#i love how it turned out - the serene-ness and stillness of it all really captured the feeling i wanted to recreate :')

[mienar]

stillness in these waking hours

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[kenrik]

written in 2014

Summary: Two weeks into his capture, Levi escapes from the Recon Corps and stumbles upon an innocent girl in the forest. Canon!verse. Pre-Series. Friendship.

Song: Sea of Love by Cat Power

Background: Levi is nineteen (20 something) years old. And Mikasa is eight when he stumbles upon her in the forest. Levi's character here is more distant, more brute, more silent and deadly. Check out Shingeki no Kyojin Gaiden for more details of his earlier life. He isn't the wise, trusting guy he is in the series now. He's more of a lone wolf trying to survive. Mikasa on the other hand is a happy innocent girl who lives with her parents away from the city as depicted in the series.

Throughout Time: sea of love

He is breathless as he stops and looks out into the meadow. He cautiously skims the open field with weary bloodshot eyes. Though he was able to run a generous distance from the legion, the young man kept himself from being lax. Even if just this once, he ached for the world to grant him a moment of solitude.

Before he could stop himself, he stumbles into a soft patch of grass and allows himself lie there. His gaze looks upward. The rays of the sun passing though the leaves of the trees washed his face with a warmth he's unaccustomed to. With his body outstretched, with his palms flat on the ground, he feels the light dew of the green grass taint his skin and uniform. The world is at a simple stillness and silence. Faint chirping and buzzing flitters in a gentle echo in the forest. Wings flutter in the bright blue sky above him. And the thin white clouds drift slowly from his line of sight.

He lets out a breath he's kept since his horrid, meaningless life came to be and oddly finds himself at peace. His weary, grave eyes soften. And his pursed lips ease. He hears his heartbeat slowdown. And he feels the fresh, sweet forest air tickle his cheeks. Since he moved above ground with Farlan and Isabel, every moment in the surface felt like his first. 

In the silence, his eyes drifts and closes to a long deserved slumber.

Before he lost total consciousness to the serenity that enveloped him, he heard the light swooshing of the leaves bidding him a soft lullaby. And he dreams of twinkling stars and bright moonlight, back to that single moment he’s felt at ease, and with the only two people who ever meant anything to him. 

Hidden in the bosom of the forest, the spirits and the trees keeps secret the stray tear that trickles down the side of the young man’s face. 

The moment he comes to, the sun had barely moved. And in a few groggy blinks, he realizes he's slept to the following day. Unconsciously, his palms touch the grass in odd comfort, assuring himself of his location. His hair flitters over his eyes with the breeze. Then, he looks overhead and suddenly losses the peace he's found.

A pair of large innocent dark eyes looked at him with curiosity. Long ebony hair swayed with the brush of air, bringing along with it the petals from the flowers standing near her shoes. He didn't know how to act, what to do, and simply found himself staring with wide eyes.

Then, she spoke.

"Are you here for my flowers?"

"No." Levi finds himself saying. His Adam's apple bobbed in his exposed throat as he continued looking overhead. He was still lying on the soft ground.

"Then," She looks away, tucking her hair over an ear. She doesn't continue and simply sits beside him. They stay in silence for a while. And Levi is back in his state of distance. As he lay and as she sat, the two listened to the wind, the chirping of the birds, and the buzzing of the bees.

His mind is so far off his body that he doesn't notice her reach over his face. And before he could stop her, she sprinkled petals of lavender over his hair. His sharp eyes turned to her, about to glare. But her face, with her eyes glittering in mirth amidst being devoid of a smile, quelled the simmering in his chest. Realizing he felt no anger, his brows knit in confusion as he allowed the girl to keep dropping flowers over his head. Soon enough, he was adorned with different kinds and colors of plants. She even made them matching flower necklaces.

For hours, he continued in his trance of solitude as the girl lingered around him. Leaving only to return with various blossoms. Slowly, as she continued her innocent play, he found his eyes shutting once more. Sleep invading his worn system.

The pretty little girl with the chaste character eyes the sleeping young man with a touch of interest. With plucked blooms on her hand, she walks towards him and kneels near him. His brows are knit together as he sleeps. Placing a small, dainty finger gently in between his brows, she lifts his furrowed expression. He twitches at her touch. At the sight of his expression easing, seemingly and finally entering peaceful slumber, the corners of her mouth lift in the slightest.

From his forehead, her finger trails and outlines his face. From being simply inquisitive, she decides and thinks she likes his face. Like her flowers, there was a certain beauty behind his grave expression. The girl, more interested, leans down to place her ear on his heaving chest, right next to his beating heart. Her brows knit in confusion. His heart sounded like hers and her parents. Yet. She wonders why someone whose heart beat similar to hers looked to be in so much pain.

She hears a grunt. And before she knows it, her head is being lifted by the sudden rise of the young man now waking.

She turned to face him and found a glare on his face as he looked at her. Still, she didn't move from where she listened to his heart.

"Get off." His voice is gruff and brute. But his heart, she continues to listen, still beats the same. He takes her by the shoulder and lightly pushes her off him. With a final scowl, he shifts to his side and sleeps the other way. The girl, still perplexed, places her knees next to his back and peers over his shoulders.

She finds his eyes continue glaring at her.

Shuffling from afar, drifting in with the echoes of the woods, suddenly urged the young man forward. Voices unfamiliar to her, but vividly familiar to him, lifts him from the grass. He turns to the girl and finds wide perplexed eyes looking back at him. It is then that he realizes he has to leave. 

Another call and he is sent running. At the sight of the open field, knowing fully well of the girl watching him from the shadows in the woods, Levi steps out.

"I'm here."

END. 

(Keeping my original A/N back in 2014. My did I have simple dreams then. And all of them - ANSWERED! Uwah!) 

I apologize for the bleh-ness. I will edit this chapter for sure. This anthology is evidence for my love for LeviMikasa. No faves, follows, and reviews yet I keep writing. I really hope something comes out of this. Like a FRICKIN TEAM HUNT or whatever PAIR thing Levi and Mikasa can do together in the actual series. Come on, I know no romance will come off Levi's ass that's why I only hope he gets a LOT of scenes with Mikasa. :)

Explanations:

1. Levi was forced into the Recon Corps and is obviously suffocated by his life in general. He finds an opening to escape from the compound and takes it. He keeps running from his pursuers and finds shelter in a forest. There, he finds his solace.

2. Mikasa's house is within walking distance. She often visits the forest for wild flowers. There, that one day, she stumbles upon a sleeping Levi. She feels a connection, and finds herself staying. She rarely meets people outside her family.

3. Levi knows he is being pursued. Not wanting to get the girl into the mix, the moment he hears his pursuers near, he voluntarily steps into the open and heads back to camp.