ok after chap 20, I will go on hiatus until the middle of may since it's final term.

This chapter and the next had reached Chapter 56 of the manga, so if you haven't read it, check it out.

Thank you Dr. Archangel for helping me editing.

Enjoy

"Spill it out already."

She walked towards the guy who was tied to a chair, with blood on his face.

"I wonder how long till your nails grow all out again."

He glanced at a tray with ten bloody nails in it. His nails, or at least used-to-be.

"Your turn Levi."

Hanji stepped back, as seeing her methods didn't work, decided to leave the work to Levi.

But it was still hopeless. The guy didn't spill a word even though he now couldn't open one of his eyes, lost few teeth, and got quite a few punches.

"No matter what you do, I won't tell anything." - He tried to speak with his painful tongue and remaining teeth.

"Urghhh." - Hanji sighed, this was her first time torturing someone and clearly it didn't work.

"Hanji-san, progress?" - Mikasa opened the door.

"No." - Levi answered for Hanji.

"Why do you have to be so headstrong, what's the point?" - Mikasa decided to try talking to him "The battles won't end unless you say something."

"Battles? Hahaha." - It was painful to laugh but he couldn't help it "We are the ones keeping peace in the walls here. We'll go to any lengths to do our job."

"Even...killing?" - Mikasa asked.

"Of course. Killing people who may harm that peace is how you make peace. Teachers that spilled unnecessary things, couples trying to fly, whores in the city,... You should thank us."

"Well yes thank you for holding back the improvement of our country." - Levi said sarcastically.

"This won't work, Levi. Give the man some time to think." - Hanji spoke up.

"Fine." - Levi grunted.

"Sannes, isn't it?" - Mikasa looked at the man one last time "Think carefully."

Three people left the room, but Mikasa decided not to entirely close the door, leaving a small gap but enough to see what happened outside.

In front of the door, Levi and Hanji were questioning another person that was also held captive. Unlike Sannes, this guy had no injuries, no lost teeth or a single blood drop.

While Hanji was confirming the details, Levi was guarding, and Mikasa glanced through the door gap.

The man inside might have heard his "comrade" saying "Yes" to Hanji and calling him stupid to protect the information then get tortured.

Mikasa flashed a devious smile and opened the door, happily heard the man spoke up before she even started to ask.

"The Reiss is the real noble family."

In the dining room, the rest of the squad gathered, listening to the horrible sound coming from the basement. But the sound had stopped for a while.

"Levi, Hanji and Mikasa are down there, right?" - Jean murmured.

"Yeah." - Sasha spoke with a shaking voice "Poor guy."

"It...it has to be done..." - Connie tried to shake off his horror while accepting the situation.

"It's still a horrible thing to do despite what purposes." - Sasha argued.

"We're not good people anymore." - Armin crossed his arms on the table and laid his head on them.

Eren stayed silence. He wanted to keep Mikasa up here but she refused. She said she had some tricks to finally make the guy spill.

"Oh, you guys are still here."

Her voice broke the silence.

"Mikasa." - Armin looked up "As the screaming sound has ended, you got the information, right?"

"Yes. We had had a letter written to Erwin right away."

"What was it?"

"Um... I can't tell it now. But you guys will know soon."

It took few seconds for Mikasa to realize everyone was staring at her. She didn't understand why until Eren told her.

"There is blood all over your hand."

She looked down. She did punched the man once, causing two or three teeth fall out.

"I'll clean it." - She said and quickly left the room.

"Mikasa seems quite...aggressive recently." - Sasha commented.

"I've heard she took care of four guys from the Military Police alone the other day." - Connie looked down "I saw their corpses."

"She did it to protect us." - Eren suddenly shouted, unconsciously trying to defend Mikasa.

"We know. But it's still -"

"Sasha, Eren is right." - Jean joined the conversation "She did all the hard work so we can sit here, and do nothing. It's already bad that we don't help, now you're judging her?"

"...I'm sorry." - Sasha avoided looking at Eren "Don't...tell Mikasa please."

"Should we come down there, asking the information?" - Armin decided to change the subject to clear up the heavy air.

"Ok." - Jean stood up.

The squad came down and saw two men sitting with depressed faces in a dungeon.

"How did we get the information?" - Eren asked Hanji.

"We tricked them." - Levi answered instead of the four-eyed torturer.

"Tricked?" - Jean didn't understand.

"We wrote a script and forced that blonde to read it out loud. The other guy, Sannes, thought his comrade had betrayed the king, so he spilled it all out." - Hanji explained, showing a piece of paper.

That was a great, and evil, plan. How did Hanji come up with this plan anyway?

Eren looked at the paper again, realizing the handwriting that he had seen before. No doubt it was hers.

Mikasa sat in her room, brushing her tangled hair. It had grown out quite long, when was the last time she cut it?

Suddenly she remembered the girl Eren talked about, who was also brushing her hair.

Who was it? It had bothered her since he mentioned it to her, but she had tried to keep her cool.

Suddenly there was a knock on her door.

"Mikasa it's me."

"Speak of the devil." - She thought, putting the comb down and opened the door.

"It's late." - Mikasa said "If you think about redoing what happened before, I will keep my words back then, and turn you to pulp."

"I'm not. I just want to talk."

"...fine. Come in."

She gestured him in and closed the door, locking it in case someone came behind. It wouldn't be nice if they saw Eren walked into the room of one of humanities strongest soldiers.

"So, what's up?" - She asked as they both sat on her bed.

"The plan, that script, it's yours?"

"...No it was Hanji's idea. But her handwriting wasn't good. So Levi told me to write it." - A white lie as Eren could tell.

"Is that so..." - He decided to go along with her, as if he believed it.

"Eren...you want me to stop, right?"

"No! We've made it clear the other day. I'm with you no matter what."

"Then why..."

"I don't want you to do it all alone. I want to do something for you."

"Being safe is enough."

"No. It's not enough. It's not!"

"Eren..."

He suddenly grabbed her shoulders, squeezed it so hard that he could hear she gasped painfully.

"Stop taking all the pain alone!" - He shouted to her face, ignoring how he could feel her trembling in his arms.

"I'd rather take them alone than let you take even a small tiny bit of pain!"

"Then why can't you see I'm feeling the same way?"

"Eren, there is already blood on my hands. I can take more. But you..."

"I love you Mikasa, I love you." - He couldn't take it anymore, laying his head on her shoulder "It hurts me to see you in pain more than to take the pain myself."

"I'm sorry..."

"I love you I love you."

"I know, Eren... I know." - She wrapped her arms around his back "I love you too."

She was lost at words, trying to find out what to say to comfort him, to convince him that she was ok. But her train of thoughts were interrupted as she felt the skin of her neck being kissed violently. The kiss got fiercer as he began to leave kiss marks on her neck, pulling the red scarf down and trailing his lips to her collarbone.

"Er-"

Before she even gasped, he had pushed her down to her bed and moved his lips to hers.

"Eren what are you doing?!" - She used her hands to push him away but failed. It was strange. Usually she could even pin him to the ground, why now she felt so powerless.

"I don't want to lose you. I don't want you to keep bathing in blood. I don't want to see you keep acting like it's ok even though it's not."

"Eren... You won't lose me. You won't."

He rose up and she could see water on his eyes, and tear drops fell on her face.

"I'm with you." - She held his neck and pulled him down, kissing him softly "I'm always with you."

She kissed him again and again, he started to lift her blouse up and she could feel his touch on her skin. They could cross the line right here right now.

But he stopped and rolled down, lying next to her.

"I'm...I'm not gonna do it til you're ready. Til we have got out of this mess."

She burst into laughter as she moved closer, laying her head on his chest, still giggling.

"You're a keeper, Jaeger."

He, despite wanting to dig a hole and jump in to hide his embarrassment, pulled her closer and kissed her forehead, looking at her pleadingly as asking permission to stay the night. And she nodded.

"Good night Mikasa."

OK I know Mikasa sounds so devious in my story but basically Levi raised her, so...

and I can't write smut lol, sorry.