Levi X Reader - Ribbons Part 1 - Under this fallen

This was just great, your first proper training regime with the survey corps and you were sat there in the middle of a freezing cold forest with a twisted ankle. After having successful scouted the area for the fake cut out titans they were using in training a faint click had caught your attention, the 3d manoeuvring gear (3dmg) malfunctioned causing your body to shudder as you slammed into a tree. Catching your left ankle on one of the thicker branches as an immense pain shot through you, luckily you hadn’t been too far from the ground and managed to fall and roll unharmed except for the continuing heat flowing from your bruised and swollen ankle. Somehow you had managed to drag yourself over to a cave like area formed by a fallen tree as well as hardened earth surrounding you till hopefully someone came to find you.
One hour later –

“Cadet (l/n).” Your half closed (e/c) pupils began to focus once again on the surroundings you had abandon for your own thoughts.

“(l/n)! Answer me you brat.” The growl continued as you fully regained as cold steely eyes met yours only a few centimetres away.

“Holy shit.” You jumped backwards slightly at the realisation of who it was, the movement causing you to wince in pain as your ankle followed your movement.  Corporal Levi’s eyes shifting slightly in what you could only guess was amusement at either your verbal or physical reaction.

“I mean... Corporal. What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be off shadowing the rest of your assigned group?” you mutter regaining your composure, despite continuing to carefully push yourself further into the hole you had taken residence in. Corporal Levi set you on edge; he wasn’t intimidating you per say and you didn’t exactly fear him as many Cadets did (especially Eren), but something in his eyes caused a shiver down your spine you hadn’t quite figured out yet.

“Tch. The rest didn’t even notice.” He clicked his tongue as he ran his hand through his undercut ebony hair.

“I saw you hit the tree. When I didn’t find you later I came to make sure you weren't dead.” He watched me with his bored gaze matched by his equally un-amused tone as he looked around at the dirty surroundings with distaste. You stifled a smile as you noticed his fingers slightly twitching in the obvious wish to clean.

“Aww, were you worried about me?” You bit back the smile as the sarcasm hit through your tone noticing the bridge of his nose pinch quickly in irritation.

“Careful, I am still your superior. Cadet” He warned with a glare, dragging out the last word for emphasis.

“We’re out in the wilderness and you can’t exactly make me run laps.” I pointed at my ankle, his gaze following my finger as he finally noticed the injury with a click of his tongue. A sigh escaped his lips.

"Well that explains things." He murmured in a low tone sending the shiver through your spine, he noticed you tense with a glance of his gaze washing over you.

"Let me guess your heading out. See you in a few days when I can walk, my 3dmg is useless currently." your returned to your earlier position waiting for Levi to leave this place of earth and soil. Dirt, his worst nightmare.

"It's about to rain and night will fall soon." Levi sniffed the air slightly showing his experience in the wilderness, he wasn’t humanities best hope for nothing. He moved back round looking at you from the entrance of the small dirt cave that was only a slightly taller than Levi, and he was short to say the least. Although you couldn’t talk being at least 5cm shorter than him.

"I will wait with you and help you back in the morning." You held back your surprise as the toned man walked over without looking at you, the shiver returning as he neared causing your body to be put on edge with each sense heightening slightly.

"Move." Levi waiting for you to shuffle over with your wound before sitting next to you on the cold earth. The sound of raining starting faintly from outside the opening.

"You were right."

"Of course." you could have sworn you heard a smirk in his voice but when you looked he remained a face of stone with eyes to match. You moved yourself inward as best you could without hurting yourself to try and battle against the cold, wrapping your cloak around yourself. The comforting familiar green fabric brings you slight warmth.

"Tch." Levi clicked with annoyance.

"What." you snapped narrowing your eyes at him slightly.

"Again, watch it I am your superior. You ripped your cloak." He eyed an area of your cloak draped over my legs as you scrambled to grab it and see, he was right. You pushed your thumb through a small tear in the fabric with a frown.

"Shit this cloak is important." you murmured feeling a darkness set over you slightly of sadness, Levi watched tilting his head seeming almost perplexed by your words as if waiting for you to continue.

"I've had this since I first joined the survey corps. It showed I had moved on, I don’t want a new one." you pulled your unwounded leg into yourself burying your face into it to hide your sadness, this cloak meant a lot. You had moved on, moved up, you were free to go outside these walls with this cloak around you. Your (h/c) hair falling around your face as you slowly pulled the cloak off to inspect it further.

"Give it." Levi put out a hand as you reluctantly gave it over worried he would never return it. Out of nowhere he pulled out a small kit from his hidden body opening it to reveal needles and threat. You watched as he carefully and precisely sewed together the fabric.

"Why are you? You’re never this nice." You queried feeling almost uneasy by his kindness.

"These cloaks represent something, it’s important not to let them be ruined. For anyone." He answered as he handed it back, you reached for the cloak feeling a strong grip around your wrist as Levi pulled you towards him so his face was only a breath away from yours.

"I will expect payment later." He hummed in a low voice, a fire in his usually ice cold eyes as he waited for your reaction, you merely pulled away rubbing your wrist to remove the shivers he had caused through you from the touch. Calm down. You told yourself trying to think of a way to let him know he hadn’t shaken you up and win.

"Aren’t you too old for a cadet Levi?" you laugh slightly to yourself hiding the slight fear at the boldness of using his name, a small chuckle escaped his lips causing you to be even more confused as he didn’t answer.

- Half an hour later-

You and Levi had remained in silence since your last comment, the rain being the only sound of company. You tried to huddle in close with your cloak to regain some of the lost warmth from the cold, how was Levi unfazed by this freezing cold air?

Levi POV:


He watched the cadet as she sat with her wounded leg stretched out to avoid pain, shivering in this hovel. Damn brat if he hadn’t had to come back for her he could be back in his office, clean, warm, alone. But she intrigued him, not many people dared to try sass him as she had and a spark in her eye caught his attention whenever he saw her. But most of all the way she was unfazed by his words, most would have squealed at his closeness, many of the female cadets would probably have blushed or complied if he suggested they needed to 'pay him back'. She wasn’t easy at the least and that interested him, she looked over at him with those large eyes as if sensing his thoughts of her. A heat grew within him, his loins feeling feverish, he quelled remaining emotionless on the outside but the wish to mess with her remained, to see how she would react to him further.

Readers POV:


You watched Levi with glaring eyes, knowing he was watching you shiver as that coldness spread down your spine as it usually did under his gaze.

"What." Levi seemed to snap out of thought with a small smirk touching his bored face.

"Come here." He motioned, you stayed where you were.

"Why?" You questioned, his earlier words still echoing though your mind setting your face ablaze but you refused to let it show.

"Unless you want to freeze." Levi opened his cloak beckoning you once again with that slightly smug smirk as you glared daggers at him.

"I would rather freeze." You lied, the thought set your senses alight but you couldn’t, he would know. He would be able to feel your body shaking with his every word, you lips trembling slightly as he spoke.

"Fine, I will bring you over here brat." His words turning hard as you felt an arm reach around you grabbing you by the waist and carefully pulling you over. Levi nestled you against his chest with an arm around you shoulder holding his cape partially around you providing an extra warmth.

"Sleep. Brat." You sat there trying to hold back the quakes running through you at his touch but it wasn’t possible, a small shiver escaping which you hoped he took as her being cold. You looked up seeing the small smirk at the corner of his mouth. You couldn’t sleep, how could you? You were surrounded by his scent, his touch, his breath. It heightened everything to the point of exhaustion and eventually fell into a fitful sleep