I follow Hanji to her lab after the meeting. She had to have done something to Eren. I didn't see him on the training field and he's not one to skip training. She enters her lab and I follow her in and see Eren standing there. I turn and glare at her. I say as deadly as I can "Shitty glasses. What did you do to him?" She grins at me unheeded by my glare and says "I just had him test something for me! It's nothing! He'll be fine!"
I continue to glare at her until Erwin says "Come on you two. What's done is done." I look at him for a minute but then look over at Eren. He sighs and takes a step forward. His eyes widen and his body goes rigid. There's a sudden flash of Titan lightning and we cover our eyes.
When we look again Eren is gone, but he's not in Titan form. All thats there is a pile of clothes on the floor. I look at the spot Eren had been standing in shock. I see the pile move and walk forward to inspect it. I crouch down and move the jacket to the side, and see the form of a child. He looks to be 2 or 3 years old. "Eren?" Erwin says behind me in disbelief.
Hanji then crouches down beside me just as Eren sits up. He yawns and rubs one of his eyes. He then looks around and when he sees me smiles, and holds his arms out for me to pick him up. I smile inside and pick him up. Erwin orders and officer to retrieve something after pointing at Eren and they run off to do so. Erwin and Hanji then come and inspect Eren. He looks at both of them and smiles.
I can almost see the fucking sparkles around him. The officer then appears a few minutes later, hands a bag to Erwin and exits again. The bag is filled with childs clothing. Armin enters a moment later and says "Ms. Hanji! You asked me to….Who is that?" We all look at him for a minute until Eren looks around Erwin at him and smiles at him happily.
Armin looks at him curiously and asks again "Who is that? Is he one of yours?" Erwin looks at him and says "Uh. No Armin, This is Eren." Armin turns his head to the side and says "What? That can't be Eren. He's my age…" He looks at Eren again and sees his teal eyes. He blinks for a second before suddenly falling forward. Erwin darts forward and stops him from hitting the floor.
Eren tugs on my shirt and asks "Why he sleep?" I look at him for a moment thinking Oh God that was adorable…. I then rack my brain for an answer but find none. Hanji then reaches out to Eren with her psycho grin on saying "I need to do some tests." Eren looks at her in horror and clings on to me tightly. I glare at her and say "Fuck off shitty glasses. Your tests are the reason were in this mess. So no. You're not touching Eren."
She looks at me upset and goes to Erwin in an attempt to make me allow her access to Eren. He apparently tells her the same thing. He walks Armin's unconscious from over to the table and lays him down on it. He then says to Hanji "Do you have anything that will wake him up?" she thinks for a minute then walks over into a closet. Erwin walks over to me and says "Lets get him dressed while she's gone."
I agree and we quickly dress Eren. She comes back in just as I pick Eren back up again. She looks at him and says "He looks adorable!" she then walks over to Armin and breaks something under his nose. A moment later he sits up and looks around. "So it wasn't a dream." Erwin then walks up to him and gives him a basic summary of what happened to Eren.
He takes it pretty well. After Erwin's done talking he walks over to Eren and smiles at him. He then looks at me then at Erwin and says "What do we do about Mikasa?" This causes all around silence. Erwin and Armin begin talking about Mikasa and where she would be now. While all of this was going on Eren had snuggled into my shoulder and was sucking on his thumb.
I chuckled softly at him. Just then the door opens and my squad comes in. Petra sees me holding Eren and runs up saying "OMG! Captain! Is he yours? What's his name? He's so cute! can I hold him?!" With that the rest of my squad came over and looked at him. I look at all of them and say "This…..is Eren."
They all look at me as if I lost my mind and then all begin speaking at once. "What?" "Eren? He's fifteen! How can that be Eren?" "When was Eren a kid?" "Really captain?" I'm about to yell at them but all the noise woke Eren up. He removes his head from my shoulder and looks at all of them. All of there talking stops and they all stare wide eyed at Eren.
It was Petra who spoke first. She said "Hey Eren. Remember me?" Eren looks at her and then nods. Hanji who had apparently been behind me suddenly yelled "OH MY GOSH! He remembers you! PLEASE Levi! Let me do some tests!" I glare at her and feel Eren tremble. "Fuck off. And Hell no am I letting you perform ANY tests on him."
I then look at petra and ask "You said you wanted to hold him right?" She smiles and says "Yes!" I then gently hand Eren over to Petra who happily holds him. Once shes holding him he reaches up and pulls a small piece of her hair and says "Pwetty." After he says this I can freaking tell that Petra won't let anyone hold him for a while. She talks to Eren for a few minutes before I walk over to Erwin and Armin.
They are still discussing whether or not they should tell Mikasa. I walk up to them and say "Armin. What would Mikasa do to you if she found out you didn't tell her?" Armin looks at me a second and then pales. He says "We'll tell Mikasa. I'll go get her now." he then runs from the room. I walk back over to Eren and the others. When he sees me he smiles and reaches for me.
The squad looks surprised for a second then remember it's Eren and smile. I take Eren from Petra and he hugs my neck. I gently hug him back and says to him "Were going to go talk to Erwin for a second Okay?" He looks at me and nods. I walk over to Erwin and Hanji and set Eren down beside me. Eren looks at Erwin and smiles. I look at the two of them and say "So. What are you going to do about him being a child?"
Hanji thinks for a second then says "Well. I'll have to look through my research on what I gave him. Then I'll begin working on an cure….Or whatever you'd call it." Erwin and I then look around her lab and see thats there is paper...Everywhere. There is not a single spot without paper. I facepalm. Knowing Hanji, It will take days. Just to find out WHAT she gave him. "Just get it done Hanji. Before the Military Police find out." She nods.
Just then we hear the door open and Mikasa walks in with Armin behind her. She immediately asks Hanji "Where's Eren and what have you done to him?" Eren hides behind my leg peaking around it to look at Mikasa. Erwin answers for her and says "Eren is fine. He's right here actually." She raises an eyebrow at him and says "What do you mean?" Erwin approaches her and begins explaining it to her.
I walk over to the 3 of them and Eren follows me. We stand there and listen as Erwin summarizes what happened to Eren to Mikasa. Armin dropping comments here and there. We all then back away from her and Eren. Eren looks scared, Mikasa unsure. Mikasa takes a step towards him and he darts away in the opposite direction, And hides behind my leg once again.
I crouch down and say "Eren. Thats Mikasa. Don't you remember her?" Eren looks at me then shakes his head and says shakily "No...No Eren don't" He then hides behind me and looks at Mikasa from there. I blink and than look up at Erwin and the rest and say "He doesn't remember her." Erwin seems to contemplate this and the rest seem flabbergasted. Out of the corner of my eye I see Armin saying something to Mikasa.
Hanji then says "But he remembers You and I." Erwin then says "Maybe not. He might just be responding to the people in the room. The reason he likes Levi is because Levi and 15 year-old him were dating. So when you changed Eren into a child he gained the mind of a 3 year-old with the memories of a 15 year-old. So. In a sense, He is a child. And I haven't heard him say our names, so he may not remember us."
I turn around and pick Eren up and stand up. I ask Eren "Do you want to meet Mikasa?" he looks at me then shakes his head and says "No….She scary." And with that he hides his face in my shoulder. I hold Eren for a few minutes while listening to the others before discovering that Eren had fallen asleep. Brat... Well. Let him sleep. While he's out nothing can bother him. But still. What the hell did Hanji do to you Eren?
