A Reason to Fight (Levi x Reader x Erwin)

Chapter 28: The Perfect Dress

Time skip, a few days later

Your POV

Things have been pretty crazy since the Stohess mission. Erwin has been summoned by the higher ups to explain what exactly the motivation behind the operation in Stohess was. Hopefully the scouts will be fully pardoned and Eren can stay with the scouts instead of being surrendered to the military police.

Finding out there was a titan in the walls is big news. When Hange found out she tried to make one of the 'wallists' talk, but he is determined to keep his mouth shut.

She ended up just bringing Pastor Nick back to HQ for now, I don't know why. He won't talk, none of those wall worshipping nut jobs will give anything away when it comes to their precious walls. I have to admit, I admire his dedication.

It's getting close to dinner time and I have to pause from what I'm doing to stretch my limbs out. Levi has been buried under paper work, and I have offered to help him out.

"You can go, (l/n)," Levi mumbles without looking up, "You've helped me enough."

"I'll leave when you're done," I smile at him, "Never leave a solider behind!"

"Suit yourself," He replies, "But, I don't want you to feel like I'm forcing you to stay here."

We have a few more moments of blissful silence when Levi speaks up again, "I never asked, how was growing up in the underground for you?"

... Huh? Levi never asks anymore personal questions about their childhood. Typically, I assume, it's because he doesn't want to get even a little bit close to anybody. Not that I would blame him, he has lost a lot of people, and the probability of someone else he may like dying is pretty high.

"Awww! Levi, you do care!" I tease him, "Are we going to talk about our feelings too? Oh! Are we going to have a sleep over?! We can have a share circle and braid each other's hair too!"

"Why do I even talk to you..." Levi wonders our loud.

"I had it better than most," I admit to him, "My mother worked in a pretty popular bar before she got sick. She was awesome, no man messed with her. She was the one who made it a habit for me to carry around a knife strapped to my thigh."

"When she started getting sicker, things definitely got more dangerous for the both of us," I continue, "Of course my father was no help, so I had to do what I could to help protect my mother. Then I moved above ground and it has been downhill ever since." I let out a laugh when I finished, "I don't know anyone from the underground who said their lives were worse above ground."

"There are also very few people from the underground that live above the ground, and not many that would like to admit it." Levi commented.

"True," I chuckle, "How about you, Levi? How was growing up for you?"

Before he could answer, there was a knock at the door, "What?" Levi groaned. Well that's nothing new, I'm pretty sure he is always annoyed when someone knocks on his door... Well, he's kind of always annoyed in general. That's his default setting.

"Hey shorty!" It was undeniably Hange, "Is (y/n) in there still?" She opened the door and walked in before Levi could answer.

Hange cheerfully greeted the 2 of us and brought another person in. Uh oh, it was Ellen.

"There you are!" She exclaimed when she saw me, green eyes beaming at me, "I've been looking for you! Come on, let's go!"

"Go where?" I narrow my eyes suspiciously at her, what is she up to?

"(Y/n), the party is in 2 days, have you bought a dress yet?" She crosses her arms and taps her foot impatiently.

"I have a bunch of dresses I got from working for Laurie," I shrug, "I'm sure one of those will suffice."