Hi, Yeah.

It had been a grueling and humid summer evening, all throughout the city of Sina, Mikasa and her trip adviser Levi had searched for her brother, Eren, but to no avail. The boy just couldn't be found.

To the point where they were on top of a mountain and still finding no clues of where he could be.

With tensions running high and patience running thin, they stopped at a small hole in the wall cafe for sustenance. Well, Levi did, Mikasa was absolutely simmering at the fact that this impertinent man would stop to get food when her brother was missing in this dangerous city. So she sat, inside the Black convertible with her arms crossed and her jaws tight in her otherwise expressionless face.

He came out the cafe door a few minutes later with two bottles of water and a brown paper bag, he gestured her out of the car and walked towards the park.

"We aren't eating in my car." Was all he said.

Of course, neat freak.

She sat, with an entire arms space between them , on the creaky wood benches situated in front of a big hedge. He placed the bag in between them and uncapped his bottle of water to take a swig before capping it and placing it between them also.

Mikasa kept her gaze steadily on the scene in front of her, with what was beginning to resemble a scowl on her face. Couldn't he see there were more pressing matters to attend to, like finding Eren before he did something drastic or worse.

"Ackerman, just eat the damn sandwich."

She looked at him from the corner of her eyes before rolling them and continuing to stare head on.

There was some faint rustling, the midget was getting something from his pockets. "Here." She looked at the small white plastic packet he was holding out to her.

"Take it."

"What is it?" She asked, unsure.

"Wipes, your hands are germ infested, this will take care of 99.9% of them." He said with a scowl, probably annoyed that 0.01% of germs still manage to survive.

She took the packet gingerly and tore it open. Wiping her hands, she couldn't help but wonder why this man carried around these things with him but then she remembered the bleach spray bottle by her foot in the car and shook her head in incredulity.

"What?"

Apparently, she wasn't as quiet or 'expressionless' as she thought.

"Nothing." She said roughly, before picking up the brown bag and took out a sandwich and bit into it.

They spent the majority of the time eating in silence with the occasional glares from her and the bored glances from him.

So it was nothing out of the ordinary, until his phone began to ring that is.

Crumpling up the white wax paper and disposing of it in the bag, he took his phone out of his pants pocket and put it to his ear without a word.

She couldn't exactly hear who it was on the other side, aside from the muffled. He took a glance in her direction before he made a humming noise and flipping his phone closed.

"Let's go."

"Who was it? Was it Eren?" She asked, throwing the trash in the park's bin and walking behind him and back to the car.

He said nothing as he put on his seat belt and started up the car.

"Why aren't you telling me?" she asked angrily as he reversed the car and drove out of the parking space and into the main road. She let out an exhale, ignoring her stinging eyes as she looked out the window.

"No, it was Hanji, Eren is back at the hotel with everyone else, apparently he came back after he found the other brat that went missing." His voice trailed off a bit in the end.

Mikasa's demeanor darkened a little, so he was chasing Annie and apparently found her too.

"What? What are you mad about now? the idiot's fine." He said in his annoying deadpanned voice. His eyes trailed off the road to the pretty young lady sitting beside him, "Don't tell me..." He began with a smirk, "That you like him?"

Mikasa snapped her neck away from the window to look at him, her cheeks subtly reddening and her voice raising a few octaves. "No, I-I was just worried."

"Yeah, okay." He would have snickered if he weren't more focused on the driving, Sina had the most dangerous roads in the entire district, with its curving and winding freeways.

Mikasa grew increasingly annoyed at the man driving the car. Eren is family, and that's just weird.

"So? you use a flip phone." She jabbed childishly.

Levi raised a finely cut eyebrow, "What does that have to do with anything?" So it was all women who grow irrational during emotional conversations, he would have to kick Hanji's ass later.

"Who even owns a flip phone anymore?"

"I do."

"Yeah obviously." Her voice trailed off menacingly.

"What's that supposed to mean, you little brat?" His voice is dark as the sky was getting.

Mikasa didn't bother to answer him, "I want to go back to the hotel."

"We are getting there, be patient," He said evenly, "brat." He added it as an after thought.

"I am 19."

"Still a brat." He said without missing a beat.

The drive down the mountain (yes they were on top of a mountain) was a smooth and silent venture, with the occasional verbal jab from one party to another, it was surprisingly comfortable, the two of them managed to keep their childish quips to a minimum.

The car came to a halt behind a silver pickup truck, Levi looked out the window to see a long line of cars in front of his own, Mikasa, who had previously dozed off, shook off the sleep from her eyes and looked out her own window. "There is traffic, here?"

"Apparently." Levi sighed and took off his seat belt, opening the car door and getting out to stretch his limbs. After Mikasa scared away her other trip mates they had crossed the main city in Sina to the mountain tops, what possessed him to look for Eren on top of a fucking mountain he didn't know, all he knew was that the girl with him didn't protest the idea either.

Not finding him there, they traversed back down the mountain to go back into the inner city, which apparently had heavy traffics on a fucking Thursday night.

She got out of the car herself, seeing as they weren't going to be moving anytime soon. She stretched her limbs and took out her phone from her pink cardigan pocket and found fifteen new text messages, all from various trip mates.

From: Potato Girl

Hey, I hope you find him. We still can't find Annie.

From: Armin

Mikasa, I hope you are okay, I am sure you will find Eren, Ms. Hanji is looking for him too.

From: Jean

Uhh, did you find him? Your hair looked really nice today.

From: Connie

Sheesh, I hope you guys find him soon and Annie too, Bert's sweating all over us, I feel like I took a shower.

And so on. She hadn't even thought of checking her phone throughout her time looking for Eren. It was ridiculous really, she could have just called him.

So she did. But Eren didn't pick up, worried, she called Armin.

"Hey, he came back, with Annie." Armin said a little breathlessly, there was loud music playing in the background and Jean was screaming at someone. Probably Eren.

"Yeah, Hanji called. How is he? He isn't hurt right?" She asked worriedly, she peered into the car window to look at the red scarf tied to her black satchel, the heat had gotten to her earlier, so she took it off. "No, he is fine." Armin said a little too quickly, making her all the more suspicious.

"When are you guys coming?" Armin decided to switch the subject.

She looked over at the unmoving cars in front of her, "I don't know, " she sighed, "We are caught in traffic outside the main city."

"Seriously? Wait you guys left the city?" Armin asked, the noise increasing in volumes behind him, there was a shouting match going on.

"Yeah, " she scoffed, "We were by the mountains."

"Why did you go that far?"

Good question. "I don't know, it felt like a good idea then." She scratched at an invisible spot on Levi's car. "Don't worry, we'll be there soon."

Armin got quiet, "Okay, but call me, if anything happens."

"Yeah, bye." She put her phone back in her pocket and stepped inside the car again, to see Levi climbing back in. "So?"

"There was an accident, far up inside the tunnel, some asshat thought it would be a good idea to drive a truck in limited space."

Mikasa let out a large exhale of breath and slumped into her seat, "Now what?'

"We wait?"

Patience running thin again, "How long?"

"How the hell should I know?" Apparently so was his.

She scowled and looked away, wasn't she supposed to talk to Eren? She wanted to hit herself for her carelessness and now she has to spend an annoying amount of time with this asshole, this trip was going to be hell, she should have known from the beginning.

Precisely an hour and thirty minutes later, she was shaken awake by a scowling Levi. The car was also turned off.

She looked on ahead of her, they hadn't moved up at all, nor did the traffic let up, only more cars accumulated behind them.

"The traffic won't let up until tomorrow morning." He said with a grim face.

"You are kidding." She deadpanned at him.

He sighed and unfastened his seat belt. "We are stuck here for the night." The car clock blinked "9:07" in green numbers.

She took out her phone to give Eren a call, only to see that it was dead.

She threw it inside her satchel and rubbed her temples.

"Hey, I am not happy about this either."

She threw a glare in his direction, while he tilted his head and looked at her squarely in the eye for a minute. He blinked and threw his ridiculous flip phone at her.

She only stared at the black phone dumbly and back at him. He scowled, "What are you looking at?" He looked away and muttered, "call him."

She moved her gaze back on the phone, flipping it open and scrolling through the contacts list, before stopping short on 'E.'

She placed the phone to her ear, and waited for Eren to pick up. "Hello."

"Eren!" Mikasa almost jumped, after hearing his voice for the first time in an entire day.

"Mikasa?" confused, he took his phone off his ear and checked the screen again, definitely said Levi.

"Are you hurt? Did you eat?" She trailed off with incessant questions, that Levi had to look at her to make sure this was the same quiet girl he just spent the majority of his day with.

"I am fine, I told you to stop doing that." Eren grumbled, his annoyed expression very evident through his voice.

"I was just worried, about you." Her voice soft, she trailed the pads of her fingers along the rims of the opened window, her eyes far away.

A sigh and muttered incoherence, "Yeah, I know, where are you guys?"

She scowled and looked at Levi with a slant line expression, "Outside the city, there was some sort of accident, we are stuck in traffic."

"Seriously?" Eren perked up at the word 'accident.' There was some noise in the background of a man talking, she guessed he turned on the news.

"Annie didn't hurt you, did she?"

Eren scoffed, "Mikasa, stop. I told you to stop talking like that about her, she is fine with me and she was in trouble."

"That doesn't mean you should chase after her."

"Like you don't chase after me?" His voice was eerily calm.

Stunned, Mikasa sat still, dwelling on the what Eren just said. "Anyways, I should go," Eren paused, "I'll see you soon, be safe." He added as an after thought and the line went dead.

Mikasa wordlessly handed the phone back to Levi, whose eyes bored on her and put it on the cup holder.

She noticed his gaze on her, "What?" She asked annoyed by being caught in a moment like this and having to spend the remainder of the night with this guy.

He shook his head and rested it back, closing his eyes.

She reluctantly followed the same routine, except even sleep was escaping her.

"You should learn to let go." He says a few minutes later.

Her eyes snap open and she regards him with the slightest tilt of the head. Her expression, clear of all emotions and her eyes boring into his. She regards him with no rebuttal, no resistance, but he isn't stupid enough to think she is actually listening to him.

"Then what?" Her delayed rebuttal or question, surprises them both.

"Well that's up to you." He says as he turns on his side to look at her more clearly.

"It's not that easy, He is my family, I can't just let him go." She explains, playing with a loose thread on her discarded cardigan.

"But he is going to resent you for it." Mikasa looked at him and he took the moment to gaze closely at her features and those big stormy eyes of hers. She was indeed very good to look at, as Kirschstein put it.

When she doesn't say anything else, he knows he has hit a spot. The corners of her mouth twitches a little and she turns away to look ahead of her. "He needs space, I get that." She says, more to herself than to Levi, who only listens to her with the intent to listen.

He has heard about them, the adoptive siblings and the hell they grew up from. It was impressive really, for two ten-year-olds to go through shit like that and still turn out seemingly normal like they did. Seemingly being a very loose term, because he has spent a majority of the day with Mikasa Ackerman and her quirks were odd to say the least. And he didn't even want to begin with Eren.

"Yeah." He says, looking away from her lest she think he is a creep.

Fuck that, she already thinks he is a creep, if her reactions today was anything to go by.

But then again, who wouldn't? They were two strangers, warped in some ridiculous situation and now they are spending the night inside his car, in a traffic line, outside of a tunnel. When they first asked him to be a trip adviser to see the antiquated and over priced city of Sina, this wasn't a situation he had in mind.

But silently he pondered on his thoughts and an otherwise comforting silence settled in between them, as Mikasa's eyes fluttered closed.

TBC