The Ereri Project (#2)

Research (Teacher/Student)

"This is so boring."

Levi chuckles at the older man and turns the page on the paper he's reading.

As requirement for all the teachers in the English department, Eren had to assign a five page research paper to each of his students.

Despite them be honor students and seniors, there was no end to the atrocious use of langue of these of these damned things.

He was glad he decided to let everyone pick their own topics or else this torture could be even worse.

Levi looks through the stack of papers. "Where's mine?"

"In the classroom," Eren replies absently, marking the paper in front of him as though the red pen were a sword and he was killing a bad grammar monster.

Levi frowns. "Why?"

"Because I graded yours first and didn't want you peeking until everyone else got theirs back."

Levi smirks. "Did you grade mine first cause you knew it'd be the best?"

"I graded yours first because your last name is first on the list from all my classes."

Levi makes a face. "Mean."

"Thank you for helping, by the way," Eren says. "Sometimes I just need an extra set of eyes to make sure I didn't miss anything."

"I'm getting tired of reading, can I check your online thingy to see who plagiarized?"

"Online thingy?"

"Turnitin, whatever."

"Such eloquence for a young man at the top of his class."

"Shut up, can I check it or not?"

"Go ahead, my sign-in is written on the notepad under the mouse."

Levi goes over to Eren's desktop and turns it on. "Why's your info just sitting out on your desk where anyone can see?"

"Cause no one comes here and that's just my information for school."

Levi draws his feet up onto the chair so he can rest his chin on one of his knees.

He signs into the website and clicks on the research paper page. Inside is the list of students, their papers, and a percentage that tells the teacher how many strings of words were copied from existing works.

"What are the percentages you're looking for?"

"Write down anyone higher than thirty percent or lower than five percent for me, please. If you feel like it you can check some of them to see if they really copied or if they just used a lot of quotes."

Levi scrolls the list of students, most hovered between fifteen and thirty percent matches for other documents in the system, Levi's own paper had twenty percent. "Holy shit," he says.

"What?" Eren asks, looking up.

"These two both have one hundred percent matches."

Eren furrows his eyebrows and walks over. "Not possible," he says, leaning over Levi to look at the screen.

"The Hernandez twins, huh?" Eren mutters to himself.

Levi's eyes widen. "Those two? I don't believe it."

Eren clicks on the percentage on of the essays which brings them to the screen where everything, including the students name is highlighted red.

Eren furrows his eyebrows and goes back to click on the other's. "Carly and Lucas both turned in Lucas' essay," Eren says. "I could've sworn I already graded Carly's though, make a note for me, I have to talk to them in class tomorrow."

Levi jots down a note for Eren under the list of students whose percentages were too high or low.

When he's done, he turns around in his chair and glances at Eren, seated at the coffee table and surrounded by piles of essays.

He swallows thickly when he realizes how hot Eren looks when he concentrating on something.

He smiles slightly and continues staring unintentionally.

Eren looks up and makes a face. "What're you looking at?"

"You're really cute when you're working."

Eren cheeks go pink. "Just help me read these stupid essays or I'm making you go home."

Levi chuckles and sits down across from Eren, resuming his reading.

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A/N: Well I have a lot more one-shots waiting to be published!