They took their time calming down before heading into the classroom. To get ready for the long day ahead of them.

Levi was busy setting up the room for the lesson he had planned. He was getting papers organized and sharpening the extra pencils he kept at the front of the room. When he finished he excused himself to the restroom.

Eren nodded and watched as he left. He had taken his phone with his, which he almost never did. 'That's weird,' Eren thought and had the sudden urge to follow him to see what he was up too. He felt a ping of guilt as he stood up, but pushed it away and decided to follow him.

Levi headed to the staff bathroom, it was a lot cleaner than the student bathrooms and it was located in the office area. When Levi walked into the bathroom he looked to make sure there was no one in the stalls. He leaned up against the wall and turned on his phone.

Eren walked through the open door and stayed on the other side of the wall that leads into the bathroom he stayed silent listening to see if Levi was up to something.

"Hello?" Levi asked and Eren could tell he was talking on the phone. "Yeah, it's me." Levi seemed to respond to what the person had asked. "I've decided," he said with a pause. "I'll do it tomorrow," he said with a regretful sigh. "What do you mean not yet?" Levi asked getting frustrated.

'Who is he talking to?' Eren asked himself mentally as he listened in on the weird conversation. He couldn't hear the voice on the other side of the call, but from Levi's response so far he could piece together what the person was saying.

"Who cares anymore, I can't wait any longer, I swear if I go one more day without doing it I never will, and then I'll lose my fucking mind," Levi said putting his hand up to his face and pinching the bridge of his nose. "Sorry, I didn't mean to curse at you," Levi sighed. "I just want us to be happy," Levi said with a softer voice. "Okay, tomorrow it is then," Levi said with a slight nod of his head. "Okay, I love you,  see you tonight," Levi said before hanging up.

Eren immediately turned on his heels and quietly exited the bathroom before hurrying silently back. He sat in the chair he was sitting in before and grabbed his phone to make it seem like he never moved. 'Levi really is cheating on me, and he's going to leave me. I knew he was acting weird earlier, my dreams are almost never wrong,' Eren thought rethinking the phone call he had just heard. There was no doubting it now he heard it with his own ears. 'I love you,' he heard the words replay in his head over and over. It's words that Levi has said to him countless times, but they had seemed to lose all meaning in a matter of seconds.

Levi walked back in the room with his phone still in his hand as he looked at Eren who was still sitting where he was when he left the room.

"Sup," Eren said trying to act natural. He didn't know what he was going to do and it was hard for him to hold everything together. He had decided to do something that he hadn't done for years, more specifically since he was assaulted. He completely shut down his brain sending his rational thoughts to his safe place that he had made inside his head. He looked perfectly fine on the outside and no one would be able to tell otherwise. While he was in this state he was incapable of showing genuine emotions and depending on how deep in this state he had gone sometimes he would even be unresponsive.

"Sorry I took so long I got a call while I was in there," he said.

"It's okay," Eren said with a shrug brushing it off like it was no big deal. "So what's the lesson plan for the day?" He asked as Levi sat down in the chair next to him.

"Just normal routine sentence structure," Levi said showing him a worksheet.

"Okay, I think I remember that one from 9th-grade English," Eren said looking it over.

They both faced towards the door when there was a light knocking. "May I come in?" TJ asked quietly.

"Of course Eren said gesturing at a chair near them.

TJ kept his head low and set his stuff by his normal desk before slowly making his way to the front of the class where the teachers sat.

Eren thought his movements were strange, a little familiar. He waited for TJ to sit down before he scooted closer to him. "Is everything alright?" Eren asked putting a hand on TJ's shoulder. The boy flinched at the unexpected contact and Eren pulled his hand back immediately. He knew that response, and it snapped him back into his mind completely.

TJ's eyes widened and he immediately apologized. "I'm sorry Mr. Jaeger," He whispered looking up at him, but his hair was still covering his face.

Eren realized what was wrong and he immediately went to move the hair from TJ's eyes to see the damage.

He reached his arm out slowly and watched as TJ closed his eyes to brace himself. Eren moved the hair from the kid's face, 'it was bigger than I expected,' Eren thought taking a look at his black eye. There were a few more bruises one on his forehead and his bottom lip was swollen and split open.

"Did your mom do this?" Eren asked trying to get to the bottom of this.

"No," TJ sighed, "on the way here," he hesitated and took a breath, "these guys jumped me," TJ explained how they made fun of his hair pulling it and beating him up and calling him names like emo, or fag.

"Where was this?" Levi asked standing up. He looked beyond pissed. He had murder in his eyes.

Eren grabbed Levi's arm and squeezed his hand to try and snap him out of his rage.

"Let's get you cleaned up," Eren said holding his hand out to TJ for him to take.

TJ nodded and let Eren lead him to the bathroom as Levi stayed behind trying to clear his scattered thoughts.

He had TJ jump up onto the counter so he could take a better look at his wounds. He slightly rolled up his sleeves without thinking as he turned on the faucet. He grabbed some paper towels and wet them under the sink. He brought the paper towel up to TJ's lip to try and clear away some of the blood.

TJ winced when Eren touched the wound, but made no move to squirm away.

Eren carefully cleaned up the dry blood from the boy's face being careful not to press too hard in order not to hurt him.

"Thank you, Mr. Jaeger," TJ said as Eren finished throwing away the bloody paper towels.

"You can call me Eren if you want, the whole last name thing feels a bit weird," Eren laughed being honest.

"Okay, I will" TJ laughed more at the face Eren made than anything.

"You head back to the classroom, I'm going to go to the office and get you an ice pack. Okay?" Eren said gently.

TJ nodded and they walked out of the bathroom. TJ watched as Eren quickly made his way to the office. He walked into the classroom to see Levi sitting at the desk with his fingers to his temples and his eyes closed.

"Mr. Rivaille?" He asked making his presence known.

Levi looked up with concerned eyes as he looked at the bruises on the kid's face. "Hmm?" He answered.

"I want to ask you something about Mr. Jaeger, I mean Eren," TJ said twiddling his thumbs together as he anxiously built up the nerve to ask.

"What is it?" Levi asked with an eyebrow raised.

"The scars on Eren's arms, did do them?" He asked quietly.