Never again. Chapter 20 (Levi x reader)

    At some point in the night, the warm water and the soft sound of bushes swishing against the old wood lulled you to sleep. You could feel the dull throb coming from your hand even before you were fully awake, but the burning that once filled you had disappeared altogether. Bright morning light flooded your eyes as you slowly peeled them open, you let out a low sound of discomfort at the feeling.

Finally your eyes adjusted to the brightness and you were able to take a look around, however you noticed that the room was a little too clean to be your room. Not that your room is actually dirty, but it may as well be a pig sty compared to this room. Just being in this room however gave you the strangest sense of deja vu. You were about to sit up but your attempt failed when an unknown weight circling your abdomen kept you down. Looking down you saw a large arm draped across you. You moved your eyes up along the arm until you were looking right at Levi's soft sleeping face. You felt your face heat up at the thought of Levi spooning you all night. Shaking off your embarrassment you looked to his face again.

 'He really does look so peaceful when he sleeps.' You thought, noticing all the small creases that usually surrounded his eyes were smoothed and the dark circles that often lay shadowed beneath had seemingly lightened.

     Instead of trying to get up you decided to lay back down again, this time with your face towards Levi. Rather than falling back asleep you inspected his face further, taking in all the small details. His face was tattered with small scars and, to your surprise, freckles. They were so pale you could only notice them from close up but they were there, and you found them oddly adorable. Without thinking you reached out and lightly brushed your fingers against the freckles that speckled his nose. Although your action was small it caused Levi to stir and slowly open his eyes.

''Did you touch my nose?'' His voice was rough from sleep.

''Yes.'' You put bluntly, seeing no point in lying.

    Instead of saying anything else Levi simply let out a low hum and laid back down again, pulling you in closer. The whole situation was slightly odd to you, being that you and Levi hadn't really spoken to each other in the past week; moreover it almost felt wrong to be lazing around when there was probably so much work to do.

''Um Levi...'' You started, waiting to see if you'd get a response.

He simply hummed to reply but you took it as a go ahead to continue speaking.

''Shouldn't we be up doing something? I mean, there's always so much to do after expeditions so why are we still in bed?''

His eyes opened again and a small frown crept onto is face. ''No one's told you?'' he questioned.

''Told me what?'' You were confused, usually Erwin had all leaders gathered for meetings discussing the next expedition, not to mention another long and gruelling recruiting process to organize. Levi sighed and sat up fully in bed, pulling you to sit up with him.

''(Y/n)...'' He paused, unsure of what to say next. ''The expedition, it brought many things to light.'' You were still confused and Levi could tell. He sighed, slightly annoyed at the fact that he had to be the one to tell you. After a short silence he sighed and continued to explain the events that unraveled during the expedition. 

    He spoke quickly and his eyes  wandered, only flickering up to meet yours every few moments. It was strange seeing Levi like this; the usually blunt, careless man sat in front of you now looking uncomfortable and almost sad. You could tell he was skipping over details but you didn't say anything. You trusted Levi, so if he was pulling pieces out of what happened you knew it was probably in your best interest.

    By the time he finished your head was spinning. 'Another shifter?' you thought. This was big, but the fact Erwin purposefully neglected to tell everyone about this said shifter was even bigger. He knew the shifter would be advanced and yet he thought it'd be in everyone's best interest to not know? You stood from the bed, seething, and began to put on whatever was closest to you.

"What're you doing?" Levi questioned not fully paying attention, his mind obviously occupied by something else.

"I'm going to see Erwin" you put bluntly. This caught Levi's attention, his head snapping up to look at you.

"What?" he asked sharply. 

You let out a frustrated sigh and repeated yourself, " I am going to go see Erwin". With that said you turned and reached for the door, only to be stopped by a firm grip on your wrist. You turned to see Levi looking every bit as frustrated as you were.

 "What are you going to do (Y/n), yell at him?" You could tell he was being sarcastic but you ignored it and simply replied,

 "That is exactly what I am going to do."

You yanked your wrist out of his grip and rushed out the door, not giving him a chance to do anything else. He thought about going after you but he knew it was useless. He simply gathered the clothes you has strewn about the floor in your rush and returned to bed.