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Levi had given up on finding his mate when he had joined the Survey Corps.
Over eighty percent of the people in the corps were beta’s, and the other nineteen percent was made up of old alphas that had been mated for years and years with a beta or omega. The other percent of the Corps was made up of the only one omega, Levi himself.
Levi was an omega, and more than that, he was a male omega, so he was even rarer. Rare enough to cause a frenzy in the underground when he went into his first heat when he was thirteen. He still remembered….remembered the fear he had felt. Looking into the eyes of a hungry, domineering alpha as they caught his scent and began approaching him, smirks slowly growing on their faces.
The underground was full of thugs and criminal and poor people, so there wasn’t many alpha’s in the district that were above raping and knotting him in the middle of the street. Even when not in heat, there was always a danger of him going out in the underground by himself.
Thankfully, Isabel and Farlan had shown up before one of those greasy alphas could lay a hand on him, if had been older they would have probably broken a few fingers and cut off a few dicks, but they were thirteen. So they did the most logical thing.
They grabbed Levi and ran.
They ran with their small, whimpering and flushed friend in between them. Isabel on his left and Farlan on his right, each clutching one of his shaking hands. They ran so far into the sewers that no one would be able to smell Levi and then they hid him in a large pipe that was unused and reasonably clean. You know…clean for a sewer.
They did that a few times a year for a week each time until they were captured by Erwin and they joined the Survey Corps. Of course, he didn’t tell his superiors, they were just nosy alpha’s and it was none of their business. So once again, Levi caused a horrible frenzy when he went into heat.
Thankfully, Farlan was sleeping three feet away from him when his scent began waking a few other men in the barracks up. The moment he smelt the strong, wet, scent of Levi’s heat he jumped to his feet and grabbed Levi and ran with him, they were joined by Isabel who had ran right into them in the hallway and the three of them ran like they had not so many years before.
The soldiers and recruits and superiors of the Survey Corps weren’t like the alphas and the few brave betas in the underground, but they were curious. They smelled the strong sent of young omega and they wanted to know where it was coming from and why, because no known omega was in the Corps.
Erwin came out of his quarters when he heard the commotion only to find Levi pressed into a corner while Isabel and Farlan stood protectively in front of him, shouting at the curious bystanders that if they moved a step towards their friend they’d slit their throat. Levi was curled up in his corner, panting heavily at being in the presence of so many alphas when he was in heat, the fact he was at a wonderful young breeding age being no help.
Erwin of course had cleaned up the scene quickly and then sent Farlan and Isabel away sharply. He had then carried Levi, who was shaking, flushed, and so wet it was seeping through his pants to Hanji’s lab and had stood in the room while the women introduced and explained supplements to the young man.
After that, he suffered from no more horrible, lonely heats and he continued his life as a solider in peace. Or…at least peace with his heat. After the scene in the yard Levi was approached by several horny beta’s who wanted to…take Levi as their own. Levi had laughed in their faces in reply, even as his stomach turned in interest and his hole wetted at the press of their hot bodies.
He wouldn’t be taken by some dirty beta, he didn’t want to be thrown around like some play thing just because he was “crafted” to bottom and breed and clean. Beta’s and Omega’s could sleep together all they wanted, but they couldn’t breed, and beside…Levi wanted his mate. The special, crafted in the stars mate that every Omega supposedly had. It was hopeless and stupid and cheesy, but he only wanted one person to ever touch him, to ever love him, to ever fuck him.
So he swallowed down his natural urges to submit and kicked them unconscious.
In a matter of days, everyone had learned their lesson and Levi was left to prosper in the military. At the age of twenty one he was made Captain by Erwin and had officially been given the title of Humanity’s Strongest by everyone in the Corps. By that time, Levi had given up on finding his perfect mate, his perfect alpha and threw himself full force into being a perfect leader and solider.
That had all changed when he was twenty five and Eren Jaeger joined the Survey Corps.
Levi had been fighting his instincts to submit and please for years on end, he wasn’t even near heat, and his supplements handled that for him anyways, but when he met eyes with Eren he felt positively…lovely. All his stress and anger and rudeness seemed to slip away from his very being. It was like he was floating, he felt warm all over and happy, he wanted to smile and cuddle and nuzzle and be kissed and…fucking hell he was soaking wet.
He had gotten away from that child, it was better if he called Eren a child, that way he wouldn’t focus on the urges that his body was currently boiling with. He wouldn’t focus on them, he couldn’t focus on them.
He got intense pleasure from kicking the shit out of the little brat who was ruining his life.
Eren was his mate, that stupid, cheesy, made in the stars mate that he had wanted for his entire youth and then had given up on by the time he reached the age of twenty. And he was perfect, the complete opposite of Levi in almost every single way imaginable, but he was perfect.
He wondered what those strong arms would feel like around his waist, he wondered what that mouth would feel like kissing the back of his neck while he was taking him from-
Okay, stop, shut the fuck up brain, he’s fifteen fucking years old.
He’s fifteen, he can’t be your mate.
He’s a child. He can’t give you children.
But he was, and Levi wanted him. But he wouldn’t allow himself to have Eren, his only fear was…what if Eren knew? What if he wanted Levi and wanted to take him and….
So he did his research. And he was very pleased with what he found. Omega’s knew their mates at first sight, but Alpha’s…they only knew who their Omega’s was when they went into heat near them. Levi stacked up on suppressants and took twice as many as he was supposed to.
He might belong to Eren Jaeger, but he would never allow the boy to know that.
…...
Levi came to an erupt stop outside of the stables when he heard whimpering. At first he thought it was a couple of horny beta’s getting it on while everyone else was heading to dinner, and went in to tear them apart and send them off to the dining hall with a good hit with his riding crop…but he found no horny beta’s in the stables.
Instead he found a sobbing Armin Arlert in the corner of the cleaning stall, his shirt torn open, and the backside of his pants completely soaked. He sniffed the air and his suspicions were confirmed. Omega. Probably going into heat for the first time.
“Arlert.” He said from where he stood.
Armin jumped, letting out a fearful whimper when he found him standing there. But then his nostrils flared and he relaxed slightly against the wood on his back. Well that was good, at least the boy knew he wasn’t a threat.
“Captain.” He got out, voice shaking and face red.
“Are you alright, brat?” he asked, moving slowly forward.
Armin looked like he was about to nod but then changed his mind and shook his head rapidly, tears flowing down his cheeks.
“Is this your first heat?”
Armin’s entire mouth trembled as he nodded.
Levi let out a sigh. He tried to be annoyed, to snap at the brat at least a bit, but all he could think about was his first heat, about how scared he had been…
He crouched down and held out his hands to the small blonde. “Come with me, Arlert. I’ll bring you to Major Zoe and she’ll take a look at you.” Armin slowly reached out and took his hands, letting the Captain help him to his feet. His knees wobbled horribly and he almost tripped over his own feet, but Levi held him up and put the blonds arm around his shoulders.
“Come on, brat.” He said, though he couldn’t fight the affection that was creeping into his voice. He had never really interacted with any other Omeg’s before, and he wanted to help him, protect him. Because he understood. The helplessness, the loneliness, the neediness, the utter horror of feeling those feelings in general.
“Arlert.” He said suddenly, stopping in the middle of the yard. “Why is your shirt ripped like that?”
Armin didn’t answer right away.
“Did someone try to hurt you? Did someone succeed in hurting you? Because if they did I’ll go straight to the Commander and-“
“No!” Armin squeaked. “No I-I did it to myself. I was really hot and I couldn’t breathe.”
Levi gave him a leveled look. “You don’t have to lie to protect any of those bastards, Arlert, Omega rape is one of the most awful-“
“No!” Armin said at once. “No. No one…no one did that. I was just…I smelled them all in the dining hall together and I just…” he trailed off, lowering his head in shame.
“You don’t have to feel ashamed, Arlert.” Levi said, staring to walk again. “I know how it is.” He said softly under his breath, hoping the young teenager wouldn’t hear. But he did, he could see the look of wonder on his face.
“So the rumors are true.” Armin whispered.
“You smelled me, didn’t you?” Levi snapped.
“Yes but-” Armin tripped a little and blushed. “I….I always admired you.” He admitted, looking down at the floor. “Everyone always told me Omega’s couldn’t make it in the Survey Corps, that we were too weak to do anything but carry children and clean for our alpha’s but you...” he trailed off, biting his lip.
Okay, he was definitely feeling affection for the boy. “I’m honored that you looked up to me that way, Arlert.” He sighed. “To be honest, I was much like you when I first joined the Corps. I went into heat once in the middle of the night and after that I had beta’s all over me.”
“What did you do?” Armin asked as they approached Hanji’s lab.
“I kicked their heads in the first time, and if they tried it again I broke their fingers.” He admitted, he looked at Armin seriously. “Now that you’ve gone into heat, everyone here will know what you are with a single sniff. But you can’t let them dominate you, you can’t let them mate you unless you want to, you have to make them respect you, show them your strength, show them your more than your breed.”
Armin stuttered. “But I’m not strong like them I can’t-“
“We’re small, I’ll admit that. We’re supposed to be little. But we have speed, we have smarts, we have blades, and I’ll teach you to kick a stupid Alpha or a horny beta threw a damn brick wall.”
Armin beamed up at him, but then his face turned serious.
“Captain may I …may I ask you a…personal question?”
Levi frowned, but nodded. “I suppose so.”
“What…what do you do if you want to mate with someone? Or you feel a pull towards someone or-“ he trailed off, his pants interrupting him.
“Arlert are you trying to tell me you’ve found your mate?” he said in a hushed voice, stopping them right outside the door off Hanji’s lab.
“I…I think so.” Armin answered in the same hushed voice. “I felt…so strange when I first met him, like…I was totally at peace and happy and I got wet for the first time and it’s been….the heats been slowly growing ever since we’ve met a few months ago.” Levi wondered if the poor boys skin was about to burn off it was so red.
“Who is it?”
Armin’s blue eyes whipped around the empty halls and even emptier yard threw the window before he leaned in slowly and whispered, “Jean.”
“Kirstein?” he snorted in disbelief, Armin’s entire body shook slightly and a whimper slipped past his small mouth.
“God, we need to get you on those supplements as quickly as possible. And I’ll tell you now kid, if you and Kirstein really are true mates he’ll be all over you the moment he smells your heat, so if you’re not ready to fuck I suggest you stay away from him.” With that he hauled the small blonde threw the lab door and quickly started calling for Hanji.
Once he explained the situation to the women he left the sweating and wet boy on an observation table and told him he needed to go speak to the Commander about Armin’s state.
He knocked on his old friend’s door and entered when he was told too, it was just to be polite, not because he would be intruding on a alpha’s place of living. He entered the room and closed the door behind him and set himself down elegantly in the chair in front of the desk.
“So we have another Omega on site.” He announced.
Erwin looked up from his paper work, startled.
“What? Who?”
“Armin Arlert. I just found him in the stables; he was having his first heat.”
Erwin shook off his shock and nodded. “Right.” He opened one of his file drawers and started rummaging through for some paper work he had only had to ever given to one other solider before, the solider being the one sitting across from him.
He sat a stack of yellowed paper down on his desk. “Birth control forms. Supplement forms.” He sat those two aside for Armin and then lifted an enormous box out of the closet and sat it out on the desk in front of Levi. The younger man let out a sigh, he remembered those forms, they weren’t for Armin, but for the other soldiers. All of them. They had had to sign one on Levi when he had joined.
In summary, the form concluded that if you raped the omega whose name was on top of the form you would be executed on spot. The Survey Corps didn’t take discrimination or rape of Omega’s lightly, especially with Levi being in high places.
“Does he have a mate?” He asked Levi, shuffling threw a few more drawers.
“He thinks he does.” Levi admitted.
Erwin didn’t even look up.
“Name?”
“Jean Kirstein.”
Erwin raised a thick brow, and then snorted in the same tone as Levi had. “Interesting.”
“Well if he’s truly Armin’s mate he’ll have to fill out this form to make the bond official to the Survey Corps, they’ll get all kind of side perks.” He handed the form to a scowling Levi. “Armin will have to fill one out too.”
Levi placed them with the birth control and supplement forms, and then tucked it under his arm as he went to leave.
“Levi?” Erwin said when Levi’s hand was on the doorknob.
“Hmm?” he hummed.
“I know about Eren.”
He dropped the papers in his hands, and they fluttered all over the floor. “How-How do you-“
“I think you should tell him.” Erwin said, scribbling away at some paper work.
“He’s a child.” Levi said stiffly as he bended down to pick up the fallen papers, he made sure they were perfectly aligned and tucked them under his arm again.
“He’s your Alpha.”
Just the words made Levi do a full body shudder from pleasure, he shivered at the word. Alpha, love alpha, want to please alpha, have him in me, want to give alpha lots of chi-
He shook his head to get rid of those thoughts. He hated himself for thinking them.
“And I’m my own person.”
And then slammed the office door behind him and marched back down towards Hanji’s lab. He should have been heading to the yard to give instructions for training, but he needed to handle Armin first. And he should probably get this over with and get-
“Kirstein!”
The young man straightened up, turning away from Marco, Connie and Sasha.
“Come with me.” He commanded. The young man seemed to groan but he followed orders and began walking at Levi’s side.
“Kirstein this is very serious.” He said, stopping the man outside of Hanji’s lab door abruptly, he watched the younger man with stormy gray eyes, taking the note of the way his nostrils were flaring and his irises were getting huge and he was edging towards the door a little.
“Whats-whats in there?” the man asked Levi breathlessly.
The shorter man knocked him upside the head to gain his attention. “Considering the way you’re reacting your assigned mate of the universe.” Jean’s eyes widened and he move closer to the door. Levi grabbed the side of his face tightly.
“Listen to me you idiot.” He growled and Jean locked eyes with him. “Your mate just so happens to be Armin Arlert, and he’s in the middle of his first heat.”
A groan past Jeans lips and his eyes fluttered.
“And he’s very frightened-“Jean growled at that, pleasing Levi. “And whatever the fuck you do don’t jump him in the middle of the damn lab, and you don’t fuck him until he gives you his full consent and he’s on his birth control, you fuck.”
Jean nodded, a little bit of drool running down the side of his lip.
“Clean your face, pig.” Levi snapped, Jean wiped it away.
Levi gave him one last glare. “Act like a god damn human being.” And a command and then opened the door, he went in first, Jean following closely behind him. Armin was now wrapped in some spare clothes that Hanji had hanging around the place, a blue sweater and tight fitting white uniform pants. He was holding a bottle in his hands and he had a frown on his face, and Levi was relieved to see the color of his face had gone down a little bit. He was rubbing the side of his neck where his scent gland was.
“I brought you a present.” Levi announced as he walked in. Armin glanced up and then froze as his and Jean’s eyes met. They stared at each other for a few moments before the Alpha moved forward, Levi shot him a warning glare, but Armin was grabbing him and they were kissing each other hungrily, Armin was letting out tiny, sweet little high pitched moans that had Jean growling in pleasure.
“I’m not babysitting any twerps, so you two better stop your groping.” Levi chided as they split, a line of saliva connecting their bottom lips.
“Speaking of twerps,” Hanji said cheerfully, coming out of a cupboard with some microscopes in her hands. “When are you gonna pop some out, Levi? You’re getting old.”
“I’m twenty five!” Levi snarled.
“Right. Old.” Hanji said with a smirk.
“You pop out some puppies, Hanji!”
“I’m not the one with the Alpha their ignoring.” Hanji muttered in his ear before quickly scampering out of the room and back into the cupboard to grab more equipment.
“Oh Jean…”
Levi looked over to see that Jean was licking away aggressively at Armin’s scent gland and the blond’s hands were digging into his back, his mouth open and panting into his ear. His thin legs were wrapped around the taller man’s waist.
“No fucking you two.” He snapped, and Armin backed up swiftly at his words, panting and red face. Levi knew he would be getting wet again soon, if he wasn’t already soaked.
“He’s just mad because he’s never been fucked before.” Hanji said with a giggle as she walked past.
“Shut up, shitty glasses.” He snarled.
“I mean you could be doing it if you just admitted it to yourself.” Hanji carried on like nothing had happened. “You could be doing it every damn day, in every position your sick little minds could think up.”
“Hanji-“
“And then one day you’d purposely forget to pop the pill and in nine months I’ll be cutting out a cute little teal eyed baby with ebony hair who speaks fluent German.” Hanji muttered in his ear, bending down slightly.
Levi glared her off and walked towards the two making out soldiers, Armin was whimpering for Jean to finger him because he was so so wet.
“None of that, kids.” Levi said sharply, pushing them apart. “You both have paper work to fill out.” He handed the one sheet to Jean and then the others to Armin, then planted himself in between them firmly. Hanji handed them both clip boards and pens and sat back against it as they both skimmed threw and read all the terms and conditions and filling out personal information.
“Come along, Jean.” Levi said as soon as the boy was done finishing his work.
“But-“
“Now!” Levi snarled. “Back to training!”
Jean gave Armin a long, lingering kiss causing the blonde to whimper needily before he started towards the door. “Have him suited with some proper medicine right away. I’d concentrate on getting the birth control before sun down.” He muttered in Hanji’s ear before grabbing Jean tightly by the arm and hauling him out the door.
……….
Levi was nearly fisting himself after dinner. His senses were on full height, and his ass was soaking wet, his own slick running down his thighs as he jammed his fingers harshly into his prostate. He had watched over training like always and then had brought Armin to his new separate room that he was to stay in now that he was in heat. Thankfully, the kid was now on birth control, because hardly ten minutes later he watched from the end of the hall as Jean snuck in.
Anyways, he was stressed and slightly moist by the time he got to dinner, mostly due to the fact that Eren had spent the last few hours of training shirtless, panting, and slicked with sweat, and at dinner…watching him devour his food and then lick his fingers clean of grease like the slob he frigging was.
See, polar opposites.
But apparently his omega side didn’t care much for cleanliness because all he could think about was Eren licking Levi’s slick off of his fingers after finger fucking him and oh god. He whimpered shrilly and jammed another finger inside of himself. He could afford to be loud now, the units had gone into town to a bar and the only people in the building with him was a wildly mating Armin and Jean, and they sure as hell didn’t care if Levi was squealing himself horse over the alpha he couldn’t allow himself to have. At least not yet.
Levi drew his legs up higher to his chest as he let out sob and screamed a sharp cry of “Eren!” as he came all over his own fingers.
………
“So did you hear Jaeger fucked some beta behind the bar last night?”
“Yeah some townie who works there.”
“We lived on the same street before I joined the Corps. Her name is Marley or some shit.”
That was the first thing Levi heard when he went to breakfast the next day. And he was horrified at the sudden prickle behind his eyes when he heard the news from the soldiers sitting at the table behind him. He pushed his oatmeal away from him, avoiding the gazes of both Erwin and Hanji, who were watching him intensely. He slowly stood up, his eyes burning hotter than coals, and slowly made his way across the room, where Armin sat cuddled up in the lap of Jean. They were cooing all over each other and Jean was stroking Armin’s blond hair, telling him how beautiful his eyes were.
Of course, this caused a picture that would never happen to form in his head. Sitting in Eren’s lap, legs crossed angrily, acting all rude and annoyed but Eren still kissing his cheeks and calling him cute and-he hated everything. He wanted to cry. But you know what? Fuck Eren Jaeger. Fuck all the alpha’s in the world. No one was worth his tears.
So he walked pointedly with his back facing Eren as he began speaking to Armin.
“Arlert.” He began strictly.
Armin straightened up at once, standing up and saluting him. “Sir.”
Levi’s lip quirked. He really did like this brat. “I was wondering if you wanted to accept an offer regarding your training.”
Armin waited patiently.
“You remember what we spoke of yesterday?”
Armin nodded, the slightest blush crossing his pale cheeks. Jean chuckled into his spoon; Armin swatted the back of his head. Yup, definitely liked this one.
“Of course, sir.”
“I’d like to personally train you to defend yourself. Teach you some tricks, both fighting wise and not. Omega to Omega and all that.” He said, keeping his voice crisp and bored.
Armin’s blue eyes widened in excitement. “Of course, sir!”
“Wonderful. Let’s start now.”
Armin gave Jean a hesitant look. “But-“
“Come now, your heat will be calmed by the birth control. You’ll have a few more hours before it becomes too much to stay away from each other.” Levi’s eyes were full of challenge, and Armin found he would like to take that challenge. Omega to Omega and all that.
“Yes, sir.” Armin said, he kissed Jean quickly and then scampered off after Levi, who was already half way across the room and making a bee line towards the door.
“Well who shoved a pole up his ass?” Eren said as he watched Levi’s retreating back.
“No one.” Jean snorted, his friends looked at him, eyebrows raised. “Hanji said Levi was a virgin.”
“She said that?” Mikasa asked skeptically
“Well she said he’s never been fucked so I’m pretty sure that means he’s a virgin.” Jean dragged Armin’s half empty bowl to him and began stuffing himself before Sasha could get it from him, he tasted Armin’s sweet mouth on the metal, and found himself smiling at the thought of his cute little mate.
“So did you and Armin fuck last night?” Connie asked bluntly.
Jean glared at him. “No.” he said. “We just fooled around. A lot.”
“He’s in heat and you didn’t screw him?” Marco asked with a snort.
“He wasn’t ready. I’m not gonna fuck him if he isn’t ready, I don’t wanna be that kind of Alpha.”
“So what did you do?” Sasha asked curiously.
“Fingered him a few times.” He admitted a pleased grin on his face. “Then he blew me off a few times in return.”
Eren made a noise of disgust. “Can you please not talk about your sex life with my best friend, that’s disgusting.” He promptly pushed his bowl away from him, looking extremely disturbed. Sasha grabbed it at once.
Jean raised an eyebrow at him. “And you assume everyone wants to hear about your sex life?”
Eren flushed. “I was drunk off my ass; I don’t even remember doing it.”
“Well a couple dozen people saw the two of you screwing, so it happened.” Ymir commented as she walked by briskly, Krista at her side.
Eren glared after her and took a sip of his water. “So if nothing been up Levi’s ass, what’s got him so pissy?”
Mikasa looked at him in amusement. “Why do you even care?”
Eren didn’t answer, because he had no idea why.
…………
Armin and Levi sat out on the steps on one of the outside houses of a the castle, Armin had sweat running down his brow and his face was flushed, but he looked extremely pleased with himself. Levi decided that the kid, deserved to be proud. They both sat and eyed the punching bag that had been nearly torn to shreds by sharp kicks and punches.
“You’ll make a wonderful student.” Levi hummed, slightly impressed. The boy was a quick learner, easily mirroring Levi’s kicks and punches, analyzing the moves that the Captain had showed him and making them work for him.
“Not perfect.” Levi mused. “But good. You learn quickly.”
Armin blushed, pleased with himself. “Thank you, Captain.”
“You can call me Levi.” Levi said after a moment.
Armin startled slightly, his big blue eyes widening even more, he felt a slight squirming at the bottom of his belly, pleased but surprised at the man’s words, they had hardly known each other in this way for more than twenty four hours. And well….he had looked up to the man for such a long time, he was to flustered to speak for a moment. “Oh Captain I couldn’t-“
“Omega’s have to stick together in a world full of Alpha’s and Beta’s , Arlert.” Levi raised a brow. “Unless you don’t enjoy my company.”
“NO!” Armin protested at once. “No sir, of course I enjoy your-“
“Then it’s settled then.” Levi tipped his head to the side to look at the blond, and smiled slightly.
Armin’s eyes widened. “Sir are you-“
“Levi.” Levi corrected.
“Levi are you…smiling?” he asked, and then chided himself, half expecting the man to get up and start kicking him in the face for saying something so rude. He knew Levi had feelings, he knew he wasn’t really as indifferent as he pretended to be, but the action still surprised him, he didn’t think he had ever seen the Captain smile before. No, he was sure he hadn’t.
The side of Levi’s lip quirked up slightly more. “I know you brats don’t think so, but I do have the ability to feel things.”
“I never-“Armin began, a flush coursing hot over his cheeks.
“I know.” Levi interrupted, waving to interrupt Armin’s speech. The blonde silenced at once, giving the corporal an uneasy smile.
“It’s lunch time.” Armin said, interrupting the silence as they both watched the tired soliders walk across the yard.
“Indeed.” Levi got to his feet and straightened out his uniform, wrinkling his nose at the sight of the wrinkles all over his pants and the sweat on his own shirt, his jacket was covered from flecks of dirt from kicking around in the yard for so long. God, he had almost forgotten how messy training was. “You go ahead and find Kirstein, the both of you are dismissed from training for the rest of the day.”
“You’re not coming?” Armin asked in surprise.
“I have to shower.” Levi said, his OCD consuming a large amount of his thoughts as he tugged at his dirty shirt. “Make sure Blouse doesn’t eat all the food, will you?”
With that he left the small blond on the steps and hurried up to his room. He immediately started stripping off of his clothes, making sure the door was locked tightly before he stepped into his private bathroom. He turned on the water as hot as it would go, and stood on his tip toes to retrieve his large variety of soaps from on top of the shelf. He grabbed a cloth for washing himself and made sure he had his towel before jumping into the shower.
And no, he did not think of Eren fucking Jaeger while he was in there.