Tumblr drabble prompt: "Looks like we'll be trapped for a while…"

Caught

Sometimes problems in life came slamming into you at the speed of a galloping stallion; Sometimes that problem brought about a headache every time it came your way; Sometimes, if not all the time, that problem was a certain bright-eyed suicidal bastard by the name of Eren Jaeger.

"I can't believe your incompetence." Annie hissed, her palm flat against his shoulder; she pushed again, causing him to sway, and thump back into her.

Eren grunted as she glared daggers at him. "I said I'm sorry!"

He'd been going obnoxiously fast on his ODM gear, failing to check his surroundings, and crashed into her blindside; the hooks of his wiring tangled with hers, and their momentum had given way until they both awkwardly dangled by the waist, eighteen meters off the ground; had they been outside the walls, Eren's clumsiness would have surely gotten them both killed.

"You have eyes, Jaeger," She gritted her teeth, "Learn to use them."

Eren sheepishly looked away, "I was…"

Annie knew she would survive the fall if she unstrapped her ODM gear; but, Eren did not, and it was far too early for any giant chaos to ensue. So, she just opted to take out all her frustrations on him.

"First you couldn't even balance yourself, and now you can't even look where your flying?" She scoffed. "You're a wreck."

"But I was!" Eren shouted, his outburst made him rock back and forth, "I was looking, I just got…distracted."

"By what?"

Eren stayed quiet, uncomfortably so, He stared at the ground. Annie would have laughed with how much he resembled a swinging corpse, but she wasn't the type too.

"Uh, by you?" He said it like he had just figured it out. Annie blinked, once, then twice.

"Why?" Her eyes narrowed suspiciously, was Jaeger keeping an eye on her? For what reason would he need to do that? Unless…

"I don't know," he half-shrugged, "I just thought…you looked pretty good."

They stared at each other for second, and then Eren hastily added, "Using the ODM gear!"

Annie still couldn't fathom his reason. "You were following me?"

"Um…No." Eren averted his eyes to a nearby tree.

"Am I that much of a distraction that you had to crash into me?"

Eren said nothing. Annie sighed once again. Miles ahead, a smoke flare popped off into the skies; signaling the end of ODMG training. Eren's eye's widened fearfully. As did Annie's, though more so in annoyance. Surely Instructor Shadis knew they were missing, he wouldn't abandon his trainees in mid of a forest; he couldn't be that cruel.

But as the sun sunk low into the horizon, and the night breeze picked up, they both figured, that yes, Keith Shadis was in fact, that cruel.

Annie groaned, "I can't believe this…"

"Looks like we'll be trapped here for a while." Eren tried make light of the situation, "Try to get comfortable."

Annie's hands balled into fists, she wanted so badly to knock that smile off his stupid face. "I'm going to punch you for this later."

"I know."