A Truce
(Hi @malunggaybe, here’s your birthday gift, a short drabble based on your infamous masterpiece)
“Levi…” Hange whined as she followed the short man through the empty corridor of the barracks in the night, the wood creaking below their boots as they walked, “You don’t need to be this dramatic.”
“Oh I see,” Levi spun around to face her, seething in anger, “So, you risked my team for yet another titan capture, almost killed your squad because of that stupid experiment, and threw a whole goddamn tantrum when I saved your ass by killing that escaping titan and I am dramatic one here?”
“It was an accident!” she shook her head in frustration. “All I wanted to do was to try and see if fire had any effect in curbing the regeneration of the titans’ body parts. I wasn’t actively trying to get the tent burnt in the process.”
“But you did.”
“And you killed my subject. Alright, I am sorry, okay?” Hange sighed and spread out her hands. “You know what? Let’s have a truce.”
“A truce?”
“How about we go to bed now, and tomorrow, we start over again? I’ll buy you your favourite stock of black tea from my personal reserves as an apology and you can get me another titan.”
“That’s not even a pissing distance close to fair.”
“How about two boxes of tea?”
“Forget it, Four-eyes.”
Levi was about to walk over to his room when, to his surprise, Hange’s hands wrapped around him from behind and he felt himself lose contact with the ground.
With a grunt, Hange had lifted him off his feet.
His back was pressed flush against her body and he had no idea whether the heat that he felt rising within him came from her or from the rush of blood to his own ears.
“I am not leaving you till you agree to it,” Hange’s voice was muffled from his back.
“Oi, Shitty-glasses,” Levi growled menacingly, trying to twist his neck towards her direction, “Put me down right now or I will kick you in the nuts so hard that you’ll be hobbling for the rest of your life.”
“You don’t even know if I have nuts to kick.”
“Do you want me to find out?”
“Such inappropriate words, soldier,” she cooed, her lips pressed against the small of his back as she held onto him. “Listen, I feel horrible, okay? One of us could die tomorrow and I don’t want our last interaction to be this spat. You are my best friend, Levi, and I don’t want to lose you.”
Even if Levi felt his anger somewhat subside at her words, he was more rattled at the fact that she had lifted him up so easily, despite him weighing more than her. He was so used to seeing Hange being involved in the research sector and the brains department that he had almost forgotten the sheer brute strength that she possessed after honing her body for years in the military.
“Hange. I don’t want to deal with all the shit if someone appears in this empty corridor right now and finds us like this.”
“Then just tell me we are friends again,” Hange’s breath tickled the nape of his neck as she looked up at him, “And I’ll leave you.”
Levi glared back at her for a few seconds but then gave up. It had been a long, hard day and he was too exhausted to fight back anymore. After all, he knew how stubborn Hange could be when she wanted to get something done.
“Well,” he sighed in resignation, “It’s not like I can get rid of you anytime soon if death itself hates you.”
“Yay!” Hange whooped, pumping her fist in triumph, and Levi landed on to the wooden floor as she loosened her hold on him. “That’s awesome! See you tomorrow then, Levi. Good night.”
Levi watched her leave towards her room and massaged his temple. This person was, undoubtedly, an absolute pain in the ass, but funnily enough, the rush of the heat on his face did not dissipate.
As he unlatched the door of his own room at the other end of the corridor, he decided he did not want to know what that meant.
this is the first time i’ve received a drabble as a birthday gift and i’m absolutely floored and endeared and high on serotonin oh my T^T i can’t be more grateful for this masterpiece, ate ness!! maraming salamat po!! <333
