An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 5/5 Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Levi/Erwin Smith Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe - Urban Fantasy, Mythology References, absurd amounts of vaguely off scenery and too much time spent in liminal spaces, Action/Adventure, Explicit Sexual Content
Summary:
More than two months passed before Levi saw Erwin again, but this time they hadn’t passed in silence. He knew exactly when Erwin left the hospital, exactly when his gashes and broken ribs were fully healed, exactly when he’d retrieved the keys Levi had hidden under a rock in his front yard and picked up his bike. Erwin had texted. Short, succinct messages pinged up on his phone each time, each one giving him a reason to pause as it did.
He was sitting in Isabel’s garage after work, just beginning his night, idly swinging the first beer bottle by its neck, watching Farlan deal their next hands onto the faded olive card table when his phone buzzed in his back pocket. Reaching behind himself and shifting on the pile of tires, he fished the phone from his coveralls to look at it.
I think it is time to pay my debt...