Perfectionist [Eren x Levi - AU]

Hard work pays off [1]

Sorry for the time you guys had to wait! Didn't think about continuing this story but...? <3 I guess its happening! And btw, this chapter includes a but of Eruri fluff and Levi's past.

Levi couldn't wait for "next week, five o' clock". He thought through Eren's choreography a million times - thinking about eventual changes and also new steps that would fit in - and he smirked a bit every single time. It was tempting to change it a bit just to bother the poor guy too, give him some real hard tricks or movements that would be almost impossible to do - and that he would've needed lots of weeks with Levi to actually be able to do flawlessly. He looked like a real toy, but fragile at the same time. He was the only one of them that had the capasity to have the pure look in his eyes - but still work as a stipper, and also the only one of them that looked sexy enough to make Levi think about getting laid (he usually was reaaally picky so this Eren guy was really something). He wasn't the type that liked love, but he didn't hate it. He just didn't find a room for it in his life, so being able to get to teach AND get good fuck or two out of a stripper? It was a win-win situation.

Levi caught himself thinking about Eren's choreography (suprisingly enough he actually remembered a lot of it) again, when Petra came running up to him; "Levi! Are you jugding the world championship in dancing this year?" she asked in her normal, a-bit-over-the-top excited voice. Levi just shrugged, and shook Eren out of his head; "I don't know. I think Nanaba plan on asking me soon because he've-" he stopped half a second; "-m'sorry; they've-" he corrected himself, remembering how Nanaba the week before came out to they're crew and closest friends as non-binary; "-been prepping me with all these giftcards, and flowers". Levi looked away, and sipped a bit on his caramel-frappucchino; "of course, they've always used long time on asking. Last year they made Mike ask me". Petra came with a loud giggle and sat down on the chair on the other side of the table. Levi was quite a lucky guy that worked where he worked; the dancingstudio had a cafeteria, quite a big one too, and it was always so clean there, with this high quality caffee, (and frappucchinos (which were Levi's favourites while training, 'cause he hated having a bad coffee-breath while training and teaching. Frappucchinos always gave much sweeter breath), and also a lot of good and not too expencive food. The training studio itself is huge, with five big gyms - four made for dancing and the last one made for all kinds of training - and three small private gyms (used for invidual training and for the competition-dancers to do eventual meeting etc etc). There was also this swimmingpool (mostly there for muscle-building and breath-training but also for the dancers that trained on acrobatic stuff as in pyramids etc).

"-so, what are you up to lately?" Petras shrinking voice interrupted his thoughts. Levi raises a brow and looks at her; "I'm working for Erwin, again" he said, and his voice automaticly got colder talking about Erwin in front of Petra. The drama was long gone between those three, but he disliked the feeling he got. "He wants me to train his dancers". Petra's smile was half gone by now, and Levi looked away, drinking lazily from his frappucchino. "Well, you've been there yourself so I guess you know how they should do stuff?" she said, in a less excited voice. Levi freezed and anger builded up inside of him. Petra always got heartless while talking about Erwin, with Erwin or hearing Erwin talk. Levi was the only one of the three that think of the past as the past, long gone. He doesn't want to remember, and he has made that clear for both Petra and Erwin. When Erwin talks about it, he is always - and has always been - more understanding than Petra (of course) but the past was still a sensitive thing and he didn't want to be reminded of it.

Levi stands up and looks at her, and Petra just sighs; "m'sorry Levi" she says, but he leaves the room before he hears her say that.

When he entered the club the day after, he had his bag thrown over his shoulder, and he gracefully walked into the door marked with "authorized personnel only". He just walked through the corridor, and meeted up with Erwin in the end of it. "Hey" Erwin just said, and Levi nodded. After the not too friendly conversation with Petra the day before, he wasn't up a long conversation with Erwin. He was actually too excited to make people sweat under him to actually bother to answer him. Erwin just walked, and let Levi follow him. They entered a room, a bit too fucking huge to his liking, and it was a couple dancers there, exept the hot ass. Eren wasn't there and he shot Erwin a glare, but got no anwers.

"Guuys-" Erwin said, loudly, to get the attention. Everyone came towards them, and Levi just looked away, a bit bored already. He just wanted to learn those kids how to dance, not this introduction-thing. "-this is Levi. He is the one you're going to listen to when it comes to dancing from now on. connie, where is Eren?" his voice turned cold on the end, and Connie just shrugged; "I think he's sick. He didn't show up for school today either" Levi furrowed his brows; school? Was the kid that young? I mean, even that Connie guy? He made a note in his head to ask Erwin about that later.

Levi let his eyes follow them, his hollow and cold glare study them. He had to make them understand he was the best, and that they couldn't stand him in an argument. Even tho most of them looked friendly and not scary at all.

"So, is he, like, a dancer?" one of them asked. He was tall and didn't have much fat on his bones. His hair stood up in the air, and it was partly light-brown and darker on the undercut. Atleast it looked like a undercut.

Levi opened his mouth before Erwin realised what happened; "well, if you really think Erwin is so stupid that he would hire a guy that can't dance to train dancers, then I feel bad for you because that's not what you're supposed to think about your boss". The guy went quiet after mumbeling a "whatever", and Levi just raised a brow towards Erwin; "names?".

"The once you just talked to-" he rolled his eyes slightly; "-is Jean. Then there's Connie, Eren, Sasha, Mikasa and Annie" he pointed their way while he spoke; "the others are a bit..." he looked away, and sighed; "..not fully this good... so they are just doing the stripping from monday until the weekends starts. This is the guys I put on the stage when its crowdy, like weekends".

Then he patted Levi's shoulder and left the room after giving him the list of names, leaving Levi alone with them. Levi just kissed his teeth, not even suprised. He knew how it worked, a bit too well. "Okay-" he said, while looking over them, figuring out what he wanted to do; "-so what do you guys suck the most at?" he asked, and they all came with small answers as "stuff down on the floor" and "pole", etc. Levi just nodded; "then get better at it. I've seen you all dance and I know that you have mistakes so please just go through your choreography - the onces that are in pairs or trios as much as the solo ones - step for step. I will walk around inbetween you all and give different tips and advices". He talked in a hard and cold voice, but smirked; "you are all the best ones for a reason. Show me".

Sasha and Connie paired up at once, doing a duo-choreography that Levi must admit is a good one. He walked through everyones dances, and the worst ones was Sasha's solo dances (she tends to slip and fall. Levi doesn't really understand how, but..), and Annie's duo dances. She was always so rude and seems so cold while dancing with other people. Levi just sighed, because he knew how the feeling of dancing with a person you don't like is. Its not pleasant.

"Erwin, where the fuck is your "diamond"?" he said after he's done with the teaching. Erwin looked up from his papers and sighed; "I got a mail from him, he's sick" he just said. Levi just stared at him, nd crossed his arms; "teenagers, Erwin?" he frowned, in a much colder voice; "I thought you stopped with it after I quitted?" his voice started shaking so he stopped himself. Erwin looked up; "they all came to me. Its nothing unlegal because I've got my papers straight and its nothing without consent because they all like it here". His voice is deeper and lower, more threatning than ever. Levi takes a step back and looks away; "I don't wanna fight. But we all know you have a thing for younger guys and I don't want them to go through anything and you know I will report it if I ever see you do something wrong" he breathed, and talked fast in a just as low voice. Erwin sighed; "come here Levi" he said, softly, and Levi just nodded and walked over to him, into a pair of welcoming arms, and sat in the huger mans arms.

"Don't worry. I was a dick back then, and I regret it" he said, and Levi rested his head against his shoulder, closing his eyes; "we haven't done this in a long time" Levi commented, and he ment the whole "hugging-thing". Its usually Erwin just hugging Levi, and they've done it in years, but not the last couple of months. "You don't like to be reminded of the past, Levi" he said, shortly, and Levi nodded; "I know".

"I can ask Eren if he can take visitations? So you can train him at his home?" Erwin asked, after them small-talking a while. It was getting late and Levi was planning on leaving the club soon. "Yeah, sounds okay" Levi said, and he smirked a bit. Erwin laughed; "you're calling me a pedophile? Listen to yourself" he smirked. Levi rolled his eyes; "I don't do love, and you know it" he just said.

And that's what he thought too,

until he met Eren.