The Shift; Levi Ackerman X

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The midwife confirmed the pregnancy, deeming Victor healthy and nearing the end of his first trimester. "You're about 12 weeks then, maybe more by how you're beginning to show already." Victor looked at her shocked, not even noticing the very slight change in his abdomen. "Vittoria, your options are slim now and you're only one, maybe two weeks off from being unable to end this now. Plenty of families would take it in." He glanced to Hange, shaking his head. Andrea nodded. "I'll return in a week to check up and see if you changed your mind."

She stood, heading out the door with her bag. Victor didn't speak as she closed the door behind her. He grabbed his boots and wiped the tears falling down his cheeks. "Vittori-"

"Where's Levi?" Victor strayed a few feet behind Hange, the two walking towards Erwin's office where Levi spent most of his time while Vic was away. The door was ajar, Levi sitting across from the blonde, the men going through papers together. Vic cleared his throat catching both off guard. Levi's eyes met his, him standin and hugging Victor in a heart beat.

"When did you get back? No one told me you were here." He looked back to Erwin, his hand on Vic's lower back. "Can we take the rest of today off?"

"Levi, wait..." He took his lovers hand in his. "Erwin needs to know this as well because I will have to take time off, uhm," Hange patted his shoulder before leaving the three. "I'm pregnant."

Erwin dropped his pen. "What?" The commander looked to Levi, Victor bowing his head as Levi looked at him in shock. Vic turned to Erwin to speak, Levi pulling him by the arm out of the room and slamming the door behind them. Tears dripped from Victors eyelashes, resting his head on Levi's shoulder.

"Why didn't you tell me sooner?" Levi caressed down Vic's back. He stepped back, taking the others face in his hands.

"Because, Levi, I don't know. I don't want children." He moved away, pulling Levi's hands off of him. "You don't know what I was raised with. I'm scared of becoming my father, or even my mother."

"Do you really think you would become your parents when they weren't even there to begin with?" Levi's silver eyes stabbed Victor's green one's. "Erwin and Pixis raised you for the last of your childhood and you only told me of the neighbors that died. The ones who brought you into the world aren't your parents." Victor blinked between sobs, pushing into Levi's arms. The door opened to Erwin stepping out beside them.

"Will she be alright?" He asked, patting Levi on the back. Levi nodded and Erwin went back into his office, Victor taking Levi's hand.

Victor stayed in the cabin with Levi over the night, separated by a wall while the other secluded himself in the living room, contemplating the possibility of fatherhood. Vic lied in bed with his hand over his belly, his eyes to the ceiling. He turned his head to look to the door, wondering what Levi was doing out there. He sat up with an instant of dizziness, nausea shooting up his throat onto the bed, liquid and chunks pooling over the blanket. Victor coughed and swallowed before calling out to Levi, wiping his face.
Only a few seconds passed when the door opened and Levi rushed in.

"Oh, fucking hell." Victor spit. Levi pulled the blanket up, containing the puke inside.

"Go take a bath and leave your clothes on the counter. I'll clean this up." He helped Vic out of the bed and watched him head to the bathroom. Victor pulled his shirt over his head before the mirror, trailing his eyes over his womanly chest and the bloat in his lower stomach. He covered himself with one arm while he leaned over the tub to turn it on. Once the water rose high enough he finished undressing and tiptoed into the luke warm water. The door opened, Levi grabbing the clothes to quickly leave, Victor stopping him with a word. "Yes, love?" Vic smiled.

"Sit with me..? Please?" They slept together till morning, hip to hip while Levi made his lover breakfast and the two relaxed all day reading books in their little home. Victor looked at the front cover of his book, realizing they had a clear pond not too far away with tons on little fish and crawdads. "Do you want to go fishing with me, or just go for a picnic by the pond?"

Levi looked up from his book. "You should be resting, not taking trips off grounds." He put a placeholder in between the pages and set the book down.

"It's not that far, maybe a quarter mile north of the canteen at best. We can take a horse if you're worried about me walking too far." Vic stood grabbing a blanket from the room and a couple towels. Levi glared at him with concern, sighing as he got up to help out. On their way out of the base several cadets waved them goodbye, Victor waving back.