𝐎𝐅 𝐂𝐀𝐌𝐎𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐄 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄𝐃𝐎𝐌 | 𝐋𝐞𝐯𝐢 𝐱 𝐎𝐂

Right-hand man

Please read the note at the end!

Suggestion for a drink game: take a shot every time Levi tells Daphne to go back to sleep lol

𝐒𝐮𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐲: Two troublesome adults trying to figure out how to properly communicate and work together. A lot of talking.

𝐒𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬: "Feels Like We Only Go Backwards" by Tame Impala, "Beautiful Crime" by Tamer, "I Love You, But I Need Another Year" by Liza Anne.

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𝐋𝐄𝐕𝐈'𝐒 𝐏𝐎𝐕

"Where? If I'm allowed to ask, Captain."

"The Underground."

Daphne's eyes aimed at my lips obsessively. Her dark pupils frantically ran from one side of my mouth to the other, as if wondering where that word had come from. Have I really just said the Underground?

Her voice dropped to a whisper when she told me "Levi, please, don't joke with me..."

"Do I look like someone who wants to joke?" I remarked, but she still looked quite disoriented. Apparently, I needed to explain myself a bit better.

"Erwin gave me more days off to fully recover. As we speak, hundreds of citizens are descending into the Underground due to the breach. The situation must be kept under control. And we'll go on patrol..." I paused for a few seconds, trying to read her expression, "And see what's going on with your sisters."

Her head slightly tilted back as a tiny gasp left her mouth.

"What?? But-but wouldn't it be better if I went to help Eren and-?" she babbled.

"Are you by any chance a titan-shifter? Do you secretly possess the hardening technique, perhaps?" I thundered.

She just pouted in response and lowered her gaze.

"Yeah, exactly. Therefore, you are absolutely useless right now. Only Eren can close the breach."

"But-"

"Are you Eren Yeager? The professional fifteen-years-old pain in the ass?"

"No, fuck, I get it! But-" Daphne tried to object.

"Say another but and I'll let you rot down here, understood?"

After all, I guess I'm always the same: a coldhearted, messy captain who really has no half-measures.

My threat seemed to have had quite the right opposite effect I had hoped for just looking at the way her lips immediately curled into a shy smile. Two tiny dimples shaped at the sides of the mouth and her nose slightly wrinkled.

I couldn't stand that face much longer and when I opened my mouth to speak again, my voice got unexpectedly softer. "However, it's up to you. If you want to go and knit a net for the breach or just cheer for the kid, go. You're still in time. Otherwise-"

"No." Daphne firmly said, looking at me now straight in the eyes. "I want to stay with you. I mean, come with you. To the Underground."

Then, she averted her gaze. "So, are we really going back?". Her voice sounded so innocent, so helpless, like a little girl who could finally have her damn ice cream after dinner.

I nodded in response, without getting lost in further explanations.

Her mouth puckered and then opened in a twitchy "Thanks, Levi". My chest suddenly tightened and all I could do was sigh and nod again, wordlessly.