{AU} Levi Ackerman X Abused!Reader | Eccedentesiast |

Chapter Seven | Regret |

"Where is all of this coming from? He was fine one minute and now he-"

"I still can't fucking comprehend how dumb you can be? After a whole fucking year, you would think something might have been mentioned?How many years have we known each other? You would think after all of those years you would have trusted me. You used to tell me everything, but ever since his stupid ass got in the picture, it's like you completely turned your back on me! Now all of a sudden you need me again?"

She attempted to process what he was saying, soaking in all of his words. Had she really been that pathetic?

"It doesn't fucking make sense! Why would you even stay with him? You can be stupid sometimes, but this idiotic? I think a fucking child can do better!"

Levi wanted to say so much more. He couldn't bring himself to do it. He wanted to scream out all of his frustrations and demand that she provide answers to his questions.

"You fucking blew me off for a whole year, and I come and save your ass like I always do."

Her heart felt as if it had just completely dropped. Her throat felt sore and her eyes burned so bad they felt like blisters. Everything he was saying was just a reminder that she was nothing. She was a waste of space and more importantly a waste of time.

She couldn't blame him though. She had done him wrong, she knew that. But she felt like it was her only option. Maybe explaining that would lighten the situation somehow? Normal best friends fight occasionally-right?

"I did the best I could Levi. I didn't want to start anything-"

"How long did you think that was gonna last?"

"I didn't want you to interfere okay? I'm sorry for disregarding your feelings. I really really am! I was being selfish. Trent was right..."

Levi watched as a tear fell from her red eyes, trailing down her cheek as she choked back a sob. She felt absolutely vulnerable and just down right useless at the moment. She understood his frustrations, most people would be upset when they found out someone they cared about was being abused. She hadn't even bothered mentioning it to him.

"What the fuck did I just do?" He asks himself.

Why did he say those things? She just got out of an abusive relationship, just a few hours ago she had gotten the shit beaten out of her. Who knows what Trent has said to her for the past year! Yet here he is. Unloading his own frustrations onto her. He had acted so aggressive and hostile only because he was overthinking and felt provoked.

He was grieving on his own somehow, he had unknowingly ignored her feelings at the moment. He knew he could say terrible things at times, she could handle it. She always did, growing up. They spit insults back and forth almost all the time.

But this...

He didn't mean to make her cry. It disappointing him She rarely did it, but when she did...

"W-wait..I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. I-um..." He removed his hands from the side of the tub, glancing down at her. Her hands were now covering her eyes as she sniffled and choked back sobs. The bruises and cuts that rest upon her skin forced him to think of everything she must have gone through. The times she cried alone. He imagined Trent hitting her and kicking her, her screams begging him to stop rang in his ears.

Before he knew it his clothes were soaked and wet and he was clinging to her like a koala and a tree. He didn't know what to do to make her stop crying. He just wanted her to know that he was there and he wasn't going anywhere. he had hoped the water would clean him, wash away this guilt he felt, along with her pain.