Insomnia (AOT Levi Fanfiction)

Chapter One ~ To You, Without Sleep

Note: This may give you feels, so I'm warning you right now. Credits to all artist's and their amazing work that I use. Last chance to leave if getting sad isn't your thing.

There is no smut in this! Levi isn't a dirty little  sinner in this so no thinking he'll...you know...so stop those thoughts you!

It's in third person btw, although sometimes Levi's thoughts will be in italics. so this.

Anywho, lets begin.

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Tossing, turning and tossing again. Never awake nor asleep. Levi's endless thoughts of whether or not he'll get his rest lay unanswered in his mind, even though the answer is crystal clear.

The clock read three thirty four. Not long now. A couple hours at the most, until he would have to 'wake up'.

Mumbling can be heard throughout the night, of other soldiers and cadets. While Levi is completely silent, wishing for the night to envelop him in sleep.

His eyes grow weary, trying to keep himself awake. Why try to keep himself awake if he wants to sleep you ask? He can't.

Sleep may be a blessing, but also a curse.

Levi cannot sleep for the thought of attacking titans and the constant worry that he'll wake up late. Unfortunately, he would wake up earlier than expected, feeling tired and not be able to get back to sleep.

Now, he is staring at the ceiling. The duvet covers exposing his chest. He sighed, his breath coming out as what appeared to be mist. Instead just steam.

His room was unreasonably cold, although extremely clean. The cold hung to everything as if something were trying to tug it away. Levi thought all the other rooms were just as cold but instead, they were perfectly warm.

He often cleaned the cadets' rooms. They were just awful. Completely messy with rubbish and clothes strewn everywhere.

Being the clean - freak he is, he'd clean the rooms with no problem, but every time he looked at a cadet's messy bed. He'd wonder how they slept at night. Whether or not they had trouble sleeping like him, or if they didn't.

He ran a hand through his hair, it flicked back up as soon as he took his hand away. He looked around at all the shadows of his room. Nothing exciting.

Levi didn't put on his light, it drove him crazy at night. The light was too intense when he felt tired, which happened to be all the time. Though he'd gotten used to it.

Why do I do this to myself?

The inability to sleep. Lucky cadets. Lucky bush brows. Lucky shitty glasses. Lucky jaeger. Why do they get sleep. I need it too. I guess I had to trade sleep for being humanity's strongest.

He thought.

"Who needs sleep. Sleep is for the weaklings, If I make it, I'm fine." He glowered. His voice was surprisingly soft though.

He lay back onto the bed.

"If I can go without sleep. So can they." Levi forced his eyes shut, no matter how much he wanted to sleep It just seemed impossible.

That was Insomnia for Levi. Hardly sleeping, maybe two or three hours at least.

Levi had already slept that night, there wasn't a chance he'd sleep twice in the same night.

There was a noise nearby, his eyes shot open immediately. He rose from the bed, ready to check what was bothering him.

"Ugh. Pesky brats." He muttered to himself quietly, although he didn't care much for the cadets. He wanted them to sleep, so they were strong enough to take on titans in case the time called for it.

He put his feet onto the floor and pushed off the covers. He still wore what he usually wore during the day, except it was only the bottom part. He walked over to his door and opened it.

He peeked out to see Sasha and Connie a few doors down. Sasha was on the floor and the door was wide open, revealing dirty laundry scattering the floor.

They turned to him, surprise evident on their faces.

"Sorry for waking you Heichou sir!" Connie said, his voice wavering.

Sasha dusted herself down quickly. Then saluted quickly, nudging Connie and he did the same.

"Quiet. The other brats are sleeping." Levi replied. His voice harsh and tiredness was obvious. "You better have that room cleaned Cadet. I'll stop by in the morning to make sure it's done, so be prepared." He then shut the door on them and heard them sigh in relief.

"Idiots."

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I see the shippers already. XD