Freedoms Cost (Captain Levi)

Captain Levi Squad

Levi stared...

He...was finally dead.

Though Levi didn't feel the satisfaction he thought he'd feel only a strange numb feeling. He tensed then relaxed as he felt a hand grab on to his shoulder, comforting. Erwin.

"You okay?" Erwin asked.

"I'm...not sure" Levi said truthfully, still staring at Kenny's now still dead body.

Erwin said grimly "Kenny may be dead but you know as much as I know Levi...This isn't over"

Levi didn't respond.

"Lets go home" Erwin said.

Levi turned to Erwin with a slight nod.

Lets go home.

It had been a couple of weeks since then. Levi had just started to relax and get into his new life though there were still a few problems.

One of them was Erwin, Mike and Hange seemed to be treating him differently, okay, what did he expect? He practically admitted to them he was a mass murderer but it still hurt and Levi no matter what couldn't stop it from hurting.

Hange funny enough seemed more forgiving, it was just really awkward between them now, both not really knowing how to react to each other. Mike didn't seem to know what to make of Levi any more. Erwin treated him the same... sort of.

After Kenny's death Erwin, Levi swore, was stalking him, he popped up everywhere! It was like Levi couldn't get a moments piece and Erwin seemed to be getting stricter, more inclined to using that dam sire bond to get what he wanted from Levi.

This would of pissed Levi of apart from...

He felt like he deserved it.

Why shouldn't he be treated like that? It was his own fault after all.

Only training and watching the new recruits train got his mind of things. He had taken to talking to Petra in his free time.

She was so innocent.

Almost naive

But she reminded him so much of Isabel and helped him forgot he was a monster that should be staked, that he just couldn't stay away, not for very long anyway and especially when his day was going pretty badly.

Including this day.

Erwin had been trying to force Levi to pick a squad that he would actually work with, again.

"I can't just keep on assigning you to different squads Levi, you need to pick one!"

Erwin had almost used his sire bond on Levi again, though Levi had quickly assured Erwin by the end of the day he would pick a squad.

But that task felt impossible.

Any solders that had the skills to be in Levi's squad Levi disliked, in truth Levi didn't care about the skills that much.

As Levi leaned on the buildings walls, in the shade watching the trainees he thought more about it.

No, he didn't care about how many vampires they killed.

What he cared about was that solders in his squad were quick thinking, aware, obedient but able to question his orders if the situation needed it and were full of energy, mostly positive.

Yes, what Levi wanted, what Levi needed in his squad was...

Youth...

Levi's eyes widened as he came to this realisation, of course, how could he have not thought of it before?