LEVI: My fingers clacked against the keyboard keys. I felt a presence in the room. Turning my chair, I met Mikasa. "Yes?"
"Who are you? How is your last name Ackerman?" She asked.
"I don't know," I said, "I'm wondering the same thing. Why do you wear that scarf all the time?"
She fingered her scarf, and shrugged. I turned my chair back around.
"My parents are dead," she said.
"Killed by the Titans?" I guessed.
"They weren't killed by Titans."
I turned around. "Excuse me?"
"They were human traffickers. They tried to take me, but Eren saved me."
"Hm."
I didn't have time to worry about human traffickers with the Titans running amok, but once we incarcerated the Titans I'd track down those scumbags.
Hanji walked in. "LEEEEEVIIIIIII!"
"What?"
Skipping in, Hanji stopped to mess with my hair.
"Goddammit what do you want?"
"The kids want to know if they can get guns."
"Are you serious?"
"Yep!"
I turned to Mikasa. "Tell your friends I said no to the guns."
"Levi said no guns." Mikasa echoed.
"We heard him ourselves, 'Kasa." Eren said.
"Don't be such an ungrateful child; she's just trying to mother you." I said.
"Yeah? Well I already had a mom but she died!" Eren yelled, his anger not directed to any particular person in the room.
"So did I Eren, in fact I had to see two mothers die, but you don't hear me complaining about it!" Mikasa retorted.
"Mikasa-"
"No Eren, I'm done being your mom. I know Mom's last words were telling me to take care of you, but you're on your own." Mikasa said. She turned to me. "Thank you Levi, but I have to find myself a place to stay and a stable job."
"Mikasa, you were dumped on my doorstep, too. And I don't care how strong and powerful you are, you're under my watch. You're staying here." I said.
"You can't tell me that."
"I am. And I'm not letting you leave until I find out how we're related."
"You're related?" Armin asked.
"Possibly. Now go work on your homework or something." I said.
Mikasa stormed to the bedroom.
"That's so unlike Mikasa to just explode like that..." Eren said.
"I understand her reasoning; you two may have been through hell, but her eyes are the kind of eyes that have seen and even worse kind of hell: the kind of hell a kid should never see, causing their sanity to break." I averted my eyes to my laptop screen, and typed nonsense words to seem busy.
Eren sighed. "Come on Armin, I need to copy your English essay."
"Eren! You can't cheat!" Armin protested. Eren dragged the boy away to their room.
Hanji sat down in the office chair next to me. "You really Mikasa is the key to finding out what happened to your mom?"
"Maybe, but it seems impossible to find out what happened to her." I said.
Hanji kissed my cheek, and skipped off to make dinner.