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Elsa walked over to the large group with Connie.

Everyone was still making sure that Jessy was ok when the two of them showed up.

"Jessy, how are you feeling?" Elsa said as she put both her hands on his shoulders.

"Uh... great... fantastic actually.. just fantastic." he said clearly still shaken up about the fact he had just survived being eaten by a titan.

"Listen everyone, we need to get back to the wall." Elsa said as she looked at the group.

"Yeah, what made you think that?" someone from the group said sarcastically.

Jean stepped forwards and looked at Elsa, she had an intimidating look, but Jean had gone through too much to be scared of her.

"Listen, we just watched the few survivors of our squad die so I don't need your shit." Elsa said angrily to Jean.

"How the hell did you guys survive for two weeks without food, I would have died on the first day!" Sasha yelled.

"Er- Squad Leader Yaeger showed us how to live off the land. We hunted and survived off berries and rain water."

Everyone looked at each other with confusion.

"You mean Eren... he's the commander of the two of you?"

"Yeah... there was twelve of us at one point, but I suggested a risky move to go across an open field and we lost a lot of good men." Elsa said looking at the ground.

Everyone looked at her and could tell she was lying, they all knew Eren was the one who made that call.

"You don't need to cover for Eren." Jessy said and she looked at him with shock. "We both heard why he made us cross the field."

Elsa looked even more ashamed as she walked away from the group making everyone go silent.

"Hey, where are you going!" Christa yelled, but Elsa just ignored her.

"Elsa come on, come back here so we can leave this forest!" Jessy yelled.

Elsa continued to walk, her head hung down.

'Eren made the right call even if it did get many of our men... our friends killed.' she thought as she felt a raindrop hit her forehead.


Mikasa and Eren just looked at each other, none of them willing to move any closer to the other.

"Eren." Mikasa said softly as she gained the strength to take a single step towards him.

Eren didn't know what to say. All the feeling he had tried to bury where now trying to make a rise, but his anger that she said yes to Jean constantly buried them again in a vicious cycle.

Just as Eren was about to speak, he remembered the scarf he had given to her all those years ago. The same scarf he had taken from her just a few weeks back.

'Do I know what I'm doing? Is this what I want? Fuck, this isn't about what I want.' Eren thought to himself as he reached into the pocket where he stored the scarf.

'This is about what I need, this is what I need.' he continued to think as he slowly grabbed the scarf and took it out of his pocket.

Mikasa could see the maroon scarf in his hands as he kept it folded.

'He still has the scarf!' she thought as her spirits raised, but what he did next crushed her.

Eren walked up to her and dropped the scarf at her feet, then continued to walk in the direction of the others.

'It's what I need.' Eren thought to himself as he tried to fight back the pained look on his face.

Mikasa collapsed to her knees as she looked at the scarf laying on the ground. She slowly reached down and grabbed it, but soon realised it had lost its meaning to her and instead of wrapping it around her neck she simply put it in her pocket.


"Shit, looks like we have to stay out here one more night... I don't feel like traveling in this storm." Connie said and the others nodded in agreement.

"Where do you think Eren went?" Sasha asked.

"No idea, but Mikasa ran out after him and Elsa is heading that way now." Jean answered.

"Guess we got no choice but to-" Connie stopped talking at the sight of Eren returning, but no one was with him.

Everyone ran to Eren, but he walked through them like they were ghosts.

"This is bad... real bad." Jean said

Armin just looked on in horror.

'What the hell happened to him?' was all he could think.


Elsa was still wandering through the bush until she heard a faint cry.

She quickly raised her head when she heard it again and when she heard it for a third time, she ran looking for the source.

Soon, she found herself in a small clearing with a black-haired girl on her knees crying.

'Oh no, what has he done?' Elsa thought as she sprinted towards Mikasa.

Elsa took a knee beside Mikasa, but didn't look at her. All she needed to see was the scarf that Mikasa clenched tightly in her hands.

"Why will he not listen to me." Mikasa said breaking the silence as Elsa felt more rain coming through the trees.

"What?" was all Elsa could come up with.

"Why won't he listen to me, why won't he take me back?" Mikasa said as tears began to run down her cheeks again.

Elsa just looked at her, she was falling apart without him and his judgement was clouded without her.

"Eren told me that you meant more than anything in the world to him." Elsa said trying to calm Mikasa down. "He said he was willing to pay any price just to be at your side."

Mikasa looked at her as if she was a liar, the dirty scowl on her face from hearing those words after what Eren had just done to her.

Elsa looked a little frightened, she just didn't know what to do any more.


"You got a lot of fucking nerve Eren." Jean said angrily.

"No, you got a lot of fucking nerve for opening your God damned mouth." Eren shot back angrily.

Jean looked at him infuriated.

"And why the hell are you so pissed off anyways? Is it because you got your squad killed, is it because Mikasa hates you?"

Everyone knew that was the wrong thing to say and before they knew it Eren had Jean on the ground.

"She only hates me because of you!" Eren screamed as he punched Jean in the face.

Christa tried to run out and break the fight up, but Connie and Sasha held her back.

"That all you got?" Jean said as he spat some blood on Eren.

Eren brutally punched Jean in the face until his hands hurt.

Jean just looked at him, his mouth was pooling with blood, his nose broken and right eye swollen.

Jean was tough, but not tough enough to withstand that beating.

Eren looked at his hands, then back at Jean as his face went from rage to terror.

'What have I done?' Eren thought in a panic.

"WHAT THE FUCK HAVE I DONE!" he screamed as he got off of Jean and shook him.

Connie and Sasha finally let Christa go as she ran to Jeans side.

Jean turned his head to Eren causing the blood to pour out of his mouth.

"You did... what you thought was-" Jean stopped to cough up even more blood.

"Was right." he said painfully as he turned his head over to Christa.

Armin stepped forwards and grabbed Eren, pulling him from the scene as Connie ran to grab the medical gear.

"Eren, you gotta know something... what you heard in the infirmary... Jean was practising asking Christa out with Mikasa." Armin said as he looked down.

Erens face went from terror to blank.

"So... what you are telling me is... Mikasa and Jean never..."

"No, nothing ever happened between them, Mikasa only has a heart for you." Armin said trying to keep his cool.

"Why didn't you tell me before? WHy was I never told this before?" Eren demanded, anger and hatred building up inside of him, but this anger and hate was for himself.

"You left in such a hurry I couldn't tell you." Armin said.

"I am no better than a fucking titan." Eren said as he slowly backed away from Armin.

Armins eyes widened at the statement.

"Just... tell Mikasa that I am sorry for everything, I am sorry I couldn't understand, I fucked everything up and ruined your life and that is why I need to go." Eren said as he began to run off into the forest away from the camp.

"Eren!" Armin yelled. He was about to chase after Eren, but knew he would only get lost.

Armin walked the entire way back to the camp with his head hung in defeat.

Elsa and Mikasa returned to the camp the same time Armin did.

Mikasa walked over to Armin and when he realised who was walking towards him, he cringed as Erens words came into his head.

"Armin, what's wrong?" she said calmly.

Armin let out a small gasp of sadness.

"Mikasa... I just talked to Eren... he told me to tell you that he was sorry about everything, sorry for ruining your life with his harshness and that is why he needs to leave so he can't hurt you anymore."

Mikasa once again dropped to her knees, how could Eren take everything as his fault?

She heard Christa talking to Jean, but Jean was bloodied and past out.

Connie walked over and stood beside her.

"Eren has started another one of his end games, we need to find him." he said looking down at her.

Mikasa looked up at him and agreed, what Elsa said was true and Armin had validated that fact and she would stop at nothing until she had him in her arms again.

"Jessy stay with those two." Elsa said as Jessy quickly saluted and ran over.

"Armin you do the same, they need someone smart like you." Connie said as Armin nodded and ran with Jessy.

The rest of them dashed into the forest heading in Erens last known direction.


It was starting to get dark out and the storm showed no signs of going away.

The rain started to fall on Eren heavier and heavier as he continued to walk.

"I see that you let your emotions blind you again." a strange voice said from above Eren.

"You again? Just leave me the fuck alone." Eren said as he looked up.

The masked man jumped down from his branch and stood in front of Eren.

"I will leave you alone when you kill me." the man said.

Eren was starting to get angry and drew his blades.

"I was afraid that you would do that." the man said as he drew his own blades.

Eren slashed with his left blade and thrusted with his right, but the man was to skilled in defensive actions for Eren to make a successful strike.

The small battle between the man and Eren lasted for several minutes before the man parried and riposted Eren, punching him in the gut knocking him to the forest floor.

"You fight well, but your attacks are flimsy and sporadic, even a novice could defend them self against you." the man said as he picked Eren up.

"You have no idea what I've been through, you have no idea what I have done." Eren said as he pushed the man away.

"My boy, I know your struggle all to well." the man said as he took off his hood revealing his bald and scarred head. "You don't know who I am yet, but we share the same enemy."

"Just leave me alone." Eren said as he pushed past the man, but the man grabbed him and threw him to the ground.

"My dear boy, are you in such a hurry that you have no questions? Have I broken you that fast?" the man taunted.

Eren felt his anger building up again and as he launched his fist at the man, he soon found his arm in minor pain.

"Make any more rash actions and your arm will be as flimsy as your fighting skills." the man said threatening to break his arm.

The group was rushing through the bush when they stumbled upon Eren and the strange man.

Mikasa recognized him right away, the man who had saved her life, but why was he trying to hurt Eren?

"Let him go!" Sasha yelled as she charged forwards at the man.

The man waited for Sasha to get close enough for her to hear him.

"As you wish." he said as he threw Eren into her knocking both of them over

"Sasha!" Connie yelled as he ran at the man.

The man spun around Connie striking him in the back, knocking him to the ground.

Mikasa slowly walked forwards as the man put his hood back up to cover his scarred head.

"Why are you doing this?" Mikasa demanded.

"My dear, everything will be clear to you in due time. Just remember I am always looking out for the two of you." he said as he walked away into the darkness.

Sasha helped Connie walk back to the camp while Mikasa carried Erens unconscious body.

Jessy and Armin walked over to them.

"What hap- you found Eren?" Armin said joyfully.

"We had some... help." Mikasa said as she layed him beside Jean.

Just as she set him down, he woke up and the first thing he did was look into her eyes.


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