Alright, new chapter. Now for those who are interested in the Audio Play, i'm afraid that it won't have the SnK characters. Due to the fear of copyright violations, and what not i'll be making it an original story with original characters. Still it should be an enjoyable audio play.
Chapter 4: No Turning Back
During Art class, Mikasa is just watching everyone draw with their charcoal. Everyone seems to be drawing a big sphere with white charcoal while Eren is just drawing a simple landscape. This catches Levi's attention, and he comes closer to Eren. He isn't saying anything, he's just standing over Eren as if he were trying to look taller. Even this Levi is midget, but his glaring is menacing.
"Eren why are you drawing a landscape? That should've been done last Friday." Levi's voice is just as flat, emotionless, and disturbing as Mikasa remembers. She wants to stand up to the midget, and give him a piece of her mind, but something inside her is stopping her from doing so.
"I… I-ugh, I forgot to do it over the weekend." Eren tries his best to excuse himself, but Levi's face isn't changing.
"Over the weekend? This was due last Thursday! You might as well turn it in now, and receive the F you deserve."
Eren's face goes pale, and disappointment crawls all around Eren's body as he shakes, and for that leads to the final straw for her. Mikasa stands up from her stool with a face just as cruel as Levi's, and a death stare begins, "Leave him alone." Mikasa growls.
"What?" Levi looks over to her.
"You heard me Levi."
"… That's Mr. Levi to you kid." She almost forgot that no one remembers her, even Levi.
As they come closer to a chokehold throw down, Eren pulls Mikasa down back to her seat. For her this is a shocker, "Leave him alone Mikasa, he's the teacher." Eren turns in all he has for the landscape he missed last Thursday, and Levi gently takes the drawing. Levi doesn't let his sights off that girl, in fact as he makes his way to his desk he feels a little bit impressed with that girl.
Levi thinks to himself after letting his sight off of Mikasa, "That girl stood up for Eren, I can't tell if that was brave, sweet, or just plain stupid. Probably all of the above. Eren must've forgot to take his abilify again."
Eren plants his disappointed scowl down at the table. His hands are shaking, and his jaw rumbles loosely. Mikasa is really concerned over him, she's never seen this side of Eren before. He's not a weakling, but a failure. Mikasa feels sympathy over the reincarnation of the boy who taught her how to live. She can feel tears starting to form under her eyes, but she blinks them away from dripping down her face.
The bus finally arrives to Eren, and Mikasa's house, and they take their leave off the yellow transportation vehicle. Mikasa takes notice that the cars from this morning are gone. Eren's parents must still be at work.
Eren hasn't said much since after he handed Mikasa the text book. He races up the stairs to the front door of his house, and prepares to unlock the door. Before he presses the buttons to his electronic lock, he thinks of something very important.
"Hey Mikasa, c'mere." Eren turns back to see her.
"What is it?" She tucks the history book underneath her arm, and comes up the stairs.
"Since you'll be living with us, I think you should know our code to unlocking the house." Eren opens up to show her the code to the house, 5242, and the door whizzes open all on its own. The first thing Eren does is throw his back pack, and slams his back down the couch. He rubs his face with both of his hands to the point it feels like he's making funny faces. After he finishes that he starts looking at his bare hands like he's looking in a mirror. The real embarrassing thing right now is that he didn't even notice Mikasa was watching the whole thing, and looking at her concerned face reminds him of somethng he forgot to do this morning. He slowly makes his way off the couch, and goes into the medicine cabinet. He reaches for a small orange and white bottle of blue tablets. He breaks one of the pills in half with three of his fingers, and swallows that with another whole pill. Water is what he needs right now so he makes his way to the sink for a drink.
Mikasa watches everything, and her curiosity rings around in her head, "Eren what is that you're eating?"
"It's called Abilify." Eren answers to her, but she's still confused on the subject, "It's an anti-depressant. I suffer from anger issues, OCD, and depression. This helps me stay in line."
Mikasa felt heart-broken to hear that, "Anything else?"
Eren didn't need to think about that one, "Just Asthma, that's about it." Eren says that as if he's use to all of these problems.
Sadness rains down on Mikasa's self, just looking at Eren now makes her feel sad.
"I may have Armin, and now you, but despite all of this, I sometimes feel like an outsider. People say that I'm not really an outsider, but I just can't see it. I sometimes have to deal with special treatment, and extended time on certain things. It just tears me down sometimes." Eren looks down on the floor with the sense of failure breaking him apart.
Mikasa can't help but comfort Eren with a lunging hug. The sudden act startles Eren, but he doesn't fight back, in fact he's blushing a little.
"Listen Eren, you can feel like a failure at school all you want, but just always remember… You're always going to be my hero. You always were, back then, and now." Mikasa's words strike Eren's soul like a lighter with a matchstick. Her comfort alone makes his heart beat faster. She let's go of Eren's self to see his face, and it makes her smile. Seeing the confidence sprinkle over him makes her feel like a winner too.
"C'mon Eren, how about we get your homework done." Mikasa's words don't make Eren feel better at first, but after a bit of quick thinking, it makes him smile.
"I'd like that." Eren, and Mikasa make it over to the kitchen table, and the studying begins.
For the past few hours, it's been nothing but work, studying, lots of healthy snacks, and making a huge mess of papers, and wrappers. Believe it or not, Mikasa is learning as much as Eren and something about that makes them happy.
By the time Eren's mother arrives home, Grisha hasn't come home yet, for Eren he's usually the last to come home.
"Hey Carla, I'm curious what do you do for work?" Mikasa asks while they're both still at the table.
"Oh I work for this phone company called Verizon Wireless. I'm an engineer, and I work at their warehouses." Carla shows up in the kitchen in a business dress, and a big purse with a smaller purse inside it too.
"By the way, is Grisha a doctor?" Mikasa asks.
Carla looks very surprised, but she quickly wraps up on how she figured that out already.
"I assume Grisha was a doctor where you came from." Carla addressed.
"Yeah he was." Mikasa answers, but she isn't telling her everything, but then again, if she's lucky she won't have to.
After Mikasa, and Eren finished their session of work, Grisha came through the door with a lot of papers than before.
"Hey Mikasa." Grisha called her out first for some reason, "I have something for you."
"What is it?" Mikasa comes out of the kitchen, and see's Grisha with a slew of legal documents.
"I had to pull a lot of strings, but I managed to make you a legal citizen of the US. I also made some adoptions papers so we can adopt you… basically this is everything you need to a part of the new world." Grisha really stuck his neck out for her this time, she can't even begin on where to thank him, but something about this feels disturbing. Once she takes all of these documents, and what not, her old life will be gone. But it's not a completely bad thing; everyone she's ever known is here with her, but the only problem is that no one knows her, and that's when she starts to feel a little off.
"Ugh Grisha, could I have a moment. I need to… I need some air." Mikasa doesn't know why she needs air, after all since all of her friends are still here, but something about this just doesn't seem right, not normal. Whatever it is, this feeling is driving a spear into Mikasa's heart.
Whatever the case is, Mikasa just makes herself comfortable while heading over to the backyard terrace, and tries to soak in all that she just bore. Once she takes those documents, it's all over, but there's nothing else for her back then, she's here now, and it's making her a bit queasy.
She takes the scarf around her neck, but she doesn't feel it. She totally had no idea that she was scarfless this whole time. She must've removed it around the time she came home from school. She doesn't know why she's feeling this despite all that this world has done to her, but she can't help but feel a new kind of lonely.
Then all of a sudden another set of footsteps come from behind her. She doesn't have the willpower to turn around, so she just keeps staring down at the grass below her. When the other person came to her side she looks to the corner of her eyes, and finds Eren beside her. Despite such a great day, she just can't see the same Eren in him right now.
"You left this on the kitchen table." Eren presents Mikasa her red scarf, and he wraps it around her again. Unlike this morning, she just throws it around her. Funny, it reminds her of when she first met Eren, the original Eren.
"Is everything okay?" Eren shrugs her shoulder, and she slightly resents his comfort right now.
"No." She whispers her honesty, "I knew almost everyone I met at that school, but none of them even remember me, not even you." She can't believe she's talking so harsh to him, but she's about to lose it. Now she starts breaking down in tears, "I wanna go home!" She speaks a little louder.
As for Eren he really needs to act quickly, and so for that he does the unexpected to her, and even for himself. Eren Jaeger hugs Mikasa Ackerman as gently, and as warm as he can. The feeling for Mikasa feels so familiar and yet so foreign. She just lets the hug happen, and leaves Eren to do his thing. She nestles her raven colored, dark hair on Eren's shoulder, and lets her tears fall down as they go. She doesn't care who or what's watching she just needs some comfort right now.
"I'm sorry for what's happened to you, but I promise you, I'll keep you safe, let me be your first friend in this world." They break away from the hug, and look straight at eachother.
"I don't know who I was back then, but let this whole thing be a fresh start for the two of us."
"A fresh start?" Mikasa looks away from Eren so she can think of that, "I actually never thought of it like that. I like the sound of that."
"Okay good." Eren smiles a smidgen, "Let's just… let's just get inside, I think there are papers in there for your enrollment into my school."
"Really?" Mikasa sounds a bit excited.
Eren rubs her shoulder, "C'mon let's go. We have lives to live."
Mikasa feels great, because even this Eren can make her smile, "Tell me about it."
