Armin woke up surrounded by a group of people. As he looked around he realized that there was no one there that was in his squad. He realized that what he had just been through wasn't a dream. Eren, Mina, Mylius, Mac, Thomas, even (f/n). They were all dead.

As he realized this Connie came up to him.

"Armin, where's the rest of your squad?"

He didn't reply. He simply continued to stare at the ground. He remembered as well. He remembered a titan picking him up and trying to eat him, remembered Eren saving him, remembered (f/n) saving her, then he remembered the titan biting off Eren's arm and eating (f/n). He remembered the titan simply walking away as Eren crawled towards it with only one arm as she screamed (f/n)'s name.

The last thing he remembered was Eren falling over the edge of the building. He knew that she was dead though. What he didn't know was how the hell he was going to explain any of this to Mikasa. It was very likely that once she knew what happened he would die as well.

Currently at that moment Mikasa was near the gate out of Trost. A titan had made its way past the other troops so she had to kill it before it reached the civilians that were evacuating. In one fast and fluid motion she killed the titan and landed in front of the gates. Which was still clogged up with civilians.

She didn't understand. The civilians were supposed to be inside the gates by now, what was the holdup? Well, the holdup was a greedy businessman who had clogged up the gate with his cargo and wouldn't let anyone pass until his cargo was through. In a fit of rage Mikasa stuck her sword under his chin.

"Move your shit out of the way now or I'll cut your fucking head off."

The man started sweating as he looked around for a way out of the situation. "You're really going to kill me in front of all these people?" Was what he finally came up with.

"I don't know what you're talking about," she told him, "all I did was kill a titan. Unfortunately I couldn't kill it before it killed you." She leaned in close pressing her blade even deeper drawing a drop of blood. "Is that the way you want this story to go?"

She watched later as the people moved past the gates, the cargo set to the side with the businessman sitting in it. From behind her someone started to tug on her shirt. As she turned around she faced a small girl and her mother who both offered their thanks before running off through the gates. After that she went up to the top of a building where she lost herself in her memories.

It had been about three years ago, after the wall had fallen but before she went off to join the army. She, Eren, and (f/n) were all resting in the warehouse they had made their home when someone she never would've expected to show up did. Her mother and father, both of whom she hadn't seen for years, came through the gates. They told her that they had lost her when human traffickers had tried to kidnap Mikasa and her mother and sell them as slaves.

Thankfully the Garrison troops stopped them but not before Mikasa was taken away to Shiganshina where the Garrison troops there saved her. After that they eventually found her again but decided to let her live a normal life instead of a life in hiding since the slavers were still after them. But now, since the wall had collapsed, they wanted to take her back home. They would even take care of Eren and (f/n) too.

For a couple of weeks they lived like that. It was almost back to the way things were before. Yet it wouldn't last. They all lost their family again. This time, however, it wasn't because of the titans.

It happened n a regular day. Mikasa, her parents, and Eren were all sitting in the kitchen, (f/n) was using the bathroom, and mom was bothering them both about who liked him. Both hers and Eren's cheeks turned bright red as they both muttered something along the line of yes. She simply laughed, made a joke about polygamy, and went to setting the table for dinner. Then, suddenly, three men bust down the door.

They grabbed Mikasa and Eren and, when Mikasa's mother and father started to resist, they killed them both. Suddenly a flashback happened of back when the wall fell and she went numb. From the corner of her eye she saw one of the men slip a bag over hers and Eren's faces. Then they were picked up and carried somewhere. Along the way she overheard them talking about what they wanted to do to her. Apparently the recent loss of people meant less women, and a higher business for selling them.

So the men took them to an old building and there they waited. For what she didn't want to know. The bags were removed from their heads and they sat in silence. She prayed for someone, anyone, to come save them. But the hours passed and no one came. She gave up hope.

The third man then left the building to see what was taking the transport so long. A few minutes after he left there was a knock at the door. Panicking, the two remaining men gagged both her and Eren before one of the men went to open the door. Standing in the doorframe was (f/n)! Desperately both she and Eren tried to get his attention but he could neither see nor hear them.

"Excuse me sir," he said innocently, "I've heard that there's been some kidnappings recently in this part of the city. If you have any information about them please tell me so that I can help notify the Garrison."

It's them (f/n)! Mikasa thought. But she still couldn't tell him.

"I'm sorry kid I don't know anything about the kidnappings. If I find out anything I'll be sure to let you know though." The man said as he reached down to pet (f/n) on the head.

"Such a shame." She heard (f/n) say, his voice suddenly a lot deeper and almost evil, "If you had told me the truth I might have let you live."

Suddenly the man's body went rigid. As he fell to the ground everyone saw a knife that was stuck inside the man's throat. The other man yelled and ran after (f/n) who pulled the knife from the man's throat and threw it at the one running towards him. Whether through luck or skill it embedded itself inside the man's chest and he fell to the ground.

Not wasting any time (f/n) ran forward and repeatedly stabbed the man in the chest until he stopped moving. He then went and cut off the ropes around both Eren and Mikasa before removing their gags. Suddenly the third man appeared and, before (f/n) had even moved, he grabbed him and started to choke him. That was when Mikasa snapped.

All her life she had been through so much and no one had come to rescue her. Now someone had finally come and she was about to watch him die. She couldn't handle that, that was her (f/n), her love, and he was dying right in front of her. No one would ever hurt her (f/n). Full of rage Mikasa picked up the knife that (f/n) had dropped on the floor and ran towards the man.

Before he knew what was happening she had pushed the knife so far into his back the hilt was completely inside his body, hilt and everything. The man dropped (f/n) and she grabbed him in a crushing hug. She cried, Eren cried while she also hugged (f/n), and (f/n) sat there with flushed cheeks. After that the garrison that (f/n) had called for came and cleaned up the dead bodies. They were sent back to Trost to live in the warehouse again.

Mikasa snapped out of the flashback as the order came to fall back. The civilians had all escaped and now it was their turn. Quickly he sped off to find (f/n). Nothing mattered more to her than him being alive. Armin knew this, and he feared what would happen when he had to tell her that you were dead.

...Or were you? You had been eaten for sure. Yet you were still alive, stuck in the stomach of a titan. Well that was pretty much death anyway you guessed. Without any blades you had no way out of there. You held on to Eren's arm and hoped that even with all that she's lost, both emotionally and physically, she would be okay. You hoped that you had done enough to save her.

You started to feel the stomach acid burn away at your clothes and knew it was only a matter of time before it started to burn you away. Resigning yourself to your fate you started to look back on your life, everything that you regretted and everything you loved. As the acid got past your clothes and worked on your skin, which was very painful, something miraculous happened. Suddenly two giant hands appeared from outside the titan's stomach, literally ripping it in half from the stomach. Covering your eyes from the steam you felt yourself get picked up by what could only be a titan.

You laughed out loud at your luck. Saved from being eaten by one titan only to be eaten by another. Yet that wasn't the case. The titan holding you didn't eat you but instead held you gently in it's hand. Curious by what was going on you slowly opened your eyes.

What you saw was something beautiful.