#caring levi

Anime Levi #1007

Shingeki no Kyojin/ Attack on Titan

Chapter 70

This is such beautiful and meaningful moment which tells so much about Levi’s character. While everyone is watching the effects of Eren’s Titan hardening capacity, squeezing the last atom of his forces, there’s Levi…taking out his neat, white handkerchief. His silent presence, so caring, so touching.

Es un momento precioso y significativo que habla tanto sobre Levi. Mientras todos están tan pendientes de la capacidad de solidificación del Titan de Eren, exprimiéndolo hasta el último átomo, allí esta Levi…prestándole su pañuelo blanco, inmaculado. Su presencia silenciosa, tan pendiente, tan entrañable.

“Come on Four Eyes, let’s go to bed. Enough science for today.”

Second edition of my fic recs features fics showing the caring side of our favorite heichou! He is extremely adorable when he cares so much for the Scouting Legion babies, and how everyone cares for him as well. These are all in canonverse, with themes ranging from fluff, angst, and humor!

Let me know which ones are your favorites and if you recommend anything falling under “Levi, Best Captain Ever” :D To the writers (if you are also in Tumblr right now), a hundred kudos and favorites to you!

Disclaimer: Some fics may be available in both FF/AO3/Tumbr but I just included the site where I read them first. Enjoy!

Levi's Squad - the_original_n_chan

Levi gets to know his new squad. Introspection, with hints of sadness.  Oneshot, 3k words.

Hunger - thebullandthetortoise

Levi worries that food is not enough for the squad. Hints of sadness and angst. Oneshot, 700 words.

Captain - Anonymous

Spoilers for anime-only fans. Levi watches and guides over his squad as they struggle over everything that’s happening. 

Levi and Armin bonding is precious. Angsty!

Oneshot, 4k words.

Phlegm - revolutionrose 

Levi is sick so everyone tries to offer their help. Super funny. Oneshot, 2k words.

Hit It Harder - ginger_green

Levi catches Eren extremely being a dick to Mikasa so he gives Eren a piece of his mind. 

Not cool to physically hurt our loved ones, ‘kay? Thank God for Levi.

2 chapters, 4k words. Eruri, slight Eremika.

Play Time - starsurfer108

Basically Levi getting tired of Mikasa and Eren. The last part was hilarious, I just can’t. 

Oneshot, 1k words. Eremika.

A Visit - CathLean

So @thesickficsideblog wrote the following: “How about Eren from AoT getting a stomach bug, and it affects his titan form as well?”

And here it is. Again, I’m sorry for any grammar or spelling mistakes or wrong use of words. Please feel free to send me suggestions for corrections!

***

“Are you alright, Eren? You look a bit pale.”

The dark haired boy looked up from his plate where he had been pushing his breakfast from one side to the other for almost half an hour. His gaze landed on Armin who had asked the question. He noticed Mikasa examine him worriedly from the side as well, though she didn’t say anything.

“I’m fine,” he lied. “Just… didn’t get much sleep last night.”

He knew that the other would assume that he had been having nightmares – which was by no means uncommon among the members of the survey corps – and wouldn’t press any further. And he was right: Armin shot him another concerned look but then turned back to his own breakfast.

The truth was that Eren felt awful. He had woken up to a pounding headache and a queasy feeling in his stomach and had felt dizzy getting up. But he was determined not to let his discomfort show to his comrades. He needed a lot more training to perfect his control over his titan form and it wasn’t like titans would wait another day before their next attack just because he was feeling a little bit under the weather.

He managed to get a few bites down, just to reassure the others before they had to clean up and go outside for training.

***

It was probably the first time in his life that Eren was not happy about a sunny morning. Normally there was nothing that could make him feel better faster than the sight of sunlight flooding the meadows of their training grounds.

But today it was almost impossible for him to keep his eyes open. Everything was far too bright, piercing his eyes like needles and making his head pound like hell and in consequence making his stomach churn even worse.

Also the sun did nothing to lessen the shivering that had started the moment he set foot outside.

“Are you cold, Eren?”

This time it was Mikasa that asked. He turned to her and did his best to smile as carefree as he could.

“I guess my blood flow is not yet awake,” he said laughingly. “I’ll be fine once we start training.”

She looked at him as if she wanted to say something else, but thankfully she was interrupted by Captain Levi and Hange who came out of the house to announce today’s trainings regimen to them.

“All of you except Eren will do some field training with Zacharias in the forest; the focus is on team work. Eren, you’re going to train your titan form with Levi and me.” Hange announced.

Eren groaned inwardly. It was hard enough to control his titan form on good days, he had no idea how he should manage it today. On the other hand, his wounds always healed when he went into his titan form; maybe it would do him some good today.

But he didn’t say anything and followed his Captain and Hange to a large cliff next to the forest.

“We want to test your ability to climb today,” Hange explained. “It could be of great use to know whether you’d be able to climb over the walls or not.”

Eren nodded and looked up the cliff. It wasn’t quite as tall as the walls, but it was tall enough to pose a significant obstacle for his titan form.

He glanced to Captain Levi who was getting in position in case something went wrong with the transformation and then gave Eren a short nod as a starting signal.

The boy brought his hand to his mouth and bit down hard on his thumb. The taste of the blood in his mouth was almost familiar by now, as well as the strange feeling of being wrapped into living tissue.

He kept his eyes closed during the transformation. When he opened them he noticed immediately that, no, his titan form had not helped with his feeling sick at all. On the contrary, thanks to the strange movements during the transformation, his stomach felt even worse and his vision was swimming from dizziness.

Oh well, he would have to make it somehow. He turned to the cliff, grabbed an overhanging rock approximately at the height of his titan eyes and started to climb.

But somehow, even in his titan form, he had no strength. After only a few steps up the cliff, he could feel his titan muscles quiver from the exertion, and fucking hell, his titan was madeof muscles. He tried to pull himself up a little higher and promptly lost the grip on the rock in his right hand.

He slid down the cliff and landed stumbling on his feet, a titan hand going to his titan head instinctively while his own head inside the titan was reeling.

“What’s wrong, boy?”

The voice was coming from his right shoulder. He turned his head slowly in order not to aggravate his head any further and found Captain Levi standing there, looking up at him with a frown, that showed maybe a little bit of concern.

He wanted to answer that he was fine, and that he was going to try it again, but suddenly there were dark spots dancing in front of his eyes. His titan legs gave out under him and everything went black.

***

Levi was really glad that he had such good trained reflexes. Where it not for them he might have been really hurt when Eren’s titan body collapsed. He managed with great presence of mind to shoot one of his 3D-Gears into a nearby tree and then descend safely.

He had been very worried when Eren had seemed unstable earlier, dreading that his young protégé might lose control, but that was nothing compared to the worry and confusion he felt now when he saw the giant body of the titan lying sprawled out and unmoving in front of the cliff.

He ran as fast as he could, joining Hange on Erens back where, only seconds after the titan’s collapsing, Eren had emerged from the back of the titan’s neck, equally unmoving as his former shell.

When Levi got there, Hange had already pulled the unconscious boy from the titan. Together they carefully moved the boy down to the grass and laid him on his back with his head in Hange’s lap.

Eren was skin was scalding hot, which was not unusual after him coming out of his titan, but his face beneath the red burning marks was white as a sheet, which was less usual.

“What’s wrong with him?” Levi asked, trying his best to sound professional and not let his anxiety show.

Hange just shrugged.

“Something like this has never happened before,” she just said. “We’ll have to wait for him to wake up. Let’s move him more to the shadows.”

Levi nodded. They took the limp boy between them, each putting one of his arms over their shoulders, and carried him to the edge of the forest where they carefully lowered him to the ground.

***

When Eren came to, he was greeted by the same pounding headache that had been lurking around the whole day – only this time it was a lot worse. He stomach was still churning too, making him emit a tiny whimper. He felt something cool caress his forehead. A hand, he realised.

“I think he’s waking up,” he heard a voice say. Hange’s voice. “Eren, can you open your eyes for me?”

He squinted a bit, trying to obey. Instantly he was greeted by a nauseating brightness. He shut his eyes again immediately, hissing at the sudden pain that was shooting through his head.

“Eren!” Captain Levi’s voice. “Eren, what’s wrong?”

He didn’t answer and instead tried to open his eyes again. This time it worked better and he could see his two superior officers kneeling above him with worried looks.

“I’m fine,” he mumbled and began to sit up. Immediately there were strong hands on his back, supporting him.

When he was upright he realised that that might not have been such a good idea. His nausea skyrocketed and he could hardly see straight.

He tried to breath calmly to get his stomach back under control, but soon he felt something crawling up his esophagus.

Shit, he was going to be sick. In front of his superiors. Shit, shit, shit!

He clamped a hand over his mouth and scrambled to his feet, towards the trees. He made it three steps before he collapsed to his knees and brought up a small torrent of vomit all over his hand that he had no time to pull away. He wrapped his arms around his stomach and before he had time to catch his breath, a second, bigger and more violent wave spilled out of him and on the gras.

Where the hell did all that vomit come from? He had hardly eaten anything that morning. Eren had just managed to finish that thought before he was doubled over retching again.

He felt hands on him, one holding him up at his shoulder, one rubbing circles on his back, another supporting his forehead and the last resting on the back of his neck. When had they appeared there?

He realised he didn’t care. They were giving him the comfort he desperately needed right now, as wave after wave of sickness forced itself from his stomach.

He didn’t know how long he had been kneeling there when his stomach was finally calming down, though he didn’t feel empty. He stared at the sizeable puddle of sick in front of him panting and noticed that he had also gotten some vomit on his pants. That was so humiliating.

***

After a few more minutes the managed to calm down enough to slump against Levi, who was kneeling on his right side, cradling his stomach with his left arm. He looked as if he had absolutely no strength left so Levi didn’t say anything and just put an arm around the boys shoulders, letting him rest his head against his own collarbone.

“Was that from the transformation? Did something go wrong?”

He looked up at Hange and shook his head weakly.

“Been feeling bad all day,” he croaked, his voice raw from the stomach acid.

“Why didn’t you say something?” Levi asked, sounding more strictly than he had intended.

“Didn’t want to miss out on training,” the boy whispered. Levi shook his head. He was the last one who could to reprimand someone for training despite being ill (he couldn’t even count how many times Erwin had to almost forcibly send him back to bed after he collapsed from a fever or something else) but he still didn’t like the fact that Eren put himself and others in so much danger by turning into a titan when he was not feeling good.

Well he could lecture him once the boy didn’t look like death warmed over.

“Can you walk?” he asked the dark haired teen. A feeble shake of the head. Levi sighed. “Ok, I’m going to let you ride me piggy back this once.”

He got up and turned. Hange helped the weak boy to climb on his back and they made their way back to the base where they took the Eren to his room in the basement, helped him change and get into bed.

Once he was settled Hange gave him a short examination.

“Looks like the stomach flu,” she concluded and went to get a glass of water. “You need to drink a lot to keep hydrated. Do you think you can keep some medicine down?”

Eren took the glass hesitantly and shook his head at her question. He brought the glass to his lips and managed to slowly drink about half of it before he set it down, turning pale.

“Are you going to be sick again?” Levi asked concerned. Eren nodded hesitantly and cupped his mouth in one hand. Levi looked at Hange, but she had already understood and left the room. A few moments later she was back with an empty metal bucket, the kind they usually used to give water to their horses, and put it in the boy’s lap.

He leaned over it, coughing weakly. Levi put a hand on his back. The boy really looked pitiful. Suddenly he pitched forward with a gag. He dry heaved a few times before bringing up a stream of the water he just drank that landed in the metal bucket with a hollow splash.

Levi rubbed his back as the boy coughed again, retching weakly and then throwing up a larger stream of more chunky substance. He could see tears forming in the younger males eyes as he was sick over and over again into the bucket.

The vomiting continued for a few minutes before it tapered off into painful sounding dry heaves.

“Breathe, Eren!” Levi commanded, still rubbing circles over the convulsing muscles of the boy’s back. “You’re going to be fine.”

Finally Eren managed to calm down and sank back against his pillow shivering. He definitely had a fever.

“Get some sleep,” Hange advised quietly. The boy just closed his eyes.

“Thanks,” He whispered. “For… you know.”

Levi and Hange understood.

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