#I love these two together whether they're bumping fists or bumping uglies

[xylune]

“Thin Ice” - Levihan fanfic teaser

I’m writing this in celebration of our beloved titan expert’s birthday. I was hoping to have it finished and published on the day, but things like incoming category 5 hurricanes and dead car batteries and other bullshit have slowed my progress down. This is going to be a two-parter. Hopefully, I’ll have the first part finished and uploaded by tomorrow before the weather starts getting bad.

"Thin Ice"

 A Levi/Hange story

 *Disclaimer: I don't own any of the canon characters or the world they belong in. This is for non-profit entertainment only.

  It was a rhetorical question. He knew why they were out there, he just still didn't understand the logic behind how they were conducting this venture.

 The crunch of snow under their feet and the howl of the wind forced the captain to pitch his voice louder so that the woman just ahead of him could hear him. "Why are we out here?"  

 Hange looked back at him. "We went over that already. There's an abandoned supply tower somewhere in these parts. We're going to need as many weapons and supplies as we can find."

 Her next words were nearly lost in the wind, and the half-mask she wore under her furred hood for protection from the elements further muffled her voice. "...money cache, too."

 "What?"

 He sped up his pace to get closer to her. They'd left their horses in the sheltered stables next to a worn out, abandoned shed. The place was once used as a camping waypoint and resource storage. The direction they needed to travel from the waypoint was too treacherous for the horses, hence the decision to go on foot from there.

 "I said that there could even be a money cache, according to the old inventory paperwork I found. We could use more of that, too."

 "But you don't know for certain." Levi stopped, looking around at the snow and wind-swept path they were on. They were heading for the base of the mountain. He narrowed his eyes against the chill, trying to peer further into the distance. "I think it's a waste of time, Hange. Why the hell didn't you just send a scouting party out here to investigate?"

 "Because they'd have probably gotten lost," came her answer. She stopped too and adjusted her goggles. Her eyesight wasn't as keen as Levi's—even less so now since she only had one good eye to see with.

 "Could have brought Sasha with us, at least. She'd know this area."

 Hange turned to face him. "Sasha is still recovering from her injuries. I'm not dragging her out into this. Our goal right now is to confirm whether this tower is still standing and if it has any supplies left in it. Once we've done that, we'll mark the way and send a transport party out to collect."

 "If the damned tower has anything to collect," he grumbled, "and if we find it."

 "Levi, I'm doing my best. Our manpower is at an all-time low, we need weapons and materials, and going into titan territory to get that right now isn't an option. We're both able-bodied and experienced enough to do this ourselves, and you aren't a deskwork kind of guy. Since when do you thumb your nose at doing a little legwork?"

 "I'm just not thrilled about you being out here." He snapped his mouth shut immediately.

 "Me? Why not?" Hange blinked at him.

 "Because you're the commander now, idiot. You're also our titan expert. If we lose you, troop morale is going to be even more screwed than it already is. You shouldn't take careless risks."

 For a moment, anger flashed in Hange's good eye, making it's color appear a brighter shade of russet. It faded within seconds, and her gaze softened on the captain. "You can't keep me wrapped up like china wear, Levi. After all we've been through, after the sacrifices Erwin made, you know better than most that a good commander has to take risks."

 "Not for the hope of a few broken weapons and stale food supplies," he retorted.

 "Are you finished, grump?" She put her gloved hands on her hips.

 "Tch. Come on. Let's get this over with."

 He trudged on ahead, almost petulantly. His body was tense. There weren't any titans in this area, and yet Levi's senses were on alert. Something besides frustration was causing his adrenaline to run high. The captain looked around with narrowed gray eyes again, and he spotted something in the distance that caught his attention.

 "Oi, over there." He pointed to the north, where the foot of the mountains loomed. Something was at its base. He could see the crooked, column-shaped structure peeking out amongst the frozen trees, rising just above them.

 Hange came up beside him to look. She pulled out a spyglass and held it up to her eye. "I think that's it, Levi! You found it!"

 "Don't get too excited yet." He held his hand out. "Let me borrow that spyglass."

 She handed it over, and Levi employed his ODM gear to take to the branches of a nearby tree. Finding a perch on a sturdy one, he crouched low and balanced himself. He looked through the spyglass to make sure he hadn't just mistaken a jutting rock formation or broken tree for a man-made structure.

 "It's a tower, all right," he called down to his companion. "It looks like your hunch was correct; at least about it still being here. Whether it's actually your supply tower or not remains to be seen."

 "There's only one way to find out," she crowed enthusiastically. "Let's hurry!"

 Levi came back down from the tree, and he handed her spyglass back to her. Hange took off immediately, hurrying across the open field between them and their goal. Levi followed her. He was just about to tell her to slow down when he heard an ominous crack. It had come from up ahead where his commander was at. The captain looked down, squatted and brushed aside some of the snow with his hand.

 It wasn't a snow-covered field they were crossing to get to that tower.

 "Hange," Levi shouted, straightening back up. "Get back! It's a lake, and the ice is—"

 The ice cracked further, opened up and swallowed her whole like a titan before Levi could finish hollering his warning. Hange's surprised yelp was all he heard from her before she vanished with a frigid splash.

 "Hange! Shit...!"

 He looked around, and he acted quickly. He anchored his gear hooks into the unbroken ice, and he took a running dive. Sliding over the snow-crusted surface with his wires trailing behind him, he plunged in head-first after his imperiled commander. The water hit him like knives. He nearly expelled the breath he'd taken before submerging when the shock of freezing cold hit him.

 ...He couldn't see anything...

 Levi searched around blindly, hoping there wasn't a current that might have carried Hange too far away already. His knuckles scraped against ice when he reached up, thinking she might have floated back up.

 He was under ice. Somehow, the hole he'd dove in through wasn't above Levi's head anymore. He looked up through the murky water, searching for light. It was dim due to the overcast skies and the glassy ice distorting it, but he could see it. He swam towards it, still searching around for any sign of Hange. A hand...a foot...anything. He'd haul her out by the hair if he had to.

 He was losing breath, and his limbs were getting heavy. Levi tried to find the break in the ice so that he could take another breath, but all he kept finding the barrier of ice, instead. They were both going to die, and the Survey Corps would be leaderless. Worse yet as far as Levi was concerned, Erwin's vision would die with them.

 Something grabbed him, and Levi impulsively struggled against it out of reflex. He realized it was Hange when her chilled, pale face came into blurry view, inches from his own. She grabbed his hand, and they started to rise through the water. Hange placed his hand on something—he could barely feel it—and he realized it was one of his gear wires. He grabbed it as tightly as he could. Levi and Hange used the wires to guide them to the exit hole, kicking and pulling their way along.

 They broke through the water at the same time, and Levi pushed at Hange's back from behind to help her out of the water. She in turn grabbed his hands once she was on the surface of the ice. Only when she pulled Levi out practically on top of her did Hange draw a ragged, choked breath. They both rolled onto their sides and coughed up icy water. It took several moments for both scouts to catch their breath and recover enough to speak.

 "Alright," rasped Levi, frigid puffs of cloud rising from his bloodless lips, "screw...the tower. Can't...get to it...in this...condition."

 Hange's teeth were chattering, and her voice stuttered. "C-c-couldn't...agree more."

 "Shelter," gasped Levi. "Back to...the shack."

 "W-w-we c-can w-w-warm up there," came her unsteady response.

 "Grab...onto me."

 Hange looked at him, reminding Levi of a half-drowned hawk. Her drenched hair was already going stiff with ice.

 "Do it," he urged. His eyeballs were going to freeze, he thought. So would his whole face, for that matter. If people thought he lacked facial expressions before, they might soon mistake him for a statue.

 Hange grabbed hold of Levi's coat, crawling half on top of him with a groan as he rolled onto his stomach. He tried to reach his gear triggers, but his hands were stiff and his position awkward. Hange caught on, and she operated them for him.. They slid across the ice back toward the bank of the frozen lake where Levi had anchored himself before jumping in.

 "W-whee," Hange sputtered huskily. "S-sledding on a...midget-t-t."

  "Shut up," Levi snapped.

[uravichii]

hilarity ~

ー things you do that make them laugh

characters: kirishima eijirou, kaminari denki, uraraka ochaco

genre: crack, fluff

notes: it's up to you whether you want this to be platonic or not :)) but i did write this thinking the reader and the characters are best friends who are pining for each other <3

－ imitating him

the whole class 1A knows you've been hanging out with eijirou too much when you've been doing a lot of his mannerisms which at first, you were doing them ironically.

yes, you kept saying 'manly' a lot.

"you're extra manly today, eijirou!" you grin while he hands you the jar of strawberry jam he just opened for you.

he retracts his hand out of shock, "y/n? what'd you just say? 😯❗" but he soon broke into a huge laughter, while everyone else was just stunned like, 'kirishima, what have you done 😦' especially bakugo 💀

you also do other mannerisms of eijirou's like bumping your fists together when you're determined, and you've also called other people 'bro' or 'my man' 😔

considering they're like his trademarks, and 'manly' is literally his catchphrase, eijirou isn't offended at all. he thinks it's flattering and sweet, despite being fully aware that you were only doing that ironically at first, at least.

like 'wow you pay that much attention when i talk to you that you're able to mimic me? that's sweet and manly :))'

then it becomes an inside joke between you two.

whenever someone accomplishes something, you and eijirou's eyes immediately meet, and the sheepish smile you give to each other serves as a 'go signal' for the catchphrase.

kaminari held a piece of paper in front of him and extends his arm to let everyone see, "GUYS, i scored higher on my math quizー" your eyes immediately dart across the room to eijirou's. you both grin, beaming with excitement. "THAT'S MANLY 🤩‼💪" you exclaim simultaneously, followed by a burst of laughter, which were also starting to sound awfully similar.

half of the class are amused and think 'wow they really get along' and the other half just wants to bang your heads together and throw you out of the dorm 💀 that's definitely not just bakugo

but you and eijirou, you just continue to laugh together, eyes almost tearing up. it was a simple joke between you twoー one that he laughs about because of how funny it is, but now he laughs because he's overjoyed. something about an inside joke between you two makes him feel warm inside.

after all, an inside joke is like a mark of a warm friendship, an easy and shared familiarity, a fruit of the bond and the closeness you two built together, and eijirou loves it.

he loves that the burst of laughter after the seemingly lame joke is a laughter he can only share with you. the moment belongs to you and eijirou's alone :))

of course, kaminari or ashido can mimic eijirou, but it's never the same when you do it. you actually have that sparkー that connection with eijirou, where you know exactly when he's about to exclaim the catchphrase so you could also say it with him passionately at the same time.

eijirou will also start to mimic your mannerisms <3 if you find that flattering too :))

you both got used to the inside joke too much thoughー you both kept waiting for someone to announce an accomplishment that you accidentally called min*ta 'manly' for successfully harassing a woman.

it was a quick impulse, and you still managed to do it at the same time, but you quickly realized who you were calling manly, and what he did.

and you're now looking at each other like 😨 😨

you both avoid calling people 'manly' for a while because of this, 💀 giving class 1-A a break.🧍‍♀️it really won't last long tho

ー reaction pictures

ok you have an 'ugly' picture of denki in your phone.

he was in his 'yay mode' but he was drooling a lot more, and his smile was bigger and all teeth. 💀

i don't think denki minds at all when class 1-A makes fun of his yay mode, but he does think the joke's getting a little old, even that ugly picture of him doesn't faze him much anymore.

but it was very new, and even a bit strange to denki when you used it as a reaction picture.

and it didn't look like an insult towards denki because you edited with hearts and used it in an affectionate way 😃 you sent it specifically for mina in your group chat

everyone was just stunned like,

"uhm... y/n? 👁👄👁❓"

there was a complete silence in the group chat after you sent it, but after a few seconds of recovering from the shock, you're able to hear denki's hyena-like cackle from the other room.

i mean if you were to use denki's yay mode photos as reaction pictures, you'd expect it to be used for something elseー something that would have a correlation with how unflattering he looks in the picture.

but no 💀 you used it with an affectionate context, as if the photo was even pleasant to look at.

you're aware of that though, and so is denkiー it's partly why it's hilarious to him.

he was already bored with the jokes, the insults, and generally just pointing out the rather unattractive features of his face in photos, but you editing them with hearts and making it cutesyー denki didn't see an ounce of malice in that edited photo, and that's what he loves most about it.

whenever denki sees the picture, he just runs out of air from laughing, and everyone's just already sick of it

he also set it as his wallpaper. he looks at you and giggles everytime he opens his phone.

you also make more memes out of his photos. for a week, denki's photos were the only reaction pictures you sent 💀

and everyone's just sick of denki rolling across the floor giggling whenever you send those

more than laughing because it's hilarious, denki was laughing more because he was overjoyed to have a friend with such strange (but funny) anticsー ones that aren't even meant to insult him but rather to make him laugh.

he laughs because he's happy to have someone who can match his energy, someone who has made him laugh too much over the simplest ways. you make denki incredibly happy and in time, you'll come to realize that :))

if you're okay with it, he'll sneak some photos of you and turn them into memes/reaction pictures, but then he gets frustrated and pouty because you just look too pretty and too decent in the photos to be a meme.

im sure you look nothing like denki in his yay mode.

he sent a decent-looking candid photo of you in the group chat (as a reaction pic), but no one got it and just proceeded to calling him perverted and a creep for sending a photo of you out of the blue :')

again, if you're okay with it, denki will now use your picture as his new wallpaper 😌 it makes him a lot happier than seeing his own yay mode face.

if you set your wallpaper to his face, he'll giggle nonstop out of hilarity and giddiness, no matter how unflattering he looks in the picture. (and no matter how questionable your editing is on the picture)

ー cheek squeeze

ochaco probably never thought much of her pink cheeks. she's neither insecure nor particularly proud of them.

but you,

you LOVE ochaco's cheeks!

she once complimented you about how cute your outfit was. by impulse, you quickly complimented her back, and you immediately thought of her cheeks.

"your outfit looks really cute, y/n!"

"thanks! your cheeks are so pretty :))"

ochaco's taken aback like, "huh? 😀 thanks..?"

she was initially confused, but she thought more of that strange compliment. she soon realized how nice it actually was that you said 'pretty' instead of 'cute,' which is what most people would've said.

while you think her cheeks are cute, you explain that it's more of a cute asset that makes the whole thing incredibly pretty!

"so, i mean to say that your face is really pretty" you bring a hand to poke her right cheek, "but i really do think your cheeks are pretty!" you watch as her cheeks slowly turn red against your finger's touch.

ochaco bursts into giggles and adorable babbles, attempting to thank you for the compliment.

the cheek-poking became a greeting between you two.

you'll greet everyone the usual 'good morning,' and with ochaco, you just lightly press a finger to her cheek, "good morning, ochaco :))"

and it gets her so giddy and happy like (´｡• ω •｡`)

kaminari once joked that her cheek was like a button you press for her burst of giggles.

he then tried it on her, and ochaco did laugh but everyone could tell it wasn't a genuine at all it was more of a laugh you make when you're uncomfortable or when you're just laughing at a joke out of respect. 💀

somehow the cheek-poking turned to cheek-squeezing, and ochaco does it to you now too!

"ochaco, your cheeks are like mochi!" and she's just laughing nonstop :))

you'd laugh together while squeezing each other's cheeks for a whole minute, and everyone's just 👁👁 "what in the worldー"

it's CUTE. most of the class are just in awe of your bond.

ochaco's laugh is a mix of hilarity, embarassment, and flattery. everytime you touch her cheek, she's reminded of the very close bond you two have! and she also remembers that sweet compliment you gave her :))

when you walk into a room, she's already all smiles with glint in her eyes, just eager for your touch :))

squeeze her cheek then press a little peck, and she'll just burst into a stammering and blushing mess, covering her face with both handsー ochaco's just adorably embarassed and overjoyed :)))