Flying Solo || L. Ackerman ✓

Chapter 20

Adira walks through the doors to the canteen to grab a glass of water. Her head pounded and she was too pissed off and needed to cool down. She opens the drink cupboard and grabs a glass before filling it with water.

"What the hell are you doing back so late?" A voice asked from behind her. She turns her head at Levi and shrugs her shoulders.

"We ran into a mishap. I took care of it." She replies, finishing off her water. Levi shines the candle closer to Adira's face and furrows his brows.

"You look like shit." Adira snorts, looking at the flame.

"Thanks."

She brings her hand up to push loose strands of hair back on top of her head and starts walking away. Levi grabs her wrist and turns her back to face him. He looks down at her knuckles which were bruised and bloody.

"Who did this?" He said low in a calm voice.

"I did. I told you, there was a setback." She voiced again. His eyes are dark and turns around.

He starts walking from the kitchen, her wrist still in his hand and the candle in the other. He leads her through the quiet halls and opens his office doors. He pushes her towards a chair and walks into the small bathroom which was connected to the room. He walks out with a first aid kit and drops it beside her.

"You need to be more careful, brat. You'll get an infection if you don't clean this shit." He grabs her hand again and gently swabs against the scrapes and scratches with a cloth coated in rubbing alcohol.

"I'm fine, Levi. Really-" He rolls his eyes and bandages her hand.

"Tsk. There's blood on the floor now." He uttered.

That reminded Adira and she gets up. "Oi, where are you going?" He asks her with a questioned face.

"I'll be right back." She tells him before quickly heading to her room where Petra had left her satchel. She grabs the cleaning supplies and heads back towards Levi's office. She lets out a breath before remerging through the door. She finds Levi scrubbing the floor which had dried blood. The bottle he was using was now empty and he throws it into the trash with a frown.

Adira walks up beside Levi and hands him the new bottles of cleaning supplies. "Here., I noticed before that you were running low, so I thought I'd get you some more while I was in town." She tells him before getting on the ground and finishes scrubbing the area.

Levi was again, in shock. Adira again had surprised him. He watches as she finishes cleaning the floor and abruptly stands up, brushing off her pants. He looks down at her other hand and grabs it, inspecting it as he did for the other. This hand was fine, just red. His hand lingers as he pulls it away and walks back to his desk.

"I should get going now," Adira tells him.

"Right. Uh, thanks for the supplies." He answers awkwardly. She gives him a small smile and walks out the door. Levi scratches the back of his head and lays back in his chair letting out a breath.