A/N: This is my overhaul of chapter 8 I think this is, the first half is the same, but the ending is different and is set up for another chapter. I guess this could be my Christmas gift to all of you so, Merry Christmas!


Eren and Mikasa had walked for almost four days and the wall was nowhere to be found. Food was starting t run dangerously low and there was no deer or any other wild life to be found.

Mikasa was beginning to struggle walking through the snow and needed Eren to support her at times causing even more strain on his body.

"I think we need to take a break." Eren said as he collapsed to his knees from exhaustion.

Mikasa ran to his side to make sure he was alright and felt his forehead.

"Eren, why didn't you tell me you had a fever?" she said with concern.

"I didn't want you to worry, I'm fine." he said removing her hand.

Mikasa sighed and sat down beside him.

"You should have something to eat." Mikasa said as she grabbed their bag of food.

"What's left?" Eren asked.

Mikasa took a look in the bag and let out a slight gasp.

"What is it?" Eren said as he started to lean in closer to see inside the bag, but he was pushed away by Mikasa.

"It's nothing" she said as she just stared into the bag.

There was only one piece of dried meat left, but she knew Eren would never take it if he knew.

"So what's left?" he asked again.

"A small amount of bread and some dried meat." Mikasa said praying he didn't ask for bread.

"I'll have some of the dried meat, you eat the bread." Eren said as Mikasa put it in his hand.

"I'll have it later, I'm not that hungry right now." she said.

Eren gave her a concerned look, but then thought nothing of it and devoured his dried meat.

After a few hours of rest, Eren started to get up.

"We need to keep moving, keep looking." he said as Mikasa stood up beside him.

Both of them had regained some strength and continued their search for the wall.

After anther few hours of walking, they came into another massive and open field.

"Look! A house!" Mikasa said as she pointed to a small cabin in the field.

Eren looked a bit confused, but followed Mikasa as she walked to the cabin.

Eventually, the two of them arrived at the door and Mikasa started knocking.

"Hey Mikasa, I don't like the look of this place." Eren said as he urged her to back away.

"What are you talking about? We found shelter we so desperately needed." she responded happily as she knocked on the door again.

Eventually, the door to the cabin creaked open and Mikasa heard a voice.

"Come in, come in, it's been so long since we last had visitors." and elderly woman said.

"Mikasa, something is very wrong here." Eren said as he tugged on the back of her uniform.

"Don't be so rude Eren, please excuse him, he still hasn't learned his manners." she said with a smile.

"Oh that's quite alright dear, he seems like a good boy." the elderly woman said.

"Mikasa what the hell are you doing?" Eren asked sounding a bit scared.

"My husband is in the living room, why don't you join him young man?" the elderly woman said.

"I'm going to check the other rooms, see if I can find anything." Eren said. "Shout if anything happens."

The elderly woman sat down at the table and started reading a newspaper and Mikasa sat at the far end looking around the room which she believed to be the kitchen.

Eren was getting really creeped out by the cabin, he didn't see why Mikasa wanted to stay in a place like this. He found a small office room with multiple old papers stacked up and he started to go through them.

"What the hell?" he said as he looked at the most recent paper.

"This paper is more than 20 years old." he said as he continued to look around.

Eren walked into the bedroom and what he saw startled him. Two corpses, a man and a woman were in the bed beside each other, both frostbitten almost beyond recognition.

Eren ran out of the room and dashed for Mikasa who was still talking to herself.

"So how did you find a nice place like this?" she asked the elderly woman.

"Oh, my husband was a carpenter back in the day, he built the place himself." she said.

"Mikasa! We need to leave NOW!" he yelled as he grabbed her wrist.

Mikasas eyes widened when he started shaking her, she didn't recognize where they were.

The cabin was charred by fire and the windows broken letting cold air blast inside, the old woman gone.

"Eren, what's going on?" she asked sounding frightened.

"You were hallucinating, we need to get as far away from here as possible." Eren said as he stood her up and marched her out the door.

The two of them left the cabin as fast as they could. Mikasa looked back and could see the elderly woman standing in the door waving good-bye.

"Don't look at her!" Eren yelled as he kept moving forwards.

Night had started to fall by the time the entered an area slightly littered with trees.

"The bark is dry, we can make a fire using this." Eren said as he started to rip the bark off the trees.

"We need wood as well, bark is just going to make smoke." Mikasa said.

"I know, its a tree there are branches." Eren replied.

The two of them chuckled a bit and them Eren got to work on a fire.

"Do you really think we are going to see our home again... our friends?" Mikasa asked as she brought her knees to her chest.

"Hey hey, I don't want to hear you giving up like that!" Eren snapped.

"I'm sorry, it's just... I'm scared." Mikasa said.

"Listen, I'm scared as well, the last thing I want is to die out here in the cold. We just need to keep our chins up and do everything we can." Eren said as he dropped the branches into a little pile and started trying to light them.

"Do you think the scout regiment is looking for us?" Mikasa asked.

"Not likely, I mean... we were practically abandoned when that snow storm hit." Eren said.

"Abandoned... you really think they would do that to us? To their best soldiers?" Mikasa replied sharply.

"That's the key word right there, "soldiers". We are an expendable bunch. As long as humanity exists, we have people to replace the fallen." Eren said as he finally got the fire going.

Mikasa could feel her hopes of a rescue sink into the abyss after hearing Eren say that.

"You really know how to cheer a girl up, don't you." Mikasa said as tears started rolling down her cheeks.

Eren let out a sigh and sat down beside her wrapping his arms around her pulling her into him.

Mikasa let out a gasp, but just let Eren hold her. She started feeling the same warm sensation that she felt when they were stuck in the cave.

"I know I'm not the best with words, I know I always look to the harsh reality, but only because the only way to escape from something is to first accept it." he said as he ran his fingers through Mikasas hair.

The fire crackled and spat small bits of charcoal around, but it provided Eren and Mikasa with the warmth they needed in the cold nights.

The two of them eventually fell asleep under the tree.

Eren woke up around dawn and realised that Mikasa was gone, he immediately stood up, but fell down due to a head rush. As he came back to his sences he got back up again and started looking around.

"Mikasa! Mikasa where are you?" he started yelling as he walked around.

Eren stopped and looked down only to see drag marks and red stained snow.

"No, no, no, no, no." he said to himself as he slowly followed the blood trail.

The trail led Eren behind a tree where he saw Mikasa hanging the corpse of a wolf that she had trapped and killed.

"Oh thank the gods." He said as he let out a sigh of relief.

"Remember when you used to take me hunting? This is kind of like those times." Mikasa said as she tied the rope to another tree, suspending the wolf in the air.

"It really is isn't it. Though I never thought you would take down a wolf." He said.

"Looks like we might have a bit more food for our journey now" Eren thought as he looked around for any other animals.

Mikasa started to gut and butcher the wolf, putting the useful meat in their food pouch while Eren stripped more bark from the trees to make another fire.

After a few hours, Eren was cooking the wolf meat and setting it on a small smoking rack that he had built from branches.

Eren looked into the sky, he figured it was around noon when he suddenly felt the earth shake beneath him.

Erens blood froze, he knew this feeling all too well.

Slowly, Eren back up until he hit Mikasa who just stood there in terror.

"Mikasa, don't do anything stupid ok?" Eren said.

"This has gotten to her even worse than I thought it has, she has lost the will to fight titans." Eren though to himself as he slowly backed Mikasa up.

A giant 10 metre class titan came slowly walking over the horizon, it was heading right for them.

Eren kept on slowly backing up, he knew a sudden move would alert the titan to their location.

"Just keep calm Mikasa." Eren said as he put her behind a tree.

Mikasa just stood there shaking, she didn't know what to do anymore.


A/N: SO there you have it, the story must go on!