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jennifersbod · 7 months
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i just have this irrational (or rational idk) fear that my time for being a regular young adult human is running out and no one around me cares and it feels like i’m suffocating. Anyway
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I'm making a major life change. I'm detransitioning (for medical reasons, so please don't cancel me).
I don't talk about this sort of thing much on my blog because I prefer to live a relatively private life separate from social media. However, I still wanted to disclose some things to my followers. I was on testosterone for over 5 years. I got the prescription after 8 months of counseling for gender dysphoria, followed by a consultation with a psychiatrist and an endocrinologist. This all started back in 2016 and I began taking T in 2017.
The symptoms that were considered part of my gender dysphoria diagnosis were mostly related to body dysmorphia. Since puberty, I felt like my body shape was completely wrong and that certain parts didn't belong to me (no real explanation, just physical discomfort). I had an eating disorder for many years that I never fully recovered from until the T improved my metabolism enough and I could start eating intuitively again. My other symptoms were... pretty much just being a weird girl and a social misfit. I had learned to mask it ok but social expectations just felt overwhelming and exhausting.
T was amazing for the first few years. My period stopped after a month, I lost fat and put on muscle, I could eat a full meal again, my body felt right in a way it never had before. I even got a new job where I felt like a fit in way better as a guy. I was extremely well informed on what changes to expect and when, and I was always careful with my health, getting regular blood tests and checking in with my doctors.
The side effects started to accumulate and worsen however. My body temperature ran high and I got overheated quite easily, which affected my sleep among other things. After about a year I started to get intense abdominal cramps with increasing frequency. Several years of this and I eventually had to get a hysterectomy (I kept my ovaries) and the cramping finally stopped. I had already had top surgery at this point. That was an entire ordeal on its own. I needed to have an emergency revision a week after the original surgery when I got a hematoma in the left side of my chest. I had to drive myself to the emergency room (my boyfriend was at work) where they opened the stitches and tried to manually drain it. Blood was gushing out of my side. I had to be rushed into the OR to have it fixed. After about 4 years on T, I began to have constant pain in certain organs due to atrophy. Medication only stopped it from getting worse, but the pain was still there and sex was out of the question. This can take a toll on one's mental health and relationship. The side effect that really scared me though was the heart problems. After nearly 5 years on T, I started having episodes of fast, pounding, irregular heartbeats. They were uncorrelated with anxiety, and heartburn medication did nothing. I stopped T for a few weeks and the episodes decreased. I started T again and had the worst one yet, where I was actually afraid for my life. I stopped again and my heart issues resolved in a month or two. My last dose was in October 2022.
Since then my body has been reverting to its natural appearance. I just look more feminine and read as female in spite of a flat chest and deep voice. It happened quickly for me. I decided to file paperwork for a court order name and gender change last week. I think I'll be back to publicly presenting as a woman in a few months. This has been a lot for me to process but I'm cautiously optimistic. And I'm so, so grateful that I have a loving, open-minded boyfriend and a supportive family. I don't know what I would do without them.
Why did I post this? Well, I thought sharing my experience might be useful for some of you. If you're on T or getting gender-related surgeries, or if someone you care about is, it's helpful to know about some of the things that can happen. My experiences differed significantly in some ways from the standard information you get on this stuff. Side effects can be quite manageable for some people, but very serious for others. I thought I was at very low risk of anything bad happening yet treatment still proved unsustainable for me. It can be difficult to find accurate information in a medical field that's been unfairly politicized. I just want what's best for everyone though.
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aloisofmissouri · 3 years
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A Journal Entry
July 20th, 2021
11:44pm
Trigger Warning:
 Sexual Assault, Self Harm,Mental Health, physical health, and occasional swears.
Dear Reader,
I’m only eighteen but I have experienced a lot, and so have many other teens I know. I know at least four of my classmates have been raped at some point in their life. And who knows what others may have been through and I never knew. 
But I’m not writing to share their story, unless they decide that they want their story told. As of now, I am writing to share my story. 
So, let's start with my earliest memory.
My earliest memory is watching Elmo and Little Bear from my crib in the living room when I was probably a toddler. I don’t remember much, other than enjoying the cartoons. It was happy and innocent. One of the few childhood memories I can look back on and smile. 
I was really young when I was first raped. First raped, you caught that part, right? Yeah, I wasn’t raped just once, but multiple times by one man. The man I had grown up calling my father. The man on my birth certificate. I’m not exactly how old I was when it started, but if I had to guess, I was probably in the first or  second grade when it went past the occasional groping and lewd comments. 
Near the end of third grade, my mother decided to take me and my sibling to live with our grandmother. But that didn’t last long.
We ended up moving back in with our mother and abusive father when I was in fifth grade. I didn’t want to but my father manipulated me into doing so. He threatened to place a restraining order on my grandmother when I wanted to stay with her. 
Things were miserable and the abuse continued. But luckily I was able to go back to my grandmother by sixth grade. But I still had to deal with what happened.
I believe my grandmother meant well, but she use to tell me not to let people know what had happened to me. She said that no one would want to be with someone who was raped because a lot of people view them as used or damaged goods basically. 
My grandmother was a bit emotionally damaging, though I know she more than likely didn’t know that she was being so. I have reason to believe that she has dementia and possibly a personality disorder. 
I remember her saying that I shouldn’t wear plaid or spotted clothing because it would make me look bigger than the broad side of a barn. She also told me to stay away from bright colors because they would have the same effect. I refused to stay away from plaid though, I kept that jacket from middle school until junior year when I could no longer zip it. But it took me a long time to wear bright colors, and it is still hard. I also have a hard time feeling comfortable in my own skin, and not just because of the occasional comment about my weight from my grandmother, but also because of the abuse I had dealt with from my father. I spent the majority of school always wearing jeans, jackets, and dark clothing. I didn’t feel comfortable wearing shorts. And I’m still getting used to wearing them. 
I had to go to court in middle school. Someone had apparently turned my father in for what he had done to me (I was living with my grandmother again by then) and we still do not know who reported them. I wish I could thank whoever turned him in. 
Sadly, they only gave him three years despite the evidence. And he was only going to have to serve one and a half years because of the amount of time spent in a jail cell waiting for court that kept getting rescheduled. He died of stage four lung cancer though before he was half way through his time.
My freshman year I finally realised I had anxiety and that there was something definitely wrong with me mentally. By my sophomore year, I was self harming and in counselling and diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder, PTSD, OCD, and Anxiety. By junior year I was on a lot of medication thanks to a pill happy psychiatrist. And I was miserable. But thankfully, I found a new psychiatrist who quickly helped me get cut down to just one pill. Near the end of junior year, I quit self harming. And I also finally started to get a bit of control over my mania and my depression.
I have a Google Doc somewhere that has over 150 pages of poetry, and the majority of it is about depression, trauma, and anger. And they were all written during middle school and highschool. Writing poetry helped me then. Now, I don’t really write poetry anymore. I have only written a handful of poems within the last year. And they were mostly in Shakespearean English because I thought it would be fun.
I believe I might have religious anxiety. I don’t remember the technical term though. I grew up going to Baptist Churches and had a heavy christian influence. But sadly, Christians aren’t quite as christian as they are supposed to be. 
Due to being constantly worried about sinning and about being too filthy and being damned to hell, my depression and anxiety got to me from a different angle. I kept breaking up with everyone I dated if I feared we were getting too close. I would either feel like I wasn’t good enough or I would fear that we would have sex and I would be damned. I also hated myself for my sexuality, though it took me a long time to figure that out. I supported my LGBTA+ friends but when it came to myself, I couldn’t accept myself. 
When I self harmed, I would do it because I felt filthy and had this urge to scratch my skin off my body because I never felt clean. I never hurt myself too severely, just scratches and shallow cuts on my wrist and my thigh. But I still found it hard to quit. It became far too easy to always turn to the blade, regardless of if I was feeling filthy or if I was dissociating or if I was having a panic attack. 
Despite what had happened to me, I’m finally starting to become me. Even though I am still discovering who I am. I quite self harming, I don’t have quite as many panic attacks or nightmares, I lost my virginity, learned I am demisexual (leaning a bit towards asexuality though) Panromantic and Nonbinary. I also discovered I have some other health issues outside of my mental health. I am apparently allergic to alphagall, peanuts, and wheat. Thankfully I just get slightly sick if I eat those things though, but it is still a bit annoying when those things are basically in everything you like to eat. 
I also found out that the reason my menstrual cycle has always been so irregular is because I have cysts. Originally I thought I had PCOS but now after some ultrasounds, it is looking like Endometriosis. I have cysts on my uterus and my ovaries. The doctor told me that my insurance should cover the surgery if I were to get a total hysterectomy. 
I never really wanted to give birth so that part of this doesn’t bother me, my fear is that there will be issues from the surgery. And it has also spurred some identity issues. But so far, I am sticking to they/them pronouns. Even though my family still calls me she/her. But I haven’t really come out to them. They know I’m not 100% straight, but who wants to sit down and explain to their grandmother (who dropped out of school in eight grade to care for her grandma, has a flip phone, and just a few years ago decided to accept the lgbt+ part of her family) that I’m nonbinary? I barely manage to explain to my mother (highschool dropout because of pregnancy, has a touch screen phone and understand some things of the current century) that there is more than just straight, gay, and bisexual. I explained to my mother the other day what omnigender and nonbinary is. Had to explain transgender to my mother when I was a junior and introduced her to a friend of mine who was afab but went by he/him pronouns. 
I suppose that despite all the shit I’ve been through, at least my mother doesn’t give two flying fucks who I like. When I told her that I thought I was pansexual in middle school, all she did was ask me what that meant. Then she just nodded her head and went with it. Same thing when I decided I was Wiccan in middle school. She even bought me a pentacle necklace and every book (mostly fantasy) that mentioned witches. I no longer identify as Wiccan, I mostly just stick to animist. But my point being, my mother didn’t throw a fit when two of her nine kids came out as gay. Even if she does identify as a Saturday Adventist, she supports us. She even listens to me ramble about mistranslated things in the Bible and my views on theology. And my rants about Supernatural. Though she did laugh when I spent about an hour crying after the Supernatural second to last episode of season 15. She did listen to me rant about Castiel and the plot lines and everything. Though I had to keep explaining some of the characters to her. 
Despite the things I’ve been through, I managed to graduate high school, survive my severe depression and anxiety, and now I am thinking about possibly applying for Law school and going to college. And I now also have the confidence to do what I want and wear what I want. Though I still feel all nervous about asking out a girl I’ve been friends with for about three or more years. I’ve now made the excuse to wait and see if she mentions not being completely straight. Oh, and she now has a boyfriend too so yeah, gonna have to wait a bit.
Until next time,
Alois 🐧
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wolfpawn · 4 years
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I Hate You, I Love You, Chapter 86
Chapter Summary -  Danielle does not feel well, but thankfully figures it out, leading to more time talking and in turn, repairing the relationship.
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Tom looked at Danielle, unsure what to do, she was clearly overstressed with the issue with her aunt and seemed completely out of sorts in general as she insisted she needed to go to bed early.
The auctioneer had confirmed Danielle's suspicion, Bernadette's claim the house and the meagre plot of land with it was worth a hundred and sixty thousand was way off, it was only worth ninety-five. She had gone to the solicitor again with her information and had called her aunt and uncle to inform them before she began to feel incredibly ill. Tom watched as she doubled over, complaining of stomach cramps and a headache.
"Can I get you anything?" He offered pathetically, completely at a loss as to what to do.
"No, I'm fine."
"Elle, you are as sick as a dog."
"I don't know what it is." She whined. "How am I so sick all of a sudden, ever since Christmas?"
"Maybe it's me." Tom joked, earning a groan from her. "What does it feel like?"
"Like what I imagine it would be like if you were to do that scene in Alien where the creature bursts out of your chest, only in my stomach." She explained. Tom winced slightly. "I haven't gotten this in years."
"Wait, you had it before?"
"Yeah, before I got the…wait, I got the bar changed a month ago."
"Right…?"
"I am…shit," She turned around and headed for the door.
"Elle?"
"I need to get to the shop before it closes."
"Elle, are you mad, it's half nine at night and you are sick."
"I'm not sick."
"What?"
"I am not sick, I know what's wrong with me."
"Good, okay, so what is it?"
"I am getting a period."
"What?" "A period, I had to go on the bar because they were so bad, I changed the bar and now I am reacting badly or something because my body is acting like it is not there."
Not wanting to argue, and with two sisters, Tom knew that though he knew something of female anatomy, he was nowhere near qualified to make comment on anything, he grabbed his shoes again. "I am driving." Danielle did not argue.
*
After getting the supplies they needed and Danielle took something to help the pain, she seemed to become more upbeat…somewhat. "God, I cannot wait to go home." She moaned.
"When do you think…?"
"I have no idea. As I knew would happen, Lourda and Michael cannot afford to buy out Bernadette, and according to the solicitor, if she really pushes it, they may fold and sell it in its entirety."
Tom folded his arms and leant back against the counter. He had only been at the house for just over a day and he loved it, knowing that it meant so much more to Danielle, he could only imagine how she was feeling. "What do you think you can do?"
"I am trying to see if I can get the twenty-five thousand to pay her myself."
"What?"
"If no one else can buy her out, I am going to see if I can, by myself."
"Can you raise that much?"
"I had planned to get a new car, but if I keep onto my one, I can get a loan against my house and then yes, I can."
"How long have you been considering this?"
"Since the moment Siobhan told me she could try this stunt. I always planned to try and convince my family to sell me their shares in this place when I was younger, now I may actually get it."
"So you would then own…"
"My share in the house would be half the overall," She confirmed. "I would keep the same arrangement as is currently here, though obviously, Bernie would lose her ability to have any input in the place."
"Obviously." Tom nodded, he looked at her. "You really want this."
"I do, I love it so much, I have so many good memories here."
"Can I ask about your parents' house, why were you not as interested in keeping that?"
"My parents and I moved three times in my life, so none of those houses gave the feeling this has. Nan's was constant, my parents was where was suitable."
"Do you think you can get the loan?"
"Living in England isn't working in my favour, I guess I'll have to wait and see." She shrugged before wincing again. "I want to Google hysterectomies right now, fuck I forgot how much this hurts."
Tom looked at her sympathetically. "What if this is a permanent thing now, you reacting badly?"
"Jesus, don't curse me like that." She warned.
Tom understood her somewhat, she had tossed and turned for the majority of the night, waking him on several occasions before saying she was going to get some painkillers and sneaking down to the couch downstairs to sleep. He realised her plan after ten minutes and herded her back into the bed, telling her that he would sit in the armchair across from her for the night if she decided to stay there. "Was it always…?"
"Not as bad, but when as I grew more and more, it got worse, and now I am enduring it again, fuck I am going to go through my own weight in painkillers at this rate." Tom pulled her close to him, kissing her gently. "I am sorry I ruined things."
"Elle, you said it was done, so it is."
"But we can't have any fun."
Realising that she was not referencing the argument but her inability to be intimate because her body was doing what it is supposed to do, he smiled slightly. "We will again when you are back to normal, but you said you didn't want to do anything here, so at least this makes sure you stay on that. Also, there is more than one way to be intimate, it doesn't have to be sexual." He pulled her to him again, his arms around her. "I am so glad I still have you my darling Elle." He whispered in her ear. "I love you so much."
"I'm sorry I ran off."
"I'm sorry I rubbished your feelings." Tom added, "Though I am not sorry we came here, it is gorgeous."
"How about you get that shower you wanted and we can head out for a while, I can show you more?"
"Perfect. I will be back in a moment."
"The water should be hot enough by now."
Tom nodded and went to fetch a towel. "Shit, I forgot, Luke said he was going to ring," He handed her his phone, "If he does while I'm in the shower, could you tell him Ollie got onto me and could he double check the TV show confirmation with the film company, he'll know what that means."
"You're lucky I love you." Danielle sighed with a smile, causing Tom to grin.
"I am, I truly am." He agreed, kissing her before going and readying himself.
As Danielle threw together some food as a lunch, Tom's phone rang; seeing it was not Luke, she left it go, the second time it rang, it was Luke, so she answered. "Hi Luke, Tom said you might ring."
"Is he there?" Luke sounded somewhat perplexed.
"He's in the shower, he told me to tell you, he was talking to Ollie and to double check the TV stuff." She recited.
"I did and it is confirmed," Luke answered.
"Should I tell him that?"
"Please."
"Okay."
"I am not prying, but Tom told me you were in Ireland at present." Luke inquired.
"I am."
"So then, he is in Ireland too?"
"Yes, we are at my Nan's place. I had an issue that was stressing me out so he came over." Danielle explained.
"Well, better than the jet-setting fiasco of last summer."
"Well, I don't own a jet."
"I am sure he will forgive you for that; if it is any consolation, he doesn't either." There was a hint of a smile in Luke's voice. "While I have you, I was wondering if you were going to the premiere in London?"
Danielle frowned. "I had not even considered it."
"I am aware you would not have gone as Tom's other half, but there are limited tickets for friends and family also. Tom is getting a few since of course, it is in London. Are you interested?"
"I am not sure, I have too much going on here, I am not going to be in Britain for a few weeks at this stage."
"Oh, I see. Can I ask if it is something serious?"
"Family drama."
"Everyone has that." Luke consoled. "I hope it resolves soon."
"Yes, well, my aunt is going all out on hers, so I m unable to plan anything, and thank you, I hope the same."
"I am sure Tom will ask you also, but if you change your mind, all you need do is ask. Tell him I have his ready for whomever he wishes."
"Thank you, Luke." She smiled. "I will tell him what you said and I am sure he will be on to you again soon."
"Thank you, Danielle, have a pleasant day."
Danielle laughed to herself as the call ended, going about getting everything ready for their afternoon. Several minutes later, Tom came downstairs, wrapping his arms around her, ensure to keep away from her tender stomach. "Luke rang, the TV thing has been confirmed, I told him about Ollie, your extra tickets are with him and someone else rang but I didn't know who it was, so I didn't answer."
"Thank you, love," He kissed her neck. "You make a great secretary." He looked at her for a moment. "I had planned to ask you about going to the premiere, but considering what you are doing here, I said I would not make you feel pressurised."
"I would have, but with my aunt." She gave him an apologetic look.
"I know," he reached for his phone. "It's Odette."
"No idea who that is."
"She is the PA for the Skull Island tour."
"But I thought Ollie was your PA."
"Not for this, he can't make it."
"Fair enough, I will let you call her back and I will get us ready to go." She kissed his cheek as Tom smiled and went on the phone again, thinking to herself as he did so.
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nottskyler · 5 years
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I want to write a letter to my lawmakers in Utah and I would like your help. Here is what I have and I would love for input on how to make it better:
Trans related healthcare is vital to the wellbeing of trans individuals, but we live in a state where employers can refuse to cover such treatments because there is a stigma related to gender dysphoria and related treatments. Utah is at risk of becoming one of the most intolerable states for LGBT individuals to live even though LGBT youth have no control over where they are born or to whom they are born. I’m an active participant of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but I can’t be blind to how the old fashioned leadership is actively harming our youth around the world, but especially here in Utah.
I know many take the recent words of President Oakes that eternal gender is the gender assigned at birth to be true, but I find it unimportant in this discussion.  Whether or not President Oakes words are true, we can’t ignore the fact that it is scientifically proven that the depression and suicidal thoughts of trans individuals can be greatly relieved through proper medical treatment, medical treatment that most small start-up companies providing a lot of jobs in Utah exclude because they think that the LDS population is free from such individuals. That couldn’t be further from the truth and trans individuals born to LDS families are at a greater risk for suicide and depression because of the outdated beliefs that say nothing is wrong with these individuals and that they are making up their experience and thus don’t need treatment. As a state, we can help.
I love working in a community where I live and work and go to Church with the same people, but at times this causes problems when faced with a choice of what is best for me and my family and what everyone else thinks is the right course of action. With the ability of employers to discriminate against trans people and for employers to provide insurance that doesn’t cover trans related health care, if I have a child that needs trans-related treatment, I have to confront my boss and ask for them to remove the exclusion. That puts me in a difficult situation, my boss might feel I am less responsible for seeking treatment he thinks is unnecessary for my child, I will lose face in my religious community, and I might even lose my job because there are no protections against being fired for being trans or supporting trans people. Weaker parents would balk at the request to confront their employer and their child will suffer and the parents might even double down on the cultural persecution of trans people to hide their cowardice. We don’t have to let this happen. We don’t have to stand by as our trans youth suffer in depression or kill themselves. We can protect them.
By requiring all insurance policies to cover trans related health care, we protect the parents who want to do the right thing for their kids. They can receive benefits that allow them to take care of their children without having to publicly support trans individuals in the workplace. The employer will never know and will never judge them for doing something necessary because the employer doesn’t understand what it is like to have a trans child. Our youth will be protected and able to transition and live happy and well-adjusted lives. Parents can support children without stigma and handle challenges without them becoming workplace challenges. The same protection will be given to spouses and individuals who aren’t ready to be out in the workplace but still need therapy and treatment.
This will also make our state more friendly to trans people who work or wish to work at start-ups in our community because they have much to contribute to our growth. Trans people need to know if their needed hormone treatment will be covered with a new employer and they don’t want to out themselves to someone who can legally discriminate against them for being trans. If we implement this change, they will be able to change work more freely because employers never need to know they were born a different gender or what surgeries, if any, they received. It is akin to sexual harassment to have to discuss what is or used to be in your pants in order to ensure that an employer will cover necessary treatments for a happy and stable life. Let us not force individuals who are already ostracized by our culture to face that discrimination in professional settings.
Let us have a law that does not allow employers or insurance companies to offer plans that deny or limit coverage for scientifically proven treatments for gender dysphoria. Do not let the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints come in and say that they need an exemption because that goes against everything this law is for. Parents who wish to remain faithful in the Church but want to do what is best for the children should not face repercussions for wanting to support and help their child in receiving treatment that could very well save their life. They should not be forced to choose between their job and their child and the Church has no business knowing what treatments an employee, their spouse, child, or any other dependent is receiving. The right to discriminate should not leave our youth vulnerable to a treatable disease that claims many lives. We need to protect them, regardless of the social stigma related to the disease.
In evaluating my own beliefs, I find it very strange that the Church as an institution would be so opposed to scientifically proven treatments. They encourage us to seek medical and professional help when it comes to our physical and mental health. There is no stigma for a woman to get a mastectomy or hysterectomy to save her life or a man to get a vasectomy when he pleases, or men and women getting hormone treatments for various disorders, but when it comes to doing the same for trans individuals, they make it a personal issue for many members because it challenges their beliefs. I have no such issue because if gender is eternal, it will all work out whether the person receives the treatment to cure cancer or gender dysphoria. There is no reason for us to allow cultural stigmas to prevent people from getting treatment for a treatable disease. In the end, everything will be made right through the Atonement of Jesus Christ and truth will prevail, whatever truth that may be. Here and now we need to love and support our trans siblings by providing them with the health care they need without the risk of losing a job, whether their own, their partners, or their parents. 
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COTW - Final chapter
Armed with a file full of printed papers, Levi was visiting Krista's office alone. Eren had been up and out of bed before him, finding feeding Eli when Levi had woken in a panic over his missing husband. With Krista's promptness, it was only a short wait before she came to fetch him. A smile on her face as he followed her down to her office, and gestured for him to sit. Sinking down, Levi let out a sigh. Krista jumping right into it as she sat "Let me guess. You and Eren had a fight?" "Maybe... Yes" "Both of you are so easy to read. He had the exact same look on his face when he came to see me. Was it about the roster?" "It wasn't my fault... I did the dishes without thinking" Krista laughed "Oh no" "Yeah. Pretty much" "And how many times has this happened?" "A few. I don't even realise I am until he tells me off" "And how is "he"?" "Bossy. He threw his shoe at me the other day" "Are you two sticking to the roster? For the most part?" "We're trying to. But like I said, I start something without thinking, so he gets mad" "And the shoe?" "I moved the washing to the dryer" An uncharacteristic pout was on Levi's lips. He really hadn't thought about it. There was washing to be done, and it was just... right there "No one said this would be an easy transition. It was more to get you two on the same page. Now. What have you brought me today?" "A few things... I... Eren and I had another fight over Nick's money. You see. There's something Eren said that hasn't left my mind, so I did some looking into it on my own" "Oh! What is it?" Passing the file of papers over to Krista, Krista opened it up in her lap "What am I looking at?" "Properties and property reports. Eren mentioned that omega shelters aren't safe for omegas, and we know how into omega rights he is. I know he hates Nick's money, but it was given to him so he could do something more with his life..." "You want to start a shelter?" Krista sounded both surprised and delighted, Levi leaning forward as he nodded "Not just a shelter. Hanji wants to quit from being a full time ER doctor, to spend more time with Anna before her baby comes. She's licensed to practice as a GP. What I want to establish is a new kind of shelter. A shelter where omegas are put first and treated as people. Where they can come for medical advice, without being judged. Eren is amazing with omegas, and with children. He's had no formal medical training, but he's helped deliver children. He knows what omegas need, and he knows what's wrong with society" "And you? You're giving me a lot of "Eren" reasons" "I never thought omegas were second class citizens. I dealt with omegas almost every single day, but it took Eren to make me realise so many things. The courage and bravery he showed taking the stand... He said that if it could help even just one omega, then it was all worth it" "Levi, you slipped back to "Eren reasons"" It was hard not to. Eren had opened his eyes to so many things "I don't want my sons growing up in a world where omegas are treated like shit. I'm fucking sick of seeing omegas beaten to death by their alphas, or thinking they deserve to be beaten because they have no where to go, and their alphas are dicks. No one else has the balls to step up, and I want Eren's suffering to have been for something" "Setting up a shelter isn't something you can just do" "I know. I've been in touch with the police, and with the government. Not that they're fast at replying. The government hasn't replied, but with their own interests at heart, it's best they "help" if they want to save face" "You need licenses and a premise" "I've been looking. I've found one that needs work, but it could be perfect" Krista flicked through the papers. Levi may have printed off almost everything he'd come across in order to read it properly at a later date "Which one?" "The old Wall Maria Hotel. It's abandoned, and ugly as hell. The bank's been trying to offload it for years. It was repossessed, but with the downturn in economy, no one wants to put the money or effort into it" Krista closed the file, her smile gone "Levi. I think it's very admirable. But we both know this is a grand gesture of love to Eren" "So what if it is?" "These are people's lives" "Why can't it be both? A positive change and a project Eren can throw himself into. We were all disgusted to hear how omegas were treated. Eren used to tell me not to quit my job because he was proud of how I treated omegas. I've seen abused omegas. My husband was let down by the system that was supposed to help omegas. Do you know what he told me? He told me one of the omegas at the compound, was giving birth to the child of a shelter owner. They went there for help, and instead had to pay for their room with sex. It's fucking disgusting. How is anything going to change when this shit is happening?" Krista sighed heavily. Levi taken back by how strongly she was objecting, as if she thought he hadn't considered everything... or maybe she was trying to make sure he had... either way, he was thrown off balance "Say you do start a shelter. How are you going to pay for the building? How are you going to pay for repairs? How are you going to pay for staff? You're not on suppressants anymore. Will you go back on them to cover your alphas scent? What happens when you have omegas in heat? With alpha staff? What happens if an omega throws themselves at you in heat? How is it going to be for Eren, surrounded by omegas throwing themselves at you?" "That's why I want to take a step back. I want to get Eren trained to be a receptionist, so when omegas come, they're greeted by an omega. I would take a purely administrative role" "And what about the kids?" "What about them?" "Not all omegas are trustworthy. You'll be having strangers in and out of your home constantly. Strangers around your children" "That's... The hotel is only small. 4 floors with 20 rooms across the two middle floors. The man who'd purchased the building had intended to turn the whole thing into a lavish townhouse. The top floor has already been gutted... there is a basement, and that will be a problem for Eren, but it's not like it has to be that building. I want to create a future with him. An omega has never, ever, received an restitution of that much. Previously, the largest ever sum paid out to an omega was $2000. And that was because a doctor was forced to perform a hysterectomy after birth. And even then, that payment was because of their alpha. Even if Eren and I don't have an active role above establishing the safe shelter, I still firmly believe that this is what the city needs" "And you're not just being swept away? Eren had a tremendous victory for omegas, that much is more than true. But what happens when the dust settles?" "Then we kick it up again. We make it so people have to listen. Shitty pigs feeding from their troughs, aren't going to listen unless someone tips those troughs over" "And what about what Eren wants?" "He's the one who mentioned the idea of a shelter to begin with. I don't intend to start anything without him by my side" "And the money?" "Eren said he didn't want it. He told me to take it, and despite it being restituted to him, it was still paid into my account as the alpha in our relationship. This way, he's not keeping it, and nor is it going to waste" Krista hummed, closing the file "Eren and I discussed the shelter idea, as well as donation. Did he tell you that?" "No" "It was only in passing, but he didn't want it as he'd finally found his small world of happiness. I do agree. Things needs to change for omegas, and I offered Eren my support. But I can't support you until you've discussed this in length with him. As you know, I own my practice, and I can assure you that getting established took jumping through a lot of hoops. There will be days when you wonder why you even started the process to begin with. With three young children, it's going to make things so much harder, and it may take years for things to settle down. Are you prepared for that?" "If... if Eren is by my side, we can find a way to make it work. And it won't just be him. There's Hanji, Mike, Erwin and Eld..." Not that he really knew if they'd want to be involved. Hanji would. Mike possibly too. Erwin and Eren had butted heads so many times that Erwin might not listen to Eren. But... he knew he'd regret it if he didn't at least see this through far enough to present something more than a just a paper proposal to Eren. He wanted to encourage his husband's dream... He wanted a world where Eren wouldn't be treated like shit anymore. And if that meant helping other people along the way, well, it couldn't be helped. Even if his intentions were less than completely sincere, around the edges, there wasn't a person in the world who couldn't say they'd never done something to bask in the praise of others. Eren was a symbol of hope, or at least in Levi's eyes he was... and his husband had been right. He needed to keep busy "I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I just want you to be truly sure before starting something like this. Abused omegas need a lot of time and help, just like you know. And though not all of them have had the same kind of life as Eren, they all have their own trauma and pain. Some may even come to find a safe place to die. You may have seen more than your fair share of death, but Eren hasn't" "I... know. I don't expect it to be easy. I don't even know if it'll succeed. But people like Nick, are really a dime a dozen..." "That is unfortunately true. Alright. For now, we'll set this aside. I want to see your list, and Eren's too if you have it" Levi was distracted by the idea of a shelter through his whole session. The more he tried to push it from his mind, the more it centred itself first and foremost. By the end of the session, he'd decided to call the realtor over the hotel. Even if he couldn't buy the hotel, it'd give him a fair idea of what to expect in terms of space and size. Hell. He'd even decided on the colour scheme for the facade... and most importantly, the name of the shelter. Throwing himself into researching and budgeting, Levi found himself often going to bed as Eren was getting up for the pups midnight feed. His husband was biting his tongue again, yet Levi hadn't been able to bring himself to tell him yet. He'd thought Eren would stay quiet at least until the end of the week, but it was a fortnight after his appointment with Krista, that Eren finally got mad enough to demand some answers. Carrying Rei in his arms, Eren walked over to the sofa and dropped down in his lap. Forcing him to abandon his laptop, and pay attention to his mate "I'm sick of you staying up. Either you tell me what's happening, or I'm throwing it off the balcony. These late nights aren't good for you" "Eren..." "No. Don't Eren me. Start talking. I'm holding Rei hostage until you do" Two threats? His husband really must be mad. Sighing deeply, Levi spread his legs so Eren slipped down between them. He couldn't see over his husband's shoulder if he didn't. Eren was way too tall for Levi's own good "He seems pretty happy being hostage" Rei was wide awake, his grey green eyes blinking up at both of them "Lee. I'm serious. I don't know what to threaten you with, but this has been going on since the chores list went up. Is that it? Are you mad about something? I've been trying to be respectful, but both boys have their weigh in and vaccinations tomorrow, today even. You need sleep, and I'm worried about you" Was that today? Every day seemed to bleed together without having the set roster of work. Kissing Eren's cheek, he sighed softly "Sorry. I'm not mad. And I'm not mad about the chore list. Have I been that bad?" "You're either on your phone or on your laptop. You didn't even hear me asking if you could hold Rei while I prepared his bottle" "Shit. I'm sorry" "What's going on?" "I've been working on something, and, it's not quite ready yet" "Working on something?" "Yeah. I wanted to gather more information before telling you about it" "Can you tell me now?" "I can show you, if you give me a couple more days. I'm not trying to hide anything from you, I just didn't want to get your hopes up" "You can't tell me that, and then tell me nothing more" "It's nothing bad" "That doesn't make it better. Is it your back? Is it the bullet? Has it moved?" Eren's scent peaked with fear "Bright Eyes, I'm fine. It's not the bullet" "Would you tell me, if it was?" "Yes. I would tell you" Maybe not right away, but it did affect their family after all "Then why can't you now?" "Because I want to be able to explain it all in person" Fuck it felt nice to hold Eren. It wasn't like he didn't hold him at night, but during the day, Eren had a tendency to curl up on the recliner with Titan, leaving him the sofa with Viren "And you will?" "Yes. I have an appointment at 3 on Friday, and I want you there" "Tomorrow's Friday. Not tomorrow once the sun comes up tomorrow, but tomorrow" "I still want you there. We'll have to organise a baby sitter though" "Hanji owes me a favour" Levi raised an eyebrow, Eren leaning back in his hold "What's with that look?" "You said she owes you a favour. She owes you about a hundred" "That's true. No. She just owes me a favour. I don't think she's on call on Friday afternoon... I'll have to check with her" "And how do you know when she works?" "Um. I babysit. I need to know when Anna's coming" He couldn't remember seeing Anna in the last week or so... "Don't be like that" "I'm not being like anything" "You've got you scowl face on" Levi kissed Eren's neck, nuzzling into his omega as he drank in his scent "I don't. No. I was just thinking. I really didn't mean to make you think about this more than you have to" "It's fine... its not, but now I know it's not health related, it's better" "I'm sorry" "Well. If you're sooooo sorry, can you hold Rei for me? I need to make his bottle. Eli went right back to sleep, but Rei, nope. He still doesn't want to breast feed" Snorting, Levi shook his head "He doesn't know what he's missing" "Don't even joke about sex. My arse just clenched at the thought" "I was talking about your breasts. They're great breasts" "It doesn't feel that way then he won't take my nipple. Now I'm getting depressed. Here, take him. Once he's fed, I want you to come to bed. Whatever it is, it can wait for now" "Yes, mum" "Don't give me that... You make me feel bad for worrying about you" "I'm sorry. It's sweet that you worry, and I'm sorry for making you worry. I just hope it's going to be worth it" "It better be. I'm sick of you staying up all night and not knowing anything" "Alright. I get it. I'm coming to bed once I've fed Rei. Then you have my undivided attention" "I better. I miss talking to you, without 6 little ears in the room" Despite his words, Eren was asleep when Levi climbed into their bed. Pulling his husband up to him, Eren let out a sleepy purr as he nuzzled into Levi's chest. It was nice to have a goal and dream, but he'd been doing exactly what Krista warned him about. He was throwing himself into the project and neglecting his family. He'd alienated Eren again, yet his husband still loved him. Kissing Eren's soft vanilla smelling hair, Levi wrapped his arms around his husband. Not caring at all that he'd wake with pins and needles down his arm. Eren was working so hard on doing what he felt he had to, to try and combat his depression the best he could. How could anyone not care for their omega, like he did for his? He was so very lucky to have Eren, and hopefully once Friday came, his husband would understand. Spending that Thursday with Eren sneaking glances at him every five minutes, and two pups that didn't appreciate their immunisations, the day passed slowly. Viren was also in a bad mood, as their toddler had gotten into the pantry before covering the apartment in flour. He hadn't appreciated his bath, or being smacked on the bum for spreading even more flour after being told to stop. For the first time in a long time, Levi found himself taking a nap in the afternoon, as it was Eren's turn to make dinner. He was woken by a crying pup, finding both Eli and Rei sleeping on Eren's side of the bed. Wriggling over, he draped his arm lightly across them, kissing Rei's hair, while gently playing with Eli's. Sometimes he still couldn't believe he was a father of three, or that Eren put up with his shirt and cranky arse. If he was Eren, he would have dumped himself a long time ago. Spending sometime with his son's was soothing. Even if Rei was still grizzly. They were both so very small and so very innocent, yet growing every single day. Their tiny family wasn't so tiny anymore and despite everything, Eren was more than willing to have yet another child with him... For someone who'd had no one for so long, it was an intoxicating promise. Though, he also knew that realistically if they wanted to have another child, it would have to be sooner rather than later. He didn't want to be the 60 year old dad in the back row of his child's play... He wanted his children to be able to enjoy life, without feeling shackled to their ageing father... but Eren had his heart set on a girl... and he couldn't deny that a miniature female Eren would be adorable... until she hit puberty, then it would be terrifying. Staying with their sons, Eli was set in to fetch him when dinner was ready. Eren having outdone himself with a full roast meal, and a glass of his favourite wine. He didn't even know they had alcohol in the house, but somehow Eren had magicked it up, leaving Levi silently agreeing that he really didn't deserve him. He could only pray that the following day wouldn't end with Eren in tears, and him in the doghouse again. * Leaving their three sons with Hanji, Eren chewed on his lip as Levi drove. According to his husband it was a short drive, but without knowing what they were heading into, Eren was a ball of nerves. He'd even cooked a huge dinner with the hopes of loosening Levi's tongue, but his husband stubbornly kept his secret. Pulling up in a random street, Levi turned the car off. His husband climbing out, and leaving him to scramble out after. The area seemed kind of nice. It wasn't upscale, but there were a few boutiques and cafes in the area. The only problem in the street was a god ugly building, that's ageing sign declared was once a hotel. With it bordered up windows, and trash spilling down its stone stairs, it was hideous. Not to mention the puke yellow paint job "Levi. Why are we here?" "Just wait a minute. She should be here soon" Who was she? And why was she coming? And what the fuck was going on? He didn't get what this had to do with anything "Or you could tell me now?" Smiling, Levi took his hand and dragged him over to stand in front of the building "Ta-da" ""Ta-da" what?" "It's a hotel" "Oh, no. What?" "I know you don't like it, but, I have an idea, and I need you use that imagination of yours" "You want to open a hotel? I told you I'd support you when you found something to devote your life to, but you're not exactly great with customer service..." "No. Not a hotel. Imagine the building repainted in a white, with blue around the window frames. Shutters on the windows, and two nice big plants either side at the top of the steps..." "Not a hotel?" "No. I know I've been busy, but I've been putting a lot of things in place. And I know this building is super ugly on the outside. In fact, I'm pretty sure we've cleaned up nappies with that same shit yellow in them, but. The previous owner, he brought it to convert it into a town house. He stripped the building of asbestos, and began to convert the top floor, before having to surrender the property to the bank when the economy went down hill..." Eren blinked at Levi, completely shocked by the excited words coming out his husband's mouth. He wanted to buy a fucking hotel?! But not run it as hotel... so he wanted to live in a hotel. While they might need space, a hotel was way too much space! No one needed a house as big as a hotel! "Levi. You better start making sense" Digging something out of his pocket, Levi unfolded the piece of paper. A very crude sketch of what seemed to be the hotel was on the paper, along with a series of crossed out names "I want to turn this into a safe shelter" What. What now? What? "A what?" "You said you didn't want the money the judge awarded you. And we both know omega shelters aren't safe. It's not a huge building, but I was thinking, that a shelter is a good idea" Wrapping his arms around himself, Eren backed away from Levi, holding up a hand to keep his husband at bay "A shelter. You. An alpha. Wants to build a shelter for omegas" Levi's smile slipped "Not just a shelter. Hanji wants to quit working in the ER. If she opened a clinic, we could provide a safe place for omegas to get medical help. There are 10 rooms on the second and third floors. As well as space on the top floor. I've been thinking about this. There's space so that you and Sasha could have your own studio for dancing. We could offer classes to omegas to help with literacy. We could help set them up with their own bank accounts and ID. Give them somewhere warm and safe to have heats. A sort of one stop spot. I've been contacting different agencies and trying to find out the legal side of things" Pinching the bridge of his nose, Eren shook his head "Are you serious? Do you know how much work this is going to take? You can't staff it with alphas..." "Well, that's why I was thinking you'd work here to. You're passionate about omega rights. You know what it's like to go through hell, and you're always looking out for fellow omegas. Rather than an alpha in control of everything, you and I would be, as a partnership" "What about the kids?" "There's the whole top floor... we could move here? Or at least have the space for them while at work..." "Levi... this is... all way too much... how do we even know this building will work?" "We don't. That's why we're meeting with the realtor. They're anxious to be done with it. And I know it's going to take a lot of work. That's why I want to bring Mike, Erwin, Hanji... everyone in on it... but ultimately, I want to build something here that shows people there's still hope" "I... I don't know what to say" He really didn't. His stomach was doing flips, while his heart had settled somewhere near his toes at the thought of touching Nick's money. The judge had said to do something, and a shelter had been a day dream, but reality was now smacking him in the face with a brick, and it was way too much "Eren..." "Just. Why?" "Why, what?" "Why all of this, so suddenly..." "I've been thinking about this for weeks. I've been thinking about you. I hate how society treated you. It makes me sick to think of how unfair it was..." "So you want to turn my life into... into some money making scheme?!" Hissing at Levi, Eren was insulted "No. I want to establish a legitimate charity to help omegas. I thought you'd understand. Unlike The Church, we won't be "helping" ourselves to omegas. We'll be helping them. We'll be helping give them a voice Eren. You know how powerful that can be" "With a staff of alphas" "No. Well. Kind of. I'd be working behind the scenes. Hanji might be over enthused, but even I have to admit that her heart is in the right place. Then there's Mike. He's an alpha. When he has ever treated you with disrespect? Erwin... I don't know about. But think, Eren. We could give omegas jobs here. They could earn wages, it wouldn't be a huge wage, but it'd be money they'd be making for themselves..." That did kind of sound good. He knew how hard it was to get a job, even with his high school equivalency... and maybe... He knew Levi wouldn't hurt an omega intentionally, but when an omega was in heat, rationality went out the window "How will you deal with heats?" "The same way we did at home. Each room has its own lock and bathroom. We can set the system up so only you have access to the keys of omegas staying here. That way, no alpha can..." "Levi. You've kicked down the door to get to me before. When you're in heat, you can't think. All you want is to be fucked senseless and knotted. Now you want to run a hotel filled with omegas. I don't know how to feel, especially..." Eren shook his head, taking a breath as he turned away from his husband "Especially, what?" "Especially when I don't even know if you want to spend my heat with me..." "I... why wouldn't I?" "Because we haven't even talked about it since we got married. You've never spent a full heat with me, but you're happy to fill a hotel with omegas in heat" Tears filled his eyes at the thought of Levi in the arms of another omega... let alone multiple omegas... "Eren. I would love to spend a full heat with you. The only reason we didn't after Viren's birth, was because you asked me not to" "Because... because I can get pregnant. You could sleep with a hundred omegas Levi. You could get them all pregnant... You don't understand what a heat is like. Your ruts are hard, but a heat. No. It hurts so badly. In a full heat, you can't say no" Omegas could get other omegas pregnant, but the chances were so slim. And society spat on omega/omega relationships... it was an even greater insult than being an omega "I know that. That's why I want and need your expertise. I don't want to employ staff that will take advantage of omegas. And, Eren. You should know by now, I don't want any other omega. I've dealt with omegas in heat, and their scents are revolting. You're my husband, and even if our vows weren't traditional, I meant everything. Has this been bothering you? You thinking I wouldn't spend your heat with you?" Eren wiped at his face "Bright Eyes, please. Has it?" "So what if it has?" "Then we should talk about it. I don't want to hurt you. I don't want to force you into something you'll regret" "You're my fucking husband. If I can't spend my heat with you, who can I?" Walking up behind him, Levi guided him into his arms "Eren. You're not spending your heat with anyone other than me. Maybe we should have talked about it earlier, but when have really had time to? Your first heat alone nearly saw you die. I almost begged you to let me spend your heats with you, but I didn't want to put that pressure on you. As for other omegas, I don't want them. I want my husband. My omega" Why did Levi have to be all magical with his warm touches? And why couldn't he see how it looked? A hotel full of sexy omegas in heat... "But..." "But, what?" "I'm not pretty any more. My stomach isn't flat. My arse and hips are huge... my skin's gross... my body is ugly" "You're body isn't ugly. You're not ugly. I love your stretch marks. I love your small tummy. I love your arse, and hips, and thighs. I love sucking your dick, and eating your arse. You giving birth, it hasn't changed that" Eren blushed. How could Levi just say that in the middle of the street?! Where anyone could be listening "If you would let me, I would love to spend your heat with you" "I don't want to fall pregnant" "Then we'll look into contraceptives. As long as your comfortable, that's the main thing" Nuzzling into his neck, Eren swore he could smell arousal on Levi. Personally, he'd been practically limp for weeks, but he supposed that was what happened when you tore right up to your balls. Noticing a rather severe looking woman scowling at them, he pushed Levi away. Confused at first, Levi put two and two together for him "You must be Ms Belmont?" "Mr Ackerman? I wasn't aware that you'd have someone joining you" Probably because no one expected omegas to do anything "This is my husband, Eren" Belmont didn't look impressed "Shall we take a look at the property? Would your, omega, prefer to wait in the car?" "Omega" was practically a sigh of annoyance. Leaving Eren frowning at the woman, while Levi moved between them "My husband will be joining us. We are looking to purchase the property together" "Right. I must warn you, the building hasn't been opened in months, and is being sold in its current condition..." Following Levi up the stairs, he still didn't know what to think about all of this. He didn't particularly want to walk into the hotel, but Belmont could fucking jump if she thought he'd roll over and wait in the car. Waiting for him at the top of the stairs, Levi took his hand "Even if this isn't the place, it's ok" "You wouldn't have chosen it if you didn't like it. I know what you're like, Levi" "Ok. I narrowed it down, and this one seemed most manageable and it's already been cleared of asbestos. It's also in a nicer location" Eren shot him a glare. He wasn't going to be swayed by... holy fuck... there was a fucking chandelier. No. He was definitely not going to be swayed by shiny things "... the interior design was heavily influenced by the art nouveau movement, while the original building its self was erected in 1970..." God. This Belmont woman sucked at her job. Her voice filled with disinterest, despite the fact the power actually fucking worked and things were kind of cool. It'd obviously been broken into, mirrors smashed, and spray painting across walls. Wait... Tugging his husband back, he frowned "1970. That makes it... 54?" Belmont answered his whisper "It does. There was a fire, destroying the top floors, and ultimately destroying the top 4 floors. It was rebuilt 7 years later, operations of the hotel ended in 1996. The property chanced numerous hands since. As I've explained to your husband" Growling softly, Levi whispered "Don't let her get to you..." "I feel stupid" "You're not. I didn't explain everything to you" "Mr Ackerman, would you like to see the evening parlour" Levi nodded, Belmont turn and walking towards the door that read "bar". With her back to them, Levi bowed to him "Eren, would you care to join me in the Evening Parlour?" Levi's phoney accent was more than a little funny. Nodding, his husband lifted his hand, like they did in the old movies when the men led the women to the dance floor "Shall we sip scotch? Or shall it be champagne, my love?" "Man... a bar where omegas can drink safely... I would have got up to so much trouble... if I like, could have" "Maybe we should ditch the bar?" "But... my champagne?" "I'll buy you as much as you like" "Ooooh? You better not tell my husband" "He's a fool. No sane alpha would let you out of their sights" "Mr Ackerman. I am a busy woman. If you're not interested..." Eren covered his snicker. Levi, however, merely took it in his stride "Sorry, we were discussing if this building is suitable for our needs. Like I said. We are interested in buying a property together. If my husband isn't satisfied, I'm not" Eren looked away. Knowing he was being swept away by Levi. This was an absolutely massive project, that he really couldn't see happening. But his words has also come back to haunt him. He had told Levi he'd support him, so he had to push aside his hatred of Belmont "Yes. Of course. As I was saying, this is the Evening Parlour" The hotel was nice in its own way. The bathrooms were kind of gross from disuse, but Eren fully supported the idea of a shower over a bath. It'd help with cramping during heat, and he loved the older style of bath with its big claw feet. The rooms had been stripped, and needed a complete makeover... but they'd fit a double bed, and a fridge... No. Nope. He was getting swept away again. It was hard to keep looking at the hotel so objectively. After the bar, they'd headed to the top floor. He hated the modern feel of it, but again, there was a but. Levi had so many ideas for the space. Talking about how they could live there. Eren didn't have the heart to tell him no. Yes. It was way bigger than their apartment, with plenty of natural light, or there would have been if the windows weren't crusted with dust. When he imagined Levi's personal hell, it was a dusty and grimy place like this... and they reached his personal hell. Joining into the kitchen was a basement. The moment he saw the steps leading down into an inky blackness, his chest seized. Levi hadn't mentioned there would be a basement... and he could have decked his husband for it "Eren?" Backing away, he bolted back through the hotel. Not stopping until he was heaving his guts up by the front steps. It'd been years... he shouldn't be this weak. He shouldn't feel so fucking afraid of a stupid room... but he was. It was he'd been bathed like smell of dirty water and decomposing rat. He'd never been this angry with Levi before. He hadn't warned him. He hadn't said anything. He'd let him wander around in the kitchen before fucking springing it on him... All he had to do was tell him... A creepy abandoned building with a creepy fucking basement. He... if he'd been... would Levi have left him down there? Spiralling, Eren collapsed down onto the sidewalk. Clutching his chest as he shook his head. Levi wouldn't lock him down there. Levi wouldn't leave him to die. He wouldn't.... but... Whining deeply, he called for his alpha. He couldn't fucking breathe "Fuck" Whining again for Levi, his husband appeared. Taking his face in his hands, Eren knew he was supposed to focus on his breathing, and that he was supposed to focus on Levi. He was just too fucking scared to "Bright Eyes, you've got to breathe for me. You're ok. You don't have to go down there... I'm not going to make you go down there" "You... never... fucking... said..." "I know. I know. I'm sorry. I didn't think it'd be just there" Levi had known. Feeling like he couldn't breathe, he tried to push Levi back. It wasn't just that he couldn't breathe, it was the awful feeling that came before vomiting. Levi's shoes catching the brunt of it "Let it out. I'm sorry..." Fuck Levi and his wonderfully soft nature. He was angry at the arsehole... and shouldn't he be mad that his shoes were now ruined "I'm going to lock up now. Talk things through with your... husband. You have the office number" Fucking Belmont. He didn't appreciate her seeing him like this, but at least she was fucking off. Even Levi didn't reply to her. With his chest heaving, she'd long since left before his breathing came back under control. Brushing Levi off, Eren rose to his feet "Eren?" "I don't want to talk to you right now. I want to go home" "Eren..." "I want to go home, Levi" The drive home was short, long and awkward all at the same time. Eren exhausted as fine tremors continued to run through his body. Trailing behind Levi, he felt weak and useless, and definitely not in the mood for Hanji as Levi let them into the apartment. Ignoring everything she said, he headed straight for the shower, determined to get the stink of stale water of his skin. Even he'd been taken back by how badly he'd reacted to a fucking doorway... Levi would probably want to talk about it. He'd probably even call Krista, and dob him over his meltdown... Fuck. He'd been letting himself get swept away. He wanted to scream out his frustration... Unfortunately, "fuck" wasn't a child friendly word, though it was barely seen as swearing these days. God. He'd reacted so badly. What was he supposed to say? "Yeah. Ok. Maybe I liked the hotel a little, but I don't know about living there, and hey, yeah. That basement, not happening". Like he could say that. Levi would try to make him see the positives. The space was big enough to take in omegas, and have Hanji's clinic like Levi had dreamed out... Maybe it was a good building... and he was what wasn't good? It was all too confusing. He needed a nap, and to calm down... He couldn't think, and he couldn't process anything at the moment. * It was only a few days after they'd visited the hotel that Eren managed to surprise him. His husband had been so upset that he hadn't expected his omega to bring up the shelter again so soon. Especially with the hell of a nightmare Eren had had after they'd returned home. His husband had gone to nap, while Levi had been lectured by Hanji over how distress Eren had been. It wasn't like he could admit he'd scared his husband with an open door, and a set of stairs. It wasn't that long after he'd sent Hanji out to buy dinner that Eren had woken screaming. Rushing into their bedroom, his omega was drenched in sweat and throwing up. Trying to bring Eren back to reality, he received a split lip, before being kicked in the chest, then Eren had escaped. Falling backwards off their bed, with a loud thud. Three damn days later, it still hurt. Coming out of their bedroom, Eren dropped down next to him with a sigh. Slinging his legs over his, Eren sighed again, as he rested his head against the sofa cushion. Levi turning off the TV, so give his omega his full attention "What's wrong?" "I want to talk" "About what?" "The hotel. I won't go in there. Not when there's a door on that basement. But... if you want this to happen, then I want to support you. But I'm not going back in there..." "Eren. I'm sorry, I didn't think it would scare you so badly" "I told you I couldn't..." Eren shook his head, before continuing "...Well it did. But I'm trying to think about all of this... without the basement. If you want to move ahead with this, then I'll support you. But that basement, it either has to go, or the door to it has to. And there have to be lights on down there all the time. And I'm not going down there" "You're ok, with going through with this?" "I was so fucking scared. But. Then I started thinking... Maybe if they'd had somewhere they could dump without any one asking questions... Maybe things would have been different?" Nick had to have had shelters under his control, in order to find his victims. Eren's foster parents could have dumped him and deserted him any time they would have liked... "I hate what you went through" "I finally have a good life. I'm not happy all the time, but it's good. And Nick, his money, I don't want it. He hurt so many omegas and nothing will make up for it, ever. I don't want to be cleaning up his mess" "We're not going to be. Shelters exist... this is just another one, but we're going to do it how they all should have been done" "I don't want my name on anything visible in the shelter. I don't want people I don't know, knowing me. Or, at least, anyone else. I just wanted to make things better for someone..." "And we can. But I can't do that, if you don't want this too" "I've thought about this really hard. And, I've made my choice. I'm going to give you 6 months. You have 6 months to sort this project out, and to follow it. But. If it impacts our family. Or if you're working too hard and the kids are suffering because of it, I'm leaving you" Levi blinked... 6 months wasn't exactly a lot of time when dealing with government agencies that liked to take their time to reply "Eren..." "No. You have 6 months, Levi. And I refuse to enter that hotel, until that door is gone and the place is cleaned through. I don't want to meet people from agencies. They're not going to help you, if they're busy judging me" "Eren. You're more than an omega. You're my husband. I want to do this, with my husband" "I'm telling you my counter offer. I might be stupid, and naive to how the world works, but I never know what to say. That's why you make the first contact. I don't know how to reach out and do that. And no red. None at all. Red and a basement, is asking for a horror story" "I don't want a horror story" "No "Shining" shit either. I fucking hate that movie" "No "redrum". Ok. I've looked at few other buildings, if you want to take a look?" This was supposed to be something for both of them. He's honestly thought Eren would be more into it all, but then again, to Eren it was all just a lousy hotel with a basement "No. This is your project. I need to work on me. And Viren's going to be starting daycare next year. I want him to be socialising, and having fun. Hanji's already half way through her pregnancy, and will be finishing up in 6 weeks, so if you're serious about her starting a clinic, you organised that with her..." "I have other papers, and ideas..." "And when you know what's what, then you'll tell me. I don't want to get invested for it to turn into nothing" "Ok... I would still like your name on the building deed. I know you don't want to be on papers and stuff, but I want this for both of us... I want the world to know that you're a strong omega, and that you're my husband" "And what happens if I'm on the deed?" "Well, it legally means you own realestate" "And?" "And I want you to have things of your own, or even part of them. Like this apartment, I've had you put on the deed to it. If something happens to me, then the apartment is yours. Like the shelter would be yours" "I don't know..." "You don't need to know right now. You can keep thinking about it. I'll answer any of your questions I can. I've also been thinking about the basement. We wouldn't have cameras in the hotel rooms, but we could set them up in the basement. That way you'd be able to everything happening down there" "Do we need cameras?" "We"... Eren said "we"... we had to mean together, right? "Only in case of accidents or assaults. Like I said. None in the rooms, but the foyer in case of angry alphas or betas, and the hallways in case anyone gets hurt. That way, there's evidence of whatever happens" "I don't know if I like the idea of cameras. I don't know if I can feel natural" "Eren, once you get used to them, you won't think about them. Also, it's for our safety, and Hanji's. If she had a violent patient and gets hurt, there needs to be evidence" "The cops won't do anything" Like Floch hadn't done anything... "They will, if we make it so they can't ignore them" "I'll follow you. But seriously, I'm not impressed. I told you I didn't want you staying up" Levi snorted, Eren's eyes narrowing in annoyance "I was watching TV and got distracted. I wasn't working on anything" "So you like TV, more than me?" "No. I didn't say that. It was so bad that I got caught up in it" "You're not making this better for yourself" "Sorry" "You're lucky Titan wanted snuggles, or I would have been out here to growl at you sooner" "You want snuggles?" "I want my husband to be involved in this family" "Point taken. I'm sorry. We can go to bed now?" "It's nearly time for the twins to wake up and demand food" "Rei is good like that" "He is. And don't forget. If you start neglecting the kids, I will leave" "Then I want you to yell at me each time I mess up. I'm serious, Eren. I want to do this for us, but not at the cost of us" "You might end up regretting that" "I might. But I think we've both had lives with far too many regrets. I'm sick of them" "So am I..." Falling silent, Levi couldn't stand the quiet. Eren was obviously thinking about the shelter still. He could tell by the shifting hues of his husband's scent. He'd wanted Eren to help with the interior design plans, but his husband didn't want to, and he needed to respect that. Even if it the mammoth project had just become even bigger for him. Still, he couldn't complain. Eren was respecting his own limits, and choosing for himself to put himself first. Coaxing his husband slowly into his lap, he then rose from the sofa, Eren clinging to him "Levi?! What are you doing?" "You'll be more comfortable feeding Eli in bed, and I've got a bottle to make" "Is it your turn tonight?" "I don't know. But I like the idea of cuddling with the twins" "Mmm... That's better. I know it's hard to find the balance between work and family, but don't go forgetting us" "I won't. I promise you, that I won't" "Good. Now, take me to bed" "I'm on it" * The shelter ended up being a much larger project than Levi had expected, and home life hadn't made it any easier. Viren had fallen off the jungle gym at the park, breaking his left arm. Eren's heat had been an arsehole, hitting a full 3 weeks before it was supposed to... it'd been fucking amazing, messy as hell and both of them had been too exhausted to move the next two days after it ended... with Eren's post heat depression not hitting until after a little medical intervention. They hadn't organised his contraceptive shot in time, so it'd been an emergency call to Mike and two small white pills for his husband. They'd tried to use condoms, but so caught up in each other and the pleasure of going at like rabbits all over the apartment... condoms hadn't always made it on his dick before Eren did. His heat had also hit at the worst time possible, as he'd had to ask Erwin to take over the meetings with the builders and renovators at the site. Erwin having quit, because Mike had quit... when Hanji quit. There was a whole heap of quitting, and a whole heap of input as the shelter project spiralled. Everyone seemed to have their own idea of how things should be, especially fucking Eyebrows, who didn't understand why they wouldn't have a door on the basement, or why they wouldn't have a full alpha staff. How the man managed to make it through the day without dying of stupidity, Levi would never know. When he'd told Eren about Erwin coming onto the project, his husband had straight up said no, not without being on suppressants. As if going without suppressants had ever been a viable option. In December all their plans stalled again as Hanji gave birth to her second daughter. Anna completely in love with her the moment she'd laid eyes on her. Eren being her birthing partner again, because the omega was too polite to say no. Not that he'd minded. He now how two beautiful goddaughters. It'd helped take his mind off of everything, and Levi had enjoyed not being in trouble for working too hard... even though he was sure Eren preferred it when he wasn't home. The omega's mental health was still an issue, but keeping himself busy had helped to a degree. It wasn't like their was a magical cure to depression, anxiety or PTSD, thought medication would have helped, Eren preferred to keep breastfeeding, after his heat. Despite having been given 6 months from the end of July, it was a full year before the dust settled, then another month making sure everything was absolutely perfect... during which time, Levi might have kept the new business sign on the facade finished. He was the only who knew the the name of the organisation he'd established in both his and Eren's names, as well as the only one who knew the new building name as well. Wall Rose didn't shout "omega shelter" to him, so it'd had to go. When things had started looking as if they'd take that long, Levi had made sure to get permission from Eren. The area that had been the "Evening Parlour", had been turned into Hanji's clinic, because getting a licence to serve beverages, and the requirements was too much fucking work... and it wasn't like they really needed a bar. While the top floor had been converted into an apartment twice the size of the one they had, a dance studio for Eren, and a small quarters for overnight staff. Eren might not have wanted to move, but for practicalities sake, it made more sense to Levi to turn into a homely and inviting place, given how much time would be spent there. As it turned out, fate decided for them that they'd be moving into the old hotel. Having kept everything under wraps, Levi finally brought Eren to see the hotel once the rooms were organised. And under the pretence of having his husband make sure everything was in place. Leaving the kids with Hanji, Eren was nervous and fidgety the whole drive. His husband had seen some of the work, on the rare occasions they had meetings that involved both of them signing off due to Eren's name being on the property deed, but his husband hadn't seen the hotel since the front sign went up, and honestly, Levi was more than a little excited to show him. Especially as the title would be so personal to Eren. Parking in front of the building, Levi climbed out the car, before jogging around and opening Eren's door for him. Slapping Levi off of him, though smiling, his husband followed him back around the car "What do you think?" "I think it's white" It was. White with alternating teal and orange window trims... the whole building looking so much more inviting than the hideous yellow "And the sign's covered?" "Yeah. Hanji's been a real in pain the arse over it, but I wanted you to be the first to see" "Why me?" "Because you're my husband... and because I think you'll understand once you see" Being prepared, revealing the sign above the doors meant a short trip up the ladder and pulling off the cloth draped over it. Levi's heart racing as he did. It was worse than pulling off a bandaid, not knowing how badly it would hurt. Ripping the cloth off, he pulled it down as he descended the ladder. Eren letting out a gasp loud enough for him to hear "Lee?! What is this?!" "I know this shelter is for all omegas, but it wouldn't have been possible without your bravery and courage in standing up to Nick" "But... what?! It... Lee..." Smiling at his husband, Levi pulled him into his arms. Both of them staring up at the large white sign "Dancing on The Wind, A safe shelter for all omegas, Operated under The Wings of Freedom Organisation" To the top right side of the Shelter name, two bird silhouettes were painted. One in maya blue, the other orange, with the birds the same as the ones painted along the top of the nursery walls at home. Sinking down in his arms, Eren sobbed against him "Lee... it's perfect..." "I thought so, but if you're already crying over the sign, you're going to cry once you see the mission statement on the door" "Oh... what does it say?" "Why don't we have a look, together?" "I don't know if I can" "I'm pretty sure you can" "I..." "Eren, you came into my life and changed absolutely everything. I can't picture a life without you, and every time you see this sign, I want you to know how much I love you" "I... don't deserve this" Levi smiled fondly, kissing Eren's temple. His husband had a long way to go, but he'd never love another like he loved Eren "Eren, you deserve the whole world. You're my whole world... now, I want to welcome you to our shelter. Our safe place, for all kinds of omegas" Guiding a shaky Eren up the stairs, his husband couldn't stop crying, and unable to read the mission printed on the front door "A refuge in which we leave the labels behind. Empowering, supporting, educating and encouraging omegas to reach their full potential" Eren's fingers traced over the letters, as he sniffled "What does the rest of it say?" "That this is a safe shelter. Unauthorised alphas are not permitted, nor will we tolerate acts of violence towards the omegas on the premises. This is your one and only warning" "Lee..." "Come on. This is just the beginning" Showing Eren around the renovated hotel, Levi was proud. His alpha even prouder. Every little thing he'd chosen had been with Eren in mind, even when it clashed with the requests of the others. They'd been able to cut down on costs with government grants and funding, though he had borrowed against the apartment to make sure they had enough cash to fall back on when inevitable wrinkles showed up. His husband wouldn't go into the kitchen, but that was something to work up to, and Levi was proud that Eren had at least stuck his head in to take a quick look. Working their way up, Levi explained everything to his husband. How the key lock system worked. Where each camera was located. What was in each bathroom, and were extra toiletry supplies were. The blankets were all based on the brands of Eren's favourite and most used, each room was a white canvas, with large cork boards for omegas to pin to posters and such. The third floor had been designed more for omegas staying long term, rather than ones seeking a safe place to spend their heats. Each room also had a blanket that was "gifted" to the user of the room. Something small they could call their own. In the lobby, there was a place for clothes donations, for omegas who had nothing, and they'd been working with a few second hand stores to set up vouchers for omegas who had nothing at all. By the time they reached the top apartment, Eren was babbling about the amazing job they'd all done and how he was sorry for not helping, but incredibly proud of the job they'd done. Saving the dance space for last, Levi showed him the staff quarters. The intercom beside the front door was linked to the the intercom in the room, so the doors could be safely locked at night. From there, he led Eren into the massive apartment. With five rooms, two bathrooms, an open kitchen/dining/ living area, and it's own seperate laundry, it was so much bigger than Levi could have hoped for. The master bedroom was special. Only he and Eren had the keys for it, and Levi had ditched the 4 plain white walls approach. The wall behind the bed was painted in the colours of the ocean. Colours taken from Eren's photos of Paradis Beach. His husband finally snapped when they reached their. Levi found himself pushed down on the queensized bed, as a very happy Eren made his feelings shown... it didn't even matter to his husband that the bed wasn't made. Eren's hands all over him as he rushed to rid him of his clothes. The sex was hard and fast, Eren riding him as he praised him. Outside his heat, Eren still wasn't comfortable showing him his stomach. His husband still struggling with his body, despite it being well over a year since giving birth. Bringing them both to orgasm, Eren was all kisses as he collapsed forward, chest to chest. It's been a while since Eren had truly been this happy about anything, leaving him feeling like was being swept away. It took another round of sex for Eren to be satisfied, not that Levi minded. His omega was absolutely stunning, and when he smiled... he knew he was the luckiest alpha in the world. It wasn't until they'd both come down from their high, that Eren remembered the other room on the floor. His husband begging to know what was behind the door, while Levi was just trying to keep his cool. He was knotted inside Eren, after all. And each wriggle from his perfect mate brought with it the jostling of his knot... and with all the work going into organising the shelter for its grand opening had meant a distinct slump in their sex life... even with two heats, and a half heat since Eren had given birth in their bedroom. Cleaning themselves up. Levi switched to piggybacking Eren around. His husband wouldn't stop pressing kisses to his shoulder as he did... until they reached the dance studio. He knew absolutely nothing about dancing, so had been forced to contact Sasha, who was surprisingly easily brought with food. There were full floor to ceiling length mirrors, as well as two fully fitted stripper poles. The audio system could be linked up to Eren's phone, and the whole room was sound proof. Eren was completely speechless, but Levi wasn't done with the surprises. The hotel was finished, and it was time to plan their proper wedding. Especially now they had the perfect venue, according to Eren. Planning their wedding together took up most of their time after opening the shelter. It took a few days before they had their first omega come in. A timid little woman who'd seen their advertising on social media. As exciting as it was to finally have an actual omega there, the woman had unfortunately been to a bad shelter before. She expected to be hurt or to pay with sex, and it'd taken a whole afternoon with Eren for her to calm and accept that they didn't want anything from her. It wasn't long after that, that they started getting more and more omegas. Especially when Hanji began to openly advertise that her clinic was specialising in omega health, and the health of their children. It wasn't easy. The first medical emergency they'd had left Eren in tears, an abused omega that hadn't even had the strength to get through the doorway. For Eren, it'd been like looking at himself. With everything happening, it wasn't until November that their plans came together, and all that was left was paying off the deposits. Levi over cake completely, but Eren loved sugar and he loved his husband's face lighting up as they'd tried dozens of different flavours. Eren's dream wedding falling on the 14th of January. Viren now 5, and a force to be reckoned with. Hanji hadn't been able to help herself, as she whisked Eren away to organise his tuxedo... and again for his hen's night. Mike had been in charge of Levi's buck's night, leaving Levi feeling like he'd gotten the better deal as they'd gone paint balling, before bar hopping. His buck's night falling the night before Eren's hen's night, so his omega could spend the morning of their wedding dressing without the twins, or Viren, interrupting. Especially Viren. His curious nature had beaten the child proofing of their apartment. He'd even figured out he could drag a chair to the door to undo the chain, and the door bolt. He'd then become particularly fond of letting Titan out. Both twins were also on their feet, being 21 months and 20 months respectively. This time he'd been there for their first babbles word of "mama", and their first steps. Rei surprising them all by beating Eli by a whole two months to "walk". Perhaps that was why Titan was so happy to escape the apartment? Though it never lasted more than a few seconds as he'd meow pathetically to come back in. With the lobby of the hostel as see of white lilies, and the wedding party limited to around 20 or so people, their wedding had been small and intimate. Despite all her efforts, Eren had worn the black tux he'd wanted, and looked exquisite as he had. The smile on his husband's lips was contagious as they renewed their vows, though this time they were the traditionally version. Purely because this wedding was more for everyone else than themselves. Eren didn't want to customise their vows, because he wanted the things they'd said to each other in the hallway of the church, to stay between the five of them... though, Eld and Gunther probably would have forgotten the words anyway... even if they were their witnesses again. Mike was Eren's best man, while Erwin had been his. Viren had been ringbarer, Anna the flower girl, while Hanji was on babysitting duty, given her second daughter, Molly, was still breastfeeding. When the ceremony was finished, the double doors to the dining area were opened wide for the reception. Eren purring so hard that he could barely thank everyone wishing them well. He felt like everything was a dream, and he still wasn't completely sure that the shelter was real. Levi had done such an amazing job, that if he were to wake and find himself back in their apartment, he wouldn't be surprised. Dancing their first dance to a rather unconventional song, Levi couldn't stop kissing Eren. With his husband's arms draped over his shoulders, their were lip to lip as they slow danced. Again... Levi had asked for Sasha's help with the basics. He'd even learned how to do the fancy spins... not that he was bragging about it. Sighing happily, Eren kissed his lips for what must have been the thousandth time that day "Happy, Brat?" "You have no idea. I've got something to tell you" "Mmm? If it's that you love me, I hate to break it to you, but I love you too" "I do love you, but that's not quite it" "Oh?" Lowering his right hand, Eren took his. Pressing it to his stomach with a shy smile "I know it's unplanned. But my heat's late... I took a test this morning and now you're the first person I've told" "You're..." "Yeah. So, I guess we're moving into the hotel..." "Are you... Are you sure?" The twins weren't even two. They'd been careful... especially after Eren's first heat. They kept up with his injections... and he had no idea how this could have possibly happened. Not that he wasn't happy... but he was also fucking terrified. Two hard pregnancies would do that. And even if their relationship was in a much better place, it still wasn't going to be easy... "Yeah, Levi. I still have a whole lot to work through, but I'm pregnant again. You're going to have to get a vasectomy or something. Your come is just too potent" "Would it bother you, if I did?" "No... but can we wait until make an appointment before planning what comes next? We've had false alarms before, and if the pup isn't healthy, I don't think I can go through what we did with Rei" "I wouldn't ask, or expect you to. I know we vaguely talked about it..." "Yeah. But this is it for me. After this baby, I don't want to fall pregnant again... unless it's another boy. I'd love to have a daughter with you" "Eren. No. This is your body. I am not with you for children. Don't look so scared. You're my world. And I understand. As sexy as you are pregnant, we can't have a whole football team" "Well, we probably could. But I don't think I could keep up with it. I'm getting old" "You're getting old? You're only 27 this year" "I'd planned to try for a baby if we hadn't had a girl by the time I hit 30. I still don't know how it happened, but we're good, right?" "We're so much better than where we were with the twins, and I would love to move in here with you. When you're ready" "I'm ready. I'm more than ready. This. All of this. It's my dream come true. Every single thing you do, I fall more and more in love with you" Levi snorted softly "And I keep falling more in love with you. I can't believe we're having another pup" "I know. And it's scary as hell, so I'll be counting on you" "And I'll support you. Like you've supported me" "I don't know. I left all of this to you, and you built a whole building that screams how much you love me" "Because I do" "And we're going to grow old together. We'll be one of those disgustingly loved up old couples that have matching walking frames, and disturb our family with all our kisses" "And all our sex. Just because I'm getting old, doesn't mean I still can't destroy this sweet arse of yours" "I look forward to it... though I expect you to make the effort of riding me, no matter the bad knees and hips" "Like I'd ever say no to that" When their dance came to an end, they did the rounds. Marco and Jean were there, with Mina, Anka and their youngest daughter Tilly. Krista and Ymir were there. With government funding, and Krista's help, they'd been able to find a therapist to work with omegas for "free". Meaning the government was footing the bill for the appointments. Sasha and Connie were there. Sasha giving Eren shit over his sloppy frame while dancing, Connie backing her up as she did. Mike, Erwin and Eld had found some bizarre way to keep their three way relationship going. Gunther had brought a date with him. Levi and Eren both promptly forgetting her name, and softly laughing over it once they'd moved on. Hanji, but they skipped her as Eren had been with her all morning, and she was busy with Molly. Anna, Viren, Rei and Eli were "dancing" together. There were a few other people from Levi's days a paramedic, and a few from Eren's dance days. And the numbers were rounded out by a few omegas they had in their care. Eren had done the rounds to carefully explain that they were having their wedding there, and to invite all of them to celebrate. Some were too scared, but it was nice to see a couple had braved coming down. They'd taken on a massive task. A task Levi never thought they would. He'd never wanted to be responsible for people's lives, even as a paramedic. It was a stupid thing to think, but the deaths of Isabel and Farlan had been the start of his chance. He'd been stuck in his seed pod until Eren had come along, and helped him grow, before blooming. Not that he'd say any of that shit like that. He had his pride after all... and fuck. He was so fucking proud. Looking around and drinking in the sight of everyone having a good time, he wrapped both arms around Eren. Staring into his bright green eyes, as he kissed him softly. Yeah. He was so fucking proud of what they'd achieved, and excited to see how Eren surprised him next. Eren was right. Things weren't always perfect, they fought, they yelled and screamed, and both still had nightmares... but he was still so fucking proud. With Eren by his side, they could change the world.
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SENTENCE MEME ⟶ SUPERSTORE / SEASON ONE ( episodes 01.06 – 01.11 ) always feel free to tweak the sentence to fit your muse.
“How do you get ‘especially’ fired?”
“I can’t listen to the Blade Runner debate one more time.”
“I just meant, you’re not very good at your job.”
“This has got to be the lamest thing anyone has ever been cocky about.”
“You know you’re just asking for someone to draw a penis on your face, right?”
“Why are you even walking around with crackers in your pocket?”
“He’s in court today testifying against his grandmother.”
“I’m not gonna live in fear of some corporate spy.”
“They say my head looks amazing in hats.”
“I could think of a nickname for you, but you haven’t done anything really impressive lately.”
“Was he a vegetarian, or normal?”
“I’ve always wondered why an educated, privileged pretty boy would decide to work here.”
“You smell like you’re from Chicago.”
“Dildos are now on sale for 69 cents in aisle 69.”
“How many years of sleeping do you even have left?”
“If anything you’re about to say includes the words ‘brave’, ‘courageous’, or ‘girl power’, please don’t talk.”
“Apparently what I wanted to do with my life was rack up a whole bunch of debt.”
“Turns out they had a meth lab in their basement, which was just a front for a dog fighting ring.”
“I could do it on my own but it’s way more fun to do it with you.”
“I just turned my head, and my eyeballs went with it.”
“Classic. I already Instagrammed it.”
“Don’t have sex with the customers, but if a man is under the impression, however misguided, that the more he buys the less impossible it might be that he could have sex with you, that’s on him.”
“Maybe $100 doesn’t mean much to you, but some of us could really use it.”
“This is guy stuff. You know. Grills, football, cars, porn.”
“You think you’re a bigger minions fan than me? If you were, you would have a minions blanket, and a minions night light, and some minions candy.”
“You need to give yourself permission to do something for yourself, just for once.”
“She woke up to her best friend dead and then had to sneak him into her neighbor’s garbage can before trash pickup.”
“I swear to god, one of these days I’m going to strangle you.”
“Is there cocaine in this or something?”
“They realize they’re basically fighting over a white net with glitter in it, right?”
“Two 17-year-olds are making a bad decision? What?? I thought that only happened in the movies.”
“You seem to really have a handle on this whole gay thing.”
“The last guy I dated only hung out with me to play chess with my dad, and the guy before that was just using me for my freezer.”
“Is it gay enough? I don’t want to be kicking myself later thinking we should have gone more gay.”
“For all we know, Jesus himself was gay.”
“I think your tastes a little more along the lines of my grandmother’s.”
“You can’t get married in a green bean.”
“I turned my safe search up to the max and googled ‘world’s gayest parties’.”
“Hey, go break out your hysterectomy story.”
“It was 1953, and medical science was all the rage..”
“I’d just end up getting drunk in someone’s dorm room and spend the whole night having ‘deep conversations’.”
“Did I ever tell you the story about that one time when I went to college as a grown-up and I had to go to work and I had all these responsibilities? It’s a laugh riot.”
“I was born with a drill in my hand.”
“I don’t waste my time with anger.”
“I mean, why fight nature? We’re all just animals, right?”
“I guess I regret not going to college when I was younger so that I could have lots of stories to annoy my coworkers with.”
“Sometimes the folks in charge don’t treat me like I’m a human being with feelings.”
“Never have I ever eaten human flesh.”
“Usually when I get drunk, I talk really loud but I’m not doing that now.”
“In high school, I was voted third-prettiest girl.”
“Ever since my dad left me at that gas station, it’s so hard to trust.”
“Sexual politics are so nuanced.”
“For what it’s worth, that was shaping up to be a really good metaphor.”
“Leave a message, and we’ll never call you back.”
“You can tell him that he can suck my big, fat, sweaty toe.”
“I wonder sometimes what it would’ve been like if I had made other choices.”
“You’re the last person I should be telling this to.”
“This is a weird night.”
“I can’t believe I have to take a midterm on zero sleep and totally hungover.”
“Can we please try and shoo the toddlers away from the sunglasses stand? I know that’s where they all like to go, but we’re getting a lot of damage there.”
“You guys are exchanging little peek-a-boo glances and it’s making me uncomfortable.”
“I didn’t know she was into fancy little porcelain doll-men.”
“I know that I’m gonna miss your constant criticism of me.”
“Quitting the job was the best thing that’s ever happened to me.”
“I was getting a stress rash in the shape of Abraham Lincoln.”
“A psychopath doesn’t have a conscience. A sociopath knows what he’s doing is wrong but does it anyway.”
“I’m not the bad news guy. I’m the good news guy!”
“I want them to know that I have the strength of a lion, the intelligence of a dolphin, and the determination of a worker ant.”
“He literally died while I was holding his hand.”
“There’s not usually so much blood on them.”
“You just broke up with someone through a voice memo.”
“You’re cute, but there’s a lot of cute around.”
“Am I looking weak to you?”
“Yeah, that’s how normal people start a conversation.”
“What’s the difference between sunblock and sunscreen?”
“I wish I had an excuse this good to ditch work.”
“I’m in a dark place right now and frankly I’ve got nothing to lose.”
“He’s just swinging that big old weiner around.”
“I’m not the kind of person who just stands by doing nothing while people around me need help.”
“I am so sick and tired of being painted as the stupid idealist while you get to be the smart, pragmatic one.”
“There’s a difference between not knowing how the real world works and not having the guts to do something about it.”
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Why I haven’t been around.
Hoo boy, this is gonna be a Longpost™ so I’m probably gonna put it under a cut, just so you guys don’t have to look at the whole thing on your dash. But this is basically just gonna be me outlining why I haven’t been around on Tumblr, and more broadly just kinda everywhere. Also, there might be some darker themes and stuff, so I’ll make sure to put in the appropriate trigger warnings in the tags. And before any of you rush to judgments, no I’m not making this post to garner sympathy or for notes or anything like that. If anything I’m just trying to provide an explanation to those who follow me and are disappointed by my lack of posts, and potentially raise awareness for what I’m going through and provide some basic information. So hold on to your hats, because here we gooo! (There’s also gonna be some TMI in here about periods and stuff so if that kind of thing grosses you out then you probably shouldn’t read this tbh)
So I’ve had a few health problems - both physical and mental - that I’ve been trying to  overcome over the past couple of years or so. Most of my problems concern the endocrine (hormone) system and reproductive organs, so if this is TMI, then it might be better for you to not continue reading as I will probably go into some detail.
For about a year or so, I’ve had the official diagnosis of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, or PCOS, but I’ve been suffering from it for a good five years or so idk? For those of you who aren’t familiar with it, it is a condition that is related to abnormal hormone production in the body, which results in characteristics such as excess hair growth, weight gain, irregular or no periods and - the main focal point - fluid-filled sacs growing in the ovaries, which can cause a lot of pain if they burst. I’d just like to make a note here that I am in no way an expert, so the information here may not be completely accurate, so I urge you to do your own research on this if you wish to find out more, rather than taking what I say as fact. My personal experience with this has been less severe than a lot of cases, I would say. I first started showing symptoms around 2014/2015, when my periods became irregular, and eventually stopped altogether over the period of about 4 months. Naturally, I went to see a doctor, and had maybe the worst experience I’ve ever had with a medical professional. It took him two years (still with no periods) to finally admit that something was wrong, and I ended up having to enter each medical appointment with the attitude that I would need to fight tooth and nail to get him to admit that I could have a problem. But eventually he agreed to send me for an ultrasound, and there it was found that I had a borderline amount of cysts (not enough for a certain diagnosis, but too many to say that there was nothing wrong), leading to a diagnosis being given, as I had a lot of other symptoms. There is no treatment for PCOS, as it cannot be cured, so all the doctors can do is suggest options to manage the symptoms. One such option is the contraceptive pill, which they put me on. I had such a terrible reaction to this that I stopped taking them because it was impossible for me to function as a human being while I was on them, as they worsened the disorder that I will tell you about next. However, when I came off the pill, I actually started getting periods again, which seemed like a miraculous recovery, until something worse happened...
So I was thinking that everything would be magically better when I started having periods again. Unfortunately for me this was not the case. After coming off the contraceptive pill, I had regular (yet very light) periods again. So this meant that the cycle of hormones was continuing normally. For the week or so leading up to my period until a couple of days into the period, where people would often experience PMS, it’s like I became a different person. I’d have episodes where I’d be so sad that I couldn’t get out of bed, and would sometimes barely be able to move. Obviously this caused me to miss a lot of school. I think my attendance at the end of this school year must have been like 50% or something. I’d also experience fits of violent rage, and overwhelming thoughts of self-harm and suicide. In February of this year, it all became too much for me, and I was admitted to the hospital after a suicide attempt. Luckily for me and everyone around me, I survived and was discharged a couple of days afterwards. My memory of the event is terrible due to the nature of the attempt so I couldn’t really tell you very much about my experience. It was a very strange period of time, because about halfway through each period, these symptoms would fade away, and I’d be left wondering why I’d ever had these thoughts and feelings, because they wouldn’t even cross my mind when these ‘episodes’ weren’t going on. It was during this time that a family member sent me a link to an article. This article was about a woman who, like me, suffered an almost complete personality change for a few weeks per month, in a seemingly cyclical nature. Like me, this started when she first got her periods and didn’t affect her all the time. The only difference is that her periods were always regular, whereas I had barely had any due to the PCOS. This woman was diagnosed with a disorder called Pre-Menstrual Dysphoric Disorder, or PMDD. A lot of the information is on the website that I have linked, but feel free to do your own research if you’re curious. To summarise, it is a disorder caused by sensitivity to normal hormone fluctuations that causes extreme mood swings, depression, anxiety, bursts of rage etc. between ovulation and bleeding (which basically means the week or two leading up to your period). For me, this disorder is crippling, and has destroyed any chance of a life I could have had. I cannot continue any form of education, I cannot work (I had a job for about an hour before I couldn’t take it but that’s another story), so there’s not much to do with my life. Lately I have been thinking long and hard about some information that I’ve recently come across. According to the Equality Act of 2010 (this applies to me because I live in the UK, but it’ll be different in other countries), a disability is defined as ‘having a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long term negative effect on your ability to do normal day to day activities’. According to this definition, my PMDD is a disability, but I haven’t fully read up on the legislation, so I couldn’t whether legally it would count or anything like that. I also don’t know how I feel about being defined as ‘disabled’, because mental disorders aren’t typically seen as being disabling in our society and there’s a stigma around people with disabilities being ‘helpless’ and I’m certainly not that, and I don’t want to undermine people who suffer from physical disabilities by calling myself ‘disabled’, so there’s a whole host of reasons why I don’t want to jump to that.
Contrary to what I’ve been saying here, there is actually hope for me. PMDD and PCOS are not completely curable per se, but there are ways to manage and educe symptoms, so I can live a normal life (PMDD is more curable than PCOS however, which has been touched upon in the article I linked earlier, and I will briefly discuss in a second). However, so far my GP has been of absolutely no help, and I fully intend to complain officially because the way they have treated me is appalling and has basically ruined the current state of my life. That is why I decided to see a private specialist. I am so lucky that my family have the financial security needed to be able to afford a private healthcare consultation, because I received so much more help from them in the half hour consultation than I ever received from my GP in the four years that I have been going to them for help on these matters. The private doctor listened to the timeline of events that I laid out for her, and the full extent of what is currently going on, and recommended that I take vitamin supplements, as they have been proven to slightly manage PMDD symptoms, and prescribed a five-day contraceptive which would hopefully get my periods kick-started again, as I have missed the last four months with no sign of them returning. I’m currently on the last day of this contraceptive, and I’ve been suffering with really bad PMDD (didn’t really help that I was out drinking on friday which usually makes my symptoms worse, but oh well, it was a good night), so hopefully these will yield results within a couple of days. The consultant is also following up with a colleague in London who is an expert on this kind of thing, and will shoot me an email if she finds anything else out. Treatment options for PMDD can include inducing menopause early or even a hysterectomy (removal of the female reproductive organ), but I have been told that hopefully it will not come to that.
So yeah, that’s been my journey so far. During this time, it’s been difficult, even impossible, to keep up with this blog. I hope that you understand why I haven’t been able to update regularly. If you have any questions, please ask me, and I’ll try to the best of my ability to answer all of them. If you’ve read this far, thank you for sticking with me, and by the way, thank you for 738 followers! I really don’t deserve that much love and support considering I haven’t made a post in months, but it means a lot. I hope this post informed you all about what I’ve been dealing with and all that, and I’ll try to make some sort of recovery in order to keep posting here. I love you guys xx
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COTW - Last chapter update
Armed with a file full of printed papers, Levi was visiting Krista's office alone. Eren had been up and out of bed before him, finding feeding Eli when Levi had woken in a panic over his missing husband. With Krista's promptness, it was only a short wait before she came to fetch him. A smile on her face as he followed her down to her office, and gestured for him to sit. Sinking down, Levi let out a sigh. Krista jumping right into it as she sat "Let me guess. You and Eren had a fight?" "Maybe... Yes" "Both of you are so easy to read. He had the exact same look on his face when he came to see me. Was it about the roster?" "It wasn't my fault... I did the dishes without thinking" Krista laughed "Oh no" "Yeah. Pretty much" "And how many times has this happened?" "A few. I don't even realise I am until he tells me off" "And how is "he"?" "Bossy. He threw his shoe at me the other day" "Are you two sticking to the roster? For the most part?" "We're trying to. But like I said, I start something without thinking, so he gets mad" "And the shoe?" "I moved the washing to the dryer" An uncharacteristic pout was on Levi's lips. He really hadn't thought about it. There was washing to be done, and it was just... right there "No one said this would be an easy transition. It was more to get you two on the same page. Now. What have you brought me today?" "A few things... I... Eren and I had another fight over Nick's money. You see. There's something Eren said that hasn't left my mind, so I did some looking into it on my own" "Oh! What is it?" Passing the file of papers over to Krista, Krista opened it up in her lap "What am I looking at?" "Properties and property reports. Eren mentioned that omega shelters aren't safe for omegas, and we know how into omega rights he is. I know he hates Nick's money, but it was given to him so he could do something more with his life..." "You want to start a shelter?" Krista sounded both surprised and delighted, Levi leaning forward as he nodded "Not just a shelter. Hanji wants to quit from being a full time ER doctor, to spend more time with Anna before her baby comes. She's licensed to practice as a GP. What I want to establish is a new kind of shelter. A shelter where omegas are put first and treated as people. Where they can come for medical advice, without being judged. Eren is amazing with omegas, and with children. He's had no formal medical training, but he's helped deliver children. He knows what omegas need, and he knows what's wrong with society" "And you? You're giving me a lot of "Eren" reasons" "I never thought omegas were second class citizens. I dealt with omegas almost every single day, but it took Eren to make me realise so many things. The courage and bravery he showed taking the stand... He said that if it could help even just one omega, then it was all worth it" "Levi, you slipped back to "Eren reasons"" It was hard not to. Eren had opened his eyes to so many things "I don't want my sons growing up in a world where omegas are treated like shit. I'm fucking sick of seeing omegas beaten to death by their alphas, or thinking they deserve to be beaten because they have no where to go, and their alphas are dicks. No one else has the balls to step up, and I want Eren's suffering to have been for something" "Setting up a shelter isn't something you can just do" "I know. I've been in touch with the police, and with the government. Not that they're fast at replying. The government hasn't replied, but with their own interests at heart, it's best they "help" if they want to save face" "You need licenses and a premise" "I've been looking. I've found one that needs work, but it could be perfect" Krista flicked through the papers. Levi may have printed off almost everything he'd come across in order to read it properly at a later date "Which one?" "The old Wall Maria Hotel. It's abandoned, and ugly as hell. The bank's been trying to offload it for years. It was repossessed, but with the downturn in economy, no one wants to put the money or effort into it" Krista closed the file, her smile gone "Levi. I think it's very admirable. But we both know this is a grand gesture of love to Eren" "So what if it is?" "These are people's lives" "Why can't it be both? A positive change and a project Eren can throw himself into. We were all disgusted to hear how omegas were treated. Eren used to tell me not to quit my job because he was proud of how I treated omegas. I've seen abused omegas. My husband was let down by the system that was supposed to help omegas. Do you know what he told me? He told me one of the omegas at the compound, was giving birth to the child of a shelter owner. They went there for help, and instead had to pay for their room with sex. It's fucking disgusting. How is anything going to change when this shit is happening?" Krista sighed heavily. Levi taken back by how strongly she was objecting, as if she thought he hadn't considered everything... or maybe she was trying to make sure he had... either way, he was thrown off balance "Say you do start a shelter. How are you going to pay for the building? How are you going to pay for repairs? How are you going to pay for staff? You're not on suppressants anymore. Will you go back on them to cover your alphas scent? What happens when you have omegas in heat? With alpha staff? What happens if an omega throws themselves at you in heat? How is it going to be for Eren, surrounded by omegas throwing themselves at you?" "That's why I want to take a step back. I want to get Eren trained to be a receptionist, so when omegas come, they're greeted by an omega. I would take a purely administrative role" "And what about the kids?" "What about them?" "Not all omegas are trustworthy. You'll be having strangers in and out of your home constantly. Strangers around your children" "That's... The hotel is only small. 4 floors with 20 rooms across the two middle floors. The man who'd purchased the building had intended to turn the whole thing into a lavish townhouse. The top floor has already been gutted... there is a basement, and that will be a problem for Eren, but it's not like it has to be that building. I want to create a future with him. An omega has never, ever, received an restitution of that much. Previously, the largest ever sum paid out to an omega was $2000. And that was because a doctor was forced to perform a hysterectomy after birth. And even then, that payment was because of their alpha. Even if Eren and I don't have an active role above establishing the safe shelter, I still firmly believe that this is what the city needs" "And you're not just being swept away? Eren had a tremendous victory for omegas, that much is more than true. But what happens when the dust settles?" "Then we kick it up again. We make it so people have to listen. Shitty pigs feeding from their troughs, aren't going to listen unless someone tips those troughs over" "And what about what Eren wants?" "He's the one who mentioned the idea of a shelter to begin with. I don't intend to start anything without him by my side" "And the money?" "Eren said he didn't want it. He told me to take it, and despite it being restituted to him, it was still paid into my account as the alpha in our relationship. This way, he's not keeping it, and nor is it going to waste" Krista hummed, closing the file "Eren and I discussed the shelter idea, as well as donation. Did he tell you that?" "No" "It was only in passing, but he didn't want it as he'd finally found his small world of happiness. I do agree. Things needs to change for omegas, and I offered Eren my support. But I can't support you until you've discussed this in length with him. As you know, I own my practice, and I can assure you that getting established took jumping through a lot of hoops. There will be days when you wonder why you even started the process to begin with. With three young children, it's going to make things so much harder, and it may take years for things to settle down. Are you prepared for that?" "If... if Eren is by my side, we can find a way to make it work. And it won't just be him. There's Hanji, Mike, Erwin and Eld..." Not that he really knew if they'd want to be involved. Hanji would. Mike possibly too. Erwin and Eren had butted heads so many times that Erwin might not listen to Eren. But... he knew he'd regret it if he didn't at least see this through far enough to present something more than a just a paper proposal to Eren. He wanted to encourage his husband's dream... He wanted a world where Eren wouldn't be treated like shit anymore. And if that meant helping other people along the way, well, it couldn't be helped. Even if his intentions were less than completely sincere, around the edges, there wasn't a person in the world who couldn't say they'd never done something to bask in the praise of others. Eren was a symbol of hope, or at least in Levi's eyes he was... and his husband had been right. He needed to keep busy "I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I just want you to be truly sure before starting something like this. Abused omegas need a lot of time and help, just like you know. And though not all of them have had the same kind of life as Eren, they all have their own trauma and pain. Some may even come to find a safe place to die. You may have seen more than your fair share of death, but Eren hasn't" "I... know. I don't expect it to be easy. I don't even know if it'll succeed. But people like Nick, are really a dime a dozen..." "That is unfortunately true. Alright. For now, we'll set this aside. I want to see your list, and Eren's too if you have it" Levi was distracted by the idea of a shelter through his whole session. The more he tried to push it from his mind, the more it centred itself first and foremost. By the end of the session, he'd decided to call the realtor over the hotel. Even if he couldn't buy the hotel, it'd give him a fair idea of what to expect in terms of space and size. Hell. He'd even decided on the colour scheme for the facade... and most importantly, the name of the shelter. Throwing himself into researching and budgeting, Levi found himself often going to bed as Eren was getting up for the pups midnight feed. His husband was biting his tongue again, yet Levi hadn't been able to bring himself to tell him yet. He'd thought Eren would stay quiet at least until the end of the week, but it was a fortnight after his appointment with Krista, that Eren finally got mad enough to demand some answers. Carrying Rei in his arms, Eren walked over to the sofa and dropped down in his lap. Forcing him to abandon his laptop, and pay attention to his mate "I'm sick of you staying up. Either you tell me what's happening, or I'm throwing it off the balcony. These late nights aren't good for you" "Eren..." "No. Don't Eren me. Start talking. I'm holding Rei hostage until you do" Two threats? His husband really must be mad. Sighing deeply, Levi spread his legs so Eren slipped down between them. He couldn't see over his husband's shoulder if he didn't. Eren was way too tall for Levi's own good "He seems pretty happy being hostage" Rei was wide awake, his grey green eyes blinking up at both of them "Lee. I'm serious. I don't know what to threaten you with, but this has been going on since the chores list went up. Is that it? Are you mad about something? I've been trying to be respectful, but both boys have their weigh in and vaccinations tomorrow, today even. You need sleep, and I'm worried about you" Was that today? Every day seemed to bleed together without having the set roster of work. Kissing Eren's cheek, he sighed softly "Sorry. I'm not mad. And I'm not mad about the chore list. Have I been that bad?" "You're either on your phone or on your laptop. You didn't even hear me asking if you could hold Rei while I prepared his bottle" "Shit. I'm sorry" "What's going on?" "I've been working on something, and, it's not quite ready yet" "Working on something?" "Yeah. I wanted to gather more information before telling you about it" "Can you tell me now?" "I can show you, if you give me a couple more days. I'm not trying to hide anything from you, I just didn't want to get your hopes up" "You can't tell me that, and then tell me nothing more" "It's nothing bad" "That doesn't make it better. Is it your back? Is it the bullet? Has it moved?" Eren's scent peaked with fear "Bright Eyes, I'm fine. It's not the bullet" "Would you tell me, if it was?" "Yes. I would tell you" Maybe not right away, but it did affect their family after all "Then why can't you now?" "Because I want to be able to explain it all in person" Fuck it felt nice to hold Eren. It wasn't like he didn't hold him at night, but during the day, Eren had a tendency to curl up on the recliner with Titan, leaving him the sofa with Viren "And you will?" "Yes. I have an appointment at 3 on Friday, and I want you there" "Tomorrow's Friday. Not tomorrow once the sun comes up tomorrow, but tomorrow" "I still want you there. We'll have to organise a baby sitter though" "Hanji owes me a favour" Levi raised an eyebrow, Eren leaning back in his hold "What's with that look?" "You said she owes you a favour. She owes you about a hundred" "That's true. No. She just owes me a favour. I don't think she's on call on Friday afternoon... I'll have to check with her" "And how do you know when she works?" "Um. I babysit. I need to know when Anna's coming" He couldn't remember seeing Anna in the last week or so... "Don't be like that" "I'm not being like anything" "You've got you scowl face on" Levi kissed Eren's neck, nuzzling into his omega as he drank in his scent "I don't. No. I was just thinking. I really didn't mean to make you think about this more than you have to" "It's fine... its not, but now I know it's not health related, it's better" "I'm sorry" "Well. If you're sooooo sorry, can you hold Rei for me? I need to make his bottle. Eli went right back to sleep, but Rei, nope. He still doesn't want to breast feed" Snorting, Levi shook his head "He doesn't know what he's missing" "Don't even joke about sex. My arse just clenched at the thought" "I was talking about your breasts. They're great breasts" "It doesn't feel that way then he won't take my nipple. Now I'm getting depressed. Here, take him. Once he's fed, I want you to come to bed. Whatever it is, it can wait for now" "Yes, mum" "Don't give me that... You make me feel bad for worrying about you" "I'm sorry. It's sweet that you worry, and I'm sorry for making you worry. I just hope it's going to be worth it" "It better be. I'm sick of you staying up all night and not knowing anything" "Alright. I get it. I'm coming to bed once I've fed Rei. Then you have my undivided attention" "I better. I miss talking to you, without 6 little ears in the room" Despite his words, Eren was asleep when Levi climbed into their bed. Pulling his husband up to him, Eren let out a sleepy purr as he nuzzled into Levi's chest. It was nice to have a goal and dream, but he'd been doing exactly what Krista warned him about. He was throwing himself into the project and neglecting his family. He'd alienated Eren again, yet his husband still loved him. Kissing Eren's soft vanilla smelling hair, Levi wrapped his arms around his husband. Not caring at all that he'd wake with pins and needles down his arm. Eren was working so hard on doing what he felt he had to, to try and combat his depression the best he could. How could anyone not care for their omega, like he did for his? He was so very lucky to have Eren, and hopefully once Friday came, his husband would understand. Spending that Thursday with Eren sneaking glances at him every five minutes, and two pups that didn't appreciate their immunisations, the day passed slowly. Viren was also in a bad mood, as their toddler had gotten into the pantry before covering the apartment in flour. He hadn't appreciated his bath, or being smacked on the bum for spreading even more flour after being told to stop. For the first time in a long time, Levi found himself taking a nap in the afternoon, as it was Eren's turn to make dinner. He was woken by a crying pup, finding both Eli and Rei sleeping on Eren's side of the bed. Wriggling over, he draped his arm lightly across them, kissing Rei's hair, while gently playing with Eli's. Sometimes he still couldn't believe he was a father of three, or that Eren put up with his shirt and cranky arse. If he was Eren, he would have dumped himself a long time ago. Spending sometime with his son's was soothing. Even if Rei was still grizzly. They were both so very small and so very innocent, yet growing every single day. Their tiny family wasn't so tiny anymore and despite everything, Eren was more than willing to have yet another child with him... For someone who'd had no one for so long, it was an intoxicating promise. Though, he also knew that realistically if they wanted to have another child, it would have to be sooner rather than later. He didn't want to be the 60 year old dad in the back row of his child's play... He wanted his children to be able to enjoy life, without feeling shackled to their ageing father... but Eren had his heart set on a girl... and he couldn't deny that a miniature female Eren would be adorable... until she hit puberty, then it would be terrifying. Staying with their sons, Eli was set in to fetch him when dinner was ready. Eren having outdone himself with a full roast meal, and a glass of his favourite wine. He didn't even know they had alcohol in the house, but somehow Eren had magicked it up, leaving Levi silently agreeing that he really didn't deserve him. He could only pray that the following day wouldn't end with Eren in tears, and him in the doghouse again. * Leaving their three sons with Hanji, Eren chewed on his lip as Levi drove. According to his husband it was a short drive, but without knowing what they were heading into, Eren was a ball of nerves. He'd even cooked a huge dinner with the hopes of loosening Levi's tongue, but his husband stubbornly kept his secret. Pulling up in a random street, Levi turned the car off. His husband climbing out, and leaving him to scramble out after. The area seemed kind of nice. It wasn't upscale, but there were a few boutiques and cafes in the area. The only problem in the street was a god ugly building, that's ageing sign declared was once a hotel. With it bordered up windows, and trash spilling down its stone stairs, it was hideous. Not to mention the puke yellow paint job "Levi. Why are we here?" "Just wait a minute. She should be here soon" Who was she? And why was she coming? And what the fuck was going on? He didn't get what this had to do with anything "Or you could tell me now?" Smiling, Levi took his hand and dragged him over to stand in front of the building "Ta-da" ""Ta-da" what?" "It's a hotel" "Oh, no. What?" "I know you don't like it, but, I have an idea, and I need you use that imagination of yours" "You want to open a hotel? I told you I'd support you when you found something to devote your life to, but you're not exactly great with customer service..." "No. Not a hotel. Imagine the building repainted in a white, with blue around the window frames. Shutters on the windows, and two nice big plants either side at the top of the steps..." "Not a hotel?" "No. I know I've been busy, but I've been putting a lot of things in place. And I know this building is super ugly on the outside. In fact, I'm pretty sure we've cleaned up nappies with that same shit yellow in them, but. The previous owner, he brought it to convert it into a town house. He stripped the building of asbestos, and began to convert the top floor, before having to surrender the property to the bank when the economy went down hill..." Eren blinked at Levi, completely shocked by the excited words coming out his husband's mouth. He wanted to buy a fucking hotel?! But not run it as hotel... so he wanted to live in a hotel. While they might need space, a hotel was way too much space! No one needed a house as big as a hotel! "Levi. You better start making sense" Digging something out of his pocket, Levi unfolded the piece of paper. A very crude sketch of what seemed to be the hotel was on the paper, along with a series of crossed out names "I want to turn this into a safe shelter" What. What now? What? "A what?" "You said you didn't want the money the judge awarded you. And we both know omega shelters aren't safe. It's not a huge building, but I was thinking, that a shelter is a good idea" Wrapping his arms around himself, Eren backed away from Levi, holding up a hand to keep his husband at bay "A shelter. You. An alpha. Wants to build a shelter for omegas" Levi's smile slipped "Not just a shelter. Hanji wants to quit working in the ER. If she opened a clinic, we could provide a safe place for omegas to get medical help. There are 10 rooms on the second and third floors. As well as space on the top floor. I've been thinking about this. There's space so that you and Sasha could have your own studio for dancing. We could offer classes to omegas to help with literacy. We could help set them up with their own bank accounts and ID. Give them somewhere warm and safe to have heats. A sort of one stop spot. I've been contacting different agencies and trying to find out the legal side of things" Pinching the bridge of his nose, Eren shook his head "Are you serious? Do you know how much work this is going to take? You can't staff it with alphas..." "Well, that's why I was thinking you'd work here to. You're passionate about omega rights. You know what it's like to go through hell, and you're always looking out for fellow omegas. Rather than an alpha in control of everything, you and I would be, as a partnership" "What about the kids?" "There's the whole top floor... we could move here? Or at least have the space for them while at work..." "Levi... this is... all way too much... how do we even know this building will work?" "We don't. That's why we're meeting with the realtor. They're anxious to be done with it. And I know it's going to take a lot of work. That's why I want to bring Mike, Erwin, Hanji... everyone in on it... but ultimately, I want to build something here that shows people there's still hope" "I... I don't know what to say" He really didn't. His stomach was doing flips, while his heart had settled somewhere near his toes at the thought of touching Nick's money. The judge had said to do something, and a shelter had been a day dream, but reality was now smacking him in the face with a brick, and it was way too much "Eren..." "Just. Why?" "Why, what?" "Why all of this, so suddenly..." "I've been thinking about this for weeks. I've been thinking about you. I hate how society treated you. It makes me sick to think of how unfair it was..." "So you want to turn my life into... into some money making scheme?!" Hissing at Levi, Eren was insulted "No. I want to establish a legitimate charity to help omegas. I thought you'd understand. Unlike The Church, we won't be "helping" ourselves to omegas. We'll be helping them. We'll be helping give them a voice Eren. You know how powerful that can be" "With a staff of alphas" "No. Well. Kind of. I'd be working behind the scenes. Hanji might be over enthused, but even I have to admit that her heart is in the right place. Then there's Mike. He's an alpha. When he has ever treated you with disrespect? Erwin... I don't know about. But think, Eren. We could give omegas jobs here. They could earn wages, it wouldn't be a huge wage, but it'd be money they'd be making for themselves..." That did kind of sound good. He knew how hard it was to get a job, even with his high school equivalency... and maybe... He knew Levi wouldn't hurt an omega intentionally, but when an omega was in heat, rationality went out the window "How will you deal with heats?" "The same way we did at home. Each room has its own lock and bathroom. We can set the system up so only you have access to the keys of omegas staying here. That way, no alpha can..." "Levi. You've kicked down the door to get to me before. When you're in heat, you can't think. All you want is to be fucked senseless and knotted. Now you want to run a hotel filled with omegas. I don't know how to feel, especially..." Eren shook his head, taking a breath as he turned away from his husband "Especially, what?" "Especially when I don't even know if you want to spend my heat with me..." "I... why wouldn't I?" "Because we haven't even talked about it since we got married. You've never spent a full heat with me, but you're happy to fill a hotel with omegas in heat" Tears filled his eyes at the thought of Levi in the arms of another omega... let alone multiple omegas... "Eren. I would love to spend a full heat with you. The only reason we didn't after Viren's birth, was because you asked me not to" "Because... because I can get pregnant. You could sleep with a hundred omegas Levi. You could get them all pregnant... You don't understand what a heat is like. Your ruts are hard, but a heat. No. It hurts so badly. In a full heat, you can't say no" Omegas could get other omegas pregnant, but the chances were so slim. And society spat on omega/omega relationships... it was an even greater insult than being an omega "I know that. That's why I want and need your expertise. I don't want to employ staff that will take advantage of omegas. And, Eren. You should know by now, I don't want any other omega. I've dealt with omegas in heat, and their scents are revolting. You're my husband, and even if our vows weren't traditional, I meant everything. Has this been bothering you? You thinking I wouldn't spend your heat with you?" Eren wiped at his face "Bright Eyes, please. Has it?" "So what if it has?" "Then we should talk about it. I don't want to hurt you. I don't want to force you into something you'll regret" "You're my fucking husband. If I can't spend my heat with you, who can I?" Walking up behind him, Levi guided him into his arms "Eren. You're not spending your heat with anyone other than me. Maybe we should have talked about it earlier, but when have really had time to? Your first heat alone nearly saw you die. I almost begged you to let me spend your heats with you, but I didn't want to put that pressure on you. As for other omegas, I don't want them. I want my husband. My omega" Why did Levi have to be all magical with his warm touches? And why couldn't he see how it looked? A hotel full of sexy omegas in heat... "But..." "But, what?" "I'm not pretty any more. My stomach isn't flat. My arse and hips are huge... my skin's gross... my body is ugly" "You're body isn't ugly. You're not ugly. I love your stretch marks. I love your small tummy. I love your arse, and hips, and thighs. I love sucking your dick, and eating your arse. You giving birth, it hasn't changed that" Eren blushed. How could Levi just say that in the middle of the street?! Where anyone could be listening "If you would let me, I would love to spend your heat with you" "I don't want to fall pregnant" "Then we'll look into contraceptives. As long as your comfortable, that's the main thing" Nuzzling into his neck, Eren swore he could smell arousal on Levi. Personally, he'd been practically limp for weeks, but he supposed that was what happened when you tore right up to your balls. Noticing a rather severe looking woman scowling at them, he pushed Levi away. Confused at first, Levi put two and two together for him "You must be Ms Belmont?" "Mr Ackerman? I wasn't aware that you'd have someone joining you" Probably because no one expected omegas to do anything "This is my husband, Eren" Belmont didn't look impressed "Shall we take a look at the property? Would your, omega, prefer to wait in the car?" "Omega" was practically a sigh of annoyance. Leaving Eren frowning at the woman, while Levi moved between them "My husband will be joining us. We are looking to purchase the property together" "Right. I must warn you, the building hasn't been opened in months, and is being sold in its current condition..." Following Levi up the stairs, he still didn't know what to think about all of this. He didn't particularly want to walk into the hotel, but Belmont could fucking jump if she thought he'd roll over and wait in the car. Waiting for him at the top of the stairs, Levi took his hand "Even if this isn't the place, it's ok" "You wouldn't have chosen it if you didn't like it. I know what you're like, Levi" "Ok. I narrowed it down, and this one seemed most manageable and it's already been cleared of asbestos. It's also in a nicer location" Eren shot him a glare. He wasn't going to be swayed by... holy fuck... there was a fucking chandelier. No. He was definitely not going to be swayed by shiny things "... the interior design was heavily influenced by the art nouveau movement, while the original building its self was erected in 1970..." God. This Belmont woman sucked at her job. Her voice filled with disinterest, despite the fact the power actually fucking worked and things were kind of cool. It'd obviously been broken into, mirrors smashed, and spray painting across walls. Wait... Tugging his husband back, he frowned "1970. That makes it... 54?" Belmont answered his whisper "It does. There was a fire, destroying the top floors, and ultimately destroying the top 4 floors. It was rebuilt 7 years later, operations of the hotel ended in 1996. The property chanced numerous hands since. As I've explained to your husband" Growling softly, Levi whispered "Don't let her get to you..." "I feel stupid" "You're not. I didn't explain everything to you" "Mr Ackerman, would you like to see the evening parlour" Levi nodded, Belmont turn and walking towards the door that read "bar". With her back to them, Levi bowed to him "Eren, would you care to join me in the Evening Parlour?" Levi's phoney accent was more than a little funny. Nodding, his husband lifted his hand, like they did in the old movies when the men led the women to the dance floor "Shall we sip scotch? Or shall it be champagne, my love?" "Man... a bar where omegas can drink safely... I would have got up to so much trouble... if I like, could have" "Maybe we should ditch the bar?" "But... my champagne?" "I'll buy you as much as you like" "Ooooh? You better not tell my husband" "He's a fool. No sane alpha would let you out of their sights" "Mr Ackerman. I am a busy woman. If you're not interested..." Eren covered his snicker. Levi, however, merely took it in his stride "Sorry, we were discussing if this building is suitable for our needs. Like I said. We are interested in buying a property together. If my husband isn't satisfied, I'm not" Eren looked away. Knowing he was being swept away by Levi. This was an absolutely massive project, that he really couldn't see happening. But his words has also come back to haunt him. He had told Levi he'd support him, so he had to push aside his hatred of Belmont "Yes. Of course. As I was saying, this is the Evening Parlour" The hotel was nice in its own way. The bathrooms were kind of gross from disuse, but Eren fully supported the idea of a shower over a bath. It'd help with cramping during heat, and he loved the older style of bath with its big claw feet. The rooms had been stripped, and needed a complete makeover... but they'd fit a double bed, and a fridge... No. Nope. He was getting swept away again. It was hard to keep looking at the hotel so objectively. After the bar, they'd headed to the top floor. He hated the modern feel of it, but again, there was a but. Levi had so many ideas for the space. Talking about how they could live there. Eren didn't have the heart to tell him no. Yes. It was way bigger than their apartment, with plenty of natural light, or there would have been if the windows weren't crusted with dust. When he imagined Levi's personal hell, it was a dusty and grimy place like this... and they reached his personal hell. Joining into the kitchen was a basement. The moment he saw the steps leading down into an inky blackness, his chest seized. Levi hadn't mentioned there would be a basement... and he could have decked his husband for it "Eren?" Backing away, he bolted back through the hotel. Not stopping until he was heaving his guts up by the front steps. It'd been years... he shouldn't be this weak. He shouldn't feel so fucking afraid of a stupid room... but he was. It was he'd been bathed like smell of dirty water and decomposing rat. He'd never been this angry with Levi before. He hadn't warned him. He hadn't said anything. He'd let him wander around in the kitchen before fucking springing it on him... All he had to do was tell him... A creepy abandoned building with a creepy fucking basement. He... if he'd been... would Levi have left him down there? Spiralling, Eren collapsed down onto the sidewalk. Clutching his chest as he shook his head. Levi wouldn't lock him down there. Levi wouldn't leave him to die. He wouldn't.... but... Whining deeply, he called for his alpha. He couldn't fucking breathe "Fuck" Whining again for Levi, his husband appeared. Taking his face in his hands, Eren knew he was supposed to focus on his breathing, and that he was supposed to focus on Levi. He was just too fucking scared to "Bright Eyes, you've got to breathe for me. You're ok. You don't have to go down there... I'm not going to make you go down there" "You... never... fucking... said..." "I know. I know. I'm sorry. I didn't think it'd be just there" Levi had known. Feeling like he couldn't breathe, he tried to push Levi back. It wasn't just that he couldn't breathe, it was the awful feeling that came before vomiting. Levi's shoes catching the brunt of it "Let it out. I'm sorry..." Fuck Levi and his wonderfully soft nature. He was angry at the arsehole... and shouldn't he be mad that his shoes were now ruined "I'm going to lock up now. Talk things through with your... husband. You have the office number" Fucking Belmont. He didn't appreciate her seeing him like this, but at least she was fucking off. Even Levi didn't reply to her. With his chest heaving, she'd long since left before his breathing came back under control. Brushing Levi off, Eren rose to his feet "Eren?" "I don't want to talk to you right now. I want to go home" "Eren..." "I want to go home, Levi" The drive home was short, long and awkward all at the same time. Eren exhausted as fine tremors continued to run through his body. Trailing behind Levi, he felt weak and useless, and definitely not in the mood for Hanji as Levi let them into the apartment. Ignoring everything she said, he headed straight for the shower, determined to get the stink of stale water of his skin. Even he'd been taken back by how badly he'd reacted to a fucking doorway... Levi would probably want to talk about it. He'd probably even call Krista, and dob him over his meltdown... Fuck. He'd been letting himself get swept away. He wanted to scream out his frustration... Unfortunately, "fuck" wasn't a child friendly word, though it was barely seen as swearing these days. God. He'd reacted so badly. What was he supposed to say? "Yeah. Ok. Maybe I liked the hotel a little, but I don't know about living there, and hey, yeah. That basement, not happening". Like he could say that. Levi would try to make him see the positives. The space was big enough to take in omegas, and have Hanji's clinic like Levi had dreamed out... Maybe it was a good building... and he was what wasn't good? It was all too confusing. He needed a nap, and to calm down... He couldn't think, and he couldn't process anything at the moment. * It was only a few days after they'd visited the hotel that Eren managed to surprise him. His husband had been so upset that he hadn't expected his omega to bring up the shelter again so soon. Especially with the hell of a nightmare Eren had had after they'd returned home. His husband had gone to nap, while Levi had been lectured by Hanji over how distress Eren had been. It wasn't like he could admit he'd scared his husband with an open door, and a set of stairs. It wasn't that long after he'd sent Hanji out to buy dinner that Eren had woken screaming. Rushing into their bedroom, his omega was drenched in sweat and throwing up. Trying to bring Eren back to reality, he received a split lip, before being kicked in the chest, then Eren had escaped. Falling backwards off their bed, with a loud thud. Three damn days later, it still hurt. Coming out of their bedroom, Eren dropped down next to him with a sigh. Slinging his legs over his, Eren sighed again, as he rested his head against the sofa cushion. Levi turning off the TV, so give his omega his full attention "What's wrong?" "I want to talk" "About what?" "The hotel. I won't go in there. Not when there's a door on that basement. But... if you want this to happen, then I want to support you. But I'm not going back in there..." "Eren. I'm sorry, I didn't think it would scare you so badly" "I told you I couldn't..." Eren shook his head, before continuing "...Well it did. But I'm trying to think about all of this... without the basement. If you want to move ahead with this, then I'll support you. But that basement, it either has to go, or the door to it has to. And there have to be lights on down there all the time. And I'm not going down there" "You're ok, with going through with this?" "I was so fucking scared. But. Then I started thinking... Maybe if they'd had somewhere they could dump without any one asking questions... Maybe things would have been different?" Nick had to have had shelters under his control, in order to find his victims. Eren's foster parents could have dumped him and deserted him any time they would have liked... "I hate what you went through" "I finally have a good life. I'm not happy all the time, but it's good. And Nick, his money, I don't want it. He hurt so many omegas and nothing will make up for it, ever. I don't want to be cleaning up his mess" "We're not going to be. Shelters exist... this is just another one, but we're going to do it how they all should have been done" "I don't want my name on anything visible in the shelter. I don't want people I don't know, knowing me. Or, at least, anyone else. I just wanted to make things better for someone..." "And we can. But I can't do that, if you don't want this too" "I've thought about this really hard. And, I've made my choice. I'm going to give you 6 months. You have 6 months to sort this project out, and to follow it. But. If it impacts our family. Or if you're working too hard and the kids are suffering because of it, I'm leaving you" Levi blinked... 6 months wasn't exactly a lot of time when dealing with government agencies that liked to take their time to reply "Eren..." "No. You have 6 months, Levi. And I refuse to enter that hotel, until that door is gone and the place is cleaned through. I don't want to meet people from agencies. They're not going to help you, if they're busy judging me" "Eren. You're more than an omega. You're my husband. I want to do this, with my husband" "I'm telling you my counter offer. I might be stupid, and naive to how the world works, but I never know what to say. That's why you make the first contact. I don't know how to reach out and do that. And no red. None at all. Red and a basement, is asking for a horror story" "I don't want a horror story" "No "Shining" shit either. I fucking hate that movie" "No "redrum". Ok. I've looked at few other buildings, if you want to take a look?" This was supposed to be something for both of them. He's honestly thought Eren would be more into it all, but then again, to Eren it was all just a lousy hotel with a basement "No. This is your project. I need to work on me. And Viren's going to be starting daycare next year. I want him to be socialising, and having fun. Hanji's already half way through her pregnancy, and will be finishing up in 6 weeks, so if you're serious about her starting a clinic, you organised that with her..." "I have other papers, and ideas..." "And when you know what's what, then you'll tell me. I don't want to get invested for it to turn into nothing" "Ok... I would still like your name on the building deed. I know you don't want to be on papers and stuff, but I want this for both of us... I want the world to know that you're a strong omega, and that you're my husband" "And what happens if I'm on the deed?" "Well, it legally means you own realestate" "And?" "And I want you to have things of your own, or even part of them. Like this apartment, I've had you put on the deed to it. If something happens to me, then the apartment is yours. Like the shelter would be yours" "I don't know..." "You don't need to know right now. You can keep thinking about it. I'll answer any of your questions I can. I've also been thinking about the basement. We wouldn't have cameras in the hotel rooms, but we could set them up in the basement. That way you'd be able to everything happening down there" "Do we need cameras?" "We"... Eren said "we"... we had to mean together, right? "Only in case of accidents or assaults. Like I said. None in the rooms, but the foyer in case of angry alphas or betas, and the hallways in case anyone gets hurt. That way, there's evidence of whatever happens" "I don't know if I like the idea of cameras. I don't know if I can feel natural" "Eren, once you get used to them, you won't think about them. Also, it's for our safety, and Hanji's. If she had a violent patient and gets hurt, there needs to be evidence" "The cops won't do anything" Like Floch hadn't done anything... "They will, if we make it so they can't ignore them" "I'll follow you. But seriously, I'm not impressed. I told you I didn't want you staying up" Levi snorted, Eren's eyes narrowing in annoyance "I was watching TV and got distracted. I wasn't working on anything" "So you like TV, more than me?" "No. I didn't say that. It was so bad that I got caught up in it" "You're not making this better for yourself" "Sorry" "You're lucky Titan wanted snuggles, or I would have been out here to growl at you sooner" "You want snuggles?" "I want my husband to be involved in this family" "Point taken. I'm sorry. We can go to bed now?" "It's nearly time for the twins to wake up and demand food" "Rei is good like that" "He is. And don't forget. If you start neglecting the kids, I will leave" "Then I want you to yell at me each time I mess up. I'm serious, Eren. I want to do this for us, but not at the cost of us" "You might end up regretting that" "I might. But I think we've both had lives with far too many regrets. I'm sick of them" "
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Let’s Start Talking About Those Often Overlooked in Black History
So, I'm on Instagram yesterday looking at a post about the deaths of both John Lewis and CT Vivian on an account I follow that you totally need to have on your feed if you don’t already, @jowilson_ . And under the post, I commented about how I was sad about this turn of events and how unfortunate it is that many people had never even heard of CT Vivian. And this woman replies to me with, I guess, the misunderstanding that I didn’t know who CT Vivian was and therefore proceeds to briefly explain his significance to me. Here is the post and subsequent exchange.
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And I emerged from that moment like 🤨, because there were sooooo many things that were wrong with it. And at first, I tried to brush it off as no big deal, but then I landed back on the post again later, and I was like, “Nope, I need to address this adequately.” So, this is me, addressing it adequately. And I begin with a genuine and heartfelt request.
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I have absolutely nothing but respect and reverence for Dr. King. But despite what we were all taught in our elementary school social studies lessons, he is not the only person of note from that era. There were many things that occurred during the Civil Rights Movement that didn't involve Dr. King or his specific efforts. I know that his name is likely one of the only few that you know, but why not broaden your perspective a little?
Look up Ella Baker, who founded SNCC (the civil rights organization of which the late John Lewis would become the chairman in 1963) as an alternative to the SCLC, whom she felt was not as in touch with young black people as they needed to be. Look up Malcolm X, because although I know you've heard the name, I can almost guarantee that you don't know much else about him besides the fact he and MLK did not agree on the method of nonviolent protest. Look up Fannie Lou Hamer, a native Mississippian who, after being the victim of an unwanted and unauthorized hysterectomy (aka the famed “Mississippi appendectomy”), devoted her life to seeing that black southerners from poor and rural communities like hers were allowed opportunities to exercise their rights as citizens to vote. Look up Fred Hampton, who was a prominent leader of The Black Panther Party, which, in part, advocated for Black Americans to honor their second amendment rights to arm themselves to help protect the black communities that were being terrorized by white law enforcement. (By the way, he was murdered in cold blood while he lay in bed next to his nearly nine-month pregnant fiancée by Chicago police officers when a sanctioned raid occurred at the culmination of an FBI campaign to actively interfere in the operation of The Panthers. The FBI had insisted they had done this, because the The Panthers were an extremely dangerous terrorist threat to the country. They were not.) And you need to look up CT Vivian, who was a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and fought tirelessly for African Americans to experience America in the same way that white people have been free to do since the country’s inception. In fact, he was a part of the early marches in Selma to advocate for black Alabamians to be able to register to vote and was assaulted by sheriff Jim Clark as he beseeched him to allow those standing behind Vivian to be allowed to enter the county courthouse so they could become registered voters. This and other confrontations are what led to a nighttime march in neighboring Marion, Alabama where Jimmie Lee Jackson was murdered by police because he was trying to shield his mother from being beaten. This is why the march in Selma was planned for what we now call “Bloody Sunday”. This is the march from which you've seen images and videos of John Lewis marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, only to be immediately brutalized by mounted police. This is the perfect example of a historic moment that did not involve MLK’s direct presence that nonetheless needs to be told and retold as a crucial moment in American history.
But yes, CT Vivian did work alongside Dr. King as a part of the SCLC as an activist in The Movement. But lady (and we will temporarily sidestep the egregious issue of you trying to whitesplain his significance to ME when YOU clearly know so very little), if this is all you know about him AND think this is the best way to quickly explain his significance to someone who doesn’t know it, there is something incredibly wrong and disrespectful about that. I almost hesitated to write this, because especially as #BlackLivesMatter is no longer 'trending",  I am annoyed (but not particularly surprised) by how quickly visible white liberal outrage has dissipated about the systemic racism of America and its harmful effects on African Americans. And so, when I do see a white person who is still paying attention to our cause, I feel compelled to "cut them some slack" when they do something that offends me. Because I don't want them to feel offended or attacked and then decide that there are a million other things to which they would rather devote their time and energy instead of Black Lives Matter. And then I think more about it, and I ask myself this: 
How is what I just described any different from the way I've been operating my whole life? How is this different from me falling all over myself to keep the white people around me in a place of comfort despite whatever that costs me? How is this not ignoring the things that I need to prioritize the comfort of those who are likely already pretty comfortable? And I realized that it's not. I realized that continuing this compulsion that I've exercised my entire life to make sure that my blackness doesn't make anyone feel threatened (because I know that I don't need to do anything else but be black for some people to find a reason to discount me) does not serve ANYONE well. It doesn't serve me well, because it has made me quite resentful. And it doesn't serve white people well, because they HAVE NO IDEA that I'm doing this and therefore have no appreciation for it.
It's time for me to leave behind the things that clearly don't work and embrace the things that better suit me and my wellbeing. So, as much as I appreciate continued allyship, I MUST implore you, white allies, to occasionally check yourselves. We want you to join us in creating a better America, but your participation in that effort needs to be absent of condescension or placing your perceived elevated stature ahead of our black lives and experiences. We don't need you to explain to us the mechanics of racism or how to rise above it, because, real talk, you do not have a better vantage point of either of those things. And we don't need you to provide us with the most pertinent facts about the great icons of our community if you, yourself, don’t even really know what those facts are. I know who CT Vivian was; I don't need your shoddy recap of his importance. There are times to speak and times to listen. We need you to know the difference. I know that's not something America has done a particularly stellar job of teaching you how to do, but that's what WE need from you. And it is high time OUR NEEDS take precedence over YOUR comfort.
As a parting thought, assuming that you are on Instagram (and I’m really struggling with why you might not be but 🤐), I would like to encourage you to follow @jowilson_.  Her posts are consistently the best ones on my feed.
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Watching Monsters
Request/Prompt(s): 52 – “Just get in the fucking blanket fort.” with Clint or Sam!!
Warnings: swearing, my intense disinterest in having children leaking into my writing (there are SO MANY fics here that end with “+ baby, happily ever after” and I’m not about that life, so here’s one for us!)
Word Count: 1482
A/N: I love Saaaam!!! I love him. I need more Sam fics! I’m a little sad with myself that there isn’t more of him/his character in this, fear not! I have another Sam request that I’m hoping to give a little more depth of character. This one was just a fun prompt that needed a fun lighthearted blurb :)
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Your entire body tensed in what you could only describe as a perpetual cringe. Your eyes rolled so hard your head rolled back with them in exasperation. They were awake. The adorable hellions you had the honor of calling your niece and nephew. Though right about now you thought Spawn of Erinys might be more fitting. Surely your sister was an infernal goddess of vengeance for leaving these monsters in your care, brimming with contagious laughter and smiles one moment, screaming with piercing fury the next. Your nerves were fried. You did NOT sign up for this.
“Hey, hey, what’s going on?” you soothed, rubbing your nephew’s back in comforting circles.
“Sh-she dumped out my rocks!” he wailed, pointing at his sister through a tearful grimace, his sniffles doing nothing to contain the mess. All of this over some damn rocks.
“Well, it’s okay,” you tried, picking up a few and reaching for his little bucket, “Look, we can just put them back in, good as new.”
“THOSE AREN’T THE RIGHT ONES!” he screeched balling his little fists and flailing his arms in frustration.
You had no clue what the hell to do here. They were rocks. One rock looked exactly like four other goddamn rocks. One glance at your niece told you this outburst was about to go critical as her big eyes began to water and her chin quivered under the intensity of her brother’s fury.
“Heeey!” Sam swooped in quickly with a big grin and a wink towards you. He scooped up your nephew without hesitation, tossing him with a jovial roar over his shoulder before heaving forward and feigning at dropping him, much to the child’s delight. “I’ve got an idea. Your auntie picked out a movie for after dinner, let’s go make a fort  to watch it in!”
“Yeah!!” he shouted amidst giggles from both kids. You rolled your eyes, why the hell couldn’t you get that boy to stop crying? It took Sam a whopping 3 seconds.
“Alright! Inside quick! Get all the blankets you can find!”
“Thank you,” you breathed with a deep sigh, looking up at Sam, still not willing to get up from the grass while the kids were still in your line of sight. You didn’t bother holding back a laugh when one of those waddling little penguins stumbled forward in their haste. Luckily there were no tears and the chase resumed.
Sam laughed, looking at you with a warm smile. “You looked like you needed a little help.” He held his hands out for you and you took them, letting him pull you to your feet despite the reluctance settling in your bones. He pulled your hands behind his back as you settled into a tight embrace, his strong arms curling over your shoulders to hold you tighter.
“I need a lot of things,” you complained into his chest, pressing your cheek against the familiar comfort as he kissed the top of your head. “Starting with a hysterectomy and a glass of wine, and ending with a restraining order against my sister and her miniatures.”
“They’re not that bad,” he chuckled, leading you inside with his arm still draped over your shoulder. You happily leaned into him, letting your hand grip the back of his shirt. “You just need a break. Why don’t you do some stress cooking, get dinner going, and I’ll keep ‘em busy for a while destroying Tony’s living room?”
“I’ll remind you that that’s also our living room,” you sighed, but agreed. A little alone time in the kitchen with recipes that were consistent and maybe even a little music while you worked might kick you back into being a tolerable human to be around.
An hour and a half later and the rippling giggles coming from the living room had even you smiling as you finished making plates for everyone. You set them down on the table and called for Sam and the kids, only to be greeted with a cacophony of whines and pleading.
“Can’t we eat in the blanket fort?” a tiny voice begged in a pitchy whine, just one ‘no’ away from tears.
You took a deep breath, steeling yourself for the inevitable tantrum and putting on your firm auntie face. “I don’t think--”
“Sounds fun to me!” Sam’s voice boomed over yours.
Your attention snapped to him in an instant, glaring daggers at him as he poked his head out from the heap of blankets suspended over the couch, the table, a de-commissioned Iron Man suit. He gave you a stern, pleading look, mouthing “please” as you pursed your lips in frustration.
“I don’t know, Sam,” you answered in a sing-song voice so as not to set off the kids, “This barbeque sauce could stain the… everything! It could stain literally everything in that fort, including the fort itself.”
“Baby, I love you, but just get in the fucking blanket fort,” your mouth fell open in shock before you burst into a fit of giggles.
“Sam said a bad word!”
You couldn’t hold back any longer, covering your mouth with both hands to fight back your laughter. “I’m not playin’, these kids are wearing me out. Let’s feed ‘em and get ‘em in front of that movie now.”
You downright snorted when a small body tumbled against a wall of the fort bringing one of the blankets over Sam drifting heavily onto his face. He nodded, not losing an ounce of his insistent tone. “Get. in. the fort.”
“Alright, alright,” you agreed, “We can eat in the fort but after that it’s jammies! No arguing or there’s no movie, got it?”
Negotiation. It was all about negotiation at this age. You weren’t actually their parent so your bargaining chips weren’t worth much, but a movie and a blanket fort were decent incentives.
Another hour and your sister had mercifully come to pick up her kids. She’d come to visit you in New York expecting to find you in a flat, taking her out for brunch to talk about the small-town future she always thought you’d come back to. It was a bit of a shock when you brought her to Stark Tower where you lived with your boyfriend, Sam, and given his career had no plans for the life path she’d taken. You’d never understand why, after years of saying it, she was shocked to find you more than comfortable with that plan.
“How were they?” she asked, sneaking into the living room with careful steps to lift up her youngest into her arms.
“Horrible,” you smirked, “No, they were fine. But I think we’re as tired as they are.”
“Don’t you think you’ll want some of your own one day?”
You sighed. This again. “Honey, no. I’ll send you the surveillance footage and you can see why. I think I’ll also send it to Trojan for their next ‘for the love of god remember a condom’ ad. Your boy cried for 3 minutes solid over some rocks.”
She rolled her eyes but laughed with you. “As long as you’re happy,” she conceded.
“I’m so happy here. I told you, Sam and I are enjoying our lives.” You gave her a tight hug and helped her settle her kids into her car, waving as she pulled away.
When you made it back upstairs Sam was sipping a beer in the dimmed light from the kitchen. You shuffled into the living room, eying the mess when you noticed a very familiar blanket.
“Hey Sam?” you asked cautiously.
“Hmm?”
“Are these our blankets?”
“Yeah, I didn’t want the kids getting dirt and who knows what all over Tony’s, why?”
With a groan you dropped to your knees and crawled inside the fort. There was no way you were making up your bed right now. “We’re sleeping in the blanket fort.”
“You are as bad as those kids, get your ass up, we can make the bed!”
“Sam! I love you, but just get in the fucking blanket fort,” you spat his words back at him with a grin. The second he crawled in beside you with a groan you curled up against him, your head pillowed against his chest. He wrapped both arms around your waist as you tilted your head up to kiss him softly. “I do love you. Thank you for sticking it out with me today.”
“Any time,” he hummed kissing you again and squeezing you tight against him. “Can we do something that has nothing to do with kids tomorrow? Clint and Tony will be back tomorrow night and I need a break before the babysitting starts again.” His eyes were closed as he asked, as were yours, but you heard the smile in his voice and laughed.
“We can sleep in til at least 10 in our blanket fort?” you proposed with a tired sigh.
“You got a deal.”
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vanceoliver · 4 years
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It's Sunday evening and I'm I'm exusted, I think I have everything ready for tomorrow.
  All the foods ready, riblets, and ribs are curing, baked beans with molasses is in the refrigerator along with Chloe's favorite devil eggs, and pickled beets.
  My wife Betty said that she would do the cooking on the barbecue grill.
  Since Chloe doesn't have any teeth I made Chloe her own sweet corn, this is the first time and I found it really wasn't that hard to make cream corn. I really hope Chloe likes it.
  I made a few hamburger paddies with ground bacon, cheddar cheese and finely minced onions, and have them soaking with teriyaki sauce, and for Chloe she will have her corse ground hotdogs.
  I'm really worried how Chloe will react when she has her company Monday.
  Betty has been sharing with me what she has been learning from her coworkers, about his wife.
  I've have no idea about this DDLG and what to expect or how his wife is going to be.
  I know she isn't into diapers and the total baby life as Chloe is. Apairently she is more of a younger girl in her behavior, but she does have one thing in common with Chloe they both are very girly girls. So I'm praying that everything will go good.
  Betty's coworker has told my wife that his wife was reluctant at first but now she's excited to meet Chloe.
  I know that from what Betty has told me that when they roleplay it's not about sex I'm told it's more of a father daughter type of relationship.
  The words bother me a little I mean  Daddy Dom Little Girl I think its more the Dom part that bothers me.
  Only once in the entire time I've known Chloe was the other day when I was putting her braces on her she was fighting me that I gave Chloe a little smack on her bare bottom, but after that had happened Chloe has never fought me again and has been very cooperative with me about letting me put her braces on.
  Well I'm going to go spend some time with Betty now that everything is ready.
  I have serious concerns about Chloe, but she needs interaction with other people.
  It has been a beautiful memorial day weekend the weather for the better part it was beautiful, 70 degrees a little windy but realy nice.
  I'm still having problems with myself about bringing exposure to Chloe, and wondering if I'm doing something right or wrong, is it going to cause Chloe to have a meltdown, or will she be fine.
  I was really off balanced with the thought of the people coming over for no reasion.
  Chloe started getting scared when their truck came up the drive. But I managed to calm her down without giving up the suprise.
  Martin who is about 6'and his wife Wendy who is about 5'3 are very nice people, I was expecting his wife to be dressed like a little girl, like Chloe, but that really wasn't the case with them.
  Wendy did dress a little young for her age but a person at first glance wouldn't know  that she was into the DDLG, or I should say I'd never have known.
  They brought potato salad and chips and dip as well as some drinks.
  Wendy is a very open and talkative person. She couldn't stop talking about the funiture that Chloe had made. Martin told me that if he didn't know better by what Betty had told him he'd of sworn it was store baught.
  Chloe was quiet and reclusive at first but with Wendy's constant gabbing it didn't take long and Wendy had  Chloe giggling, and playing.
  It was really surprising that Wendy wasn't put off by the way Chloe was dressed and behaved, it was quite the opposite. Wendy treated Chloe with respect as anyone would treat any toddler girl.
  Wendy ask me all sorts of questions about Chloe's hip and leg braces and why she has to wear them.
  I didn't want to go into details about what all Chloe had been through, but I told her that we needed to be really careful with Chloe because she could get seriously hurt.
  I have absolutely no idea why I started talking with Wendy like an adult would talk with a younger child.
  After Betty showed Martin and Wendy the house we all went outside and without being told Wendy helped to get Chloe in her wheelchair and asked me if it was okay if she could take Chloe to her play area.
  I dont even think I got the words thats fine fully out of my mouth and she was off with Chloe.
  While we were on the deck seated watching them play Betty started to get the grill going, as we talked. I have to say I was fully mistaken about the DDLG lifestyle I really believed it was a sexual fetish but as with Chloe it's more of an escape.
  Chloe was very reluctant for some time but Wendy seemed to get Chloe to have fun and open up.
  It was very cute to see the two of them playing together. It took me a little bit to except it all, but the two of them were very much like a young girl playing with a toddler girl.
  Betty brought out Chloe's highchair on the deck when she had everything cooked, Martin helped me to bring out the rest of the food and plates, and finish setting everything up.
  Martin is defently not what I was expecting either, he was very polite, and wanted to know about us and Chloe,  as well as Chloe's medical complications.
  I'm not sure why but he asked me how long it took to train Chloe to except being a baby.
  Betty interupted me quickly and explained to him that it was Chloe's choosing but she fully understood after she relised what Chloe had been through.
  Martin explained that Wendy had a hysterectomy and that they couldn't have children and they've looked into adoption but it is ridiculous the price that they are asking.
  I've heard this before, Betty and I have discussed having children before but with both our schedules it just hasn't been feasible.
  We really talked a lot about both of our families and shared knowledge with each other.
  Apairently he didn't make his wife Wendy get into the DDLG relationship it was Wendy that brought Martin into this lifestyle, he said he had no idea about it previously.
  Martin asked Betty if it was fine with her if he went down to get the girls. I was kind of shocked at first, this is still all new to me, but the attitude was more like we both had little girls, and now that I look at it my sister is my little sister.
  I was really surprised that he treated Chloe with so much respect, and even talked to Chloe as one would talk to a little girl.
  When Martin brought Chloe up I figured it was getting about time for Chloe to get her bottom changed, so I excused myself and took Chloe back to her nursery with Wendy on my heels.
  I'm still not shure why I didn't tell Wendy that I'd be out in a minute and take care of Chloe privately, mabey it was that Wendy was still playing with Chloe.
  After I got Chloe on the changing table and straped, Wendy started looking at Chloe's crib and toys and looked in her closet.
  While I was getting Chloe's soaked diaper off, Wendy came over beside me telling me that Chloe has a lot of pretty dresses and why wasn't Chloe wearing one.
  About the time I got Chloe's diaper off Wendy let out a little scream, I didn't think about how it affected Betty, Wendy started asking me what and why Chloe had so many big scars.
  I didn't go into details I just told her Chloe had some serious surgery's and this is why we need to be very careful with her, and Chloe  has to wear her braces.
  Wendy had some tears in her eyes I'm guessing from what she seen, and she apairently felt sorry for Chloe.
   After I got Chloe diapered Wendy brought me a pretty blue dress of Chloe's and asked me if Chloe could wear this, I didn't see the harm so I dressed Chloe in it.
  After we got Chloe back into her wheelchair we headed back out to where we had the food set out.
  Almost as soon as we got on the deck Wendy ran over to Martin and started calling him daddy telling him that he needed to be really careful with Chloe because Chloe has really bad owies, and this part shocked me. Wendy told Martin she didn't want her baby sister to get hurt anymore.
  Martin told Wendy he already knew.
  After I got Chloe secured into her highchair and her tray in place Wendy asked me if she could feed her baby sister.
  I explained that Chloe can feed herself, about that time she got really upset, and Martin said Wendy's name quite firmly, and she seamed to straighten up.
  It was almost identical to how Betty scolds Chloe and Chloe also straightens up quickly.
  I kind of felt bad and told Wendy that she could get Chloe her plate of food from my wife.
  This all is making me feel a little odd, almost weird, but I agreed with my wife I'd do this for Chloe's benefit, we both agreed that Chloe needed the interactions with others, and not just us.
  Wendy has been seriously acting like a little girl ever since she arrived, but Betty and I agreed that we'd give this a try for Chloe's benefit.
  I look at it all now though it's not my lifestyle I almost wonder how sincere Wendy is.
  As I  look back it's almost like Chloe and how she has let go and excerpts everything.
  Wendy insisted that she needed to sit by her sister to help her.
  I couldnt see a reason to fight it so I just let the two of them do whatever, when Betty looked at me she smiled and nodded her head.
  Chloe didn't even put up a fuss she let Wendy feed her.
  Wendy was like the perfect little mommy fussing over Chloe.
  After the girls finished playing outside I had Chloe go to her playpen I could tell Chloe was tired she hadn't had her nap she usaly has.
  One minute I seen Chloe in Wendy's arm's as Wendy was feeding Chloe her bottle the next Wendy was rocking Chloe and she was sound asleep.
  Wendy thanked me several times for letting her be herself, and asked me if she could come over again.
  All I could tell her was we'll see.
  I've got Chloe in her crib, I don't think I'll hear a peep out of her all night.
  I look back at it all now and I have to say it was nice I may have learned something from all this.
  I talked with Betty after Chloe was sleeping and Betty thought that this might be a good thing for Chloe.
  Betty made a good point to me that she and I haven't had a night out since we've moved in because Chloe needs to constantly be watched.
  Mabey Wendy would be interested in babysitting Chloe, so that we could go out and have our own fun, or time to ourselves.
  I didnt tell Betty that I'm concerned about Chloe's care and I'm not sure if I can trust Wendy.
  I did tell Betty that we should let Chloe have more play days, and get to know them better.
  Chloe has a couple appointments today, and I'll talk with her therapist about this weekend and the subjection Betty had made.
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COTW 30 update... slow writing day is slow
Armed with a file full of printed papers, Levi was visiting Krista's office alone. Eren had been up and out of bed before him, finding feeding Eli when Levi had woken in a panic over his missing husband. With Krista's promptness, it was only a short wait before she came to fetch him. A smile on her face as he followed her down to her office, and gestured for him to sit. Sinking down, Levi let out a sigh. Krista jumping right into it as she sat "Let me guess. You and Eren had a fight?" "Maybe... Yes" "Both of you are so easy to read. He had the exact same look on his face when he came to see me. Was it about the roster?" "It wasn't my fault... I did the dishes without thinking" Krista laughed "Oh no" "Yeah. Pretty much" "And how many times has this happened?" "A few. I don't even realise I am until he tells me off" "And how is "he"?" "Bossy. He threw his shoe at me the other day" "Are you two sticking to the roster? For the most part?" "We're trying to. But like I said, I start something without thinking, so he gets mad" "And the shoe?" "I moved the washing to the dryer" An uncharacteristic pout was on Levi's lips. He really hadn't thought about it. There was washing to be done, and it was just... right there "No one said this would be an easy transition. It was more to get you two on the same page. Now. What have you brought me today?" "A few things... I... Eren and I had another fight over Nick's money. You see. There's something Eren said that hasn't left my mind, so I did some looking into it on my own" "Oh! What is it?" Passing the file of papers over to Krista, Krista opened it up in her lap "What am I looking at?" "Properties and property reports. Eren mentioned that omega shelters aren't safe for omegas, and we know how into omega rights he is. I know he hates Nick's money, but it was given to him so he could do something more with his life..." "You want to start a shelter?" Krista sounded both surprised and delighted, Levi leaning forward as he nodded "Not just a shelter. Hanji wants to quit from being a full time ER doctor, to spend more time with Anna before her baby comes. She's licensed to practice as a GP. What I want to establish is a new kind of shelter. A shelter where omegas are put first and treated as people. Where they can come for medical advice, without being judged. Eren is amazing with omegas, and with children. He's had no formal medical training, but he's helped deliver children. He knows what omegas need, and he knows what's wrong with society" "And you? You're giving me a lot of "Eren" reasons" "I never thought omegas were second class citizens. I dealt with omegas almost every single day, but it took Eren to make me realise so many things. The courage and bravery he showed taking the stand... He said that if it could help even just one omega, then it was all worth it" "Levi, you slipped back to "Eren reasons"" It was hard not to. Eren had opened his eyes to so many things "I don't want my sons growing up in a world where omegas are treated like shit. I'm fucking sick of seeing omegas beaten to death by their alphas, or thinking they deserve to be beaten because they have no where to go, and their alphas are dicks. No one else has the balls to step up, and I want Eren's suffering to have been for something" "Setting up a shelter isn't something you can just do" "I know. I've been in touch with the police, and with the government. Not that they're fast at replying. The government hasn't replied, but with their own interests at heart, it's best they "help" if they want to save face" "You need licenses and a premise" "I've been looking. I've found one that needs work, but it could be perfect" Krista flicked through the papers. Levi may have printed off almost everything he'd come across in order to read it properly at a later date "Which one?" "The old Wall Maria Hotel. It's abandoned, and ugly as hell. The bank's been trying to offload it for years. It was repossessed, but with the downturn in economy, no one wants to put the money or effort into it" Krista closed the file, her smile gone "Levi. I think it's very admirable. But we both know this is a grand gesture of love to Eren" "So what if it is?" "These are people's lives" "Why can't it be both? A positive change and a project Eren can throw himself into. We were all disgusted to hear how omegas were treated. Eren used to tell me not to quit my job because he was proud of how I treated omegas. I've seen abused omegas. My husband was let down by the system that was supposed to help omegas. Do you know what he told me? He told me one of the omegas at the compound, was giving birth to the child of a shelter owner. They went there for help, and instead had to pay for their room with sex. It's fucking disgusting. How is anything going to change when this shit is happening?" Krista sighed heavily. Levi taken back by how strongly she was objecting, as if she thought he hadn't considered everything... or maybe she was trying to make sure he had... either way, he was thrown off balance "Say you do start a shelter. How are you going to pay for the building? How are you going to pay for repairs? How are you going to pay for staff? You're not on suppressants anymore. Will you go back on them to cover your alphas scent? What happens when you have omegas in heat? With alpha staff? What happens if an omega throws themselves at you in heat? How is it going to be for Eren, surrounded by omegas throwing themselves at you?" "That's why I want to take a step back. I want to get Eren trained to be a receptionist, so when omegas come, they're greeted by an omega. I would take a purely administrative role" "And what about the kids?" "What about them?" "Not all omegas are trustworthy. You'll be having strangers in and out of your home constantly. Strangers around your children" "That's... The hotel is only small. 4 floors with 20 rooms across the two middle floors. The man who'd purchased the building had intended to turn the whole thing into a lavish townhouse. The top floor has already been gutted... there is a basement, and that will be a problem for Eren, but it's not like it has to be that building. I want to create a future with him. An omega has never, ever, received an restitution of that much. Previously, the largest ever sum paid out to an omega was $2000. And that was because a doctor was forced to perform a hysterectomy after birth. And even then, that payment was because of their alpha. Even if Eren and I don't have an active role above establishing the safe shelter, I still firmly believe that this is what the city needs" "And you're not just being swept away? Eren had a tremendous victory for omegas, that much is more than true. But what happens when the dust settles?" "Then we kick it up again. We make it so people have to listen. Shitty pigs feeding from their troughs, aren't going to listen unless someone tips those troughs over" "And what about what Eren wants?" "He's the one who mentioned the idea of a shelter to begin with. I don't intend to start anything without him by my side" "And the money?" "Eren said he didn't want it. He told me to take it, and despite it being restituted to him, it was still paid into my account as the alpha in our relationship. This way, he's not keeping it, and nor is it going to waste" Krista hummed, closing the file "Eren and I discussed the shelter idea, as well as donation. Did he tell you that?" "No" "It was only in passing, but he didn't want it as he'd finally found his small world of happiness. I do agree. Things needs to change for omegas, and I offered Eren my support. But I can't support you until you've discussed this in length with him. As you know, I own my practice, and I can assure you that getting established took jumping through a lot of hoops. There will be days when you wonder why you even started the process to begin with. With three young children, it's going to make things so much harder, and it may take years for things to settle down. Are you prepared for that?" "If... if Eren is by my side, we can find a way to make it work. And it won't just be him. There's Hanji, Mike, Erwin and Eld..." Not that he really knew if they'd want to be involved. Hanji would. Mike possibly too. Erwin and Eren had butted heads so many times that Erwin might not listen to Eren. But... he knew he'd regret it if he didn't at least see this through far enough to present something more than a just a paper proposal to Eren. He wanted to encourage his husband's dream... He wanted a world where Eren wouldn't be treated like shit anymore. And if that meant helping other people along the way, well, it couldn't be helped. Even if his intentions were less than completely sincere, around the edges, there wasn't a person in the world who couldn't say they'd never done something to bask in the praise of others. Eren was a symbol of hope, or at least in Levi's eyes he was... and his husband had been right. He needed to keep busy "I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I just want you to be truly sure before starting something like this. Abused omegas need a lot of time and help, just like you know. And though not all of them have had the same kind of life as Eren, they all have their own trauma and pain. Some may even come to find a safe place to die. You may have seen more than your fair share of death, but Eren hasn't" "I... know. I don't expect it to be easy. I don't even know if it'll succeed. But people like Nick, are really a dime a dozen..." "That is unfortunately true. Alright. For now, we'll set this aside. I want to see your list, and Eren's too if you have it" Levi was distracted by the idea of a shelter through his whole session. The more he tried to push it from his mind, the more it centred itself first and foremost. By the end of the session, he'd decided to call the realtor over the hotel. Even if he couldn't buy the hotel, it'd give him a fair idea of what to expect in terms of space and size. Hell. He'd even decided on the colour scheme for the facade... and most importantly, the name of the shelter. Throwing himself into researching and budgeting, Levi found himself often going to bed as Eren was getting up for the pups midnight feed. His husband was biting his tongue again, yet Levi hadn't been able to bring himself to tell him yet. He'd thought Eren would stay quiet at least until the end of the week, but it was a fortnight after his appointment with Krista, that Eren finally got mad enough to demand some answers. Carrying Rei in his arms, Eren walked over to the sofa and dropped down in his lap. Forcing him to abandon his laptop, and pay attention to his mate "I'm sick of you staying up. Either you tell me what's happening, or I'm throwing it off the balcony. These late nights aren't good for you" "Eren..." "No. Don't Eren me. Start talking. I'm holding Rei hostage until you do" Two threats? His husband really must be mad. Sighing deeply, Levi spread his legs so Eren slipped down between them. He couldn't see over his husband's shoulder if he didn't. Eren was way too tall for Levi's own good "He seems pretty happy being hostage" Rei was wide awake, his grey green eyes blinking up at both of them "Lee. I'm serious. I don't know what to threaten you with, but this has been going on since the chores list went up. Is that it? Are you mad about something? I've been trying to be respectful, but both boys have their weigh in and vaccinations tomorrow, today even. You need sleep, and I'm worried about you" Was that today? Every day seemed to bleed together without having the set roster of work. Kissing Eren's cheek, he sighed softly "Sorry. I'm not mad. And I'm not mad about the chore list. Have I been that bad?" "You're either on your phone or on your laptop. You didn't even hear me asking if you could hold Rei while I prepared his bottle" "Shit. I'm sorry" "What's going on?" "I've been working on something, and, it's not quite ready yet" "Working on something?" "Yeah. I wanted to gather more information before telling you about it" "Can you tell me now?" "I can show you, if you give me a couple more days. I'm not trying to hide anything from you, I just didn't want to get your hopes up" "You can't tell me that, and then tell me nothing more" "It's nothing bad" "That doesn't make it better. Is it your back? Is it the bullet? Has it moved?" Eren's scent peaked with fear "Bright Eyes, I'm fine. It's not the bullet" "Would you tell me, if it was?" "Yes. I would tell you" Maybe not right away, but it did affect their family after all "Then why can't you now?" "Because I want to be able to explain it all in person" Fuck it felt nice to hold Eren. It wasn't like he didn't hold him at night, but during the day, Eren had a tendency to curl up on the recliner with Titan, leaving him the sofa with Viren "And you will?" "Yes. I have an appointment at 3 on Friday, and I want you there" "Tomorrow's Friday. Not tomorrow once the sun comes up tomorrow, but tomorrow" "I still want you there. We'll have to organise a baby sitter though" "Hanji owes me a favour" Levi raised an eyebrow, Eren leaning back in his hold "What's with that look?" "You said she owes you a favour. She owes you about a hundred" "That's true. No. She just owes me a favour. I don't think she's on call on Friday afternoon... I'll have to check with her" "And how do you know when she works?" "Um. I babysit. I need to know when Anna's coming" He couldn't remember seeing Anna in the last week or so... "Don't be like that" "I'm not being like anything" "You've got you scowl face on" Levi kissed Eren's neck, nuzzling into his omega as he drank in his scent "I don't. No. I was just thinking. I really didn't mean to make you think about this more than you have to" "It's fine... its not, but now I know it's not health related, it's better" "I'm sorry" "Well. If you're sooooo sorry, can you hold Rei for me? I need to make his bottle. Eli went right back to sleep, but Rei, nope. He still doesn't want to breast feed" Snorting, Levi shook his head "He doesn't know what he's missing" "Don't even joke about sex. My arse just clenched at the thought" "I was talking about your breasts. They're great breasts" "It doesn't feel that way then he won't take my nipple. Now I'm getting depressed. Here, take him. Once he's fed, I want you to come to bed. Whatever it is, it can wait for now" "Yes, mum" "Don't give me that... You make me feel bad for worrying about you" "I'm sorry. It's sweet that you worry, and I'm sorry for making you worry. I just hope it's going to be worth it" "It better be. I'm sick of you staying up all night and not knowing anything" "Alright. I get it. I'm coming to bed once I've fed Rei. Then you have my undivided attention" "I better. I miss talking to you, without 6 little ears in the room" Despite his words, Eren was asleep when Levi climbed into their bed. Pulling his husband up to him, Eren let out a sleepy purr as he nuzzled into Levi's chest. It was nice to have a goal and dream, but he'd been doing exactly what Krista warned him about. He was throwing himself into the project and neglecting his family. He'd alienated Eren again, yet his husband still loved him. Kissing Eren's soft vanilla smelling hair, Levi wrapped his arms around his husband. Not caring at all that he'd wake with pins and needles down his arm. Eren was working so hard on doing what he felt he had to, to try and combat his depression the best he could. How could anyone not care for their omega, like he did for his? He was so very lucky to have Eren, and hopefully once Friday came, his husband would understand. Spending that Thursday with Eren sneaking glances at him every five minutes, and two pups that didn't appreciate their immunisations, the day passed slowly. Viren was also in a bad mood, as their toddler had gotten into the pantry before covering the apartment in flour. He hadn't appreciated his bath, or being smacked on the bum for spreading even more flour after being told to stop. For the first time in a long time, Levi found himself taking a nap in the afternoon, as it was Eren's turn to make dinner. He was woken by a crying pup, finding both Eli and Rei sleeping on Eren's side of the bed. Wriggling over, he draped his arm lightly across them, kissing Rei's hair, while gently playing with Eli's. Sometimes he still couldn't believe he was a father of three, or that Eren put up with his shirt and cranky arse. If he was Eren, he would have dumped himself a long time ago. Spending sometime with his son's was soothing. Even if Rei was still grizzly. They were both so very small and so very innocent, yet growing every single day. Their tiny family wasn't so tiny anymore and despite everything, Eren was more than willing to have yet another child with him... For someone who'd had no one for so long, it was an intoxicating promise. Though, he also knew that realistically if they wanted to have another child, it would have to be sooner rather than later. He didn't want to be the 60 year old dad in the back row of his child's play... He wanted his children to be able to enjoy life, without feeling shackled to their ageing father... but Eren had his heart set on a girl... and he couldn't deny that a miniature female Eren would be adorable... until she hit puberty, then it would be terrifying. Staying with their sons, Eli was set in to fetch him when dinner was ready. Eren having outdone himself with a full roast meal, and a glass of his favourite wine. He didn't even know they had alcohol in the house, but somehow Eren had magicked it up, leaving Levi silently agreeing that he really didn't deserve him. He could only pray that the following day wouldn't end with Eren in tears, and him in the doghouse again. * Leaving their three sons with Hanji, Eren chewed on his lip as Levi drove. According to his husband it was a short drive, but without knowing what they were heading into, Eren was a ball of nerves. He'd even cooked a huge dinner with the hopes of loosening Levi's tongue, but his husband stubbornly kept his secret. Pulling up in a random street, Levi turned the car off. His husband climbing out, and leaving him to scramble out after. The area seemed kind of nice. It wasn't upscale, but there were a few boutiques and cafes in the area. The only problem in the street was a god ugly building, that's ageing sign declared was once a hotel. With it bordered up windows, and trash spilling down its stone stairs, it was hideous. Not to mention the puke yellow paint job "Levi. Why are we here?" "Just wait a minute. She should be here soon" Who was she? And why was she coming? And what the fuck was going on? He didn't get what this had to do with anything "Or you could tell me now?" Smiling, Levi took his hand and dragged him over to stand in front of the building "Ta-da" ""Ta-da" what?" "It's a hotel" "Oh, no. What?" "I know you don't like it, but, I have an idea, and I need you use that imagination of yours" "You want to open a hotel? I told you I'd support you when you found something to devote your life to, but you're not exactly great with customer service..." "No. Not a hotel. Imagine the building repainted in a white, with blue around the window frames. Shutters on the windows, and two nice big plants either side at the top of the steps..." "Not a hotel?" "No. I know I've been busy, but I've been putting a lot of things in place. And I know this building is super ugly on the outside. In fact, I'm pretty sure we've cleaned up nappies with that same shit yellow in them, but. The previous owner, he brought it to convert it into a town house. He stripped the building of asbestos, and began to convert the top floor, before having to surrender the property to the bank when the economy went down hill..." Eren blinked at Levi, completely shocked by the excited words coming out his husband's mouth. He wanted to buy a fucking hotel?! But not run it as hotel... so he wanted to live in a hotel. While they might need space, a hotel was way too much space! No one needed a house as big as a hotel! "Levi. You better start making sense" Digging something out of his pocket, Levi unfolded the piece of paper. A very crude sketch of what seemed to be the hotel was on the paper, along with a series of crossed out names "I want to turn this into a safe shelter" What. What now? What? "A what?" "You said you didn't want the money the judge awarded you. And we both know omega shelters aren't safe. It's not a huge building, but I was thinking, that a shelter is a good idea" Wrapping his arms around himself, Eren backed away from Levi, holding up a hand to keep his husband at bay "A shelter. You. An alpha. Wants to build a shelter for omegas" Levi's smile slipped "Not just a shelter. Hanji wants to quit working in the ER. If she opened a clinic, we could provide a safe place for omegas to get medical help. There are 10 rooms on the second and third floors. As well as space on the top floor. I've been thinking about this. There's space so that you and Sasha could have your own studio for dancing. We could offer classes to omegas to help with literacy. We could help set them up with their own bank accounts and ID. Give them somewhere warm and safe to have heats. A sort of one stop spot. I've been contacting different agencies and trying to find out the legal side of things" Pinching the bridge of his nose, Eren shook his head "Are you serious? Do you know how much work this is going to take? You can't staff it with alphas..." "Well, that's why I was thinking you'd work here to. You're passionate about omega rights. You know what it's like to go through hell, and you're always looking out for fellow omegas. Rather than an alpha in control of everything, you and I would be, as a partnership" "What about the kids?" "There's the whole top floor... we could move here? Or at least have the space for them while at work..." "Levi... this is... all way too much... how do we even know this building will work?" "We don't. That's why we're meeting with the realtor. They're anxious to be done with it. And I know it's going to take a lot of work. That's why I want to bring Mike, Erwin, Hanji... everyone in on it... but ultimately, I want to build something here that shows people there's still hope" "I... I don't know what to say" He really didn't. His stomach was doing flips, while his heart had settled somewhere near his toes at the thought of touching Nick's money. The judge had said to do something, and a shelter had been a day dream, but reality was now smacking him in the face with a brick, and it was way too much.
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