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Chapter Four: Pretty Little Thing


I have been staying with the Jaeger family for about a few weeks now and I already feel as though I'm part of the family. Armin and I continued to meet each other almost on a daily basis, forming an unbreakable friendship and during the time I spent with the Jaeger family, I could tell you with the utmost confidence that I was practically adopted by them. Mrs. Jaeger was like a mom to me and filled the hole that was left in my heart when I left mine. I have had some close calls when it comes to almost addressing her as mom, but she didn't seem to mind and would always smile at me. Mr. Jaeger was pretty awesome as well, but it wasn't the same with him. I liked the guy and all, but he was usually not home since he was off taking care of his patients so I didn't build as strong a bond with him as I did with Mrs. Jaeger.

I also took on the big sister role with Eren the moment I started staying with them. We became what you would say 'soul siblings'. The benefit to this was that I got a sibling to baby and take of. Back in my world, I was adopted by the family I had lived with since they could never have a child of their own. They decided to only adopt one child so I've never had any siblings. Compared to my world, I feel as though I truly belong here.

Today was like any other day, Eren and I had gotten ready for the day and had gotten an apple to eat. As we were about to leave, we were stopped by Mr. Jaeger.

"Eren. I have to head out to see a family that live near the wall. Would you like to come with?"

Eren looks to me as if asking me for my opinion to which I give a smile and a nod. He turns back to his father, "Sure, I don't see why not."

"Splendid. We should head over there now before the rain kicks in makes the roads too dangerous to travel on." he says as he grabs his bag.

Just as Eren was about to leave I called out to him,"Eren, you forgot your scarf!" he turned to see me holding his oversized red scarf, "You'd think by how much you wear this thing you wouldn't forget it. It seems I stand corrected though." I say as I wrap the scarf around his tan neck.

He lets out a chuckle at this, "Yeah well, I'd have to say that about that purple ribbon of yours. You forgot to wear it yesterday."

"Touche." I say as I bop his nose with my finger, "I suggest you get going before you worry your father." I say with a kiss on the nose I just bopped, "Travel safely and try not to make any more enemies." I smirked.

His cheeks turned red at this, "Who says I go around making enemies?!" at this he turns and runs off to join his father as he starts his trek down the stone steps.

As I watch them descend the stone steps, I get this feeling that they won't return alone when they come back. I shrug off the feeling and go back inside and help Mrs. Jaeger with the house work.


By the time Eren and his father return home, it was past midnight and both Mrs. Jaeger and I were relieved and relaxed a little in our chairs at the table the moment they entered the door, but confused when we saw a third person enter the Jaeger home.

"Honey, who's this?" Mo- I mean, Mrs. Jaeger inquires.

Her husband turns to the young girl that had just walked in and was standing unusually close to Eren. She had long black hair and beautiful grey eyes. She was draped in Eren's over coat and red scarf. She was quite the pretty little thing and would most definitely be a beautiful woman when she grew up, "This is Mikasa. Due to unfortunate circumstances, she will be staying with us from now on."

So this is Mikasa... she truly is as pretty as she was in the anime.

I turned to Mrs. Jaeger and saw she was staring between her husband and Mikasa with wide eyes not knowing what to say.

Well... if no one is going to say anything or do anything... I got up from my chair walked over towards where Eren and Mikasa were. Once I was standing in front of the two of them, I got down on one of my knees so that I was at eye level with them, "It's nice to meet you Mikasa. My name is Mai." I said as I held out my hand towards her with a smile.

I watched as her hand slowly rose up, but instead of taking my hand, she took some of the hair that wasn't in my ponytail in her hand, "Eren told me about you on the way here. He said your was really pretty and he was right. Your hair is really pretty..." she said quietly.

My green eyes blinked a couple of times as the information sunk in and once it did, I let out a chuckle, "So I've been told, thank you. Your's is really pretty as well." I say as I too take hold of some of her hair. Even though the scarf was covering her mouth, I could tell she was smiling by the look in her eyes and how they lit up in a way that made her grey eyes turn slightly blue, "Would you like something to eat? It's been a long day and it would be best get something in that belly of yours before you go to bed." I asked with concern lacing my voice.

"That would be nice..." she said as she released my hair. At this, I too released her hand and went to stand up once again offering my hand. She took it this time, "Mo- I mean, Mrs. Jaeger, do we still have any of that stew you made for dinner?"

She gave me a calm smile before answering, "I believe so. Do you boys want any?" they both responded with a nod of the head and sat down at the table. As they got seated, I went to go grab the extra chair we kept in the closet for Mikasa to use. I placed it at the end of the table before sitting next to Eren and joining in on the conversation that was taking place. Mikasa didn't talk much, but she would occasionally make a comment here and there.

Once Eren and Mikasa were finished eating, we headed upstairs to go to bed. Mikasa and I ended up sharing the bed I had been using for the past few weeks, but I didn't mind since I've always been a cuddler. Both Eren and Mikasa fell asleep as soon as their heads hit their pillows leaving me to ponder what went on today.

What on God's green Earth happened to you two?

I ended up not having to wait long to find out what happened. The next day, instead of immediately going off to hand out with Armin, Eren asked me to have a seat on his bed along with Mikasa.

Apparently, while I was getting dressed up here with the two of them downstairs, they had come to the conclusion that they should tell me what happened last night. They told me how Mikasa's parents had killed by black market traders and how she kidnapped by those same people who were going to take her to the underground market in the capital to be auctioned off to some old pervert just because she's the last of her race. Luckily Eren had swooped in and saved the day by killing two of the three men while Mikasa took care of the third that had attacked Eren. Throughout the duration of their tale, my fists were clenching the sheets tightly. As soon as they finished, I launched myself forwards from my position on the bed and enveloped Eren and Mikasa in my arms.

"E-Eren... you idiot... I thought I told you not to go around making enemies!" I chocked out as tears started to fall down my face.

"O-oi! It's like I told you before! I don't do it on purpose!" he yelled into my left shoulder.

"Your actions speak louder than your already very loud words." I said with a chuckle. In my left shoulder I could feel Mikasa chuckling at my words, "Hey Eren, check this out. We got little miss 'Too Cool for Words' laughing. I think I'd like to hear more of it." and with that, I unhooked the arm I had around Eren and proceeded to tickle Mikasa.

She immediately dissolved into a fit of laughter as I continued to tickle her stomach. To my left, Eren was also laughing, but not from being tickled. He was laughing at the situation Mikasa was in.

Well that's about to change.

Before he knew what was going on, the roles had been reversed. Eren was the one being tickled to death while Mikasa was on her side laughing at Eren's predicament. This went on for another five minutes until we were all lying on our backs atop of Eren's bed. We eventually decided that we had kept Armin waiting long enough and left the confines of the Jaeger household to go so see him.

Armin took a liking to Mikasa immediately upon meeting her and the trio we had made had now become a quartet. I felt complete with these three by my side. I felt as though nothing would be able to keep us apart.

Not even death could separate us now.


Thanks for reading this chapter.

I just recently got caught up with the manga and felt that it would be safe to go read the AOT Timeline, but once I did, I noticed that I made a mess of the timeline in this story. I actually had to rewrite chapter two through five to fix the mess I made. So much stuff happened during the year of 844 such as: Mikasa was kidnapped then rescued, Levi joined the survey corps, (I think) Armin and Eren become friends, and Mai came to this world. Crazy, right?

Anyways, thanks again for reading this story. See next chapter!~


Edited: August 28, 2016