Where everything went wrong {Ereri/Riren}

3.

Eren's POV

"Eren?"

That single word was all it took for said boy to snap out of whatever kind of trance he was sucked into, and he immediately gasped, his thin eyebrows scrunching together while his facial expression flickered between shock and recognition. Suddenly his own hands were covering his mouth, hiding the shocked gasp he previously let slip.

"Levi?" He whispered ever-so-softly.

The only thing poor Eren could begin to think about this unlikely encounter was; What the fuck?!

This couldn't possibly be the same sweet little Levi he met 8 years ago, could it? Eren just couldn't wrap his head around it. He was just so tall... and muscular... And tall! In fact, Eren was beginning to feel hugely intimidated by this seemingly familiar person. The brunette was strongly trying to suppress his omega instincts to either sprint away and hide or bare his neck in submission to the dominant alpha in front of his smaller form. All he could think about was how much he did not want to anger this beast stood in front of him.

Levi must have sensed the smaller male's discomfort, and immediately made a 'tch' sound with his tongue, his usual annoyed look taking over his features once more. "Hey Eren, you haven't forgotten that we're friends, right?"

The distantly familiar, yet presently strange, deep register of Levi's voice seemed to snap Eren out of his thoughts, and his mismatched orbs lifted to make eye contact with the other's gunmetal grey ones yet again.

"U-um, yeah!" The neko stumbled over his words, finding it hard to speak around the lump of anxiety forming in his throat. "Sorry, i-its just, um..."

Levi just stood there passively, all  surprise gone from his expression, yet the previous shock had yet to fade from his eyes. Hanji and Erwin waited in nervous anticipation behind him (they had appeared only a moment ago, just in time to catch the awkward encounter) expecting their friend to snap at the stuttering brunette before them.

At some point point during Eren's mess of mindless stuttering, a large weight was placed on his shoulder. Large and... surprisingly warm? Eren's mouth immediately slammed shut, not unlike the preciseness of a metal door slamming. It was then the omega realized that the large, warm weight on his shoulder belonged to a large arm, which, not surprisingly, led to a large body. Levi had placed his hand on his shoulder.

"I know." The large male spoke, his gunmetal eyes shining with understanding, "Me too, brat." Eren just nodded his head dumbly and clutched the strap of his bag tighter, making his knuckles turn white.

"S-so..." Eren trailed off, his eyes darting all over the room, trying and failing to avoid the raven in front of him, "You... grew?"

At this, a once silent Hanji burst into laughter, her screechy cackles seemingly bouncing off the walls. "Aw, Levi! I didn't realize your Eren was so-" Her sentence broke abruptly to make way for more laughter to escape her wide, open grin, "so cute!"

Levi, looking for a moment as if contemplating this statement, slowly lifts an eyebrow, scanning his cool eyes up and down Eren's petite form almost teasingly before nodding. "Heh. Yeah, shitty glasses, I guess you're right."

After a moment of silence between the group, Eren's flustered facial expression contorted into one of annoyance, but red still burned his cheeks. "C-cute? Ah hell no!" And with that, Eren snatched his body from Levi's grasp and promptly stomped away, seemingly upset.

The raven wolf made no attempt to follow the boy, satisfied by the way he could practically feel the boy's embarrassment. The corner of his thin lip twitched up. Despite appearance, Eren hadn't changed much at all.

Levi involuntarily licked his lips, a glint of something flashing through his steel eyes when he watched the short brunette make his way through the crowded camp hall. Damn, he thought, 'he must be an omega, because Jaeger's got the booty...'

Meanwhile, Erwin stood passively, observing the interaction between the two- well three if you counted Hanji's brief moment of yelling- and tilted his head ever so slightly due to his newfound curiosity. His analytical gaze shot up to Levi's face, watching a flicker of unidentified emotion race through his eyes. Very curious indeed.

"Levi, you okay there?" The bushy eyebrowed inquired carefully. Levi just nodded his head slowly, as if deep in thought.

"Yup. He he is cute... and short, too."

                      
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Was a short, shitty chapter, but I'm trying to get back into the storyline, so they'll be like this for a while.

I'm pretty bad at writing, and I'm barely ever motivated to do so, but I'll try my hardest for those of you still reading this!

Anywho, until next time~

(P.S, did you see my new cover? Pretty cool right?! c: it's much better than the other crappy one I had)