The ones you must protect are the ones you will have to follow one day.
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A small whimper is heard within the confines of a dark cell. The sound of foots steps and softened shouting can be heard through the ceiling.
Mikasa starts to wake up after the hard knock on the forehead she got from her kidnapper. She opens her eyes slowly and sits up on the concrete floor. She lets her eyes adjust to the darkness and starts to look around a bit startled at the unfamiliar surroundings.
Mikasa turns around to notice a sleeping Eren. She still hasn't thanked him for saving her life, but she honestly doesn't know if being alive right now is a curse or a blessing. Her eyes start to water when she remembers what happened to her parents.
"My parents a-aren't here anymore...I..I don't know what to do anymore..." Mikasa says quietly with glossy eyes.
"WHY IS YOUR FUCKING CREW DEAD?!" Roared a voice upstairs. Mikasa snaps out of her trance and jumps from the sudden voice, even though the ceiling blocks most of the sound, and backs up slowly. The voice isn't directed towards her, but it's still enough to scare her. She accidentally bumps her rear into Eren, but it doesn't seem to wake him up.
"Why is the fucking Asian mother dead?! Why is there a goddamn little bastard here too?!" The voice sounded to be harsher than a hundred hurricanes. A groan is heard behind Mikasa as she turns around a bit quickly. Eren starts to rub his eyes while he slowly sits up off the ground, still groaning. He starts to rub the bump on the back of his head from hard punch he received.
"M-Mikasa? Are you okay?" Asks Eren as he tries to look around her for any scratches or bruises.
"No, I-I'm okay..." Mikasa says softly. Eren's eyes soften, knowing she must still be a bit in shock of everything that happened recently. "Are you okay though? He hit you kinda hard..." She asks softly but concerned.
"Eh, it hurts, but I'll be okay." Eren says with a small reassuring smile. She nods and looks down slowly. Her thoughts go back to her parents and the guilt of not being able to save them have her whimpering softly as tears welling up in her eyes.
"I-I miss them..s-so much...why did t-those men have t-to d-do that to them?" Mikasa questioned, sobbing, with tears in her face. Eren didn't really know what to do since he's not very good at helping people when they're sad, but remembered his mom hugging him when he was little whenever he hurt himself. He then very gently hugged Mikasa as she sobbed into his chest, clinging to him with all her might.
"Mikasa I don't know why people can be so evil, but those weren't normal people, those were heartless animals who shouldn't have been alive in the first place." Eren said as he ran his hand through her long dark hair. "Luckily we took care of them for good. They won't be able to hurt anyone anymore...well we didn't actually get all of them, but I won't let the other bastard hurt you anymore." Eren reassured her. Mikasa was still sobbing into his chest, but it has died down a bit.
"B-but it's my fault they're d-dead...! If only I d-did something to help Mommy and D-daddy! Th-they would still be here!" Mikasa stated as she started crying even harder. Eren could only stare at her in shock. "I c-couldn't even move! I was so s-scared and weak...I should have just died with them...!" Mikasa said as she broke down even more.
Eren immediately snapped at her outburst. "Mikasa! What the hell are you thinking! How could you even say that?!" Mikasa looked up at him with wide eyes and tears flooding her face. He grabbed her shoulders and looked her straight in the eyes.
"It was not your fault! If was anyone's, then it was the animal who murdered them in the first place! It was also mine...If only my Dad and I got there sooner dammit!" Eren says with gritted teeth. "You're just a little girl who just witnessed your parent's death. Saying such things will not help in any way...especially saying you should have been killed too! Your parents wouldn't want that. They would want you to live on a full life they weren't able to have." Eren says still holding his fiery gaze. Mikasa could only stare at him with her eyes wide. Her heart skipped a beat at his speech and life started to return to her eyes.
"You're a strong girl Mikasa..you killed a man just to save my life, even if it put yours at risk. Thank you for that by the way, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you." Eren says with a small smile. "When you get older you'll get much stronger. I promise to protect you with all I have, so you can't get hurt by anyone again."
Mikasa stopped crying and just continued to stare at the boy. She felt her stomach flutter color reach her cheeks. Her heart was beating twice as fast with a new feeling she's never felt before. Eren started to unwrap his red scarf and lazily wrapped it around her neck with a smile. "Is it warm?" asks Eren. Mikasa grabs it softly in her small hand and buries her head in it saying "I-It's warm..."
How Eren was treating her...how he was encouraging her to live...it made her shattered heart piece itself together. It made her feel...loved again. She suddenly through her arms over his neck making him go red. "Thank you...Eren" Mikasa said softly.
"Don't worry Mikasa...I'll always be there." Eren said with a smile.
Eren looks up finally realizing that this place doesn't look familiar and his eyes go wide with panic. "What the? Where are we?" He asks frantically.
"I'm not sure, but it looks like the man who hit you took us somewhere..." Mikasa says a bit grimly, while letting go of Eren.
"Well let's look for a way out of this dump." Eren says right when the sound of feet is heard from the stairs. A light is shined into the dark room making the two squint, to adjust their eyes.
The man who captured them was there and an older man who appeared to be in his 60's was in front of him. They walked up to the cell with an emotionless face, just looking at Eren and Mikasa.
Eren was glaring, and growling, as soon as the two men took their first steps on the concrete floor. He looked like he was ready to burst, but the older man squats down and smiles saying "So, how are you kids doing?". Eren snarls and immediately runs up to the two men, grabbing the older man by his collar through the bars of the cell.
"Who are you, you stupid mother fucker?! How dare you take us!" Eren shouts right in the older man's face but is met with a baton in the face from the man who kidnapped them. Eren lets go of the man and staggers back a bit, holding his cheek. "You fucking monster! Why did you take us?! Why did you kill Mikasa's parents?! They didn't do anything wrong!"
The man who kidnapped them just spits on Eren. "I did what I had to do," He says plainly which makes both Mikasa and Eren glare more. "Your parents aren't who you think they were." He says looking at Mikasa with dark eyes.
Mikasa's eyes go wide and she shouts, a little weakly, "You're lying! Mommy and Daddy were good people! They would never do anything bad!" The man smiles and approaches the cell. "Your 'Daddy' used to be with us actually...". Mikasa steps back a little.
"N-no... he wouldn't do anything like this...ever...!" Mikasa exclaims with tears in her eyes. Both men smile, a sick evil smile.
"Yep, your old man helped us do quite a bit of killing. Helped kidnap some pretty little girls too." The man says, still grinning. Eren runs over to the man ready to grab him but is met with another hit to the face with the baton. "Stop it kid it's useless, you should consider yourself lucky anyways...if we want we could kill you right now."
Eren is ready to attack him again, but Mikasa holds him arm looking at him with sad eyes. "Please Eren...stop..." She says softly, looking defeated. Eren looks at her sadly but backs down.
"Well, your old man one day found your Mom while we were out on the job. He was supposed to kidnap her, but the greedy bastard wanted her all for himself...he ratted us out to the cops, and somehow got away from them too." The man grunts looking down. "Probably why he lived in the woods...so he wasn't caught. It also looks like your Mother didn't seem to care about his troubled past for some reason also."
Mikasa starts to tremble even more and couldn't help feel even more sad. If what he says is true...then, Daddy was...bad too...? Mikasa thinks. No... he wouldn't ever do that..why should I believe them anyways!
"D-Daddy wouldn't ever hurt anyone...He's a good man! Someone you can n-never be!" Mikasa exclaims a little shakily.
"Tch, stupid bitch, how dare you say that to me." The kidnapper growls, ready to attack, but the older man puts his hand up, signalling for him to do no such thing.
"We need to keep her in decent condition for the trade, John... no bruising her." The older man orders plainly to his partner. He then looks at Eren who's kept quite strangely, even though he's never stopped glaring ever since they walked in. "The little bastard could probably use a little beating though...soften him for whoever buys him." He says with a smirk.
"What the hell are you going to do with us anyways you old bastard?" Eren asks harshly.
"Heh, well we're gonna sell you in the black market of course. It's a great place to make money. Sick perverts will pay top dollar for a little loli, such as herself." The older man asks looking at Mikasa at his last few words. "You'll probably be a little more difficult to sell, but not everyone is just interested in girls..." The old man says with a little chuckle.
"I'll fucking kill you both...You'll never hurt her!" Eren shouts moving Mikasa behind him.
Both the men look at each other incredulously, and then burst into laughter, making Eren seem like a fool. He still hasn't stopped glaring. The men soon calm down, John wiping a tear from his eye. The older man gets up and gets some sort of...whip, from a drawer behind them. He approaches the cell door and unlocks it.
Eren shields Mikasa from anything the older man thinks he's going to do, but he's roughly kicked across the cell, to the right. John makes his way to Mikasa, as Eren attempts to go to her aid, but is hit on his back with the whip, with the force strong enough to tear his skin.
"Eren!" Mikasa yells as she struggles with John holding both her hands behind her back.
"Do your worst you stupid fucking brute... just don't touch her..." Eren says on his knees, looking up at the old man.
"Don't worry boy...she'll be fine. You sure as hell won't be though." The older man exclaims, lifting the whip high and crashing the end of it right on Eren, making him cry out in pain.
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Should be able to get the next one out by around Friday.
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