It's Not Your Fault- Armin x Reader

Confrontation

While all this happened, Eren watched him clean himself through the cracks of the stall. He pulled up his pants and flushed the toilet as Armin finished cleaning and drying himself. He froze when he heard the creaking of a stall door.

"It's just me, Armin." Eren said this to reassure him while also trying not to sound suspicious.

Armin's shoulders relaxed and he turned around to see his clearly flustered friend.

"Are you okay, Eren?"

"I-I.. I know, Armin."

"You know what?"

"I know about you and (y/n)...I heard it."

"I-I don't know what you're talking about." Armin said stuttering a little like how he did when he lied about the obvious.

"Don't try to lie, Armin. It's obvious when you do."

Armin's face was pale and he wanted to die.

"Was anyone else with you?"

"No, it was just me."

He got closer to Eren and grabbed his shoulder shaking him, "EREN YOU CANNOT TE-!"

He was interrupted by Eren putting his hand over Armin's mouth.

"Don't yell, someone will hear and your secret is safe with me."

"Promise?" his voice was muffled by Eren's hand.

"Promise." he replied.

Armin relaxed and Eren removed his hand from his mouth.

After a minute of awkward silence, Eren punched Armin's arm and started laughing, "Wow Armin, never thought you would be the first out of all of us."

Armin just blushed and punched back. They walked back to the bunks together while trying to think of excuses for where they were.

You on the other hand, weren't so lucky.

After what seemed like forever, you finally made it to your room in the infirmary. When you opened the door, the room was dark like you expected. With your foot starting to hurt again, you limped over to the window to try to see the bunks, not bothering to close the door.

"Where were you?"

The sudden voice scared you shitless. You turned around to see Hanji in the doorway. The way the light in the hallway reflected from her glasses made her look terrifying.

"I was in the library with Armin."

She lit a lantern on one of the small tables and shut the door, then proceeded to walk up to you like an animal stalking its prey.

"What were you doing?"

"We were just talking about what happened while I was out. Nothing much."

"Nothing much?" you nodded. "Then what's this?" she pulled down your shirt collar exposing the love bites that you received.

"Uhhh... I ran into a door?"

She gave you an unamused look.

"Yeah sure. And where are your crutches? Don't tell me you've been walking on it since dinner."

"Well, I mean, Armin carried me to the library but I ran back here without them. I was so caught up in getting back here before curfew so you didn't get mad at me that I forgot them."

You curled up on the bed with your knees tucked into your head as you let out quiet sobs. Hanji's expression softened, and she quickly made her way into the bed to comfort you.

"Hey, hey. Shhhh. Don't cry. I'm not mad. Everything's okay." she wrapped her arms around you and pulled you into a tight embrace.

"I mess everything up. I can't do anything without messing up in some way. I deserved to die."

"Hey. Don't ever say that about yourself. That's not true. Why would you ever think that about yourself?"

"Because it's true. They're both dead because of me. They couldn't leave because of me. I held them back from escaping. Ich bin leid. Ich bin leid. Ich bin leid." you repeated those words as you fell asleep in Hanji's motherly aura.

You woke up a few hours later. On your right, you felt somebody laying next to you. They were close enough to you so you were able to feel the comforting heat radiating off of them. From the moonlight pouring in the window, you were able to make out the familiar face of Hanji with you.

Then you noticed that something had a hold on your hand. You followed the arm to the figure in the chair next to your bed. It was a little darker where he was, but you were able to see Levi sitting with your hand in his.

"It's amazing how calm he looks for once." you smiled to yourself as you fell back asleep, making sure to curl up to Hanji's body while keeping Levi's hand in yours.