Recap:

"Yay! Welcome aboard Eren!" I laugh a little. She releases me and smiles, even more of her hair, which is in a ponytail, sticks out.

"Can't wait for you to start." I nod and respond with something similar. I hear the door to the lab open but I don't turn around.

"Oi! Shitty glasses?"

I tense up a little as I hear Levi's voice behind me. The way he sounded he seemed angry about something.

"Eren? What are you doing here?" I laugh nervously as I turn around in my chair to look at the shorter man. He's frowning more so than usual. He was gripping something in his hand and then it hit me.

"You found… the note, didn't you?" His eyes began to focus on me rather than what they had previously been focused on, which had been Hanji.

"You left it on the floor and it annoyed me so I picked it up to throw it away. But then against my better judgement I uncrumpled it and read it. Which brings me to my current question," Levi turns and looks angrily at Hanji, "What the hell is your problem, shitty glasses?" Levi takes a step forward towards Hanji. I immediately stand up from my chair and stand in front of Hanji, blocking her from his view.

"It… wasn't her decision. She's being blackmailed." Levi looks up at me, still glaring.

"What?" Levi glances at Hanji as she steps out from behind me.

"Petra doesn't want you with Eren. She's threatened to kill my test subjects so I wrote that note."

"You wrote this stupid ass note… so you could protect your test subjects?"

"Yes! They are important for my research. And now I have Eren to help me as well." Levi looks over to me as I laugh sheepishly.

"You're going to help her?" I nod and he jerks his head in a downward motion before lifting his head and meeting my gaze with his own cold one.

"You are insane just like her," Levi sighs and a slight smile appears on his face but it leaves just as quick as it came,"but back to the business at hand. What should we do about Petra?"

"I thought you would've known a way to solve this problem." I sigh as I sit back down, getting a headache. This one is one of the most worst ones I've had in awhile.

"Eren what's wrong?" The pain from the headache almost drowns out Levi's voice.

"Eren?...Ere-?" Darkness creeps into my vision and soon becomes the only thing I see.

Levi and Hanji look down at Eren as he appears to have passed out. The younger boy's hair turn a deeper brown and gets slightly longer. His eyes open slowly and they're no longer their teal-green but instead a deep emerald color. A soft groan escaped the boy's throat as he shifts slightly. Levi looks over at Hanji in disbelief and he finds that her expression shows the same disbelief.

"You didn't test anything on him before I arrived?" Hanji slowly shakes her head as she attempts to calm herself down and prevent herself from squealing in excitement.

"N-No I hadn't. What triggered this I...have no idea." Eren turns his head side to side, slightly stretching before saying anything

"This isn't the first time this has happened." The older two were surprised at how deep Eren's voice had suddenly become, their initial shock never wearing off.

"This has happened before?" Hanji looks at Eren in surprise at what he had just said.

"Yes, quite a few times before now. Especially when I was younger. I found that the major factor of it was the headaches that I get. They had slowed down for a while after…" Eren cuts himself off as he sighs then laughs bitterly.

"Since what Eren?" Eren looks at Levi with a shielded gaze as he sighs in slight annoyance which Levi found was different coming from Eren.

"Something that would change the way people saw me for the rest of my life."