Protection *Ereri*

Chapter 14

Sleeping wasn't easy for Eren. Having the huge bruise on his back made every movement a pain and he was ready to just give up on sleeping. Luckily, though, he ended up finding a position that didn't hurt and was comfortable enough to sleep in, so at around 2am or so he fell asleep.

He slept in to about 10 when he awoke to the smell of breakfast being made. He opened his eyes and a small smile settled onto his face.

Slowly getting out of bed, he left his bedroom and walked towards the kitchen. Being Levi had already seen his face, there was no reason for him to put on all of the make up that he had been planning on putting on.

Eren walked into the kitchen and looked over to where Levi was standing. He was at the stove with his back to Eren. Grinning slightly, he quietly tipped toed over and wrapped his arms around Levi. "Morning."

Levi turned his head to Eren, not even showing any signs of having been startled. "Oh, look. You're finally up." He responded back.

Rolling his eyes, Eren let go of Levi and walked over to the kitchen table. "Well that didn't go as planned." He grumbled unhappily, pulling one of the chairs out and taking a seat.

"No, it did not." Levi said, not looking over to Eren as he kept one making the food. "Don't ever plan on it to, either."

Eren huffed and crossed his arms. A small silence fell over them for a little bit until Levi broke it. "You know, I still want to know what happened last night." He said.

Eren looked up and over to him.

"Some shit went down and I need to know." Levi continued as he finished up with what he was making and proceeded to dish it up.

Eren didn't know what to say as he say there and just stared at Levi.

Feeling the stare, Levi turned his head a little to glance at Eren. "Well? Get on with it."

Still, Eren didn't speak right away. However, he knew that sooner or later he was going to have to tell what happened. So, with a deep sigh, he started to speak.

"As you know, I went out drinking last night," Eren began. He could hear the small grunt that Levi made, but chose to ignore it as he continued on. "Well, I left after a while and decided to come back home after talking with this guy I had met."

"Excuse me? Guy you met? Who is he? Where is he from? What's his name? He's probably dangerous." Levi interrupted, earning an eye roll from Eren.

"Anyways, I wasn't in any rush to come back, so I was just taking my time. Apparently, I wasn't paying a lot of attention when I was grossing the road and I almost got hit."

"And let me guess, the guy from the bar came running our dashingly and saved you?" Levi asked sarcastically.

"No... Jean did.".

"..... Are you fucking serious right now."

Eren sighed and nodded his head. "Unfortunately, yes. Trust, I much rather had been just ran over. He did tackle me out of the way, though, and I thanked him. The douche bag just couldn't leave things at that, though, so I was forced to punch him in the gut and run off. And now here we are." Eren finished up.

"Of course he couldn't just leave things at that." Levi grumbled before looking at Eren. "So are those cuts on your face the only injury or is there anything else that I should see?"

Eren was just going to keep his mouth shut at first and say that there wasn't any others. However, it hurt too bad to just stay quiet and he knew that Levi would find out anyways.

"Uh, yeah.. my back is kind of fucked up..." He said softly.

"Stand up and lift your shirt up." Levi said as he walked around behind Eren and waited for him to follow the instructions.

Signing in dismay, Eren stood up, doing as told. He lifted his shirt up, allowing Levi to be able to inspect his back.

"Jesus, that's disgusting." He heard the moments the eyes landed on it. He rolled his own eyes, but didn't say anything back. "You fucking idiot, you should have gone to the hospital. Now this shit could possibly be infected. Go get fucking ready. You're going right now to get checked out." Levi stated, leaving no room for arguments, not that Eren going to.

His back ached so badly that he wasn't going to try and be "cute" by saying he was fine. He fucking hurt.

"OK." He agreed softly before heading back to his room to get ready. Levi watched the male go and shook his head.

"Brat." He said himself before going to start getting ready as well.

When they arrived at the hospital, Eren looked up at the tall building. He wanted his back checked out, but god did he hate this place. It was just a sad place to be at.

Unbuckling his seat belt when Levi parked, he climbed out of the car and shut his door behind him. He put his hands into his pockets and stood there, waiting for Levi to get out as well. Now normally he would just lean against the car, but... well, you know.

He looked over when he heard the door shut and watched as Levi locked the car up. Eren walked around the car, heading over to his side.

"Let's go, brat." Levi said as he started to walk towards the entrance, Eren following in tow.

The duo headed inside of the hospital and went over to the front desk. Eren leaned his side against the front desk as he stood there, listening to his boyfriend talk to the front desk woman. He could call him that, right? Weren't they dating now? Neither of them had asked to confirm it, but Levi had kissed him. So that had to mean something. Eren grumbled to himself and glared slightly at the wall.

"Alright, take a seat and Dr. Smith will be right with you." He heard the receptionist say. He stood up straight and walked over to a random seat, sitting down. Levi followed him along and sat down in the chair right beside him.

Erens eyes looked over the room a little bit as he sat there. He wasn't completely sitting back, being he didn't want to hurt his back anymore than it already was. He looked over the vase of flowers up by the desk and the pictures that hung on the wall behind everyone. Glancing over to Levi, he eyed the male who was currently looking down at his cellphone.

Deciding to take out his own cellphone and check his text messages, he reached into his pocket and grabbed it when he heard a voice that sounded oddly familiar call his name.

"Eren, you can come back now."

Eren looked up and over to the person, nearly choking when he saw who it was.

"Ah, good to see you again, Eren." Erwin said to the male.