The Ereri Project!

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Levi wakes up achy as hell.

He sits up lazily to find it feels like his entire back is bruised.

"Levi."

He looks up to see a surprised Eren walking into the doorway. "Morning," he says absently.

Eren walks in, and closes the door behind him. "I just wanted to come check on you again," he says. "Your accident yesterday was pretty nasty."

"What accident?" Levi asks, but not a moment later it starts coming back. "Oh yeah, I got kicked by a titan."

"It's not like you to be that caught off guard by a titan. What happened?"

Levi rolls his head on his neck while he thinks. "There was a civilian."

"Outside the walls?"

"Yeah, but that wasn't the part that was bothering me. He looked exactly like you."

"Like me?"

"Almost a spitting image. Only..." Levi pauses to think. "He looked a tiny bit older than you and he didn't look as physically strong. Plus his eyes were way softer. There's just one thing that was really bothering me about him."

"What?"

"He answered to your name right away. And he knew mine, right away, without even getting a good look at me first."

Eren looks down at his hands. "You remember that dream I told you about that I didn't think was really a dream?"

"The one with that little girl who you said looked like Petra?"

Eren nods. "What if... what if that like, us, from another life?"

"What?"

"I told you I thought it was weird that I wasn't myself in that dream. I was watching us, with that little girl, but I knew it wasn't really us, you know?"

Levi stares at him. "You sure you're not the one who got knocked unconscious by a titan kick?"

Eren frowns. "It was just a thought, you don't have to be mean about it."

Levi shakes his head. "Although, there is some merit to that."

"Hm?"

"I don't think it's really a stretch to believe any you, from any time in space, would save me like he did."

"He saved you."

"He pushed me out of the way of the titan."

"I thought it kicked you."

"But it would've eaten me if he hadn't put himself in the way."

Eren stares at him a moment before smiling. "He really is me, then."

Levi smirks and ruffles his hair. "Brat."