The Ereri Project!

Lab (Vanpire)

Eren is not a patient man. In a half-hour period he paces back and forth the foyer nineteen times, up and down the main stairs fourteen times, and outside the front of the mansion seventeen times.

And still Levi is in Hanji's lab. With the door closed. That door is never closed.

Things had been going so well for them, Eren started hunting on his own and they'd been so happy.

However, two nights ago Levi woke up feeling like his head might split in half and didn't want his mate anywhere near him. Eren felt put-out, to say the least.

But more that his own sort of selfishness he was worried. Levi has never shut him out like this.

But when Eren considers that they've barely been together six months, he thinks that there have to be things he doesn't yet.

He wants to know everything but they still have a long road ahead so they're no use in trying to learn everything at once.

He at least wants to know the important things. Like why Levi would want to see Hanji before him. He sighs and sits on the bottom step of the staircase where he can still see the door to Hanji's lab.

What if Levi would rather be mated to Hanji? When Eren was getting lessons about alphas and omegas from Hanji, she told him that alphas could have more than one omega but omegas couldn't have multiple alphas.

They haven't had sex since Levi's heat so what if Levi didn't like it and would rather be with someone else?

Eren buries his face in his arms; he doesn't even want to think about that.

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"Yep, that's definitely a baby in there," Hanji says with a grin.

Levi chews the inside of his cheek and pets his belly. There's nothing there yet but he likes to think the fetus knows somehow.

"What are the statistics?" he asks immediately.

Hanji cocks an eyebrows. "What do you mean?"

He locks eyes with her. "What's the likelihood it's going to die before it's born?"

Hanji's smile falters. "Levi-"

"Just give it to me straight Zoe," he insists, his eyes holding more intensity than the bespectacled woman has ever seen in him. "I need to know."

"Well," she says. "You're aware of the finicky nature of pregnancy in humans; generally it goes well but miscarriages are very common before the woman even knows she was pregnant. For us it's even more finicky because of the changes in our internal organs when we-"

"Get on with it."

"Based on the number of years it's been since your body stopped being human, I believe you're in the right age for your body to stop wanting to reject a child."

Levi is quiet for a moment. "So it'll be fine?"

Hanji fiddles with her glasses, cleaning one of the lenses with her shirt. "I wouldn't have a party just yet but I'd say since that baby is developmentally almost a month in he or she will probably be fine."

Levi tries to bite back his grin but he can't help it, he bends over and hugs his stomach, small tears squeezing from his eyes.

Hanji chuckles. "What're you crying for?"

"I'm happy goddamnit," he mutters.

Hanji gets up and stretches. "On that note, I advise you to go back to bed until we can get you something to eat, those headaches won't stop until you've got a solid meal in you."

"Okay," Levi says, getting up to get a tissue to wipe his eyes.

Tissue in hand, he opens the door to leave only to be swept off his feet by a familiar smelling man and taken upstairs.

He's pinned on his back to the bed, Eren sitting on his hips so he can't go anywhere. "Eren, what-"

"Why've you been ignoring me?" Levi picks out the hurt in the brunettes eyes immediately. It's only a moment before Eren realizes that those are tears on Levi's cheeks.

He backs off immediately, regretting his irrational decision to haphazardly kidnap his lover from the doorway of Hanji's lab. "I'm sorry!" he says. "What happened?"

Levi sits up, rubbing his eyes. Eren rubs his back gently. "It's nothing bad," he promises quietly. "Hanji and I were just trying to figure out what all these sudden headaches are about."

"And?"

"I'm slightly anemic."

Eren blinks at him. "How is that possible? You eat nothing but blood and you fed from me the night before they started."

"Well," Levi drawls, unsure how to word this since he wasn't really given time to think about it. "I'm pregnant or whatever." He stares at his lap while Eren stares at him.

He's startled to be pulled into a tight pair of arms. "Eren?" He feels hot liquid drop onto his hair. "Oh no," he says, leaning up to wipe Eren's cheeks with his thumbs. "Don't you cry too."

"I'm happy goddamnit," Eren says, burying his face in Levi's shoulder.

Levi smiles, not quite having the heart to ruin the moment by telling Eren that is exactly what he told Hanji. "Good," he says quietly instead, petting Eren's hair.