This was a long one whew, but I did extend the chapters because I'm a piece of crap that cannot write short fics. Here's to hoping I update this one much quicker than the others haha...ha
anyway I hope you enjoy this chapter~
I Do not own snk/aot
The weekend went by without further problems, Eren stayed for most of it to help take her mind off all stress. She was happy at least for those few days.
But time went by and Monday came as she knew it would.
And his class was the first of the day.
She got ready as usual but decided to heat up a cup of the blood and try to drink some, it was difficult since she wasn't even hungry but she had to make sure that she could withstand the hour and fifteen minutes of class without wanting to run away.
The cup sat in the sink after she washed the remaining red liquid down the drain and headed to class on her own today.
Mikasa could feel her body already reacting in anticipation.
She walked into the class and let out a thankful breath that he wasn't in there yet, giving her time to sit down and mentally prepare herself.
Eren walked into class right on time and gave her an encouraging smile as he took the seat behind hers.
Right at nine on the dot, Dr. Ackerman walked into the room breezing past her to the desk at the other side.
She breathed normally and once again for the third time she inhaled his delicious scent. It smelled amazing as usual but she detected a hint of freshness, she breathed deeper and determined that it was a body wash or something.
Her eyes looked at him without focus as she kept inhaling, each breath in was making her throat that much dryer. Her mind clouding with terrible images, like tasting the skin on his thick neck before letting her teeth slice through the tender skin.
Shame and embarrassment hit her hard with her last thought, somehow her extreme lust for his blood was also turning her into a pervert.
He was talking to the class but she could still hear his heartbeat from here. Sometimes it was amazing how her senses heightened when she was hungry.
Her eyes travelled up to his and she noticed they were locked onto her before darting away to another part of the class.
Her staring was probably obvious, she looked away from him.
She let her tongue run across her gums and canine teeth, they were already protruding more than usual. She inhaled again, deeply letting the fiery desire lick at her throat. She could smell the other people too but her nose only targeted the sweet smell emanating from the professor.
Her body was ridged, and her mind was starting to betray her too. She was plotting internally, if she could sneak up on him and take him off guard then he would never seem it coming
No, she couldn't think like that. He was a person, she needed to focus on that.
But he was an asshole, he coursed her into research she didn't want to do and snooped through her personal notebook. He talked to the class like they were all idiots, and he was short.
The short thing was probably ridiculous but she didn't care, all she wanted to do was sit in class without this tortuous feeling but that wasn't going to happen anytime soon so she hated even the smallest things about him.
She suffered through the rest of class, breathing in slowly and trying not to stare at him as if he was food but it was hard. It took all of her willpower to look and act human. She tried to keep her gaze passive like the other students, she was beginning to worry about her eyes they tended to take on a crimson hue when she was feeling like this. She kept checking her posture, her body kept wanting to slip in a predatory like stance and she kept feeling her muscles tense up. She tried to swallow all the spit that was collecting in her mouth but her throat was so dry.
The entire hour and fifteen minutes she was in there was like a unique hell just for her and as soon as the clock hit 10:15 she bolted for the door.
She was walking to the library to study before her next class when Eren caught up with her.
"Any better?" he asked in a low voice. She wanted to be honest but she didn't want to worry him.
"I made it, didn't I?" she responded, sounding petulant.
"I guess but are you sure you can go to that research thing?" he asked, worry invading his voice.
"I'll be fine, I won't let him win." She gritted her teeth. She would win this, she wouldn't let it control her.
He shook his head and smiled.
"As long as you don't push yourself." He reminded her darting off to his next class.
She rolled her eyes, hearing that was starting to grate on her nerves.
The entire day was spent mentally preparing for her research lab with Dr. Ackerman and now that that time had arrived she felt determined, she wouldn't let that asshole get the better of her.
She walked into the lab and saw three more people, another girl and two other boys. She didn't know them but as usual for any human when she stood next to them they unknowingly moved to give her space.
The lab smelled heavily like chemicals and there was no trace of his scent in the vicinity, she was hopeful that the harsh smell of the lab would drown out that horridly distracting scent.
The other students were murmuring excitedly, she wished she could be excited too but this seemed like a chore more than anything.
"I'm glad you all showed up, I was actually expecting at least one of you to bail." She heard his voice from behind and cringed because he was probably talking about her.
The others all greeted him with enthusiastic smiles and she wanted roll her eyes.
"This will be much different than class, you are free to come and go. I have to set up a time but as long as you do your work and keep up with your portion of the experiment I don't really care what you do. The only one who has to show up at the designated times is the person I appoint as lead researcher, but don't worry you won't have any harder of a work load you just have to show up during this time and help me." He began to explain.
Mikasa started to feel hopeful, she might be able to do this experiment with minimal contact, there was no way he would want her as head researcher anyways. She showed too much obvious distain.
"I'll decide who that is at the end of this lab today." He mentioned looking at the papers he carried in his hand.
She took little breathes, scared the smell was going to hit her any minute.
"One more thing I would like to add, don't be stupid. You are all going to graduate soon so you should know how to act in a lab." He warned. She stared at his face, that stupid scowl was still plastered onto it. She wondered what could be so bad in his life, he wasn't the one being tortured by someone's mere existence.
He handed the packets of paper out to everyone and she tensed as he neared her. She took the paper from him, eyes on his hand. They were rather big for someone so short, the tendons on the back of his hands standing out.
As he passed by her the air around him finally made its way into her nose, she inhaled lightly feeling the already familiar thirst curling deep in her gut.
He looked at her as began explaining the experiment in detail but she could barely focus on the words, as usual. She heard some words and got the gist of what was going on, they were testing certain chemicals and their ability to pass through the cell membrane of a human red blood cell and why.
He stayed close to Mikasa, barely even a few feet from her. She had to fight the overwhelming urge to just touch him, to feel the rush of the blood beneath his skin.
"Dr. Ackerman, just to be clear we can come to the lab anytime to do the work?" a girl asked braking her fixated glare.
"You can just call me Levi, I hate that Doctor shit and yea written down on the last page of the packet I gave you is the mandatory meeting times where we will all meet up." He answered.
He continued to discuss how the experiment was going to work and what job position was responsible for what.
"Everyone clear on what's going on?" he asked looking around, his voice was deep and he sounded bored.
Everyone shook their head yes and he pulled out more papers from his bag.
"Now time to assign positions. Nick your researcher number one, Mina you're number two." He counted off and she became more nervous, she desperately wanted number three.
"Thomas, you are number three and finally, Mikasa you have the lead so you're stuck with me" he finished, confirming her worst fears.
She was so angry, why did he have to pick her? She looked like the most unimpressed, bored, and angry student in this entire lab yet he had to make her the lead. She didn't want it.
Another thought struck fear into her heart, what if he did know. She looked at him and could see he was staring at her intently, it was the same stare he gave her when he called her into his office.
She took a breath in, trying to fight through the haze his scent caused in her mind. She needed to think clearly but it was difficult in this situation. Panicking would definitely worsen the situation.
"If everyone understands what they're doing then you can all leave." He waved them off.
Mikasa gathered her stuff and tried to get the hell out of there but it seemed Levi had other plans.
"Not you." He stated sternly without even turning around but she knew he was referring to her
She balled her fist tightly, she didn't understand why a man that smelled so good could be such a douchebag.
"Yea?" she seethed, her teeth in almost agony from being held back. To her horror all the other kids had left and she was now alone, she didn't expect all of the students to be slackers.
"I think we need to talk about your shitty attitude, this is a great opportunity and you're pissing on it. I don't know what I've done to make you mad but I will not tolerate your blatant hostility." He lectured with crossed arms, but his eyes gleamed with an unknown emotion.
Levi stared her down, he had his black button up shirt rolled up to his elbows and Mikasa caught sight of something on the skin of his forearm.
"I don't want to be lead." She stated, she knew she sounded like child but she just couldn't be around him so much. The smell was getting too tempting already.
He cocked his thin eyebrow and unfurled his arms to rest on either side of him against the counter.
"Too bad." He responded quickly.
She looked down, unsure of what to do and saw what exactly was on his skin.
A tattoo.
He didn't look like the kind of guy to have a tattoo. It was just two small words in simple black writing, tuer…tueri? She squinted harder to see what it said.
Tueri Homines? What the hell did that even say?
Her gaze was fixated on his arm and she was standing so close to him that she could hear the blood rushing through his veins, it was a steady rhythm lulling her into a dangerous trance.
No one was around, she could over power him. She wasn't as strong as humans liked to think vampires were, she couldn't lift a car over her head but when she was worked up enough she could take down a full grown man easy. Even if she was up against someone who could potentially over power her all she had to do was bite them.
She stared at him and her body was begging her to move, to hold him down and sink her teeth into his skin to get to the hot liquid underneath. Her canines descended in preparation as she inhaled again, it was maddening to be around such a deliciously sweet scent and not be able to taste it.
Her eyes looked over him hungrily trying to decided which area would be the best, the neck was too cliché but it would get the job done. His shoulders were nice, she thought, maybe she could peel back his shirt and-
"Arent you a bit too old to give people the silent treatment?" he asked with an eerily even voice, breaking the spell she was under.
She felt her face heat up, she almost attacked him. Eren was right, this was too much. She turned around to grab her bag and hide her mouth from his view.
"Find another student, I quit." She spat as she left the lab altogether.
She walked quickly not bothering to look back or think about the consequences. She would find another research lab to work in eventually but she couldn't deal with that smell.
As soon as she was outside the building entirely she had to stop and catch her breath, she needed to drown out that damn smell. It was already burned into her memory, she caught herself thinking of it way to many times over the weekend.
Realization that she almost messed everything up hit her hard, she wanted to march back to that lab and punch him square in the face.
His blood type might not have been his fault but his terrible personality was.
Mikasa finally started to walk back to her dorm room, she was angry at the world and she just wanted that fucking dick to disappear.
Once she was inside she locked the door and went to her mini fridge, unlocking the latch and grabbing the first bag of blood. She didn't even bother heating it up, just ripped opened the top and chugged. She gagged since she was already full and it was cold but she kept drinking. It spilled out of her mouth onto the front of her white shirt and all over the floor.
She dropped the bag once she choked it all down but immediately dropped to her hands and knees, vomiting the liquid back up. Her stomach couldn't handle that much at once but she still felt the craving when she thought of his blood.
She screamed in frustration, slamming her fists on the floor.
Internally she cursed her own kind, she just wanted to be human. She wanted desperately to be like Eren, she remembered curling up in her bed at night as a child crying and begging whatever god to make her human like him.
She hated being alone.
Eventually she dragged herself off of the floor to change out of her clothes and wash the blood off of the hardwood floors. It was stupid to waste blood like that and ruin a perfectly good shirt.
After cleaning the mess she made during her pity party climbed into bed, she wouldn't be able to sleep for a few more hours but she had no energy to do much else.
She listened to the sounds around her, cars on the street outside, people in the hallway and in the rooms next to her. Someone was playing music, a song she actually liked.
She tried to keep her thoughts focused on something other than the man currently ruining her life but her mind did it anyway.
He looked so damn annoying, his face twisted in that scowl and his terrible angry demeanor. Not to mention his stupid tattoo.
She tried to remember what it said again, something stupid like torus hummus? No it kind of looked like Greek or Latin.
Pulling out her phone she clicked the google app and typed in Turis Humus. Nothing sensible came up except for hummus recipes.
She racked her brain, what was it?
Oh.
It was Tueri Homines she remembered suddenly, she typed that into the search bar and saw a bunch of articles that looked like Latin. She pursed her lips, she was confused by what that could mean so she pulled up the translator.
Tueri Homines – Protect people
She was instantly confused, why did he have protect people written on his arm in Latin? She locked her phone and rolled over, thinking about it was stupid.
The night passed by slowly, she couldn't fall asleep until five. Forgetting to set an alarm Mikasa slept through her only two classes on Tuesday and didn't wake up until three in the afternoon.
She never missed class much so she wasn't really worried but if she kept letting this get to her than her grades would suffer soon.
A loud knock interrupted her thoughts, it was probably Eren since he had already left her about sixteen messages and even got Armin to text her.
She was half tempted to ignore it completely but decided to get up. Eren was probably already mad so ignoring him would worsen the situation.
"Where were you today!?" He exclaimed, worry evident in his expression.
"I was sick." She simply stated, it wasn't exactly a lie.
"The hell you were!" he practically yelled slamming her door behind him as he walked into her apartment.
"Vampires can get sick too." She mumbled, curling up on her small blue couch.
Eren huffed angrily and got himself a drink from the human fridge. The soda can popped loudly as he lifted the tab.
"I don't want to see him again." She whispered suddenly, she felt her stomach twist in a knot at the mere thought of Levi.
Eren looked at her and all the anger deflated from his body, raking a hand through his hair he walked over to her couch and flopped down beside her.
"I guess it can't be helped, you tried everything you could." He murmured soothingly. She nodded absently, she should tell him about how she almost lost it but his disappointment would be too hard to bare.
"Armin coming over tonight?" she asked offhandedly.
"Nah, he's got Latin homework or something." Eren laughed. Mikasa perked up at his words. That's right, she thought, Armin was double majoring in anthropology and ancient languages so if anyone was going to know what Tueri Homines meant it would be him.
She went to retrieve her phone from her room and give him a call.
"What are you doing?" Eren asked curiously.
"Something about Levi that Armin might know." She responded casually as the phone rang.
"Hey Mikasa." Armin chirped as he picked up.
"Good you're not in class, can I ask you something about Latin?" she questioned.
"Sure." He replied.
"What does 'Tueri Homines' mean? I looked it up on google translate but it just said 'protect people' but that sounds like a stupid idea for a tattoo." She mused to her friend.
"Oh well literally it does mean that I guess but Tueri Homines is actually something I learned about in one of my ancient mythology classes, it means 'Protect Humanity' and it was a symbol used to denote members of a group of people that went around trying to hunt witches, werewolf, vampires, and all other mythical monsters during roman times." He answered with a light hearted tone.
Mikasa dropped her phone as soon as he finished his explanation.
"Mikasa?" Eren asked nervously upon seeing her terrified expression.
"I need to leave." She whispered while bending over to pick up her phone and pressed end, ignoring the sound of Armin's confused voice on the other end.
She ignored Eren and rushed for her room, grabbing a small bag and started to shove some clothes in it frantically.
"Mikasa! What's going on?" He yelled, grabbing the bag from her hand.
She looked at him with wide eyes, she was stupid to have put Eren in danger and to have pretended she could ever live life as a human when she clearly wasn't.
"Eren, I don't have time to explain but Levi – I mean Dr. Ackerman isn't who he says he is and I think he's coming after me." She tried to reason with him while continuing to pack certain items. She shoved her toiletries into her bag and grabbed her boots, shoving them on her feet quickly.
"Wait, you're eyes are blood red Mikasa, tell me what's happening." He grabbed her sleeve to stop her as she went for the door. She could feel her eyes turning red, it only happened when she was in the "hunt phase" or under a lot of stress, she cringed internally thinking back her eyes probably turned red right in front of Levi yesterday.
"I think Dr. Ackerman is a part of a group of vampire hunters." She whispered, saying it aloud shot ice cold fear into her veins. Eren stared at her with a stunned expression and for the first time in a little while it was silent.
Too silent.
She had good hearing yes but it didn't take super human hearing to be able to listen to the hustle and bustle of college dorm life in the late afternoons.
"Eren, why is it so quiet." She continued to whisper, adrenaline taking over her body.
"Um, this morning the school announced an impromptu free buffet dinner for all students and I guess…they all went there." He said the last words slowly and a serious realization hit Mikasa as she inhaled the air around her.
"We have to leave. Now!" She hissed pushing him to the window while he continued to protest but it was already too late anyways as her door was busted open.
Eren yelled profanities and Mikasa crouched low, muscles tensed to fight.
Levi along with four other people positioned themselves in the room, three other men and one woman.
They were dressed all black clothes and matching black jackets, they held knife like weapons in their hands.
"Mikasa Ackerman, you're being charged as a threat to humanity and accused as a vampire. You can come with us or die, choose wisely." Levi stated threateningly with narrowed eyes.
His smell swam in the air, and this time it was to her advantage since the scent of his blood honed her vampiric senses. She was at her best, they better hope they could keep up.
Canines fully extended and eyes truly crimson she knew there was no guessing what she was now. She kept her defensive position, daring them to come closer.
"Oh? Is that how it's gonna be?" Levi's face remained indifferent but she could hear the smirk in his words.
Eren stood behind Mikasa in shock with his mouth open.
"Eren stay back." She seethed.
He made a hand signal and the two biggest men came at her with a trained precision, but unfortunately for them she was just a little more precise.
The one with dark brown hair threw a punch as the blonde one tried to slice with his knife. She snarled, trying to look as menacing as possible as she dodged the punch and grabbed the arm of the one with the knife, she used all her might to throw him at the other man.
They landed in a heap breaking the small kitchen table and quickly the next two, a woman and the older looking man attacked as well. They were more synchronized, both wielding the same knives and came at her at the same time but she was faster than them and managed to side step their weapons.
She elbowed the older looking man in the face and heard bone crunching. The woman swung back around much quicker than Mikasa anticipated but she threw her head back just in time for the knife to wiz past her face, narrowly missing her.
Mikasa grabbed her hand, twisting her wrist with a loud snap as the knife clattered to the floor. The woman shrieked and Mikasa decided it was time to show them the vampire they came to see.
She yanked her forward quickly, aiming her mouth to her neck.
"Petra!" someone screamed, but she didn't care who.
Her teeth sank into the tender skin and she immediately felt the rush of blood into her awaiting mouth, it was much better tasting than the bagged shit but still not as inviting as Levi's, though she didn't drink any. She just let her venom seep into her blood stream for a few seconds, it didn't take much.
Almost as quickly as she bit her, she released the woman and she stumbled to the ground.
"M-Mikasa!" Eren stammered behind her, unsure of what to do.
Mikasa let the blood stay on her face for dramatics as the man with the bloody nose and the brown haired man rushed to her side.
"You bitch, what did you do?!" the blonde one yelled, standing to his feet to attack again. She looked at them confused, did they know nothing about vampires?
"Stand down." Levi ordered firmly.
They looked pissed off to hear such an order but did as they were told.
"What about Petra?!" The older one half shrieked. The woman was already exhibiting signs, her eyes drooped and glazed over as she slumped into the brown haired man's arms.
"Take care of her." He instructed, slowly circling Mikasa. He was going to fight her alone after what she just did to his four squad members, she guessed he had balls.
His scent filled her nose and she bared her teeth threateningly, the scent would be hard to resist but when it came to Eren all other desires were shut down and her need to protect him over powered all else.
"What does your bite do? Kill your victims? Turn them?" he seethed.
She stopped moving and stared at him, dumbfounded.
"Do you know anything about vamires?" she spat.
He remained silent but narrowed his eyes at her, his ever present scowl deepening.
"What. Will. It Do." He pronounced each word threateningly.
She was beyond enraged at the absurdity of it all.
"How 'bout I show you!?" she snarled, lunging at his throat. She would kill this man if necessary.
Although she moved blaringly fast, he was still able to avoid her and counter with a jab of his own. She ducked and tried to kick at his knees but he missed that too and was able to land a hit in her stomach.
She felt the pain but ignored it, jumping back quickly. As she breathed heavier the scent of his blood filled her head, she tried to shake off the craving that flared up.
Mikasa attacked again, this time catching him in the jaw but it was weak compared to the knee he shoved into her side.
She endured the pain and grabbed his hand, with her left foot she kicked his shin. The kick sent them both to the ground but he used her force against her and rolled over on top of her.
"I'll ask one more time." She seethed, unsheathing his knife. "What is going to happen to Petra?" he finished.
"Wait!" Eren finally piped up.
Levi looked back and Mikasa grabbed his shirt while he was distracted, using the momentum to pull him off her.
She rolled and stood to her feet but Eren jumped in-between them.
"Please, just listen to me! Mikasa isn't dangerous." He pleaded with Levi.
Levi looked back at Mikasa then at Eren as if he was blind.
"She's just scared, you guys are trying to kill her what do you think is going to happen?" he reasoned and at that time Petra let out a strangled moan.
"What about Petra?!" The older looking man with the bloody nose asked.
Mikasa rolled her eyes and looked at them. The woman, who was apparently Petra, was very flushed and breathing heavily. Her eyes were glazed and the scene looked a little…erotic.
That was new, Mikasa thought, she remembered biting Eren once as a child but he said it just felt good as in he took a really refreshing nap. This girl looked like she was having an orgasm.
"Well, um, I can tell you she will definitely recover." Eren responded with a blush on his cheeks. Mikasa eyed him suspiciously.
Petra let another moan, this one was more breathy. The other men surrounding her all blushed and looked away embarrassed.
"I was bit before too, on accident when we were kids and I can assure uh, Petra will be fine but please, Mikasa isn't what you think. She doesn't hurt people, she's good!" he yelled in her defense.
Levi looked at her again, and he looked a little confused. She loosened her defensive stance slightly but Levi used the distraction to grab Eren by his shirt and pull him into his chest.
To Mikasa's horror Levi held the knife to Eren's throat. She snarled but halted as he pressed the blade closer to his skin.
"Come with us, or I kill the boy." He threatened with no emotion in his voice.
"Okay." She gave up immediately, she couldn't let him hurt Eren.
Levi nodded his head and before she could turn around something hit her head with such force she only heard Eren's screaming as she lost consciousness.
Her eyes fluttered and the first thing she noticed was a searing headache, well that and a heavenly smell.
Levi.
She tried to sit up but her hands and ankles were bound so she was forced to stay laying down on the floor. She also noticed her mouth was gagged with fabric.
She looked around and figured she must be in a basement of sorts, the floor was hard and the walls were cement.
She heard other people in the room and pinpointed Levi's voice.
"She's awake." He stated, in the same dull deep voice.
She felt his hands lifting her up and she was placed upright towards the rest of the people in the room but she became panicked when she saw no sight of Eren.
He untied the cloth around her mouth and crouched in front of her.
"Where's Eren!?" she demanded as soon as she could speak.
"Alive, but I'm asking the questions." He warned, she bared her teeth at him but he grabbed her chin suddenly, his fingers squeezing her cheeks open.
"Gross, like a damn snake." He commented on her long teeth. She jerked her head away, his touch churning her stomach.
"Can you put them away." He demanded, not as a question.
"It's hard to do with you around." She answered honestly. Her mouth starting to water form breathing in his scent.
"Why?" he asked, actual curiosity on his face.
She didn't know how to tell him that he smelled so amazing but he was a sharp human.
"Is it to do with my blood type? You did write it out on that note in class." He mused.
She turned her head in defiance.
"I guess we'll find out." He sighed and pulled out his knife, she knew what he was about to do and it couldn't turn out good. He took off his jacket and roll up the sleeves on his shirt.
"Stop!" she yelled, too late. He opened a cut right on his forearm. The blood spilled out in front of her and she instantly stopped breathing, the scent of him was already torturous. She couldn't imagine the smell of his blood open to the air, it would surely make her lose control.
"You'll have to breath in sometime." He taunted. "Or do you?" he added.
She narrowed her eyes at him and only a few seconds later she was forced to breathe in.
The scent hit her so hard it physically hurt.
Her chest was tight, her eyes dilated immediately and she could see the basement much clearer now. Her heart beat erratically in her chest, the muscles in her body aching from being forced to stay seated.
The smell filled every pore in her body and she felt like she was suffocating from it, that she would die if she couldn't taste it. Then the terrible desires bombarded her mind, ripping off his shirt, teeth sinking into the toned flesh of his shoulder, and the blood pouring into her mouth.
She closed her eyes, unwilling to look him.
"I hate you." She choked out. Her eyes watering from how uncomfortable she was, this was real torture. Being kept from Eren, unknown of his whereabouts and forced to endure this provocation was more than she could handle and the tears spilled over onto her cheeks.
"Captain…" She heard a female voice, Petra, chide.
Levi snorted but Mikasa felt him move and when she breathed in the concentrated scent had thinned out a bit, making it easier to think.
Another smell made her way into her nose, a familiar one.
When she opened her eyes, Petra was sitting in front of her. The woman's face was still red, and she was wobbly. She must've just came down from the high a little bit ago but her wrist was splinted and Mikasa felt bad for breaking it.
The woman took out a white tissue from her pocket and wiped Mikasa's cheeks.
"B-be careful!" the older man warned, his nose all patched up.
"I'll be okay Oluo." She waved her hand. "Sorry about that, how old are you?" she asked Mikasa sweetly.
"Twenty." Mikasa mumbled.
"How old are you really?" The blonde man asked accusingly. Mikasa rolled her eyes, she felt like she was in some cheesy teen romance novel.
"Twenty years and eight months." She deadpanned.
Levi raised his eyebrow but the others looked skeptical.
"I was born just like you, I'm alive. I have a heartbeat, I maintain my own body temperature, and I'm not immortal." She explained, rolling her eyes.
Levi stared at her passively but the others looked very interested.
"What do you know about vampires?" she sighed, this was going to take a while.
"The last recorded capture of a vampire was over a hundred years ago, but we only know what the guard tells us and apparently they're wrong." It was Levi who spoke up.
She didn't look at him directly, still embarrassed of her body's reaction to his. Mikasa also felt anxious, she wanted to see Eren.
"Can I see Eren?" she asked suddenly.
"You can see him after you answer all of our questions." Levi replied. She frowned but agreed none the less.
"okay." She sighed.
"How do you survive without killing people?" Levi asked first.
She gave a loud sigh, the dumbest questions came first.
"As you can see I don't have lethal venom, and I can only drink about a liter of blood every few weeks so even if I drank directly from a human it wouldn't kill them but I get my blood from the hospital. Expired donations that cannot be used but are still edible." She answered.
Everyone hung on to her every word, they all looked so interest but Levi stared at her with the same emotionless expression.
"Are there more of your kind?" he asked next.
"Not to my knowledge, my parents were killed when I was young by criminals and I was taken in by humans." She stated honestly.
Levi pursed his lips as if he didn't believe her but said no more on the subject.
"Do you sleep?" he asked another stupid question.
"Seeing as I was just unconscious, yes. I tend to want to sleep during the day but I try to keep human sleeping hours so I can be awake for school and obviously sunlight doesn't affect me." She added, knowing he would ask that sooner or later.
She was growing impatient, she wanted to see Eren and these questions were annoying her.
"What happens when you're hungry? Can you control yourself?" Levi walked closer as if to show she couldn't.
"I can control myself just fine, I was able to only bite her and nothing more." She nodded her head at Petra who blushed at the memory of the bite.
"Yes but for some reason it becomes difficult around me, I really thought you were going to jump me yesterday." He replied.
She narrowed her eyes at the floor, she hated even looking at that prick.
"I don't think she's a threat, Levi." The blonde man with a ponytail spoke up.
He stared at Mikasa, as if he was thinking about his response. She hoped he would at least un-tie her, she couldn't fight back anyways so long as they had Eren.
"I'll let you go on two conditions." He finally stated. "One, you agree to be our lab rat to gather more information on Vampires. Two, you will be under my surveillance at all times." He finished.
She didn't really have much of a choice, did she?
"You want to experiment on me?" she scoffed.
"I don't want to, but we have a fanatic who's dying to take a look at you." He rolled his eyes.
She tilted her head, why wouldn't a scientist want to experiment.
"Do you even have a PhD?" she asked.
"Fuck no, I just kill whatever freaks I'm assigned to kill but you're lucky I don't like killing unnecessarily." He snorted.
She wasn't surprised really, he seemed so bored in class that she didn't know how he endured years of school for something he hated so much.
"Well, do you agree or not?" He asked.
She nodded her head and he jerked his head toward her, signaling Petra to start undoing the knots on her wrists and ankles.
"I'm Petra by the way, and that's Oluo." She pointed to the older looking man.
"Eld." She pointed to the big blonde man. "And that's Gunther." She pointed to the last man with brown hair.
They all gave her a half-smile or a wave but they didn't look like they particularly liked her.
"So how did you find out about me in the first place." She asked, finally able to get to her feet.
"We didn't." Levi responded.
She looked at him confused.
"Were originally came here to hunt down Dr. Grisha Jaeger." He sighed.
Her eyes snapped open wide, what could they want from him?
"Why were you at the school? And what do you want with him, he's just a doctor." She raised her voice a little and everyone tensed around her.
"I was at the school to watch Eren but I found you in the process and details on Eren's father is classified." He answered.
She was about to asked more anyways but he held his hand up and walked toward to stairwell.
"I'm fucking starving, we can ask more questions later." He grumbled.
She rolled her eyes but followed everyone upstairs anyways. They walked into a hallway and she continued to follow them until it let out into a large room with a kitchen on one side and a living area on the other. There was a hallway on the end of the living room part.
It was large but barely had any furniture besides a small table with a few chairs and a couch in the living room portion.
Eren was waiting on the couch and he jumped up when he saw her, anxiety in his eyes.
"Mikasa!" he uttered. She walked straight to him, relieved that he was unharmed. She was surprised when he wrapped his arms around her tightly, hugging her close to him. She took advantage of his unusual affection and pressed her face into his warm chest.
He smelled like home and not like food, which was a much needed change.
She glanced to the side where everyone was standing and saw Levi watching them intently, with an unreadable expression on his face.
"I'm glad you're okay." He crooned. She smiled for the first time in a while, the stress of the past five days melting away.
"They're trying to find dad, they said he went missing soon after their investigation started." He informed her after letting her go.
Her eyebrows knitting together in worry, Dr. Jaeger was the man who gave her a way to live as a normal person. She didn't want him to be hurt.
"Did they tell you why he's under investigation?" Mikasa asked in a low voice.
Eren shook his head sadly.
"No, they couldn't tell me." He whispered. She wanted to reach out and comfort him in some way but she felt partially at fault, she was part of the reason he was in this mess.
"Hey, are you two – I mean Eren, are you hungry?" Gunther asked a little awkwardly after realizing his mistake.
He nodded his head and walked into the kitchen to grab some of the human snacks they had laid out.
Mikasa watched them eating, they sounded like herd animals chewing loudly. Levi was talking with Petra, they seemed close. She remembered the look in his eyes when she bit her. She wondered if they were together, and then she wondered why she even cared. She was going to get away from them as soon as she could safely get Eren somewhere else.
"What? Our diet not up to your standards?" Levi bark, noticing Mikasa staring at them eating in disgust.
Petra gave her an apologetic look.
She pressed her mouth in a thin line to keep from saying a sarcastic comment and sat down on the couch, choosing to ignore them altogether.
After inhaling she noticed Levi's scent had been in the background since the fight but she was able to just not think about it, or maybe after smelling the exposed blood she had been desensitized to the scent coming from his skin.
She didn't know and she didn't care, but she still hated the way her stomach twisted with a primal craving when she did think about it.
Her body was sore too, she felt the effects of the fight in her muscles and the headache was still throbbing. She was actually very tired even though it was only just now dark.
Mikasa felt her whole body relax for the first time in a while, even though she didn't necessarily feel safe they couldn't hurt at the moment.
She drifted in and out of sleep, people walked about the house and she couldn't get very comfortable on the small couch.
She didn't know what time it was but when she finally woke up for good, it was because a certain scent suddenly intensified in the air around her.
Grey eyes shot open and were instantly met with dark bluish grey ones, Levi was sitting on the edge of the couch staring down at her like she was a museum exhibit.
Her anxiety heighten drastically and she was unable to move or say anything, she felt the all too familiar hunger his scent triggered. She did note however that the smell of shower gel clung to him pleasantly, it complimented him nicely but only served to trigger a different kind of hunger as well.
He hummed to himself as if he was thinking about something perplexing.
"What?" she asked dumbly. Forming complex sentenced around him was a task she needed work on.
"You're body tensed before you were even awake." He mused aloud.
She swallowed thickly, her throat feeling like sandpaper.
"You're eyes have a crimson sheen to them, even when they're not red." He noted as if she didn't know. It was mild, most people just assumed she had amber flecks in her grey eyes. She didn't say anything, hoping he would go away.
He sighed and pulled away a little but didn't leave, she looked at him and noticed he was holding something in his hand.
A bottle of some kind. Levi held it up and she saw there was plastic over the lip of the small container.
"This is what they use to milk snake venom, I was ordered by our resident mad scientist to get a sample of your spit." He looked annoyed with having to do this task but Mikasa's face heated up.
She wasn't a damn snake.
She continued her rein of silence but looked at him as if he had lost his mind.
"Just do it, I promise dealing with me is much easier than dealing with Hanji." He barked. She didn't know who Hanji was and she didn't really want to.
"Spit is different than venom, I can't just make it." She half lied, when her teeth were out she could easily secrete the stuff.
He raised an eyebrow but said nothing as he moved closer. She tried to sink back into the couch, confused as to what he was doing.
She held her breath as the scent was concentrated around her, she was getting damn tired of giant mood swings it caused. She went from okay, to angry, to murderous in almost a minute.
As soon as she felt the sting of her canine teeth trying to descend she knew what he was doing, he was well aware of the fact his blood had an effect on her.
"If you don't move, I'll bite you." She warned in a low voice.
He didn't react to her words, he only watched her closely. The proximity made the hair on her arms stand up, she was very uncomfortable. Her teeth came down without her permission and she wanted to hit him.
"Well?" he asked smugly. She kept her mouth clamped shut. She didn't want to give him the satisfaction of doing as he asked.
After a few seconds of staring each other down Levi held up the container.
"I just need a few drops, you can surely manage that now." He suggested blandly. She tried to contain her extreme distain for this horrid man, the man that held a knife to Eren's throat.
"I'll take my chances with that Hanji person." She hissed, turning her head away.
He didn't move as she continued to look away from. She was getting nervous, was he just staring at her?
She was about to take a peek when she felt his large hand in her hair, forcing her head in his direction.
"What the-!" she squeaked but as soon as her mouth opened he shoved the container in there and her teeth pierced the plastic. She was momentarily stunned that he had the audacity to do such a thing but as she as she recovered she took a swiped at him with an open palm, trying to slap him in the face but he dodged it expertly.
"Asshole!" she spat, practically fuming at the ears.
His mouth remained passive but she could tell he had a triumph look in his steel colored eyes.
Her body was humming with a mix of rage and the desire his scent always triggered, she watched as he capped the sample and started to get up. She should've ignored him and let it go.
But that was not happening.
She was quick, and surprisingly she seemed to catch him off guard when she leap on top of him from the couch.
His eyes only widened a fraction of a second when he made eye contact with her but he quickly held up his arm to her throat, probably in fear she was going to bite him.
They landed on the floor with a thud. She was on top of him, straddling his hips, and he was staring at her mouth. The cup of her venom was knocked out of his hand in the process and she scrambled to get it.
He saw what she was doing and grabbed both her wrists, slinging her off of him to switch their positions.
"Oh no you don't." he warned in a low voice.
She almost growled at him, her throat constricting as she breathed in. His scent was thick and hung in the air deliciously.
He pinned her wrists beside her head and she kicked her legs to try and throw him off of her but it was no used. He had her in a tight hold and was unfortunately the only human that could compete with her strength.
"Get off me!" she half shrieked.
"Maybe if you didn't act like such a child!" he yelled right back at her, eyes on fire.
His breath fanned in her face and she bit down on her tongue, it smelled sweet with a hint of mint from his toothpaste.
Everything about this man threw her off balance.
He must have noticed her change in mood. He let go of one of her wrists and she felt the pads of his fingertips gently glide along her neck. Her heart jumped into her throat and she went ridged.
What was he doing now?
His fingers stopped at her jaw near her ear. His hands were cool, a welcomed feeling against her skin which felt feverish.
His face was hovering over her own but his eyes were on where his fingers were touching. Her body did a complete one eighty as all the anger faded and was replaced with a desire.
She hated to admit it but he was actually very attractive, especially in the all black get up. His hair hung around his face like a dark halo but she was so close she noticed his hair wasn't actually jet black, she could see a brownish tint to it.
Mikasa's eye flitted back to his and she held her breath as she saw he was now looking directly at her.
"Your pulse is normally this fast?" he asked in almost a whisper.
She shook her head.
"S'your blood." she slurred. It wasn't exactly a lie, her heart beat did take off with one whiff of him but right now her racing pulse was caused by a mixture of both his scent and the close proximity.
He looked at her thoughtfully. His hand moved again, sliding up into her hair. She froze. This felt much too…intimate. His fingers combed through her hair easily, and he looked at the stands deep in thought.
"Why would they lie to me…" he murmured to himself. She was confused by his words, but she remembered he said something earlier about…the guard?
Caught up in the thrill of what was happening she didn't even hear the footsteps of the two people approaching.
And she had a feeling the same happened to him.
"Captain!?" she heard a strangled voice. It was Petra.
He looked almost startled and she could suppress the small giggle that bubbled up. Levi looked back down at Mikasa, and looked even more surprised to hear her laugh.
He got up and helped Mikasa to her feet.
Eren was standing there with Petra with the same shocked face. Mikasa felt a little embarrassed and a flush crept onto her face.
Levi leaned over and grabbed the bottle that contained her venom. She eyed it, a little miffed that she forgot about it.
"I'm going to bed." He stated, his voice clipped.
Mikasa watched as he disappeared into the hallway.
"What was that?" Eren finally spoke.
"Nothing." She shrugged.
Both Petra and Eren looked extremely confused but Mikasa just walked over to the Kitchen table, her body was much too wired from that encounter to think about sleep.
She sat down and stared out the window, the house was surrounded by trees and she couldn't tell where we were located.
The others went back to bed but she stayed there at the table, thinking about everything Levi said and did but one thing stuck out.
Who was the guard?