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ReaderXLevi - Nothing Means Something

[Name] stands up and draws closer to the doors, probably concerned about Oluo and his sudden flight from the hospital. She puts her hands on her hips, her face clouded with confusion. Levi smiles internally at her posture, remembering all the times that he left her baffled before he finally confessed. As her arms drop to her sides, she spots Levi and smiles at him before waving.

He raises his hand to wave, but Hanji blocks his face with a newspaper before covering her own with the second newspaper. Levi shakes his head at her attempt to hide him. [Name] clearly saw them and now they look suspicious. However, [Name] is on her shift and cannot leave so she does not approach them, despite her curiosity. Well, not yet, anyway.

~1300 Hours~

Because of their vantage point being spotted, Hanji forced Levi to get up when [Name]'s back was turned and forced him to sit down at an empty table two tables away. The server was confused and thought they left until Hanji had called him over. They ended up spending most of their morning there. It is clear from how [Name] kept glancing their way that she knew they were there, but she also knows how odd Hanji can be and did not send someone out to make sure they were okay.

Hanji insisted that they hold up the newspapers every time [Name] stood up, slapping him with hers every time he was to slow to open it. By the third slap, he had enough and stood up. "That is enough, you shitty four-eyes," he growls, thoroughly ticked off by his companion's show of power. "This is foolish. I am going to talk to her and we can clear this whole thing up."

"You can't!" Hanji shouts, but he is already walking across the street towards the hospital doors. He reaches for the door and is about to push it open when he is suddenly being tackled sideways into a bush by Hanji, his only warning being the sound of running feet.

[Name] looks up from the files on her desk when she sees a flash of something outside the hospital doors. When she sees nothing out of the ordinary, she returns her attention to the papers. Little does she know, Hanji is currently being shoved out of the bush by the very angry captain with twigs in his hair acting as hair decorations.

He is about to scold her when she puts a hand over his mouth to keep him quiet. He is of half the mind to bite that hand, but that hardly seems like a civilized action and silently fumes as he waits for her to remove the hand. When she does, Hanji gives him no time to talk before dragging him back to their table, which the server is currently cleaning for them.

"This must stop," Levi says as she forces him to sit down again, shoving down rather harshly on his shoulders. She lingers for a moment to make sure he does not intend to stand up again before seating herself.

"Not yet. She hasn't gone on her lunch break yet," Hanji replies simply, her eyes glued to the hospital doors.

As if on cue, [Name] stands up from her desk and grabs her purse before leaving the hospital. She looks both ways down the street and then starts crossing it, heading in their direction. Hanji panics and hits him with her newspaper, signaling that he needs to use his. However, he ignores her. Distressed, but unable to change his mind, she hides behind her own newspaper.

"Hello, Levi, Hanji-san," [Name] greets them with a smile. Her face is a mixture of amusement and confusion and he just shrugs in response to the questioning look she sends him.

Levi leans back a little in his chair, relaxed in her presence, "How is your-"

His words are cut off by a newspaper slapping against his face. Hanji then realizes that she is exposing herself and retracts the newspaper to hide behind before using her other hand to grab the newspaper on the table and slapping it in front of Levi's face. It takes all of his willpower not to take the newspaper and hit Hanji with it.

"I do not know who you are referring to, but I am not Hanji and this is not Levi," the crazy girl says in a fake deep voice.

Levi sighs in exasperation, "Hanji, enough."

"Aww, c'mon, Levi-I mean, person who is not Levi," she whines, having dropped the fake voice until she remembered her 'role'.

"No, it ends here," Levi replies before looking at his girlfriend, his eyes softening slightly. "[Name], do you remember our conversation from last night?"

[Name] nods, her confusion clear, "Yeah...is everything alright?"

"I relayed parts of our conversation to Hanji – at her insistence – and she insists that everything is not alright," Levi explains before sighing for the umpteenth time today. "When I asked you if something was wrong and you said 'nothing', did you mean it was nothing?"

A knowing smiling crosses [Name]'s face. "That's what this is all about?" She asks. When Levi nods, she continues, "It isn't anything to worry about. I was just trying to remember if I closed my refrigerator before I left. Apparently, I did."

"I see..." Levi says as he trails off, secretly relieved to hear that nothing bad is going through her mind. With that concern now out of the way, he turns to glare at his companion, "Hanji..."

The Titan-lover wisely chooses that moment to stand up and look at her watch, "Would you look at the time? I'm late for my meeting! Give the others my regards."

With that, she rushes off, leaving Levi and [Name] alone. "I should probably find the others before they make a mess of things," Levi says after a moment.

"That'd be best," [Name] giggles before giving him a light kiss on the lips. "My break ends in a half hour, but if you find me before then..."

She leaves that open for interpretation before smiling and entering the café to find something to eat. A faint smile works its way onto Levi's face before he squashes it. Time to have a serious chat with his squad about personal boundaries...

...it might just be nothing.