The Ereri Project (#2)

Gifts (Werewolf)

A/N: This chapter was made three days before Christmas and I still haven't post it 'til now! More notes at the end.

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Eren is up at nearly six in the morning on Christmas Day.

He jumps out of bed excitedly, but hopefully quietly enough not to wake Levi, and goes to the closet to pull out his presents (for both Christmas and birthday) for Levi.

It had been with the help of Levi's friends during the various times each of them babysat Eren and a good chunk of the little werewolf's allowance that allowed for a sizable pile of gifts he bought and wrapped himself.

He could tell Levi was glad when he told him his parents never entertained the idea of Santa Claus. They always emphasized the importance of giving things to others, promising that the feeling of making other people happy was better than any gift.

Eren carried that idea close to him, his mother taught that to him after all.

He gave Levi a pretty big list anyway, but he wouldn't be overly disappointed for not getting everything on it.

He's surprised to already see a large pile of gifts beneath the tree. He grins as he sets all of Levi's gifts out and then runs to get the raven from bed. "Levi!" he shouts, jumping on him.

The older man groans, hugging his blanket. "Five more minutes," he mutters.

"No!" the small brunette insists. "It's Christmas! And your birthday, the whole day today should be a big, huge, fun party!"

Levi rolls over and peels his eyes open to look at Eren. "Fine," he mutters. "But I need coffee before we do gifts."

Eren jumps up with a grin. "Okay!"

Levi pulls himself out of bed and Eren pulls him to the kitchen by his hand. Levi puts his coffee on while Eren goes to run on a radio station with Christmas music. He carries Levi's Santa hat over to him. "Will you wear it for presents?" Eren asks hopefully.

Levi frowns at the red and white hat. "I suppose," he says, putting it on.

When his coffee is finally done, he sits on the floor in front of the tree with Eren. "Alright," he says. "Do you wanna go first?"

Eren shakes his head. "No, I wanna give you yours first."

Levi cocks an eyebrow, confused at the thought of a child more excited to give than receive presents. "Alright, gimme them then."

Eren hands over his first gift to Levi. Levi smiles at the sloppy wrapping job but tears it open. Immediately the smile falters. "What is it?" he asks.

"A music box!" Eren says excitedly. "Big brother Erwin took me to find it." He takes the gift from Levi and takes the music box from the box it's in, winding it up. "Open it."

Skeptically, Levi lifts the lid on the wooden box. It's beautiful, to be honest, with flowers carved into it. A little feminine, but he can't break the kid's heart by telling him how strange it seems. It takes him a moment to recognize the song, but once he does he grins.

He only played it for Eren once, but that was definitely a music box version of his all-time favorite song playing. "Oh my goodness," he says with a chuckle. "Where did you find this?"

"A store with lots of old stuff, I forget what Erwin called it."

Levi closes the box so the music stops clashing with the music playing from the radio, setting it down carefully. Eren hands him his next gift. "Big sis Hanji laughed at me when I picked this one."

Levi cocks an eyebrow, feeling how squishy the gift was under the paper. "Oh yeah?"

Eren nods. "I didn't think it was that funny."

Levi laughs as soon as he has the paper off. "Okay, I see why."

"Why?" Eren asks, making a face. "I don't get it."

It Levi's hands is an apron. It's red with little white hearts and lace decorating it. Levi scratches Eren between his ears. "Don't worry about it, I love it." Eren smiles, his ears perking up. "Alright, why don't you open one of yours now?"

Levi hands over a box. Eren tears off the paper and smiles when he finds a headband with a little, plastic sprig of mistletoe as a little bopper on top. Excitement immediately courses through Eren, butterflies filling his stomach at the thought that this means Levi will kiss him. He puts the headband on immediately and leans toward Levi.

"Close your eyes," Levi says.

Eren does, puckering his lips.

Levi kisses his forehead.

Eren wants to be disappointed that that's all, but really he's just glad Levi kissed him at all. They go through the rest of their gifts together, Levi's coffee cold and forgotten on the coffee table. By the time they're done, the two of them sit and watch the tree while trying to decide what to do for breakfast.

On impulse, Eren moves his headband onto Levi's head instead of his own.

And for the first time, he steals Levi's kiss while he's awake.

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A/N: So if you haven't read it or heard of it, I have a book called Dumb Fanfiction Moments and I am starting to run out of dumb fanfic moments so would you help me and give me ideas? Thank you!