Pairing: Eren/Mikasa

Setting: Post Series; Set is same world and before as I'll Be Home for Christmas

Words: 2748

Rating: K+

Notes: Midbightblaze7 asked for a scene like the one in Fast Five when the team finds out that Mia is pregnant. Fast and Furious is my guilty pleasure so of course I was more than happy to do this one. Besides, I never do enough post series with all of them together do to my depressing headcanons. I also really love Sasha and Mikasa being good friends; I think it's absolutely precious. Title is from "Gone, Gone, Gone" by Phillip Phillips.

You've Always Done the Same For Me

Mikasa practically collapsed onto the couch in one of the officer's rooms. Armin was already in there, sitting at one of the tables looking over some paperwork though he was arching his eyebrow up at her when she looked up.

"Tired?" he asked, but he did look a little more amused than anything.

"I feel like fighting titans was easier than dealing with new recruits." Mikasa laid her head back against the couch, just wanting to take a nap more than anything though. Granted she wasn't sure how much Levi would appreciate having one of his senior officers sleeping through training classes in a break room.

Armin snorted. "No, sometimes I think the same. Even though they raised the enlistment age, it still seems like these kids take a lot more discipline than we ever did and I only teach the strategy and mapping training."

Mikasa stared up at the ceiling. She couldn't remember a time she felt so exhausted in the middle of the day and she still had more classes to train later in the day, not to mention the mission she was scheduled to lead next week. A hand fluttered to her stomach feeling the soft swell under her button up that was intentionally a size too big for her. It had only been a few months; she knew it was only going to get worse as time went on exhaustion wise but as well as keeping it to the few people who knew.

Armin turned back to his paperwork. "You're gonna have to tell him eventually."

"It's not me whose putting off telling him," Mikasa said, a small smile pulling at her lips.

"It's you putting off telling everyone else though."

Well, that was true. "I just don't want them to make a big deal about it."

Armin looked back over to her, though this time he was smiling. "It is a big deal. The first generation to be born free. It's a good thing, Mikasa, and its special because of who it is. It's not just me whose known you two since we were kids. There aren't many of us left; any reason to still celebrate is a good thing."

Leave it to Armin to make her start to get choked up. The first generation born free. It was true wasn't it? Her thumb absentmindedly rubbed over her stomach. All she was thinking about when she found out was that she finally got to have her family with Eren. Sure it probably wasn't ideal timing; they were still working on rebuilding the Scouting Legion, which was taking leaps and bounds every day and troops of recruits coming in every few weeks for her to train on weapon and endurance skills they'd need on missions. She still couldn't have helped but feel anything but happy, with a little bit of worry and fear. Telling Eren had relieved some of that, seeing how happy he was too but she still had to tell her old friends, and her superior officers.

The door to the room opened and quickly shut again. "I see I wasn't the only one seeking refuge."

Mikasa couldn't bite back the smile on her lips when she heard Eren's voice and saw him walking towards them. Yeah, she saw him every day, like she always had, but that was all she wanted.

"That bad?" Armin asked as Eren flopped down next to Mikasa.

"Not really. I was teaching them hand to hand today, but it's just one of those days. Good kids and eager to learn it's just so different than when we were trained. " He reached over to wrap both his arms carefully around her stomach, pulling her slightly into his lap.

"That's because we were trained for very different things," Mikasa said, leaning her head against his shoulder, the collar of the familiar uniform jacket rubbing into her face.

It really only was a year since the peace came to them, a year since they started over in the Scouting Legion and made its purpose that of mapping and pushing the boundaries. Since then people, both kids and adults, wanted to join the Scouting Legion to explore the world, and they were all welcome; provided they could put up with training. They still had people who could specialize in 3DM Gear, always needing a few in each squad, and people who could specialize in medicine, in combat and weapons, in strategy and mapping. There were so many new divisions and so many new ways to help the world that sometimes it was hard not to see how much had changed since they were twelve years old in training to join the Scouting Legion.

Mikasa laced her hand with Eren's when his fingers started to trace patterns over her stomach. She looked up to see those eyes she knew so well looking back down at her.

"Feeling okay?" he asked, resting his chin on her head.

"Yeah, just worn out today."

"Maybe you should take it easy a little bit more. Other people can help with the training you do."

A smile pulled at her lips. "Maybe you should tell Levi so I can actually get time off."

"Maybe we can wait a little bit longer."

Armin let out a loud laugh as he turned to look at them. "You knew that would work wouldn't you."

Mikasa nodded trying to hold back her own laughter but it didn't work, not when Eren let out that exasperated groan of his.

"Did someone start having a party without inviting us? I am incredibly insulted."

Mikasa hadn't even heard the door open, but there was Connie and Jean standing inside the room now.

"No," Armin said. "I'm pretty sure we could find a better place for a party then this room."

Connie shrugged in agreement as he took a seat in a nearby chair, reaching his arms over his head while Jean sat down at the table with Armin. "I can't believe we all have the same time off for once. Normally, that never happens. Maybe things are slowing down a bit before the next round of missions."

"We have plenty of older recruits ready to go back out and newer ones primed to go on their first ones," Armin said putting down his pencil. "It's we don't have enough Squad Leaders to go around right now. We need to do some promoting quickly especially when we have two groups that leave together at a time."

Connie grimaced. "No talking work rule in the break room. I'm exhausted just thinking about it."

"You do realize you're leaving in a few days to take one of those missions," Jean snorted.

"Yeah, that's different. I'm working then, I'm not working right now so shhh."

Mikasa had to hold onto Eren's hands to get him to stop rubbing over her stomach; their friends were used to a certain level of affection from the both of them, but that was like screaming that she was pregnant. She wasn't quite ready for that.

Armin must've seen her do it because he started to chuckle again, clearly amused over something.

Jean gave a quick glance to Armin and to Mikasa. "What's so funny?"

"Nothing," Armin said with a shake of the head.

Jean didn't quite look like he was ready to let it drop but the door slammed open and shut again causing everyone to look up. Sasha was standing there with cups in one hand, and something hidden under her jacket in the other.

"Sash, what did you steal now?" Connie asked, but he looked pretty eager to see exactly what it was.

"Oh, just you wait," she said, quickly walking over to the table with Armin and Jean to set the cups down. "I was hoping to find all you guys in one place, or at least enough to go find everyone. And I didn't steal it; I just didn't want anyone to see me with it."

"No one believes that, just get on with it," Jean said.

Sasha pulled out a bottle that was thin up at the top and thicker down at the bottom; a wine bottle.

Mikasa felt her stomach drop.

"Where did you get that!" Connie practically moaned reaching for the bottle that Sasha was holding away from him.

"I just happened to find it," Sasha said, obviously keeping a bit of the details away from her friends. "And I wanted to share it with my favorite people."

Jean took the bottle from her hands as he examined the cork. "Did you-"

She handed him the cork opener from her back pocket.

Mikasa watched as Jean popped the cork on the wine, getting a cheer from Sasha and Connie while she started to unstack the cups. Mikasa wasn't sure how she was gonna get out of this one without telling everyone why she couldn't partake in the celebrations. It was Eren who told her she should stay away from alcohol, something he read in one his father's books years ago and it really was just fine, they didn't drink all that much to begin with. This though, this would take some kinda lie which Mikasa didn't want to do, but she wasn't sure she was ready for the other alternative yet.

Sasha grabbed the bottle from Jean and started to pour out the red liquid into the cups, though Connie had already grabbed one off the table. "Don't drink it yet," she laughed. "We have to toast first."

"A toast to what?" Armin asked, a light smile on his face.

Sasha paused for a moment. "I dunno, we'll think of somethin'." She gestured for Armin to grab one while she grabbed two and made her way to the couch. She held out one to Eren who grabbed his but Mikasa couldn't even bring herself to take hers from Sasha.

"I'm okay," Mikasa tried, giving Sasha a smile.

"What do you mean you're okay?" Sasha laughed. "This is a treat, c'mon, it's just one cup."

Mikasa's heart was pounding in her ears. What was she supposed to say? Even if she took it Sasha would know if she never drank it, and Mikasa didn't want to hurt her friend's feelings but what else was she supposed to do? "I can't drink it."

Sasha's brow furrowed. "I've seen you drink wine before, why can't you?"

Mikasa was well aware of all the eyes on her now, not just Sasha's. Connie and Jean looked curious whereas Armin looked like he was about to burst out laughing just waiting for her to come up with an answer and Eren was just swirling his wine around behind her, probably wondering what she was gonna say as well. What help he was.

She was pretty good at keeping a straight face so lying was a bit easier for her; she could probably think of something to say. She didn't feel well, the last time she drank didn't end up too well, she had to go talk to Levi soon, she had to go teach a class soon, anything probably would have worked. Yet as Mikasa watched Sasha's kind brown eyes watching her, Mikasa's only girlfriend and someone who knew her for years and years, she had a desire to tell her something else.

A smile pulled at Mikasa's lips as she met Sasha's eyes. "I'm pregnant."

It was a good thing Armin was paying attention, because his had was there to catch the glass that Sasha dropped to bring both of her hands over her mouth. "Are you serious?" Her voice was a little muffled behind her hands but Mikasa heard the mix of surprise and excitement in Sasha's tone.

Mikasa nodded unable to bite back a laugh as Connie let out a cat call.

Sasha let out a noise of excitement that Mikasa was pretty sure she hadn't heard since they were trainees before Sasha dove down to wrap her arms around Mikasa's neck, hugging her tightly. "Why didn't you say something before!" Sasha said as she pulled away to look at Mikasa again.

She shrugged, unsure what else to say but Sasha didn't seem to mind.

"May I?" she asked, sitting back on her knees on the couch and gesturing to Mikasa's stomach.

"Yeah," Mikasa said as Eren moved his hand out of the way.

Sasha's touch was gentle as if she thought she was going to hurt Mikasa or the baby but as the brunette placed her full hand down on Mikasa's swollen stomach, Sasha's eyes started to glisten. "You weren't kidding," she choked looking a bit in awe. She leaned into to Mikasa a little bit. "When're you gonna tell Eren its Jean's baby?"

"Aren't you hilarious," Eren said. "I was there, you know, I'm pretty aware it's my kid."

Sasha laughed as she sat back up giving Mikasa's belly a rub before leaning into to hug her again. "I'm so happy for you. I know it's what you've always wanted."

Mikasa closed her eyes, feeling a bit more emotional than normal as she hugged Sasha back.

"I always knew you had it in ya, buddy," Connie said.

Jean grunted. "God help me, so did I."

Sasha pulled away from Mikasa as Armin held up his glass. "I think we have something to toast to now," he said with a grin.

"We do!" Sasha scurried up to her feet as Armin handed her a glass. She held it up as everyone but Mikasa followed suit. "To new life in a new world."

Everyone gave up a shout of cheers before bringing the glasses to their lips. For a moment Mikasa wished she could've joined them but as Eren's hand snaked back around her waist to rest on her stomach, she knew she was much happier like this.

"Enjoying drinking on military grounds?"

That was until she saw Levi, with Hanji behind him, standing in the doorway. She was waving at them, but Levi looked about as disgusted as normal.

"Captain!" Sasha squeaked, scooting over to hide the bottle. "We were just…relaxing?"

Levi stepped into the room with Hanji following and shutting the door behind her. "I didn't know relaxing involved toasting and drinking wine. Most of you at least." He glanced over to Mikasa. "At least you learned something decent when you lived with a doctor. He probably dropped that bit of information knowing Jaeger would knock you up someday."

Eren choked on his drink.

Levi arched an eyebrow. "Did you really think I wasn't going to notice? I've known you brats since you were fifteen years old. It wasn't that difficult to work out." He looked over to Sasha. "Well, are you gonna pour us a goddamn drink. Hanji is practically pushing me out of the way to go interrogate those two."

"Yes, sir!" Sasha said, pouring another glass for Levi while Jean handed Mikasa's glass to Hanji.

"I was not," Hanji said. "Thank you, Jean. I just wanted to ask them a few questions, that's all."

"If it's anything that only you would care about, chances are no one wants to hear about it least of all me," Levi said with a nod when Sasha passed him a glass.

"But-"

"No one wants to hear the words 'How did it happen?' being uttered from your mouth, for scientific reasons or not."

Connie clasped his hand over his mouth trying not to laugh but it didn't work. Soon the rest of the room was laughing too and it was more than enough to bring a smile back to Mikasa's face; not when for so long a room they were all in brought nothing but dread and fear.

"You better watch after her, brat," Levi said, eyes flickering over to Eren. "She'll overwork herself and not listen to anyone. Take care of her."

"Always, sir," Eren said, though he sounded like he was still recovering from choking.

Levi raised his glass slightly to Eren who, as Mikasa glanced back at him, did the same before they both took a drink.

She leaned her head back against Eren's chest and laced her hands with his again as she looked around as Sasha pouring Connie more, Hanji trying to get any details she could out of Armin and Jean trying to get her to stop talking. A weight felt like it was off her shoulders; that hadn't been too bad at all.

At least she knew their baby would have the best Aunts and Uncles there were.