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Penny For His Thoughts

Levi's POV

I felt my lips curl up in happiness at the boys antics. My face relaxed and I stared at his shocked green eyes.

Shit.

I smiled. Was he freaked out?

No, he was... Smiling? Yes he was, though almost immediately a strange concoction of emotions found way to his face.

Sadness.

Confusion.

Anger.

Pleasure.

Softness... I didn't even know if that was an emotion, but it was defiantly there. I felt my shocked expression morph into one of concern for the conflicted boy in front of me. I noticed his gaze had weakened, deep in thought.

I waved my hand in front of his face.

"Eren?" I said. He blinked and looked at me. His eyes changed from green to a dark blue with green flecks as the light hit his eyes differently. A light dusting of pink danced on his unusually pale cheeks.

"Y-yeah?" He said looking down at his fingers as they fiddled absentmindedly with his Scout Regiment access card. His flustered and shy appearance made me want
to... Nope, not going to continue that thought.
Shit Eren, why do you do this to me?

His currently sapphire eyes gleamed with thought as his fingers wound around the plastic card in his pale palms.

"What are you thinking about?" Why that hell did I say that. Now it will seem like I'm interested, I am, but I don't want him knowing that, knowing that I cared. He went rigid. His light pink cheeks turned rose pink and than red at the centre.

"Stuff" He said while looking back at his hands. I scoffed.

"Stuff?" I said incredulously. He nodded slowly, trying to get used to his answer.

I got an idea. I looked down at the shot glass that lay on its side resting on the counter in front of me. I reached down and picked it up and placed it in front of him.

"Choose one thing to get that 'stuff' off your mind" I said gesturing to the glass shelves filled with different coloured glass bottles filled with expensive liquor. Eren hesitantly pointed to one of my personal favourites.

"Southern Comfort, nice choice" I said reaching up to grab the half empty bottle. I had to stretch quite a bit, but I managed. I turned around and saw Erens eyes snap upwards with shock.

What was it with him tonight? I poured the amber coloured liquid into the small crystal shot glass.

"On the house" I said while turning to place the bottle back on the shelf. I heard him mumble a thanks. When I turned back to face him the drink was gone. I thought nothing of it.

"Levi" Eren said quietly, just barely distinguishable over the obnoxious sounds of drunk people and loud booming laughter. I looked at him. He looked down at the keycard, now held still.

"You confuse me" That's not what I was expecting. I blinked.

"What?" He looked up at me, emotion swirling in his Caribbean eyes.

"You fucking confuse me Levi!" Eren said loudly, turning a few heads from around the room, I waved them off and they got back to whatever the hell they were doing. I frowned and looked down.

"What do you mean?" I said quietly. I heard Eren sigh and out of the corner of my eyes I saw him run a frustrated hand though his chocolate brown hair. He than laughed, not his usual bubbly laugh that I knew him for, but a dark and cynical laugh that, I was ashamed to admit, turned me on a bit.

"I don't even know Levi" He said with traces of his cold laugh weaving his words. I frowned, what the hell Eren?

I would do anything to know.

I walked around the bar and sat in the stool beside him. He almost jumped when I took the seat. I reached into my pocket and pulled out a small circle made of copper and slid it over to him.

"Penny for your thoughts?" I said simply. He looked over at me with sadness and conflict clearly evident in the way his face was set.

"I-I can't" He paused, taking a breath that seemed to calm him down a bit.

"Not here, not now" He said looking around at the crowded situation of the bar. I nodded in understanding. I could wait, I had already decided that.

Warmth. It encircled me. Erens head was tucked in the crook of my neck, his cold skin cooling my hot neck down.

My heart stopped. I could feel his beating erratically. His muscles tensed and I heard his stomach growl.

He pulled away. Leaving me feeling a bit more empty than before. He brought his hand up to his mouth and nose. Covering them.

Did I smell bad?

I subtly sniffed my shirt. It smelled fine. Huh?

"I'm sorry" Eren said before standing up at inhuman speeds as he left the bar, I couldn't even see him as he darted out. I stood. Eren, was he alright?

"Oluo, watch the bar, don't steal anything" I said, not even waiting for an answer before I ran out into the deserted road.

Eren wasn't running anymore. He was walking quickly down the road. I started to follow, but than he stopped walking and slid into a sitting position against the brick wall of a closed dress store. His silhouette was outlined gracefully under the moonlight. His face was held in his hands.

I approached.

"Eren, talk to me" I said, sliding down the wall to sit beside him. He gasped. I could see the wetness of tears slipping through his pale fingers, water glistening in the moonlight.

"I would" He hiccuped through the tears.

"But I am scared for your life Levi!" He burst out with a surge of raw emotion. What was he talking about, I was fine as far as I'm aware...

"Why Eren? Im fine" I reached for his hand so he could see that I was okay, but as my hand touched his, his whole body tensed.

"Don't" He said with so much seriousness that I couldn't help but obey his commanding tone.

"I'm a monster" Did he mean the whole prostitution thing? He already knew that I didn't judge him for that, so that couldn't be what was ripping him apart.

"No you're not" I said confidently, there was noting Eren could do to sway my opinion the other way.

He laughed bitterly.

"I'll remove my hands, and you tell me than that I'm not" What did he mean, what was so bad that he was worried about that?

"Okay Eren" I said as calmly as I could given the situation. He slowly started peeling his long and graceful fingers from his equally graceful face.

The first thing I noticed was his eyes. The beautiful blue was gone, replaced with an equally, more boldly beautiful red. My heart picked up speed as I saw how sexy his eyes were. I looked down at his lips on natural instinct.

Second difference.

Inch long teeth poked into his lips, I saw his tong nervously dart out from in between the large teeth to swipe over his rose pink lips nervously.

In the moment I had only breathed a single word.

"Eren"

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