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Mikasa spent the rest of the morning sitting at that table, thinking.
How was she going to get out of this? Now that they knew she wasn't human, would they just let her go back to college and live normally? Who was the guard?
She seriously doubted that, so she tried to think of ways to escape. She could kill them all but she wasn't a murderer so that option made her feel queasy.
They would chase her and Eren if she ran, she could be running for the rest of her life too. She was at an impasse, no matter what she did they would come after her so maybe waiting to see what they were planning was the best option after all. She needed to know who these people really were too.
Levi's team members all started to get up one by one around 7am, Petra and the older looking one whose name she couldn't remember started making breakfast while the other two boys gathered bags and sat them in the living area on the couch.
Levi walked in with Eren which made her a little suspicious since Eren was looking at him like he was the most interest thing in the world.
Eren better remember how he held a knife to his throat.
"Here, you can shower if you want." Levi threw a bag on the table, she hadn't seen he was carrying anything and was surprised to see the bag she started packing in haste right before they broke down her door.
She opened the bag and was excited to see her own clothes, but she remembered throwing her phone in here too. She rummaged around but couldn't find it.
"If you're looking for this." Levi took out her iPhone from his pocket. "I'll be holding onto it for a little while, until we can trust you." He walked over to the pile of bags on the couch and stuffed it into another black bag.
She had no idea how one minute he was such an asshole and the next minute he was on top of her, trailing his fingers gently through her hair. She recalled how sweet his breath smelled, and involuntarily she wondered if tasted the same.
Disgusted with herself, she grabbed her bag and stalked off toward the bathroom. Eren gave her a big smile and waved good morning as she walked past him but she only narrowed her eyes at him accusingly.
She found the bathroom and was pleasantly surprised it had a nice stand in shower.
She was also glad there was another girl here as she used the flowery shampoo and conditioner sitting on ledge. Once she rinsed all the conditioner out of her hair she reached for the only girly looking body wash.
But upon seeing the array of other body wash's she stopped. She really shouldn't do what she was thinking about doing but found her body moving on its own as she picked up the other bottles and sniffed each one until she found it.
Levi's body wash. It smelled fresh and earthy, she liked when this scent mixed with his blood. Slowly she squirted a small amount in her hand and lathered it on her arms, working it around her shoulders and down her breasts. She bit down on her lower lip softly.
She felt gross, washing herself with his body wash and getting turned on by it. It was insane to have such opposing emptions about one person.
She turned off the water and grabbed a towel that was located on a shelf above the toilet. She wiped herself off and stepped out of the shower to pick out some clothes from her bag.
A tight pair of dark wash jeans with holes at the knees and a red V-neck with a pocket on the front was what she decided on. She towel dried her short, black hair and combed through it with her fingers and then preceded to exit the bathroom.
The others were already eating and she was about to place her bag on the couch when Levi stopped her.
"You're going to help me take the bags to the car." He ordered, picking up a few of the bags off the couch.
"Why me?" she sighed, mainly to herself.
"Because you aren't eating breakfast." He quipped.
She narrowed her eyes at him.
"Well I am a little hungry." She stated sarcastically. She heard someone snort from across the kitchen and when she looked over the blonde, Erd, had choked on what he was eating and the others started to laugh at him.
He gave her his signature scowl when she looked back at him but didn't reply
She picked up the remaining bags and followed him down the hallway to the front door. The sun was rising fast and the cool air was refreshing to feel after being cooped up all night.
The drive way only had a black van parked in it and was surrounded by trees whose leaves were already falling to the ground in red and brown piles.
"So where exactly are we going?" she sighed, waiting on him to open the back of the vehicle.
"To see the person who will decide your fate." He answered cryptically.
She frowned. "What does that mean?"
"Exactly what you think it means." He avoided her question.
She narrowed her eyes at him but choose to stay quiet.
By the time they finished loading the van Levi's team and Eren had gathered outside, ready to depart.
They all packed themselves into the van, Mikasa sat in the very back squished between Petra and the blonde man, Eld.
The other two Gunther and the one whose name she couldn't remember sat in the two middle chairs while Levi drove and insisted Eren ride in the front next to him.
She assumed he wanted Eren close in case she tried something but Mikasa felt much too tired to try to run, and as soon as the van was on the road she felt her eye lids drooping.
The sun was out now, and the uncomfortable bit of sleep she got last night wasn't helping her stay awake.
She tried to fight it, but she was warm and the large back seat of the van was rather comfortable. The small space of the van was soon filled with everyone's scent too, Levi's stuck out to her but it was dulled by everyone else. For once she could enjoy the smell without being overwhelmed by it.
It was a heady scent, thick and woodsy with a sweet undertone. Eren asked her describe how humans smelled to her before but it was almost impossible for him to understand her terms.
She wished she could have her phone back right now just to listen to her music. She had an eclectic mix of music from indie rock to pop, not really sticking to any genre but she just sat there listening to the others talk amongst themselves until she started dozing off.
She was jolted awake when the car came to an abrupt stop.
She noticed her head was resting on something…no someone. She looked up and Eld was staring straight ahead with a weary look on his face, no doubt weirded out by the fact a vampire was just asleep on his arm.
And drooling on his shoulder.
"Sorry." She mumbled.
Everyone started to file out of the van.
She looked around, they had parked in front of a big brick building that looked unoccupied.
"This is where we set up a temporary lab." Petra whispered to her.
"Why do they need a lab?" Mikasa asked, confused.
"You'll see." She replied. Now she sounded like Levi.
Eren walked up beside her and looked at the building with wide curious eyes. She just felt anxious about the entire situation.
"Let's go." Levi ushered them all in the front door.
The place looked like an old doctor's office, the front reception area was surprisingly clean even though it was obviously not used.
They walked down a hallway with doors lined down on both sides, probably once used as patient rooms. They came to the final door that lead into a big room that was probably once a storage room for patient files but it was now filled with laboratory equipment.
There was a wall lined with glassware from test tubes to flasks. In the middle of the room was a counter that held various machinery some she recognized and some she didn't
"Hello!" she heard someone shout. She turned her head and was greeted by an excited looking woman. She was tall. She had bushy auburn hair that was thrown into a messy pony tail and had on a pair of oval glasses perched at the end of her bird like nose.
"I'm Dr. Hanji but you can just call me Hanji, you must be Mikasa and Eren. It's exciting to meet you both!" she giggled excitedly. Both she and her adoptive brother were thrown off by the woman's enthusiasm.
"You!" she pointed at Mikasa. "You must be the real life vampire!"
Mikasa was instantly on edge.
"What's going to happen?" she asked quietly.
"Well first I'd like to get a blood, hair, and urine sample. If you can?" She replied sweetly.
"…Okay but uh I don't really have to pee and it might, uh, be a while before I do." She stated hesitantly. It was awkward to discuss bathroom things so quickly but she only peed once every few days since her body took forever to digest the blood and was actually really good at conserving water.
"A while?" she tiled her head in curiosity.
Mikasa cringed internally at where this conversation was headed.
"Let's just say I don't use the restroom the same as humans but I'll let you know when I do have to go." She explained.
Hanji nodded her head in thought.
"Okay well, blood sample first then." She acquiesced.
Already donning a pair of gloves, Hanji got out a syringe and made Mikasa sit down on a small chair.
Everyone else except for Levi and Eren had left the room. Levi was standing by the door keeping watch on either Mikasa or Hanji. She wasn't sure who he was wearier of.
Eren nervously stood by Levi and watched what was going on.
She tied off the area just above her inner elbow and thumped the veins to make them stand out. Mikasa was nervous they her blood would freak them out. It was a very dark red, much darker than human blood and looked almost black.
She stuck the needle in.
"Oh wow." Hanji gasped as she saw the almost black liquid that came out of her arm.
Once she filled the syringe, Hanji took the needle off and put a cap over the opening.
After placing the blood sample on the counter, she plucked a single strand of black hair from her head.
"Alright, just wait here for a minute while I start the tests. This is so exciting! A real vampire!" she squealed running off to a set of test tubes.
"You do this for a living? Run tests on monsters?" Mikasa asked absent mindedly. She didn't know why but she felt angered by the thought of misunderstood creatures being experimented on.
"Well, I've only studied shifters. I've never met a legendary before." She chirped.
Mikasa was only more confused, what was a shifter?
"Shifter?" she questioned.
"Hanji…" Levi said her name like a warning, as if she let secret information slip.
"Oh, she has a right to know Levi since her DNA could've been used without her knowledge." Hanji countered.
Levi groaned.
"You couldn't just keep your mouth shut until after the tests, four eyes." He seethed.
"What's a legendary?" Eren piped up.
"A legendary is what we call non-human creatures who are considered mythological by humans at some point. A lot of legendries are extinct or were never proven real." She explained.
"In fact, Mikasa might be the only confirmed legendary left in existence." She stated with an air of sadness.
She came to terms with the fact she would be alone when she was a child but it she still felt sad when she thought about her parents, how they must have felt when they found each other. The last pair of their kind.
"Then what does your little club do all day?" Mikasa asked absent mindedly.
"It's an organization that started off hunting what they thought were supernatural beasts but now we focus on mad scientists more than the supernatural." Hanji answered.
Mikasa and Eren must have still looked confused because Levi felt the need to explain further.
"What four eyes means is, that The Guard evolved from a bunch of dumbasses with pitch forks to a large organization that now deals with humans trying to imitate mythology. It's been a long while since a recorded finding of a legendary but we deal with shifters on a monthly basis." He started.
"Shifters are what we call humans that have been altered genetically to mimic or act like a legendary. Ever since science gained steady popularity during the renaissance, The Guard has been dealing with these shifters and their creators. It's quite annoying, these people destroy human lives by trying to play god." He finished.
The conversation as now taken somber turn, everyone left in the room had a darkened expression.
"Then how'd you know I was a vampire and not a shifter?" Mikasa asked in a low voice.
"Intuition." He snapped. He was suddenly scowling more than usual, and Mikasa was left wondering what was wrong with him as he swiftly left the room. Eren followed after him like a puppy.
"Forgive him, he's the way he is for a reason." She patted Mikasa on the hand comfortingly.
"Can I ask what The Guard is?" she asked in small voice.
Hanji pursed her lips in thought.
"I'll explain The Guard, if you tell me what draws you to Levi's blood." She smiled, trying to strike a deal. Mikasa felt nervous about explaining that, it made her feel like the monster they thought she was.
But curiosity won out.
"Fine, you first." She gave in.
Hanji chuckled at her, continuing to her work at the lab station.
"Well The Guard as it is today is an international organization with heavy political pull and a lot of money. It's split into three rings." She held up her fingers as a visual.
"You have the higher ups in the inner ring, leaders of The Guard who make decisions and deal with money. Then you have intelligence, the largest circle, who deal with all the desk work. They do a lot of odd jobs like setting plans into motion, detecting shifters, and keeping tabs on suspicious people. Then you have us, the outer ring, or recon. Think of us like field agents, we actually deal with the shifters, do the dirty work if you will." She talked fast, Mikasa barely could process what she was saying.
"We are the smallest group too, no one wants to do the dangerous jobs." She sighed filling another test tube with her blood.
"What about Levi?" she wondered aloud.
Hanji gave her a curious look and Mikasa felt embarrassed for asking about him.
"Yes Mikasa, what about Levi?" Hanji gave her a sly smile. Mikasa felt a flush creep up her neck.
"…why is he the way he is?" she asked, embarrassed at Hanji's tone while picking at the frayed edges of the holes in her jeans.
"He's had a rough life, lost his parents to shifters and then it turns out his adopted father made the shifters that killed them. He was left to fend for himself, living as a criminal. Then the guard found him, or should I say Erwin found him, and he's been the best of the best since. There really is no better shifter killer than Levi." She stated with a sigh.
Mikasa felt her heart contract with sadness that really was a hard life.
"Now, then." Hanji smiled suspiciously. "Tell me all about your attraction to Levi's blood." She chirred happily.
Mikasa blanched when the memory of Levi opening the cut on his arm flashed through her mind.
Hanji looked concerned but waited for Mikasa to talk first.
"Well, it's his blood type." She stated simply, not making eye contact.
She hated the shameful feeling that arose when she talked about her problem with Levi's blood. It felt like something dirty that she didn't want to discuss with other people, she felt as if they compared it to an alcoholic or a drug addict.
"So AB negative, right?" she asked.
"Yea, I don't know really know why though." She answered. Her parents never had the chance fully explain a lot of things about being a vampire, and that was one of them.
"All I know is that I can taste the difference between negative and positive blood, the Rh factor in positive blood leaves a weird aftertaste." She added.
"Well that is interesting, have you ever encountered another person with that blood type? It is quite rare but not impossible." She questioned.
"Yes, but only once." She admitted even though she wasn't interested in going into details.
"Have you tasted it?" Hanji asked with no shame.
Mikasa actually quite liked Hanji, she was a little eccentric but her honest curiosity was refreshing, she made her feel less like a test subject.
"No, I haven't." she stated coolly.
"Do you want to?" she said quickly. At that Mikasa felt almost startled, was no doubt that her body wanted to taste it but it felt wrong to say it aloud. She sat quiet in her seat, unable to reply.
"What's wrong? Is that something personal?" she looked worried but then a look of realization hit her.
"Is it…sexual?" Hanji almost whispered.
Mikasa bit her lip, she really didn't like thinking about if she was sexually attracted to Levi. She didn't even know if the attraction was to him or his blood. If she was honest he was rather handsome, though she hated to admit that since he was kind of an ass but the smell coming from him made her want to sink her teeth into his skin.
That was the most conflicting part of this entire ordeal, how could she possibly be intimate with someone she also wanted as a food source. It didn't feel right.
"I don't know." She answered, being honest again.
Hanji laughed suddenly causing Mikasa to jump.
"I would love to see Levi's face when he found out pretty young girl like you was turned on by him." She snorted.
Mikasa couldn't control the blush that crept up her face, she put it so bluntly.
"You're not going to say anything are you?" she asked feeling a little panicked.
"No don't worry it'll stay between us." She promised.
Mikasa slouched, she felt weighed down by so much already between the guard, Levi's blood, Eren's father, and now her attraction to Levi.
"You look tired…why don't you lie down on the couch in the next room over?" Hanji suggested.
Mikasa was almost tempted to take her up on that offer but Levi and Eren barged back into the makeshift laboratory.
"Where've you two been?" Hanji asked offhandedly.
"Out, you done yet?" he replied curtly.
"The tests are still running." She stated.
She eyed Eren and couldn't help but feel a twinge of betrayal in her heart, he was off with that man leaving her stuck there alone.
"Well go ahead and start with Eren, you know we don't have all damn day." He spoke briskly.
Mikasa was instantly on guard when he said this, what the hell did they need with Eren. She was the freak show, he was just a human.
"What are you going to do with Eren?" she asked threatening.
Levi eyed Mikasa, and Hanji looked between them nervously.
"Testing, just to make sure." Hanji quietly explained.
"Make sure of what?" She stated through clenched teeth. The other four of Levi's team was behind her now, standing in the door way. Everyone looked on edge and they were all staring at her.
"Mikasa, calm down." Eren whispered, leaning into her.
"Not until I get an answer, you owe me that at least." She snapped towards Levi.
He sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose.
"You're going to make this difficult I see." He growled.
Mikasa stood her ground, she might lose but she would fight all of them if it meant protecting Eren. Levi waved his hand and his team mates backed off some, although they looked uneasy about it.
"Listen to me, the Guard knows about Eren and his father but they don't know about you. If we don't get blood work on him then they will send more people and those people will find out about you." He spoke firmly.
Mikasa felt scared but she didn't show it.
"If they find out about you before we can get a clear case for why you should stay alive, they will not hesitate to fucking kill you but not before doing torturous experiments on you. Do you understand? It's your fucking life you need to fear for right now." He was in her face now and she winced when his scent flooded through her nose. His smell was particularly enticing at this moment for some reason.
She swallowed thickly and looked at Eren who was staring at her intensely.
"Fine." She whispered, walking towards the door.
She felt trapped, there was no running and she was scared to admit it but leaving Eren's fate into someone else's hands terrified her.
She went into the next room over and sure enough there was a couch in there, it looked out of place in the small empty room. The walls were white and the floors were a neutral wood color and the long grey couch was all that was in it.
She sat down, sighing deeply. She hated how things were unfolding, it was much too chaotic and unpredictable. Their safety felt too unsecured and she just wanted to keep Eren safe, after letting his mother die it was the least she could do.
She hated thinking of Carla, Eren's mother was a second mother to Mikasa and there wasn't a day when she didn't think of her. She knew Eren missed her too.
She laid back on the couch, maybe a nap wouldn't hurt.
It only took a few minutes for Mikasa to doze off, the plush cushions of this couch was much better than the one in that house yesterday.
She didn't know how long she was asleep for when her eyes fluttered open but she noticed a certain scent in the air.
Mikasa sat up cautiously, Levi wasn't in the room with her but it was definitely his smell in the room. The sweet burn in her chest told her that much. She also noticed that there was a soft blue blanket covering her, she felt a pang of guilt when she realized he must have been the one to put it there.
She got up and left the room, the light outside said it was still day time so it couldn't have been that long.
Walking toward what would have been a lobby Mikasa noticed Levi sitting at old reception desk with Eld and the brown haired man, Gunther.
"There's sleeping beauty." Gunther chuckled, eyeing Levi.
Levi gave him a pointed glance and both of them got up to leave, talking amongst themselves, Mikasa thought the entire interaction was weird.
He was sitting in a computer chair, sipping black liquid out of a tea cup. His steel eyes watching her.
"Thanks." She mumbled. She felt a little uneasy, she didn't like the guy but he had a weird gentle side that interested her. She remembered the way his hands threaded so softly through her hair just the other night, part of her wanted to have that again.
"Hopefully after today you can be back in your own bed." He told her.
She perked up a little at that.
"What am I going to do about the class I've missed already?" She asked.
"We have an excuse for you, and I'll have someone relay all the homework and lectures you've missed." He waved his hand like it was no big deal.
"Are you really going to let me go? After knowing what I am." She asked quietly almost afraid that he was lying to her.
His eyes softened a little, the ever present scowl not so noticeable. She wished he would look like this all the time. The only time she could imagine him without that expression was maybe when he was asleep but she didn't want to watch him while he was sleeping, no she wasn't that kind of vampire.
"You've proven to be non-threatening, so I don't see why not." He shrugged, looking back at his tea.
"But we are going to keep an eye on you, especially while we investigate Eren's dad." He mentioned.
She nodded her head, that was do-able.
"By the way, Hanji is going to ask that you bite her." He added suddenly.
Mikasa felt her face heat up with embarrassment, there was no way she wanted to do that.
"Why?" she squeaked.
"Something about wanting to see the effects on humans, I guess Petra's account wasn't enough." He replied.
She was leaning on the side of the white walls, nervously picking at the hole in her jeans. She could smell him, but her body was surprisingly growing accustomed to the gnawing desire in her stomach. She could finally somewhat think around it.
"You don't like being yourself around anyone do you? Not even your precious Eren." He noted aloud.
She kept her eyes downward, this was not the time for him to become so observant. She didn't want to be a vampire in the first place and after pretending to be human for so long so didn't feel comfortable acting like one. Unless it was to protect Eren.
"After seeing you fight like that, I didn't think you'd be this closed off honestly." He kept talking. She didn't know he was so talkative and for once he didn't seem mad at her.
"What do you mean?" She asked.
"When I first met you, you looked at me like a predator. The way you moved, the look in your eye, and the way you fought was very confident and strong. But whenever Eren's around you shut down and you become withdrawn, weak, and submissive." He explained.
She was a little miffed when he used the word submissive.
"I want to see that girl again, the one I fought. Not this fake ass persona you put on." He worded eloquently.
"Did you forget about the huge teeth and red eyes? Those aren't usually comforting to any human I know." She snorted.
He raised his thin eyebrow.
"There what makes you who you are, if someone really accepted you then they'd accept those too." He shrugged.
She was taken aback by his words. Up until now she thought Eren was the one person she could be herself around but maybe Levi was right. If she thought about it, Mikasa still didn't like doing certain things around him. She didn't drink blood the normal way around him, she didn't let him see her teeth, and she didn't like for him see the red eyes.
Eren made her feel comfortable enough to not act human but not enough to be a vampire.
But she would never admit that to Levi.
"Whatever your relationship is towards that kid doesn't matter to me but I want to see the Mikasa that I fought red eyes and all, so if you feel up to it get some sweatpants from Petra and meet me in the basement." He huffed standing up.
"Huh?" she asked, confused.
"It's just an open space I use to train in, and were going to go round two." He informed her.
He walked down the hallway and opened the second to last door on the right.
She was left standing there but she would be lying if she said she wasn't interested.
Besides this could be her only chance to kick his ass.