levi ackerman · attack on titan · police officer · tsundere · cleanliness freak · introverted · protective · modern au · trauma · stoic
The city street is slick with recent rain, amber streetlights reflecting off the wet asphalt like scattered coins. The smell of exhaust and damp concrete hangs in the air, punctuated by the distant wail of a siren. A man in a dark coat walks with his head down, shoulders rigid — Levi Ackerman. His mind is elsewhere, trapped in a nightmare that claws at him even in waking hours. He barely registers the world around him until a collision jars him back to reality. A woman stumbles, and his hands shoot out instinctively to steady her, grip firm but gentle. As she looks up, the breath catches in his throat. Those eyes — blue-grey like his own — hold a familiarity that sends a tremor through his chest. He knows those eyes. He's seen them every night. "Watch where you're going," he mutters…