This is my first fanfiction story, so please go easy on me... I have a delicate heart :'(

Anyway, Thank you for reading, and enjoy!

3rd person pov

Eren sighed, his head bowed, as Erwin finished lecturing him. Eren knew that he had messed up big time, but he didn't know what he was to do about it, he didn't even know why he had changed like that! How did one turn into a titan in their sleep in the first place? And more than that, he didn't know how to stop himself from changing. This was the most frightening of his thoughts so far, and one of the main points in Erwin's lecture, because if he couldn't control himself, and the others couldn't stop him from changing... well, the prospect of the military police allowing him to live was extremely slim. Now he was sitting on the edge of the bed, bound in chains, in the cell, under the court room. He just couldn't keep himself out of the place.

Eren's attention was brought back to the man in front of him as Erwin sighed, his face falling into his palms. The two stayed like this for a few minutes, before the silence was broken by the sounds of footsteps coming down the stairs. Eren immediately scooted away from the edge of the bed, if the uncomfortable thing could even be called a bed, and continued to do so until his back was pressed firmly against the wall. Erwin, quickly straightened his back, and wiped the depressed look off his face. It surprised Eren how good the man was at making a poker face. If Eren had not seen his expression before they had a potential onlooker, he would have in fact believed the lie that the other man's mask of indifference was telling.

They heard the sound of the last few steps at the bottom of the stairs, then the door to the dungeon, or "Temporary restriction chamber" as the military police called it, began to open. A small head, with short raven hair, and grey-blue eyes, peeked into the room. "Oh, it's you." Erwin sighed, letting his head fall back into his hands. Levi came the rest of the way into the room, and walked up to stand next to Erwin. "Hey shitty brat, they decided that you don't get a public trial, so I get to sit through a meeting to talk about what I have to do to keep you alive." Levi sighed. "By the way..." Eren winced internally as he sensed another lecture coming on.

He was right. It was about five seconds before Levi started yelling. "Do you have a death wish or something? What the fuck were you even thinking last week?! Oh, that's right, you weren't." Levi said more, but Eren didn't hear it; his mind was captured in thought. He thought back to the fateful night that he had turned into a titan and got himself in this mess in the first place.

- The Previous Week -

Eren's pov

I was dreaming. It was dark. It was cold. It was painful. Those were the only things I knew. The knowledge that it was a dream, was all that kept me from curling up into a ball and letting fear, pain and despair take over my mind, body, and soul. Instead, knowing that it was a dream but not being able to wake up, I stood up, from where I lay, and looked around me.

As I looked around me, I realized that the sky was getting brighter, as if lit by an invisible sun. And all around me there were monsters. Yes there were titans, but there were also monsters so much worse. There were several that I had seen only in the stories that his mother had read him as a child. There was one, that I knew to be called a Windigo. They were horrific creatures, that looked rather like a reindeer, with fur and antlers, yet walked on two legs. Their soul, was a man, frozen within the Windigo's heart. The only way to cure the man, was for a woman to pour boiling lard down the creature's throat, too thaw its heart. I looked beyond the Windigo, and saw monsters that hadn't ever been given a name, and were only figments of my own imagination. Then, my eyes came to rest on something more horrible than anything else, that the land of demons contained.

It was my mother.

It was my mother, and yet it wasn't. Part of me wanted to run up to her, and embrace her, and apologize for not being strong enough to save her, but the stronger part of me was deathly afraid of her. Her legs were crushed, like they were when the house collapsed on top of her, so she floated about six inches off the ground. Her head had nearly fallen off, from where the titan bit her, so her head hung sideways, barely attached to her neck by a flap of skin. But the worst part of her was her smile. It was a fake, smirking grin, that never reached her eyes. My mother never smiled like that.

Then, the horrible smile disappeared, to be replaced by a sad look, and a sigh. "Why didn't you save me, Eren. Why do you leave me here to rot, and never see true daylight. Why were you always talking back, and wanting to disobey me. I only wanted to love you." With a disappointed look on her face, my mother began to walk away, clearly leaving me for the monsters. As she walked away, everything else in the clearing seemed to notice me for the first time, and all of my senses told me that if I wanted to get out alive I would have to run. So I did. And they caught me.

I was curled into a ball, doing by best to protect my head and neck. It felt like I was being torn to shreds; being eaten alive. All I knew was that I wanted it to end. Then, quite suddenly, there was a sharp, jerking, searing, feeling in my back, and I shouted out in pain. It was followed by a tugging sensation, then calm. When I opened my eyes, I was met with reality. My dream had gone, but the pain hadn't.

Levi was holding me in a headlock from behind, and Erwin was standing in front of me, his sward pointed at my chest. The sight of the head of the Survey Corps in his pajamas and 3DMG, was quite funny, but the look on Erwin's face was not, so I didn't laugh. When I looked beyond Erwin, I saw the rest of the team were ether on the floor, soaked in blood, or had a gun, sward, or both, pointed at me. The room was demolished, near to the point of caving in on us.

My vision was going black. "What... have I... done..." I managed to breath the words before I passed out from pain and exhaustion.

- back to present time -

With much convincing on Erwin's part, and much complaining on Levi's, they managed to make a deal with the military police. The deal was that Eren could stay alive, if he was constantly being watched someone who could and would take him down if he got out of hand. This meant that Levi, works need to be with Eren all the time, even in his sleep since that was when he turned before. Because of this, Levi was moving in with Eren in his home in the basement of the abandoned castle.

Eren was stunned with this turn of events, and spent most of the three hours after finding out, staring at Levi, with impressed and slightly afraid eyes.

Needless to say, Levi was more than slightly pissed off. After moving his stuff into Eren's room, with much protest, Levi got tired of the eyes he could feel on him constantly, and snapped at Eren.

"Will you stop staring at me like I'm fucking Jesus, and go to sleep already. You will need it, cause I plan to get you up before the dawn. Sleep while you can, brat." And proceeded to get in his bed, not sleeping himself however, just glaring at Eren with hate filled eyes. It wasn't really Eren's fault though, Levi was just pissed at Erwin, the military police, and just the world in general.

If looks could kill... Eren didn't sleep much at all that night.

So... That was chapter one. Comment and tell me what you think, but please no hate mail. I'm cool with constructive criticism though ;)