Lifeguard AU! I don't care what it is, maybe Eren drowns and Levi saves him, idk and idc I just love Lifeguard AUs

The pain in my head was overwhelming. All I could think about was how absolutely stupid I was. Mikasa told me, 'be careful, Eren. If you're not careful you'll slip and fall and hurt yourself.' But of course I didn't listen to her. I'm not sure why this memory is the one in my mind right now, getting scolded by my sister.

I was running from Jean, who got everyone else to hide while I went to the bathroom and then they ambushed me by the pools. We were in one of those water parks with dozens of pools from all shapes and sizes and depths and some were cold and some were hot, and some were perfect. I started running towards the coldest one, because it was also the deepest and the biggest. I'm the best swimmer from our group of friends and the water in that pool is easily higher than any of us. Maybe except for Bert and Reiner, but they didn't come.

It was pretty fun actually, until I slipped on some idiot's sandal and fell into the pool. It would've been okay, except my head hit the edge of it as I was falling. And my god did it hurt. I didn't feel it so much anymore.

I felt heavy, like really heavy. I think it was because of all the water in my body, the shock made me fall in with my mouth open and I drank a bunch of water, and it went up my nose and I felt an extreme pressure everywhere.

Now I don't feel much of anything, the pressure is still there, but I guess I got used to it. I guess drowning isn't so bad once you've accepted it. I mean I love the water, so I guess if there is a way I have to go, I think I'd prefer this. Although, it also kinda sucks to be killed by something you love. My entire body feels numb, and where I used to feel heavy, now I feel light. Like a feather. Maybe you learn to fly when you die.

I guess I'll never know, because the pressure from the water was less now and I felt cold. I was no longer in the warm cocoon of the water. I wanted to whine but I couldn't find my voice. Then everything started to feel different, I started feeling the pressure again, but this time it was a bit different, it was the kind you felt when you're holding your breath for a long time and then you take a deep breath and all of the air starts to fill your lungs and you can swear you can feel it circulating in your blood. Then I felt the pressure from the water, but this was different too, because with all the air in my body, the water was trying to leave. I guess the only way it could get out was the same way it went in.

I felt myself cough and then my chest was getting hit by the water that was leaving my body. But I must've had too much water in my body because then the good pressure, the one caused by air left me and I felt the water again. But it wasn't as bad anymore. Before, it had been so overwhelming my body couldn't handle it and I went numb. Now, I could sense things. I could see a bright yellow white behind my eyelids and I could see shadows. I couldn't really move anything, so I couldn't open my eyes. I could faintly recall someone calling my name, Mikasa maybe, or Armin (his voice can get a girly pitch sometimes- like when he's excited or scared), and someone else grunting numbers. I could feel rhythmic compressions on my chest and then my mouth was being covered by something warm, it felt so nice. And it was blowing air into my mouth, that was weird, but I could feel all the air and how it would go through my lungs and then into my blood every time the compressions were done.

The warmth was at my mouth again, blowing more air into me and at that moment I realized I could feel my arms, I pressed them to the pavement under me and tried to lift myself up as I felt more water coming up. I coughed it out, the pain in my chest was too much.

"On your side," someone said. Was that an angel? It certainly sounded like a heavenly voice. I was pushed back down to the pavement, on my side, and the cold made me shiver, but I had calmed down enough to finally open my eyes and see who the voice belonged to.

I opened them and I was right, it was an angel. They even had a halo. They were kneeling next to me, their face all I could see. He was beautiful. Skin so pale and flawless, he looked like he was made of porcelain, precious and to be handled with care. What a beautiful angel. He had black black hair, and I thought that was so weird, because he was so pale. But he was gorgeous. I never expected angels to look like that, I always thought they would be blondes, because the color always reminded me of light and I associated angels with light. But now I was looking at this man, this beautiful and perfect man with piercing gray eyes and I couldn't not see an angel in him. He had saved me after all, and he was beautiful. So beautiful.

Maybe when you die, you get saved by your guardian angel and I've had this angelic being around me and I never knew. I must be the luckiest sonabitch in the world to have this angel as my guardian angel.

I could see his lips moving but I wasn't paying attention to his words, instead I looked at how his lips moved. They were thin, but they looked so soft. Then it hit me. Those lips had blown air into my lungs, through my mouth, his mouth had been on mine. I tried to think back to how they felt, but all I remembered was that they were warm. I wondered if they were warm all the time. Do you get to kiss your guardian angel whenever you want once you die?

I realized I was being rude and decided to listen to what my angel was saying, "hey, what's your name?"

"What?" he's my guardian angel, he should know my name.

"Your name, what is it?" He said again, he looked a bit frustrated, or more like peeved.

"Eren Yager,"

"How old are you?"

"Nineteen,"

"Ok good, it doesn't look like you have any serious brain damage, but we should get you checked out anyway,"

Why would I have brain damage? I thought you would be cured of all your illnesses in heaven, and I didn't even have anything wrong with my brain (even though sometimes Jean says I don't have one at all).

Then the angel sat back and Mikasa was hugging me, her wet hair all in my face. Then it hit me again. I wasn't dead.

"I'm okay," I told her, she pulled back and I could see she had water around her eyes, she had been crying, "who are you?" I asked the beautiful man.

"Levi," he said, "a lifeguard,"

A lifeguard. Not an angel.

"I'm the one who saved your dumb ass. There are reasons we have signs posted everywhere telling you NOT to run,"

Then it hit me again, even though it had already hit me, but then it REALLY hit me. His lips were on mine. We had practically kissed before I even knew his name. Ok Eren, play it cool.

"I-I'm sorry," Fuck.

"Yeah, well. At least you're not dead. That report would have been a bitch to write,"

"Thanks," I said, which was stupid to say because he had just said my death would've been tragic, not because I died but because of a report he would have to write.

"If you're okay to stand, we can walk to the office to get you properly checked out. If you can't walk, I can carry you. So what is it? Can you walk?"

I took a good look at Levi-the-lifeguard-not-the-angel (although I still kinda thought he was an angel) and I realized a few things all at once, he was thin, he was also short.

"I might be too heavy," I said. The facial expression he gave almost made me scared. If I didn't already have the thought that he was an angel, I would've thought he was a demon from the look he gave me. It was a leer, I felt the fear run through my veins, next to the oxygen. He scooped me in his arms and started walking.

"Don't insult me," he said.

"I'm sorry," I said again. I mentally high-fived myself for not stuttering this time.

"You all stay here," Levi told my friends, "it's better to not overwhelm him. Nobody get in the pools until another lifeguard comes," they all nodded and he walked away.

"You're pretty strong," I said after a couple of minutes of silent walking, well the walking only on Levi's part.

"Thanks," he said, "can you put your arms around my neck?" he asked, "it would make this easier,"

He stopped walking when I nodded and once I had my arms around his neck, he bounced me up about an inch so I could readjust, I ended up moreso sitting now in his arms.

"That's better," he said, walking again.

"So, how did you become a lifeguard?" I asked.

"My annoying as best friend wouldn't stop bitching about me being at home all day during the summer so she got me this job,"

"If they're annoying why are they your best friend?"

"Good question, Eren. But I guess we all have annoying friends, it just so happens that mine is the best one I have,"

"I guess that's a good point," I said, he bounced me again and I held him tighter.

"Sorry, you're still wet, and I thought I would drop you,"

"It's okay," I said, "but I'm okay to walk you know. You proved your point. You are capable of carrying me,"

"NO!" he said, he cleared his throat, "I mean no. I don't mind carrying you. We're almost there anyway,"

I looked in the direction he was looking and saw we were nearing the building by where we bought the tickets. The rest of the walk was in silence. I didn't really mind it though, I was mostly looking at his chest and the rest of his torso that wasn't covered by my body. He was muscular, but not overly muscular, even though he was ridiculously strong, which was nice. His face and his torso were the same shade of pale skin and I wondered how that could be if he works at a pool.

He walked me into the building and then pasted a couple rooms, he peeked inside one where a large blond man was eating a sandwich at a table.

"Erwin, go cover for me," Levi said, "princess here almost drowned," the man nodded with his mouth full of sandwich.

He took me to the room at the end of the hallway, a women was sitting there and she had been reading a book, but as we walked in, she looked up.

"Levi!" she said, "it seems you found your damsel in distress,"

I blushed.

"He nearly drowned, so if you could check him, that would be great,"

"Always so bitter," she said.

But she came over as soon as Levi had set me down on a bench and sat next to me. She started asking me questions, the same ones Levi asked and writing down my answers on a clipboard.

"Relationship Status?" she asked

"Umm..single?"

"Phone number?"

I looked at her, skeptically but told her anyway, she was probably making sure I didn't have brain damage.

"Sexual orientation?"

"Umm.. I don't see how that matters," I said. I was a little scared to say, not everyone accepted or understood the fact that I'm gay. And I didn't exactly feel like being judged right now.

But instead of answering, Hange looked at me with a face of pure concern and seriousness that I felt compelled to mumble that I'm gay.

"Great!" She ripped off the piece of paper and gave it to Levi. Who looked at her in disbelief but still took the piece of paper.

"Ummm?"

"You're exactly his type, Levi likes tall and tan brunets," she explained, "and the fact that you have green eyes is working in your favor,"

"Oh," was all I said. I felt my face getting hot and looked down. But Hange's face was on my chin and making me face her.

"Aww, you're blushing," that only made me blush more until I realized she hadn't been looking at me when she said it, but at Levi.

I glanced over at him and he was giving Hange an annoyed look, but he was blushing.

"Don't you have to make sure he hasn't suffered some kind of trauma?" Levi asked.

Hange stuck her tongue out at him but looked back to me. She continued asking me questions, how I felt, if anything hurt. I answered as honest as I could, even though I didn't know exactly what to compare drowning too, I had never had any other near-death experience before.

She reached over to me and started pressing in various places on my head.

"Fuck," I said when she pressed into the spot that got hurt when I had fallen.

"Well don't kill him,"

"Shut up, Levi," Hange stood up and parted my hair so she could she's where I has gotten hurt. She put some kind of ointment on it and then wrapped a bandage around my head. She asked me more questions and then left to get me some painkillers because now my head was starting to hurt.

Once she left I looked over at Levi, and he looked at me, but he started laughing. That's just rude, you don't laugh at someone who almost died.

"You look ridiculous," he reached his hands over and started fixing my hair around the bandage. I caught a glimpse at myself in the mirror hanging on the other side of the room and I saw how I really did look ridiculous. My hair was standing up in every direction, not to mention I was blushing from having Levi this close to me.

"So, you're gay?" smooth Eren.

"Extremely,"

"That's, uhh, good," really? 'that's good'?

"Yeah, especially when I know you are too,"

Hange came in right then and told Levi to carry me to the break room since she set up a futon there.

"I can walk,"

"Just for safety precautions,"

I nodded and then was being lifted by Levi again. He walked me to the room where Levi had spoken to Erwin and sure enough there was a futon. There was a line of lockers on the other side of the wall and I watched as Levi opened one and took out a large green towel. He walked back to me and draped it over my head.

We talked some more while I dried myself, being careful when drying my hair so I wouldn't mess with the bandages. He ended up asking me out and I had to cover my face with the towel because I knew I was blushing like crazy, but I said yes and he gave me his number.