Disclaimer: I do not own Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan). I write this for your enjoyment only. This drabble takes place during Eren and Mikasa's days as trainees of the 104thCorps before joining the Survey Corps and at about the time they met and got acquainted with Annie Leonhart, not yet knowing her true identity.
Undisclosed Desires
Mikasa didn't know why, but she hated the girl. Not merely dislike but hate. Truly and deeply.
Annie Leonhart was a bit of a mystery to everyone who knew her, comrades and superiors alike, with the neutral, lifeless expression she always wore on her delicate heart-shaped face framed by her silken golden hair. Not one person who knew the girl ever recalled seeing her crack a smile or show any emotion but indifference to the world around her. The most others would (or could) say of Annie, was that she was intelligent and that her combat skills were admirable, even though her personality left much to be desired. She was neither likable nor unlikable since she never engaged in hostilities or friendliness with others, only speaking when she was spoken to, and socializing only when she must. Any boys whose interest she piqued did not stick around for very long after they discovered she would not even give them the time of day.
And yet, Mikasa Ackerman found herself despising the girl like no other even though Annie had done nothing to spike her ire. At least, nothing anyone else can see but Mikasa herself. It was true that Annie could match her physical and academic prowess and performance without so much as batting an eyelash, but that was not what Mikasa found so threatening about her.
It was the way she looked at Eren. Her Eren.
Mikasa never considered herself to be the jealous type and it wasn't like her to simply hate someone for no reason, who had done nothing to her. And yet, it took all her willpower not to let her feelings of contempt towards Annie show on her face. While the petite blonde girl never let any emotion betray her delicate features, the desire in her lovely ice-blue eyes when they fell upon Eren Jaeger was as clear as day to the one who loved him, deserved him most.
Mikasa knew that Annie was not the only girl who had eyes for Eren. Sasha, Christa, Mina, and many others did as well. But their interest in her foster brother never went beyond liking his winning, charismatic personality or admiration for his fine looks since they all had their own boyfriends and thought Eren would likely be more than they could handle anyway with his hot-headedness and impulsiveness. He wasn't compatible with any of them and they knew it so they chose to simply admire the handsome young man from a distance and be nothing more than his friend.
Annie Leonhart, however, was different. Compatible or not, she wanted Eren, plain and simple, even if the boy himself may not even realize it with the rough way she treated him during combat training. But that didn't fool Mikasa; the eyes of jealousy were very sharp, after all. Especially with the way Annie would throw Eren to the ground and sit on top of him in what she saw as a provocative position even though the others thought nothing of it. It was almost as if the blonde girl was deliberately trying to taunt her since everyone in their ranks, except for maybe Eren himself, knew how she really felt about him. And while Mikasa was beautiful with her silken raven hair, blue-grey eyes and other exotic Asiatic features, Annie was no less so, another thing she found so threatening about the girl, that she would eventually try and use her beauty to tempt Eren as soon as the opportunity arose.
But Mikasa would never allow that. Even if she knew she had no official claim on her foster brother, she would never let another woman have him. Eren was hers. Not Annie's, not Sasha's, not Christa's, or anyone else's. As a soldier, she was used to sharing everything from food to living space to the very clothes she wore. But there was something she would never share: Eren. He was hers and only hers.
Whether he liked it or not.
A/N: Ok, my newest installment. Sorry if it's a bit short; I intended it to be more of a portrayal of Mikasa's possible feelings towards Annie then an actual story. As I watched the last few episodes of SnK season one, I noticed that as a titan, Annie went through a lot of trouble to capture Eren alive and that the reason was not revealed, at least not that I've seen so far. So I wrote this snippet as my personal take on Annie's motivations for capturing Eren, because she desired him as a lover (and why not since he's so handsome?) :p I also took into consideration how Mikasa asked Eren (possibly out of jealousy) if he hesitated to fight Annie, even after discovering her identity, because he had feelings for her. I'm sure he did, but those feelings likely did not go beyond friendship and admiration for Annie as a fellow soldier as well as not wanting to believe that she was the one responsible for the deaths of Levi's special ops squad as well as the other fallen soldiers of the 57thexpedition beyond the walls.