WOW! I have not updated this in a long time! I've been so caught up on a small filming project and I went to a trip and it's all screwed up! Anyway, sorry about being away! I want to thank anyone who reads this and has been keeping up with it! It means a lot! This chapter will be dedicated to someone real special to me, Eremika. Go check out her ErenMikasa one-shots, "Sketches on a Love Story" it's an amazing collection. To not take any more of your time, here is chapter 3! (Note: I will not be translating the song or putting the lyrics on anymore. It takes longer to translate the words than actually writing the story, so yeah, I'm sorry if that's a bother, but, even though I speak the language, it's hard to translate it to English sometimes.) Enjoy this somewhat masterpiece! (To be honest, it's my favorite chapter so far. I had a ball writing it!)

Chapter 3

A Bridge

There's always an impulse when something is about to go wrong. It starts in your gut, it then turns into chills and it proceeds with your blood running cold in your veins. As you turn around to look at what's going wrong you begin to shake due to your cold blood, and then you start running towards danger.

For Eren it was all happening at once.

They had been pulled out to another expedition outside the walls the morning before. It had only been five days since he had almost confessed everything to Mikasa, who was not with him at the moment, but stuck with Annie and Levi on the left flank. She had, of course, protested against this plan with Levi, but was cut off by Eren glaring at her from where he had been standing. She had shut up instantly and fell back into line.

Everything had ran smoothly the first afternoon and night, but in the middle of the night the scouts had been awaken by loud sounding thumps and the ground shaking with each rumble. Levi pulled his maneuvering gear on and, along with Erwin, climbed the tree tops. Once down, they instantly separated everyone into their assigned flanks and grouped the all from left to right in order to have a better chance to take down every single titan that was making its way towards them.

It all went down hell from there.

There were too many and they had lost eleven people already, five were critically injured and some had gone MIA, perhaps they were dead, but they insisted on saying they were missing in hopes that thye would appear.

Eren ran towards the blonde young man that was his best friend who had appeared out of nowhere and was dragging an unconscious Sasha away from the attacking titans that would soon be closing in on them from all sides. There was only one thing on his mind.

It was still dark, so they decided to stay under the cover of darkness and the trees, but soon dawn would be breaking, like so their hopes of surviving the attack, and the titans would be able to spot them easily.

"Eren!" Armin called, "Are you alright? What happened to your forehead?"

Eren reached him and ignored his question, "Where's Mikasa, Armin?"

Armin shook his head, "I don't know, last I saw her she had brought down a titan and climbed up the trees," he responded. He let Sasha drop like dead weight to the ground and inspected the huge, tender-looking gash, "Eren, how did this happen?"

Eren shrugged feeling jumpy, wanting Armin to leave him alone so that he could find Mikasa.

"I'm alright! Climb up with Sasha and try to stay hidden, I'm gonna look for Mikasa!" He gathered speed and prepared himself for the familiar feeling of being pulled up into the air, the wind hitting his face and his jacket flapping as if they were a pair of non-functioning wings.

As he glided to his destination he came across a fifteen meter type titan. He roared in anger, landing on the bridge of the titans' nose, running up then jumping from its head to the nape and slicing! The titan jerked slightly forward and slowly dropped to its knees. Eren glided away, feeling impulsive by the second, his blood was boiling with anger and with each jerk of the gear and each slice that killed a titan his body lost all touch of reality and dream. He was no longer tired, he was no longer feeling the searing waves of pain that consumed his head; all he felt was the need to find Mikasa. That was the only thing that pushed him on.

"MIKASA!" He hollered, nearing her flanks area.

He could see the sun slowly making its way up. With every inch that it neared skyward he feared that it would be too late before he could even find Mikasa. He tried to comfort himself by encouraging his mind that Mikasa was fine, that he'd see her smile again. He'd see the ever so present red scarf wrapped around her porcelain skin. He promised himself that once he found her he would hug her so close to him, intake her scent of vanilla, and kiss her. She would never leave his sight, not even if her orders were given by the Midget Man himself! He'd take her punishment willfully.

Eren landed on the biggest branch of one of the trees and took in a deep breath in order to scream out her name, but he was interrupted by the devil himself.

"Jaeger! What the hell are you doing here?!" Levi appeared out of the cover of the tree branches, where he had been obviously camouflaged ready to take down any titan that made its way to him.

"I thought I put you on the center flank, where you'd be safer!" Levi was fuming, "why aren't you situated with your troops, you little fucking brat!"

"Sir! I came to inspect if you were okay! The right flank is falling in with the center, and I didn't see the left coming and I was afraid something had happened." He said, and then added quietly "sir."

Levi face palmed himself, and rubbed his hand up and down his forehead. He couldn't believe the stupidity of this mission and this boy. If he thought that he would believe his load of crap then he was dumber than what Levi thought him out to be. He knew that he was here to check on the girl, and he would have been fine with it if the situation wasn't at high stakes.

Levi looked at him intently, "As you can see, I'm fine and so is everyone else!"

"What about Ms. Ackerman, sir?" Eren asked, his voice filled with fear.

Levi rolled his eyes, "She's farther down, where she should be!" he said, then to make the boy's fears go away he added, "She's fine, not a scratch on her."

Eren felt himself become lighter, "Thank you, sir." He said, trying to compose himself in front of his subordinate.

"Yeah," Levi drawled out, "get back to your post now, Jaeger, or you'll be on titan babysitting duty for the rest of the year with Hanji!"

Eren nodded, "Yessir!" He turned around, ready to take off and go back with Armin.

"Jaeger," he whipped around at the sound of Levis voice.

"Sir?"

"I'll keep an eye on her."

Eren smiled, grateful to know that Mikasa Ackerman was in good hands.

He nodded his thanks and left.

Levi shook his head. He would have given anything to have had someone assure him that Petra would have been okay and that they would have kept an eye on her in case anything went wrong.

No one ever did

He had to do it for those two. Regardless of their stupidity about not knowing about each other's feelings, he needed to keep them safe so that they wouldn't lose one another. They needed to be safe and he would make sure that they were.

Huh? Who knew that Levi was an Eremika shipper? The idea kind of popped into my head when I saw him look back as they threw Petra's body off the wagon. In all honesty, I'm don't like to ship Levi with anyone because he seems like the kind of man who feels like he has no time for that, but when I watched that scene I knew that, even with his stoic demeanor, he also loved his squad members. So I hoped you like it, and yeah…

-May the stars guide you home, brethren!