Mikasa was on her knees, blood dripping from her face. It looked like she was getting beaten up by some girls and even boys. He saw two people, in particular, Annie Leonhart and Jean Kirstein. Leonhart tied her to a street lamp. Eren and Armin were able to see her a bit clearer. She had a black eye and several scratches in her face with some blood flooding from her nose and lip. Her clothes had several holes.

"Ohh, is the small baby already crying? You know what's next."

All of the people were now throwing objects at her. Including things such as Snowballs, Tomatoes, pebble stones, some had water balloons and two of them had foul apples.

They threw those things then they continued with Snowballs. Eren was frozen. He could not move. It made him sick to look at all of these bastards laughing whilst torturing another human being. Armin couldn't do anything alone. He always tried to stop people from bullying her but he was just too small and weak and couldn't do anything especially not alone. Eren saw Jean and he glared and punched him in the face.

"JEAN!"

Mikasa opened her eyes, looked up and saw somebody standing up for her. It was the new .Somebody stood up for her and he even punched the guy in his face. Or did he do it for her? She doubted it.

"Hey, what is going on here?"

They all looked back to see the strictest teacher of the whole school, .

"Oh god, it's Shadis, run!"

One exclaimed when all started to run away. Jean managed to get up and run away together with Annie.

Shadis ran over and stared Eren dead in the eye.

"What is going on here? Have you done anything to this poor girl?"

"N-no Sir.I-I swear."

Good thing that Armin was there, he was Shadis favourite student because of him being the best at basically everything.

"No Sir, Eren actually defended her, I think-"

"Ahh Arlert, good thing that you are here. What happened?"

Whilst Armin explained everything to Eren ran to Mikasa to look after her.

"Hey, are you…ok?"

She nodded slightly.

Eren tried to untie her but he couldn't.

"In my schoolbag, there is a knife please cut the rope ok?"

Eren nodded. He cut the rope, stood up and looked down at her.

"Why do you have a knife with you?"

There were two truths but she revealed only one of them.

"This is nothing extraordinary. For me to be tied up…"

Eren groaned thinking about these people. In these moments Eren just hated humanity. He hated how unforgiving and rude people could be. Why would anybody do this to another human? She looked upwards.

"The scarf!"

She pointed towards a tree. Eren looked up seeing the red scarf on a branch.

"Wait here."

He climbed up the tree to take the scarf. He wrapped it around her for the second time. But the only thing she could really think about at that moment was her willingness to die. There was only one appropriate thing that she could do. Go home immediately and do it. As she had planned. But when she stood up she winced in pain and fell back down.

"What's wrong?"

"M-my ankle.I-it hurts so much…"

Eren was worried to death thinking it may be broken. He lifted her up from the ground bridal style.

"Don't worry. I'll take you home, your parents can treat you there."

"My…my parents aren't home this whole week they are busy…as always."

The last part was just a whisper and even though Eren couldn't understand it he felt how painful this was for her.

"Ok, then you'll go to my home and I will look after you for the day. I cannot let you alone like this."

She wanted to say something but she…she didn't. She felt pretty comfortable. It felt like she was actually safe. He walked home, but before they changed positions so that he was now carrying her piggyback.

After around a kilometre, he sat her down on a parking bench.

"Ok, you stay here and I'll quickly go into the Pharmacy and buy some things to treat you with ok?"

She nodded. He went inside and a few minutes passed. Mikasa was thinking about what had just happened.

'Why does he treat me so well? Is this really him? Is he really this nice of a guy?...No, he is fooling me. For sure. Nobody would ever be this nice to me.I'm garbage! This must be some well-planned joke by those popular kids. I don't even know if he really punched this guy. I just heard a noise and then Kirstein was laying on the ground. He probably didn't even protect me. Yeah, it's like on Valentine's day 2 years ago!'

She remembered that Valentine's day and it really hurt her. Now she was angry thinking about the boy who had supposedly saved her when across the street, somebody had noticed her presence. It was Jean and this only meant one thing. Trouble.

"Ackerman, pigs are not allowed in my streets."

He ran over the street and now said right in front of her.

"You know what people who break the law get? Punishment."

She closed her eyes expecting a fist to hit her in her face but…nothing happened to her. She opened her eyes and saw Eren next to Jean giving him a punch in his stomach.

Now she couldn't deny it anymore. Eren really cared for her. They wouldn't go this far for a prank, no never. Or would they? She was no longer certain Eren was a douchebag but she was still suspicious of him and his intents. She just couldn't help it. Her trust was broken too often.

"Beating girls makes you a piece of shit, but beating injured girls? What kind of garbage gave birth to you? Do you have no honour?"

Jean was on his feet again but decided not to fight Eren and instead run away.

"You can't always be by his side, Ackerman!"

Eren frowned dangerously as he saw him run away.

"Stupid Horseface"

He whispered that to himself before he turned his attention to Mikasa.

"Are you alright?"

"Y-yeah thanks to you."

"Nothing special. Come, let's go, my home is only a few hundred meters away from here."

They arrived at Erens house, it was quite big, not as big as Mikasa's, but still big.

Erens mother stood inside the garden rolling her eyes when she saw Eren carrying a girl piggyback but that expression quickly changed as he came nearer. She noticed the girls black eye and her wounds.

"Oh god, Eren what is going on here? What happened"

"Hi, mom. That's Mikasa. She was being bullied and beaten up by other students so I brought her here. I already bought all of the things to treat her."

"Ok, you carry her inside and lay her down on the sofa, I will prepare your food."

"Thanks, Mom."

Eren laid Mikasa down on the sofa and started to treat her.

"Hey, sweetheart do you want me to make something for you to eat?"

She put Erens food on the table.

"N-no Mrs.Jäge-"

"Carla, call me Carla"

"O-ok, Carla, I-I d-don't need anything. My Mom says if I ate more I would probably become fat."

"Fat? Sweetheart, you are thin, there is no chance that I will not make you something to eat. Come on tell me what do you want me to make for you?"

"I-I can choose w-what I want?"

"Of course."

"C-can I have Pancakes?"

"Already on it."

After some time Carla was finished preparing the food and it tasted really good.

"Oh, this tastes so good."

"I'm sure your mother's meals are also good"

"M-my mother doesn't cook"

"But who prepares your meals then?"

"M-my mother usually w-wants me to cook by myself b-but I'm terrible at it s-so I most often have to get something from a restaurant and pay with, with my own money, which I-I'm in lack of."

She looked at Mikasa slightly concerned. That didn't sound very good. Mikasa was unsure if she wanted to say something or not when she felt pain as Eren applied an ice pack on her ankle.

"Sorry Mikasa but I have to"

"I know and…t-thank you for doing this. N-nobody ever did anything similar for me and I-I'm really grateful"

His Mother suddenly interrupted their conversation before he could say anything.

"Eren, can we speak for a minute? Upstairs?"

Eren nodded. They went upstairs.

"Eren, I hope you don't plan to do what you usually do to girls, with this poor thing"

"N-no Mom I swear this has nothing to do with that, I was just worried sick because of how they beat her up."

Erens mother looked at him with suspicion.

"Besides, I could have easily had all the other girls"

Erens mother hit him on his arm.

"Eren, don't talk like that, you know what we have talked about and-"

"Yes mom I know and the last time was 3 months ago"

"I'm just saying that I think that this girl does not deserve to have her heart broken by you. She is suffering enough already."

"And I already told you that I don't plan to do any of that ok?"

"Good, but if I will ever catch you with her doing…certain things, I will kill you Eren"

"I know Mom, and I can tell you that such a thing will not occur"

Both went back downstairs and Mikasa already ate her meal. She still wanted to go home and do what she had planned so she wanted to ask for a ride home when she reached for her key…

"God damn it!"

She screamed it out and Carla asked her.

"What is going on, and no swearing please, we have children in this household"

"O-oh, I'm sorry I didn't know Eren h-had a…?"

"Sister. Little Sister"

"little sister. I-I just noticed that I have lost my keys, o-or maybe I forgot them somewhere, I-I'm not sure but they are not here in this pocket."

"Then I guess you have no other choice but to sleep over here"

"S-sleep over here?"

"A sleepover!"

Suddenly a young female voice came from upstairs. She ran towards Mikasa

"Are you Erens new girlfriend?"

"W-what,n-no"

Her face turned really red at this question. Carla smiled a bit at this sight.

"But Eren always brings Girls home who say they are his girlfriend and then they go upstairs and-"

Eren held her mouth closed.

"Don't listen to her Mikasa, she is just saying nonsense, no need to worry. I don't want to do anything with you. And you come with me you little brat!"

"And thus I introduce to you my youngest, Clara, my daughter, Eren's sister, their relationship is…complicated…"

Carla sighed in frustration.

Mikasa heard Carla but all she could really think about was what this little Girl had just said to her. Did Eren really want to do…that with her? Was that the only reason he saved her? To make out with her? What kind of douchebag is he? No way she would sleep here.

"Before you say anything, Mikasa, I can tell you, yes Eren did such things but the last time he did it was several months ago and he swore to me and his friends that he would stop it after we had organized an intervention. So please, just stay here, I can guarantee you that my son will not try any of those things with you."

Mikasa thought about it. She was just not sure if she could trust him. But she figured…why not? I mean he would surely not force her. It would probably delay her suicide but whatever, one day more or less, who really cares?

"O-okay, I will sleep here tonight, if I am allowed to"

"Of course you are welcomed here"

"Oh Mikasa that will be great, we can do lots of cool stuff you know"

Eren suddenly came forward with a wide grin on his face.

"DO YOU WANT TO DO SOMETHING WITH ME? We can have a girls night!"

Erens sister exclaimed basically screaming in Mikasa's ear.

"Clara, you know what I've told you, how old are you?"

Carla seemed to be angry now.

"…9…"

"And how do you introduce yourself to strangers?"

"Hello my name is Clara, what is your name?"

"H-hello Clara, I-I'm Mikasa."

Mikasa was very uncomfortable, she wasn't really good at dealing with children mostly because…she didn't know any and the last time she had a real conversation with one was when she was a child herself.

"Hello Mikasa"

"Good Clara. But I can already tell you Mikasa won't spend any time with you today."

"What, why noooooot?

"Because I got to do a few things and Eren doesn't want to look after you."

"And where will I go?"

"No worries, I'll drop you off at..."

They now walked away. Mikasa and Eren were left alone.

Hey, I know that only one guy read it, but I reposted this as the chapter was bugged for some reason. I don't know why but enjoy anyway.