The Ereri Project (#2)

Names (Vampire)

Levi spends a lot of time after that thinking. Adjusting is a slow process, especially since he'll have two kids at the end of this particular rainbow now instead of just one.

He thinks he might feel better if Eren looked at least a little bit nervous too. But no, the brunette has been nothing but excited since they got the news from Hanji. He almost hasn't wanted to talk about anything else.

He's looking at different cribs they could get while Levi lays on the couch beside him, staring at the ceiling. Eren absently runs his fingers through Levi's hair. "Are you alright?" he asks.

Levi shrugs. "Why wouldn't I be?"

"I mean, it could just be my imagination, but I feel like you've been acting a little weird."

"Weird how?"

"I dunno, you've been staring off into space a lot lately."

Levi tilts his head to look at Eren. "I've been thinking."

Eren puts his laptop down and pulls Levi easily up onto his lap to wrap his arms around him. "About what?"

"These things," Levi replies, pointing to his stomach.

Eren smiles. "What about them?"

"There's two of them. And that scares me."

Eren shrugs. "It scares me too."

Levi furrows his eyebrows and frowns at him. "No it doesn't, you've been nothing but excited since we got the news."

"That's because I want to be happy more than I want to worry. After you were attacked, none of us thought they would make it but they did, so I'm going to be happy about it and worry only if I have to."

Levi stares at him. "They weren't going to make it?"

Eren nods sadly. "That wolf stepped on you," he says. "Hanji thought the shock might've killed them."

Levi frowns again, staring at his overgrown stomach, suddenly feeling like an asshole for worrying about himself.

"If it helps, do you wanna talk about names?" Eren asks.

Levi nods, leaning his head on Eren. "I already have two I've been thinking about."

"Oh yeah, what?"

"Isabel and Farlan."

"Isabel and Farlan?"

"My friends," Levi says. "They actually did die in the accident that nearly killed me before Erwin turned me."

Eren frowns. "That's so sad."

"I should count my blessings that Erwin got me away from there so I didn't have to see their corpses but I never got to say goodbye. Honoring them feels right."

"Isabel and Farlan," Eren repeats. "Okay, I like that."

Levi snorts. "Good, I wasn't giving you much choice anyway."

Eren laughs and hugs Levi.