Hello! For your prompt requests, how about a Riren where Levi loses both his eyes in the final battle and Eren helps him through the days? Levi was against anyone helping him and hanji gets him a guide dog, but one day he just stumbles and breaks a glass and then he trashes everything and just... falls apart in his own house when Eren comes in. Eren decides to stay with him. Levi wants nothing more than to be able to see Eren again.
I hope you like it! Sorry if it didn’t turn out how you hoped it would.
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Most soldiers had lost hope, humanity’s last stand against the titans had been that terrible.
But they won.
Despite all the tears.
Despite all the screams.
Despite all the pain and the death…
He saw as Mikasa died at the hands of the beast titan, protecting everyone she loved. Saw as she was crushed before the beast titan threw her away, her body hitting one of the trees before sliding down onto the ground lifelessly.
Sat by Eren’s side as he grieved over the loss of his sister.
Silently watched over Armin as he cried every night for months over the loss of one of his best friends.
He saw as Sasha lost her cheerfulness due to all the deaths and became withdrawn.
As Connie lost his leg when a titan had stepped on it. For a while they thought they had lost him. There was too much blood.
As Jean lost his tongue to mindless torture. They had almost lost him too.
As the happiness at their reunion left Historia’s eyes as she watched Ymir die, holding her in her arms as tears fell down her cheeks and sobs wracked her small frame.
He saw as historia took a blade and dove it into her own heart to follow her beloved, succeeding.
Then he couldn’t see anymore.
Now it was only him, blind and broken, Eren, Armin, Hange, Annie, who had long since broken out of her crystal, long forgiven for her crimes and the guide dog that Hange had forced onto him a few months after the war ended after they’d moved in together since he had refused to let anyone help him. He named the dog Farlan.
And yet, broken and battered as they may be. Still, they won. Even despite everything they lost, they won. And after all that loss, pain and suffering it took for them to get to that victory, no one was ever going to take that away from them.
Levi’s eyes snapped open, a pained gasp leaving his lips. Shaken, he left his bed and went to the kitchen, grabbed a glass from the cupboard and poured himself some water.
He tried bringing the rim of the glass to his lips but his hands wouldn’t stop shaking, the memory of the nightmare he’d just had still holding onto him like a vice. Levi’s irritation grew as he felt his eyes sting with oncoming tears, he clenched his eyes shut, hoping it would stop, everyone was still asleep and while he knew they wouldn’t mind, he didn’t want to wake them up with his crying.
His fingers tightened around the glass as a flash of anger overlooking him, making him fling the glass in his hand against the nearest wall, shattering it.
That seemed to be the breaking point for him.
Months of anger, sorrow and insecurity flowing right out as his fists slammed onto the dining table, breaking it in half, grabbed a chair and flung it against the wall.
It wasn’t long before he felt hands land on his shoulders, turn him around and bring him into their arms and holding him tightly.
He felt too tired to struggle, not that he really wanted to.
He might not be able to see him anymore, but he would always recognize Eren’s scent.
A sob left his throat as his hands came up and took hold of the back of Eren’s shirt. ‘But that’s not enough.’ He thought. And that’s what it all boiled down to.
The thing that hurt the most about his blindness was that he would never be able to see Eren’s smile again, he would never be able to see the way Eren’s grin turned cheeky when he was up to no good, he would never be able to see the way Eren’s eyes softened and a serene smile overtook his lips whenever he looked at his friends again, he would never be able to see the smile he knew Eren only ever directed at him even long before the war was over.
What hurt the most was he would never be able to see Eren again, and he wanted to, more than anything else.
Eren didn’t say anything but just held Levi and ran one of his hands through Levi’s hair while the other rubbed his back as he cried.
He doesn’t know how long they sat there, with Levi in his arms but he didn’t care; he would hold him for as long as he needed, wanted to be held.
Everyone heard his crying and were concerned, but refrained from coming out of their rooms. They knew they weren’t what he needed at the moment, they knew he needed Eren.
While the two people in question had never said anything, but they all knew that Levi and Eren had liked each other for a while now.
They didn’t want to interrupt now as they knew Eren was with him the moment the crashing had stopped and the crying had started. Each one promised themselves that they would make sure Levi was okay and be as supportive as possible when he has calmed down a little.
They made true to their promise when one by one they snuck out of their respective rooms the moment the crying had stopped in the morning to go check on Levi only to bump into each other in the hallway leading to the stairs that led to the first floor of the house where the kitchen was located, they exchanged worried glances before making their way into the kitchen, gathering around Levi and Eren and wrapping them in hugs as Annie went and prepared Levi a cup of his favorite tea exactly the way he liked it.
After they were sure Levi was okay, they got to cleaning the Kitchen.
With shared effort, the kitchen was easily cleaned and the broken furniture replaced not even 2 hours later.
Even though it took a long time and they still weren’t full there, they were healing. Levi, with Eren’s hand in his and what was now their dog next to them, was coming to term with his blindness.
Annie, with Jean and Armin by her side, started coming out of her shell, learning from them that she deserved to be happy just like everyone else.
Every morning, Eren would catch them resting against one of the apple trees growing in the garden of their house and smile at the sight of Armin’s head on her shoulder and Jean’s head resting on her thigh, loving how peaceful they looked.
Hange had moved on from the death of Moblit, her fiance, and had met a girl whom she seemed to click with, it was yet unsure to everyone whether their relationship was romantic in nature or not, but as long as they were happy, romantic or not, it didn’t matter to them.
It took a while, but Sasha was pretty much back to her old self, and Connie learnt to live and still be active even with one of his legs missing. They got married a month ago, the wedding had both civilians and soldiers attending. The role as Sasha’s maid of honor went to annie, and her best man was Eren, while Connie’s maid of honor was Hange and his best man was jean. That day, there were smiles on everyone’s faces as Levi walked Sasha down the aisle, and as you would expect of an event Sasha was involved in, there was a lot of food. No one went home hungry that day.
Even now, they still live with Levi and everyone.
Everyone didn’t say anything, but exchanged glances smiled at them when two weeks later there were engagement rings on both Eren and Levi’s ring fingers.
Levi sighed contently as he took a sip of his tea, listening to his family’s happy chatter while he petted Isabel, they new puppy they had gotten recently, before tossing and Farlan a treat.
He felt Eren’s hand settle onto his shoulder, imagined the smile that he knew would be spread upon his fiance’s face.
‘Yes’ Levi thought. ‘There is no other place I would rather go, this is where I belong.’ He laughed as Annie made a comment on how obsessed Sasha was with food, before a fond smile took over his features.
It took a lot of death, pain and suffering for them to reach this point. They were broken and hurting to the point where they thought they would never be okay again.
But they were here now, seated around a dining table and chatting happily as one big family.
