Anonymous said:
Levi in love with mikasa but can't do anything about it since she's dating his superior?

minxiebutt:

His love for her is wrapped in the way he puts her happiness over his own desire to take her.

He whispers it callously, dismissing her for lunch even on days the workload calls for all-hands-on-deck, and there are angry phones blaring with demands, and his own stomach is twisting in excruciating knots.

He sings it off-tune when she gushes about their weekends away filled with heated romance, scorching his ears and deteriorating his self-preservation until he’s a fake smile plastered to a pile of ashes.

He swears it when she’s quietly upset that another case is splashing over her long arranged plans, and she catches the lonely cab from downtown to the suburbs.

He keeps it in as she sits, soggy-eyed with red wine, wondering why the question hasn’t been popped yet because she’s getting up there in years and maybe just maybe she wants children and they’ve been together almost eight years so what’s the hold-up?

So it’s only right that when Erwin breaks Mikasa’s heart, Levi screams it, echoing in his head like a final trumpet call, but lets her slip out of his life like dusk and red scarves.

November 21   60♥


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