‧͙⁺˚*･༓☾promises☽༓･*˚⁺‧͙ (Levi X Reader)

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Y/n stares down at her hands, biting the inside of her cheek to hold back her tears as she looks down at the two wings of freedom badges in her hands, each of them surrounded by a little bit of green from being ripped off of a cape and stained in blood.

But, one of them seemed to more extensively damaged than the other, its was faded and discoloured, as if it had been bleached.

"Why is this one weird?" She sniffled, looking at Erwin who was sitting across from her at a table in the empty mess hall, Hange on her right rubbing her back soothingly.

"Well," Erwin purses his lips tightly. "She was eaten by a titan, everything but her head was swallowed whole."

Dropping the two pieces of cloth onto the table, she reached up to cover her face with her hands, shoulders shaking violently in silent sobs.

"How did you get her body?" Her words are muffled as she talks into her palms.

"Levi killed the titan." Hange says quietly. "She was the only headless body that was left after the titan corpse dissolved." Y/n nods to show she understands before pulling her hands away to show her tear stained face and puffy red eyes.

"I'm gonna go do something..." she says, clutching the two patches in her hands and standing up from the table. "I'll be back in time for dinner..."

Hange and Erwin watch as she leaves the room, the door clicking closed behind her before her footsteps faded down the hall, leaving the two in silence.

Erwin sighs heavily and runs his hand down his face stressfully, briefly closing his eyes.

"Aren't you gonna tell her that their mission was to kill you?" She asks hesitantly. "That might make it easier on her..."

Erwin opens his eyes again to look at Hange, thinking over her words for a moment before shaking his head.

"No." He said. "I don't think it would make it easier. In fact, I think it would make it worse because then she would realise that they had a life planned out for themselves."

Hange hummed thoughtfully, understanding what he meant.
"I suppose you're right."

Y/n knocks gently on the door in front of her for the third time, still clutching the two emblems in her hand. She had cleaned herself up slightly on her way here, wiping away the tear stains from her cheeks and allowing time for the inflammation around them to calm down.

"Levi?" She called out, her voice coming out as a mere broken whisper before she coughed and tried again. "Levi?"

There were heavy footsteps behind the door before it swung open, levi glaring hatefully at her, his eyes bloodshot and swollen the same way hers had been.

"Fuck off you annoying bitch!" He yelled, lurching forward as she took a step back. "How much cleared do I have to be? I am not your friend, I don't want you to try comfort me!"

Y/n clenches her jaw to fight the quivering frown coming onto her face as tears blurred her vision.
"Thats not-"

"I get it! You warned us not to go! You've seen this first hand or whatever!" He took a step back into the room, his hand wrapping around the edge of the door.

"You dont need to come up her like a kicked puppy and try to make me and yourself feel better! Just FUCK OFF!"

With his final words, the door slammed so violently that the building shook and people stepped out of their rooms to see what had happened, only too watch as y/n broke down in tears and started sprinting down the hall way toward the girls dorms.

Levi pressed his back against the door and let out a shaky breath as he sank down against it, knees tucked up, left hand raking through his hair and clutching it stressfully.

"I'm sorry..." he mutters out loud, his quite whisper falling upon deaf ears as he stood from the floor and made his way back over to his bed, laving back on it and gripping on the soft woollen blanket beside him and pulling his forearm up over his eyes, in turn pulling the blanket with it to fall over his face.

Y/n lay face down on her bed, face hurried in her pillow as Hange sits on the bed that would have been Isabelle's, silently reading a book that belonged to y/n, the two sitting in a completely comfortable silence.

"You ready to tell me what's wrong?" Hange asked, flipping the page, not bothering to look up as she continues to read.

"Levi hates me..." y/n says, her voice muffled by the pillow.

"No he doesn't," Hange sighs, making mental note of the page number and closing the book, getting up and walking over to sit by y/n's legs, rubbing her back.

"He's just grieving, he'll lighten up eventually if you give him time!" She says cheerily, trying to brighten the mood.

"He never liked me." She says, sitting up and turning herself around to face Hange. "He only stuck me out cuz I was friendly with Isabelle."

Hange frowns, shuffling up to sit next to y/n, allowing her to rest her head on her shoulder.

"Not everyone will like you," she says. "Anyone who doesn't is missing out, obviously." Y/n laughs slightly at her comment.
"But all you can do is just be there with him, he's probably got a lot of emotion baggage and this just makes it worse, eventually he'll come out of grieving."

Sighing, y/n reaches up to rub her eyes whilst sniffling.
"You're right, I'll just give him some time..."