Captain Levi notices you are everything a Scout should be. Strong, fearless, loyal, and compassionate. Being considered the oldest amongst triplets, you have found yourself always taking care of everyone. You are needed for everything. The Scouts, your brothers, your friends, everyone, needs you. You are unstoppable, or so you thought. Tragic events send you and your brothers to join the Scouts 1st division under Commander Erwin. There, everyone quickly notices your strength, sharp mind, and love. But sometimes, even the strongest can break. Sometimes the fearless are afraid. Sometimes the ones needed for others the most, need someone too. ***This story follows canon events of AOT! There WILL be spoilers*** **I do not own Attack on Titan story or characters. All story rights and art is credited to Hajime Isayama** **Any art pieces found on Pinterest**

You and Levi have been friends since forever. He's been the quiet constant in your life - the shadow in the corner of every memory, the voice that's always answered when you called. He's seen you fall in love, break your heart, rebuild yourself, and stumble all over again. Always from a distance. Always just... there. Until the night your husband made a proposal that changed everything. Twelve years later, you realize Levi has always been pulling an invisible string you never thought could be tied to him. Haunting you. Circling each other for half a lifetime - drawn together by something neither of you can name but also neither of you can't really escape. He's always there, in the quiet, in the spaces between heartbeats. Like the pull of the tide, he drags you back without trying. Like gravity, he doesn't have to chase you; he just exists, and you fall. But He's your friend. Just your friend. That's what you keep telling yourself. But the way he looks at you, the way he makes you feel - it's like suddenly the world is in color again, and you're seeing it for the first time. And maybe friendship was never all it was meant to be. Modern AU Levi x Reader.

Starting over, you've discovered, is mostly a matter of place; put enough miles between yourself and everything that came before, find a roommate you like, make friends with people who know nothing about you, and eventually the person you used to be begins to feel like some distant cousin. Shiganshina is good for that. Eren Jaeger is not. He's your roommate's friend, then yours, then something considerably more inconvenient. He's infuriating in ways that become intimate, intimate in ways that become problematic, and somewhere along the line, disliking him becomes difficult to separate from want. The trouble with becoming close to someone is that you never notice it happening. There's no moment when the water reaches your throat. No warning that you've wandered too far from shore. By then, you're already submerged.