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This drabble is a bit saddening and rushed but I hope you get the idea on Levi's way of comforting her. Enjoy :)

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Blood.

The sight of his blood made her stomach twist and convulse in a sickened manner, her face barely managing to maintain its' composure.

Death.

His breaths ceased —his cold body reclined on the cold, concrete floor, just a few steps ahead from her.

Mikasa felt her trembling knees buckle, her body lunging forward— eyes welled up with fresh, salty tears that descended downwards on her cold, hardened face.

The same tears that he use to wipe away.

The same tears that weaved her empty soul into his life.

The same tears that were sheltered by his warm, crimson scarf.

And they were also the same tears that continued to spill excessively, over his cold, lifeless body.

"E-Eren.." Her lips trembled, his sweet, harmonious name escaping from her raspy voice.

Silence.

His dark lidded eyes, blood stained clothes, and comatosed body were the only things that spoke out to her. Telling her ruptured heart that he was never going to smile at her again— She was vacant. Every last bit of humanity had been flushed out from her hollow body. She lost every reason to continue.

It hurt.

It hurt so bad.

"Ackerman." A low voice dragged out, a hint of exhaustion and affliction correlating in his tone. Levi's face was grimy and sweaty, his hands tightly clutched around his blood-stained blades as he stared down at the ruined woman. Her expression was hardened, her eyes strained from the tears that wouldn't stop falling. Even witnessing the hardships of death all of his life, this was too unbearable for him to watch.

Mikasa just sat still, her rigid body covered in a mass of scarlet—clasping Eren's deceased body tightly to her, the agonizing pain shredding her life away.

"Ackerman." Levi repeated again, gradually regaining his collected disposition. "You have orders to retreat." He placed his rugged hands against her stiff shoulders.

Levi flinched in shock, her cold skin touching the tips of his fingers. She had gone completely pale, her supple skin flushed from any color. She was like a breathing corpse that abandoned any last remaining sentimental traits that she kept internally.

"Leave." Her voice just above a murmur. "I'll stay with him." Her shaky hands moved up to his blood drenched hair, slightly caressing it with the strokes of her fingertips.

Levi clenched his jaws tightly. "Don't give me that bullshit Ackerman." He narrowed his eyes down at her. "He's dead." He stated out bluntly, his sharp tongue leaving traces of venom behind the ominous words.

Mikasa felt her heart give a sickened shudder at the words that her mind couldn't process. It was too mortifying—too much for her to grasp. It was sickening. Why did he have to sacrifice himself for this merciful world? She would have undoubtedly taken his place. She would have—

Levi grasped a handful of her onyx hair, pulling her head upwards—his blue orbs grounding with her devoid charcoal, hued eyes. His jawlines clenched tightly, his apparent undereye circles undertoning his incessant fatigue. "I'm not leaving you behind brat." His steel blue eyes trailing over her almost transparent skin. "I won't leave you here to die." The edge of his tone sharpened.

"I'm already dead." She muttered under her breath, her eyes descending to Eren's face, her fingertips lightly brushing the tattered scarf around her neck. "... I've got nowhere to go home to anymore." Her voice slightly breaking, tears casting away from the brim of her eyelids. She's felt this feeling before. This bitter coldness. The feeling of death surrounding her. Even now, the scarf that's kept her warm throughout the years, abandoned its' warmth in the moment of her despair.

"I'll give you somewhere to go." Levi uttered in a low voice, kneeling down beside her. "I'll make sure you have a place to call home, a new reason to live on. I'll comfort you in the warmth that you once had." He spoke through gritted teeth, his tone leaving traces of sincerity. "So please." He paused, clasping his calloused hand against her ivory, wet cheek. "Don't ever make that face again."

Mikasa felt her body shaking violently, abruptly collapsing to the muddy floor, her shrieks of cries echoing throughout the forest. She had forgotten. The fact that she was just human. A ruined woman carrying burdens on her shoulder. Even now, she could feel this freshly opened wound in her chest that kept her sanity on the brink of destruction. She was breaking—yet the pair of hands that were caressing her back kept her on the surface of this cruel world.

"Mikasa." Levi spoke out in a hush-toned voice, lightly brushing her tear streaked face with his thumb. "Your pain will give me strength. I promise you that I will never make you feel alone again. I will kill every last Titan in this world. So—" He gradually stood up, extending his hand outwards to her. "Let's go home...To our home."

Mikasa widened her eyes, a tremor shuddering within her chest. She gazed up at Levi, his blue eyes flickering a hint of tranquility that washed over her cold, hardened body. She felt his warmth diffusing itself in the hollows of her soul. At this moment, she very much felt a new form of warmth. A warmth that made her hand instinctively reach up.

"Let's go home." She murmured under her breath, clasping her hand with his hand tightly, and pulling herself upwards. She couldn't die just yet. She couldn't let Eren's death be in vain. So she decided as she glanced back at Eren's lifeless body.

'I will live on...I will continue to live in this cruel, yet beautiful world..'

ATTENTION: So RivaMika week starts on my birthday! I'm more excited about that then my own birthday, is that bad? haha XD Anyways, I'm going to be making short drabbles of Levi and Mikasa, some related, and some unrelated as well. In the honor of RivaMika, I hope you guys enjoy the stories and

PLEASEE give me prompts to write! I really need ideas to help motivate me to write more stories! Thanks and hoped you enjoyed this sad story T_T