Crack of Sunlight (Ereri/Riren)

•~Chapter Twenty Seven~•

Bonus chapters will more than likely be a thing. I just have to write them xD if anyone has any ideas for them, feel free to let me know~

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Levi couldn't recall a time where he ever uttered the words 'I love you' to someone and meant it with every inch of his being. Really, he couldn't remember ever really saying them to anyone. If he had, it was when he was very young. He'd probably said it to his mother, even his sister because that was just what you did. It was normal, and he would have been much too young to understand not loving your family, to understand that just because they were your family didn't necessarily mean they deserved your love or that you deserved theirs.

Anyone else he might have said it to would have been his baby sister...but by the time she was born, his heart was already tainted and that kind of affection wasn't something he was capable of.

Every time he allowed those words to roll off his tongue, they felt strange. Not bad. Just strange. They sounded almost wrong in his voice, yet every time he said them they left a warm tingle in their wake. They were just words. They shouldn't make him feel the way they did, but they did.

After the events of that morning, they seemed weak and feeble and didn't hold nearly enough power for how he truly felt about the boy sleeping soundly on his chest and in his arms, with his deep breathing and steady heartbeat. He'd been the first between them to say it; every time he said it since he meant it with every atom of his being.

Eren hadn't so much as changed him as he'd brought parts of him to the surface. Parts that had been buried so deep by bad memories, drugs, and hatred. Being around someone so full of life was bound to have an effect on him...yet he'd had no idea it would be so profound.

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Slowly, the raven untangled himself from the brunet, mindful not to wake him from his evidently deep slumber. He covered him up with the afghan at the end of the bed that had slid halfway off before standing up and stretching, wincing as his muscles protested against the soreness. His thighs in particular ached from having been stretched out more than they were used to. His ass was in no complete comfort, either, but with the pool of bliss he was floating in, it was more than worth it.

He started picking things up and tidying them, tossing their clothes in the laundry basket and shutting the television off. He then selected clothes at random and strode across the hall for a shower.

Back in the room, Eren was just waking back up, sitting up with his arms stretched wide and his mouth wide open in a yawn.

"Hey, sleepyhead," Levi said with a chuckle, crawling over to him.

"Heyyy." He dragged out the word and smiled into it. "How long was I out?"

"Mm, like half an hour. How you feelin'?"

"Aren't I supposed to be asking you that?" Levi rolled his eyes. "I'm...great." Eren smiled. "Sore."

Levi cracked a smirk of his own. "Me too." He reached up, pushing Eren's hair from his face again. "You need a shower," he said, wrinkling his nose.

"Hmph, you need a shower."

Levi leaned over and shook his wet hair in front of Eren's face in response.

"You mean you showered without me?" Eren pretend complained, sticking his lip out.

"Tch. Don't be a baby. Can't you shower by yourself for once?"

"But it's not as easy to get my baaack..." he whined, leaning over to lean his head heavily against Levi's shoulder.

"You're such a brat," Levi muttered.