Scoffing, Levi rolled his eyes at that and moved to push Erwin forward, aiming for a chair just across the room that he could seat him into. After nearly tripping over his own feet out of drunkenness, Levi watched him sit down hard and then take his waist again, smiling in what was probably amusement while Levi gathered his bearings. He’d intended to climb into Erwin’s lap, of course, to straddle him and press against his chest so that he could kiss him properly, but his previous words and the next ones out of Erwin’s mouth made him rethink things a bit.

“The only reward I would ask for is you.”

“Yeah?”

“Yes. Although I’m not sure I actually deserve it considering what the money will result in.”

“Fuck’s sake.” Levi slurred, narrowing his eyes because he knew what Erwin meant — that people would die — and for some reason deciding it was a good idea to cover Erwin’s mouth with his palm. “Don’t start that shit. I said you deserve a fucking reward. Now how bad do you want it?”

Erwin’s eyes flashed at that, Levi thought, and he looked him over in a way that made his heart pound before taking Levi’s wrist and kissing his fingers. “As badly as I always do. Maybe even more.”

“Why’s that?” Levi muttered, emboldened by Erwin’s heated gaze enough to take his jacket off.

He shrugged it over his shoulders and then let it slide off his arms slowly, and even though he swayed in place a bit, he was pleased when Erwin’s eyes roved over his middle all over again, clearly enjoying the removal of even that small bit clothing while Levi watched. His gaze spurned him on for some reason, he thought, despite the fact that he had no idea what he was really fucking doing at all — only knowing that Erwin liked it, and he felt a sudden thrill at the thought of teasing him — and he took his boots off next, holding one up into the air and dropping it onto the ground with a loud ‘thud’ while giving Erwin a lingering, lidded look that had him smiling.

“The formalwear suits you.” He murmured, reaching out to try and pull Levi closer again but finding himself stopped when Levi batted his hand away.

Instead of letting Erwin touch, he took a step back and then pulled his socks off, tossing them over his shoulders before going for his belt with surprisingly now-steady hands.

“You’re quite enchanting like this.” Erwin continued, staring at him with obvious interest now while Levi bit his lip. “It’s been too long since I’ve had you.”

“It’s been two days.” Levi snorted in response, for some reason getting the urge to toss his belt around Erwin’s neck after he’d removed it, tugging on the leather so that Erwin was forced to lean forward even as Levi stepped in between his spread legs.

He looked down at him when Erwin tilted his head up and then gave him a quick kiss like that, relishing in the way Erwin’s fingers now gripped his shirt tightly as he slid an arm around his waist.

“That’s too long.” He murmured with a smile, while Levi rolled his eyes teasingly and again stepped back.

This time, Erwin did not let go of him as easily, but he did relent, apparently coming to terms with the fact that he was going to have to wait. He watched Levi though, intently and with a heated expression on his face that he didn’t even try to hide, just as he couldn’t hide the bulge between his legs, either, the one that stood out prominently and which Levi kept his eyes on when he unbuttoned his own pants.

He unzipped them, too, and palmed himself because he was also hard and he liked the way Erwin’s eyes latched onto his groin hungrily — a look crossing his features now that suggested he was starting to struggle a bit to hold himself back — and how his lips parted in just the slightest, the tiny chinks in Erwin’s armor that Levi had grown to recognize making themselves more apparent by the second and exciting him beyond words.

“So you want me undressed?” Levi continued, now feeling hot all over with his breath coming short.

He reached up to undo the first button of his shirt, fumbling with it a bit, of course, because of the lingering effects of the champagne, but enjoying the slow pace because of what it did to Erwin. With that thought, he undid one more button while Erwin nodded before he stopped, biting his lip and moving to pull the bottom half of his shirt out of his pants. A brush of cool air against his stomach let him know that Erwin had likely been treated to the quick sight of some skin, and he confirmed it by swallowing heavily, his fingers curling on top of his thighs a bit as if he contemplated reaching out to touch him.

“Yes.” Erwin answered, his voice having become low and a bit raspy over the past few minutes.

“Like this?” Levi asked, popping open another two buttons while still holding the bottom of his shirt to expose his stomach, pulling the seam of it apart a bit too so that the edge of his collar began to slide off of one shoulder.

By then, he’d undid enough buttons so that it was loose enough to do so, and Levi did nothing to stop it when Erwin’s hands shifted again over his legs and he leaned forward, his eyes focused and flickering from the skin of his belly to that of his shoulder.

“Yes. Just like that, Levi.” He said, licking his lips and now frowning in something like concentration. “Except I would have ripped all of the clothing off of you by now.”

“Why?”

“Because I want to kiss you. And touch you all over. You’re gorgeous.”

Flushing red at that, Levi’s mouth went dry too but he somehow resisted the urge to just tug everything off that was still left by himself, slowly undoing a few more buttons instead so that he finally ended up with the shirt hanging half open. “Well, you gotta wait this time.”

“Yes, but that’s alright. It just gives me more time to figure out what I want to do to you.”

“Bastard.” Levi swore at that, frowning a bit as his belly suddenly pooled even hotter with arousal. He was distracted for a moment, he thought, nearly whining at the promise behind Erwin’s words — which, as he knew, was probably why he had said them — and feeling a surge of impatience himself, managing to fight it off when Erwin gave him a playfully smug smile and he scowled in response. “Let me finish.”

“I will.” Erwin replied smoothly, leaning even farther forward to rest his chin on one hand.

The movement brought him less than a foot away from where Levi was standing by then, of course, and it was all he could do to keep his hands steady while he finished unbuttoning his shirt, now thinking only of Erwin’s fingers on his skin, his warm mouth — which was right there — pressing kisses over his stomach before blazing a wet, heated trail lower. With the way Erwin was eyeing his groin by then he had no doubt that he would, either, as no sooner had Levi’s hands reached his pants than he’d started staring raptly, biting his lip too as Levi hooked his thumbs in his belt loops and made like he was going to pull.

At the last second, however, he stopped and just stood there, by then mostly sober enough to appreciate how much he liked having Erwin hanging by a thread like that. It was exciting, he thought, and it made him flush to think that he was wanted so badly that Erwin could barely stay still in his seat, allowing himself to take one last good look at him — red-faced and tense — before he pushed both his pants and underwear down and finally climbed into his lap.

Their lips met immediately, of course, their kiss messy and heated because of how turned on they both apparently were, and Erwin wasted no time in picking him up, hoisting Levi into his arms so that he could deposit him on the nearby bed.