"Did you decide what we're doing?"
He lets out a shaky breath and look at the navy blue door as he stood in the sidewalk. Just 3 steps and he would be there. “Honestly I dont know. Come home”
In the dark he can heart their soft breathing, Eren is particular warm, he can feel him over his clothes. In this obscure, quiet moment he can just close in that space and take her lips in his until they are breathless and with a soft turn he can do the same to him. His heat and her softness and their warmth. He can just lean in and take.
It is Mikasa whimpering that sobers him up. She is honestly scared and he should know better. Mikasa was here now and he knows that scary movies or stories alike are not her thing and that she indulges in them when she feel safe and secure. She was normal and he and the brat were just been insensitive bastard. He could feel a wave of mortification wash over him at how he let himself be rolled over with fantasies. He was glad it was dark, he was sure his face was red.
When she leans to rest against him he follows and at her sudden death grip on his wrist he swallows and lets her do as she pleases as well. His friends know that he does not like to be restricted or manhandled but even if for a brief moment he felt his heart ate spike he knows she means no harm to him. None of them do.
“ It is going to be alright. I am going to walk right there to the fire mantle and light one of the candles first. Eren will stay with you and guard you and I will just walk down to the basement and reset the breaker box…” He had moved his other hand and reached in the dark to touch her head. It took him a moment since it was dark. “This is my hand ok….” “here we go…” He can tell her hair from Erens and he runs his fingers gently as he presses the arm that she was holding for dear life in between them. He stretches his fingers to touch a chin.
““ thats me”“ Eren comments to which Levi replies “you alright brat.” ““yeah”“ it comes out a little soft and restrained but Levi doesnt catch it.
Levi pats his face gently and then finds Mikasa’s face. He dares to guide himself closer to her and gives her a very soft kiss by the side of her chin and cheek inches from her lips. “We are all going to be alright. Just be a good girl for me ok..” He is voice is soft but commanding and he starts to untangle his legs from him both and pulling away. There was a soft grunt from Eren at the desentangle and Eren wraps both his arms around Mikasa’s waist and craddles with more softness that he usually does. He alternates with running a hand over her hair. “” I got you Kasa…”“ He softly speaks.
There was a screeching of the coffee table as Levi pushes it and pats his way. It was his home and he knows the steps and distance of the items around the home. He would never accept that he has counted steps to make sure the items are neatly placed after he vacuums and cleans, he just wishes he had stopped at 2 full glasses of wine before. “Stay in the sofa or ya will throw me off.”
He reaches the mantle and breaths and pats softly with his fingers until he finds the wooden box there. Inside there are copies of his house keys, other miscellaneous and he softly smiles as he feels the cool silver lighter. He kept it there just in case Erwin stops by which he never does anymore….
He pushes he sour thought away and with a flick and a click he lets the flame give them some soft light. He turns to the other two and keeps a soft smile on his face. “its alright…” He knows where the large white decorative candle is and lights it up just to place the candle inside the crystal bowl with the bottom of the popcorn. He didnt want to get wax on the table. The light its soft and around them and then he is making his way around the table to go to the basement.
“I will be back and remember… “ He leans back unto the sofa and tugs Mikasa’s blanket gently “ The only monster in my house its me…” and with that he was gone with lighter in hand.
Eren just leaned his head against the sofa for a moment and lets out a sight.
“”How did you meet this man Kasa? I cant even..”
It took a moment for Mikasa to release either of the men, but her fingers went to Eren’s arms as they had wrapped around her waist. She kept still as Levi ran his fingers into her hair and lips were against her chin. As Levi had started to get up, she leaned her body more into Eren’s resting her head on his chest.
Hearing the coffee table get pushed, she tensed up for a second then immediately relaxed knowing it was Levi. Seeing the first candle get lit, she looked up at Eren and smiled a bit. She knew there was nothing to worry about, but the storm had still scared her especially with it knocking out the power. Ever since she was a kid she was scared of the dark and she was that one person who would turn off the lights and then sprint out of a room to make sure some imaginary monster didn’t attack her.
As the second one got lit and Levi made the comment about him being the only monster, she let out a small snort before hearing Eren’s question.
“He’s friends with the boss,” she said simply, “He’d always come in at least once a week, then just one day he asked if I wanted to get lunch since it looked like I was having a bad day and boom we became friends.”
It had just been a rough week at work for her when Levi had invited her to lunch. Stacks of paperwork, appointments needed made, coworkers being idiots, and her patience had been thin. She was essentially a paper clip away from a meltdown when Levi had come in for his weekly meeting with the boss. At that point, she just let him walk in unless there was a meeting going on so she just let him do whatever, but he had asked her if she was ok and she just shrugged.
But he had just poked his head into the office it seemed and spoke briefly to Smith before stating that they were going to lunch. She didn’t understand and told them to have a nice lunch before he corrected himself and stated the two of them were going to lunch. Mikasa didn’t want to make the boss’s best friend mad so she agreed and he just let her unload all of her emotions out and about once a week they would grab lunch and just catch up. Then it turned into her going to his house every once in a while for tea and movies and then it turned into…whatever this was.
“He’s the one that showed me that really nice brunch spot that we went to a few times.” Her face drifted up to look at Eren’s before she scooted her body and turned it so she could wrap her own arms around Eren’s waist loosely and rested her head against his chest again sliding her fingers up and down his lower back.
He holds her in his arms and the sense of comfort washes over him. Its a nostalgic type of feeling that exists no where else, at least not anymore. The familiarity was incomparable and even thou part of him dreads the knowledge he just knows that this feeling was unique and tied specifically to her.
He runs hand up and down her shoulder to try to sooth her. He made a question and he quietly listens to her response.
“”How dreamy”” He mumbles because of course the man was a gentleman from one of those fancy novel books or someshit like that. He could feel his face heating up at the memories of how the other had even treated him while living at his place. Weeks ago listening to Mikasa he would have set him off in the worst way but after experiencing the things he had he was alright.
“”Kasa. We are friends right?”” “”Like whatever in life and stuff that happens we are friends too right?. Like-”“ there was soft uncertainty there in his tone and he was opening up and showing some vulnerability.
She had shifted to face him more and his arms fit just right around her. He swallows and closes his eyes for a moment as he rubs his face against her hair. It was always very silky and pleasant to the touch.
““like if I ask you like a friend like. Do you like him?” Like Like him ?”“ In the dimnes of this quiet space he softly asks while he feels a little bold.


















