, taking his time to flick his thumb over her perky nipple. "Grab that."

Elsie confusedly glanced where he pointed. His pants? She barely sees the black twirl of leather on top before Levi yanked her shirt over her head. He tossed it blindly, too interested in Elsie reaching for his belt. She gingerly ran her thumb over the leather, her thighs clenching from her last memory with it. Levi reached around her side to take the curled belt from her hand, only giving her a moment of curiosity before he dragged her hand behind her back as well. He reached for her other arm and Elsie whimpered, resting her head on his shoulder.

"Oh fuck." Her tits bounced like little cheerleaders as the leather trailed the crevice of her ass cheeks to the base of her spine. She shivered and Levi wrapped one hand around her wrists, holding her completely still. Elsie dared not move when it came to the fucking belt.

His head bent to focus on wrapping the leather around her wrists. Black strands of hair brushed her bare shoulder and Elsie trembled with anticipation. Briefly, she wondered if this was his plan all along - lure her in with sex and leave her hog-tied to the bed while he was gone. Call her the most willing victim there ever was.

The phantom presence of his fingers in her pussy has her clenching with the desperate need to be filled. A slap of leather sliding against itself signifies that Levi was finished, ensured when she felt the tight bound of it holding her wrists parallel together. Her elbows bent out against her sides and her beautiful image came together with her wide, blown eyes watching his every move as if she were the predator.

It seemed that Levi's patience for playing came to an end as quickly as she was locked into place. Her fingers wiggled to help him kick his underwear off and then she moaned loudly, so loud she felt the sink vibrate with her. Levi rubbed his bare cock against her ass only to pull back and press between her legs. Her juice coated the shaft of his dick as he so slowly, so enjoyably, dragged himself across her folds. Giving her a tease of what was to come.

Elsie shook against the sink with desperation. She watched his shadowed face for the sign when he was ready to take her. The anticipation dragged just as sexy across her body as his cock. His fingers flexed across her hip and she knew - she gasped with completion when the swollen head of his cock pressed into her.

"Fuck!" Elsie screamed, sinking back into his chest until she was assured with wet kisses that he was fully in her. Her eyes rolled and she lost feeling in her knees. "Don't stop, please!" He seemed more than pleased with cock warming. He refused to pull out, refused to shift, and Elsie clenched around him.

"Feel how tight you are?" Levi groaned against her cheek. "It's fucking heaven if there ever was one."

With one hand on the belt, he used his free one to trail across her chest to latch onto the front of her neck. His fingers dug onto the sides of her neck and he held her head straight, keeping her focus on the mirror. His gunmetal eyes drank the intoxicated flush crossing her chest and face. Levi grunted and slowly withdrew, leaving only his thick head barely at her entrance. He jerked her back by the belt.

Elsie's tits bounced and she yelped, never having been with Levi like this from behind. He'd laid her on the bed at his castle, legs tight and crossed and it had felt glorious to feel his hips smacking against her ass. Now? She bent over the counter, standing on her tip toes from the brute force of his thrust. He reached a deeper part of her womb that she didn't think could be reached.

Her tongue almost fell out of her mouth at the thought of him holding her upright and fucking her. How deep would he be then?

Levi enjoyed Elsie falling with each of his powerful thrusts. He left the head of his thick cock at her entrance only to shove himself into her, using all his power so that a resounding clap of their skin hitting rewarded him for his efforts. After four torturous, slow thrusts, Elsie nearly had her cheek pressed against the mirror. Her breath fogged the reflection of Levi's flushed face watching himself disappear into her.

If he didn't fuck her soon, she was going to lose her shit.

"More," Elsie wantonly begged. Her voice cracked with need. He was leaving her on the precipe of something great. "Fuck me like you mean it."

The fact she sounded so anguished ruined her insult. Levi seemed spurred by the fact that she spoke and gave no warning before his open palm smacked her upturned ass cheek. Elsie squealed, knees hitting the cabinet of the sink, and lurched forward. Levi followed with two steps forward and the brutal attack of his cock.

No longer could she see him. Her breath fogged the mirror from her shameless moans for Levi, her hair matted in her eyes, and part of the intoxication was being able to see Levi fuck her. But it didn't matter at all because his thick dick seduced spine-tingling sensations throughout her body and the restraint of her arms made her feel completely under his control. Levi owned her at this moment and he seemed to realize it, curling a hand into her wild hair to hold her firmly against the sink for his demolition.

The louder her cries climbed the more violent he grew. Her voice sang encouragement for his defilement. Her thighs dripped with her arousal, a wet squelch applauding Levi for delving deep into her, and he feasted off her quivering legs. He ran a hungry hand down her shaking thigh, leading to her round ass for him to slap at. She knew he watched the way her skin jiggled at the slap of his hips against her, knew he loved the way her pink lips spread to take him in so easily.

Usually, by this point, Levi was telling Elsie all the reasons he made his life terrible. He'd tell her off for doing something wrong, say she didn't run fast enough or some shit, but he chose to stick with his dirty talk. His words replayed, and as if sensing her need for a little more of a mental image, he was growling and yanking the belt back until she stood from the sink.

Elsie hiccuped on a cry as he pressed their hips together, his cock snug inside her. He pressed his free hand against her taut stomach and for the first time she caught sight of him. His shirt was stained with sweat and his cravat untucked, bouncing just as energetically as Elsie's breasts. Sweat beaded at his hairline, his lip red and swollen from being dragged between his teeth.

He pushed the hair out of her face so she could clearly watch the way his knees bent to deeply thrust inside of her soaking pussy, "You'll feel me inside even when I'm not here."

Levi refused to stop once he started. Elsie bounced back, refusing to let this glorious sensation of her walls clenching like a fist around him disappear, trying to keep him inside. He had the perfect view of her and didn't let it go to waste - he circled her clit with the right amount of pressure. Her legs lost control, letting her fall onto his cock, and she cried as she came.

The support of the belt kept her upright. Levi ignored her helplessness as a way to suddenly jerk her so she faced the doorway to the bedroom. All she had time to see was the sun in the window before she was on the floor, Levi kicking her ankles out until she was spread. Excitement spurred through her stomach and she arched her back, swinging her hips to entice him.

It didn't take much. Levi sunk into her and she felt whole once more. Elsie moaned, "Oh fuck, yes!"

She expected Levi to join her on the floor. He surprised her by keeping his legs on either side of her hips, crouching to sink his full weight into her. Elsie's cheek molded into the floor without the support of her arms, her legs spasming from how sensitive she was, spreading to have more of him in her. In this position, she could feel his heavy balls slap against her swollen lips with each thrust into her. He stood up to watch her twitch beneath her, her wrists rising with him, only for him to return with threefold the strength.

Elsie sobbed through her second orgasm. Her tears pool on the stone floor and her knees burned from his rough plunge as if he was trying desperately to make her break and fall to her stomach. Her fingers spun wildly in their restraint in an attempt to touch him but Levi seemed to enjoy her lack of being able to hold herself. He actually released a moan of pleasure when she squealed and squirmed forward at a sudden thrust.

"I don't want to leave you either, pretty girl," Levi sounded unhinged, on the edge of a cliff that she couldn't wait to see. She wondered if he bit into his knuckle to keep from coming too soon. Fuck, she wished she could see him through the hair blocking her face. "How can I think about leaving when you look so beautiful like this? I want to stay in you forever, your cunt just begs to be filled."

"Levi!" Elsie lost her mind. Imagining him filling her with his cum, even hinting that she needed his dick constantly, made her proud. He knew how slutty she was for him and him alone.

She couldn't hold her bent knees any longer. Her third orgasm rippled through her like a tsunami and she could only swim with it. Elsie fell to the stoned bathroom floor and because her legs were wiggling too much Levi pressed the top of his thighs onto her and planked into Elsie. Her arms screamed for release, burning from being held too long, and Levi rutted into Elsie without having to pull himself free of her spasming pussy walls.

"Pretty," Levi traced the corner of her ear, panting brutishly as he matched her desperate need. They were one on the floor, legs entwined, his sweaty stomach pressing her fingers into her lower back. "I'll leave you a part of me."

He left a part of him in the purple bruises growing on the side of her neck. There would be thick bands across her wrists in the upcoming days from his belt. Her legs would be sore and she already knew there would be no running tomorrow. She'd feel him in her bones for days, his marks not wanting to leave as badly as she wanted them to stay forever.

"Oh yes," Elsie moaned when he rolled into her, his own groan growing in desperate need to release. "Yes, please, please, fuck me!" She bowed her head for Levi to run his soft tongue along the back of her neck. He nibbled at the junction of her shoulder and neck, digging his teeth into her skin to leave one last bruise.

He gasped suddenly and lost his composure. For the first time, she felt the belt release and her hands instantly slapped the cold stone. Levi pushed deep into her, stilling, and she thought he wanted a kiss. She lifted and caught his dry lips, sweeping her tongue to get more taste of him, but it turned into a wild clash of teeth. Levi smacked his hands against her love handles and rutted one final time, pressing on his toes to bury himself within Elsie.

She never experienced being filled with cum before. Elsie's lips parted in surprise at the warm gush of liquid expanding her insides, filling the parts of her that Levi's softening dick couldn't reach all at once. She curiously rolled back onto him, loving the way she felt his cum slowly drip from where the base of his dick spread across her pussy and how he hissed through his teeth at the sensitivity. He held her down by the bottom of her spine and the sense of being claimed returned. Yes, she was Levi's pretty girl and she'd sit pretty in his bed while he chased the bad men.

"Shit," He cursed from behind. She whimpered when he slowly pulled out and leaned on his heels to stare at her abused hole. "I wanted a fucking blowjob."

Elsie had to convince herself it was worth seeing his cum dripping from her to push onto her elbows and look over her shoulder. She could feel it but saw nothing. Levi caught her line of sight and placed a warm hand on her ass cheek, spreading so she could see the thick, white drops joyfully slide between her red lips. She met his dark gaze.

"I want to go with you," Elsie rested her wet cheek on her forearm, pitifully watching him. "Why did you do that?"

Levi ran his hands over the expanse of her thighs and she sighs with contentment. It didn't worry her that Levi came. She had an inkling of a suspicion that her Seer abilities would keep babies out of her future. Florence had been lucky enough to have children before delving into Freyja's madness while Johana had been sterile from the get-go. On the spectrum, sadly, Elsie shared more with Johanna than her own mind-controlling mother. She never spared a second thought about it because Levi and babies didn't go in a sentence together.

"Didn't plan on it," He gently strokes the pad of his finger down her dripping hole. Elsie gasped and leaned back for him to see, humming when he pushed the leaking cum back into her. "Never did that before. Felt right."

His choppy sentences lead Elsie to believe he was just as blown as she felt. He focused more on keeping his cum inside of her, letting her lay on the stone and recuperate. The belt lay strewn across her back, a lovely reminder of what they'd just done, and her wrists began to sing a painful tune. She watched Levi instead of fixing her problems.

"Me either," It felt special that they were each other's first. No one else had that part of Levi like she did. "Thank you."

He didn't know that she couldn't have kids. For Freyja's sake, Elsie didn't know if she could have kids, but that was a big step for Levi to give her something so daringly unknown. Levi bent and kissed her tired cheek, muttering, "Shithead, my fucking clothes are ruined."

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Curled beneath the fur blankets, Elsie recovered her sore body by laying uselessly in bed. Her soldier meandered throughout the room in hopes of finding another shirt but it seemed that they had both forgotten to do laundry since their return. His constant need to be clean made it unthinkable to wear any shirt that smelled less than pristine and he cursed and sniffed to see which one was better off.

"I like the white one."

Levi scoffed, "They're both white. Fuck off and go to sleep."

"No way," A yawn battled to prove Levi right. She was more than tired but the tickling feeling of something trying to drip from between her legs and a half-naked Levi seemed far more interesting than what she could dream of. "You'll be gone when I wake up."

"And back before your neck needs more care," He must not realize the kink he has in giving Elsie hickeys. He bent to pull the fur down, inspecting the spattering of red and purple across the right side of her neck. "Beautiful."

"You better bring Klaus back so I can yell at him," Elsie battled the drooping of her eyes but once she laid down, there was no defeating her body's need for rest. "I hate this."

"Tch," He sat on the corner of the bed and finished buttoning the shirt of his choice, leaving the cravat he'd chosen from earlier. "You'll be fine. How long until you go see Eren?"

Elsie sunk further into the furs and murmured, "You said I could talk to him earlier."

"I rather you do it when I'm here but I'll probably punch the brat," Levi's lips thinned with displeasure, and his eyebrows furrowed. She hated that she couldn't keep his distress away for longer than a couple of hours. "Historia wants to take you anyway. She has a weird connection with him that sounds like your visions."

Elsie remembered the connection between the royal family and the Founder titan but couldn't care less at the moment. She sighed woefully and said, "I think I'm sick, you should stay and take care of me."

"I know why you're sick and you'll be fine," Levi dryly replied. He easily ignored her batting eyelashes to grab his pants. The tease even made sure she watched when he grabbed his belt off the bathroom floor. "Make sure you eat dinner and do the damn laundry. We're not barbarians."

She giggled at his domesticity and nodded, "Sure thing, captain."

Levi opened his mouth to no doubt scold her but scowled when he realized he was fully dressed, Scout's cloak hanging limply in his fingers. Fingers that had just been in Elsie. She sat up when he crouched once more, trying to be more casual about his mission. She did get a fantastic goodbye already, there were no other cards she could pull to keep him.

"Try not to cause problems, shithead."

She grinned, "Don't take too long, dick."

Levi kissed her forehead and she watched his back disappear from the bedroom. The thunk of boots receded until the clap of the front door signified he left. Elsie pulled the blankets to her chin and sighed. Levi really knew to tire her out before he left. How the man could go ride a horse and keep an eye out, she'd never know. Fucking Ackerman genes.

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Elsie woke up to use the restroom. Dinner had long since been served and she'd slept through it. She sighed and hung her head in the lonesome darkness, staring at the empty bed as she did her business. Only one side of the furs were shifted and it made a horrible feeling sink in her gut. She worried more that it was night and Levi was out there against unknown odds.

Then she grinned, because her wrists held bracelets of bruises and her neck ached each time she moved from his teeth. Her knees still held indents of the stone from being pressed against it so long and she sighed when she wiped, feeling parts of Levi still slipping out of her. Yes, he made sure that he felt her when he was gone.

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"Ahoy there, Elsie!" Granfer waved a friendly hand from a round table he commanded with groggy Sasha. Her head dipped closer to her plate but he didn't notice.

Elsie finished her bun and sat across from the couple, taking no time to gather potatoes from the bowl in the center. Chatter filled the square of the village as breakfast was served. A light ambiance seemed to settle without Erwin and Levi around, which wasn't unusual. They were all about work and it was clear that there was none to be done.

"Morning you two," Elsie glanced as Sasha gave up and rested her arm on the table, snoring peacefully into the crook of her elbow. She raised an eyebrow at Granfer who seemed more than joyful to eat his bowl of mashed potatoes. "Up late?"

"I shared some of our Eldian wine with her," He chuckled and shrugged his shoulders. "She said she could out drink me. I know she has to learn the hard way so I didn't bother breaking her heart. I love it when she thinks she can beat me."

Elsie froze, "She drank the wine? We have wine?" How could she let Sasha down like that? She stared at her squad member like she would instantly turn into a Titan but Elsie drank the same wine and nothing has happened yet.

"Sure, Zeke dragged the rest of it with him. Figured it was a big fuck you to me and the crew but alas, we are reunited. Would you like a sip, my Lady?"

Granfer raised the bottle from where he'd tucked it beneath the table. The dark wine bottle sang to Elsie and she forgot how beautifully red the label was. Brandy didn't hit right after drinking Eldian wine. Her mouth watered at the thought of having it on her tongue, after enjoying just a sip after her night with Levi. It couldn't hurt - whatever Zeke planted in the wine sang to her like the blue vial.

She pushed away from the table, shaking her head, "Where's the rest of it?"

"Off to get your own bottle? Typical," Granfer shrugged and pointed down the lane to their right. She knew only the prisoner's house was that way. "There's a house with a basement that we figured we'd make into a wine cellar. To your right, has broken crates in front of it. Have at it."

Elsie tried not to stare at the soldiers she passed. How many drank the wine? How did Zeke detonate their ability to turn into titans? She wondered if now was the time to tell the other Squad Leaders. Fuck, how had she let this get so far out of hand? She picked up her pace.

Between the wine, Zeke and Eren, Elsie didn't know where to start or what to do. She was only grateful that she could do things her way without Levi lurking around the corner. She touched the Iceburst necklace and exhaled.

Yes, everything will be okay.