Just as he had predicted Eren couldn't sleep that night. He stared at his ceiling, unable to sleep, and couldn't get the fact that he talked in his sleep out of his head. What has he said? Was it bad? Given the way Levi had reacted Eren figured it must have been bad, but how bad? He just couldn't turn his brain off, and was driving him a little insane. Eren was scared, if he fell asleep again would he say something worse? Would Levi hate him? Did Levi already hate him? Eren groaned, rolling onto his stomach he buried his face in his pillow. It was stupid of him to be so focused on this. Why did he care what Levi thought of him? Levi was keeping him captive for fucks sake! Eren should hate him, but a tiny part of him kept reminding him of the Levi he knew.

The awkward person who had sent him a message drunk by accident. The technologically incompetent guy who went out of his comfort zone just to talk to him. The grumpy guy who always complained about how annoying his friend was. The person who made up excuses not to video chat because he was self conscious. The person Eren had fallen in love with. Not the Levi that was keeping him captive.

But the more Eren thought about it, the more he was reminded of one little fact. They were the same person, his captor and the guy he had fallen in love with. Eren was sure if he looked hard enough he could see the Levi he loved again. That was his goal, he would find the Levi he loved and he would help him.

Eren looked at the door as it creaked open. This was the third time this night that Levi had checked up on him.

"Still not asleep." Eren said, returning his gaze to the ceiling. He felt the bed dip as Levi sat down on it. That was new. Levi had been checking on him every few hours, but he hadn't actually come in yet.

"Do you need something to help you sleep?" Levi asked. He was worried, it was almost 2 am and the boy hadn't slept yet. Maybe he shouldn't have told him about the sleep talking, as much as it had angered Levi, he knew it must be affecting the boy now.

"No... It's the nap I took earlier, I'm not tired now." Eren replied, still staring at the ceiling. He knew if he looked at the older man he would feel guilty about what he had said again. Eren slowly sat up, staring at his lap.

"At this rate I'm never going to sleep. Can we do something else?" Eren asked, there was no use trying to sleep now, so he might as well do something else. Maybe if he spent more time with Levi he could start to see the Levi he knew. Eren was determined now to find him, and once he did Eren would help him, and maybe one day Eren could leave.

"Of course we can. What did you have in mind?" Levi asked, he was worried that Eren wouldn't get enough sleep and might get sick, but he didn't want to deny him anything and make him mad again. Levi was glad that Eren had seemed to open up to him a bit more since he had returned. Levi hoped that maybe Eren would open up even more, and then Levi can trust him enough to let him leave. Levi didn't want to keep him from the world, he just wanted to protect him from the world, and he wanted Eren to love him. This has seemed like the best way to get what he wanted.

"Do you have any board games or something? Or..." Eren looked at Levi with big pleading eyes, "could I maybe upload some pictures to my blog? Please Levi? I've been gone from it for so long." He hoped he could play with Levi to let him have just that freedom, and maybe Eren could get a message out saying he was okay. Eren grabbed Levi's hand, he had to convince the man.

"Please Levi. It would mean the world to me. I won't upload any pictures of the apartment. Just ones I had taken before." He said, trying to reason with his captor. Eren missed his blog, he missed uploading his pictures, he missed the feedback, he missed it.

"Eren. You can't. The Internet is full of people, people in protecting you from. I won't let you, not until I'm sure I can trust you." Levi hated the way Eren's face fell. He hated having to say those words, but he couldn't allow his green eyed beauty to escape. He couldn't allow his green eyed beauty to be influenced by the outside world again. Levi sighed.

"Maybe another day... But for now let's play a board game. Do you like Monopoly?" He offered, he knew he shouldn't give the boy too much to hope for but Levi wanted to see him smile again. It felt like forever since he had last seen Eren smile. He worried he was doing something wrong, it had been so long since he had tried this.

"Listen here. You're mine now. No one is coming to save you. You'd better start acting like it." Levi kneeled in front of principal Church, lifting his face with one hand, he tilted his face side to side, evaluating the man. It has been two weeks since they had moved across country, and Levi still hadn't broken the man, it was frustrating. He had done his research, he had spent months planning this, and yet everything he tried failed. Levi wasn't one to give up though.

"Ackerman, you've gone too far. Release me." Mr. Church demanded, spitting at his captors feet. He had been suspicious of Levi when he found the boy in his office every day, but he had never imagined that it would ever get this far. This was insane, he couldn't even figure out what Levi was attempting to do.

"You are in no position to make demands." Levi said, standing up he turned around, leaving the room he slammed the door behind him. Principal Church wincing at the sound.

"Levi?" Eren's voice snapped Levi out of his thoughts. "I said, monopoly sounds fine." Eren was staring at his captor, confusion on his face. Levi had been staring at him, a blank expression, he seemed to be lost in thought and Eren wondered what could've caused him to space out like that. Levi shook his head a bit and gave Eren a smile that never reached his eyes.

"Alright, lets go get it set up." He said, standing. He knew he had to be careful about that in the future, he couldn't be spacing out around Eren again. Levi pulled out the board and set everything up while Eren sat across from him.

"Thanks for staying up with me Levi." He muttered, Eren felt a little guilty keeping Levi up at 2 am and forcing him to play a game with him just because he was bored. But Levi didn't seem to mind, and that confused Eren a bit, any normal person would be sleeping, but Levi was awake. He was checking up on Eren. He was worried about Eren. Eren had always hated when his sister was overprotective, but coming from Levi, he didn't mind.