#rivetra drabbles

Tomorrow never came

After deciding to give Paradise another chance, the last place Levi expects to find the woman he never dared confess his love to is a retirement home. Levi works up the courage to rekindle the old flame between him and Petra.

Elderly Rivetra at the retirement home, postwar.

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Fall had gone by rather uneventfully. There was a bit of a change in their usual routine, as Petra soon traded flower picking for mushroom gathering, much to Levi’s misery.

“I’m not putting that shit in my mouth.”

Petra laughed as she pushed the mushroom further in his face, earning one of his infamous nose scrunches. He was adorable when he was acting so stubborn. Petra had been doing this all her life and had never made someone ill with the ones she chose. Her father had taught her well enough.

“I would never poison you, Levi.”

He was not usually one to refuse food since he knew first-hand the effects of its scarcity, but mushrooms had always been a no-go for him. As delicious as people claimed they were, Levi could never carelessly eat something that could kill you so simply.  

“Not on purpose, at least,” she whispered between giggles.

Levi rolled away from her, not paying any mind to her protests to return. The ones she got out between the laughing fits, that was.

“You’re on your own if a bear comes,” he yelled as he put more distance between them.

“Wait, there are bears in these forests?” He could sense the terror in her voice as she ran up by his side. Not that he could do much to help if a bear did actually come. But truthfully, he knew nothing about it, but she deserved it for mocking his fear of mushrooms.

“Maybe you could just stare at the bear until it goes away. I’m sure it’ll be frightened.”

“Stop acting like a brat,” he warned her as he led her to a place where he had spotted more of those devils.