Promise me [Levi Ackerman x OC]

XXIII: Gossip

"Tell me everything!" Hange screamed while throwing things out of an abandoned room to install her lab.

Things just flew out to the hall so Hazel was covering herself with the wall beside the door, back against the stone and with one hand was playing with a lock of hair. Everyone was out training, no one would be hurt with the mess she was doing.

"Let's see... I left you unconscious, I went to my room I was about to sleep and he knocked on my door. I cried, I apologized, he was mad then he cried, he asked me for an apology for everything. We hugged, then I told him he needed to rest, he asked me if he can stay and he slept in my bed."

Suddenly, Hange poked her head with wide eyes. "You, pervert, flirting with a subordinate!" She got inside and start taking out trash again.

"I wasn't flirting..." she recalled what she told Levi earlier in the forest.

"Hmmh, and why are you blushing?" Hange was out the room looking at her with her hands over her waist, apparently she had finished. "I'm really happy for you two, you deserve the best, Hazel. Just keep it low key for a bit time. People are jealous by nature, I know he has the skills and everything but I don't want you to be involve in some kind of riot."

"I thought about that too." She sighed and started to pick up things from the floor and leave them in boxes to trashed them. "People would think I gave him preferences not mentioning that Erwin would think that I can't separate feelings from work."

"What would you do then?" Instead of picking up, she was kicking the stuff to the side of the hall. "Keep distance?"

"I'll be busy, anyways, Section commander's stuff, reports, training, meetings."

"You forgot 'help Hange with her lab'."

After piling the trash, they headed to the mess hall for lunch. Glad to see the four teams gathered in their own table eating and chatting, she sat in her table with her friends.

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Reluctantly, Levi saw her leave and got back to his improvised team that was sitting in a circle, all were relaxed and still tired for the training. When they saw him approach with his monotone face and severe look, they shut up. He stood looking down to them making everyone intimidated.

"Listen, brats. I want you to take all the dummies you can, no mistakes."

"I think you need to be more specific, leader." Said a young man who broke the silence after a few seconds, knowing anyone wanted to contradict Levi. "Don't you want to do a plan?"

Exasperated, he pinched his nose with one hand frowning even more. "Any suggestions?"

The rain of ideas blew up Levi, the group was energetic and full of hope.

"So?" They asked him after several minutes discussing while he just listen quietly trying to bring together a plan with all the ideas.

"The forest is a big circle, if we divide it like a clock," he was in a squat position making a draw in the dirt with a stick with everybody around him paying attention while he explained. "We depart from 6 o'clock, the farthest points of the forest will be from 11 to 1, the fastest three of us will cover that area."

As he explained the whole plan, questions and suggestions popped that he rejected and some he accepted. When they finished, it was lunch time and as a team they went to the mess hall to take place in a table reviewing the details.

Levi sat in the header of the table in silence, sipping his tea waiting for Hazel to came in. The whole room disappear when she entered with her smile across her face and the good vibes all around. She sat with her usual companions talking and eating having a good time.

"You look a lot to the Captain." Roger, a tall man who was sat beside him stated after noticing his leader wasn't paying attention to the cheap talk of the team. He made that the whole table look at Levi.

He looked back at him with piercing eyes making him regret his words and try to fix the situation.

"Don't take me wrong, there's nothing bad about admiring someone, especially our dearest Captain Hazel." Roger was sinking in his own seat in embarrassment felling Levi's heavy energy.

"What he meant to say is that if you are more interest in her, there's no hope." The woman seated in his other side spoke taking of his attention from Roger, letting him regain his breathe.

"What do you mean?" He rose an eyebrow by the intrigue.

"No one knows exactly what she wants, she has had many different wooers since she arrived and rejected them so politely that they kept loving her after."

"There are a lot of gossip. She occasionally go to Shingashina district, they say that she has a lover over there."

"Others say that before she came here, she lost a love that broke her heart so bad that she can't believe in love anymore."

"That's hard to say when she's always so cheerful."

"I used to thought she had a relationship with Captain Flaggon."

"I heard that she was in a secret relationship with Commander Erwin and that's why she rejected him the whole time."

"I think you are wrong, I heard that was with Captain Zoe."

"What? Well they spend a lot of time together, it could be."

The table was a real mess, even though they were whispering.

The mix of jealousy for her to be so loved, admired and wanted for others, the sadness about he was the one who once broke her heart and the bitterness from hearing trash about her even that no one really knew anything, just suppositions.

Feeling the rage in his blood, Levi explode and stood from the chair. "Enough. Stop being so childish spreading gossip." All startled, shut their mouths. "Haven't you think that she don't want to get attached to someone because at any moment they could die out there. I don't want to hear you again talking that way from her."

"Yes, Leader!" At unison they responded to him with obviously embarrassment from their attitude.