The Wolf and The Bat

Talking With Friends

At dinner that night in the cafeteria, Eren sat down with Armin, Mikasa, and her roomate Annie, another vampiress. Armin looked to his friend slightly concerned with the deep sigh that left the brunette vampire prince's mouth.

"What's wrong? First day go rough?" Eren shrugged. "Did your music classes not meet your expectations?" Eren shook his head furiously.

"No, my music classes where phenomenal. I loved them right to death... but my Mythical Studies class..." He trailed off and sent a quick glare at Mikasa. She didn't seem phased. "You fucking jinxed me! You and Mom both!" Armin cocked his head while Mikasa and Annie just stared at him with similar looks of indifference, only the blond vampiress' blue eyes seemed icier.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Annie inquired. Eren blushed lightly. Eren's sexuality was known to every vampire on Earth, as Dracula's youngest grandson, and the youngest son of the first vampire prince, little went unnoticed by the rest. Eren shook his head to get his thoughts back on track and hopefully kill the blush on his cheeks.

"Okay, so in my Mythical Studies class, we are assigned a partner for the entire course. As in, if we decided to continue with it as a minor, or major, we will have the same partner till graduation unless said partner drops or graduates first." The three other teens nodded to let him continue. "I got partnered with a...."

"Werewolf." Annie sneered. "I knew I could smell dog on you." Eren nodded as Armin and Mikasa stared.

"Not any werewolf... Lupin's grandson." The three went quiet. Armin cleared his throat.

"And how does he look?" Eren blushed. "Is he to your liking?" He buried his face in his hands.

"Yes..." He mumbled.

"What was that?" Annie asked. Eren buried his hands in deeper.

"Yes..." He said it, but instead of louder, quieter. Mikasa sighed.

"Eren, we can't hear you. Stop being a pansy and just tell us." Eren sighed.

"Yes, alright. He's fucking gorgeous." Armin nodded.

"Okay, anything else about him we should know?" Eren blushed more.

"He has piercings."

"So what?" Annie quipped. Armin was the only one to know about Eren's slight case of stigmatophilia*. Piercings just set something off in him. Armin looked at him with a knowing look. The conversation was completely dropped instead switching to other discussions about their first days.

Levi growled as he sat down in Hanji's and Erwin's dorm room on the couch. The three had decided (more as, Hanji decided and forced the other two) to sit down and talk about their first day back. Hanji had yapped on and on about how she loved her science and math classes, but didn't understand why a medical major needed to know who started which war and when. Erwin had the normal 'it's like the first day of anything, boring but interesting enough to continue'. It was now Levi's turn.

"What? Did it suck that much?"

"No, everything was fine until that fucking Mythical Studies class." He growled again as he bit into a taco. They were messy as fuck, but damn it, Levi thought they were delicious. After swallowing he continued. "Fucking prof gave us partners pretty damn near until graduation, with no hopes of switching unless they dropped or died. And I got paired up with a fucking blood sucker." Erwin quirked an eyebrow while Hanji snickered.

"Really? You're partnered with a vampire?" Levi rolled his eyes.

"I'm pretty sure I just fucking said that. Yes, I'm partnered with a fucking vampire. But oh no, it couldn't be just any fucking leech, but mother fucking big bad Dracula's mother fucking youngest grandson!" Levi's glare at his half eaten taco intensed as his grey eyes flashed ice blue and his tail and ears flickered into view before going back. Hanji started to giggle.

"Was he at least cute?" Hanji asked, eyes sparkling with mischief. Levi flushed slightly.

"The only attractive thing on the fucker are his eyes. Damn things would be a fucking revolutionary discovery to the color wheel. I have no clue how I would make that color with paint, let alone describe them with words."

"Good thing you're an artist and not a politician." Erwin chuckled.

"That would be an interesting sight." Levi glared slightly.

"Whatever Eyebrows." The blond wolf chuckled again.

"This year should be interesting. When's your next Mythical Studies class?"

"Fucking Wednesday." Levi said, clearly annoyed. Hanji bounced in her seat, tail out and wagging with her ears standing straight in the air.

"You should introduce us to him! I've always wanted to meet vampire royalty in a way that doesn't involve a physical altercation!" Levi looked at her as if she had just insulted his mother.

"Why the fuck would I do that? This isn't some stupid dating thing where I'm bringing my weekly fuck to meet my parents. This is a fucking VAMPIRE four eyes. I don't want to deal with him more than I have to." Hanji pouted.

"But I wanted to see if the rumors were true." That caught Levi's attention.

"What rumors?" Erwin asked. Levi internally thanked him for showing curiosity.

"Well, you know how with the Rivaille line, they're eyes turn ice blue when they transform while everyone else's turn black? Well, rumor has it that Dracula's line's eyes turn gold, while the other vampire's eyes turn red." Interesting rumor indeed, however, Levi crossed his right leg over his left and scoffed.

"Why the fuck do you care?" Hanji shrugged.

"I'm just curious." Levi rolled his eyes as he finished his meal and headed to his own dorm for a shower and some well deserved sleep.

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*Stigmatophilia- piercing/tattoo fetish