Me: Welcome to our new side story.
Levi: Which she made over summer while she was bored.
Eren: It isn't a full story, just a few chapters like Wings of Freedom.
Armin: Idea is partially off of the game, Among the Sleep, mixed with the asylum arc of American Horror Story.
Hanji: First chapter is short, but Neko hoped you enjoy! Bye
Song of the chapter: Light Em Up - Fall Out Boy
Opening Statement: Eren Jaeger, reporting the series of people here at Stohess Hospital for the mentally sick.
Eren wrote his first sentence on his notepad while waiting for his first patient to show up. He was, for the most part to say, nervous as hell for his first case. Not to mention how peculiar the case was. Minutes later after staring at the notepad, he heard someone clear their throat. He looked up to see a man with hair as black as a raven's feathers, sitting across from him.
"Hello, bright eyes." The man smiled as he spoke. "Oh! Uh... Hello. My name is Eren Jaeger and I work for Kyojin news. News that's so large, its colossal."
Eren mentally facepalmed for reciting their catchphrase.
"Ha. I get it." The man let out a soft chuckle. "So, you must be Mr. Ackerman?" Eren lifted his pen back to his paper.
"Levi. Just Levi." Levi corrected. Eren nodded and wrote his name at the top of his paper. "Alright, Levi, I have been given permission to interview you about your... case." Eren smiled.
"You mean my illness? Sure, I don't mind. Hell, you're helping me kill time." Levi leaned forward in his chair and placed his hands on the table.
"Would you like anything, Mr. Jaeger?" A nurse came by and asked Eren. "Oh, no thank you ma'am." Eren politely declined.
"Alright, if you need anything, I'm Miss Reise." She smiled. "I'm an actual a patient here, and you haven't even asked me what I wanted." Levi rolled his eyes.
"Because I know what you want, Levi. I'll go get it." She turned and began to walk away. "Thank you, Historia." Levi smirked.
"Its Miss Reise!" She called back. "Wow, you seem to know how to get under her skin." Eren spoke while looking around the room. It looked like a r&r room. It was big and empty.
"Yep, been here long enough to know how." Levi yawned and rubbed his eyes. "Tired?" Eren asked. "No. I'm just wondering when you will start the interview." Levi leaned on his fist and looked at Eren.
"Oh! I'm sorry. I'm new at this, and you're my first case." Eren adjusted his glasses and looked down at his paper, sparing a moment to look at Levi's eyes. What color where they? "Alright, first question. How long have you been here?" Eren waited patiently for an answer.
"Long enough for me to be able to walk the halls blindfolded and still know where I'm going. " Levi shrugged. "Uh..." Eren looked between his paper and Levi.
"Lets play a game. For every one of my questions you answer, I will answer one of yours. Deal?" Levi raised a brow. "Uh. Sure." Eren nodded slowly while tapping his pen on his notepad. "Be careful what you say," Levi placed a finger to his lips.
"There are cameras." Eren's eyes widened a bit. Levi smiled. "Don't be scared though. The most they'll do is say you can't talk to me. Well... That's only you." Levi looked off at a wall.
"Okay. So I'll ask again. How long have you been here?" Eren lifted his pen again. "5 years. How old are you?" Levi replies. Eren wrote the information on the paper before speaking.
"I'm 20. How old-" Eren began. "Huh. One year younger than me." Levi softly spoke. "Guess I don't have to ask that question." Eren chuckled nervously and wrote Levi's age on the paper.
"When is your birthday, bright eyes?" Levi asked. Eren abruptly stopped writing and looked up from his paper before he pushed up his glasses.
"My name is Eren." Eren huffed. "And mine is Levi, now when's you birthday, bright eyes?" Levi smirked. Eren let out a soft sigh. He wasn't going to let this guy irritate him.
"March 30th, when's yours, raven?" Eren asked. "Raven? Is that the best you can do? Why not daddy?" Levi chuckled.
"Excuse me?" Eren felt his cheeks warm.
"My birthday is December 25th. What day is today?" Levi looked out the window. This was boring. "Its March 14th." Eren lifted his glasses and rubbed his eyes.
"He's stressing you out?" Miss Reise asked. Eren looked up at her. "Oh, no ma'am. Im just tired. That's all." She nodded and set down a Styrofoam cup in front of Levi.
"Here's your tea, Levi. Just how you like it." She smiled and walked off.
"So, you're a tea drinker?" Eren wrote on his paper. When he looked up Levi was drinking from his cup, but how he did it is what caught Eren's attention. He held the cup from it rim.
"Why do you drink from a cup like that?" Eren tilted his head to the side. "That's two questions." Levi said before taking another sip from the cup and setting it down. "Then I owe you two as well." Eren smiled.
"I prefer tea, because I'm trying to stay relaxed, not awake. And I hold my cups like this after I broke one of mother's fine china cups." Levi shrugged.
Eren wrote it down on his paper. "Why do you wear glasses and what color are your eyes?" Levi asked. "I wear glasses because when I read or write, the letters are hard to see. And my eyes are green."
Eren set his notepad down and leaned back in the chair. "Turn your eyes to the window." Levi asked. "Why?" Eren replied. "Want another answer for your case or not?" Levi huffed. Eren rolled his eyes before looking at the window, just now realizing that it was barred from the outside and it was raining. "Now, look at me." Eren looked back at Levi.
"Your eyes change color with light. C'est mignonne." Levi spoke while picking his cup back up.
"Woah, what language was that?!" Eren quickly asked, startling Levi into spilling his tea on his shirt sleeves.
"Ah, shit!" Levi yelled.
"Oh! My bad! I'm so sorry," Eren took off his jacket. "Here, put this on." Eren handed Levi the jacket.
"I'm fine, keep your jacket, its cold as hell in here." Levi set his hands in his lap and rolled his sleeves up a bit.
"No, really. Take it." Eren spoke, more concerned this time. Levi let out a long sigh before rolling down his sleeves. He then began to unbutton his shirt. "W-what are you doing?!" Eren cheeks flamed red.
"Taking off my shirt. If I put your jacket over my shirt, it'll seep through." Levi spoke while unbuttoning the rest of his shirt. Eren quickly turned his attention to the rain outside as Levi took off his shirt and put on Eren's jacket. "Stop acting like a baby, its zipped up now." Eren looked back over to see Levi folding his shirt and setting it on the table.
"Well that will stain. Even presoaking it won't get it out." Levi looked down at the blue sleeves over his arms. They were big as hell.
"Are you alright?" Eren asked.
"Yea, I've felt worse." Levi rubbed his eyes. "I'm really sorry, Levi. I didn't mean to startle you, I just wanted to know what language it was that you spoke. And you said it was cold as hell in here, and I'm anyway fine at the moment" Eren picked up his notepad and pen again.
"I was speaking French. I was born in France and my mom made sure I could understand the language. She was Japanese, so I also learned that too. I often switch languages when I speak. And it will get cold for you. Your body was just warm." Levi rubbed the sleeves against his cheeks.
"Like my jacket?" Eren laughed while writing down what Levi had said. Levi hummed in response.
"Its really warm." Levi let out a long sigh. Eren looked up to see Levi's cheeks a slight shade of red.
"May we continue?" Eren asked. Levi lifted Eren's hood over his head and nodded. "Why are you here, Levi?" Eren asked.
"You mean besides the fact I have OCD, insomnia, bad night sweats, and a shitty attitude?" Levi chuckled. "Yea." Eren laughed.
"Because when I sleep, I see fucked up things." Levi shrugged. Eren leaned forward. "Like what?"
Levi began. "I see-" ,
"Times up, Levi." A male voice called behind Eren. Followed by him being sniffed.
"What the-?!" Eren quickly moved.
"Back the fuck up, Mike." Levi sighed and stood.
"Erwin said its time for your therapy treatment." Mike said once he backed up. Eren could see a change and Levi's expression. "Alright." He said calmly while looking off to a distant wall.
"Come on." Mike nodded towards the door.
"Yo, bright eyes. You want your jacket back?" Levi asked.
"Nah, you can keep it. I have another at home. Think of it as... A gift from me for all the progress we've made today." Eren smiled.
"Alright. Thanks, Eren." Levi smiled before picking up his stained shirt and walking out of the room with Mike.
"Hm..." Eren smiled to himself before he heard a loud laugh. He looked up to see another patient walking to him. "You fallin' for that shorty?" A woman with glasses asked before sitting down.
"Who? Levi?" Eren quickly asked. "Yep. He was smiling like an idiot with that jacket on. Though, he better take it off before he gets to Erwin's office, or Blondie will take it away." She sat across from Eren.
"You must be-" Eren started. "Hanji Zoë, at your service." She smiled. "Nice to meet you. I assume I can call you Hanji?" She nodded.
"Alright, so first-" Eren looked at his paper.
"Let me stop you there, kid. Don't get too attached to us. We're a bunch of crazy assholes that the world decided to lock away. If you're thinking about helping us get out of here... You may be as crazy as us. So just interview us, get your information and leave it at that. I'm not rude, hun, but you can't help the sleepers." Hanji shrugged before sitting back her chair. "The sleepers?"
Eren repeated. "The ones who see a world when they sleep. A world that no one should see." Hanji looked at one of the cameras.
"That's all I can tell you, or I may be cut short like Levi was." She cackled. Eren looked in confusion. What did it all mean. Its not like he could just straightforwardly ask, no, not when both her and Levi warned him about his words. He took a deep breath and flipped to a new page, before asking his first question. "Um... Alright. So, how long have you been here?"
Me: How was the firs chapter?
Hanji: What do you guys think is going to happen next?
Armin: Don't forget to review!
Eren: Neko loves ya
Levi: Bye