It happens(Erwin X Levi)

Chapter 3: Chapter III

"Your birthday coming," Levi says as his shoulder moves smoothly, holding the knife and cutting the vegetable into thin, precise pieces. "Right?" He asks, louder as he gets no answer from across the room.

Levi has to stop cutting to hear only a small nod from Isabel. Then he recognized the sound of rough moves of crayon against the paper and he puckers his lips, turning around, putting a hand on his hip. "So what do t you want?"

The silence falls between the cutting and coloring, the boiling water is the loudest before Isabel takes a deep breath and screams. "I want a puppy!" The crayon falls from the table from her excitement and Levi furrows his brows. The knife is in his hand and he points the sharp tip at the little girl.

"No way," He moves the knife in the air with his words and she grimaces.

"I want a puppy!" Isabel screams even louder and Levi makes a step in her direction. He's taller even when she sits on the tall chair, brows arched up and the deep wrinkles appearing on his nose making him look serious and scary. "I said no way," He repeats, slowlier, more serious to make it clear.

Isabel pursed her lips at a sad angle, her small hands set on her chest and the wrinkles on her face just like Levi's. "Why not," She asks angrily yet cutely with that small voice.

Levi puts the knife back on the board, his wrist pressed against the table covered with crayons and drawings and he leans so close to her, that their noses almost touched. "You are from morning till the afternoon at school, right? Does that mean who will have to take care of that dirty dog? Me. And I don't need a dog in here. You can only dream about it,"

Levi gives her a warning with a sharp gaze before turning around, not waiting for any babbling or screaming, he doesn't want to hear it. He grabs the knife and after the first cut, the loud cry, really loud cry spreads inside the kitchen. It hits the tiles and twice louder attacks Levi's ear.

Isabel chokes on the cry, sounds so drastic like Levi killed her with that knife or something like this. Yet it didn't move him, he just rolled his eyes and cut deeper, humming something under his nose to keep himself calm.

The heavy steps made it into the kitchen as Isabel sniffed loudly.

"What's going on in here,"

Erwin asks as he entered the kitchen, the cry easily reached the rooms upstairs. He looked at his crying daughter then at Levi's back acting like he's deaf.

Erwin waits for any explanation, standing in the doors with hands on his hips and it seems like no one will give it to him. Isabel just cries the tears falling to her drawings and Levi doesn't turn around.

He sighs deeply, sitting next to his daughter and his hand falls to her back, rubbing it softly in circles. It hurts Erwin to see her like this, face red and wet on the cheeks. "What happened sweetheart," He asks softly with brows down in a worry.

She looks up, choking on the cry and her lower lip shakes as she speaks. "I want a puppy and Levi said I can't," Her small voice breaks at the last words and she cries again, snuggling her wet face into Erwin's shirt, he hugs her and kisses the blonde hair tied in a ponytail.

"Is this what you want for your birthday?" He asks softly after hugging her for a long time. She looks up with hope and nods, sniffs her nose, and takes off the glasses to rub her wet eyes with a fist.

"If that's so, I guess we can buy you a one,"

At that, the cutting soustoptops and Levi turns around really fast before Isabel can thank Erwin for being a better dad. "No, we cannot," Levi says harshly bringing two pairs of blue eyes on himself.