The Ereri Project!

Playstation

"What the fuck is this?"

"What?" Eren peeks his head out from the bedroom where he'd been putting his clothes away. Levi is standing at the entrance to the living, beside the stack of empty moving boxes, staring at the floor. Eren looks down to see what he'd been staring at. "Oh, that's just my PS3."

"What is that?"

Eren furrows his eyebrows. "You've never heard of it?"

"I co-own a hotel, where the hell would I have found time to learn about this?"

Eren leaves the rest of his clothes stacked on Levi's- no, their bed and goes into the living room. "It's a video game system," Eren explains quickly. "Sit down, I'll show you."

"Let me get a drink first," Levi says and shrugs out of his jacket.

Eren sets up his system and turns it on, setting his controller on the couch so he has his hands free to pick a game. Looking at all his games, he decides he has no idea what to pick. "Hey Levi, what do yo-"

When he turns around, he sees Levi comfortably seated on the couch examining the controller. "Pick a game brat, I wanna see how this works on here. I think the last video game I played was on Erwin's Super Nintendo when we were kids."

"What kind of a game do you want?"

"I want something scary. They make games now that are actually scary, right?"

"Yeah, which one?" Eren shows Levi the cases for Dead Space and Bioshock. "I also have Silent Hill one and Shattered Memories on download, already in there."

"This one," Levi points to the case for Dead Space.

Eren puts the disc in and then gets up to sit beside Levi. "Okay scroll all the way over, the forth menu in from the right is games and then click on Dead Space."

"What do you mean click?"

"Hit X."

The games loads up and Eren gets comfortable. Levi clicks New Game and the opening cinematic starts. "Why is this taking so long? Isn't this just a game, why do they need to give me this whole things here?"

"It's setting up the plot and the mood, shh."

"I have to play attention to a plot?"

"Not if you keep talking."

Levi makes a face and him and he's quiet until the ship crashes and he's given control. "How do you move?"

"Left stick."

"Where's that?"

Eren wants to be annoyed but there would be no point. He points out where the controls all are and Levi starts playing. Eren gets up while Levi is walking around. "I'm gonna go put the rest of my clothes away, just call if you need any more help."

"Yeah, yeah, got it."

Not five minutes later Eren hears shouting from the living room. "What the fuck is that? Eren? What is- oh my god! Eren! What the fuck is that?! Am I supposed to keep running? Fuck! Oh my god! Eren! Fuck!"

Is gets quiet very suddenly and then Levi is standing in the doorway of their bedroom. "What happened?" Eren asks, trying not to laugh at the horrified look on Levi's face.

"Pick a different game. Right now."

Eren does laugh now, and goes back out with Levi. He takes the controller and exits the game. He scrolls down until he stops at a game that just says Flower. "What?" Levi asks.

"Just go with it," Eren says, handing back the controller while the game loads.

The come to a screen with flowers in little pots. "What is this?"

"Tilt the controller and hold any of the buttons over a flower to start."

Levi does and the game starts in a field with one flower in the center of the screen. "What now?"

"Press x and tilt to move. Hold x to move faster."

Levi is immediately mesmerized. "Whoa. Okay, you can go now."

Eren goes and puts the rest of his clothes away. After that he makes sure he didn't leave anything in any boxes. Then he orders pizza for dinner.

By the time the pizza gets there Levi is still playing.

"Are you gonna come eat?" Eren asks.

"Like ten more minutes," he answers vaguely.

An hour later Eren goes to sit beside Levi on the couch. The game is over but Levi looks unhappy. "You didn't tell me it was gonna be sad," he says.

"The ending was happy."

Levi rolls his eyes. "Can I play another game?"

"Sure."

Levi plays until Eren goes to bed later on. When Eren gets up the next morning he finds Levi asleep on the couch, still in his clothes from the day before. The game screen for Assassin's Creed II is still up, Ezio standing and waiting for a prompt from a player.

Eren shakes his head and turns off the system before carrying Levi to bed.

As an afterthought he calls Erwin to tell him Levi won't be going in to work today.