Chapter 20 - Confrontation

(Eren's POV)

"This is Levi," I sighed. "Levi, this is Mikasa and Armin."

"So this is the friend you were staying with? The one that you were too busy helping to call your sister or come home?" Mikasa asked right away. Though Armin and Levi didn't seem very interested in the conversation, and were in fact staring at each other; Levi having a look of confusion and interest. That's a little weird.

"Oh? Interesting." Levi spoke under his breath, seeming to be talking to himself. I didn't know what he was talking about and decided to focus on the problem at hand. Mikasa.

"Yeah, kind of. I'm sorry I didn't call you sooner, and that I was gone for so long." I started pleading for her forgiveness. It's all I could do right now, but the looks between Levi and Armin; in fact Armin was giving me a few weird looks as well, which were kind of getting my attention. I was about to ask if there was some secret I didn't know about when Armin finally broke his silence.

"It's great that you are back, Eren." His voice was filled with forced happiness.

"Okay, what's going on?" I asked looking between Levi and Armin. Mikasa just now stopped focusing on me and started noticing the uneasiness in the air.

"Maybe we should sit down?" Armin offered. No one replied, but we all made our way quietly to the couches in the middle part of the room. Once we were all situated, Levi and I on one couch and Mikasa and Armin on the other, Mikasa broke the silence for me.

"What's going on with you, Armin?" Mikasa asked him. I looked to Levi with the same question in mind.

"I don't know how to explain it to you Mikasa, but it shouldn't be very hard to explain to Eren." He looked to me with a strange look on his face. Mikasa was about to say something when Levi cut her off.

"Your friend's a mutt." He looked to me as he said it. What does that mean? It can't mean what I think it does, can it?

"Could you at least try to be nice?" Armin asked, seeming to get annoyed. Which was odd saying it was hard to get him angry.

"What do you mean?" I asked Levi, and Armin spoke up first.

"Well I'm assuming you are aware of vampires, so it shouldn't be too hard for you to believe in werewolves too. I happen to be one of them." He explained. What? Hanji had mentioned once that she had no clue if werewolves existed or not. I guess that explains the smell though. I had sort of noticed something but decided not to say anything, of course I didn't expect it to be a werewolf, but still.

"Armin what are you talking about?" Mikasa looked between us trying to find out when this joke was going to end. To bad it isn't a joke. All this time I was friends with Armin, and I never knew this about him. Didn't he trust Mikasa and I enough to tell us something like that? I was willing to find a way to tell my friends about my little vampirism problem, but all this time Armin had never tried to tell either of us about his lycanthropy.

"I can't believe you, Armin!" I stood up suddenly and clenched my fists at my sides, making Armin flinch slightly in his seat in front of me. "Why didn't you tell us? I thought we were close?" I questioned him.

"We are close," He started.

"Were you ever going to tell us?" I interrupted. There was silence as Armin looked at his feet.

"I didn't want to freak you out." He whispered. "But I guess if you're hanging out with vampires now then it's not a big deal!" Armin snapped at me. I had made him upset. He had made it sound like it was bad to be hanging around vampires.

"What's so bad about hanging around vampires?"

"They're blood thirsty killers, Eren." He stood up angrily. "Vampires killed my parents, and they probably killed yours too."

"Do you think I'm a killer then too, Armin?" I pointed to myself.

"No. You're not-" He cut himself off. It was then I realized that he most likely hadn't noticed my scent mixed in with Levi's considering I've only been a vampire for around a week or less. He didn't realize what I was. Or at least he hadn't before. "Oh my god. Eren, are you?" I nodded to his unspoken question. "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean-" His eyes started to tear up.

"It's okay, Armin. I know you have bad experiences," I sat down next to him on the couch on the other side from Mikasa. "but believe me when I say that not all vampires are like that. I've met some." I glance over at Levi who just seems to be observing the conversation at the moment.

"Honestly, I can understand where you are coming from. My parents were killed by vampires too." Levi spoke up after a bit of silence. "I hated vampires, and I hated myself for being one. You wouldn't believe how long I searched for their killers, trying to get my revenge. I never did find them, but I did eventually find a group of interesting people who taught me a lot of important things. One of them being: don't judge someone before you know them."

"You're right. I'm sorry. Why don't we start over?" Armin stood up and walked over to Levi and offered out his hand. "I'm Armin, Eren's friend." Levi stood up and took his hand.

"Levi, Eren's boyfriend." He announced smugly, making eye contact with me over Armin's shoulder.

"Boyfriend?!" Mikasa suddenly spoke up from her seat next to me. "First I learn you are vampire, which is completely crazy by the way, and now I hear you have a boyfriend? What else have I missed in just a week?" She started throwing questions at me. "Did you have sex with him, Eren?"

"What?! No!" I answered quickly. I could feel my face starting to heat up at the question. "And even if I did, it's none of your business." I spoke quickly, and crossed my arms over my chest. She opened her mouth to retaliate when Levi interrupted.

"There's something that's been bugging me for a bit now. If you are a werewolf how come I've never heard of a real one or met one before now?" He questioned Armin.

"Werewolves don't need to kill people to survive so we don't get noticed as often as vampires tend to. Werewolves also tend to stay low more than vampires do. It can be easier to kill a werewolf than it is a vampire." Armin explained. Levi nodded at Armin's answer.

"Don't werewolves normally stay in packs? Where's the rest of your's?" Levi questioned. I had actually been wondering the same thing.

"Well I guess since you would probably find out sooner or later and I trust that you're not going to tell anyone, I suppose I could tell you guys." He seemed to think as he paused for a moment. "Well, there's Jean, Ymir, Christa, Annie, Reiner, and Berthold." He counted the names on his fingers. "And of course there are a few others, like parents and stuff, but our pack is actually pretty small."

"What? You mean I have been surrounded with werewolves basically my entire life and no one decided to tell me? I was like the only human." I whined jokingly as I stood up and Mikasa followed.

"Well now you're the only vampire in the group." Armin laughed as he bumped my shoulder playfully. "And you weren't the only human. Mikasa, Marco, Sasha, and Connie are still human too."

"Oh my bad then." I laughed with him before a thought struck me. "If the others are werewolves how are they going to react to Levi and I?"

"I honestly don't know, but there's no point in worrying about it right now. We have the whole weekend to figure it out." Armin shrugged.

"True," I nodded in agreement.

"Well that was a very exciting conversation and I for one am a little freaked out at the moment; so, I think I'm going to go for a drive alone now. I'll get some food while I'm out. Is there anything anyone wants?" Mikasa asked quickly. We all told her what we wanted, and Levi offered to help pay but Mikasa declined the offer. I decided to let her go without complaining. After all, it was quite a bit of new information to absorb all at once, especially when you have been thinking all these things were just stories till now.

~Time Skip~

When Mikasa got back we all ate and then ended up all going to bed. Armin had been staying in the guest room while I was gone so that Mikasa wasn't alone, so he went to the guest room again. Levi and I went to my room and Mikasa went to her's. It had been a long day so everyone was happy to go to bed. Once Levi and I were in my room I threw myself on my bed.

"Levi, cuddle with me~!" I spread my arms out and whined to him as he stood above the bed and looked down at me.

"Fine." He sighed jokingly as he got on the bed and pulled me close to him and I wrapped my arms around him. "Why are you so damn cute?" He mumbled into my hair.

"I guess I was just born that way." I laughed tiredly as I lifted my head up to look at him. He scoffed playfully at me before kissing me gently.

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