The Ereri Project!

Headphones (Pacific Rim)

Eren was surprised at how close he and Levi got after such a short time knowing one another.

Drifting with someone is funny that way though, he's discovered. Eren has become able to anticipate when Levi's going to do something even when they aren't linked inside Short Temper.

Levi's developed the ability to calm Eren down before Eren even really realizes he was getting angry or frustrated.

They don't talk much, unless it's something important they would really much rather say out loud.

They started sharing a room and a bed pretty much immediately. After Levi offered his bed that first night it seemed stupid to take it back. Things had been pretty interesting at first.

They really hadn't established any boundaries, so the first few weeks were a game of "How Uncomfortable Can I Make You Before You Yell At Me?"

There was a lot of blushing and glaring and staring and hiding certain things, but overall they were pretty comfortable around each other.

And which each new drift they seemed to uncover more about each other.

Eren can't say he was surprised to find out Levi and Erwin had slept together when they were co-pilots, he was just startled to find out how... formal it seemed.

Like the two of them were literally only using each other as an outlet. It is clear from their relationship now that neither of them are sore about it, they're still pretty great friends from what Eren can see, he was just... he knew enough about sex to know he didn't want to have it if it was going to be like that.

He hoped it wouldn't be like that.

So he'd been anxious the entire time he'd had sex with Levi for the first time. He was pleasantly surprised.

They didn't do it often, but it was more often a comfort thing than an "I wanna get off" thing.

After a particularly stressful mission where they were both sure at certain points that they might not make it back in one piece, both of them had been admitted into the infirmary for relatively minor injuries.

Because of the late hour, they were supposed to stay overnight and in separate rooms. Eren had Mikasa bring him his headphones because he knew he would probably have a hard time sleeping.

She assumed that would be because the infirmary beds were uncomfortable, he knew he'd be more uncomfortable without Levi regardless of how comfortable the bed was.

Both of them had been affected by the "ghost drifting" thing so they could kind of hear each other the entire time they were separated.

Levi got restless when he started hearing the music from Eren's headphones in his head. He recognized the song, whenever he heard it in the drift it was always associated with sad feelings, it made his stomach turn that he couldn't go find Eren right now.

He waited just long enough for the majority of personnel to be out the halls to sneak over to Eren's room.

Eren was laying on his side, hugging his pillow in favor of laying on it. Levi closed and locked the door behind him. Eren turned over when Levi got close to his bed.

He smiled and sat up a little while Levi straddled his lap, kissing him. Neither of them is sure which one is thinking it but

Thank god we're alive.

Levi unbuttons Eren's shirt, careful of the serious bruising across the younger's chest - it looked like it had bruised in the pattern of Eren's sternum and ribs.

He had a feeling his own right side was similarly bad off, but he couldn't really feel it in light of the painkillers they'd given him. Eren reaches up to pull of Levi's shirt and makes a face at the sight of Levi's bruises.

Thank god we're alive.

Levi wants to touch all of Eren's visible skin but fears hurting him too much so he settles on focusing his attention on getting his own pants off and pulling Eren's dick from his pants.

The song in Eren's headphones has long since changed, but Levi much prefers this new song. It's slower, and kinder, and (more importantly) doesn't make Eren sad.

Levi, suddenly glad Eren can be huge girl about his hands, grabs Eren's lotion from the table by the bed. He leans up on his knees so he can more easily work his fingers into his ass.

He pants quietly, watching Eren's cock harden under him. Eren strokes his hand up and down Levi's good side. However, Levi gets impatient very quickly and takes to lubing up Eren's cock with the lotion.

Eren bites his lip as Levi sinks onto his lap, careful not to draw attention from outside by making noise. Levi, on the other hand, doesn't seem to care much, whining noisily.

Eren holds onto his hips, careful of bruising, as Levi slowly lifts and drops himself on Eren.

I can feel that you're alive.

Thank god.

Thank god.

I love you.

More than I can ever really say.

Both of them kind of end up hugging and wallowing in post we-could've-died melancholy. Neither off them end up getting off and they fall asleep still holding onto each other, Eren still wearing his headphones.

...

"WAKE UP!"

Startled, Levi falls off the hospital bed, taking the blanket with him. Eren sits up drowsily, his headphones having fallen off him and the bed sometime in the night.

Erwin is standing over both of them, shaking his head. "What time is it?" Levi asks, rubbing his eyes.

"Six."

"A.M?" Levi asks. "What's the big idea waking us up then?"

"The nurses were making their morning rounds and you were missing, half the infirmary was in a panic looking for you."

Levi wraps the blanket around his still naked hips and sits back on Eren's bed. "Why wasn't checking with me their first guess?" Eren asks.

"It was," Erwin replies, rubbing the bridge of his nose. "But the door was locked so they had to wake me up at this ungodly hour to unlock it for them."

"Privacy protocols are such bullshit," Levi mutters, lying beside Eren again. "They should know better than to put the two of us in separate rooms. Especially after last time."

Erwin sighs. "Just get dressed, they'll be in to examine you in ten minutes."

They both fall back to sleep while they're waiting.