The Ereri Project!

Floor

"How could we have miscalculated like this?" Levi asks, slamming his phone down on the empty countertop.

Eren sighs, putting an extra blanket over Petra in the portacrib in her new room upstairs. He walks downstairs as he replies, "Nothing we can do about it now. It's just for tonight after all. You said we scheduled to have everything turned on tomorrow, right?"

"Yeah," Levi sighs. "Do you know how to light a fireplace so we won't freeze tonight?"

After deciding their apartment was too small for the three of them, Levi and Eren started looking into buying a house.

Excited as they were, everything moved kind of fast and some things got miss scheduled: any of their boxes and furniture they needed shipped won't arrive for three more days and the water, gas, and electricity aren't getting turned on until tomorrow.

"Do you think we can actually use these logs here?" Eren asks.

"Do they feel like real wood?"

Eren picks one up. "Let me see your lighter."

Eren successfully lights the fire and smiles. "See? Tonight might not be so bad."

"I'm starving," Levi says. "Do you have any cash on you? I'm gonna check the kitchen for something to order out."

Eren checks his wallet. "What can we get for fourteen dollars and... fifty-six cents?"

"I have a ten in my wallet I think," Levi says. "We should be fine. I found a pizza menu, what do you want?"

"Pizza sounds fine," Eren says and lays out a blanket for them to sleep on later, since they don't have a mattress yet.

After Levi orders he walks in to sit with Eren. "You know," Eren says, playing with Levi's hair. "We could've called Erwin, he lives like twenty minutes away from us now."

"Yeah," Levi drawls, laying his head on Eren's lap. "But I kinda wanted to spend our first night as home owners in our own house."

Eren shrugs. "Did we bring candles? It's a little dark in here."

"Not unless someone left some in a closet or a cabinet somewhere."

Eren shrugs. "Don't feel like getting back up now."

They sit in silence for a while, just staring at the fire. "I hope Petra's alright upstairs," Levi says.

"She's wrapped in ninety percent of the blankets we brought with us, I promise she's fine," Eren replies.

"I mean this will be the first time she's sleeping on a different floor from us. What if we can't hear her when she wakes up?"

"Always such a mother hen."

"Like you're not worried?"

"She's a toddler, not an invalid. If she really wants us you know she can already climb out of that thing."

Levi frowns and runs his hands over his face. "Why isn't becoming a huge worrywart one of things they warn you about when they're telling you what parenthood is like?"

"You were already a worrywart babe, Petra only magnified it." Levi looks up at Eren suddenly and pulls him down by the back of his neck for a kiss. "What was that for?" Eren asks.

"Thank you for being here to help me with her."

Eren rolls his eyes. "What? Were you expecting me to divorce you over a baby? It's not like I hadn't thought about kids before anyway. Although given the way her infancy went I'd be fine if she were our only kid."

Levi snorts. "You know you're gonna miss having something to baby when she's a teenager."

"When she's a teenager I'm not going to be looking forward to raising another teenager."

"Who knows? She could be one of the good ones who doesn't cause a lot of trouble. I mean, she can't be much worse than me."

"I think something we'll have to keep in mind when she gets older is remembering she'll need her own space to figure herself out.

Neither of us had parents who wanted us to be our own people and look what that got them, we only go to visit once or twice a year."

Levi makes a face and rolls over to face the fire. "Let's stop talking about this, I don't already want to be thinking of my baby leaving the nest."

Eren leans down and hugs Levi. "That's what I'm here for, to make sure you don't fall apart when she finally has to."

There's a knock on the door at the same time they hear crying from upstairs. "Sounds like naptime's over," Eren says. "You wanna get the girl or the food?"

"I'll get the girl," Levi says and runs upstairs.

When Eren brings the pizza and the soda inside he sits them beside the blanket on the floor and realizes they don't have plates. "Levi," Eren whines.

"What?"

"No plates."

Levi sighs. "We'll just have to eat out of the box then. Did they at least give us napkins?"

"Not many," Eren replies.

"Shit, we don't have anything to cut up a piece for Petra with."

Levi sits on the floor with Petra in his lap. "I'll bite off pieces of mine for her," Eren says.

Levi makes a face. "I would say that's gross but we don't really have much choice."

"Unless you wanna run to the store for paper plates and plastic silverware."

"Pizza'll be cold by the time I get back and we can't heat it up."

"Papa?" Petra asks.

"Yes sweetie?" Eren asks, opening the box.

"Pizza now?"

"What do you say?"

"Peez?"

Eren picks up a slice and bites off the tip before handing the tiny piece to Petra. Levi smiles. "And you call me the mother hen? You're actually feeding her like a bird."

"Shut up," Eren says.

The next morning Erwin uses his copy of their spare key to check on Levi and Eren. Since their phones both died last night he hasn't had a chance to see if they moved in alright.

He is surprised to find the entire three person family curled up on the floor of their living room under a single blanket, the last cinders of a fire burning in the fireplace and an empty pizza box left on the floor.

Erwin sighs. "Of course they slept on the floor."
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A/N: I want to see the Mocking Jay again!