#rivaere fanfiction

[key-necklace-and-cravat]

Chapters: 10/? Fandom: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Levi Ackerman/Eren Yeager Characters: Levi Ackerman, Eren Yeager, Erwin Smith, Jean Kirstein, Mikasa Ackerman, Armin Arlert, Connie Springer, Hange Zoë Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - 1940s, Film Noir, Organized Crime, Mafia Levi (Shingeki no Kyojin), Detective Noir, Detective Eren Yeager, there are vague references to homophobia if even that but it's not at all the focus, there's a lot of smoking and drinking, this is set during the 1940's and inspired by the film noir movies of that time, Eren is in his early 20's 

Summary:

Detective Eren Jaeger is assigned to a case - what he doesn't expect, though, is to become entangled with the man he is meant to investigate, and fall deeper and deeper into a world of underground crime.

[xylonz]

#Rivaereri #Rivaere #Ereri #eggreri ✧˖*°࿐

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“I-I want to l-live. P-Please, L-Levi.”

Eren looked up at him with the most broken eyes. The emerald irises glossed over and trembled. His face was a tear-stained crimson-red.

“I—How?” Eren forced himself to gulp mouthfuls of salty air, before he wheezed, “H-Help me. P-Please…I— I want… I want to be selfish. I want to live.

Levi exhaled slowly and hugged Eren closer.

“Then live.”

Eren wants to live. He wants to take the selfish decision to take fate into his own hands and not start the rumbling and instead live for himself. But have you ever heard of a hero who was happy?

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A fic for the eggeri event by the sweet @ereri-nation 🤍

🔗http://archiveofourown.org/works/54919759

[sagechan]

“Neophyte” | part 2 of ‘the way the moonlight hits his skin’

Rating: E | RivaEre, SNK, AOT (please mind tags before reading)

[sugawara-levi]

The Man with the Child in his Eyes

Levi x Eren

1k words

cw: post-rumbling levi is not really coping with eren’s death but instead finds comfort in his ghost

playlist: The Man with the Child in his Eyes - Kate Bush (honestly such a good fit for them), creature - iris, (Talia - King Princess)

He wasn't always there. Levi had no control over when he was there or not. He just knew he wasn't alone. Not like the world thought him to be. He had someone, someone to come home to. Someone to talk to. Someone to listen. Even though he never replied.

He did get lonely. On the nights when he didn't appear. The silence would be deafening on these nights. The loneliness suffocating his whole being. But soon he appeared again. Came back, like he always did. Whispered words of apology for only Levi to hear. That only Levi could hear. But he didn't care. He knew he was okay, would be okay, as long as he kept appearing.

Soft voices. One reminiscing, one softy laughing. At the memories. The ones made, and the ones never to be made. They were all real to him. To them. To the them that was still in his mind.

“Will you still love me? When I'm no longer young, and beautiful?” the man asks.

“Yes, yes l will” the other answers, “always” he whispers into the empty night. The tears that marked the sheets were now so normal that they went unnoticed. As long as he could stay in this moment. He would be fine.

At least his calm was better than the screams. That was what they all thought. As long as he seemed better, that was okay, right?

Right.

That was what he thought too.

When he came, all was better. All was better than before. He could be with him again. They could be again.

Anything was better than the void he had left him in.

Anything.

His arms. Even though they could hold nothing. They were his.

His voice. Even though it could say nothing out of Levi's recreation. It was his.

His. His, to have and to hold.

At night time. That was when he often came. When Levi turned around in bed, ready for another sleepless night. But then his arms were there. For him to crawl into. Forming a shelter for him.

“I'm here” he would whisper, “I'm always here” as Levi cried into his embrace.

Sometimes he would tell him stories. About the sea.

Sometimes Levi would tell him stories. About his day.

Some days were quiet.

Sometimes Levi wouldn't speak for days, weeks if he didn't appear.

But then suddenly, he's there again.

Before he goes to sleep. When he tuns the lights off and turn over. And the mattress dips with the weight of another, the feel of warm arms around him. And Levi grabs on to anything, everything. Grounding it, grounding himself. Pulling the other closer by the fabric of his shirt. The reunions were always coloured by tears. Tears marking the cloth of Eren's shirt.

“Ssh” he stroked Levi's coarse hair, “I’m here again.”

“You’re here again.”

As his heaving breaths reduced to sniffling. “You’re here again.” As his breath returned after being taken for days, weeks, lifetimes it felt like. His voice was raspy from unuse, like his morning-voice had been on the few nights they had gotten together.

“Tell me about the sea.” And he would. He would tell him about the sea for hours. Like he had talked about the sea when he was younger. When he was still hopeful. Before all this shit had gone down. When there had still been a child behind those eyes. But this was Levi's world. In this world his eyes were still shining. Glistening with the hopefull joy only a child could have. He was happy here. Telling him about seashells, sand and salty water. All the things they discovered together. About vast oceans that seemed never ending, the places they had yet to discover.

And Levi smiled again. He was whole again. Curled up in the sheets with his invisible man, he laughed again. Laughed as they gestured towards an image that only they could see.

“Tell me about the sky” the invisible man would ask. And Levi did. He told him about the things Eren had never had the time to think about. In his desperate search for freedom. Levi would tell him about the trees, the never ending sky that stretched even longer than the ocean, the new stars he had discovered.

The sleepless nights filled with tears would turn into sleepless nights filled with conversation.

And his joy was back. His life was good again.

He smiled again, and they stopped worrying. As long as he seemed better. But they didn’t know about his invisible man. They still thought he was lost. Unlike Levi.

When he came home he would tell him about his day. He would say “Hi!” as he opened the door, and start talking to the house as he undressed his outer layers. This was his routine now.

Sometimes he even warmed enough water for two cups. One was left at the counter.

He was so understanding. Very rarely did Levi have to explain his feelings about something. Eren knew. Almost magically. He knew all about Levi's situations, and they would laugh about them together. Sometimes even before Levi had finished talking about it. As if he already knew everything Levi went through. The facade was slipping. But Levi didn't notice. Or chose not to notice. But he worried. He worried that some day he would disappear and never come back. But until then, his love was for eternity.

Until then, they would have tea together at the end of Levi's day. Until then they would laugh together at all the antics that the others pulled. Until then he would fall asleep in Eren's arms every night. To the sound of his breaths against his skin.

Until then, he would always be waiting for him to come back.

Hush.

He's here again.

The man with the child in his eyes.

Until death do us part, again.

©sugawara-levi: do not copy or republish as your own

[cozy-twilight-den]

Out There

Words: 5.2k

Tags: Levi Ackerman x Eren Jeager, Merman Eren, Human Levi, Merman Armin, Mermaid Mikasa, Human Hanji, Human Isabel, Human Farlan, Third Person Limited POV, Levi POV

Status : Complete 1/1 chapters

Summary

“You- you are- “ Levi stuttered as his brain refused to connect properly to his tongue and say a coherent sentence because just what was Eren implying with those words?

“Beautiful, a genius, immensely talented-“ Eren started to list off with a bright smile, the softness in his eyes getting replaced with a mischievous glint.

Had Levi simply imagined that moment?

“Dangerous,” was the descriptor that Levi settled on when his tongue finally decided to listen to him. There were many words that he could have chosen but he picked dangerous simply because that was the only word that he felt described Eren’s existence.

Crossposted to A03 under same username

A/N: Hi 👋🏼 so this is my first ever post to this blog and to tumblr in general. A friend recommended sharing some of my works here so trying this out.

Hope you guys enjoy! If you’ve got a request for a fanfic just drop by my ask box.

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Don’t go out there.

That’s the number one rule - no it was more like a doctrine - of the little fishing village by the coast. It was dangerous, the fathers said. There was too much of a chance of slipping and getting injured, the mothers fretted. Merfolk dragged unsuspecting villagers to the depths, the elders claimed.

Levi had never put too much stock in that last one. The mere idea of merfolk even existing was ludicrous. An old wive’s tale that was all myth and no fact. Something that the elders liked to tell their grandkids purely to scare them into behaving better.

Even if he disregarded one of the reasons to not go out there as purely fictional, the other two were, well, unfortunately solidly factual. But Levi had always been a rebellious kid, even more so now that he was a teenager. So much to the chagrin of his mother, it became a habit to sneak out there whenever he could.

Levi couldn’t find it in him to care though because out there referred to the area directly west of the village. The rest of the village stuck to the areas to the northwest and southwest which were equal elevations with the coast. It was much safer and far easier to fish from there. The area directly west was different because it ended in a bunch of rocky cliffs which spread for quite a few kilometers.

Below one of those rocky outcroppings that most dared not venture past was a tiny sandy cove accessible during low tide where the waves lapped at the sandy shore gently. The cliffs enclosed the area on pretty much all sides, the only opening being the archway that pointed out to the sea.

It was only here that Levi could have true peace and quiet.

He could relax in the sand and lean back against a dark gray rock that had been weathered smooth by its time spent fighting against the rhythmic crash and swoosh of the waves. He could let his eyes flutter closed and simply listen to the water and the seagulls in the sky above.

The little cove was his own little secret place. No one else but his mother knew he came here. She hated that he did, but she couldn’t stop him. She only had a general idea of the cove’s location. Even if she knew the exact location, no one else knew how to get down the outcropping. As a result he was out here most afternoons as soon as he was done with all of his chores for the day.

Levi wiggled his toes and buried them deep in the soft sand that was gently warmed from the sun’s bright rays. He slouched bak against the rock he was leaning on and tilted his head back to feel the warmth of the sun on his face. A relaxed sigh left his lips as he felt the water from the ocean lap at his feet and the sand around them.

“-en… -ren…”

Levi crinkled his brows a little bit as he cracked one eye open. Had he just heard a voice? But that was impossible, there was no one out here. He listened intently for a few more seconds before he closed his eye again, having heard nothing more. It must have been the wind.

“-ren! Get back here!”

That definitely wasn’t his imagination. Levi’s head snapped forward as he opened both eyes fully and leaned away from the rock. Ready to face whatever idiot from his village had somehow managed to intrude on his secret place. But whatever insult or retort he had primed in his throat died on his tongue at the sight before him.

Beautiful, blue-green eyes that shimmered like the ocean.

Damp, brown hair that still managed to shine in the sun’s bright rays.

A chiseled set of abs that lead down to an unfairly delicious v-line.

Not that Levi was particularly drawn in by that. It was just an observation. As was the next thing his eyes took in which was:

A bright, gold, red, and orange tail that looked like a beautiful sunset.

Wait. A tail?

Levi blinked several times to make sure he wasn’t seeing things and he even pinched himself to make sure he wasn’t dreaming. But the boy, or creature - merman, Levi’s brain helpfully supplied - did not disappear from in front of him.

“Hi! You’re the prettiest human I’ve ever seen. What’s your name?” the merman asked with a smile on his tanned face that shone brighter than the sun overhead. His energetic voice had a melodic undertone that caressed Levi’s ears gently.

“You’re real?” Levi felt his tongue form those words. Out of all of the even slightly intelligent things that he could have chosen to say, that’s what he managed to go with, asking the merman if he was real. Fantastic start.

A pout appeared on the merman’s pretty face. “Of course I’m real! I’m right in front of you aren’t I?”

“Sorry,” Levi breathed out, still slightly in shock but also felt that he had to do or say anything that would wipe the upset pout off of this beautiful creature’s face.

Huh. Who thought that those elder’s tales would be real? Or at least partially real? This particular merman didn’t seem to want to drown him at least.

A bright smile once again graced the merman’s face. “How about in addition to your apology you offer me your name, pretty human? I’d love a name to associate with your gorgeous face!”

There were those words again, pretty human. It was strange to hear. Not many people in his village said those words to him. Levi objectively was aware he could be considered attractive but his resting bitch face usually warded people off from unnecessary and frankly unwanted compliments. Which honestly, suited Levi just fine. He didn’t want superficial compliments that had no meaning behind them. This merman - Levi was still trying to process that he was indeed speaking to a merman - was probably the same and had called him pretty simply because he had nothing to call him.

“Rather rude to ask for someone’s name before giving your own brat,” Levi quipped back in a dry tone, not quite ready to give his name to the merman who was throwing around the word ‘pretty’ like he used it all the time.

“Oh…” the merman seemed to think for a second before responding with yet another goddamned smile. It seemed like his face knew no other expression. “I’m Eren!”

“Eren…” Levi repeated slowly, his eyes inevitably drawn away from the merman’s smiling face back to his tail.

A musical laugh resonated through the cove. “You say that like you’ve never heard a name before. It’s a normal enough name isn’t it, Eren?”

“Sure,” Levi replied wryly, his eyes being drawn back to those deep turquoise pools. “It’s less your name and more your tail that makes you abnormal.”

That pout was back again. “I’ll have you know my tail is a perfectly normal size, shape, and coloring. It’s not any different from the others.”

“I meant you having a tail in the first place, idiot.” Levi shot back, internally finding it very amusing that Eren didn’t notice that the subject of the conversation turned away from that of his name.

“Oh, is that really so weird?” Eren wondered with a tilt of his head. “There's a lot of different pods of mermen in the ocean.”

The raven haired raised a skeptic eyebrow. “That’s certainly news to me. You’re the first one I’ve ever seen.”

“Ah w-well,” Eren stuttered a bit. “We usually don’t show ourselves to humans. Like at all.”

“So what makes me so special?” Levi found himself asking before he could filter his words.

“Oh I’ve been watching you from afar for a while. You come here every day to simply sit by the ocean. I wanted to speak with you, even if it was just once,” Eren babbled along quickly.

Levi felt his eyes widen at that admission. Eren had been watching him? How long was a while? How had he never noticed him nearby? He wanted to ask Eren all of these questions but instead his lips formed very different words, an answer to Eren’s silent question. “The ocean is calming. I can enjoy peace and quiet here.”

“Is it really noisy where you live?” the merman asked, his eyes were obviously shining with curiosity.

“Very. There’s too many busybodies. There’s someone who will yammer my ear off about random topics that I couldn’t bring myself to care about. And another who likes to know every little detail about my life,” Levi suddenly stopped as he realized he was rambling. That wasn’t like him. He didn’t talk to people. Certainly not this much. It was oddly easy to speak to Eren and Levi couldn’t put his finger on why.

Eren seemed to not notice his sudden stop though, his musical laugh was echoing through the area again instead. “That sounds lively and fun though.”

“It’s annoying,” Levi instantly retorted. “Especially when I just want peace and quiet.”

Eren opened his mouth to say something more but was suddenly pulled backwards by a hand on his tail. The merman’s arms came out from under him and his head hit the wet sand with a loud thud.

Levi cringed a little on his behalf, it looked painful.

“Armin! What the hell?!” Eren snapped as he pushed his upper body back up so he could glare at the blond head of hair that rose up from farther out in the ocean.

“Eren! Please! You need to come back with me. You aren’t supposed to be this close to humans.” the blond, who’s name was apparently Armin, pleaded.

Another merman? Levi idly wondered just how many mermen actually lived in the ocean that was near his village.

“Oh please. We’ve just been talking,” Eren scoffed as he rolled his eyes.

Armin’s frown deepened and he made another insistent tug on the end of Eren’s tail with his hand. “Eren. We need to go back before Mikasa realizes that we’re missing.”

Levi raised an eyebrow at the exchange, especially after the mention of Mikasa caused Eren’s face to pale a bit but he remained silent. He saw Eren’s eyes flick towards him, the reluctance in the merman’s gaze made it clear that Eren wanted to continue speaking to him.

Deciding to pity the merman’s friend though, Levi quickly stood and brushed as much sand as he could from his clothes. “I should be heading back regardless. People will be wondering where I am.”

This wasn’t strictly true per say. Levi had of course finished his chores before he had headed down here and his mother wouldn’t be expecting him back until closer to sunset when the two would be eating dinner. But Eren didn’t need to know that.

“Oh please don’t go! I have more questions to ask you!” Eren quickly protested, completely disregarding the panic and concern that Armin continued to exude.

“Brat, go with your friend before he twists a fin.” Levi quipped back. “I’m headed back.”

With those words, he quickly spun on his head and started back to the cliff. Determined to leave and forget all the events of today. Go back to a simpler time when mermen didn’t exist.

“Wait! But you never told me your name!” Eren shouted after him and Levi heard the sand as it shifted underneath Eren. It sounded like the merman was trying to drag himself forward in the sand to get closer to Levi.

“It’s Levi,” the raven found himself replying, as he glanced over his shoulder back at Eren. It shocked him at how quickly he gave up his name. It wasn’t like he would see the merman again. This friend of his, Armin, seemed like he would rather die than let Eren come see him again.

“Levi…” the merman repeated with his sunshine smile back on his tanned face. “I’ll see you again soon Levi!”

Levi huffed a breath as he began carefully hoisting his agile body up the familiar path of the rocky outcropping to get back to the top of the cove’s cliff. “Don’t count on it brat.”

Splashes echoed behind him and caused him to turn his head back, to see the ripples in the water where the two mermen must have dived below the surface of the ocean. He stared out at the surface for a moment, almost expecting the brunette mermen to resurface to wave at him cheerily. Levi quickly shook his head and returned his attention to his task.

In no time at all, he was at the top of the rocky outcropping and was headed back to his village. Once he had returned, he found his mother tying knots and making new nets for the fisherman to use. He silently picked up a set of rope and set about helping her, even as she questioned why he was back so early.

Levi simply replied that he had gotten bored and decided to lend an extra hand instead. There was no point in telling his mother about meeting Eren. It was a one time thing and it’s not like his mother would even believe him even if he did tell her. Levi could hardly believe it himself and he had seen Eren’s tail.

The raven rapidly shook his head back and forth. That was enough. Out of sight, out of mind. He had to forget about this. Just go on with his life.

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Despite that resolution though, his encounter with Eren spun around in his head and the merman’s voice echoed in his ears. It stayed with him the rest of the week. Those turquoise pools haunted his dreams every night and then continued to distract him during his chores each day. It broke his focus so much that his mother ended up asking him multiple times if he was feeling alright or if he was possibly coming down with a cold. To which Levi simply brushed her off and told her he was fine.

As soon as his chores were done, he itched to head straight back to the cove. But every single time that he pointed his feet in that direction, Levi stopped himself. What could he possibly gain from going back there? It wasn’t as if Eren would be there waiting for him. The merman more likely than not had gotten a harsh scolding for even talking to him in the first place.

Levi just had to find another place to gain his peace and quiet and just push the merman with the alluring eyes and sunset like tail from his mind until he forgot about him. Stay away until the merman also forgot about Levi.

But no matter what he tried, he couldn’t forget about Eren.

Even worse, finding a new spot to spend his afternoons in tranquility was practically impossible. It only served to remind Levi just why he had preferred the cove so much previously. No one could find him there.

Now it seemed that no matter what location he picked as his new spot, someone found him. Hanji tracked him down behind the abandoned storage shed that was on the south edge of the village. Everyone thought it was haunted so no one usually approached it. Isabel found him at the top of the gnarly oak tree in the forest clearing twenty minutes outside of the north end of the village. There were hundreds of little clearings and thousands of trees so how she managed to track him down, Levi had no clue. Furlan even managed to find him amongst the tall grassy meadow to the village’s east.

There was no escaping. His friends - though they were really pushing their limits of deserving that title - were annoyingly persistent.

It was purely out of desperation for some true peace and quiet, that Levi finally found himself back on the path to the cove nearly a week and a half later.

It was definitely not because he hoped to catch a glimpse of shimmering blue-green eyes.

Definitely not.

Levi quickly descended the outcropping and made his way to the water. The raven would forever deny that his chest deflated when he didn’t see even a hint of turquoise or a splash of the sunset anywhere near the shore. There was no one here but him that could prove otherwise.

He settled down into his usual spot and leaned back against the familiar gray rock. He closed his eyes and tried to relax. This was fine. All it meant was that he had his cove back and he could continue coming here uninterrupted.

“Levi!”

Levi’s eyes shot open to meet those blue-green gems that he would never admit to sorely missing.

“Eren…” he breathed out the merman’s name slowly since he couldn’t believe he was actually here.

“Where have you been?” Eren questioned with an upset pout. “You haven’t come to this cove in such a long time.”

Eren had been waiting for him?

“It’s only been nine days,” Levi hesitated as he replied, not willing at all to tell the merman he had been purposefully avoiding the cove.

“That’s too long! You’re usually here every day. I was so worried that something happened to you!” Eren exclaimed in reply with wild gestures in the air.

“I’m fine, I was just a bit busy,” the lie burned in Levi’s throat and he quickly changed the topic. “What about you? I’m surprised Armin let you come back here. What happened to not interacting with humans?”

A mischievious glint flashed through Eren’s eyes. “Well… I… maybe sort of gave Armin the slip for today. He doesn’t know I’m here.”

“Sneaky aren’t you?” Levi asked, rather amused at how proud Eren seemed at his success in sneaking away.

“It’s one of my many talents,” Eren replied with a solemn, proud nod.

Levi had to resist the smile that was threatening to appear on his face and settled for a slight smirk instead. He was absolutely no closer to understanding it than he had been before, but there was something about Eren that made Levi want to speak to him.

And speak they did.

For the rest of the day and for many days after that, Levi met up with Eren at the cove and spoke to him for hours. What used to be Levi’s quiet afternoons to spend in simple tranquilty, turned into lively exchanges with the energetic merman. Time always seemed to fly by with the conversation never going dry. Levi taught Eren about his village and how things worked in the human world. In return, Eren brought him anecdotes from his own home beneath the waves.

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“But why would you choose to wear something so restricting on such marvelous things?”

“Because that’s just the way things are.”

“That’s not a good enough answer Levi. Toes are great! They shouldn’t be cramped into such barbaric things!”

“Those barbaric things keep our toes clean, Eren.”

“Who cares about being clean? I’d rather feel everything. Dirt! Roads! And what was that fluffy thing you mentioned again?”

“I care about being clean. Dirt between my toes feels disgusting and the roads are so dirty. And you’re talking about fur rugs.”

“Yes those! They have to feel so fluffy in between toes! Not feeling that would be like stuffing my tail fins into a shell or something. Zero out of ten do not recommend.”

“Why would you ever try to put your tail fins into a shell, brat?”

“No comment.”

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“So merfolk do have to avoid sharks?”

“Some of them. Some choose to befriend us but there are some species who prefer to be loners.”

“I can’t wrap my head around the idea of a friendly shark.”

“They exist I promise! Armin and I are particularly fond of this one hammerhead that circles the coral beds to the south of here. He’s got a great sense of humor.”

“A shark… with a sense of humor. Wait, you can understand sharks?”

“Sure can! Though sometimes I wish I couldn’t. The pissy loners never have nice things to say.”

“And you know this, why?”

“Because I’ve gotten into the personal space of a few loner sharks before.”

“Eren… Isn’t that dangerous?”

“Hmm.. probably but that’s what makes it fun.”

“You’re far too reckless, Brat!”

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“Wait wait. Your friend actually thinks that a fish will go near this monstrosity?”

“Hanji claims it's their new masterpiece. That it will catch us precisely forty percent more fish.”

“This… this is just a plastic coil. It doesn’t even look natural.”

“So it won’t work?”

“If your friend means to scare fish away then sure it will work.”

“Wow, how savage of you Eren.”

“I mean come on, Levi. You can’t tell me that you think any fish in their right mind would be fooled by this lure.”

“I never said I didn’t agree with you.”

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“So there’s different kinds of kelp?”

“Oh yes! The different kinds can be used differently to cure different injuries.”

“It all looks the same to me.”

“No no. Look here Levi, this kelp leaf slopes inwards more whereas this one is rounder in shape.”

“It all just looks like kelp.”

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The easy banter continued for many weeks. Eventually Levi had stopped pretending to be shocked or confused as to why it was so easy to speak to Eren. It was easier to just accept that these conversations were easily Levi’s favorite part of his day.

There were days where they weren’t able to meet of course. Treacherous weather had kept Levi away a few times. Other times Eren wasn’t able to slip away from an increasingly displeased Armin. But that just made the days they were able to talk for hours on end even more meaningful.

Today was one such day, where they actually hadn’t seen each other for the past three days. Levi had been at the cove each day, but hadn’t seen a peep of Eren. So when he had seen his friend’s brunette head pop up from beneath the waves, Levi had been secretly relieved.

The merman eagerly pulled himself up the shore to his usual spot near Levi’s rock with a huge smile and sparkling eyes.

“Levi! You’re here! Great! I have something for you!” Eren exclaimed as his smile got impossibly wider.

Levi watched as Eren carefully opened his palms and set a large pile of pearls down as gently as he could. Levi could see pearls of different colors, shapes, and sizes.

“Where did you get this many pearls?” Levi asked with a raised eyebrow.

“From clams? Where else would I get them?” Eren answered flipantly like he couldn’t understand why the raven was asking him such a thing.

“Okay, but this many…” Levi trailed off skeptically because even though he wasn’t that knowledgable about the ocean, he seriously doubted it was easy to get this many of the pretty gems.

Eren stared back at him and made a placating gesture with his hands as he spoke, “Relax Levi, there’s a trench about two hours swim away from here with tons of clams. They always have the prettiest pearls.” In the middle of his words, Levi watched as the merman picked up a few specific pearls and began fiddling with them and something white and thin that the raven couldn’t quite tell what it was.

“The same trench that you told me about last week that is frequented by tons of sharks.” Levi deadpanned, remembering the story Eren had told him last week about a particularly pissed off great white that had chased the brunette and poor Armin for miles.

“Yes,” Eren said simply as he continued fiddling with whatever he was holding and atutely not meeting Levi’s eyes.

“Eren…” Levi sighed out the merman’s name, ready to launch into yet another lecture to try to get it through the brat’s head that he shouldn’t just mess with pissy loner sharks. The merman had even said himself that there were some sharks that merfolk avoided.

As if sensing the lecture, Eren immediately pulled a face and spoke before he could. “What? I’m fineee,” he whined petulantly. “Sharks couldn’t touch me. I’m too fast.”

“Still you shouldn’t be risking it just for pearls,” Levi tried to protest. “You may think you’re fast but one day your luck is going to run out. A shark will be faster than you or pissed off enough to be able to catch you.”

Suddenly, Levi had a merman directly in his face, those shimmering pools that fluctuated between blue and green stared deep into his own silver eyes. “Oh? If I didn’t know any better, it sounds like you’re worried about me Levi.”

Levi broke eye contact and ignored the way his face warmed a little. Please goddess Ymir let it not be showing on his face. “Don’t be ridiculous, brat. I’m not concerned about you. Go get yourself eaten by a shark for all I care.”

That musical laugh that Levi would never admit he loved rang through the cove. ���Aww, that’s a shame you’re not concerned about me, seeing as I got these pearls especially for you.”

If anyone asked, Levi would deny them instantly. Those words definitely did not make his face heat up even more. Now he was pretty sure that the pink color was visible on his cheeks. He turned to look back at the merman and opened his mouth to retort something sarcastic, to play off his embarrassment or scold the merman some more, anything to distract Eren from noticing how flustered he had gotten.

But his words died in his throat because when he turned to look back at Eren, the merman was holding a particular large, silver pearl up to his face with an impossibly soft look in his eyes.

“This one is perfect,” Eren breathed out softly.

“Perfect?” Levi found himself questioning, his voice also going quiet. Any of his precious rage over his embarrassment vanished at that look in Eren’s eyes. “Perfect for what?”

“It’s a perfect match for your eyes,” Eren continued with a small smile, his eyes got even softer which Levi hadn’t known was possible. “The prettiest silver color that I have ever seen.”

“You- you are- “ Levi stuttered as his brain refused to connect properly to his tongue and say a coherent sentence because just what was Eren implying with those words?

“Beautiful, a genius, immensely talented-“ Eren started to list off with a bright smile, the softness in his eyes getting replaced with a mischievous glint.

Had Levi simply imagined that moment?

“Dangerous,” was the descriptor that Levi settled on when his tongue finally decided to listen to him. There were many words that he could have chosen but he picked dangerous simply because that was the only word that he felt described Eren’s existence.

The merman had taken his previously monotone routine and completely flipped it upside down. It wasn’t just the same old chores, the same old walk to the cliffs, the same old peace and quiet down by the cove. Now his afternoons were usually filled with chatter, bright smiles, and shimmering turquoise eyes.

“Dangerously in love with you? Yes, that would be correct,” Eren’s voice shook Levi out of his thoughts but the words didn’t quite register. Had Eren just said he loved him? There was no way. Levi had to have misheard.

His silence seemed to make Eren incredibly nervous because the merman started to ramble. “It’s obviously fine if you don’t feel the same. I mean who am I kidding? I’m a merman and you’re a human, there’s no way we can possibly be together and even less of a chance that you feel the same way. I mean, Levi, you’re well, you’re you. You’re insanely pretty. You have the most amazing sense of humor. And your laugh, goddess, your laugh is prettier than any music and I love being the cause of it. Your hair shines in the sun and I could get lost in the silver depths of your eyes for hours.”

Levi sat there on the sand, completely dumbfounded as he listened to Eren’s rambling. His heart pounded a million miles an hour in his chest and he kept opening and closing his mouth as his tongue sat still in his mouth. It was being a completely useless piece of flesh that had apparently forgotten that it was supposed to help him form words.

Eren kept going as he held out what he had been fiddling nervously in his hands this entire time. “Anyways, now that I’ve gone and ruined everything. I wanted to at least give you this. Please, please accept it. I said I got those pearls for you and I meant that.”

Levi watched as Eren held up a necklace, a few of the pearls that he had gathered were suspended between intricate knots tied into a delicate white chord. What the chord was made of, Levi honestly couldn’t tell but that wasn’t what his focus was on. Because hanging free in the center of the necklace, framed by the other pearls was the big, shiny silver one that Eren had just been holding up to Levi’s face.

The one that Eren had claimed matched his eyes.

“I made this for you,” Eren’s nervous rambling got even faster as he nervously fiddled with the necklace. “The chord is braided from dried out pressed coral, it’s a technique others in my pod taught me. It should be durable and resistant to moisture. I just wanted to make you something that came from my home. To show you how much you mean to me. And well, it can totally be just a friendship necklace if that would make it less weird. You don’t even have to respond to my feelings. It can just be like it always was, as long as I don’t lose you.”

Eren trailed off and finally looked Levi straight in the eyes, having been looking around nervously at anything but the raven during his rambles. “I don’t think I could handle losing you Levi.”

Levi saw the merman’s mouth open again as if he were to start rambling again and he felt his body move before he could even process it.

“Sorry again for making things weir-” Eren started to rapidly say when Levi hurriedly pressed his lips to Eren’s own.

Levi poured everything that he was feeling, the pounding that hadn’t stopped resonating throughout his chest, the warmth in his cheeks, and the love in his heart. Everything that he couldn’t get his blasted tongue to say out loud, he poured into the kiss, hoping that he could make Eren understand him.

Because how could he not feel the same? How could the brat possibly think that Levi didn’t love him?

Because at the root of it all, that was what it boiled down to. Levi was impossibly, unfathomingly in love with Eren. The beautiful merman with the shimmering turquoise eyes that took his life and changed it for the better.

Levi pulled away from the kiss and was amused to see Eren leaning forward as if chasing after his lips, a dazed look in those blue-green eyes that somehow seemed to Levi like they were shining even brighter than before.

“Brat. I love you too,” Levi breathed the words quietly against Eren’s lips, painstakingly soft despite them being alone in this cove with no one to overhear him.

Without waiting for Eren to respond, Levi leaned back in to kiss his merman once more.

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A/N: Hope you guys enjoyed my little one-shot! It was originally written for RivaereriOctober2023 Day 1 Magical Creatures.

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[addisonryder]

what became of the hearts they gave

aot. rivaere. 2568 words.

tags: grief/mourning, past!eruri, levi and eren finding each other

Levi didn’t know where he belonged. All he was left with was the ghosts of his past.

Eren had a life to chase down. He didn’t deserve to sit here and fade away within these haunted walls.

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Years after the war's end, Levi and Eren reconnect.

---

The nightmares came each night, right as he attempted to lay his head down and catch a few hours of sleep. It always felt like it needed to be only a few hours, even though the war had been done for years. He couldn’t settle in one place long enough to feel...at ease.

Hange always teased him for it, singular functioning eye lighting up with unbridled care as they informed him that he would worry himself into an early grave.

It didn’t feel like it would be early. Not anymore.

He already felt like he had lived several lifetimes. The Underground, the Scouts, the War...each time, life molded him into someone new, someone he had to be. Strong enough to survive. Strong enough to lead. Humanity’s strongest soldier - he had to be strong enough to bring his friends home.

He didn’t have anyone he had to be now.

It was times like this that he really missed Erwin. Loss was nothing new to his life, but in a lot of ways, he still felt like he’d failed Erwin. Time and again, he’d wondered if he’d made the wrong choice with the serum. But Erwin had trusted him to make the right choice. So he had to have faith. Not like there was anything to be done about it now anyway.

Erwin had always been good at pointing him in the right direction. Whether he was dragging him out of the Underground or keeping him on his feet after a mission, Levi always knew he could turn to Erwin.

But that wasn’t what he missed most.

He missed being around Erwin. He missed the way Erwin looked at him like he was worth something. He missed the brief moments when they could be alone, desperate hands grasping for something to hold on to, something to remind them they weren’t alone. Erwin had chuckled at the fact that Levi always tasted like tea. And in the morning, he would always ensure he had a fresh cup.

But Erwin had been dead for years. And Levi had to make his own damn tea now.

He shoved his covers back, letting his bare feet hit the floor as his shoulders hunched. He couldn’t just stay here stewing. He’d make some tea and maybe finally take some of those medicines Hange had left to help with his sleep.

He probably should have moved out of the Scout headquarters when the regiment disbanded. But a few people stuck around, and honestly, he didn’t know where else he’d go. There was a whole world out there to explore, but standing in the majesty of it all made Levi feel small in a way he never had before. He wouldn’t even know where to start.

So he stayed - in these same halls filled with the same ghosts.

He shoved a shirt on before he padded to the door, running a hand through his mussed hair, trying to coax it into some semblance of organization. His undercut was growing out - he really should just bite the bullet and ask Hange’s help. Or Moblit - he would probably be a better choice than his partner. Levi would trust Hange with his life, but with a straight razor at the back of his neck?

Levi listened to the wooden stairs creak under his feet, sending the ghosts skittering back to their corners. He’d ask Moblit tomorrow. If he got around to it. Not like he really had much else to fill his days.

Levi passed the second-story landing and paused, looking out the window over the moonlit courtyard. Had he just seen a flash of movement in the shadows? He couldn’t have - no one was ever out this time of night. But there it was again, the swinging of a stall closing, a horse being tucked away for the night before a young man with broad shoulders stepped into the lantern light of the courtyard.

Levi let out a long breath through his nose. It had been almost a year since he’d seen him, but he would know the cadence of his walk with his eyes closed.

Eren.

Levi watched him move, hesitating near the edge of the lantern’s glow. His face caught the dim lighting, and Levi swallowed the tightness that had settled in his throat, turning away from the window, any thoughts of tea forgotten.

He hadn’t expected him to return. He’d never been gone this long.

In the years after the War, Eren made the former headquarters his home too - at least while he was around. He’d adapted to the world outside the walls far better than Levi, often going on trips with Armin and Mikasa to explore. This time, he’d gone alone, and he’d been gone eleven-and-a-half months. Not that Levi had been counting.

He laid in bed that night, sleep eluding him as he listened to the gentle creaking of the walls around him. He heard footsteps in the hallway as the sun started to creep over the horizon, and a door closing two rooms down. Eren’s room. So at least he was staying the night.

When the sun had fully settled in the morning sky, Levi pulled himself out of bed again. He moved silently past Eren’s room to the stairs, retracing his steps from the previous night but finally making it down to the kitchen. He chewed his bottom lip with his teeth as he made a cup of tea. What had brought Eren back this time? He made it clear every time he returned - Mikasa or Armin dragged him back; according to Eren, he’d spend all of his time beyond the walls. Too long living caged behind them. No other reason to come back. But there was no Mikasa or Armin to drag him back this time, and yet...and yet, he’d returned.

Levi made a second cup. Just in case the brat wanted it.

He left it on the kitchen counter before he took his own tea and headed out the backdoor, making his way across the vast, neatly-kept lawn toward the edge of the forest. He set his cup down on the small outdoor table he’d set up beside his chair, his heart heavy as he turned to face the stones.

Every scout they’d lost laid here, at least in memory. For most of them, the headstones were only placeholders, no body able to be reclaimed. But they had a place all the same, stone salvaged from the walls they’d fought so hard to be free of.

And then, there was the small grove where Levi had set up his chair. The four stones sat two apart, the patches he’d cut from their jackets set into small plaques on each headstone. Petra’s still lay empty, the patch pressed into the hand of a grieving recruit, given away under the guise of belonging to the friend he’d lost - his first of many such losses. Petra would have understood. She’d always been the kindest of them all.

And then, one stone sat apart from the others, stretching taller, the space in front of the stone wider and longer to accommodate the body that lay beneath. Levi cleared his throat, pulling his gloves on before he knelt, brushing the leaves from the top of the stone. The recent winds had kicked dirt into the grooves cut into the surface of the stone, and Levi took his time clearing each clogged letter.

Erwin Smith 13th Commander, Survey Corps It’s us who gives meaning to our comrades’ lives.

Levi took his time, cleaning Erwin’s stone to his satisfaction before he moved on to his squad, to Petra, to Eld, to Gunther and Oluo. They had a caretaker for the rest of the graveyard, ensuring no scout’s memory was forgotten. But this area was Levi’s. This area, only he was allowed to manage.

Only when each stone was pristine once again did he let himself sit. He slowly pulled his gloves off, laying them to the side before he picked up his cup. He let his eyes drift closed, listening to the whisper of the wind through the trees as the morning sun danced across his face. In moments like this, he could almost feel them with him again. His squad. The first time since he was a child that he felt like he belonged somewhere - with someone.

And now...now, he didn’t know where he belonged. All he was left with was the ghosts of his past.

And Hange and Moblit. Hange would never let him forget their presence, and he was honestly grateful for it.

And Eren.

He wasn’t sure how long he was sitting there, letting the nature surrounding him ease the tightness from his chest, when he felt him.

He could feel Eren approach even before he could hear him, but the younger man didn’t say anything, and Levi let his eyes stay closed for a few moments longer. He could hear Eren’s breathing - strong, steady. Reassuring. Eren was so full of life, even after everything they’d been through. Even after Levi thought he’d lost him for good.

But Eren found his way back. He always did, in the end.

The chair to Levi’s right creaked as Eren folded his long limbs into it. Levi couldn’t help the small smile that tugged at the corner of his mouth. Hange usually gave him a wide berth when he was having his morning tea, their chair staying unused. It had been years since anyone sat with him.

“The stones turned out nice.”

Levi’s eyes opened slowly, his gaze casting to the side to finally allow himself to look at Eren. He sat with his legs crossed casually, looking at home in the chair as if it had always belonged to him. In his hands, he held the cup of tea Levi had prepared for him, and something in the walled-up fortress of Levi’s heart began to crumble.

“I like how you set the plaques in,” Eren continued softly. “Those are their actual patches, aren’t they?”

Levi nodded, taking another sip of his tea. He saw Eren’s eyes lingering on Petra’s stone, could see the flicker of guilt in those emerald eyes. Out of the scouts in Levi’s squad, Eren had been closest with Petra. He’d been the last one to see her before she died.

“When did you get in?” Levi asked, seized by an almost-desperate need to distract the boy - no, the man. Eren hadn’t been a boy for a long time.

Eren blinked twice as he pulled himself back from his thoughts, giving Levi a soft, grateful smile. “Early this morning.”

“And how long are you staying?”

It was an understandable question. It was only natural for Levi to want to know how long someone would be sticking around the old headquarters. While Hange technically still out-ranked him, they left the management of the base to him. Not that there was much to manage. The Scouts didn’t exist anymore.

There was nothing unusual in him asking that question. And it certainly didn’t hint at a hidden desire to keep Eren around longer. But he had to admit, something about having Eren sitting next to him started to thaw the deepest parts of Levi’s soul.

He was like a fucking furnace.

Eren didn’t answer at first, taking a long drink of the tea before he set his cup aside. His gaze returned to the stones, and Levi saw the tired, weary expression lingering at the corners of his face. They’d never really talked about it, but Levi had to figure that Eren was just as fucked up about it all as he was.

“I think I’m back for good this time,” he said at last, his voice barely louder than the whispering winds around them.

Levi couldn’t hide the surprise as he looked up at Eren over his teacup, the last sip chilling in his cup as he forgot it completely.

He managed to bite back the unasked why. Eren had always wanted to see the world. Eren had a life to chase down outside the walls. He didn’t deserve to sit here and fade away within these haunted walls.

“Had enough of the wide wide world?”

Eren chuckled, running his hands through his hair - it had gotten longer. Levi liked it longer, even if watching him tousle it made his fingers itch. His hair looked so damn soft.

“Yeah, at least for now. Armin’s got his place set up with Annie on the coast, Mikasa’s abroad, and...traveling by myself just doesn’t feel the same. It was…” Eren rubbed the back of his neck, hesitating for a moment before he continued. “Lonely.”

Levi blinked; he should have expected that someone so vibrant, so full of life, would have trouble being alone. But the former headquarters wasn’t exactly the most exciting place to live. Levi could go an entire day without talking to another person if he tried just a little bit.

“I hope you don’t find it too isolating here,” he murmured.

Eren looked at him then, those piercing eyes seeing right through him, hitting the heart of his question without him even having to ask it. “How could it be isolating when you’re here?”

Levi snorted, crossing his arms over his chest and trying to hide the way that question made him warm inside. He liked the idea that Eren might consider him worthwhile company.

And yet, he couldn’t help but make sure Eren knew what he was getting into.

“Yes, because I’m such enthralling company.”

Eren didn’t laugh - Eren didn’t even appear like the statement was that funny to him. He leaned forward a little, his hands resting on his knees, those eyes never lowering from Levi’s, holding his gaze intensely. Levi actually squirmed a little - he wasn’t used to someone looking at him for this long.

“I missed you, Levi.”

Whatever he had expected, it certainly wasn’t that. That damn brat. Always wore his heart on his sleeve. What the hell was he supposed to say to that? He could be honest, tell Eren he’d missed him, tell him that he’d looked out to the stables each morning, hoping to catch a glimpse of Eren returning. He could tell him he wanted him to stay.

But he couldn’t hold Eren back. He’d spent his whole damn life wanting to get beyond those walls; he couldn’t lock him up behind them again. If Eren was going to stay, he had to choose it on his own.

Levi had no claim on Eren, no right to hold the boy back.

Boy wasn’t right, and he knew it. He’d known Eren for years, watched him grow into a passionate, dedicated young man. But there was a wildness in Eren - the same that ran through Levi’s veins once upon a time. When Eren was around, he could almost feel it again.

Erwin had always told him he needed to open himself up to people. He couldn’t spend the rest of his life isolating himself from people. If it weren’t for Hange, he would have disappeared completely after the war. But Hange never gave up on him, just like Erwin hadn’t. And now, maybe he could finally make it worth it.

As he and Eren sat there, talking as the breeze stirred the trees around them, Levi realized that maybe, just maybe...he was feeling at ease.

“I missed you too, brat.”

---

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[zenoyuichi]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Levi Ackerman/Eren Yeager, Armin Arlert/Erwin Smith, Mikasa Ackerman/Jean Kirstein Characters: Levi Ackerman, Eren Yeager, Armin Arlert, Erwin Smith, Mikasa Ackerman, Jean Kirstein Additional Tags: Top Levi Ackerman, Bottom Eren Yeager Summary:

Acara pernikahan Levi dan Eren yang dibantu oleh sahabat-sahabatnya. Bagaimana jadinya?

[ereri-nation]

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[fangirling-tussisque-noncaelatur]

Hi! I'm Claude 🌊

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[key-necklace-and-cravat]

Chapters: 9/? Fandom: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Levi Ackerman/Eren Yeager Characters: Levi Ackerman, Eren Yeager, Erwin Smith, Jean Kirstein, Mikasa Ackerman, Armin Arlert, Connie Springer, Hange Zoë Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - 1940s, Film Noir, Organized Crime, Mafia Levi (Shingeki no Kyojin), Detective Noir, Detective Eren Yeager, there are vague references to homophobia if even that but it's not at all the focus, there's a lot of smoking and drinking, this is set during the 1940's and inspired by the film noir movies of that time, Eren is in his early 20's Summary:

Detective Eren Jaeger is assigned to a case - what he doesn't expect, though, is to become entangled with the man he is meant to investigate, and fall deeper and deeper into a world of underground crime.

Chapter Summary:

Eren knew he had found it when he spotted the stained glass windows from afar. An impressive Victorian mansion shrouded by surrounding magnolia trees that were no longer in bloom and awaiting winter. He observed it from up on a hill beneath the claw-like branches of a barren tree. Below him stretched the steep streets lined with Victorian houses, tall and narrow.

He is here.

Levi could be in that house at this very moment. It had taken Eren far too long - much longer than he had liked - to track down the source. At least, what he now considered to be the source: Levi’s home. He couldn’t say for certain that the key would be there; perhaps it was kept elsewhere, or perhaps it had already been handed over to Erwin. Nonetheless, Levi was nearly in his grasp. He was no longer some lofty distant goal, always just out of reach - no longer the midnight mist that seeped between his fingers. Soon Levi, that ever evasive jewel, would be in the palm of his hand.

[xylonz]

#Rivaereri #Ereri #Rivere @ereri-nation ✧˖*°࿐

“Where is he? What have you done?”

“I turned him into an angel.”

———

When Levi doesn’t keep a leash on his mind, it wanders.

This time, it’s disguised as a strong faith in the God he sees in Eren, and the horrors he would go through to create an angel out of Paradis’ most beautiful devil…

🔗 https://archiveofourown.org/works/57568882

[tea-key-tangled]

Just as a warning! I do reblog a lot and usually in a short burst! I try not to overwhelm people's feed but it may come off that way, so sorry!

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[sugawara-levi]

Eren x Levi, one shot/shortie/idea/idk

wrote something out of the blue while listening to cardigan - taylor swift, it’s angst, it’s random, it might only make sense in my head

kinda wanna write more on this now but we’ll see what student-life gives me

established(?) relationship, fighting

“Levi, that just doesn’t make any sense!”

“I KNOW IT DOESN’T”

“I KNOW OKAY”

His hans were in his hair, pulling at anything they could reach. The strands that were always so perfect patted were now completely disheveled, the stark contrasts making the severity of it all even more apparent.

“IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE, BUT I CANT STAY HERE, OKAY?”

His eyes were gleaming, pure silver, no blue left. Only silver around those black pupils.

Eren tried to speak, say something, anything, but only tears came out.

He felt utterly hopeless, like his soul had been ripped from his body, replaced only with a hollow, a vacuum.

He looked at Levi, but all the soft was gone, only the hard was left. He couldn’t find the man he knew inside those eyes.

sigh

Levi’s arms fell weak against his body, turned completely away from Eren. He picked up his jacket from the sofa. The leather jacket, the one that Eren had always loved on him.

“I’m sorry, Eren”

Without even a glance back he made for the door. Stopping momentarily in it, a hand on the frame.

Another sigh.

Eren couldn’t look.

He didn’t know how long Levi stayed in the doorway. Maybe it was just a second, maybe it was a minute, maybe more.

If he closed his eyes he could pretend he was still there, still waiting, still deciding. But deep down he knew, he knew the man had already left.

Neither did he know how long he stayed like that. Crouched down on the floor, tears rolling down his cheeks, hands, landing everywhere. Chest heaving until there was no more air in the universe, and the world beneath him had turned into the ocean.

—-

At some point he must have made it to bed.

When he woke up, miraculously, he wasn’t in his living-room, he wasn’t crying, there was air to breathe, and the floor was no longer ocean. But he was still hollow.

[levixeren-fanfiction]

Favorite one shots #5

Ever Since San Diego by mandrs (NoName Levi, bottom Levi)

On the job by Dressed_In_Darkness (police officer Levi, bottom Levi)

On Display by Fluffyboots (merman Levi, bottom Eren)

(Don’t) Bite me by rae_exe (Hogwarts au, bottom Levi)

Hot Summer Nights by italicized (bottom Levi)

Wedding Blues by mumuinc (bottom Levi)

To Love You Again by rae_exe (reincarnation, bottom Levi)

Homecoming by bfketh (bottom Levi)

I am not scared of the dark by mandrs (demon Eren, bottom Levi)

Thrilled by the Still of Your Hands by fluffyboots, kreampuff (canon divergence, bottom Eren)

A rose for love, another for remembrance by mandrs (Miscarriage, omega Levi)

Tuesdays by rae_exe (Hogwarts au, bottom Levi)

Seeing Red by mandrs (omegaverse, omega Levi)

Stolen Breath by wanderingwalmartconfused (merman Levi, bottom Eren)

Special Sauna by ZWorld (bottom Eren)

Love Potion by mandrs (bottom Levi)

Kitchen Plumbing by RavenLewdvi (mechanic Eren, bottom Levi)

Public Display of Affections by mandrs (public sex, bottom Levi)

Wrapped in Red by fluffyboots, kreampuff (submissive Levi, bottom Eren)

Don’t Do Drugs, Kids by italicized (bottom Levi)

Feed Me, Mommy! by mandrs (omegaverse, omega Levi)

Airship Reunion by RavenLewdvi (canonverse, bottom Levi)

Take A Chance by ZWorld (bottom Eren)

When Fire Meets Gasoline by mandrs (hate sex, bottom Levi)

Break Me Lika a Promise by LevyWrites (omegaverse, omega Levi)

[xanderbradeshaw]

It's been a while but here, enjoy some new darkfic from @teapotscandal and I... Uncensored art can be found on Twitter (links in fic) since I can't even post censored ones on here now 🙄...