This will be a collection of drabbles/ficlets involving Levi and Petra—mostly Rivetra, but I may include some featuring just Levi, or just Petra, or their interactions with other people. It depends.

I write very sporadically, so don't be surprised if this doesn't get updated in six months and then suddenly gets ten updates on consecutive days. You've been warned.

This drabble thing was written for Rivetra Week Day 2: Blood. The thing I wrote for Day 1: Repentance is posted as a separate fic on my profile (because it's too long for this drabble collection). I'll be posting more for Rivetra Week in the next few days as well (two of them will be on my profile because they're too long for this collection).

That said, reviews are greatly appreciated, and I hope this doesn't suck too much. I'm really out of practice when it comes to writing romance.

The first time Levi sees her bleed, she is still a child, a new recruit, flung into the trees by her 3DMG at the hands of a grinning Titan. Luckily she crashes into the leafiest part of a tree, but there is a loud crack as she collides and he sees her bright red blood drip from the branches.

The second time Levi sees her bleed, she is part of his squad. When a Titan makes a grab for Erd, she throws herself at him and they land in a tangle of limbs on the ground; Auruo cuts down that Titan a few seconds later. Splotches of scarlet form on her hands where she scraped them hard against the gravel hidden in the grass; it looks like she is cupping mangled flowers in her palms.

The third time Levi sees her bleed, she is in his office, delivering paperwork from Erwin, when she slices her finger open on one of the sheets. She swears under her breath, much to his amusement, and he wordlessly hands her a handkerchief. It takes him ten minutes to scrub the crimson stain out of the cloth.

The fourth time Levi sees her bleed, they are almost done training, when he notices the red streaked across the back of her pants. He taps her and points it out; she turns scarlet up to the roots of her hair and apologizes. It's not her fault, it's only natural, but a week passes before she stops blushing whenever she sees him.

The fifth time Levi sees her bleed, he can only think he wasn't fast enough; he should have been on the Titan's left flank at the moment it smashed into her. Blood pours from her wounded side as she falls, but Gunter gets her to safety in time, and he shouldn't be thinking things like this while fighting but he wishes it had been him.

The sixth time Levi sees her bleed, it is because of him; he bit her lower lip too hard. But she is smiling, unabashed joy on her face, and she doesn't seem to care about or even notice the drop of blood on her mouth. She throws her arms around him and whispers his name like a prayer, and he whispers her name back against her lips.

The seventh time Levi sees her bleed, she is in his bed and her nails are digging into his back; he strokes her shoulders and thinks he should have known, but she acts far too experienced for him to have guessed. She trembles against him, face scrunched up in pleasure or pain or likely a mixture of both, but she tells him not to stop. He obliges.

The last time Levi sees her bleed, she is in his office again, and he is telling her that she and the rest of the squad are fools for babying Eren. She retorts that they all need to trust each other. He thinks they didn't need to harm themselves to prove a point, but when he says this, she starts to protest again. He pulls out another handkerchief, bandages her hand, then starts trailing kisses down her wrists. She is effectively silenced.

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He does not see her bleed again, but there is blood, blood everywhere, staining the dirt and the bark of the tree and her smooth, soft skin and her shining golden hair. He stares down at her body, twisted far below him, and for a moment cannot help the selfish thought that he would rather see her bleed a thousand more times and stay with him than be reduced to just another smear of blood on the ground.