I own nothing.
It is late in the day when my son and husband finally come back and I see them walking, standing side by side as they approach our house, they are leading a girl that I know from a picture my husband showed me it was the same girl he said he had to check up on and had taken Eren along with him. At first I smile and bend down to hug my son but then I see their faces... my sons eyes are wide with some horrible secret and the scarf he had worn just hours ago is on the girl Mikasa, not only that, but there is a small ugly black bruise on her cheek. As I am about to ask my husband what happened he takes me by the hand and asks me to come inside with him telling Eren and Mikasa to stay outside for a bit
He tells me everything, excluding the part where my son stabbed two men to death that is, The poor girl, he explains to me she lost both of her parents to a group of human trafficking, and that the same bastards had tried to sell her off in the inner walls. If it isn't enough that we have to worry about the titans we have to worry about humans as well? You would think that if we were so scarce in this time then a human life, no matter what kind it is or was, would be treated more preciously. If anything they should have been the ones eaten by the titans instead of all those innocent people.
"Carla... do you want a daughter?"
Do I want a daughter he asks me? Of course I do! I never told anyone this but I am barren, it was a miracle I had Eren at all, I am ashamed of it... here it is like a sort of death sentence for mothers who cannot bear any children. Even though he is a doctor who cured the disease that plagued this town and my husband he cannot find a cure for barrenness and he is not ashamed of me.
Days pass and Eren has taken to Mikasa like a fly to a burning light. They laugh together, play together, defend young Armin together. But still she is distant from us. I do not blame her though... after all it is the affect of watching your parents brutally murdered in front of your eyes. I know she will never really except me as a replacement mother for her but that doesn't mean I won't try. She is hard to understand but... a mother must accept her child in whatever way they are.
And so years later as I watch them flee from the titans with Hanas I feel a mothers sorrow for both of them...
"Don't go...!"