Fire And Ice

Chapter 2

"Come on Levi!" Petra called to him supportively. "You can do it!" Petra glided easily on her skates around the lake in circles, her hands behind her back as she hummed a short tune to herself.

Levi stood in his place on the lake, his legs shaking violently.

"How does she do this so easily?" He thought to himself.

Petra glided more and more around the lake. She saw how much Levi was struggling and skated over to him.

"Maybe we should call it a day?" She asked him.

"Yes."

"Do you need help getting back to the ground?" Petra asked him.

"No." Levi said stubbornly.

"Okay, suit yourself." Petra skated past him and back to the spot where they set down their stuff.

Levi continued to struggle more and more as he tried skating back to Petra and the land. He just couldn't seem to do it.

"Petra!" He called to Petra who was starting to gather the stuff. Petra looked in his direction curiously.

"Yes?" She called back.

Levi looked away and mumbled to himself, "I need help."

Petra smiled and skated back onto the lake to Levi. She put his arm around her shoulder to help him keep his balance. They very slowly skated, and walked for those who couldn't skate, back to land.

"Wasn't that fun?!" Petra exclaimed excitedly.

"No."

Petra put her hands on her hips. "You're just being stubborn because you kept falling on your ass pretty much the whole time. Which was totally hilarious though." Petra chuckled.

"Whatever." Levi took off his skates and put them with the rest of their stuff. He helped Petra by carrying the skates and letting her carry the coats. He wasn't going to let something happen to her because of an ice skate. They arrived back to HQ and walked through the door. Hanji immediately bounced down a hallway towards them.

"So what happened? Was it fun? Are you going again tomorrow?" She said so very cheerfully.

"Levi kept falling on his ass pretty much the whole time he was on the lake." Petra giggled still remembering,

Hanji burst at laughing and fell onto the floor, clutching her stomach.

"Shut it, shitty glasses. Your laugh might attract wolves." Levi hung up the coats in the closet and stepped around the dying Hanji.

Levi started walking to his office, hoping that he could escape Hanji's deafening howls of laughter in there. Petra quickly caught up to his side.

"So do you wanna go?" She asked him hopefully.

"What?"

"Ice skating. Would you like to go again tomorrow?"

"No."

"Please?"

"No."

"Pretty please?"

"Tell shitty glasses to stop laughing like a hyena and I'll go." Levi said stubbornly.

"Okay!" Petra said cheerfully. She ran back to Hanji and the laughter made by her soon stopped.

"Okay! See you tomorrow morning!" Petra walked to her own room across the hallway from his office while Levi went in the other direction and entered his office, closing the door behind him.