The Ereri Project!

Eyes

Eren has always loved watching Levi.

Even when they were kids, Eren had been enamored with the elegance of the boy seven years his senior. He'd always loved the serious look on his face, the way his long thin limbs moved for him, the way his dark hair sat on his head. But especially, Eren loved his eyes.

He loved that they were always a quick way to figure out what Levi was thinking. Whether any of the rest of him reacted to anything, his eyes always did.

He wouldn't have admitted it if anyone asked, but Eren sometimes used to have daydreams about he and Levi having a baby.

He imagined the child would have his face and smile, but Levi's hair and eyebrows. He imagined she was a girl with wide eyes, the same shade of grey and the same range of emotion as her father's.

"Eren?"

"Hm?"

Eren leans on the doorway to the nursery, smiling. Watching Levi is still pretty great. The short man in question looks up at him with minor annoyance. "Can you please come take her? I'm seriously about to piss my pants."

"Nope, five more minutes. You're really cute right now."

Levi sighs and stands up to go hand their daughter over to Eren. "Asshole," Levi says as Eren takes her.

Eren just grins. "Love you too, daddy."

"That just sounds gross coming from you now," Levi says as he closes the bathroom door.

Eren looks down at the baby girl in his arms. "Papa doesn't sound gross," he says to her. "Right Petra?"

The little girl looks nothing like Eren ever imagined; her nose and chin aren't shaped like his, her hair is light, and her eyes look nothing like Levi's. But she'd probably the most beautiful baby girl he's ever seen. She coos up at him in response and he laughs.

Levi comes up behind him. "Give me back the hazelnut, it's your turn to make a bottle."

"Yeah, yeah," Eren says, handing her over.

He and Levi catch eyes for a moment on the handover and Eren smiles. His daughter is beautiful, but her eyes still only come in a close second to Levi's.