The Ereri Project!

Head

Levi can't really describe what he felt when he got a call to talk to Petra's principal at school.

Something like anxiety mixed with... he wasn't really sure. But he really didn't like it.

Erwin let him off work early, it was a slow day anyway, and he immediately started for the school.

He could tell Eren was nervous too, when he called him at the bakery. "I knew I should have kept her home," Eren said. "I knew she didn't look quite normal today."

Of course, they weren't even told what their daughter did, just that one of them had to come in. It still wasn't even time for her lunch yet so Levi couldn't even imagine what she might have done.

He never really liked walking into the elementary school, everything was so tiny and a little too clean looking when the kids weren't walking around.

At least Petra was in fifth grade so she'd be moving up to the middle school soon. When he walked into the office, the secretary smiled at him. "How are you today, Mr. Jaeger?"

"Been better," he replies with a smile. "When will the principal see me?"

"Right now," a stern female voice says.

Levi swallows thickly while he starts to walk into the woman's office. Petra is sitting in a chair with her knees drawn up and her hoodie off and covering her head.

The principal takes her seat behind her desk again. "This is why I called you in," she says. "Your daughter started sitting like this in class this morning and won't speak to anyone. I wanted to see if you could get her talking."

Levi kneels beside Petra. "Petra, it's Daddy, what are you doing under there?"

She moves her hoodie to peek at Levi but almost as soon as the light touches her eyes, she flinches.

He rubs her back, thinking he might know what's going on. "Does your head hurt?" he asks. She nods slightly, her hoodie moving only a little under the motion.

"Does it hurt more when that hoodies not covering your head?" She nods again.

Levi nods and kisses her head before turning to the principal, he speaks softly in case it's worse with noise too. "It's might be her first migraine." He stands back up completely. "Her mom used to get them a lot. Can I take her home for the day?"

The principal nods, "Let me just call her teacher to send someone down with her things. Ms. Lawson can sign her out at the front desk."

Levi picks Petra up, she buries her face in his shoulder to keep her eyes completely covered.

As soon as one of the girls from her class handed him Petra's backpack, he walked out of the building at put her in the car. "It'll help if you keep your hands over your eyes until we get home," he says.

She does but on the five minute ride home she whimpers occasionally from the various sounds the car makes.

He carries her up to her room and once she's settled in bed, he immediately goes to search for a blanket to cover her window with, to block out as much light as possible.

When that was done he sat on the side of her bed. "C'mon hazelnut, you have to take that hoodie off, I promise it's dark in here now."

Tentatively, she moves the hoodie and looks for Levi in the dark, he lets her hold his hand. "Mom used to get these?" she asks, quiet and unsure, like she thinks she might break her own head if she speaks too loud.

"Yeah," he replies. "She got her first one when she was even younger than you though."

"It hurts a lot Daddy."

"I know baby," he says, running his thumb on the back of her hand. He wants to play with her hair but he think he might make her headache worse. He gets up suddenly.

"Where're you going?" she asks, almost sounding panicked.

"I have to call Papa," he says. "He's worried about you too."

"Come back, okay?" she asks.

He smiles. "Okay."

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A/N: Hehehe Marshall Lee x Prince Gum Ball