The Life Of Being Father's(Erwin X Levi)

Cookies for Santa

Levi takes out the pan of fresh cookies from the oven as soon as the timer goes off, his daughter and two adopted sons hovering right behind him. He ignores their presence, has been all day with their insistent questions and bright eyes trying to stare into his soul. He has almost caved in a total of three times now, but with sheer determination, he has kept his mouth shut and eyes averted from their constant presence.

It's their first Christmas as a full family, the adoption papers for the two boys took well over a year with him and his husband in a gay marriage dragging the process out a lot longer then what it should have. Levi is convinced if he and his husband, Erwin, weren't both successful in their chosen careers they would never have gotten the boys. Even when they have shown they are competent parents raising Levi's own child from his first marriage.

It was an arranged marriage to better his family business. They weren't in love, just doing what they needed to do for their families even if that meant Levi had to leave his lover. She passed away when she gave birth to their beautiful daughter Mikasa, he was saddened by the loss because he did care for her. It just wasn't completely heartbreaking. He raised his daughter alone for the first year before his previous lover came back into his life, then they married three years after that.

The two boys, Eren and Armin, were living with Armin's grandfather who was a dear friend to Erwin's father for as long as Erwin could remember. So he and Erwin watched the two boys grow and of course, got attached with them being over all the time for play dates with their own kid. So when the man passes away and the boys were thrown into the system they tried their hardest to fully adopt them. It finally went through 4 months ago so they were able to do all the big holidays with the boys as a full family.

It was now Christmas eve and the kids were desperately trying to get Levi to tell them what their presents would be. It is hard to not just tell them everything they are getting when all three of them look up to him with their puppy dog eyes, looking cute enough to melt his heart to a nice puddle of goo. But he has his determination. He has been able to hold out for the full month, he can last a few more hours. If he keeps ignoring them.

Levi sets the hot tray of cookies to the side and out of reach of the kids. Levi already made a big bowl of buttercream frosting so he works on separating the mass equally into 6 smaller bowls. It takes some time and with minimal mess, he brings the bowels to the dining room table.

After maneuvering around his personal audience he makes it back to the kitchen and gets a spatula to transfer the warm cookies to a cooling rack. He picks up the rack and turns back to the dining room.

A sharp intake of breath paired with quick reflexes has Levi barely missing tripping over Eren. The little boy just watches with his wide green eyes with his mouth hanging open.

"Danm brat," Levi says affectionately. He reaches down and ruffles his hair and continues on to the dining room.

"Erwin, it's time for frosting," Levi calls out in the general direction of the Livingroom he knows his husband is at reading. He hears the snap of a book closing and the couches creak when the man stands.

The small hoard of kids under his feet race to their spot on the table and sit in front of their decorative placemats. The three of them shaking with their sheer excitement. Levi chuckles and sets the cooling rack in the center. He sets one of the bowls of icing next to the cookies and has the other five in front of him.

"What colors would you each like?" As soon as Levi asks the three start talking over each other. Definitely not just stating one color they would like to do. He sighs and closes his eyes for a moment. He could make out what they want to say if he wanted to, but he does not want rambling children at this time. He knows they only exploded at him because he has been ignoring them for a full 20 minutes now and he gave them an opening to talk to him, but he just had one question.