Eren glanced over at Levi as they were walking towards the group. "You know we can still get away." Eren whispered slowing his walk a bit "We have a head start and you're faster than Mikasa so it could work." Levi scoffed and looked over at him. "Eren you know that she would find me in school and attempt to kill me." Levi muttered. "She sounded murderous over the phone, she would probably kill you too." Eren sighed, Levi had a point. Mikasa would probably never forgive him if they just ran off into the sunset to escape the re-introduction of Levi to everyone. As they approached the group Eren glanced at everyones facial expressions to see how bad it would get. Armin looked fine, a little shocked, but not mad. Jean looked like his usual dumb self, he was talking to Marco, not even paying attention to what was going on. Sasha was eating, Connie was talking to her, Yimr was talking to Christa with her arm around her waist, and then he got to Mikasa. Shit. She was beyond pissed you could see it in her eyes. Levi was right to say she sounded murderous over the phone, she looked murderous right now. Eren glanced back over at Levi to see his usual collected expression with a slight glare aimed at Mikasa. The sight of that made him smirk a bit, at least he wasn't the only one who was annoyed by the situation. At least they were in a public place right? Eren glanced around the area, okay maybe not so public seeing as it was getting dark. Sadly it was too late to back out now.

Mikasa glanced from Eren to Levi then to their intertwined hands. "Mik-" "Long time no see Mikasa." Eren turned to Levi mouth still open from the explanation he was about to give. Mikasa glared at Levi "I would say it's nice seeing you again, but considering the circumstances it really isn't." She said coolly. Now Eren glanced back at her, shit this wasn't starting off well. "Hey gu-" "Glad the feeling is mutual." Levi glared. Second time Eren was cut off before he could get much out. Shit, this really wasn't going well. They didn't exactly like one another so this wasn't a big surprise, Eren just thought that by now they would have set aside their differences or something. Eren glanced at the group looking for everyones reactions, and maybe someone willing to help defuse the situation. Jean had a look of interest, probably hoping for a fight. Sasha and Connie were both looking as well, somehow Sasha had popcorn. Yimr and Christa were also looking, Yimr looked slightly bored. Armin looked just as helpless in the situation as Eren probably did, at least someone wasn't looking for a fight. "Guys!" Eren yelled. Both Mikasa and Levi froze and turned to Eren. "Thank you." He sighed "Levi did nothing Mikasa, I don't see why you're so mad." Mikasa looked bewildered "He took you out of school during lunch and didn't bring you back." Eren sighed "No he didn't. I ran, he followed, it took him a while to find me so lunch was already over. We talked things out and by then there was no point going back so we just talked." He explained calmly. "Then why was your phone off?" Mikasa questioned. "I turned it off after I got here, I didn't really want to talk to anyone at the time. I forgot I had it off okay." Eren explained. "You have no reason to dislike Levi Mikasa." Mikasa turned and glared at Levi. "Really Eren? No reason, at all? What about the fact that he killed you?" She spat.

Levi's face turned pained for a second before he regained his composure. "I had to do that, I had no other choice." Levi explained in a strained tone. Eren knew to any other person it just sounded like Levi's normal voice, but he knew Levi. "Mikasa I never blamed him." Eren explained softly. He knew he couldn't tell about the tears Levi had spilled that night before his death, the way Levi had fought the people at the trial, how Levi had spent about an hour just memorizing Eren's face since he wouldn't have another chance. He couldn't repeat the way that Eren tried to comfort Levi with soft words, or their promise, or how Eren just repeated how much he loved Levi just so Levi knew, and how Levi cried before he killed him. Mikasa wouldn't understand any of those things, and they were things that were just for Levi and Eren, no one else. "Eren you might not have blamed him, but I did." She said, venom filling her voice. "He could have found a way for you to get out, he is smart he would have been able to do it, but he didn't even try." Levi's expression again went pained temporarily and Eren knew Levi would believe every word she spat out. "What do you know?" Eren yelled, Mikasa was starting to piss him off. "What do you mean?" She asked lowly. "You know exactly what I fucking mean." Eren ground out. He could feel his temper rising, but he was too pissed to care. Now Mikasa would be on the receiving end of that notorious temper that she usually had to save him from. "You know nothing about anything." He continued venom filling his voice. "You just assume he didn't try, you weren't even there how the fuck would you know? You just assume because you had to blame someone for your own failure." Mikasa's expression immediately went shocked. "Eren I don't think thi-" Armin tried to interject. "Armin not now." Eren muttered in a strained voice, not even glancing at his friend. "You even held a grudge for this long! It's been a whole other life Mikasa get the fuck over it! You never liked him anyway I'm sure blaming him made you feel better about yourself, right?" Eren continued "I don't even see why you didn't like him I don't understand, everything he ever did was to protect me so why you hate him I don't know I jus-" "Eren." Levi interrupted softly "We should go." Eren nodded slowly "Okay." he muttered letting Levi lead him away from the group.

They walked in a tense silence, Eren couldn't find words to fill it so he stayed quiet. Maybe Levi was mad at him for yelling at Mikasa. He didn't see why, she was being rude to him holding a grudge over nothing. There was nothing they could do about it anyway he had already died, they all had. Maybe Levi was starting to think about what she said, he shouldn't take any of it to heart anyway Mikasa was "Eren" Eren snapped out of his thoughts "Hmm?" Levi sighed "I was asking you where you lived, it's getting late and we have school." Levi explained. "Oh, um." Eren glanced around "Turn left and then into the street with the huge tree, my house is the seventh one down." He explained. Levi nodded and started in that direction. They walked in more tense silence until they reached Eren's house. "So um, thanks for today." Eren said smiling softly. Levi nodded "I'm just glad I found you again." He said softly. Eren felt a blush forming on his face "Yeah, I'm glad too." He responded. "You should go inside, you need to get some sleep." Levi muttered. "Okay." Eren replied, he knew he wouldn't be getting much sleep after today. "Good night Levi." Eren said softly. "Night Eren." Levi responded softly. Levi gave him a quick kiss goodnight and before Eren could respond he was gone. As Eren laid in bed waiting for sleep to come he couldn't help thinking that tonight was going to be a long night.


I am so so so late I'm sorry. I'm really really sorry, I had a busy weekend and, despite the fact I started this chapter early, I ended up not updating today. Now, despite my lateness I hope that you have enjoyed this chapter. OOoooOO tension between everyone, because what would a story be without conflict right? I wanted to, again, thank everyone who followed and favorited this story, you guys are awesome. And to everyone who commented I wanted to thank you for your kind words, you guys are the people that keep me going! Until next timed my lovelies.