The Transtempus Penalty (ERERI//RIREN)

Chapter 29

OOOOOOO. OOOOOOOOOO. OOOOOOOOOO. "Done done it  a g a i n, y'all, done done it again." Enjoy the chapter. I'll stop being weird.

I pulled Levi through my front door and right into Farlan, accidentally walking into him without looking. He whipped around and immediately, the look of confusion on his face turned into total shock. "Woah!" he exclaimed while Levi leaned into me, trying to straighten up.

"Hello, Mr. Jaeger," Levi said quietly, absentmindedly reaching out to shake his hand.

"What happened here, guys?" Farlan asked, before looking over his shoulder and calling out to Isabel, "Iz, come here, please. You're gonna want to see this."

"Petra's piece of shit ex-boyfriend, that's what," I snapped at him. I was angrier than I thought I was, but I figured that I was still processing everything that had just happened. Levi rocked back and forth on his feet, eventually leaning back into me again for support. "I think he has a concussion," I told Farlan while Isabel made her way into the front room.

"Holy Shit!" she gasped when she processed what she saw before her. "Are you two okay?" she asked, genuine worry in her eyes when she looked at me, which eased my nerves a little.

"I think he's got a concussion," I repeated for her, holding tighter to Levi as he sagged further in my arms. "Do you know how to help?"

"Unfortunately there isn't much we can do right now, unless it's really bad, in which case we take him to the hospital," she explained to me, tying her loose red curls into a low ponytail.

"No hospitals," Levi mumbled. "Don't have.... Health insurance."

She took Levi's face gently into her hands and spoke to him, "Look at me, honey, I have to check your pupils."

Levi raised his gaze to Isabel while she looked fixedly into his eyes, gently turning his face from side to side. "Are you done?" he asked.

"Just a second, I'm gonna have you follow my finger," she instructed, moving her finger slowly across his line of sight, watching his eyes to make sure both were still in working order. "You hit your head pretty hard, there. But you'll be alright. We don't need to go to the hospital, but if it gets worse, I might have to take you, okay?"

"Please don't," he said lazily while I adjusted my grip on him, to make sure he wouldn't slip.

"Um, Eren, I think you should go make sure he gets cleaned off. He can stay here tonight," Isabel said, which came as a shock to me, considering that I would likely have to come in and check on him every once in a while to make sure he hadn't slipped in the shower or fallen asleep and drowned in the bath.

"Yeah, that's probably the best thing we can do for him right now. He won't be able to stand in a shower. Why don't you go draw him a bath upstairs?" Farlan said, and I nodded, leading Levi towards the stairs.

When I passed Farlan, he gripped me by the shoulder and whispered, "I'm trusting you right now," at a volume that Levi wouldn't be able to hear.

I nodded again, vowing not to break the trust I had been given while I pulled him up the stairs. We made our way to the bathroom beside my bedroom and I lowered him onto the closed toilet lid while I turned on the hot water.

"I feel like shit," he whispered, shaking his head at me from his perch.

"Do you need me to help you?" I asked, turning to face him again and watching him slowly nod his head.

"I wish the answer was no. This is pretty embarrassing," Levi murmured, tugging weakly at the hem of his shirt, untucking it from his pants and trying to get it over his head, mostly unsuccessfully. Letting out a quiet breath, I tugged his shirt the rest of the way off of his body.