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You sighed, turning over on your bed, the amount of times you’ve tossed and turned must have been in the hundreds by now. You groan, opening your eyes and grabbing your phone from underneath your pillow, unlocking the device you see you have a few missed texts and a single missed call from Levi. Slight panic arises in your chest seeing the missed call, as the shy shut-in doesn’t typically call you unless he really needs to, as he prefers to send you texts instead.
Tapping on his icon, you return his call. It goes straight to voicemail. More panic rises in your chest, seeing that he didn’t call you all that long ago, maybe twenty minutes or so. Getting up, you swung your legs up over the side of the bed and anticipated the cold shock that would speak up through your body the moment you touched the floor. The shock to your system over and done with, you grabbed your fuzzy pair of socks and shuffled downstairs to the otaku’s room. The hallways were quiet, it always sent an eerie shiver up your spine hearing no sound coming from within the chaotic house. It was ever rarely so pin drop silent that you heard your heart beating in your ears, the slow, melodic thump, thump, thump loud in your eardrums.
Once you finally made it to Levi’s door,you gently knocked on the door with your knuckles, pressing your ear to the door to see if you could hear anything from within his room. Hearing nothing, you frown. It wasn’t like Levi not to stay up late gaming on whatever new game came out or binging a new anime season that dropped. Realization suddenly set into you that you never read his texts he sent you, you only saw the missed call and ran over here. Sheepishly, you grabbed your phone and opened up the text messages, but that didn’t seem to grant you any answers as the few text messages were just random letters and numbers. That just made even more panic rise up in your chest. Taking a deep breath, you try the door handle, making a mental note to apologize to Levi tomorrow after you find out what happened for barging in without permission.
Walking into the oceanic room slowly, you saw that his PC was on, a game was paused on screen, but Levi was nowhere to be seen. At this point the concern and panic was replaced with more confusion. Softly closing the door behind you, you shuffle over to the bathtub bed that was situated in the middle of the room. There was a heap of pillows and blankets in there, that was nothing out of the ordinary, but the lack of the snake boy you’ve come to love was. You leaned down and poked around the blankets a little, seeing if you’d poke something more solid within. After a few tries, you pouted slightly and gave up.
You sighed, pulling your phone out once again and tried to call Levi one more time. You could hear his phone ringing in the room, and it sounded like it was coming from the bathtub. Setting your still ringing phone on the floor, you kneeled down beside the tub, grabbing a fist full of the blankets and pulling them onto the floor. After a few handfuls of blankets, you suddenly found the demon you’ve been looking for. He was up against the porcelain tub curled up in a fetal position. The sight made your heart break in half, his eyes were squeezed shut and he had a grimace on his face. It seemed that he was asleep, given his lack of response to you yanking all of the blankets off of him. You noticed that he started to shiver a little bit, curling in on himself more and wrapping his arms tightly around his chest. He was also making small, whimpering sounds in his sleep. Deciding that you’d wake him up so he didn’t wake up the next morning stiff and sore from sleeping on the hard surface of the tub without any cushions, you reached down and gently shook his shoulder. When that didn’t work, you reached up to his head and gently ran your fingers through his hair, scratching lightly at his scalp. You’re not sure why, but this seemed to stir him just enough that you were able to grab his attention. You gently stroked his face as you spoke softly to him,
“Hey, Levi. I saw you texted and called me. Are you okay?”
What you weren’t expecting was the demon in question to suddenly leap out of the tub and latch onto you, full on sobbing and burying his face in the crook of your neck. You were taken aback by the sudden outburst, but you were quick to react in kind and wrap your arms around him, rubbing at his back soothingly and whispering comforting things in his ear.
“You’re ok, Levi, can you take some deep breaths for me?” You felt your heart rise a little when he shakily nodded after a few moments, you both worked on this for a little bit until he was calm enough to finally release his grip on you and pull back a little bit. You reached up and gently smoothed your hands through his soft, fluffy hair even though his bangs were slightly damp due to his tears. You scritched at his scalp a little bit, smiling softly at the gently, broken purring noise that broke out from Levi’s throat. His face was red, so he was aware of it but it warmed your heart that he would show you something so personal to him. You weren’t even aware that the brothers could purr, or was it just Levi? Either way, you thought it was adorable and you treasured the noise.
“Hey, Levi, are you okay? What happened?” you tried to keep your voice soft and your words gentle, not sure if talking about what happened would send the demon back into another fit. He was silent for a few moments, the silence stretching out into something comfortable. After a while, you heard him take in a deep shaky breath, his mouth slightly opened. After another few moments, he spoke.
“I had uh, another depression spell, so I laid down,” you nodded, you knew he had some depression spells late at night whenever he didn’t have anything to keep his mind occupied. It mostly spiraled from the fact that he still felt inferior to his brothers when it came to you, even though you’ve told him countless times before that he would always have a special place in your heart that his brothers would never be able to occupy. ..and I remembered you told me to call or text you when I had those spells, so I did but you didn’t answer so I figured y-you were asleep s-so I just crawled under the bl-blankets so I could feel like you were here with me,” you grabbed him gently, pulling him against your chest as you ran your hands through his hair soothingly, letting him regain his thoughts to continue if he’d like.
“A-and then I..I fell asleep and I think I was having a nightmare..I’m sorry I’m such a worthless demon, MC.I know my brothers don’t have-” you hugged him tighter to yourself, knocking the breath out of him with the strength of your grip. He wheezed a little as you squeezed the air out of his lungs, gently and shyly returning your hug. He knew what it meant, sometimes, he didn’t need to hear you tell him you loved him. Sometimes he just needed you to be here with him, and that was enough to reassure him. He felt himself tear up again, but this time it was happier tears. In a spur of the moment idea, he squeezed you back tightly, burying his face in your shoulder as he did so. It knocked the wind out of you this time, but you’ve never felt safer than you were right now in the demons gentle but firm hold. You both sat there for a while, knees pressing together uncomfortably but neither of you cared as you soaked in each other's warmth and comfort.
After your limbs started to go stiff, you both pulled apart with the biggest smiles on your faces. His face was tear streaked, messy and slightly snotty, but you’ve never wanted to kiss Levi’s face more than you ever had right now at this moment. Deciding to act on it, you lean in and press kisses all over his face, making him whine and weakly protest, but he makes no attempt to pull away or push you away. Smiling, you ended your Levi face assault with one last kiss to his lips. It was soft, gentle, and shy.
Levi felt his entire face light up, the rollercoaster of events tonight was making his head spin, but he can’t find it in himself to have it any other way. He grabbed onto you to support and ground himself, his head starting to spin a little bit.
He chased your lips when you pulled back, gently returning the kiss. After you both pulled apart, you both had the biggest smiles on your faces. He pulled you back into his chest once more, resting his head on top of yours. He wrapped his arms around your body, and that’s how you both sat for a while until he decided it was time to go back to bed, and drug you into the bathtub with him, blankets and pillows underneath the two of you this time.
“I..uh, th-thank you, MC..for tonight,” he mumbled softly into your hair, voice groggy and rough from being sleepy.
“Of course, my little otaku. I’d go to the ends of the realms for you.”