Aesthetic Acid | eren x levi |

♜: Thirty- Six Demons

Levi never knew an anger so intense and hurtful until he met Petra again.

If the fires of hell had the form of a human, it would without a doubt be her. Although Levi no longer wanted to be affiliated with her, there were still moments in his days where he would mindlessly wonder where the old Petra had disappeared to. He may be a vampire, but his way of thinking was still very similar of a human's. It seemed that he remembered memories more vividly of people who hurt him. He could not grasp how Petra was so... cantankerous, because  Levi used to think she must have been an angel in her past life if reincarnation even existed in this world. He thought that maybe if he chased after her after she bit him, none of this would have happened. Or if he hadn't been so selfish by forcefully staying by Eren's side, he wouldn't be a target of hers. In other words, he was guessing that this whole vile rampage of Petra was all his doing. Although he dragged a lot of people into tons of trouble, he was goin to take responsibility for it. In some ways, he did not regret some of his choices. He had been so unhappy for a very long time that he just snapped and wanted to change it. Now that he found the sun of his life, he was going to do anything to protect it. He did not wish to live in darkness again, a world without him would be unbearably painful. 

Then again, he was used to being hurt. It would be highly unpleasant, but he was no stranger to emotional pain. 

"Levi," a voice rung into his ears like warm honey. 

"Yes?" 

"I love you." 

"I love you too. You're not saying that because you think we're going to die and therefor you want me to know that you love me before that happens, right?" Levi asked. 

"Of course not," Eren said truthfully. "You told me I'm okay as long as I'm with you, correct?" 

"I'm proud of you for being so positive in a dark time like this," Levi told him and displayed a mournful grin. "But you know, it could still hapen. We may be vampires and we live forever but that doesn't mean we can't die." 

"I'm serious, Levi," Eren told him firmly. Levi thought he was only staying positive to cheer him up, but when he looked up he could see the sincerity in his eyes.

Levi didn't have to respine, mainly because he didn't know what to reply with. He nodded instead and offered him another sad smile, the kind of smile he would show to injured animals on the brink of death. But Eren was not an injured animal, he was a wilting rose.

Out of the blue, a loud screech broke into the air like violent thunder making the two waiting vampires spring into defensive mode. The screech belonged to a vampire, but it sounded so human, even at the face of death did vampires sound a lot like humans again, because the pain must have been so hard to handle that they would show their weaker side. Whatever it was, it must be very terrifying.

Eren and Levi turned just in time to see another vampire with daggers as eyes leaping at them with incredible speed. Levi expertly and swiftly knocked Eren to the ground to avoid the potential chance of him getting hurt and shilded him with his own body as he released a low animalistic growl deep wihtin his parched throat and leaped forward to attack without any sign of warning. His tough hands went straight for the intruder's throat and buried his nails as hard as he could muster. Eren dashed to Levi's aid and grabbed at the vampire's torso and without even thinking of what would happen, started to pull him apart like a tree being freed from the earth's rich soil. Eren never knew it would be so easy, so simple to take an individual's life like it was nothing. The enemy's lower half was severed from the top half, and it wasn't too difficult to do. Eren was afraid; not of the blood and the guts pouring out like a waterfall of disturbing death, but at himself.