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The sharp sound of footsteps ricocheting of wood dragged me out of my slumber, waking up was my first big mistake as my head swam, it felt like it was Mikasa's training dummy. I collapsed back onto the dull bed, half-heartedly trying to piece together where I was. Finally my curiosity got the better of me and I wrenched my unwilling eyelids open, fumbling around for a few seconds before managing to sweep the sleep out of my eyes. My eyes focused on the room, the walls were as bare as my prison cell, and the minuscule window however was a vast upgrade from my usual surroundings of bleak stone and metal bars. The tiny amount of silvery light that seeped through the window slowly darkened and offered me the barest snippet of the night sky. I felt a deep pang of nostalgia as I realised it had been so many months since I had sat with Armin and listened to him name the millions of constellations, his eyes lighting up with his burning passion for knowledge. The night sky dragged a more pressing question to the front of my mind. If it was night, how long had I been out for? The creaking of the door snapped me out of my thoughts as Hanji burst through, slamming the door against the wall hard enough to leave cracks in the plaster.
"OOPS!" She kicked the door closed with an ear shattering bang. She finally looked round the room and noticed I was up. "EREN! You're up, why didn't you say anything?" Despite knowing Hanji for some time her craziness never failed to surprise me. "Wait does that mean you saw the door fiasco?" Her face shifted as she looked behind her despite having slammed the door shut behind her. "Pleeeeease don't tell Levi, he'd fucking kill me!" Her expression broke my last reserve and I burst out laughing. My laughter must have reassured her as an ecstatic grin was soon plastered on her face. "When did you come round?" she was pushing my wrist to take my pulse.
"Umm, about ten minutes ago mayb-SHIT" Hanji had decided to pull my arm, jerking my head forward and leaving my head feeling worse than ever.
"SORRY! I got a little bit carried away!"
"I'll say" I mumbled back in return.
"You seem OK but you'd better stay in bed for the rest of today." She glanced at the clipboard on my bedside table, but my attention was elsewhere, her words had reminded me of my previous questions.
"Hey Hanji what happened? How long was I out for?" The questions came out like a flood, my mind eager to know what the hell had happened.
"Well, we're still deciding the answer to your first question, maybe sunstroke? On the other hand you've been out for a grand total of two days, nearly three." She hummed absent mindedly before coming to a sudden realisation. "Oh yeah you should probably eat something, hold on I'll be right back" before I could reply she was gone, door left ajar in her wake.
Thoughts churned over in my head, trying to form coherent timeline of what had happened. I sighed and tried starting from the beginning, put simply I had collapsed and remained out cold for nearly three days. A disturbing thought came to mind, he had none of the symptoms of sunburn. He was the son of a doctor, and knew healthy people don't collapse for no reason this left two options either he was suffering a serious fever or more likely he had been drugged.