A Minor Dispute About Rain (RMJ3)

alienheartattack:

Rating: K
Word Count: 1,141 words
Summary: Inexorable AU. From a prompt from @ariam-jan - A scene of the Ackerman family in fall. Takes place about 7 years after the main story.

In, out, lungfuls of crisp autumn air, not yet stinging and freezing Levi’s lungs but still unpleasant to breathe. On the exhale a hint of vapor, not quite visible. Red-gold leaves overhead, bright against the darkening gray sky, the occasional flash of brown fluttering downward to be crunched beneath Hana’s sneakers. She’s run off ahead, trailed by Mikasa (mainly to keep her from veering into the path of oncoming cyclists, which she’s done twice already), giggling as she stomps around.

Levi follows — tries to at least — hampered by Anya, who sulks and goes limp, refusing to move her legs down the paved trail. He considers dragging her by the arm, does so for a couple of feet, but the scandalized glares from mothers jogging behind their double-wide strollers make him stop. Fatherhood has suited him well, for the most part; the children laugh at his gruff and serious nature, but end up doing what he says more often than not. His remaining weakness, the one thing he cannot seem to grasp, is when he has to deal with other parents and their fads of the moment, the race to see who has can buy safest SUV or get their precious snowflake to learn Mandarin while they’re still in diapers, the constant judgment. He swallows his annoyance — it’s his kid, goddammit, as he’s said to Mikasa too many times to count, and he knows how to deal with her best — and hoists Anya up, seating her on his shoulders and steadying her little legs with his arms.

Anya leans forward, resting her body against the top of her father’s head, and lets out a long whine: “I wanna go hoooooome, Daddy!”

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November 29   71β™₯
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