Eren scrubbed at his head furiously, hissing as he got soap in his eyes. He stopped, breathing heavily as he stared at his feet. He needed to calm down. Anger would not help in his situation. Taking a deep breath in, and then letting it out slowly, Eren thought back to what happened when they had gotten back to the safety of the walls.

One hour earlier.

Sliding off his horse, Eren pulled Mikasa down with him, carefully arranging her in his arms before running off in the direction of the Medical Wing. He was careful not to jolt Mikasa as he dodged questioning people.

He spotted a nurse, her short red hair peeking out of her bandana. Eren called out to her, shifting Mikasa before speed walking over.

"Excuse me! My friend needs help!"

The nurse turned, looking up from her clipboard at Eren. Her brown eyes widened as her gaze lowered to Mikasa's limp body in Eren's arms. She took a deep breath, her face shifting into a serious one.

"Carmen! I need a stretcher!" She yelled behind her, head cocked as she waited for a reply. A loud thump was heard, then a muffled 'Coming Miss Moheir!' was heard.

Miss Moheir flipped the pages on her clipboard, hand moving quickly over the page as she wrote.

"Your names, please." She asked, looking up at Eren expectantly.

"Eren Yaeger and Mikasa Ackerman, Miss." Eren said, shifting his weight nervously as he watched her write down their names.

Two nurses hurried out of a nearby room, a stained stretcher between them. They walked over to Eren and Miss Moheir, moving so the stretcher was right besides Eren.

"Gently set her down." The nurse nearest to Eren said, their dark eyes meeting his. Eren set Mikasa down onto the stretcher, making sure to not let her head fall roughly on the sheet.

Eren rubbed the back of his neck as Mikasa was carried away, his eyes locked onto her pale face. I hope she's alright...

"Yaeger." Miss Moheir's voice was curt. "I need to know the details of what happened."

"Well..." Eren paused, gathering his thoughts before continuing. "Do you want everything? Or just what happened to Mikasa?"

"Just Mikasa, please."

"I'm not sure what happened before I found her, I was separated from the group. I was told by Calestia that she and Mikasa went to look for me. They found a leg and Calestia thought it was mine. She and Mikasa got in a fight, and Mikasa had ran off. I was in the area, and I had heard Calestia yelling for Mikasa." Eren took a deep breath and sighed, his eyes narrowing as he glared at the ground. "Calestia told Mikasa that is was her fault that I 'died'. I went after Mikasa, she was running low on gas and thought I was dead. When I found her, she was jumping off a cliff. I caught her, but she ended up hitting the wall pretty hard and has a cut of her head. She got knocked around before I found her too."

Miss Moheir's pencil ripped her paper, and she let out a growl like noise. "Fuck."

"Miss?" Eren asked, confused as to why she was walking away. He started following her, she was probably going to Mikasa.

Miss Moheir's clipboard dug into his chest as she whipped around and shoved him back.

"You can't come." She glared at Eren, pushed his back more with her clipboard. Eren winced and stepped back, rubbing his chest.

"Why not?" He asked, returning her glare.

"When and if Ackerman wakes up, her mental state-"

"If?!" Eren cut in, moving closer to the nurse. "What do you mean by 'if'?"

Miss Moheir seemed to puff up, her face going red and her hands shaking. "Yaeger I will not be addressed in that way. It is most likely that Ackerman has a concussion to top her emotional trauma. You being there might overload her."

"But-"

"I do not care if you are a titan shifter, I am a doctor and I will be treated as such. You will respect me and my decisions regarding my patients. Ackerman will be in good hands. What you need to do is go take a shower and eat. I will send someone after you when you can visit."

She abruptly turned on her heel, stalking away from the seething teen. Eren sat there as he glared at the space Miss Moheir once filled before sulking to the showers.

Eren rinsed the soap from his hair, and turned the water off. He quickly dried off, fumbling with his clothes and harness. Why am I just realizing that I'm this hungry He thought, tightening the final buckle and putting on his boots.

Eren doesn't make it far before he's he runs into a panicked Armin.

"What happened?" He demanded, grabbing Eren by the shoulders. "I heard Mikasa is in the infirmary, is this true?"

Eren met Armin's worried blue eyes and started to explain what happened. Armin seemed to deflate as he listened to the story, letting his hands fall weakly from Erens shoulders.

"Again?" He murmured his forehead wrinkling as he looked at the ground. Eren's voice choked off, and he cocked his head as he stared open mouthed at Armin.

"What do you mean 'again'?" Eren asked, his voice slow and deliberate. Armin paled.

"Uhh- It was nothing! I was talking about-"

"Armin..." Armin's frantic rambling was cut off by Eren. "What are you talking about?"

"W-when you got eaten by that titan, everybody thought you were dead."

"I know that."

"Mikasa thought you were dead, and she went on a rampage." Armin watched Eren's face carefully. "We had talked about it later, but she made me swear not to tell anyone."

"Ar-" Eren started, his cheeks flushed in anger.

"But I think you should know. Mikasa had given up. She ran out of gas, and was cornered with a titan. She wasn't going to fight it- don't interrupt, Eren. She said that she thought about you, and how she would live so she could remember you. Soon after she decided to fight, your titan form killed the titan she was facing."

Eren stared at Armin, his mouth open as he tried to comprehend the words. He knew he had saved Mikasa that time, she had said so at the trial, but he didn't know that she was going to let herself die.

"Is this a joke?" He asked after a minute, folding his hands. Armin gave him a blank look.

"Why would I joke about something like that?"

"I-"

"Yaeger!" A voice called out. Both of the boys turned, watching as a nurse ran over. She huffed, bending at the waist as she caught her breath. Eren recognized her as one of the nurses who carried the stretcher Mikasa was on. " Ackerman is awake, but there's some-"

Eren was already running the direction of the medical wing, Armin and the nurse left in the dust.

"-thing you need to know..." The nurse finished, sighing as she straightened. She looked at Armin questionly.

"Are you going to come with?" She asked, pointing in the direction Eren ran off into. Armin nodded and followed the women down the hall.

"If I may ask, what was the thing you were trying to tell Eren?"

"Oh well-"

"She what?" Eren yelled, standing outside Mikasa's room. He didn't believe what Miss Moheir was saying. Mikasa couldn't of-

He burst in the room, eyes landing on the bed. Mikasa had a bandage around her head, and was wearing a light blue shirt. Her red scarf lay on the end table by the window. Eren walked up to Mikasa, ignoring Miss Moheir's curses.

Mikasa looked up at him, her eyes hesitant as she gave him a small smile.

"M-Mikasa?" Eren reached out to her head, his eyes watering.

"Who are you?"

Finally got around to updating! Hope you enjoy this chapter, feel free to drop a review!