Before Lunch~
"JEAN!" Armin's scream of mixed irritation and annoyance was heard inside the boys' cabin. Everyone, except Jean, cringed at the voice. Armin RARELY gets angry. Especially at Jean.
It turns out that Jean took the straps of Armin's uniform and held it out of the small blonde's reach. Armin was grunting irritably, trying to reach it but like Jean, everyone in the cabin was amused to see how Armin struggled to get the straps of his uniform. Even Eren was watching the scene with pure amusement.
"C'mon Jean! Give them back!" Armin said as he tried jumping just to get them, to no avail.
"Nope, little bunny of mine. You have to get them yourself." Jean said with a very irritable, in Armin's opinion, smirk on his face.
"Jean! Please!" Armin pleaded as he still tried to reach for it.
"Make me." Jean challenged him. Kissing Armin on the lips as Armin tried to jump again. Jean saw Armin's eyebrows furrowed before taking a few steps back.
"Fine!" Armin growled irritably, putting his hands on his hips. Then, a very sly smirk appeared on his face. "Maybe everyone would be interested to know how you got laid last nig-" Armin's sentence was cut off by a very flustered Jean by covering his mouth with his palms.
Armin grinned. He finally got his straps back. He flashed a grin to Jean. The brunette knew the meaning behind that smile. I won. It was clearly etched on Armin's smile. Ohh... Armin can really be a pain in the ass when he wants to. But everyone thought that it was purely a joke. Though little they did know that Jean did get laid behind some things at the storage room last night.
Eren just smirked at him and said tauntingly:
"Never mess with Armin... You'll make things hard for you, you know." He said and walked away to eat.
During lunch
As Armin (now fully dressed) ate with Mikasa at the hall, Jean and Eren were already sitting next to them.
Jean and Eren weren't still on terms. They were TRYING to get along. Though it failed at times.
Eren was looking at his soup with hatred. "Tomato?"
Armin just looked at him with a small smile before saying:
"Just deal with it." Armin then resumed eating his meal.
Jean had given him his bread, despite the blonde's protests. Jean smiled at him while Armin pouted and glared at Armin half-heartedly.
"You should also look after yourself too, you know." Armin said as he divided the bread into two. He gave the other half to Jean, smiling at the brunette. Jean took it with a warm smile directed only for Armin.
"Tomato soup, huh?" Reiner's voice suddenly shook them out from their little moment. He ruffled Armin's hair while Jean frowned inwardly at the gesture. Though his anger was replaced with amusement as he saw Armin's adorable pouting face after Reiner's "assault to his hair" gesture.
"Yeah." Eren said with a frown. He was really never a type to like vegetables.
"Eren. Stop playing with your food." Mikasa reprimanded.
"Yes, mom!" Eren said with an annoyed look.
"Talk to you later after lunch," Reiner said as he and a very reluctant looking Bertholdt, went to their usual place. Everyone dismissed Bertholdt's expression, for it was always like that.
Everyone's attention was taken by Connie, who was muttering madly about Sasha taking half of his meal. Everyone chuckled at that. Sasha always steals her boyfriend's food every lunch.
After many happy moments at the lunch hall, they went back to their food.
Armin was enjoying listening to Jean's story on how he had beaten Eren at the practice with the titan dummies when they were still back at the Recon Corps when he felt something different.
Everything what Jean was saying was turning muffled. Every noise in the hall was turning as a mess in Armin's head. He couldn't understand anything. His vision was blurring and all he could do was to stand up, trying to fight it.
"Armin, is there something wrong?" Jean asked worriedly and it got Eren and Mikasa's attention and looked at Armin with a somehow alarmed expression.
"J-jean..." Armin tried to force some words out as he clutched his forehead, a massive headache was starting to form. He was starting to sway dangerously.
Connie, still unaware of what's happening, passed by the Shiganshina trio and Jean's table only to feel an unexpected weight on his right part of his body. He saw a mop of blonde in front of his face as he looked at the place where the weight was coming from. He felt an unusual heat from the body, just like what he felt when he got near the fire when they were cremating the bodies of those who died during Trost. He didn't know who this person was but he instinctly used his body to cushion the other's fall. He only knew who it was when he heard Mikasa, Eren and Jean's voice calling "ARMIN!" in unison.
"HE'S BURNING UP!" Connie said frantically as soon as he got his senses back.
Jean rushed to Connie's side and took Armin. His eyes went wide as he felt his lover's temperature rose drastically. "Armin! ARMIN!" Jean called out as Eren, who just helped Connie sit up from the floor, and Mikasa ran beside him.
"This isn't good. Let's bring him to the infirmary." Mikasa said with a cool demeanor. But only Eren noticed that Mikasa was starting panic.
-.-.-
Jean, who was running his fingers on Armin's slightly damp blonde locks continuously, watched as Armin breathed raggedly as the blonde slept.
"He was just fine this morning," Eren stated as he frowned, the fear of what they experienced this lunch was still there, though not as strong as it was a while ago.
"We know, Eren." Mikasa said as she placed the damp cloth on Armin's forehead for the umpteenth time. "It was just all of a sudden." Mikasa said as Jean adjusted the cloth slightly.
"I just don't know what literally happened. He was just exchanging jokes with us before it happened. And he was warm this morning when I... I... kissed him." Jean went red with his words.
"Eren. Jean. Armin's strong. He's going to be okay soon." Mikasa said as she tried to comfort them, though she can't bring herself to believe in her words just looking at Armin.
So that's chapter 2! Please review!
