『Levi's POV』

"Eren?! You in there?" I was woken up to a banging noise, and someone yelling out Eren's name.

"Who the hell is that?" I muttered sleepily, half asleep.

"Hmm?" I heard someone mutter beside me, into my ear.

"Eren! We need you out here, man!" The voice called out.

"Huh? Shit, it's Erwin." Eren hissed quietly.

"What?" I muttered, burying my face into the pillow I was laying on.

"Levi, be quiet. I can't let him know you're in here. Just... Hide under the blankets or something." He whispered into my ear, gently covering my head with the soft blanket.

I grunted in response, closing my eyes.

I heard some rustling noises made by Eren, and I heard him swearing under his breath when he heard Erwin calling his name again.

"I'm awake, dick head." Eren hissed, as he opened the door.

"I see that now." I heard Erwin say as he chuckled.

"Whatever. Why do you need me?"

"Oh! We can't find Levi, like, anywhere."

"Um. Why did you come to me then?" Eren asked nervously.

"Well. Some of us are actually growing concerned that he may have left the wall, so." Erwin said, and I could foot steps enter the cabin. I knew it was Erwin.

"I doubt he did." Eren said quietly. I could tell her was nervous that he'd find me.

"Well he sure isn't out there at all. Armin was wanting to send a search party out for him, jesus christ."

"Eh? No, no that's not necessary. At all, dude." Eren said, quickly.

"Whys that? Aren't you worried?" Erwin said.

I was growing annoyed at how long this conversation was lasting, so I sat up in the bed, removing the blanket from my head. "I'm right here, bushy eyebrows."

"Oh, hi. Wait, what the fuck." Erwin said, confusingly as he looked between Eren and I. "Eren, what the actual fuck?"

I looked at Eren and saw he was glaring at me. I smirked. "Aw, he didn't tell you?" I joked, standing up from bed.

"No, he didn't." Erwin said quietly. I walked up beside Eren, and grabbed his shirt collar, pulling him down to my level, beside my face. "Daaaaaamn, get some Eren!" Erwin yelled, and started to laugh.

Eren about choked, and started laughing. "S-Stop that, Erwin!"

"Erwin. Say one word, and I'll pull every god damn hair out of those eyebrows of yours." I threatened, walking up to him, putting my hands on my hips, looking serious.

His eyes instantly widened, and he threw his hands up to his eyebrows. "Don't you touch these babies!"

I narrowed my eyes at him, my eye lid twitching.

"Fine! I won't say anything, your sex secret is safe with me." He sighed, giving up.

"We're not having sex, Erw-!" I cut of Eren's whining.

"Good choice, giant." I muttered. "Now, if you don't mind, could you please leave Eren and I alone for a while now." It wasn't a question, I was ordering him to do so as I pushed him towards the door.

"Damn, looks like you could be next one in charge around here, little guy!" Erwin said as he laughed while he walked out the cabin, turning around to face me.

"I could kick you down to the ground in an instant, so I'd watch what you say." I hissed, before slamming the door in his face and turning to face Eren, who was currently blushing madly, and playing with his thumbs.

"I didn't expect anyone to find out about us, at least not this quickly..." He whispered, glancing up at me.

My eyes flattened towards him. "It's not a big deal, Eren. I'm sure he's not going to say anything to anyone." I tried to calm him down, which hardly worked.

He sighed deeply, rubbing a hand threw his brown hair. "Okay. Well, get dressed and into gear, and meet me at the gate. Make sure no one sees you." He said quickly while slipping into his clothes and ran out the door.

I groaned, thinking about the long process of getting that damn harness back on.

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"So. What's the plan for today?" I asked, walking up to Eren who was wearing the same clothes as me, with the gear on.

"It's time for you to practice using the gear. We'll be using the area with trees, since trees are easiest to use." He explained, leading me towards the trees.

"You're using the gear, too?" I asked, glancing at his attire.

"I'm going out today." He whispered.

I stopped in mid walk, which had him stop too, looking back at me, confused. "You're going out? Let me go."

He shook his head, sighing. "I can't yet, Levi. First off, no one even knows I'm training you for this, second off, you're not even ready to go out."

I glared at him. "What are you doing out there?"

"Last time we went out, we thought we saw another wall, similar to this one. I think there's more than one wall, which means it's going to be a lot harder than we thought to get out of here." Eren said, grabbing my arm and pulling me towards the trees again.

"So... That means more Titans?"

"More than likely, yes. It makes me think that maybe they actually broke through the wall, and that's how they're getting through. Which also means, they could break through this wall." He said, sighing.

"Which means... You've gotta kill more." I sighed.

"It also means I'll be out there more. Which is why I'm training you as much as I can, so you can come along with us. I need all the help I can get. But I am definitely not sending you out there when you're not even ready." He said, rubbing my arm.

"I just don't like being here, when you're out there." I whispered.

"I'll be fine, Levi. Our group is getting stronger, and I believe we're finally ready to start killing off the Titans, and not just running away from them."

"Let me go out next time." I said, sternly. "I'm not asking. I'll be ready then."

"Levi, you know I can't-"

"No, Eren. You can't control me like that. It's my life, not yours."

"Levi, as long as I'm here and alive, I will be in charge of you. If I think you're not ready, you will not be going out there." He stopped me, looking straight into my eyes. "Understand?"

No. "Yes." I replied, sighing.

He nodded after a moment, before continuing our walk towards the trees.

-

"Alright. You're going to push this for the grapple to grab something. You'll push this one to pull you towards where you grabbed. Remember to aim correctly, obviously. You push this for more gas, but be careful about that. The more you use, the quicker you'll run out, which means you're stuck on the ground. This putting makes two grapples fire, both directions, this one just makes one fire. Got it?" He said all way too quickly.

"Um. Yeah." I muttered. "Got it." Not nearly.

"Okay. Grab that limb. Don't pull yourself towards it, just grab it. Aim correctly." He instructed, pointing towards a tree limb about 25 feet away.

I aimed towards the limb, and pushed the button that made one grapple fire. It missed the limb only by a foot , and hung over the limb. "Fuck." I sighed.

He chuckled. "Not too bad, almost had it. Just aim a little lower. Push this to pull the grappled back. Careful though, it comes back quickly."

I rolled my eyes, pushing where he instructed, and the grappled came back quickly like he said, making me jolt backwards a foot.

He snorted. "Told you so."

"I'm going to aim for your dick next time if you don't shut the fuck up." I barked, elbowing him in the ribs.

He made a disturbed face. "That sounds so painful, oh my god."

Rolling my eyes, I aimed once again for the limp, only a little lower this time, and pushed the fire button. The grapple shot out quickly, and grabbed on tightly to the correct limb.

I turned to Eren, which a snug smirk on my face. His eyebrows raised as he looked at how perfectly it was. "Not bad, shorty."

I put the handle of the gear right in front of his groin. "I'll do it, and don't you think I won't."

"Jesus, Levi." He yelped, backing away from the handle. "You're going to injure someone these days, I swear."

"That's the point." I snickered, backing away from him.

"God dammit, idiot." He snapped, rolling his eyes. He was trying to play it off cool, but I saw the fear in his eyes at the risk of losing his dick. "Anyway. When you're ready, I want you to to push the button where it will pull you towards it, before you get to the limb, push the button where it will make your grapple come back. It's fast so don't jerk or you'll mess it all up. Just stay focused on the limb and land carefully on it." He explained, sliding his arm on my shoulder, leaning in close, pointing at the buttons. He turned his head towards mine, looking in my eyes. "Understand?"

"Yeah, yeah, land carefully on the limb. I'd like to land on something else not so carefully, though." And at that, I quickly pushed the button, which sent me straight towards the limb. Air blew past my face as I flew quickly towards the tree. Sure, I didn't expect it to be all that fast, but this honestly felt like the best thing ever. I felt myself smile a little as I became closer to the tree. I retracted my grapple just before my feet touched the limb, and I landed right on the limb with no problem at all.

I smirked, turning around to look back at Eren. His eyes were wide with shock, and he was most definitely impressed.

He quickly shot his grapple at the same limb I was on, and in an instant he was standing right beside me.

"Damn. You learn quicker than I did. First time I tried to land on a branch, I fell over on the other side. Thankfully, it wasn't a tall tree." He said, scratching the back of his neck.

I snorted. "You sound like you were incredibly clumsy."

"Don't even get me started. It was bad."

"Still is." I joked, smirking.

"Don't make me hit you." He threatened, but was smiling. "How did it feel?"

"Amazing, actually. I think I'm ready to go out, don't you?" I hinted, winking.

He laughed sarcastically. "Alright, that was a good move on the branch, but you still have some more skills to learn before you're going out there. Nice try, though."

I sighed, dropping my shoulders. "What else do I have to learn?"

"Uh. How to quickly go from branch to branch, use both grapples, how to avoid being killed, and how to actually kill a Titan." He explained, folding his arms across his chest.

"Oh? Tell me, how do you kill one?"

He sighed. "I haven't killed one. But when I saw one from the distance, I actually sketched out what they looked like, from all angles, and brought it to Armin. He did his research somehow, and came up with that their weak spot is the nape of their neck. I don't fucking know how he came up with that from a shitty ass sketch, but it sounds reasonable, if they even have a weak spot, that is." He explained.

"Hmm." I hummed. "I suppose that sounds reasonable. Eren, I need you to teach me these things quickly, because I want to get out there as soon as possible."

"Levi, you need to know how fucking dangerous it is out there. Nobody wants to go out there by choice. The group and I only go out there because we're the only ones that really even passed the training. The rest either literally shit themselves, or just sucked at training. I usually always force new comers into training, but with you, I was going to let you not have to. Because I don't want you to get hurt, or worse." He said quietly, fumbling with his hands.

Sighing, I took his hands into mine, rubbing the back of his hands with the pad of my thumbs. "Thank you for being so thoughtful and caring towards me. I respect that so much. I want to go out there, because one, I promised Marco and I never back down on a promise. And two, because I want to get us the hell out of here. And finally, three, because I want to protect you." I whispered the last part.

He smiled brightly, looking down at his shoes. "I'd tell you that you're stupid for risking your life someone you haven't known long, but I'm doing the same thing so I can't really say much, can I?" He chuckled.

I laughed. "I guess not. So you're just going to have to shut the hell up and accept my wants."

"Your wants, eh?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Both kind of wants." I said, smirking. "Nah, those kind of wants can wait. But what I do need to do, is train some more. Come on, buck wheat." I replied, laughing as I took off towards another branch.

"Buck wheat?! You're an assbutt!"

-

"Sh, you don't really have to go. You can just sneak behind them, and spend the day with me." I whispered, now in normal clothes since I didn't want anyone to know I'm training to go out, to Eren.

He smiled. "You know they'd notice, idiot. I promise you I'll be back before the gates close. Don't worry, okay?"

I bit my lip, before pulling him forward, giving him a tight hug, wrapping my arms around his neck. "Don't die, okay?"

He hugged me back tightly, wiggling his face into the crook of my neck. "I won't. I'll be back before you know it."

We were currently back in his cabin, saying our special goodbyes before we went outside where everybody else was at, saying their own goodbyes to the rest of the group who were going out.

"If the group comes back with a limb of yours, I'm going to kill you." I said, trying to lighten the mood.

He snorted. "Well there won't be much to kill if I'm already dead. Unless you want to hunt me down in a Titan's belly, be my guest."

"Eren, what the fuck, you're not helping." I pulled back and punched his shoulder.

He smiled. "I'm sorry." He took my hands into his, bringing them up to his face, kissing them. "Please don't worry about me. I'll be careful, and I'll be back all in one piece. If I die, I'll tell the guys to bring my dick for you."

"Oh my god, I hate you." I said, backing away from, making a face.

He doubled over in laughter, bringing me in for another tight hug, while kissing the top of my head. "Aw, don't hate me."

"When you fucking kiss my head like that, I feel like I'm 12 years old again, stop that." I barked, wiping the kiss away from my hair.

"Idiot. Just kiss me and let's get out there before Erwin comes hunting for me again." He ordered.

Rolling my eyes, I stood on my tippy toes, pecking his lips. The kiss was quick, and Eren didn't like that.

"I'm risking my life going out there, and all I get is a puny peck? Come here." He said, and grabbed my face before smashing his lips onto mine. He kissed me deeply, rubbing his hands through my hair, scratching at my undercut.

I grabbed his shirt tightly, kissing him back just as deep, tugging at his lip some.

After a minute or two of making out, we pulled back and shared one more hug. "We should go now." He whispered into my ear.

I nodded, smiling sadly. "Let's go."

He wrapped his arm around my shoulders, pulling me towards the door.

"Promise you won't worry too much? I don't want you to turn into some worry wart. You don't make a good looking wart."

"I'll promise you that if you stop talking about disgusting warts. Gross." I wrinkled up my nose as we walked towards the gate.

He chuckled. "Deal."

"Then yes, I promise I won't worry."

"No, no, I want you to worry some, just not too much." He laughed, ruffling my hair.

"Can you... Fucking now touch my hair." I hissed, fixing my hair.

"Woooow, conceited short shit are ya?" Eren laughed.

"I'm not conceited. I just don't like my hair being messed with." I grumbled.

"You didn't seem to care when I had you pushed up against the wall and grinding into you." He whispered, breathing on the shell of my ear.

My ears perked up at what he was saying, and my first response was elbowing him in the rib cage. "Fuck you."

He rubbed his ribs, laughing.

Once we made it closer to the gate, he removed his arm from my shoulder so there wouldn't be too many odd stares and questions.

I finally met the rest of the runners. There was of course Eren and Eld who I had already knew about. There was also a man named Oluo, Eld, Gunther, and a girl who the first girl I had ever seen ever since I've arrived, and her name was Petra. I knew there was a few more girls here, but most of them wasn't out much surprisingly.

The runners got together, waved at the crowd, and was then running through the gate, using their 3DMG's.

"Don't look so worried." A familiar voice said beside me.

I looked over and saw Erwin standing beside me, watching the runners leave.

Sighing, I shifted my weight to my right leg, crossing my arms. "Hard not to." I whispered.

"Eren will be just fine out there. He's stronger than he looks." Erwin said, nudging my shoulder with his elbow. "They won't be out too long."

"Have you ever saw one? A Titan?" I asked, switching the subject as I looked over at him again.

He looked taken back, glancing at me, scratching his neck. "No, not personally up close. I saw one their hands before though. It was about a year ago I believe, one of their hands reached over the wall, just resting on the wall. It kind of seems like they're getting taller over the months and weeks, which is slightly concerning." He explained, clearly shuddering as he relived the memories.

"You think they could break the wall or climb over?" I muttered, looking at the wall. It was tall, sure, but by stories, it seems like the Titans have a chance at maybe being taller.

He shrugged as he exhaled loudly. "Possibly. Let's just hope they don't, eh?" I nodded, biting my cheek. "C'mon, let's go see if someone's cooking."

-

『Eren's POV』

"Eren! There's one over there, past the trees!" Eld yelled, gliding through the air beside the rest of us.

I looked up where he was gesturing, and sure enough, there was a Titan standing there, looking at nothing in particular.

I nodded sternly at Eld and the rest of the group. "Ready guys?!"

They all yelled, saying they were, and we quickly took off towards the Titan.

"Petra, you take the left side along with Gunther and Eld! Oluo, follow me to the right side!" I ordered. They all nodded, following me commands.

Petra, Gunther and Eld all glided towards the left side, while Oluo and I went to the ride side of the Titan.

The Titan seemed distracted enough, as he walked without even glancing at us, to let us skillfully glide past him and towards the back side of him.

None of us have actually figured out exactly where the Titan's weak spot is, only guessed. It seemed reasonable enough for it to be on the nape of the neck.

Once the five of us were in correct position, behind the beast, we all aimed out swords towards it. "Attack!" I yelled.

We all fired our grapples towards the Titan, and they attached to different spots on the neck, shoulders, shoulder blades and even the head.

We pulled ourself towards the Titan, swords up, and slices random places, trying to find their weak spots.

I happened to be slicing the nape of it's neck, and it instantly stopped walking, and fell to the ground with a loud thud.

The five of us glided over to a tree, cheering.

"So, it's the nape of the neck. This is awesome news." I pointed out, sighing and smiling. My heart was pounding, and I want panting.

The Titan seems completely unaware that we were even beside the thing, but I had a feeling not all of them were like that.

"Should we try one more, or head back before it gets too late?" I asked the group.

They all looked at each other, talking to one another, and decided to head back, just in case the gates closed before we made it back.

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(That was so boring omfg I'm sorry. Idk how to write about killing Titans????)
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『Levi's POV』

"Levi," Erwin called out to me. "I want you to meet someone. Follow me."

He began to walk in the opposite direction now, and I walked close behind him. He led us to an area where I haven't been, and where I haven't seen anyone else at before. It was a white tent looking area, it was basically a cabin with white material thrown over it. Looked kind of like it's supposed to be a secret place.

"Now. When you meet this person, remember to not stare at them, scream, touch them, and maybe try not to look at them in their eyes... I think they may actually be possessed, but I haven't gotten close enough to tell..." He explained to me, right in front of the... Tent? Building?

I raised an eyebrow towards his as if he was going insane. "... What drugs are you on? I want some." I joked, rolling my eyes.

He laughed sarcastically. "Seriously though, be careful. And address them with, them/they/their pronouns."

"Okay. Wait, why?" I heard of people going by different pronouns, but I wasn't all too familiar with it all. Not that I had anything against it.

"They're agender, and that's what they would like to go by. And I suggest you to do just that if you don't want to get slapped. Understand?"

"Uh, yeah. Why am I meeting this person, if there's so many things not even to do around them?" I asked quickly, awfully confused.

He sighed deeply, shifting his weight onto one leg. "They just kinda... Need friends, I guess? I don't know. Just be nice." He said, and opened the door before I could say anything more.

We walked in, and I looked around the cabin as I did so. There were... Odd things set up around the building. On shelves, on tables, on the ceiling, on the floor. My eyes widened when I saw a large finger in a jar with some type of liquid sitting on shelf, beside with some other creepy things.

"What... The fuck, Erwin?" I quietly hissed at the taller blonde who was standing in front of me, as I punched him in the shoulder.

He rubbed his shoulder a bit, chuckling. "Shut up before they hear you."

I stayed right behind him as we passed another jar that had a large toe in in. "I'm gonna gouge my own eyes out." I whispered. Erwin ignored me, but pulled me forward by my wrist.

He nodded his head in the direction in front of us. It was then when I saw someone at a white table, focusing on something laying on the table. I was almost scared to look at what they were focusing on.

There were many microscopes sitting on the table around the person, along with many other scientific looking objects.

I took a closer look at the person, and saw they had short brown hair, glasses on top of their hair, along with goggles on their face, and wearing a long white, scientist coat.

They were completely focused on whatever was on the table, not even looking towards us.

"Are they deaf, or?" I muttered, shelling my hand over my mouth towards Erwin, so they wouldn't hear me.

Erwin pushed me slightly. "No. Shut up." I rolled my eyes, as he walked towards them.

"Hange?" He whispered.

They quickly put their hand back, holding one finger up, as if telling him to wait a minute.

Erwin looked back at me, rolling his eyes, and tapping his forehead, as if telling me they're crazy, but that was slightly obvious...

It was close to two minutes later when Hange finally made a different kind of movement.

"AHA!" They yelled out loudly, standing up with their hands in the air. "I DID IT, ONCE AGAIN!"

Erwin sighed. "Here we go again." He muttered.

"Oh Erwin! Looks at this!" Hange yelled, grabbing Erwin's shirt and pulling him towards the microscope. "Just look at this and tell me what you see!"

Erwin slowly, and cautiously moved towards the microscope and set his eye onto the scope, taking a close look. "Gross. It's skin..."

"AH! Not just skin, my friendly eyebrow friend! Titan skin, of course!" Hange yelled out, smirking.

Erwin quickly moved back from the scope, and snapped his head towards the brown headed freak. "How the fuck did you get your hands on Titan skin?!"

Hange put their arms across their chest, looking smug. "I have my ways."

"Hange, if you went outside the gate-"

"Oh calm your eyebrows! I only stepped out there for an hour or so. Wasn't tough at all!" They yelled, waving their hand as if it was nothing, and as if they didn't risk their entire life.

Erwin slapped his palm against his forehead. "God dammit, Hange. You're going to get yourself killed one of these days."

"Tch, those Titans wouldn't hurt a fly."

"Yeah, but maybe a human..." He muttered, sarcastically. "Anyway. I wanted you to meet someone. He's the newest member. Levi, come here."

I stepped closer to the two of them, and noticed Hange's eyes were glued onto my face, wearing an extremely creepy, annoying smile.

"Aw! He's so short and fancy looking!" They gushed at me, running towards me and engulfed me into a tight, uncomfortable hug.

"Hange, t-that's probably not a good idea..." Erwin pointed out, tapping their shoulder.

Hange ignored Erwin, but instead making the hug even tighter. "Hange. Can you let me go now? You're getting Titan skin juice on my shirt." I said, awkwardly, slightly trying to push them off of me.

They quickly pulled back, looking frantically over my shirt for any type of skin juice on me. It was a lie, but it sure worked.

"Gaaaaah, I'm sorry. I'm a hug person!" They said, sheepishly.

Hange turned around, rambling about something that I honestly had zero interest in. I sent a hard, deathly glare towards Erwin, silently telling him to get me the hell out of here.

He sheepishly smiled at me, shrugging.

"Isn't that amazing news, Erwin?!" They yelled, raising their fists in the air.

Erwin quickly glanced towards the brunette, looking shocked and confused. "U-Uh... Yeah! Life saving news, Hange!"

Hange cheered some more, completely oblivious that neither Erwin or I was paying much attention to them.

"Anyway, nice seeing you again, Hange! I'll see you soon.... Maybe." He whispered the last part.

I mentally thanked him, before grabbing his wrist and pulling him towards the door. "Oh, okay! Nice meeting you, little Levi."

I huffed, finally throwing Erwin out the door, and slamming it behind me. "Never again. Let's not speak of this." I said sternly.

Erwin doubled over in laughter. "Ah, this was exactly why I brought you here. I wanted to get some emotion out of you!"

"Gee, thanks, Erwin." I said sarcastically, rolling my eyes, and walking away from him, back towards the gate. "Come on, the group should be back should soon."

"Yeah, yeah." He said, trailing behind me.

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Idk how I feel about this chapter. I feel like not enough happened in it, fml.
I'm currently in Tennessee, on vacation, with no internet so it's been slightly difficult to write this, so I'm sorry if it's kinda... Idk... Rushed?

I'm in the process of making a trailer for this story! I was hoping that it would be finished by the time I got this chapter published, but it's a lot harder to make than I thought, aha... It will definitely be ready by next chapter though.

Disclaimer ~~
For all of those who are confused of the Hange character. Hange is basically Hanji. I'm basically taking the character from the Manga. In the manga, Hanji's name was spelt as "Hange" (the manga I read, anyway.) and Isayama also left it up for the readers to decide Hange's gender. I never really decided a gender, so I thought if I made them agender, and had them go by different pronouns, it would be interesting and it made more sense for me!
I know some stories have them go by the same pronouns (they/them/their), but I just thought I'd let everyone know, just in case you were confused. Aha.
^^ if you have any questions, I'll be glad to answer!

Thanks so much for reading guys! I hope you enjoyed!

「Heichou_Anna」