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Thank you so much!! We had no idea people would find “the plan is going according to plan” so funny when we wrote it, it just made us laugh :’)

We’re so happy people are enjoying this series! The next episode has a LOT of twin antics so you should like that one too :)

Of course!

In a general canon verse setting, I def see Petra as the one who is more forward when it comes to establishing the “I really really like you” sort of thing. Levi’s feelings are mutual of course, but it’s really hard for him to express them to her because he’s clumsy when it comes to these things.

So by this point, they’ve become pretty close. Though they have tea with dinner, Levi will take tea in his room before bed. Petra joins him for tea, and they’ll chat (as much ‘chatting’ as Levi does,) but are mostly comfortable in silence around each other, save for the occasional unspoken air of love feels. They’ve also started to become ‘around’ each other more without realizing it, such as Levi or Petra always seating themselves next to or across from the other. When someone in (or the entirety of) the squad fucks up and he’s annoyed, she’s usually the only one that can talk him down.

So, it happens one particular evening in Levi’s office, two or so hours before dinner (I like to think they eat around 7 or 8pm.) He’s got a shit ton of reports due to Erwin so he can send them off to the capital in the morning. But he’s taking a mini break and looking out the window when Petra comes in. She knows he has a lot of work and asks him if he’d like some help or if he’d like her to bring him some tea. He declines both, since it’s personal time for the soldiers and she already offers so much of her personal time to help him (some of which he has taken up on before.) Instead he tells her she did well during training that day (or 'not bad,’) and tells her like what her strong points were, how she executed xyz flawlessly, what her weak points were that she needed to focus on, but that they were minimal. He tells her she’s 'not as bad as she was when he first picked her,'or something similar and while that comes out as sounding negative, she knows what he means by it. She thanks him and tells him she looks forward to strengthening her skills more with the squad and is glad he thinks she’s doing well.

And then they fall in silence as she lingers a moment, looking out the window with him. And the urge to kiss him, something she’s been feeling a lot lately but never acting on because is that right??? But it starts to well up and she feels her heart beat pick up and she keeps telling herself it’s a bad idea but she turns towards him gives him a little kiss on his lips. He blinks, eyes wide because 'what the fuck was that?’ But as Petra’s about to scurry out of the room and apologize, he manages to grab her wrist to stop her. And she turns towards him and he’s not mad at all, just donning his usual stoic demeanor now.

Petra goes to apologize, that was totally unprofessional and she’ll accept any punishment he’ll give her for harassing an officer as such, but before she can, he tells her to “Do that again.”

She blinks in slight confusion, hesitates a moment before kissing him again. This time he manages to kiss her back, IN ALL HIS AWKWARD GLORY because I don’t think Levi has really ever kissed anyone he’s liked before. And he really doesn’t know like what to do with his hands, the one still is holding her wrist but the other kinda just lightly grips her shoulder like a dad about to give a reassuring heart to heart talk with his son.

And of course her heart is fluttering, and he’s just totally okay with this and maybe even the slightest bit relieved because he wasn’t a complete failure in letting her know he liked her and that he’s able to 'respond’ without actually saying anything because he knows he’d fuck up if he tried to.