The Ereri Project!

Toes

Erwin practically breaks the door down when he gets to the Jaeger household that night. "How is she?" he asks, walking inside.

Eren turns from his place in the kitchen making Petra's favorite dinner, chicken pot pie. "She's fine," he says with a smile. "She's in the living room with Levi."

Erwin walks to the living room where Petra is sitting with her feet in Levi's lap while he gives her a pedicure. Erwin frowns at the large square bandage taped to the ten year old's forehead.

"Uncle Erwin!" she says, kind of excitedly but he notices she sounds a little slower and more tired than usual.

He sits down beside her. "What happened?"

"Two stitches on her forehead and a concussion," Levi replies, massaging Petra's feet with lotion.

"And how did that happen again?"

"Someone's mom, I can't remember who's now, accidentally pushed me into the starting block at swim practice," Petra says and points to her forehead. "My head hit the edge directly."

"Her coach said she was unconscious for five minutes," Eren says, walking in after putting the food in the oven.

Erwin shivers, "Ouch." He turns to Petra and pets her hair. "Sure you're alright?"

She shrugs. "The doctor says I just can't do as much as usual until my brain gets better. No video games, computers, or TV. He said if I really, really wanna watch something it should be a movie I've seen at least five times so my brain doesn't have to work as hard."

"Which means lots of Tangled, The Princess Bride, The Princess Diaries, and The Prince of Egypt," Levi says.

Eren snorts. "You say that like you don't love all of those movies too."

Levi shakes up a bottle of pink nail polish and rests Petra's foot on his thigh. "I do, I'm just saying I'll be sick of them by the time she's better."

Erwin watches while Levi paints each of Petra's toes carefully, two coats each. "How do you have the patience for that?" Erwin asks.

"Please," Eren says. "You're talking to the man who will redo her braids eight or nine times in a row until he does it perfect. Anything for Daddy's princess."

Levi makes a face at him. "Shut up."

"You mean I'm not the princess?" Petra asks, wearing a small pout.

Levi groans, trying to backtrack. "You are hazelnut, just, Papa made it sound like I'm your personal servant or something."

Petra chuckles. "Dad's not a servant Papa."

Eren smiles. "I know, he just loves you."

Petra smiles. "I can tell."