He was nervous. He paced back and forth, had mentioned his plan to his boss and a few other people in the group. Today was the day. He had taken the plans and ran, didn't even think twice about leaving that guys son. Rod Reiss' son was a stuck up pompous asshole who could die for all he cared. He probably would too, and if he didn't well...one day someone would have enough of his shit and murder him. At Least that's what he hoped... Truth be told, Nile Dok Reiss was a total prick.
Grisha looked at his watch and explained the fake death to his wife once more who was just as nervous as he was. Today was the day, if everything went well his family would be safe and far away.
"Grisha...we should go already" Grisha nodded and hugged his wife once more before picking up his son and carrying him to the car. Eren looked up at him confused.
"Dad where are we going?" Grisha pushes back his sons hair and kisses his forehead softly.
"We're gonna go make our life better and safer, that way you can go out with your friends without almost giving your mother a heart attack." Eren nodded and buckled his seat belt before yawning.
Grisha and Karla made their way to the front seats and drove to the confirmed destination. Grisha left his phone at home, left everything at home that he figured he wouldn't need. Maybe if he had taken his phone he would have been warned and his wife would have never had to suffer with the consequences.
Grisha had arranged to meet up at a stop sign just around the curvy bend of the road where the driver of a semi would pretend to lose control and end up hitting the car. He arranged it so that he had barely enough time to get his family safely out of the car without anyone the wiser. Sadly enough without his phone, Grisha would never receive any warning that his plan would end up going way worse than he expected.
"Get ready to get out love." Grisha adjusted his glasses before reaching out and grabbing his wife's hand and looking back to his son.
"I'm ready, when are they-" Grisha's eyes widened at the lights barreling towards them.
"No...Get out...Get out now!" He watched as his wife froze like a deer caught in the headlights. He glanced back to see Eren in the same state as his mother.
"Karla get out of the car now!" Grisha knew his source had given him up, the first piece of evidence was that the truck was 15 minutes early...his second piece of evidence was that the truck driver wasn't flashing his lights like he should have been...and the third and final piece of evidence that made his blood run cold was the fact that the truck was coming from the opposite direction. Instead of it hitting the driver's side, it was heading straight for the passenger side, right towards his wife.
"I can't get free...Grisha, I can't unbuckle this seat belt" He turned and tugged at the seat belt keeping his wife in place and heard the loud obnoxious sound of the truck. He glanced to the back seat to see his son crying and frozen. Time seemed to slow in that instant. He looked back to his wife and said the last words she would ever hear from him.
"I'm sorry...I love you" Then darkness surrounded him, a shrill screech from who he assumed was his wife, the sound of metal against metal, the pain of being tossed back and forth in the car, the pain of knowing this was probably the last time he would ever see his family again. The darkness clouding his vision finally took over and he welcomed it with hopes that his son and wife went swiftly and painlessly.
Grisha opened his eyes a few minutes later to the sound of people talking, he looked to his right and saw the bloody mangled body of his wife.
"Oh god...I'm sorry Karla...I'm so very sorry, my beautiful angel what have I done..." He watched through tears as the blood ran from the tip of her chin to the top of her head. Only then did he realize they were upside down. He dreaded looking into the back seat, he braced himself for the pain that he was sure would consume him at the sight of his dead son. He took a deep painful breath and looked behind him to meet the beautiful eyes of his son who gave him a small smile.
"You're okay...mom...momma didn't make it dad..." Grisha covered his mouth as quiet sobs racked through his body at his sons words. He watched his son unbuckle himself and gently lower his small frame onto the roof of the car, careful of any glass as he crawled over to his mother and gently brushed any hair stuck to the blood that was drying.
"I love you mom...I'm sorry..." Eren turned to look at his father who was wiping his eyes.
"Eren listen to me..." He waited until he had his dazed sons full attention. "You need to run, run into those woods and hide, don't come out for any reason. Don't let anyone find you. When you are extremely positive that no one is around anymore, you need to go to a hospital and get yourself taken care of...don't mention any of this to anyone...even if they ask you... Don't say anything. When you're finally safe, go to your friend Armin's house and call the number I always made you memorize...You remember it now right?" Grisha watched as his son nodded and straightened up with a look of pure determination. "Good boy, when they answer I want you to ask for Erwin Smith. Make sure Erwin Smith is the only one you ever tell any of this to, do you understand?" He watched as his son fought an ongoing war inside his own mind.
"What about you dad?" Grisha shook his head as the voices got closer, by the look on Eren's face he noticed this as well.
"You need to go, now!" Eren hesitated but nodded before crawling out of the broken window and limping into the dark woods. Grisha watched his son and gave a small smile before his door was yanked open.
"Well hello there Mr. Jaeger. How's it hanging?" Grisha glared at the man who simply smiled and stepped away as someone else climbed in and cut him loose before shoving him out the ruined car. He gave one last look back at his wife and forced himself to tear his eyes away from her hanging corpse.
He was shoved forward onto the ground, kneeling directly in front of none other then Rod Reiss. Grisha noticed the puffy red eyes the man was sporting. He knew then that Nile Dok Reiss had passed away. He couldn't help but choke out a laugh.
"It's all your fault! I told you to cure my son and you let him die!" Grisha felt the sharo oain of a knee to his stomach.
"Your son was never going to get better! He had a weak immune system! He's better off dead, he was a total prick anyways. Like they say though, 'like father, like son' right?" Grisha grinned at the angered look on Reiss' face and groaned loudly when he felt a hard object hit the back of his head. He felt his consciousness start to drift. He could barely make out Reiss' face leaning close to his.
"You're going to regret what you said Jaeger, and after I'm through with you...you're going to wish I had killed you." Grisha barely registered the words that were spat at him before feeling his body being lifted and giving into the darkness again.
"What do you mean we can't fucking find them?!" Levi slammed his hands on his dining room table for what seemed like the hundredth time that day. Marco jumped slightly while Jean rolled his eyes.
"He mean's short stack, that Kenny, Rod Reiss, and Eren Jaeger have disappeared off the face of the planet. We're all looking high and low but we can't find where their hiding. You getting all pissy like this isn't going to automatically help find him Levi." Levi growled and reached out to grab Jean's collar and slammed him against the wall. Marco bit his lip and stayed frozen like the rest of the people in the room had and watched the exchange of glares between the two.
"Want to say that again asshole?!" Levi growled under his breath and Jean chuckled.
"Oh fuck off Levi, you don't scare me. I grew up with you. This was an everyday thing for me since we were younger. Now if you don't mind we have a troublesome annoying little brat to find before you completely lose your shit." Jean tried to remove Levi's grasp which only seemed to tighten further before he finally gave up and rolled his eyes.
"You are going to get out there and you are going to search high and low all over again until the ends of the earth if you have to until you find where they took him! Do you understand you pathetic underling?!" Jean tensed and glared at Levi.
"Pathetic underling huh? Sad, here I was thinking I was your best friend..." Levi clicked his tongue and released Jean.
"Please, you were merely a thing to keep me entertained." Marco saw the hurt flash through Jean's eyes and guilt flash through Levi's.
"How quickly you dismiss our friendship Ackerman." Jean straightened his clothes and shoved past Levi making sure his shoulder bumped roughly into the shorter man.
"Jean..." Levi followed Jean's movements with regretful eyes and Marco thought he was going to apologize. "Where are you going?"
Jean glanced back towards Lei and shrugged, "To scour until the ends of the earth for that pathetic excuse of a bodyguard... maybe then when we get him back he'll be the one able to get that pissy attitude out of you. Let's go Marco." Marco nodded and followed Jean after giving a slight bow to Levi and catching a glimpse of Levi's features softening as he gave a small smile.
"Stay safe out there you fucking horse." Jean glanced back again and smiled.
"As safe as I can be you grumpy gnome." Marco smiled at the two because he knew with just those words, the argument before was already completely settled, forgiven, and forgotten.