A/N: Hi there! For those who asked, I don't have a certain day I update. But this is where the updates get slower. I'm studying for my MCAT and need to make myself proud and do well on it. I'll try to update when I can!

It took three hours to reach Trost by the time it was the afternoon and Annie luckily didn't live too close to the hospital. Mikasa gave them both a hug as they walked in with a day's worth of clothes. Maybe they should've brought more and camped out in Trost because of the intruder incident, but Trost wasn't better if not worse than their house.

Eren was pissed from car lag, but he accepted the hug before finding refuge on the floor. "Let's just get the meds and sleep until we have to leave."

Armin was quick to second it, flopping onto Annie's couch. Annie threw his bag onto the floor, sighing quietly.

"Welcome back to Trost…I guess." Both boys groaned in reply. Mikasa smiled gently.

"Maybe it'd be best for you two to rest first before you go pick up the medical supplies." Eren rolled onto his back.

"If I don't go now, I'll never want to once I wake up." Annie kicked his leg with little enthusiasm.

"Then get your ass up and go, or I'll make you pay my rent." Eren started to back away from her.

"Don't be such a bitch, Annie. Let me catch my breath and I'll go." He got up from the floor, Mikasa right next to him with a worried look.

"Eren, maybe you should wear a disguise just in case." He made a face.

"You know I suck at dress-up. Besides, it's the med supply store, not the hospital. Levi rarely went to the store because they deliver right to the hospital." Mikasa didn't look pleased.

"But what if he changes his mind?" Annie rolled Armin off her couch, who got up.

"Don't worry, Mikasa! We'll be fine!" He grabbed Eren's arm and dragged him out of the apartment. Annie slowly waved at them.

"They'll be careful enough." Mikasa's face said otherwise.

"I hate this fucking store," Eren drawled as Armin was parking along the curb outside the med supply store. "They don't deliver because of the roads? That's bullshit. That's because their asses are too lazy to drive three hours out."

Armin took off his seatbelt and got out of the car. "Well, we're here now. Might as well make the most of it!"

Eren was grumbling as they entered the store, finally understanding why Mikasa was so paranoid about him going. He really didn't want to stay in Trost longer than he should. Then again, they hadn't found the people who broke into their house either. Who the fuck were they? He pulled up his hoodie to cover his head as he headed to the cashier. Armin bowed his head to the old man in the front who smiled at them.

"Hi, we're the doctors from White Sand Clinic at Pearl Beach. We're here to pick up the vaccines. I'm Dr. Aiden Aller and this is my co-worker Eric Yans." The man nodded and pulled out some forms.

"Absolutely! I deeply apologize for not being able to book a delivery to Pearl Beach. Please sign here for the release and I'll bring you the meds right away!" Eren and Armin quickly went through the papers and signed away as the man came back with a few boxes and some info about the meds. He beamed.

"The vaccine this time around is much more effective in costs and protection against the virus going around this season." Eren took the info, reading about where it was best to apply the shot and the expected symptoms of the virus. The researcher behind the vaccine was Hanji Zoe. He should've known. Of course Trost would have all the vaccines. What if this was some king of plot to get him back to Trost? His paranoia was reaching its peak. He felt like a caged animal with a sniper scope on him. He grabbed Armin's arm, shocked when Armin flinched and looked at him like he didn't know Eren was behind him. He looked relieved.

"Sorry, I'm just-"

"Paranoid?" finished Eren, understanding how he felt. "Let's go back to Annie's."

He nodded to the old man, who hadn't heard them. "We'll take our leave."

Again, the old man beamed. "Perhaps you'd like to meet the researcher behind the vaccine? She's in the back right now! I'll go get her."

Fucking shit on a son of a bitch. She would take him straight to Levi. Armin and Eren grabbed the boxes in a rush. Eren's head was shaking wildly.

"Nonononono, we got the drugs and this paper thing that explains everything. We don't need to see anybody! Later!" he said quickly, running to the door with Armin right behind. Only to freeze when they reached their car.

Petra and Oruo were right at their Jeep, Petra waving at them. "It's been a long time, Eren!" she chirped. Eren was practically petrified. He was losing his grip on the boxes, but stayed tight just for them.

"How'd you find us?" he asked quietly. Petra's smile didn't lose a watt.

"Dita. He let us know." Eren felt betrayed. And to think they helped him. He swallowed, trying a smile.

"Are you gonna take us back to Levi?" he asked, voice almost cracking in fear. Oruo grunted.

"Why else would we break into your place?" Armin gasped.

"So it was you two?!" he shouted. Eren nudged him.

"Armin, it's okay. We'll just go with them." Armin looked incredulous, but saw Eren's nod and smiled a little. They were going to run the fuck out of there.

"You're right. No reason fighting." Petra grinned.

"I'm happy you two agree! Maybe you miss Heichou and Danchou?" she teased. Eren grit his teeth.

"You have no fucking idea. We'll put our meds in the car and go with you guys." He opened the trunk and they loaded the meds into the back. Once they had the boxes in, Eren shut the trunk. It was now or never. His adrenaline was pumping all at once. Armin had the keys in his hand, letting them dangle off his fingers. They nodded to each other and bolted to the front doors. Eren rammed into Oruo and Petra, knocking them over and diving into the passenger's seat. Oruo was the first to scramble up.

"Oi! Wait!" He helped up Petra as Hanji breezed out with a worried expression.

"What's going on-" she broke off when she saw Eren and Armin. "Ah!"

Eren felt tingles in the back of his neck as he hurried to put on his seatbelt. "Drive the fuck outta here!"

Their car zoomed off the curb and into the busy streets of Trost. Armin wasn't the most stable driver in high-tense situations, but with Eren still tired from driving straight to Trost with no stops, he had no choice. They nearly hit the car in front of them, but Armin swerved away and kept going.

"Where do we go?!" he asked. Eren shook his head and kept looking behind.

"It doesn't matter! Lose them first!" Behind them, Oruo, Petra and Hanji piled into a Cadillac, which was way faster than their cheap ass Jeep. Their panic reached eruption levels.

"Armin!"

"I know!" Armin took a sharp right, thankfully avoiding an accident and sped down the street with the Cadillac right behind them. Armin sped and took a left just when it was about to turn red, leaving the others behind. Eren drummed his dash in excitement.

"Yes! Get going! We're gonna lose them!" Armin was quick to comply, changing lanes to another and taking a right. It was pretty much weaving through traffic to get back to Annie's once they lost the others, who quickly appeared in a matter of seconds. Oruo had run some reds to get to them. Eren felt like a caged animal again. They were going to take him to Levi no matter what.

"They're right behind us!" Armin stepped on the gas harder and went right again, tires squealing against the pavement for going too fast. A car running a red slammed into them from behind, jumping the car forward to hit the car in front of them. The screeching sound of metal grinding and smashing against each other rang in their ears. Armin's head went forward at hit the steering wheel, knocking him out. Eren's vision blurred when the back of his head bounced off the head of his seat, then the front lurched him forward, painfully straining his neck at the whiplash. He heard screams and shouts of people, the haze dulling his hearing so he didn't hear the sound of his car door being opened until he was being pulled out by Hanji. His thoughts were on Armin, looking to the driver's seat to see his friend being pulled out of the car by Oruo. 'Armin,' he thought, head rolling back as he was being laid on the sidewalk. Through the blur, he could make out Hanji's face as she shouted at Petra, who was on her phone.

"Call…they…hospital…" was all he could hear until everything went black.

Levi was on break sipping tea while looking over the next request for surgery when a panicked nurse hurried into his office.

"Dr. Ackerman! You're needed at the emergency room!" He stared at her questioningly.

"Emergency surgery for the heart?" he asked as he put down his cup and grabbed his med coat. The nurse shook her head.

"No." He glared.

"Then tell me why I'm needed-" She cut him off.

"It's your husband." His eyes widened. 'Eren?' he thought. Was he…?

"What happened?!" he demanded. The nurse took a deep breath.

"Sir, Dr. Ackerman and Dr. Arlert were just in an accident." Eren and Armin. They were in Trost? He was running past the nurse.

"Tell Dr. Smith and get him to hurry down to the emergency room for Dr. Arlert. Now!"

"Hai!"

Levi was led to Eren by another nurse into the emergency room where a doctor was at a bed with an unconscious Eren on top. His face had bruises and his head was wrapped in bandages with his neck in a brace. To Levi's pleasure, Eren wore his wedding ring loyally on his finger. The doctor nodded to him.

"He has a concussion and got a whiplash from the accident. That's the worst of it and nothing is serious. We can move him to a room now that he's in stable condition. Until them, don't touch him or else he'll move and hurt himself." Levi sighed in relief, then glared.

"What happened that caused this?" he asked. She shook her head.

"I'm not sure, sir. I'll have Dr. Ackerman moved to a room as soon as possible." He thanked her as she left and was surprised to find Petra, Oruo and Hanji nearby looking nervous. He froze. Petra and Oruo were back the same time as Eren and Armin? Those fucking…

He strode over to them. "What the fuck did you do?"

Petra spoke first. "It wasn't supposed to be this way. Dita found Eren and Armin so he called me. I said that we'd go get them with Oruo so we left."

Levi's fist clenched. "And you never told me why?"

Petra gulped, feeling that she was going to be killed. "Well, we wanted to surprise you, Heichou."

"And now Eren's in the hospital. A great surprise," he said sarcastically. She winced.

"You were depressed! We wanted to get him on our own and make you feel better. But the first night didn't go well. When we heard that he was coming to Trost, we saw another chance. We chased them and they got into a crash." He was seething. First they outright lied to him and now Eren was unconscious because they decided to chase him around the streets like he was prey. What part of winning back Eren's trust did they not understand? They had never done something this stupid before.

"If you weren't a part of my surgical team I'd have you all fired and tortured. But luckily you are. Your salaries will be a third of what it was for the next six months. Hanji, I'm going to have all your research not dealing with the hospital or my interrogations postponed for the next four. None of you are going to be given free will over anything. Wherever you go, whatever you eat and even whenever you want to take a shit has to have my permission first." Hanji frowned when Petra and Oruo turned sheet white.

"But I didn't know Eren was going to be there! They were at the med supply store when I happened to be there and these two made me go with them." Oruo growled.

"But you were the one who suggested we chase them!" Levi glared at them.

"Enough! I said what your punishment is and you'll either take it or go for the alternative: be a test subject to the next torture tactics. I wanted to try acid." They stayed quiet. "Now go and clean up around here. Hanji, go work on the research for the hospital." They begrudgingly split up to do what they were told.

Levi didn't want to leave Eren, but seeing him being taken to his room left him little to do. Erwin was a few beds down beside Armin, who hadn't woken up. Armin's head was wrapped up more than Eren's. His legs were bandaged and his nose was covered. Erwin barely moved as he watched Armin's peaceful face. He held the boy's hand to his cheek, face showing sorrow as he breathed slowly. Levi took the other chair and barely got a nod of acknowledgement from his friend.

"He has a bad concussion and lacerations on his legs from the car smashing the front. He didn't get much of a whiplash because he hit the steering wheel. They want to check for internal bleeding and swelling once they find him a room. I requested for him to be moved somewhere close to my office so I can check on him from time to time." Levi said nothing as he continued.

"They were here to pick up medicine. Apparently they were living at Pearl Beach and working in a clinic. The med supply store doesn't deliver that way so they came instead. I was told by the paramedics and the witness who was the man who worked at the store. They signed the meds under fake names. The vaccines were in the trunk. I'm having them sent to the clinic and had a few of our doctors to go replace them. I also had the clinic send me information about them. Eren was known as Eric Yans and Armin was Aiden Aller. They're good doctors and treat the patients who go to the clinic like family and rarely took pictures to prevent them from being sent around. It seems they were doing all they could to prevent us from finding them."

Levi couldn't attempt a smile. While what they did was pretty smart, he was pissed off that they outsmarted them.

"So now that they're here, we have them right where we want them." Erwin smiled a little.

"I feel that way, but with Armin looking the way he is, I can't say that right now." The doctor watching Eren was hurrying over to Levi with medical files.

"Dr. Ackerman, it's about your husband. Do you know anything about his behavior when he's being treated at the hospital?" Levi smirked a little. One time he had to take Eren to the hospital because he had a really bad fever. He kept trying to convince the doctors he was okay and tried to escape, but Levi had to hold him down to stay in bed. He was given restraints for being a bad boy.

"Did he do something already?" he asked. She sighed.

"Once we brought him to his room, he tried to escape in a daze and was caught crawling out of his bed." Levi chuckled a bit.

"Give him restraints."

"Yes sir."

Mikasa paced Annie's living room, impatiently waiting as Annie was calling Armin's cell phone. No answer.

"It shouldn't take hours to pick up vaccines. What's taking them so long?" she asked. Annie hummed in thought.

"They should've been back two hours after they left at most." Mikasa growled.

"That fucking midget probably found them. That's it, I'm going to the hospital." Annie quickly stopped her.

"Wait. What if it's not Levi? You'll be telling him that Eren is back and he'll send out his men all around Trost looking for him. And Armin is going to be found by that blonde shithead." She growled that part. "I say we call the others and tell them to help us find Eren."

They sent a mass text to Jean, Marco, Sasha, Connie, Reiner, Bertolt, Krista and Ymir that Eren and Armin were missing. All ten searched and spread through the city to find their friends.

Eren woke up the next morning, the brace gone from his neck and the smell of antiseptics wafted through the air. He could hear the doctor speaking to someone who didn't say much.

"He's recovering faster than any patient I've seen. Just yesterday he was in the brace and today his ligaments and neck muscles seem to be normal. He'll be sore, but fine." Were they talking about him? Was he in Trost Hospital? Fuck him sideways…

The oxygen from the nasal cannula kept him breathing fine. But what was around his wrists? Motherfucking restraints to the bed rails. And his ankles too? Those bastards. This was déjà vu. He tried moving, but his neck was sore as fuck. He groaned out loud when he moved his head to the side. The doctor turned and smiled.

"Dr. Ackerman! You're awake. I brought your husband here to see you." The other person was none other than Levi, who only became more handsome in the last two years. 'Play along,' thought Eren, forcing himself to keep his mouth shut. If he went ballistic here, they could cart him off to a mental hospital or Levi would kill him after torturing him first. He smiled shakily.

"Hi."

"Eren." Levi approached his bed side and held his face in his warm hand. It felt really good despite the fact that he wanted to bite his fingers off. He was completely unprepared when Levi kissed him. Levi let him go for a small second, smirking at him and dipping down to his ear.

"You want to play along?" Eren tensed. Had he read his mind? But Levi was back to kissing him like he said nothing. Instead of a simple peck, Levi started making out with him, tongue slipping out to brush against Eren's lips and tongue. Eren unconsciously did the same, feeling like the love-sick, horny moron he was two years ago as he moaned out loud. That brought him back to life. He pulled away from Levi, who looked pissed at him for ending it. He smiled falsely.

"Ah, don't you want to wait until I get better?" Levi faked a smile.

"Sure." He pulled away, looking at the doctor who looked embarrassed.

"Could we have some privacy?" The doctor bolted. Eren flinched when Levi turned to him looking murderous.

"I've been looking for you, Eren. For two fucking years." Eren kept his ground.

"Things were going good until you sent Petra and Oruo to attack me in my house." Levi shook his head.

"That wasn't me. They wanted it to be a surprise." Eren snorted.

"A big shitty surprise." Levi said nothing, looking at the info of Eren at White Sand Clinic.

"Eric Yans, huh? Not really a creative name." Eren laughed bitterly.

"If it's so easy to find out, then you could've found me faster." Levi's eyes shone with amusement.

"Oh, is that what you wanted?" Eren's heart froze for a millisecond. He shook his head wildly.

"As if." His head was still reeling from the drugs, falling back to his pillow. Levi kissed his forehead.

"We'll talk later. You need your rest." Eren glared at him, falling asleep.

"You wish, asshole. I'm gonna wake up and find a way out of these restraints…" Levi forced him to close his eyes, hand over the gorgeous green he had missed.

"You'll need them for later. Can't have you fighting me." Eren's eyes widened, but he was asleep the next second. Erwin was standing in the doorway when Levi stood up.

"We have to inform their relatives and friends about them." Levi narrowed his eyes.

"If we do, then they'll try to sneak them away again. I'm not going to lose Eren to that bitchy sister of his. Not when I'm going to be with him this time." Erwin smiled knowingly.

"I know, that's why I made sure to forge some paperwork when something plans to go their way." Levi smirked as they walked out of Eren's room.

"You're a fucking genius."

"I'm also in love, but I'll take it."

Mikasa was at her wit's end. She didn't show it, but her friends could tell.

"It's Levi. It has to be. Armin or Eren would've called by now!" said Sasha, unable to eat her potato as they were cluttered in Jean and Marco's place.

"That's what I've been saying," she replied. "We need to go to the hospital. That's where we know Levi and his people are."

Jean sighed. "Even if he did have them, how can we be sure he'll tell us or hand them over?"

Mikasa's mood darkened. "We torture him."

Most of the group took a step away from her. Annie's cell phone rang, making them all jump. To her relief, it was Armin. She quickly answered.

"Armin? Where are you guys?" she asked. The only thing she could hear right away was heavy breathing.

"This isn't Armin. It's Erwin." Her eyes widened.

"Why do you have Armin's phone?" she asked slowly. Everyone could only stare at her.

"Armin and Eren were in an accident. They're in stable condition," said Erwin, holding Armin's hand as the younger one slept. He got up and headed to Eren's room where Levi was holding his husband's hand. He glared at him.

"What?" Annie heard his voice.

"Levi's there too?" Hearing Levi's name, Mikasa was at her side, both angry and worried.

"Don't take Eren away from me." Erwin smiled gently.

"Eren will be here in the hospital. Armin will be here also and you are free to visit tomorrow morning." Annie glared into her phone.

"You bet we are." Levi ignored them and turned back to Eren. Mikasa had said the very words he had wanted to say to her when Eren and disappeared. Erwin went back to Armin's room, leaving Levi alone. He laid his forehead against Eren's hand.

"I won't let them take you away from me. Not again."

End of this chapter! Levi and Eren reunited! What's in store from them now? Next chapter preview:

"Since Eren and Armin are healing quickly and, we can decide who goes home with who to provide stable care until both make a full recovery."

"I'm feeling better now, but I overheard what Erwin said about who we're being released to."

"Ah! Nh…hah. Levi, st-"