𝐈𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 | Levi Ackerman X Reader

| #35: Don't let her confess when she's sleep deprived |

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And it was like that for the majority of the way back to your apartment building. It was just silence as Levi drove and you kept to yourself. Although, the closer the two of you got, the more he saw you start to give in and succumb to the sleep that you'd been fighting.

There came a point where you didn't bother to continue to hide your yawns, making Levi briefly turn his head to look at you and shake his head, a smile tugging at his lips.

He would honestly be surprised if you still had any energy at all after everything that's happened, so didn't even try to push down that foreign and warm feeling that settled in his chest when he saw that.

But just when he thought that you would be silent for the rest of the way, or even fall asleep, he suddenly heard you mumble slightly. He kept his focus on the road, though, deciding to just listen to you because he knows that there's not enough people in your life who have been willing to simply listen to what you had to say.

And now, Levi would find out if Onyankopon's theory would really come into play. Would you really be as honest and vulnerable as you've been wanting to be since this whole thing started? Or maybe even way before the two of you met. If you did, Levi felt a strange feeling in his chest at the thought of you confiding in him like that.

But out of all the things that you could have possibly said, nothing could have prepared Levi for what you said first. At first, it was just a sleepy mumble, barely coherent. But then he heard you loud and clear.

"I'm- I'm sorry, Levi...," You said, and Levi's eyes widened a fraction, forcing himself to keep his eyes on the road as he waited for you to continue with uneasiness building up inside him.

His grip on the steering wheel tightened and his breath got caught in his throat in utter shock when he heard that. He was expecting something entirely different, like maybe some delirious nonsense, nothing of importance. He was frozen, he didn't know what to say. He didn't like how guilty you sounded. What the hell were you apologizing for? He didn't even know if he should say anything at all.

Where was this conversation going? When you didn't say anything else after that, he braved to turn his head briefly to look at you and see that you were blinking yourself in and out of sleep and you had your head tipped against the window.

"I swear...I didn't mean to even think for a second you had any fault in this. I'm sorry that you're..." You continued trailing off for a second, not even realizing that Levi's jaw was clenching with an internal battle that was forming inside him.

Levi waited for a couple seconds for you to continue, not sure if he was ready to hear what was on the other end of the sentence. He certainly wasn't ready to hear how defeated you sounded. "...that you're stuck with me," You said, and Levi couldn't compute in his head how you sounded so...resigned.

Is that what you thought of this agreement? Even if it was your idea? From the beginning you said that this wasn't ideal for either of you and that this arrangement was the best way to go, but did you think you were a burden to him? You weren't. Not at all.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Levi muttered, nearly letting out a scoff. He honestly didn't know what else to say but that. And worst of all, he didn't know why he's reacting the way he is.

A simple confession shouldn't have flipped a switch in his brain like it has. "Isn't it obvious? It's fake. It's all fake," You said deliriously, and Levi's eyebrows creased together as he glanced at you again and then back at the road. What exactly did you mean by that? Where are you going with this?

"What-" Levi started, decided to try and ask you directly, but he was cut off by you, realizing he started talking at the same time as you did. "I learned it the hard way. It's so much easier to fake my way through things and pretend. People assume I have it all together. This is obviously before all of these problems got dumped on me," You continued, and Levi began to wonder if you were even aware of what you were saying right now.