Before training, and when Eren is not around, the half Asian girl, Mikasa, liked to look at the various birds that landed on the various trees.
Today, a blue jay. A passerine bird, in the Corvidae family. Blue was a good color to her, it calmed her down from the days of training. Just standing there, staring at this beautiful creature. Maybe I should start writing these down in a book? She asked herself.
From inside the dorms, Annie caught a glance at the dark haired girl and sighed. I told Eren I would confront her. It's not as easy as I thought it would be, She thought. If I don't do it now I probably won't for a while. Might as well do it while she's alone.
The blonde walked outside and went to confront her so called enemy.
Mikasa's grey eyes kept focused on the bird, only glancing briefly at the blonde before looking back, "Leonhardt…"
"Ackerman…" She stood there, in her mostly unknown motherly glory.
The excellent student sighed after a moment of silence, turning around to face her, "Do you want something? How bad did you beat up Eren this time?"
"I didn't, but I'm surprised you haven't lectured him to a crisp. He tells me how much you do."
Mikasa cocked an eyebrow, "Oh, did he? Well, new lecture for him."
"Let me guess, a lecture on how he shouldn't talk to me? Too late for that…"
Mikasa put her hands on her hips, "Well obviously, he is obsessed with you. Very annoyingly so."
"Obsessed? Pfft, as if. He is always so worried about you. I mean you are his sister."
Mikasa's eyebrows raised, "He is worried about me? About me? I thought he would be more worried about you, since you just love to make yourself seem to be a fragile lady."
"Excuse me? Maybe I have a right to be fragile at times like this."
"By being cold? And tough? And mean?"
Annie almost blew her top. "That isn't what Eren said when I fucked him in the stables a month and a half ago."
Mikasa's eyes widened, "E-Excuse me? I...I am sorry?"
The smaller girl smirked and walked up closer to the taller girl, "And now, I'm pretty damn sure you can add another problem to your life."
Mikasa frowned, "What does that mean?"
"You're as clueless as your brother. Just know that someone new will be coming into your life."
Mikasa's eyes searched the sky for an answer, darting from cloud to cloud.
Eventually, she got the answer, her eyes dropping back down to the small girl, "No…"
"Heh, yes. Sorry to break the news to you so soon. But you know, Eren was worried and all about being lectured that I had to do it."
Mikasa took a step forward, "Where...where...where is Eren?"
"Calm down. Don't kill him, this kid needs a father. But he's at the boys dorm."
Mikasa quickly walked past the soon-to-be mother, going towards the direction of the boy's dorm."
Annie looked ahead, "Oh dear." Before turning around and trying to catch up with Mikasa, "Mika, wait!"
"Hey...Reiner...Bertholdt...uh...hey…" Eren's green eyes switched between the much taller men.
Reiner jumped down from his bunk and stood in front of the shorter boy with his closest friend walking up next to him, "Why you so nervous Jaeger?"
Eren smiled, "Well...I mean…uhm" He scratched the back of his neck. Fuck, how do I do this?
"You don't have to be nervous Eren. What's wrong? Is it bad?" Bertholdt interrogated, eyebrows raised in question.
Eren gave a fake smile before looking down. He sighed, looking back up, "At least a month and a bit ago...Annie and I...after some sparring...we, uh…"
"You….?" Reiner cocked an eyebrow.
Eren shrugged, "You know…" He thrusted his arm out slightly, whistling in sync with the movements.
The next second, Reiner, when he realized what the boy was talking about, slapped him on the back and gave a broad smile, "I knew you had it in you!"
"That's not all…"
The taller one scratched the back of his neck, "Oh uh..what else happened?"
Eren thought he had been pushing it back too long, he decided to push it all out, "Annieispregnantwithmychild."
A silence broke out in the dorm and the two of them stared at him and then back at each other. Something seemed to have been communicated between them that Eren could not decode. Reiner turned his head to look at the young man.
"You….you're fucked man."
Eren blinked, "I...I kn-"
BAM! The door was kicked open, and the silhouette stood in the doorway, with short hair. Behind this figure, stood Annie, "Uh...Eren…"
"Eren!"
Eren's eyes widened, "Fuck…"
Mikasa stepped in, her face a torrent of anger and 'the fuck have you done' expressions, "There is something you decided to let your baby momma tell me?"
Eren's eyes glanced at Annie, "Please tell me you told her gently…"
"Define….gently. We have different definitions."
Eren narrowed his eyes, "What...what the fuck do you-"
Before he could say any more, a hand lashed out and grabbed a hold of his ear, pulling him off his feet and dragging him away.
Eren began to flail around as he got dragged past the mother of his child, "Annie! Help! Mikasa's got my ear! Shit! Mikasa, not that hard, fuck! Ah!"
"Don't kill him Mikasa. Don't you love your brother?"
"Oh, I love him, alright. Don't worry, Annie, Eren will be fine. He is just gonna need a new ear!"
"I don't….want to fight you right now but I will."
Mikasa stopped dead in her tracks, turning to look at the short blonde, "Excuse me?" She let go of Eren's ear, letting him drop to the floor.
"Ah! Shit!" He said, grabbing and holding his ear, "Damn it…"
"Yeah it may be his fault but it's mine too so don't just batter him for it."
Mikasa walked over to Annie, towering over her, "Well here's the thing, princess. Eren isn't the one carrying the human being in their belly, is he? So he is viable for a little hearing loss."
"Just fucking stop it, alright! No one needs to be punished! Yeah, we were careless, so what?"
"So what? You realize that you will be having a child to be taking care of, right?"
"Of course I do! What do you think I thought? That babies are born and then just die off!?"
Mikasa frowned, "That isn't what I...ugh...Eren, I am gonna go get Armin. And then we are going to have a little talk, just us three. Got it?"
"...Got it…"
"Good. See you around, Leonhardt." She said before walking off.
At this point Annie felt stressed and weak, using all of her strength to argue, "Can I maybe sit down somewhere?"
Eren stood up, walking over to grab her hand, "Yeah, you can sit down on one of the bed. Come on." He said, leading her inside.
Bertholdt and Reiner followed suit right behind them.
Eren helped Annie sit down on the bed before sitting down next to her.
"Sorry that I told her so bluntly. It's just...how I talk, you know?"
Eren glanced to the side before nodding, "Yeah...yeah I do know…"
"Annie. We need to talk. Now." Reiner said.
Eren looked at Reiner, then at Annie, "I should go?"
"You can st-"
"Yeah you should probably leave."
Eren looked from Annie to Reiner, nodding to the latter as he stood up and walked out of the dorm, leaving the trio alone.
As soon as the door closed, Reiner's head snapped to look at the girl sitting before him, "What the fuck is wrong with you?"
"Well I mean it's pretty obvious what is," She retorted.
Reiner growled, Bertholdt holding an arm out to stop him, "Calm down Reiner. There are solutions. There must be ways to...get rid of it…"
"You're….you're not serious, are you?" She wrapped her arms around her stomach protectively, "I am not doing that."
Bertholdt frowned, "But what about the missio-"
"I know! I screwed this up but I can't just get rid of this….I can't. It's not just my decision and even if it was I wouldn't do it!"
Reiner stepped forward, "What about your father? What would he think about this?"
"My father hasn't given a shit about me. All my life all I've done is train, but what about the rest? Why would I want to do something for someone who never even saw me as their child?"
Reiner frowned, "Your father gives a shit. What do you mean he never saw you as his child? You are his child! How could you say something like that?"
"I remember one time he forgot my name. Did anyone think that I wanted a normal childhood? Look at all the people around here. Do you think they had to train until they were covered in scars and bruises?"
Bertholdt sighed, "Annie...just calm down...we need to do what's right for the mission…"
"We are killing people. Don't you feel an ounce of guilt for fuck sake?"
"We try to push it down. What about you? Do you feel it?"
"Of course I do! I'm….I'm still somewhat human."
Reiner leaned in, resting his arm on the bunk bed support, "And what? You're just gonna give up here? Go off and get a house with Eren and raise your child in this not-so-happy world? How do you think being a titan shifter plays into all of this? Not for the good, that's for damn sure."
"We can't help being shifter but maybe if we tried not to people wouldn't hate us so much."
"After all we have done?"
"Just. Lie. We've been doing that our whole lives."
"I would not have expected you to do this so easily…"
"People change, but I guess you aren't one of those people then."
Bertholdt shook his head, "This is probably just the baby talking…"
She started to become irritated and stood up, "Maybe it is but all I know is I don't want to be in this mission any more. I'm out."
"You can't just make that decision."
"Watch me." Annie blatantly responded before turning on her heel and striding out.
"Reiner...what are we going to do about this?"
"We will figure out something...someway to kill that child...before it corrupts her too much…"
Eren looked down at his feet as he waited outside of the dorms, nervous about a lot of things. At least ninety percent of it being that fact that in around seven months, he is going to be a father. And I have no practice whatsoever...I am so fucked.
The door slammed open and closed when Annie strode out and walked up to him. "Let's go."
Eren looked at her, blinking, "How did it go?"
"Let's just not talk about it, alright?"
Eren stayed silent for a moment, nodding, "Okay...okay…what do you want to do?"
"I want to just get away for a while, but there's no where to go."
"We could go to the forest where we practice using 3D maneuver gear."
"Is it safe?"
"It should be. There's no practice today."
"We...need to talk about something when we get there alright?"
Eren nodded, "Yeah, yeah…let's go."
