Your lie (Levi • Reader)

Colour of lies

"I will ask you one thing and you have to be honest with me.", he said, trying to keep composure at all costs.

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He went a step closer and made direct eye-contact. What's going on with you?, was all he asked himself.
His eyes searched for yours and an answer within, which could explain the situation in any form or way. Who were you to lie to him? After all this time, after he placed trust and his brittle hope within you, had you gone this far as to betray him?

The walls creaked, the tapestry lethargic and dully blue from all the rain that had fallen in the last couple of hours. It had grown to become muggy with the walls being engulfed by the oppressive, almost stifling humidity entering from outside's encased airspace.

Truth was, that Erwin had already woken up several hours ago. The poison's effect you had placed in his coffee mug hadn't lasted for too long, because he had eaten properly before he fell unconscious, which helped his glands to recover his previous level of unoccupied receptors. But of course you didn't know that, you couldn't know just like everyone else. The only exceptions were Hange and Levi, which had found out he woke up seemingly long ago by meeting him unexpectedly.

Flashback

After waking up, the blonde's head ached for a few minutes. In the following hour, Levi had made sure Erwin was supplied with water and some sort of weak painkillers against the stomach aches hounding him. After explicating the entire situation to him, Erwin immediately asked for Levi to search through his office.

A short while after, Erwin joined despite the raven's protest. He couldn't just remain inactive in the nurse's office without looking for himself what had happened. Propping on the walls and waddling down the hall, he arrived to find Levi studying his drawers and creaks between them for nothing in particular, except potentially missing parts.

"Nothing's missing.", Levi stated in a matter of fact tone, a hand on his hip. The man began placing the objects back into their shelves, as his lightly groggy-feeling partner stepped in.

"No.", Erwin interrupted Levi.
"Our source of information is gone.", he said and his lips pursed with a crease in between his bushy brows revealing the smallest bit of vulnerability. Something Levi wasn't quite familiar with yet.

A few quick steps brought Levi to the drawer and the sliding board that Erwin had envisioned. Then his hand slid down and he checked for himself as if incredulous to the fact himself. But indeed. The raven's eyes widened a tad after he found nothing but emptiness.

While latter lifted himself up from his haunch, Erwin brought his hand to the pocket of his pants.
"Huh?", he mumbled upon realising his key was still inside, despite him rather expecting the complete opposite.

At once a vociferous noise sounded from the door, almost grotesquely reverberating through the entire floor.
"Hey, who the hell-?!", Hange's lovely vocal-chords vibrated, but momentarily muted after her orbs spotted both of the men she knew inside. "You, Erwin? Are you okay again?", she asked in visible confusion.

The blonde smiled at her assuringly.
"Yes, it was only for little time that I couldn't really stand up."

"Oh.", the scientist lowered the tool-box and piled-up medicine she held in her hands, which was in fact meant for him to take in order to feel better faster.
"So you're here now..", she murmured.