Chapter 39: Hurt Titan
Levi hadn't felt the fear as the armoured titan got hold of him, ne never felt it but he saw it in Eren´s eyes. Those green blazing eyes that lost all their focus and fought for him. Now Eren isn't moving or trying to climb out of his titan body. First Levi thought that he wasn't to stay in it in case the other shifter appears but as the female titan appears out of nowhere and takes the other shifter away Eren hadn't move a muscle he gets worried.
"Eren?" Levi calls out but the eyes of the titan have gone dime and lifeless, so he moves to the nabe and makes a generous cut around the area where Eren´s body should be and cuts into something hard.
Surprised and suddenly feeling fear for his titan Levi hurries up to slice away layers of skin and finds not a body underneath it but a crystal. Levi freezes and stares at the stone. Its blue and inside is … "EREN!" Levi shouts and starts hitting the crystal with the handle of his blades. "Answer me."
He doesn't notice the other people that come closes and only registers that he isn't alone anymore as Erwin pulls him away. Levi wants to shout and scream and hurt the man that is taking him away from Eren but Erwin´s grip on him is like steal.
"Listen to me." The words finally reach him and he stops fighting for a moment. "Let Hanji have a look. We need to move from here understand." Erwin sounds as cold as ever but he let Levi go and watch as Hanji investigates the crystal structure that keeps Eren inside. She doesn't have her manic shiny eyes on this new piece of scientistic discovery, its worry and that it what makes Levi stop.
Is he going to lose Eren? Will he be lost for him like Furlan and Isabel? Will he lose his home and family all over again? He can´t do this again. The last time it had taken a real miracle to get him out of his dark world, and this same miracle is right in front of him, imprisoned in a crystal.
Levi isn't sure how they got back to the castle. He couldn't recall any of the events, but they must have put the crystal with Eren in it on a carriage, him probably too and taken him away from there. Hanji must have brought them in her lab where they are right now. Levi and Eren in his crystal. Hanji had left a few minutes ago. As the door had closes his eyes had blinked and Leve started to see the room in front of him.
Standing up and walking over to Eren is hart, not physical, emotionally. He looks at Eren, really look and find blood on his boy´s face. Red stripes like tears made out of blood cover his face. The dark rings under his eyes aren't helping his look. Even through the crystal Levi can see that Eren is pale but somehow, he knows his little titan isn't dead.
The door opens again and Levi, who is still wearing his gear pulls out his sword, pointing it at the person or better people that came into the room. They stop and Levi notice that his vision is blurry. With his empty hand he tries to wipe the tears he hadn't notice falling, away.
"No one is touching him. I will kill all of you." Levi positions himself protective in front of Eren. No one would take him away. The people that had entered the room where Erwin and Hanji. Both have a look of sadness in their eyes and Levi knows that they think of the last time he had lost someone. They don't talk about it but they know, they were with him.
Hanji seems to take control over the situation by pushing Erwin back out of the lab. "Eren is alive." She says in a calm, soft voice he never heard before.
"I know." Levi nearly screams, more tears threaten to fall again. How has he become so pathetic?
"I think he exhausted himself and this is his way to regain his strength again." She points at the crystal behind him.
"Make him wake up." Oh god, he sounds like a child that wants to change the colour of the sky.
"I can´t, you have to wait for him to get better again." Hanji finally reaches him. Levi hadn't notice that his sword had fallen to the ground or that she starts pulling him into his body. He doesn't notice the warmth of her hug and the hands on his back as he allows himself to break down. All the fear he feels to end up alone again, the hurt in his soul of losing someone, the sadness that tries to swallow him. Just for this one moment he will be weak. Never again.