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“Is this an actual joke?” Levi asked, looking around the establishment in front of him. “Like, is there about to be a camera that is going to pop out in front of me and shout ‘surprise! You’ve been MTV Pranked?’ Or?” 

“Levi!” Hange slapped Levi’s arm. “Don’t be such a downer. You promised that you would come with us!” 

Yes, Levi did promise that he would book time off work to spend four days away at the Mysterious’ getaway with his friends to celebrate Erwin’s engagement to his long term partner Mike. However, Levi thought that they would be going away to a spa, or even a hotel! Not what in the living fuck he was looking at in front of him. 

“Yes, I did promise that ,” Levi turned to look at Hange with a glare present on his face. “But you never fucking told me that it would be at a place like this !” 

“A place like this? What’s so bad about it?” Hange asked. 

“Hange.” Levi took a deep breath before he continued. “We are at fucking Disneyland.” 

Hange wiggled their eyebrows, clapping their hands together and doing what only Levi could only describe as a terrible fortnite dance. Or whatever that game is called. 

“I know!” Hange yelled. “Erwin said he had never been here before so what’s better than dragging him on his bachelor party to the happiest place on earth?!” 

“Literally anything else other than this.” Levi deadpanned. 

Levi didn’t even acknowledge the glare that Hange had just given him. He instead looked around the park’s entry and debated whether bolting the opposite way. Hange knows that Levi does not like theme parks, he thinks that they are nothing but ‘germ filled’ and ‘a waste of money’ and yet, Hange had actually brought him here. 

“Don’t even think about it,” Hange pointed at Levi, obviously knowing that Levi had been thinking about bolting the other way. “I will chase you down and make sure you take a picture with Mickey Mouse.” 

Levi gave them the middle finger and took his phone out of his pocket, scrolling through his emails from his boss. Just as he was about to give his boss a reply, Hange had swiped the phone from his hand and held it up in the air. 

“The fuck are you doing?!” Levi half asked, half yelled. 

“The point of us doing this is not only to celebrate Erwin’s engagement, but is to also spend time together without being on our phones! Come on Lee, when was the last time we all actually hung out?” Hange explained as Levi tried to grab the phone from their hand. However, his attempts meant nothing since Hange is taller than him. 

“I don’t know.” Levi answered. “But I need my phone back, Hange. My boss-“ 

“Your boss nothing Lee,” Hange brought down their hand and placed Levi’s phone into their bag. “You are going to spend time with us, without your phone, whether you like it or not.” 

Levi couldn’t do or say anything, all he really wanted to say was going to be a string of curse words, which would probably get him kicked out of the park. Though Levi didn’t think that would be such a bad idea, the look on Hange’s face told him otherwise. 

It happened to be true, Levi hasn’t spent anytime with friends ever since he got his job over a year ago. The last time that they had actually spent time together was the week before he started at his not so new job, the three of them spending five out of those seven days drunk as fuck, spending time together and even promising to meet up whenever they could.  

Levi did miss his friends, dearly, and could agree that his line of work has taken a big portion of his time. 

“Fucking fine!” Levi agreed finally, grabbing the top of his suitcase and walking past Hange. “Let’s get this shit over and done with.” 

Hange clapped behind Levi, letting out excited squeals as they caught up behind him. Levi rolled his eyes at their childish actions, but, he also felt a bit happy about it. Though Hange happened to be the biggest, tallest pain in his ass, he did miss them and their antics a lot. 

“Okay so we just need to check in and wait for our cast member.” Hange explained before rushing over to the desk. 

Cast member? Levi thought to himself. He didn’t know that they would have a cast member with them. But damn, he really hoped that the cast member would not be one of those ‘too cheery to actually be that happy’ people because that’s another thing that he could not, and would not be dealing with. 

But then again, Levi did happen to be at the happiest place on earth so it probably would be just his luck that their cast member would be a walking ray of fucking sunshine. 

“Levi!” 

Levi had been pulled out of his thoughts by the call of his name, Levi glanced around and finally noticed Erwin walking up to him. 

“You actually came, “ Erwin said. “I really thought that Hange was going to have you tie you down and force you into the car.” 

Levi rolled his eyes, smirking slightly as he ran a hand through his hair. 

“Well Hange didn’t tell me that we are going here and lucky for them, I fell asleep in the car half way here and didn’t wake up until I heard the overuse of Disney music playing.” 

“Still not a fan of Disney?” 

“Fuck no. I still find it annoying as ever, “ Levi said, looking around and noticing the Mickey Mouse Mascot now in the entry area. “And if that Mickey Mouse comes anywhere near me, I will threaten violence.” 

Erwin laughed, shaking his head as he continued to chuckle to himself. Levi couldn’t lie, he missed Erwin’s laugh, just like he missed Hange’s voice. 

It did feel good being able to be with his friends again, especially after so long. But he really did wish that they had actually gone to a fucking spa and not this hell hole. 

“So Mr Getting Engaged, “ Levi started off, completely ignoring the sounds of the various children screaming Mickey Mouse’s name. “How do you feel?” 

“Great!” Erwin blushed faintly, holding up his hand and showing Levi the beautiful gold ring on his engagement finger. “I just cannot believe he asked me, especially on our six year anniversary.” 

“I know. It’s crazy that you guys have been together for six years,” Levi grinned. “It seems like yesterday that you and he were dancing around each other.” 

“Hey come on,” Erwin faked offence. “Are you really going to come for me like that at my own bachelor party? Shame, Levi.” 

Levi laughed, winking at Erwin. Hange came up behind Erwin and hugged him from behind, Erwin let out a loud noise from the surprise but quickly hugged the bubbling Hange back. 

“God!” Hange let go off Erwin and then in the next second, pulled Levi into a group hug. “I’ve missed you both so much!” 

Levi tried to fight his way out of the hug, but had no chance since Hange had grown pretty strong over the years. Levi settled for patting both of his friends back, at least letting them both know that he has missed them both too. 

“Excuse me, “ A voice, soft and full of energy, had made the trio pull away from each other. “Are you Hange Zoe?” 

“That is me.” Hange confirmed. “Are you Eren?” 

“That is I!” The tall, really fucking tall, brunet said with a fist to his chest. 

Levi looked at the cast member in front of him, and Levi isn’t going to lie. The guy is fucking hot, like, really fucking hot. 

Eren, the cast member, had to be one of the hottest people that Levi had ever seen in his life. Eren made his uniform look so good, and not only that, his arms in the green button up shirt made Levi’s mind wander to places that he had not visited in a while. 

“You must be Levi, right?” Eren held out his hand to Erwin, who only shook his head and chuckled. 

“No actually, I’m Erwin,” Erwin shook Eren’s hand and then nodded over to Levi, who was now checking out the back end of Eren which Levi would give a full five stars to. “That’s Levi.” 

Eren turned and -oh god- Levi started to have gay panic at the way the brunet just smiled at him, Levi felt his heart pump against his chest and his cheeks grow hotter. 

“Oh I’m sorry!” Eren apologised, but then extended out his hand to Levi. “You are Levi.” 

“I am Levi.” Levi quickly said, grabbing the mans hand and shaking it.

Levi cringed at how dumb he sounded, but fuck, if he could only help it. Eren shouldn’t be this hot, it had to surely be illegal that Eren had literally woken up a part of him that went abandoned so long ago. 

Eren nodded his head, giving Levi a quick and easy smile before pulling his hand away and clearing his throat. 

“Well my name is Eren Jaeger and I’ll be your cast member for the next four days!” 

Oh Fuck. Levi thought. Oh fuck, fuck, fuck.  

McFuckingHotty was now going to be with them for a whole four days? What God’s had Levi upset recently? What bad omen had Levi committed for this type of cruelty?! There was no fucking way that Levi could deal with Eren for the next four days. He was already having to think about really sad things so his friend down there wouldn’t get excited at the thought of pounding into Eren’s- 

“So that means that you can all use me to your advantage in these next four days!” Eren said with a huge smile. 

Levi almost died on spot there, the words that Eren had used made his mind wonder off to places that it really shouldn’t, especially in the happiest place on earth! 

“Shall we?” Eren extended his arm out to Hange. 

Hange chuckled before they accepted it, Eren extended out his other arm but Levi had pushed Erwin in front of him, making sure that Erwin took the arm instead of him. Levi feared that if he locked arms with Eren, he wouldn’t let go. 

Eren walked them over to the hotel that they would be staying in, showing them all to their rooms. Eren had showed Hange and Erwin’s room first, since they both shared the same floor. However, Levi hadn’t been so lucky and found out his floor is actually two up from his friends. 

So that’s where that leaves him and Eren now, both of them standing in the elevator in complete and utter silence. Levi wished he could say something, but his brain was still trying to process how the fuck Disneyland had such hot employees? And maybe he should change his line of work if people like Eren worked here.. 

“So,” Eren finally broke the silence, much to Levi’s pleasure and terror. “Why are you guys all here? Celebrating someone’s birthday?” 

“Not exactly,” Levi began to answer. “We are actually here for Erwin’s bachelor party. He and his long term partner Mike had gotten engaged a few weeks back.” 

“Awwwww! That’s really sweet.” Eren clapped his hands together, clearly happy about the news which made Levi quite happy too. 

He was glad to find that Eren wasn’t judgemental, especially after telling him that Erwin is openly gay. 

“That’s actually awesome. How long have they been together?” Eren asked. 

“About 6 years now. They met when we were all in college.” 

“Oh, to be honest, you still look like you are in college.” 

“Please, “ Levi laughed, clearly not believing the compliment that Eren had just given him. “It’s probably in your contract to be nice to the people that you show around but you don’t have too with me, I’m old and tired.”

Eren laughed loudly, holding a hand to his stomach as Levi watched in awe. The guy in front of him was actually making his homosexual heart explode. 

“Sorry,” Eren apologised, using his hand to wipe at the tears in his eyes. “It’s just I’ve never met someone who is so blunt before. But FYI, it isn’t in my contract to compliment the people that I show around. I wasn’t lying when I said that you still look like you are in college, you really do.” 

“At least take a guy out on a date before you declare stuff like that, Eren.” Levi teased, finding that was the only thing he could do in his current situation. 

Levi hoped that his teasing wouldn’t make Eren uncomfortable, hoping that maybe Eren would get his sense of humour. 

The elevator doors open up, Levi gripped the tip of his suitcase and went to walk out but was stopped when Eren stood in front of him. 

“Wait,” Eren said. “Someone left something in front of the doors, probably Jean. Just a moment, Levi.” 

Levi went to say something but his mouth clamped shut when Eren bent down in front of him, putting that phenomenal ass of his on show in front of the almost salivating Levi. 

Fuck, those asscheeks should be illegal, those pants that Eren is required to wear for work, should be illegal. In Levi’s opinion, Eren Fucking Jaeger should be illegal! 

Eren got himself back up and turned to look at Levi, giving him a smirk before holding one of his hands to the elevator doors.

“After you.” Eren grinned, nodding his head to the side. 

Levi quickly rushed out of the elevator, hoping that his cheeks were red, hoping that Eren hadn’t noticed that he had been checking him out. 

Eren led Levi to his room, showing Levi around the room and then telling Levi that they would meet up after he had unpacked all of his stuff. 

After Eren left the room, Levi fell backwards onto the bed, with nothing but Eren on his mind.

How the fuck is he suppose to last the next four days with the hottest human being he has ever met in his life?

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After Levi had unpacked his suitcase, he decided to go onto his laptop for a bit. Lucky for him, Hange didn’t search his bags for his other electronics which meant that although they had his phone, he still had his laptop which gave him some of the features that he needed. 

Levi connects to the park's WiFi, finding it a bit slower than his usual data plan and his usual WiFi at home but still making the best out of it. Levi decides to look through the emails that his boss had sent him, which weren’t even that urgent, it was just the usual update of the current changes of contracts that he had filled out in the past. 

Closing his laptop with a sigh, Levi couldn’t help but think about Eren. It is driving him insane, and making his heart beat at speeds that it has never before. Sure, Levi has had crushes before, even had a few relationships here and there, but he had never felt like this about someone before, especially after the whole scene of Eren basically throwing it down in front of him and showing him that should be an illegal ass of his. 

Levi knows that he shouldn’t feel like this-especially over someone that works at fucking Disneyland-however, it seems like his brain didn’t get the memo. It really did baffle him since he really did not know how he was going to deal with Eren being close to him for the next four days. 

After pulling himself up from his bed, he thinks it would be best if he got a shower before meeting up with everyone due to his friend down there getting a bit excited over the thought of Eren being in so many NSFW positions in front of him. 

Once he is done with the shower, Levi puts on the clothes that he had on previously. His usual black turtleneck with his black jeans, mixing them with his black shoes. What can he say? He’s a basic bitch. Also, he doesn’t know what to wear at a theme park, it’s not like he adventures out to one daily. 

Levi leaves his hotel room a few minutes later, taking the elevator down to the main floor and walking over to where he could see Hange and Erwin talking. 

“There you are,” Hange says when they notice Levi walking over to them. “Looking like you are going to a funeral as per usual.” 

“Hey, don’t be mad that black is my colour and not yours.” 

Hange rolls their eyes and pokes out of their tongue, Levi could only give them his ‘I know I’m annoying you’ smile before holding out his hand in front of them. 

“What?” Hange asks, clearly confused by Levi’s hand being held out in front of them. 

“My phone.” 

“Levi, I said-“ 

“I know what you said, Hange. But, I need my phone to keep in touch with Mikasa, remember? My little cousin who is left alone in my apartment? Who is also a teenager, who could easily be having girls or boys over or even trashing my apartment with a party?”

Levi knows that he is being over dramatic, he knows Mikasa and he knows that she isn’t like that in the slightest. However, he would still like to be able to keep in contact with her since she kindly accepted to spend a few days off from her own busy college schedule to look after his cat, Tabby. 

Hange takes a moment before going into their bag and handing over Levi’s phone to him, Levi kindly accepts and opens it up, noticing that Mikasa had sent him a photo message with a text following shortly after it. Levi clicks on the icon, bringing up the conversation with Mikasa. 

Mikasa, who was holding Tabby in the photo with a grin on her face and Tabby with her eyes close made Levi’s heart full to the brim. Mikasa had even gave him a little message that consisted on how Tabby had been ever since he had left and even said that Tabby misses her father. 

“Awwww cute cat,” Eren says over Levi’s shoulder, causing Levi to jump slightly due to the shock of Eren just randomly turning up. “Is that your girlfriend?” 

Not only did Levi laugh, but so did Hange and Erwin. Eren looks at the trio with a confused smile on his face, probably wondering why these group of adults had just started laughing at him. 

“Sorry,” Hange says in between their laughter. “I haven’t laughed like that in a while.” 

“It’s okay?” Eren says, confusion leaking through this tone of voice. 

“It’s just-“ Erwin chuckles once more before stopping himself. “-Levi isn’t into women, at all.” 

Eren whips his head around to look at Levi who is still chuckling to himself. 

“I’m so sorry,” Eren bows his head in front of Levi. “I didn’t mean to make you uncomfortable.”

Levi wouldn’t lie and say it wasn’t adorable watching Eren bow his head in apology, but he also didn’t like to see Eren look so disappointed in himself, Levi finding himself use to already seeing that award winning smile of Eren’s. 

“Don’t be, it’s totally fine.” Levi reassures Eren. “That girl you saw in the photo is actually my cousin, she’s looking after my cat while I’m here.” 

Eren looks up quickly, mortified to say the least. Levi could only understand why, not only had Eren got his sexual orientation wrong, but he had just asked if Levi happened to be dating his own cousin. 

“Again, Sir, I’m so sorry.” Eren apologises once more, bowing his head again. 

The fact that Eren had just called Levi ‘Sir’ made his whole body numb. Levi has never, ever felt this way just by someone calling him ‘Sir’, even when the trainees at his work call him that. Levi rubs at the neck of his neck, letting out a laugh that sounds like the human version of scraping a fork against a plate. 

“It’s-Fine. Really, it’s so fine.” Levi speaks quickly, hoping that his friend down there doesn’t start getting all excited by the fact that a God like Eren had just called him Sir. 

After Eren apologised once more, because Levi could only assume at this point that Eren is really sorry or he is either Canadian, they all set off for their magical adventure in the happiest place on earth. 

At first glance of the park, Levi could only hope that it would rain soon, so he wouldn’t have to endure this madness all day. Erwin and Hange walks in front of him, both of them standing at either side of Eren and looking at the map Eren had pulled out of his fanny pack a few minutes prior. Though Levi knows that he should get involved in the conversation, he couldn’t say that he didn’t mind being behind Eren; at least he has that piece of fine ass to look at while he wishes that he was back home with Tabby, the Tabby cat. 

Levi could almost feel his ears bleeding from the various Disney songs, something that he didn’t even enjoy listening to as a child never mind as an adult. But, if Levi had to think about it realistically, it’s not like he really could watch Disney movies like the children do nowadays.

Growing up, Levi didn’t have much. When he was six, his mom passed away and even when she was alive, she did try her hardest to be that mother that tried to be involved. But, Levi knew that wasn’t the case. It didn’t surprise him when his mother had died, he know it was coming. She wasn’t getting better, and even more so, she wasn’t trying to get better. She would spend most of her days in bed while leaving Levi in front of the TV a with Disney movies on. Levi remembers the day with a painful sting, he had been sitting in front of the TV and watching Mickey Mouse’s black and white cartoon when his uncle Kenny turned up to the house, Kenny had gotten notice that his sister hadn’t been doing so good and decided to pay her a quick visit. Kenny ended up leaving that house with Levi in his arms while Kuchel, his sister and Levi’s mother, got taken out in a body bag. 

Levi could only guess that’s why he wasn’t the biggest fan of Disney, knowing that his mother would only put it on for him when she was slowly coming to her untimely end. 

“Levi!” Hange shouts, coming next to Levi and placing a hand on his shoulder. 

“Huh..what?” Levi says, looking at Hange confused and pulling away a bit from them. 

“You were zoning out, again.” Erwin explains, coming beside Levi and looking at him with hiseyes full of concern for his best friend. 

“I’m sorry,” Levi apologised. “I didn’t get a lot of sleep last night so I’m just tired. No need to be worried.” 

“Are you sure? We could take a rest if you would like. Beast’s castle is just around the corner, if you would like some lunch?” Eren comes over to them and offers, but Levi shakes his head. 

He doesn’t want to ruin Erwin’s engagement party, just because he has relived childhood memories that he thought he would’ve forgotten by how. 

“No really,” Levi starts to walk off in front of them and grabs the map from Eren’s hand. “I’m fine! Let’s go and do urhm, some Disney shit.” 

Eren laughs before coming beside Levi and holding the right side of the map while Levi holds the left. 

“Okay if you say so,” Eren smiles. “So Hange, where did you want to go first?” 

“Actually-Since it’s Erwin’s party, I think he should chose where we should go.” 

Erwin and Hange came up on each side of Eren and Levi. Erwin glanced at the map and then looked at them all with a mischievous grin on his face, wiggling those thick ass eyebrows of his. 

“Let’s go on a water ride first!” Erwin says, clapping his hands together to in a way, make himself seem more excited, if it were even possible. 

“Are you kidding me?” 

“Hell yeah!” 

Levi and Hange say at the same time, Levi’s reaction being more unhappy than Hange’s, so it was nothing out of the normal for them both. 

“Water ride it is then!” Eren let go off the map and started walking in front of them, looking over his shoulder and saying, “How about we go on the iconic Splash Mountain?” 

Before Levi could voice his own dislike, Hange had already gripped him tightly on the arm and had started dragging him along with them. 

When Levi got to the ride, he couldn’t thank fast passes enough. The line looked so long for the people who most likely chose the cheaper option, which Levi didn’t believe existed since he had already seen how much one freaking doughnut was there. 

Levi watched as various people exited the ride and noticed how wet they were, coming up with a plan right there and then, he decided to go on with it. 

“I would love to join you all on whatever the fuck this is but,” Levi moved away from the trio in front of him, readying himself to swiftly turn on his heels so he could bolt of it. “But we don’t have any ponchos and I’m not getting wet for nothing.” 

“Oh don’t worry, “ Eren quickly chimes in, holding out his hand to Levi. “The operator gives you a poncho. So shall we?” 

Fuck, Eren Jaeger 1, Levi Ackerman 0. 

Levi took Eren’s hand, hesitating at best since his hands were sweaty, however, judging by the smile that Eren had just given him, doesn’t seem like the hottest crew member cares in the slightest. 

Levi felt his cheeks grow red, as if he was a teenager all over again and blushing like a complete fool at the fact someone hot is giving him attention. 

He really needed to grow up, he is now at the grand age of 26 and cannot be getting all embarrassed over someone who is probably still in college. 

Even if the guy in question happened to be the literal human version of perfection. 

Eren gave him one last binding grin before he pulls Levi closer to him, ushering the man to get in before him. Levi does as he is ushered to do, grabbing the poncho off the operator and setting himself down onto the wet seat. 

“I’m so excited!” Hange squealed, obnoxiously loud for Levi’s liking. 

“My ass cheeks are wet,” Levi commented. “And these ponchos feel cheap.” 

“Levi! Come on, turn that frown upside down?” Erwin urged Levi to at least smile, but Levi lifted up his hand and flipped Erwin the bird. 

As Levi looked down at the bars in front of him, he realised something.. 

Eren hadn’t let go off his hand once, even when they did get into the ride.