|don't sneeze|

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Today, was unfortunately, a cleaning day. Everybody knows what that means. Constant scrubbing of every crook and corner of HQ under the watchful eye of Captain Levi. If you missed a spot, you would have to scrub it five more times before Levi found it sufficiently clean.

You were assigned the mess hall, along with your friends, Eren and Jean. While you were working hard, scrubbing the tables and floor, they were fighting over something stupid.

Sighing, you stood up from your bent position over one of the tables, and pulled the bandana covering your mouth and nose down. "Would the two of you-" Sneeze. That is why you wore the bandana in the first place. The cleaning products and loose dust made you sneeze.

"Aw! Bless you." Eren teased making you blush.

"Your sneeze is so cute! You sound like a kitten!" Jean ran over and pinched your cheeks making a weird noise. You narrowed your eyes and smacked the back of his head.

"And you sound like a horse, horse face." Eren smirked at Jean and began teasing him again.

"Both of you shut up!" Sneeze. You rushed and put the bandana over your mouth and nose once again. But it had already started. You would be sneezing for a while.

Glaring at nothing in particular, you began scrubbing the table again. Sneeze. Eren and Jean started to giggle at you, while you blushed and scrubbed the table more violently. "Leave me alone, you guys! I'm only sneezing."

"But it's so-" Something caught Jean's attention in the middle of his sentence, and he began scrubbing another table you had already cleaned. Eren rushing to do the same thing. You, being frustrated, straightened from your bent position once more, and put a hand on your hip.

"But it's so-" Sneeze. "What Jean?" You asked irately. Eren and Jean were trying desperately to contain their giggles.

"Cadet (l/n). What are you doing?" You slowly turned around at familiar voice, a false smile playing on your lips.

"Um, cleaning sir." Sneeze. Damn it all. You took the bandana covering your face off, not finding the point in it anymore.

"Why are those two brats having a giggle fest?" Levi pointed at the two idiots trying to contain their laughter. You glared daggers at them.

"I don't know-" Sneeze. Eren and Jean bursted out laughing, pin-pointing exactly what they were laughing at. You.

You fixed them with a glare that shut them up right away. Levi looked at the situation with an impassive face, as if sizing it up. After a few moments, another 'kitten' sneeze, and a long, drawn out sigh from Levi, Levi raised his hands and gestured for you to follow him. "Come on, (l/n)." You complied and followed behind the lance corporal, almost stumbling into him when he stopped in the doorway. "And you two. This room better be spotless when I check up on you guys."

Levi then continued down the hall, you following close behind. He had an impassive, bored expression on his face. You, on the other hand, were a blushing, stumbling mess. You were mortified by your sneeze, especially in front of Levi. You had had a crush on Levi for a while now, from about the time you became a cadet.

You didn't realize Levi had stopped moving until you ran right into his back. "Oi! Watch it brat." Levi then entered an empty room, leaving you blushing even more than you were before.

Recovering, you walked into the room noticing a bucket and mop in one of the corners of the room. You grabbed the mop, rinsed it, then wrung it out. You then proceeded to mop the floor, but not before you sneezed. When you sneezed, you noticed Levi cringe a little bit. You knew that he didn't like unsanitary things, but you were sneezing into your sleeve. Shrugging it off, you continued to mop the floor.

After a while, you noticed that the corporal had stopped cleaning and was staring at you with his arms crossed. You straightened your posture, and looked at him with your eyebrows raised, trying not to show the fear of having to clean the same thing multiple times. "Is something wro-" Sneeze. "-ng, Corporal?"

"Yeah. Don't sneeze. It's contaminating the air." He glared at you, before going back to cleaning one of the bare walls. Sheesh, it's not like it's something I can control.

You went back to mopping vigorously so you wouldn't miss a spot. Every couple of minutes you would sneeze, and every time Levi seemed to cringe and become more irritated. What was so wrong with your sneeze? You were trying to suppress it. That doesn't mean you were doing that successfully, but you were trying. That's what counts. Right?

At first that was what you were asking. Then your emotions got the best of you. Your cheeks turned red, and you abruptly stood straight and fixed Levi with a glare.

"You know what, what's so wrong with my sneeze, Levi?" You blushed at the fact of your little name slip up, but your frustration had already tinted your cheeks. When Levi whipped around to look at you, you began to regret what you had said, but then you realized it was too late now. Might as well follow through. "I've been covering my mouth and nose this whole time. Plus I've been trying not to sneeze at all, yet you still look all frustrated about it. It's not like I can control when I want to sneeze! It's all of these cleaning products." You growl, your eyes narrowed and cheeks flushed. Then you shoved your face into your arm, successfully avoiding spraying snot all over Levi's face. Nice one, (f/n).

"You really want to know, (f/n)?" Levi growled, quickly trapping you between his body and the wall. Your once narrowed eyes widened in surprise, at both the fact he called you (f/n) and the fact that you were trapped between him and the wall. "It's because I can't handle it." His eyes seemed to smolder into your skull.

Regaining some confidence, you carefully decided on what to say next. "Can't handle what, Levi?" Your (e/c) eyes were now level and focused on Levi's cold grey ones. He leaned in close to your ear, you shifting a little in embarrassment.

"Your sneeze is just so damn cute. The worst part is I can't do anything about it. I can't even stop you from sneezing." He whispered in your ear. One of his hands had found its way up to your (h/l) (h/c) hair and his fingers were now running through it. You pulled the bandana covering his face down so it rested around his neck. Then you slowly leaned towards his ear.

"Who said you couldn't." That was all it took. Levi pressed you further up against the wall and took your lips in his. It was a passionate and heat-filled kiss. His tongue swiped across your bottom lip, asking for entrance. Both of your tounges danced around the others. That was when you heard the voice.

"Hey! Captain Levi, where are you? We've finished cleaning our sections." You and Levi quickly pulled apart, breathing heavily. He pulled the bandana back over his mouth and nose, successfully hiding the flush on his cheeks from the little make out session you two had just had. You, on the other hand, were not so fortunate. You had left your bandana in the mess hall.

You ran to the mop, pretending to have been mopping. In the doorway stood Petra and Oluo. You sneezed, and thanked the walls that you had. Now you would have an excuse for being as flushed as you were.

"Alright. I'll go check. Continue mopping, (f/n)." Levi then walked out of the room, Petra and Oluo following closely behind.

"Hey, Captain? Since when were you and (f/n) on a first name basis?" Petra asked.

"Shut it, brat." That was all you heard, before their voices faded out.

----back in the mess hall----

"Dude, did you see that?" Jean asked Eren, a smirk clear on his face while he stood up from fake-scrubbing the table.

"See what?" Eren glanced up at Jean from cleaning one of the last tables.

"Captain Levi totally has a thing for (f/n)'s sneeze."


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