Over the radio [2] (AU!Eren x reader)

Curiosity glued the phone to the side of your head. You wanted to know, yet there was this feeling at the back of your head that didn't. 

'I'm not red, it's just really hot in here,' He bluntly avoided the subject to your disappointment. 

'They should turn up the air conditioning in here, I mean its summer for Pete's sake!' Eren kept ranting on and on about the heat.

You took this opportunity to tread towards your room, you entered followed by the pitter patter of your dog. He charged towards your bed, seizing almost the entirety of it. You walked up and pushed his butt aside.

"Move over you butt hole, damn it Captain, did you get even bigger?" the overly large husky let out a small bark, whipping his feather-duster tail back and forth. "It’s not supposed to be a compliment," you laid down on the small remaining space, scooting the dog over even more with your hip till you got comfy.

You focused your attention on the phone again "hello?" no answer, you were still on this 'hold'.

'Jean! Stop! Get off me, I've kept her waiting lo- oh shi-!' 

A loud piercing noise shot straight into your ear, causing you to wince and pull the phone away.

"Is the world trying to turn me deaf?" You mumbled, bringing the phone back to your ringing ear.

"Ms. Canary I'm so sorry!" Eren's booming voice was killing your poor wounded right ear, so you shifted your phone to the left while Captain stirred a bit to your side.

"Jean, I mean a worker was bothering me and he's basically," he tried to think of a better word but the panic clouded his judgment, his words have failed him.

"an asshole," you chuckled a bit while he continued. Captain wanted attention, so he laid over your stomach, crushing you. You gave out a short whine in result wiggling out from the huge monster's 50 pound legs. Eren took your discomfort as his fault.

"I was telling him to leave-" the world began blurring and swirling around him.

"Eren," you tried to break his rambling,

"He wouldn't go! and he tried to grab the phone-" he didn't stop, he was just so frazzled, you found this cute. 

"Eren you don't-" His voice cut you off, and it seemed to grow louder just as yours did, this was too precious.

"and I dropped it I'm so sorry! Plea-"

"ERNIE!" you shouted, he finally stopped and you couldn't hold it in. It started with an unintentional snort which quickly turned into fits of laughter.

"It's ok! Really!" your words brought relief to him. Eren soon found himself relaxed. For once, you were glad of your failure on remembering names, and after talking a bit more about both of your embarrassing moments, Hanji's strange habits and random things, Eren had to leave. Levi was soon scolding him for slacking off.

"Canary or not, you still got a lot of things to do brat," and so Eren had to reluctantly leave. The meeting must be over which meant Hanji must be on her way soon.

You were happy, watching some Netflix while playing with Captain's ears as he shook his whole head side-to-side every time you stopped rubbing them.

Hanji showed up 20 minutes later, just as Eren said, pizza in hand and phone in the other.

"(y/n)! Congratulations on the interview! That Connie guy sure was loud. I bet you got annoyed, did you sleep well? I got your message, and got a bit worried at first but you pulled yourself together at the end didn't you!" She put her phone in the pocket of her formal wear and slammed her newly free hand onto your back. 

"You don't even know the half of it," you smiled widely at her, stepping away to gesture for her to come inside. She practically skipped to the dining room, placing the food down. You power walked behind her and greedily took out a piece from the box.

Hanji spotted the sleeping figure in the small living room.

"Wait here (y/n), I gotta do the customary greeting ritual," she crept alongside the couch till she was directly in front of your mom. You didn't want to be a part of their weird "ritual", you had more important matters to face. You put down the pizza then stammered towards the fridge and swung the door open in an overly dramatic way.

"Pepsi or Coke?" You mumbled to yourself. There wasn't much Pepsi left and you didn't want your sister to have it, but the Coke looked so more appealing right now. You were grateful she was off doing community service with her friends, this made your decision less stressful.

You herd your mom scream from the living room. Yup, both, you decided that you were going to bring them both out cause, why not? Hanji's laughs filled the place, you could hear your mom slapping her arm in exasperation. She got up and wandered into the dining room where you were contently sat, Coke and Pepsi in hand, with Captain laying at your feet patiently waiting for any signs of dropped food.

She scolded Hanji for buying you more junk food.

"Hanji, pizza again? She should start to watch her weight! She's gonna die soon if you keep bringing her junk," you laughed at her comment, bringing the pizza up to your smiling lips.

"At least I'll be dying happily," you chimed, this earned you a little glare from the grumpy, tired woman. She dropped the subject, far too tired from her job to continue arguing any further. She muttered a ‘whatever’ and set off for bed, thankful it was her day off today. After your mom left, Hanji sat directly across you on the table. She took two slices of pizza and stacked them up against another.

"And my mom thinks this is all for me," you complained. She turned to you and smiled "I'm a hungry woman (y/n). A hungry woman who hasn't eaten since breakfast because of a last-minute emergency meeting she couldn't get out of," she sprinkled spices and cheese in between the slices before taking a huge bit, moaning in delight.

"The emergency meeting was about you you know," she continued, your back straightened with your growing nervousness. 

"The Corps have been tracking this suspicious account lately, just some unusual, umm... activity. They've been trying to pin point his or her location, better safe than sorry."

Since you were Radio Titan's 'mascot', the station's social media team called the Survey Corps was made to make sure your identity online wasn't in full view of the world. They saved your ass countless of times in the past, so if there was a suspicious character that had to be brought to the attention of the management, it meant something big that you couldn't help but worry about.

You nodded at her slowly, "Nothing for you to fret about, they're taking care of it now as we speak," you dare not ask what the account said or did, knowing it would probably freak you out. You relaxed into the chair then dropped your crust on the floor for Captain to get.

"And on a lighter subject!" Hanji broke the palpable tension in the room, she was really good at controlling the mood, yet sometimes she would completely ruin it with her weird 'discoveries' and stories that usually made no sense.

"I heard from Levi that you were 'messing around with the brat'," she attempted a Levi impersonation but failed horribly, " I told Eren to tell you that I'm in a meeting and will come over soon. I didn't expect you guys to actually hit it off so soon," your cheeks grew warm and a taint of red crept on to your face.

"It was just a conversion, sheesh, this isn't Catfish," your comment made her smile grow wider. You picked at the toppings of the last piece of pizza you were going to get.

'Needs more hot sauce,' you looked around for some and found it under the box.

"If you want to meet him, I could always just-" you stopped her before she could even finish the thought, "NO, no, no, no, meet him? Me? Pssssh. No. Besides, It's Canary he wants to meet not this," you stand up and used your hands to gesture up and down your body. You sat back down and took an uncomfortable bite of your pizza. She was staring at you questionably, this made you squirm in your seat.

"You gotta give yourself more credit (y/n), Canary is a part of you. Which makes her actually YOU! You are all those great things your fans describe you whether you believe it or not," she argued. It lifted your spirits a bit and you muttered a simple thanks before applying the hot sauce to the slice. Hanji proceeded to talk about her hectic day and how you had to get the next song up soon for them to play. You both finished your food and went towards your super-secret sanctuary of supremacy (the basement).

"I was randomly searching through the inter webs when I found this song I used to listen to nonstop, and I was hit by a wave of nostalgia you know," Hanji nodded. You sat in your swivel chair and opened the file, she grabbed your headset and put them on, staring at you while listening. You grew shy and started to stare at your hands waiting for the song to be over, it's weird hearing your voice on the radio, in a store, and once in a car passing you by in the freeway. You always become incredibly self-conscious, right now you wished Hanji would look somewhere else, anywhere else! She broke out of her small trance and spoke.

"I expected a prank like last time when you blasted some screamo song into my ears and ripped my eardrums to shreds, but it was actually a normal thing this time and it was good! Good job! This is going to be another hit I feel it!" Hanji did a little strange dance, wiggling her arms around a bit while stomping in place. It’s best not to question anything she does, at least that's what your mom tells you.

"What? Normal? I was aiming for something 'alien-like' you know," you let out a short overly exaggerated hardy laugh, "cause I'm, how you say, 'out of this world'." Any sane person would have just rolled their eyes, but Hanji was not that person. She laughed a bit too loudly, yanking her head back too hard pulling your headphones out of the audio jack.

"H-hey! Careful with that, it's the only one that's not broken!" You knew how bad that joke was but it was a painful fact that your body was made up of 70% water, 20% questionable things, and 220% bad puns. You spent the next hours with Hanji editing, cutting, burning, and uploading the song.

It was now late in the evening and your sister has just arrived home, she looked like your mom in the morning.

"Don't ask," she breathed out and practically dragged herself into her room muttering "damn kids" under her breath. Hanji was about to leave but she turned to you, she asked for a piece of paper and a pen to which you obliged. She took out her phone and wrote down her phone number as well as another.

"I memorized your number already, and whose number is this?" she handed you the paper and looked you dead in the eye and said "In case of emergency, and oh! what a smart girl you are," she ruffled your already disheveled (h/c) hair that stuck out in awkward angles. She patted Captain on the head in a much gentler matter, his tail whipped your leg and you shooed him away.

You watched Hanji enter her car and give you a thumbs up. You lingered in the doorway for a while after she drove off, thinking about the events that happened today and your plans for tomorrow. You heard a rustle in the hedges that acted as a fence between the houses. You let it go and went on with your normal business.

'I hope I'll get to talk to him again soon.'


Ignorance is bliss till something bad happens.

*Earlier in the office*

A familiar brunette marched around the office, paper in hand and a smile that refused to leave his face.

'I actually got to talk to her!' he clutched the fabric in front of his chest. His heart hasn't calmed down since then, he felt a buzz of emotions; Happiness, embarrassment, disbelief, everything felt so surreal.

Eren listened to your songs ever since he first heard you on the radio. He was a bit taken back by how fun and normal you were on the phone with you being famous and all, but that just filled in more pieces of the picture he had in his head of you. He always imagined meeting you one day in the office but Hanji said that you never announced who or where you were, that it was part of your "image". He shrugged it off, this was something he could rub in Jean's face for the rest of his life.

'Jean, the high and mighty douche bag,' he grumbled, but quickly brightened up again. Nothing in the world could bring him down right now.

"This batch is done sir!" Eren claimed, Levi looked at him with scrutiny. "This is the last batch, you can leave now," the emergency meeting must have sucked all of the energy out of Levi, he looked tired with the dark rings that hung under his eyes. Eren felt bad for him, but he figured that the fatigue came with the job.

Eren left the station happily, texting his friend Armin about the incredible day he's had, which mostly revolved around you.


'I hope I get to talk to her again.'