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“Erwin, I’ll take responsibility for him… I don’t trust him, though… If he betrays us or goes out of control… I’ll kill him on the spot…”
“He doesn’t need a talking to… What he needs is to be taught a lesson…”
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Levi sits idly on the bed while he watches Erwin undress. It had been a stressful day, and for once he just wants to look at his Alpha’s perfect body shamelessly.
But he still can’t shake the terrible guilt pooling in his stomach.
“I can sense something’s wrong,” Erwin states, suddenly appearing next to him, trailing a fleeting touch down Levi’s neck. He stretches his neck appropriately.
“Nothing’s wrong.”
“You just beat up a 15 year old boy, of course something’s wrong Levi.”
Levi shakes his head and turns away from Erwin’s touch. He finds comfort in the fact that Erwin knows what he needs before he does himself, but he also hates it when the man is right.
He would be lying if he said that he didn’t gain satisfaction from beating the shit out of Eren. Completely dominating an Alpha in front of some of the highest ranking officials in the military… It was like a big ‘fuck you’ to the entire world.
But it was so against his primal (and moral) nature that it also made him queasy and sick. Wiping a teenager’s blood off of his boots, no matter their biological status, at the end of the day, is surely going to send him straight to hell.
“Levi,” Erwin warns, snaking his arm around Levi’s waist so that he can’t escape. “Talk to me.”
“Fine,” Levi snaps. “Maybe I kind of enjoyed controlling an Alpha that much. So what?”
“Levi,” Erwin murmurs, breathing warm air onto his cheek. He presses a trail of light kisses down his cheek and across his neck. “You don’t need to prove anything. I know you’re strong enough, the whole world knows you’re strong enough, otherwise we wouldn’t have dubbed you ‘Humanity’s Strongest’”
Erwin licks his scent gland and Levi growls in annoyance. “Stop trying to distract me-” And then Erwin starts biting his gland and Levi can’t help but be distracted. “Oh- fuck. Fuck you, Erwin!”
Erwin chuckles but continues his onslaught of Levi’s scent gland, eventually turning him into a quivering mess. Erwin opens his fucking beautiful mouth and spews out the dirtiest words as he ruts his knee against Levi’s crotch.
Levi climaxes hard and fast, leaving a sticky mess all over his pants and skin.
He watches blissfully as Erwin cleans up for him.
“Don’t worry about controlling Jaeger, Levi, because you already control me.”
Levi ponders this phrase for some time, and ultimately agrees. He could tell Erwin to jump off a cliff and he would probably do it. The man was whipped.
But Erwin is one of a kind, and a rarity amongst Alphas. He’ll only know if Eren Jaeger isn’t a rarity until it’s too late and a slimy teenager is taking him advantage of him.
If it came down to it, Levi would be able to kill Eren as a titan... but as an Alpha, he's not so sure. It’s better to assert is dominance from the beginning, so he can get a one up on his animal instincts, even if that makes him a horrible human being.
He is Humanity’s Strongest, and there was no way he was going to fail on the mission set to him.
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After inspecting Eren’s… rather abysmal display of cleaning, Levi marches back to the boy, fully ready to give him a basic tutorial into cleanliness.
Instead he stumbles upon a gossip session between Petra and Eren.
“Go and do it again,” Levi growls, entering the room and cutting off their talk completely. Eren easily complies, darting out of the room quickly.
He should have known not to leave them in the same room together.
“Uh, yes sir!” Eren stutters, rushing off to go clean the rooms again. As he passed, Levi got a quick smell of Eren's scent. No dominance at all.
Good.
“And you,” Levi says angrily once Eren leaves. “What the hell was that? Most superiors would punish you for talking about them behind their back.”
“I can see the tension between you two,” Petra says calmly, as dignified as she always is, “He had some questions and I gave some answers.”
“So you’re giving him information now?”
“Only for your sake,” she says, folding her arms as if she’s offended, even though Levi knows she’s not, she’s just playing it up so that she gets her way. “Don’t take this the wrong way, I’m on your side. Who even knows what that kid is capable of? I just want him to have a favourable opinion of you, if any, because that will put you in a better position to take him out if we need it.”
Levi pauses, before nodding. “Fine, but no more, you here me? I can take care of myself, I don’t need all you guys hovering around me or gossiping for my sake.”
“Aye aye, Captain!”
“Shut it.”
And she giggles on the way out.
---
Levi watches from several feet away as Erwin whispers into Eren’s ear, his hands gripping Eren’s shoulders tightly. Erwin is asserting his dominance on the younger Alpha, and Eren is oblivious as his eyes widen in confusion.
Erwin turns around to meet him in satisfaction.
“What was that about?”
“Planting the seeds.”
“Is this one of your mindfuck exercises? Because I honestly think Jaeger is way to dense for that.”
“I simply told him to question who the real enemy is. All this time he’s known only one enemy; the titans. But after everything we’ve found out, we know there’s more to it than that. I just want him to see that.”
Levi hums. Erwin makes a good point, but he didn’t need to assert his dominance because of it.
“Was there anything else you said to him?”
“No, just that.”
Levi is unconvinced, but drops the subject.
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“So do you have any friends joining us, Jaeger?” Levi asks as he pours himself some tea. They’ve been trying to conduct experiments of Eren’s titan form for the past hour, but the teenager is clueless on how to actually shift.
Which is just so damn productive.
He might as well pretend to be nice to Jaeger in the meantime.
“Yes, quite a few actually!” Eren exclaims as he continues to list a whole bunch of names that Levi hasn’t heard of before. Maybe Erwin won’t be giving his annual recruitment speech to an empty, unwilling crowd after all.
“That’s nice,” Levi mutters, picking up a spoon in order to stir his tea. Unfortunately, the wind knocks his hand off course and the spoon drops ungracefully from his hand. “Shit.”
“Oh, I’ll get it,” Eren says, bending down to pick up the spoon.
The blast from Eren’s titan transformation blows Levi off his feet and into the air, landing on the ground with a thud. He can hear the gasps from his fellow Squad members, but he can’t see them through the thick steam emitting from Eren’s titan form.
Levi’s hands hover over his blades, but eventually retracts them when he catches sight of the teenager trying to pull his arm out of the malformed titan body.
After an hour of trying to trigger Eren’s titan form, it looks as though it finally occurred because of a spoon.
“Stay away from the Captain!”
“Stop moving you monster!”
“I knew he was titan scum.”
As the protests from his Squad hit his ears, Levi growls and storms forward, pushing his subordinates aside to place himself between them and Eren.
“Captain! Don’t go near him, he’s dangerous!”
“Move and I’ll tear you apart, titan!”
“Everybody, quiet!” Levi bellows, hand held up in defence of Eren Jaeger. “He’s not attacking.”
“It looked like he was attacking you to me,” Oluo mutters, blades ready to attack. “His titan powers must be linked to his Alpha status.”
“Stand down. That’s an order.” Levi yells with as much dominance as he can muster. His Squad reluctantly steps back, and Levi sighs.
Behind him there’s a pop, and Eren comes flying off the top of the titan corpse ungracefully, landing in an uncomfortable position. Levi walks up to him slowly. He can smell the anger that the Alpha is emitting grow calmer the closer he gets.
Eren isn’t an Alpha whose control grows weaker at the presence of an Omega; it grows stronger.
“Are you alright?” Levi asks.
Eren nods, but is still panting too much to form words.
“That was some show you put on, kid.”
It took a lot of time and effort to reassure everybody that Eren wasn’t a danger to him or anyone else, but Levi manages in the end. The guilty faces of his Squad that night showed it all, as they bite their thumbs in solidarity.
He manages to convince himself as well.
“Are you okay? You seem absent tonight.” Erwin says later that night while they’re in bed together.
“I’m fine,” Levi replies, snuggling further into Erwin’s chest. He wants to tell Erwin that he was wrong, that Eren is a rarity, but he doesn’t feel like talking tonight. He just wants comfort. “Jaeger’s a pain to babysit, that’s all.”
Levi doesn’t notice the feral gleam in Erwin’s eyes.
---
When the door clicks open, Levi’s first instinct is to cling to Erwin, keeping the heat from their sweat slicked skin between them.
No, don’t take me away from him. He’s mine. I belong to him.
But as Levi notices that it’s the Eren standing in the doorway, he lets go of Erwin entirely, and punches him in the shoulder. “What the fuck Erwin, I thought you locked the door?”
Erwin looks down at Levi with a smirk and Levi’s blood boils.
He knows exactly what this is about.
“How fucking dare you?!” Levi growls. “I’m not some stupid plaything that you fight over, remember? You don’t need to fucking play games with Eren Jaeger to make sure that I’m faithful to you. God damn it Erwin, I thought we were over this.”
Levi looks towards the doorway again to find it vacant. Eren had probably scampered off, traumatised for the rest of his life. Just fucking great.
He cleans himself up the best that he can and storms out the door.
“Wait, Levi-”
“Don’t say anything, Erwin, you’ve done enough.”
And Levi storms out.
---
“Captain?” Eren asks in shock. “What are you doing here?”
Levi sighs. He can see the young boy shielding himself slightly. He’s probably expecting a beating for walking in on him and Erwin.
He’s failed as a Captain and a person.
“I’m apologising.”
“Apologising… But there’s nothing to apologise for, sir!”
“No, there is,” Levi insists. “I’ve been… unfair to you. I’m sorry.”
“It’s alright… I understand why. I mean, I wouldn’t want to take my chances with a titan either…”
“Yes, but it’s not just that,” Levi says, slightly frustrated. Did he really not realise how awkward it was for an Omega to be above an Alpha? Did he not care about the social hierarchy?
Yes, Eren Jaeger was truly oblivious.
“I haven’t been strict with you because you’re a titan. I was strict because… I didn’t want to take any chances with an Alpha.”
Eren’s mouth widens, as if this is the first time something like this has crossed his mind. “Oh.”
“Yeah,” Levi mutters. “But that’s over now. Mostly.”
Eren stays silent for a few moments, face deep in thought. “So… The Commander is your Alpha?”
“Yes.”
“Ah, that makes sense.”
“I’m… sorry for his behaviour as well. Hopefully, when I kick his ass into yesterday, I’ll drag him into an apology.”
“Ah, okay. I’ll apologise to him as well.” Eren says, although Levi wants to scream that he has nothing to apologise for. “If I thought anybody was making moves on Armin, I’d want to rip their head off.”
“Wait… Armin?”
“Yeah, he’s my… my Omega friend.”
Well shit. It seems like Jaeger has a mate of his own. Hopefully that will placate Erwin into basic human kindness, although he shouldn’t need an excuse for it.
“Sure, that’s what they all say,” Levi drawls, shuffling with his keys. He was supposed to lock Jaeger in his cell for the night… but… “This Armin… he’s in the Corps, right?”
“Yeah, one of the recruits.”
“I’ll send him down then.”
“What?” Eren asks dumbly, before catching on. “But the protocol-”
“Fuck the protocol.”
Eren’s face moulds into a bright smile as he realises just how much Levi is going to risk for him.
“Thank you sir!”
“But if you turn into a titan and crush him in his sleep, that’s on you.”
“Of course, sir! I mean- no, I won’t crush him, sir, I promise.”
Levi sighs and pockets his key. He knows that Eren probably wouldn’t crush this Armin person anyway. A true Alpha would never put their Omega in harm.
Erwin, although an asshole, was exactly the same.
But that wasn’t going to stop Levi from making Erwin beg for forgiveness until he lost his voice, however. He might as well take advantage of the situation while he can.