CHAPTER 15

After realising that both Eren's home and the police station were much further away than my own apartment, I had decided to take him there. Mostly because because he was still whining about the pain, even after we had gotten into the car. It only took me a minute before starting to yell at him for getting blood in my car, and from there on and out, we had just kept bickering until we had arrived and gotten out of the car.

"Keep your head up!"

"If I do that, then I can't see anything!"

I snorted loudly, before grabbing his hand.

"I'll lead you then. Don't fall,"

As I lead the way, his hand tightened around mine. It was probably just a reflex, him being afraid of stumbling over something, not having full control, but it still made my heart beat faster. How annoying. Immediately after we had gotten inside the elevator, I pulled my hand away with such force that you would think I had touched something rather disgusting. I tapped my foot against the floor as the elevator started moving – too slow for my taste – and even before they had opened properly, I had grabbed Eren's hand again and was hastily walking towards my apartment door.

When we got inside, Eren placed himself at the kitchen counter on one of the tall chairs, while I went to the freezer. Not finding anything better han a bag of frozen peas, I ended up settling for that and walked back to Eren.

"Oi, here." I snorted, handing it to him when I discovered that it would be impossible for me to place it on his nose by myself – his tall build and the fact that he was sitting on one of the damn high bar chairs (why the hell had I bought those again?) made it impossible for me to reach his face comfortably. I would have to stand on my toes for that, and I never did that. My self-respect wouldn't be able to survive that.

Eren grabbed it, and with a sigh of relief he placed it on his nose.

"Ahh, that was much … – " His voice faded out when he turned his head in a normal position again, so that he wasn't tilting it upwards anymore. I looked at the direction his eyes had set themselves upon, and realised immediately what had interrupted his sentence.

The fucking couch.

The last place we had been together, the place we had broken up. Even our last kiss had all been there. I hadn't changed a thing, and if I could, I would probably guess that he was re-playing the scene over in his head.

Well, of course I wouldn't know for sure, since I wasn't a fucking mindreader.

"You can take the peas with you home," I said to him, walking towards the front door while doing so. "I'll drive you home. Unless you have to take a shit, then I suggest that you come with me now," I said half-jokingly, as I pulled the keys from my pockets. Erens eyes turned to face me instead, but he had a look in his eyes that I wasn't able to fully understand anyway. He didn't even answer me, instead he just stood up and walked over to me. Not saying anything either, I locked the door after us and we got out of the building. The whole way home to his apartment we hadn't spoken a word to each other, other than the time where he tried giving me directions, telling my to turn left at the next stop, and I had snapped at him, saying something like "I still know where you fucking live, Jaeger,".

MERP MERP MERP MERP

If you put all the information that I had collected form the surveillance and the information that Eren had gathered from Reiner's head together, then it was easy to put the pieces together. The blond-headed woman called Annie Leonhardt was the leader of the gang that took care of the weapon department, and we decided in unison that even though it had been confirmed that there was three different zones, we would be taking this down as the first one. The plan was simple, really.

After observing how their shifts worked, we were able to determine how many there were, and when they changed positions.

Me, Oluo, and a short-haired women called Nanaba would be in charge of bringing it down, with the S.W.A.T.-team to back us up if necessary. The objective was to capture Anne Leonhardt, and as many of her gang members as possible. After that the place would be seized, and there would be put a stop to the black market of weaponry.

Overall, a good plan. However, even though I had been helpful in bringing this plan together, I had asked not to participate – unfortunately for me, Pixis was more headstrong than I first had given him credit for, and when I had told him my reason for not wishing to – the fact that my skills were rusty – he had found it, that an easy solution as practice was good enough. The mission, though, was already two days after that, so I had spent those only in the yard, practicing my shooting skills. Since I was already physically good to go, it was only the more handy skills that I had to re-learn. Lucky for me, I had a strong mind, and I soon remembered the things I had to learn, to utter perfection.

So to speak, I felt more than ready when we thursday at dawn had sneaked up to the nearest warehouse. I was dressed in black, a bulletproof vest over my black shirt, and a hat that was put on reverse on my head, pressing down my dark black hair. I was already holding my gun in my left hand, while the spare I had, was placed safely on my bag, hidden for anyone else to see.

The gravel under my feet gave an alarming, though muffled, sound and I felt a lump in my throat as I tried focusing on the tall woman in front of me. She was squatting, pressing her right shoulder against the warehouse wall, and once in a while she would tilt her head to look around the corner, making sure that no one would discover us.

"The two guards will go to the changed location on the other side of the building in less than two minutes. Remember, the main focus should be on finding Leonhardt. If we get to her without running into anybody else, there will be a much less chance of casualties, understood?"

I nodded, but when I realised that she couldn't see me, and whispered the answer Yes boss. I didn't really find it anything else than just amusing to be able to call her that, and it surprised even myself that I didn't really mind it. I had missed being like this, I discovered in this moment, being a cop. Feeling the adrenaline pump through your body on missions like that, knowing very well that I was risking my life everytime. It gave me a rush, and remembering that now made me smile excited, almost like a child on its birthday.

Yes boss, I understood. And good grief, was I ready. Abso-fucking-lutely.

"Let's go," Nanaba manages to huff under her breath, before starting to move. I followed her, as silently as I could, while feeling Oluo's presence behind me. I knew that the S.W.A.T.-team was waiting for our orders to move in, staying in the warehouse that we had just been sitting at. By just the push of the button that was positioned on my left shoulder, they would be at the weaponry in under 10 seconds. It felt nice to know that you had back up like that, especially since you were only three people that would be infiltrating the place in the first round.

We left a slight trail of dust behind us from the gravel, but otherwise managed to get to the outer part of the warehouse, where the weaponry was.

"Oulo and Levi, you'll go left. I'll go right. Understood?" She turned her head to look at us just in time to see us nod, before silently running off and turning the corner. I couldn't help but look after her, my eyes lingering at the corner, as the feeling of respect rushed over me.

She was impressive, I'd give her that.

"Ready?" Oluo said under his breath, and I turned around to face him.
"Let's," I answered, standing up to straighten my back, before we started running again. When we got to the door, we discovered a rusty ladder that led to the second floor of the building.

I grabbed it to see if it was still usable, and to my satisfaction, it was.

"I weigh less, so I'll go this way. We'll have a better chance of finding her this way,"
Oluo looked at me with uncertainty in his eyes, not sure to let me go my own way and separating us in the action.

"Stop being a wuss, you'll be fine," I growled at him lowly after feeling like I was waiting for nothing, just wasting time. In reality, Oluo was my superior as well, but I still ended up taking the benefit of him fearing me a bit, and started crawling up the ladder.

Halfway there it started making odd sounds, whining and bemoaned the extra weight that I had added to it. I couldn't help breaking a nervous sweat on my forehead, as I tried to rush my movements. Realising that I couldn't crawl any faster, I just took a deep breath and made a little prayer in my head to God, if anything should happen. This was not how I was going to die though, as I finally reached the window that was right beside the ladder. It was not supposed to be a way to get inside through there, as the ladder went all up to the roof, and the window was even closed. But with a few hand tricks, I had removed the old screws at the bottom, and it was the best timing in the world. The ladder made a loud breaking sound as it freed itself from the wall, and started falling into pieces, landing on the ground with very loud noises following soon after.

I had just grabbed the window ledge, and with a single pull I had gotten myself inside. I found myself to be very high up, but I soon realised that this was at my advantage. There was at least ten people in the room beneath me, but none of them would ever feel the need to look all the way up here, making my spot quite a good hideout.

"Ma'am, did you hear that? Something's going on outside!" One of the men had exclaimed, and that was when I finally noticed her.

All ten of them were all gathered around a table, and she was sitting at the end of it. She had leaned forward for a moment, giving me a chance to see her light blond hair for a second or two, before pulling back again. The chair wasn't facing me correctly, so I wasn't able to see her – but at least she wasn't able to notice me either.

"Go check it out," I heard the woman voice say, and since the rest of them were men, I was guessing that it was Annie's voice as well.

"Carlton, Ben, Tom, Micheal, Moll, Jerry. Go check it out," She said, and wavered her hand at the exit, a staircase at the end of the room. Over half of the men left, six in total, leaving back four others.

Great. I just had to get past these guys to get to Annie, but it near to impossible. While Annie might be turned with the back towards me, all the men was facing her on the other side of the table, giving them full access to notice if I tried sneaking up behind her.

I had to distract them somehow.

An idea had the perfect timing to occur in my head, as I looked down to the floor under me. There were several large boxes placed on top of each other, giving me plenty of space to hide myself. Hoping that I wouldn't make too much noise, I jumped down, landing on both feet like a cat. I hurried over to the three boxes that would be able to cover me, before I looked around. There was literally nothing else than sealed boxes, so I wouldn't be able to throw with anything that could make any sound, unless it was something that I had brought myself. I started rummaging around in my pockets, cursing under my breath as I realised that they were all empty. The only things that I had with me was … Oh.

I grabbed the extra pistol from my back, looking at it for a second, trying to feel the weight of it in my hand.

I then proceeded to unlock the trigger.

This is perfect, I thought to myself, and not waiting a second longer I straightened my back and threw it as far away as I could. A loud bang was heard, and I knew that the pistol had gone off when it had hit the ground. I didn't even have time to hope that the bullet would have hit one of the guys.
"What the … Are we being attacked!?" I heard somebody say, and I knew that this was the only change I had. I threw my body forward, my pistol ready in my left hand if anything was to happen. All of the four guys had their attention elsewhere, and I almost couldn't believe how lucky I had just been. Or how stupid they really were.

I reached the chair, grabbing the top of it and pulling it backwards.

"Ah!" Annie yelped as she followed right after, landing on the floor. I took no chances, grabbing her hair roughly as I pulled her up to stand, before placing my left arm around her throat, pressing her body tightly against mine. I held the tip of the gun against her temple, placing my forefinger on the trigger, while placing my thumb on the one that unlocked the thing.

"Nobody moves!" Was the only thing I could get myself to say, the adrenaline rushing to my head so fast that I forgot what else to do. Since both of my hands were occupied, I tilted my head to press against my right shoulder, pressing the button that would activate the S.W.A.T.-team.

But only seconds after doing that, we could hear shots being fired from downstairs.

But that isn't supposed to happen, I thought to my self, suddenly feeling uneasy. The team was quick, but they weren't that quick.

As I lost focus for that one moment, I suddenly felt an elbow being stabbed for a second, and before I can react, Annie has moved out of my grip, turning around to face me.

"Fucking cops," She says, spits on the floor, and before I can do anything else, she pulls out a gun from her pants. I remember thinking How didn't I see that? Before her hands turns upwards and shoots me.

Whoops.
Next chapter will probably be from Eren's POV. But I'm not promising anything.