Full Warnings: language, violence, smut (eventually), blood drinking, and character death (not the main two though)

The romance in this is a bit of a slow burn, but it will come. In the mean time there will be a lot of action, drama, and angst. :)

Updates every Friday. Enjoy!

Levi

I approach the main entrance of a large brick building, two of my men close behind me. Darkness has fallen, but in the yellow glow of the street lamps I can still make out the large letters above the doorway. The Fritz Biology Center. This is it.

"Is everyone in position?" I ask in a hushed voice. A chorus of yes sirs is relayed into my ear. "Alright. Petra, Gunther, you guard the exits. Oluo, Eld, you're with me. Stay sharp, all of you. We don't know what we're up against. A single mistake could get you killed."

I draw my gun and open the door. The three of us creep silently down the empty corridors, checking each classroom as we go.

"You know, I thought I was done with school," Oluo says from my right.

"Shut up, and keep your eyes peeled," I hiss. We continue on in silence. Soon the corridor splits, and I send the two of them to the left while I head forward on my own. I turn a corner and see light coming from the cracks around a door. Looks like I've found our hacker. I ease the door open.

There's a desk facing towards the window. A boy is sitting on a chair in front of it, facing away from me. I slip into the room and sneak towards him, one step, two, and then-

The floor lets out a loud creak under my boot. Shit. Before he can react I bolt forwards. I cross the room in an instant and slam him into the ground, chair crashing next to him. I pin him to the floor with my boot and point my gun into his face. He doesn't struggle, he just stares at me, his green eyes widening as he takes me in.

"You're Levi Ackerman!" he gasps.

I frown. I've never seen a vamp without red eyes. Is he human? If so, how the hell does he know who I am? I start to lower my gun, but then he opens his mouth to say something else, and I see his teeth. Two deadly white fangs, razor sharp. I lift my gun and bring it down hard on his head. "Filthy bloodsucker," I say as his eyes roll back.

Eren

I'm standing outside a row of apartments, staring down one of the doors. I've already been here for at least ten minutes, too nervous to knock. If my heart could beat it would probably be pounding. Was this really the right decision? Should I just leave?

As I hesitate, a door opens a couple of apartments down. I tense. A woman walks out, wearing a short dress and clutching her purse tightly. She gives me a nervous glance as she hurries by. She disappears around the corner and I breathe a sigh of relief.

I can do this. I can handle being around people now. I steel my resolve, and knock.

"Just a sec," a tired voice calls from inside. A wonderfully familiar voice. The door opens to reveal a short boy with long blonde hair.

I give him a small smile. "Hi Armin."

For a moment he just stands there blinking. Then his eyes widen. "Erin? Where have you been? Everyone is so worried about you!"

I grimace. "Sorry."

He lets out an exasperated sigh. "Well, come in and we can talk." He steps to the side and holds the door open. "It's just me here. My roommate went home for the weekend."

I hesitate, looking at how close he's standing to the entrance. "I'd rather if you didn't get too close to me. It's not safe."

He looks puzzled, but takes a couple steps back. I relax a bit. This is why Armin is my best option. He takes what I say seriously.

We walk into a large room with a small kitchen on one side and seating over on the other. A cup of coffee, an open laptop, and several medical textbooks sit on a table near the kitchen. Armin lifts the cup off the table and takes a seat in one of the chairs. He points me to the couch across the room. "Are you all right over there?" I nod and sit down. He waits for me to speak.

"I uh, I don't know where to start," I tell him.

"Well, why don't you start with where you've been. I got a call from Mikasa almost a month ago saying you'd stopped answering your phone, and when we asked someone to check in on you you were just gone."

I look down. "Sorry. My phone's been dead."

He lifts his eyebrows. "For a month?"

"Uh, yeah." I shift awkwardly. It was the truth. There were no chargers where I was.

"Where were you that you couldn't charge your phone for a month?" His voice doesn't hide his irritation.

I shrug. "Nowhere really. A forest."

Now he looks skeptical. "Ok, so you left your classes to what, go camping? For a month?"

"I needed to get far away from everyone else."

His eyebrows crease. "Right. You said it's not safe to be close to you?"

I nod. "Something happened to me- Well, someone did something to me actually. I'm a uh... uhh…" I trail off and rub my hand over my face. "This is ridiculous," I mumble.

"Why don't you just tell me what happened," Armin says. His tone is encouraging, but I can tell how worried he is.

I let out a long breath of air. "My dad showed up. He was rambling about the future of humanity or some shit. I thought he'd completely lost it. Then he gave some kind of weird injection. Then-" I pause, lifting my eyes to meet his. "I think he turned me into a vampire."

Now Armin looks really worried. "Eren, I thought you moved past the whole vampire thing years ago."

I snort. "Yeah, so did I. I'd finally convinced myself I really was seeing things. Only now… I don't have a pulse, Armin."

He blinks. "Of course you have a pulse."

"Yeah? You wanna check?" I hold out my arm.

He hesitates. "That's ok with you?"

I give a slight nod. This is the fastest way to get him to believe me. "Just try not to take too long."

Armin sets down his coffee and stands up. I stop breathing completely as he comes closer. If I can't smell him I'll be fine. I try to relax. I will not hurt anyone else.

When Armin reaches my side, he kneels and lifts up my hand. "Wow, that's cold," he says as he presses his fingers to my wrist. A moment later he adjusts his grip and frowns. Then he moves his fingers to my neck. His eyebrows crease. "Hold on," he says, standing up and walking to the next room.

He comes back with a stethoscope. I recognize it as the one me and Mikasa gave him when he left for college, three years ahead of everyone else. "Do you mind?" he asks. I shake my head. He presses the cold metal to my chest. He tries moving it around a bit. He presses it to his own chest, and then back to mine. He sits back and stares at me, wide eyed.

"So what's the diagnosis?" I ask wryly.

His voice wavers. "You don't have a heartbeat."

"Told you." I scowl. "And that's not the worst of it." I lift my upper lip, and his mouth drops open.

"Are those…"

"Yeah. I have fucking fangs. And a disgusting urge to drink human blood." Armin scoots backwards a bit. "I have it under control though," I add. "Otherwise I wouldn't have come. Although it's still easier if you keep your distance."

Armin moves back to the other side of the room and sinks down into his chair. He spends a while deep in thought and then he nods to himself and returns to our conversation. "So what are you going to do now?"

I shrug. "Well, for starters I figured I'd talk to my best friend who happens to be headed to med school. I was honestly kind of hoping I was having a mental break down."

"No, it's real alright." He stops suddenly, a pained expression crossing his face. "This means your mom really was killed by a vampire, doesn't it? I'm so sorry I didn't believe you."

I wave him off. "I probably wouldn't have believed me either."

He shakes his head. "Still, you're my best friend, I should have listened to you." I smile a bit at that, but I can't help wondering if he'd feel the same if he knew what I'd done.

"You said your dad did this to you?" Armin asks. "Your dad who's been gone for the past seven years?"

"Yeah."

"So where is he now?"

I snort. "He turned me into a freaking vampire. I took off the minute he turned his back on me."

He nods. "And have you met any other… vampires?"

"No. My dad mentioned that there were others, but if they're anything like him I want to keep my distance. That's why I came here. There's no one else."

"I'm glad you did. So you haven't talked to Mikasa yet?"

I shake my head. "She'd freak. I figured you were the only person who wouldn't."

He hides a smile. "I guess I better not let you down then." A familiar look of concentration crosses his features. "If vampires exist, I'd assume someone is studying them. If we find them, we may be able to get some answers. Maybe even find a way to turn you back."

I gape at him. "Something like that is possible?"

He shrugs. "I wouldn't get your hopes up, but it's worth looking, right?" I nod, a smile starting to appear at my lips despite his warning.

Armin grins. "I'll help you with some uh, research starting tomorrow. For tonight, you can sleep on the couch."