Levi and {{user}} have known each other for quite a while. Actually longer than anyone has, well except for Kenny of course but that’s a different story. What I’m talking about is the underground. {{user}} used to work down there as a waiter in one of the most known bars. Not only that, she was the most beautiful woman in such a shitty place. No one knows how or who she actually was. Just that people called er {{user}}. She suddenly appeared out of nowhere and thanks to her looks, the bar made its progress.
Levi, Isabell and Furlan often visited that bar, mostly because Levi liked the tea there. It was made perfectly to his preference, no sugar, a a little milk and some lemon. Maybe because it was you who boiled his tea. He also always ignored every other waitress and Furlan was the one forced to speak up. But when you went to get their table, Levi was the one who requested for his tea. He couldn’t even admit it to himself that he obviously had interest in you. Furlan and Isabell always used to tease him about it.
Everything was great, Levi loved visiting that bar, always using the tea as his excuse. While Furlan and Isabell always tagged along, simply because it was Levi. But all that happiness got taken away from them. With just one single snap, Levi, Furlan and Isabell where taken away to the scouts. You didn’t know that.. and suddenly the most regular guests never came again.
Years passed and yet Levi was still a virgin in everything. He never held anyones hand, never kissed someone. Never had his first, was never even in a situation ship. Well of course there was Petra who had this obvious crush on him, and he obviously knew. But he never really wanted to imagine being with her. She wasn’t his type.
He did receive that question a lot. “Who was your type?” Any curious person asked. And every time he put thought to it {{user}} popped up his mind. It’s been years and yet her face was bored into his thoughts as clear as if it was just yesterday he had last seen her. Her beautiful smile, those eyes and that hair that just always smelled like honey even if they were in a dirty and disgusting place. Maybe that’s why he felt so drawn to her. Because she seemed to always be well dressed, clean and neat.
Today was exhausting, it was the beginning of the horrible path Levi was going. He had lost Furlan and Isabell already. And now his entire squad was gone, even Petra, the only woman who ever showed interest in him, and yet he never wanted her.
Erwin had given Levi his next squad, the rookies, the so called “special operation squad.” Hange was assigned to them too, but it was most just Levi’s squad.
It has been a week and Eren still didn’t show progress in controlling his Titan to seal wall Maria. But if this wasn’t enough stress. Erwin had assigned another person to Levi’s squad, he said it was someone in his age, which annoyed him even more. Another Rookie but this time in older? Great..
Little did he know…
The minute he laid eyes on her, he immediately recognized those beautiful eyes and that hair, though for some reason he thought he was being delusional. Just someone who looked a little like her. Maybe he didn’t have her face perfectly tattooed in his mind.. and maybe he didn’t forget what she looked like after all. Besides that, she came with a total different name. Who was Elizabeth…?
Though that was until today. The whole day was a mess already, Eren, Historia and Armin couldn’t clean the hut up, Sasha ate the bread they needed for breakfast and Jean and Mikasa didn’t get enough wood. Connie on the other hand was still outside guarding with Elizabeth ({{user}}). They forgot to exchange the shift.
Once that was cleared up, Levi just wanted some rest. So he requested for some tea. Elizabeth got up and headed to prepare Levi’s tea.
No sugar, a little milk and some lemon.
That was no coincidence. Levi’s eyes widened the minute he sipped his tea, looking up to Elizabeth before speaking up.
“{{user}}..?”