"You have meetings with our affiliates from 3 PM, and after that, you'll be dining with the board members. Ms. Reiss will support you today."

After retrieving her diary from Zeke's house, the secretary headed immediately to the office. To her luck, she wasn't late. And her first task in the morning is giving the vice president his schedule of the day.

Levi only nods after hearing all of his scheduled activities, "does that mean I won't be able to see you until the evening ?"

"Yes sir."

"Too bad," he sighs, "then come to my place tonight."

(Y/n) blinked once, then twice, "what ? Tonight, sir ??" Cold sweat begins to trickle down her neck as (Y/n) averts her eyes from her boss. At first, Levi only looks up from his desk, waiting for a response. But then it clicked.

"What's in your head right now huh ?" He smirks.

The secretary only gulped down her nervousness.

Levi folds his hands, "I guess that suggestive nuisance surrounding those two words, 'night' and 'my place' gets your naughty imagination going. You don't need to correct me by the way brat, I'm always right."

"W-well, I 've never been to a creativity academy like you did. So I'm not that imaginative, Mr. Ackerman."

He then quietly takes a sip of his morning tea, "that's too bad. I wanted to tidy up the documents in my study, can't you help me ?"

"Of course I can..." (Y/n) smiles sweetly, "......daddy."

Levi spits out his tea in shock, eyes bulging wide.

He quickly puts down his glass and glances up to his girlfriend, "what was that ? What did you just call me ?" Poor Levi needs to make sure this isn't a dream.

"I just wanted to try calling you that. 'Daddy.'"

The vice president blushes deep shades of red as he rubs the back of his neck, "you may keep it up. I will specially allow it." He boldly said.

"Nope. Once is enough," (Y/n) flashes him a smile, "I'll take my leave now, sir."

"O-oi ! You can keep on-"

*Click*

(Y/n) already left his private office, leaving him feeling...needy. Levi ruffles his hair while sighing, "dammit... I should've recorded her saying that.." he then punches his table out of frustration. Scolding himself for not thinking about it earlier, "I guess from now on I should carry a tiny voice recorder in my pocket. Just in case."

"I wouldn't mind if she calls me that again..."

-------At night - Levi's Mansion-------

The secretary clenches her bag nervously as she stands inside her boss' luxurious living room, still clad in her work clothes. As promised, (Y/n) comes to his place at night in order to tidy up some things in Levi's study. It's been a minute or two, and the owner of the mansion hasn't showed up yet.

She patiently stands there like a statue, "Mr. Ackerman ?" (Y/n) attempts to call out.

"You're here early, brat."

Her head snapped towards the source of the voice that boomed a few feet behind her. Just as her eyes landed on Levi, she couldn't help but stare at his body. The vice president is currently wearing a bathrobe, revealing a huge portion of his toned and chiseled chest. It appears that Levi has just finished taking a shower since his hair is pretty wet, droplets of water fell down from his hair to his chest.

And (Y/n) almost drools over the sight..

"Oh, um..." The secretary is quick to turn away from him, preventing herself from imagining dirty things she wants to do with her boyfriend.

Levi raises his thin eyebrows upon seeing (Y/n)'s sudden act, it takes a few seconds for him to realize the small problem. He smirks, "don't you want to see more, sweetheart ? I see you get flustered so easily."

But then (Y/n)'s breath becomes heavier as she clenches her eyes shut, as well as forming fists on her sides, 'control yourself.. control yourself you horny lady..'

"It'll be too much for your fragile heart if you see my abs beneath this, so let me go get changed."

With that, he struts away.

The man is only halfway from disappearing into another room when (Y/n) opens her eyes and stares at his back. Her orbs trailed to his legs. Oh well, he has such a fine pair of slim yet toned legs. But that's not the problem. (Y/n) squinted her eyes a little, she spotted some... scratches on them.

Long and faint lines of bruises are evident on some parts of his legs. His calves, his ankles, his insteps, even on his soles. Those types of scars are most likely caused by.. Knives.

'Was he hurt when he was little ? Did he perhaps get those scars from... Underground ?' A tear escapes her left eye, 'maybe he did suffer in the past. It- it must've hurt so much..'

Now everything starts to make sense.. Maybe that was the reason why Levi refused to take off his socks when (Y/n) once tried to treat his injured leg after the sport competition back then.

(Y/n) then decides to use her time efficiently by making some tea for her boss instead of waiting and doing nothing. She pours the boiling water into the porcelain cup, but as she does so....

Tiny sobs start to escape her mouth.

Just by thinking about him, (Y/n) cannot imagine what Levi has really gone through in his past, 'all these time, I've been cursing at him, talking about bad things behind his back, thinking that he can always get what he wants in a snap of a finger. But is he really like that..? Was I too blind to realize something..?'

*BUZZ*

Still crying, the secretary fishes out her phone to pick up a call, "h-hey Pock." (Y/n) tries her best to sound normal.

"(Y/n), where are you ?"

"At Mr. Ackerman's place."

The man on the other line shrieks,

"What ? Why are you there ? Do you know what time it is ? Are you really dating your vice president ? That selfish, egoistic bastard ?"

"Porco, Mr. Ackerman, he..."

(Y/n) takes a time to collect herself together before answering her best friend. Unknown to her, the man (Y/n) just mentioned is leaning on the wall on the other side of the room, listening to his girlfriend.

"He's not selfish," (Y/n) manages to say between her shaky breath, "he was a much better person than I thought he was. So.." Her lips begin to quiver, "please don't worry about us that much."

"...Whatever. Anyway, we'll leave at 12 o'clock tomorrow, alright ? Don't be late for our annual family gathering."

"Alright, bye.."

The woman ends the call before shoving back her phone into her pocket. (Y/n) wipes her remaining tears and let out some tiny sobs, hoping that no one would hear her.

At this moment, Levi has dismissed himself from his previous place. After witnessing and eavesdropping on his girlfriend, he then heads elsewhere, "is she crying because people around her are against me. But why ? They should be putting up welcome banners instead !" He scoffed.

"Could it be because they think I'm too handsome ?"

An idea then popped in his head, "Tch, why can't I be slightly less perfect ? I should've thought of it sooner. Now that I have a plan..." Levi trails off, walking away to find his dear secre- No.. Girlfriend.

He found her sitting inside his study room alone, with a bunch of paper sprawled out on the table in front of her. Levi sat himself across from (Y/n) with a cup of tea in his hand, "everything will soon be settled," he said.

"Oh, yes. Once we shred all the documents older than 10 years, except for the confidential files-"

"I don't mean that."

(Y/n) looks up from the papers, facing her boss with a puzzled face. The man sends her a reassuring look, "I mean all your dilemmas. They will all soon be settled. I overheard your phone conversation, and it looks like your family is worried for us, but I'll make sure that they stop worrying very soon. You know me. I'm the... cleanest vice president on earth."

"Pfft.." Levi's words managed to put a smile on (Y/n)'s face, making his heart filled with warmth.

"I, Levi Ackerman, will use all means and methods to win over your family's trust. So please.. don't cry. Save your tears for our happy future."

She smiles ever so gently at him, somehow.. Being with Levi just feels.. right.

----------- Time skip -----------

"You didn't need to take me home, you know ? I could've taken a bus-"

Levi sends her a glare while grumbling a little, "this is so we can be together even just a bit longer, brat. If we said goodbye at my place, wouldn't that be disappointing ?"

"I never thought you're the type that-"

"I mean for you, Ms. (L/n)." He cuts her off, while escorting the secretary to the front door of the apartment building.

The smile on (Y/n)'s face dropped, but then it showed again, but this time, veins are protruding from her forehead, "yes, you're right, Mr. Ackerman." She gives him an eye closed smile.

"My schedule's free tomorrow. Want me to date you ?"

(Y/n) nearly choked. Never in her life she saw someone asking their partner out for a date in a really blunt way. But she quickly shrugs it off, "O-oh, tomorrow ? I can't. I have a family reunion."

"Is it that one weekend you ask for leave, each year ?"

She nods, "yes sir."

"Heading down to Paradis Island again ?" He inquired.

"Mhm !"

The secretary then bows, "well then, good evening sir. I'll take my leave now." She begins to walk away from him, however, (Y/n) stops in her tracks, "oh that's right.. I forgot something... Um, Mr. Ackerman ?"

Levi hummed, questioning her sudden demeanor.

(Y/n) rummages her hand inside her bag, pretending to look for an object, before suddenly yanking out her hand, empty handed. The woman formed a heart shape with her fingers. The thumb and index finger of her hand are crossed to form a heart shape. She stretches the 'finger heart' gesture at Levi with a bit of shyness.

At first, Levi doesn't get the message. His brain works hard to comprehend her gesture, but then.. it clicked.

He once saw one of his employees, Jean, doing this kind of gesture to Mikasa. Which then he got rejected within a second. It's a way of showing... love.

As soon as Levi gets what she meant, his face blushes deep shades of red.

"B-brat.."

#Fun fact (confirmed by Hajime Isayama) : If Levi had a crush on someone he would constantly stutter in front of him/her/them.