Mikasa's dreams were about Eren. She dreamed about their fun day followed by an even funner night. His hands roaming all over her body, his lips on her face. But his lips on her face started feeling too real…

She woke to his overwhelming mahogany teakwood smell consuming her as he covered her face in small pecks. He kissed her forehead, nose, cheeks, chin, and then forehead again.

"Mm morning." Mikasa grunted weakly.

"I missed you."

"While I was sleeping? I've just been right here."

"I know." He replied, going back to kissing her face.

Mikasa giggled.

"This is nice. I could get used to waking up like this."

"Me too."

Mikasa instantly became aware of the fact that they were still naked. In sync, they started to kiss slow and sweetly, eventually leading to making love for the second time ever. This time around was less desperate and aggressive, but instead, loving and slow.

After a few minutes of cuddling, they wanted to get started with their day. Realizing they were out of some essentials, they decided it would be best to make a trip into town. Changing into their nice outfits, they set down the mountain hand in hand.

Eren was aware that after feeling this happy, he was probably going to experience a painful crash, but he chose to push such thoughts aside and try to live in the moment. A moment he only gets here, this one time. A feeling of peace, joy, and freedom. And it was all thanks to Mikasa.

Am I being paranoid, or is everyone staring at us today? Eren wondered to himself once they made it into town.

Maybe he was being hyper protective of Mikasa, or maybe he was now especially afraid of this paradise coming to an abrupt end due to someone realizing who they were and turning them in. And there was the fact that they could get caught as Eldians in the heart of Marleyan territory.

With all these thoughts racing through his head, he couldn't stop scoping out every person that looked at them. There was only so much he could see in his future memories, and the future was also subject to change. He wasn't going to let that happen. Not after tasting how sweet these next few years could be.

Eren being Eren, of course he thought every passerby was a threat, but the reality was that Eren and Mikasa had caught the attention of some of the townspeople. They were both extremely attractive, and Eren specifically had a group girls their age that would talk about him constantly amongst themselves. Other adults had also started talking about them living in the mountains together and how improper that was if they weren't married.

Despite all of this, Eren convinced himself that he was just being paranoid and decided to have fun in the mundane task of shopping with Mikasa.

As far as food went, they had a good amount of fruits and vegetables from their garden, but they were really missing meat, so the first place they went was the butchers shop.

"Eren! We should really buy some chickens so that we can have eggs whenever we want. Plus we are almost out of money. We could start selling them as well as our left over produce and fish we catch."

"That's a great idea."

Their next few errands consisted of getting a few things their new chicks would need. It would be a few days until they could actually pick them up so it gave them time to prepare.

Passing a flower cart, Eren suddenly got an idea.

"Hey Mikasa, wanna run to the liquor store without me really quick? If we split up the errands we'll go faster."

"Oh okay. Sure." Mikasa replied a little confused but willing to go along with it.

Walking into the liquor shop alone, Mikasa realized there was a group of girls already inside. They huddled together and started whispering to one another when they realized she was there. Ignoring them, Mikasa continued shopping. The girls left in hurried whispers and giggles leaving Mikasa happy to be alone.

Eren on the other hand, was browsing the different variations of flowers on the small cart he had passed. After a few minutes, he decided to buy a pretty bouquet of wildflowers. The worker wrapped them up and Eren placed them in one of the big bags he was already carrying to hide them.

Walking towards the liquor store, a group of men in their late 40's noticed him. They walked up to him and started talking to him as if they were old friends. The leader of the group even wrapping his arm around him.

"Hey pal!" He said enthusiastically. "The names Blake. You're new to town right? Live up in those mountains there?"

"Yes." Eren replied coldly.

"Well don't be rude now. Tell us what your name is!"

"Jacob." Eren lied, deciding using an alias would be best in case anyone was looking for him.

"Well Jacob, some of us in town are a little concerned about you and your little girlfriend. You see, it's not proper to live with a woman you're not married to. So are you two married?" Blake asked as if he had a right to know.

"It's really none of your business." Eren replied colder than ever, even though he could feel his blood pressure rising.

"None of our business huh?" Asked Blake, removing his arm from around Eren and looking around at his other friends who were smirking mischievously. "Well hey man, we aren't trying to impose by any means, but we do feel it is our duty to warn you. The people from Hizuru aren't near as worried about the fact that the filth bloods are starting to mate with our kind and from the looks of your girl, she is definitely mixed. I would be careful if I were you not to knock her up. It would be dreadful to have one of them as a child. I don't know what I would do if it was me. Probably kill myself honestly... Or better yet I'd kill the mother and the kid just for-"

"Stop it…" Eren cut him off, clenching his fists and jaw, doing everything he could not to make a scene.

"Don't get mad at me! I'm just looking out for you Jacob! I mean I get it, your little girlfriend is a looker and all that, but I have a daughter just around your age that I can guarantee has blood as pure as it is beautiful. She may not be prettier than what you've got now, but she is definitely more respectable. If you'd be willing to dump your current trash then I could-"

Eren couldn't control himself anymore, he turned around and punched Blake square in the face, knocking him to the ground.

Blakes friends gasped before starting to circle in around him. Eren prepared himself to take all of them on and figured it would be light work but before they could get started, the group of girls that had just left the liquor store ran up to the huddle of men. One of them breaking into the circle.

"Daddy!" She yelled, bending down and helping Blake back to his feet. Immediately the other men started backing off.

"Hey Daisy baby."

"Daddy, what's going on here?" The girl asked, looking from her dad to Eren towering over him. "Daddy did you pick a fight you can't win again?" She turned her attentions to Eren. "I am so sorry about him! We love him, but he and his friends sure are immature given their age. Please forgive him?"

Eren noticed this girl looked a lot like Historia. She was a tiny woman with blonde hair and blue eyes.

Before Eren could reply, Mikasa had returned. She grabbed Eren's hand and was pulling him away. Eren called back to the girl.

"Yeah no harm done." Mikasa picked up her pace at his response to the girl.

As they made the hike back up to their cabin, Mikasa was deathly quiet. Feeling ashamed of his outburst, Eren didn't dare say anything to her. But after a while, he decided to be brave.

"Are you mad at me?"

Silence.

"Yes Eren, as a matter of fact I am mad."

"Why? Because I lost my temper and punched a guy? I would think you would be used to that by now." He said with a nervous chuckle.

"That's part of it." Mikasa admitted. "Plus we really shouldn't be drawing attention to ourselves here. For all we know, Reiner has given our names out to the Marleyan government and they are sending out spies to find us right now! It was a stupid move Eren."

"You don't think I haven't thought of that already? I gave them a fake name just in case okay?"

But Mikasa didn't seem any less frustrated.

"Is that all that is upsetting you?" Eren asked again.

More silence.

Mikasa clearly wasn't going to say anymore. Yes, she had been working on opening up more, but she wasn't perfect at understanding her feelings yet and so she resorted to being unable to communicate.

Trying to understand her even when she wouldn't share was a talent Eren had been working on. Right now seemed like a good time to practice. After a few minutes, it hit him.

"Was it the girl at the end that made you upset?"

Eren could see that Mikasa's ears had turned bright red at the question. Thinking back on it, there had been multiple times over the years that Mikasa had displayed just how jealous she could get over other girls interacting with Eren, no matter how innocent the moment.

"I'm sorry I responded to her. I shouldn't have said anything."

"I caught the end of your conversation with that man too. Him offering his daughter to you." She blurted out growing redder every second. "Did you think she was pretty?"

"Mikasa you can't be serious." Eren replied exasperatedly, feeling thankful to have found the root of the problem. "Are you seriously questioning if I like you? Do you actually remember nothing that happened last night AND this morning?" He asked giving Mikasa a flirtatious nudge. Mikasa giggled slightly and turned impossibly redder.

If Mikasa had thought she was attached to Eren before, it had nothing on the way she felt now. Connecting on a level as vulnerable as sex made her feel like she was out of her mind. She truly believed that Eren was currently the center of her universe and that level of dependence was terrifying her. It messing with her head.

"That's what I thought." Eren replied standing up tall, clearly satisfied they had squashed the problem due to his quick thinking.

Just then, they reached the top of their hike and their cabin was coming into view. Eren reached into the bag and pulled out the bouquet of flowers.

"But since you are feeling insecure right now, I won't waste another second in giving you these." He whipped out the flowers with the biggest grin on his face.

"You got these for me?" Mikasa asked, mouth gaping. She had never been given flowers in her life and she found the sentiment was extremely flattering.

"Yes of course! That's what boyfriends do for their girlfriends…. Which is what I wanted to ask you." Now it was Eren's turn to turn red.

"Will you be my girlfriend Mikasa? Like officially?"

A huge smile spread across Mikasa's face and she took the flowers out of his hand, giving them a big whiff.

"Yes." She replied, extremely coy. "Of course I will."

Eren picked her up baby style, and walked them into her bedroom so that he could show her just how much he belonged to her.

—

The next week passed in a blissful haze as each day Eren and Mikasa explored their sexuality together. But when they weren't sleeping together, they were either exploring their mountain, or doing their daily chores. They had also gotten the stuff for their chickens all set up and had even gone to pick them out.

The addition was super fun and Mikasa found Eren's interactions, and baby voice he used as he talked to them, so adorable.

It was incredibly sweet to see his child like nature slowly manifest itself as he began to realize that he was finally safe to do so. After so many years of war and pain, it took a while for both of them to let their walls down, but so worth it when they finally started trying.

It seemed as though nothing in the world could could come between them. But it didn't take long for tension to arise as Mikasa felt she had to ask a question that had been nagging at her.

"So hey. I know we have talked a lot about the other reality together, but what about this one?"

"What?" Eren replied, a little more hostile than Mikasa would have liked.

"Well, we do live in this reality, so I think it might be good to talk about what my future looks like. In a little over 3 years, you're gonna leave me, and then what will I do?... Probably go back to the military and try to help Armin win the war for Paradis I would assume. But even if we do live through that war, Armin will also leave me in about 10 years and then I'll really be all alone. I mean I guess I'll still have Connie, Sasha, and Jean but-"

"Would you stop talking?" Eren cut in, slamming his fork onto the table. "I know okay? I know this reality sucks. Hearing you say it doesn't make me feel any better. Why do you think that in all the other realities I decide to kill the rest of the world for you guys huh? Because I knew that the alternative sucked for Paradis and for my friends! I'm not sure what you want me to say… Like come on Mikasa! I don't have all the answers to everything you know, I'm not God! The second I die, my memories stop so you'll have to figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life without me."

Shocked by this turn of events and feeling like his outburst was very unfair to her, Mikasa didn't feel like backing down.

"This is hard on me too ya know? You act like you're the only one that has to go through hard things. But you'll be dead Eren! Not the one left behing to pick up the pieces. It's actually extremely selfish." She shot back, getting up from the table and storming into her room before slamming the door behind her.

Eren couldn't figure out why he was being so heated towards her. Maybe it was because imagining her moving on with another man was too much to handle. Or maybe it was because he felt like she was blaming him for not making everything perfect. He couldn't say for sure. All he knew was that her thought process pissed him off and he was too angry to apologize yet. That night they slept in their own beds for the first time in a while.

When they woke the next day, they set about doing their own respective chores and didn't talk to one another. When dinner came, Eren made it by himself. He called for Mikasa to come eat and they ate in silence. When they were finished, Eren reached over and grabbed Mikasa's dish, carrying it to the sink. Mikasa got up and walked into her room, still feeling mad at him for being such a jerk the night before and even more mad that he hadn't apologized all day.

She could hear his heavy footsteps behind her and listened closely to hear where they were going. When she realized they were coming towards her, she froze. The next thing she knew, Eren had grabbed a fistful of her hair and yanked it to the side, smashing their lips together.

Every time they slept together since their first time, it was more slow paced and loving since they were both so new to it all and they were taking their time figuring it out.

But tonight they expressed their frustrations through their actions.

Eren was being anything but delicate. He bit at her lips and pulled at her hair, grunting in lust and anger. Instead of being intimidated by this, it only turned Mikasa on more.

"Damn Eren." She said through a wince/moan at his firm grip in her hair.

"Shut up." He snapped. "On your knees."

Keeping his hand in her hair, he shoved her to the ground while pulling down his pants allowing his huge dick to spring free. He was determined to prove to himself that she was his and his alone. At least for now.

Mikasa had never put it in her mouth. This would be the first, and she embraced it wholeheartedly.

This was a sight Eren had fantasized about for years. Mikasa on her knees, choking and swallowing his length. He figured she wouldn't be amazing at it, having zero prior experience, but he greatly underestimated that this was Mikasa. The same Mikasa who had always been the very best at anything and everything she had ever put her mind to.

Eren bucked into her face as surges of pleasure radiated through his body as Mikasa licked at his tip and played with his balls. It was too much and he soon found he couldn't help himself.

He laced both hands around the back of her head and thrust into her mouth as hard as he could. He could hear her gagging but enjoyed the sound of her struggle. He would have been concerned if he didn't know she would have stopped him if she wasn't enjoying it as well.

"Look at me." He demanded as his pleasure escalated.

Mikasa looked up with tears in her eyes, but the fire behind them told him she was ready for more.

He pulled out of her mouth and reached down, picking her up with ease, throwing her onto the bed. Pulling the rest of his clothes off, he crawled onto the bed and swiftly pulled hers off too.

Mikasa noticed the same animalistic vibe radiating off of him that he had, had during their first time. The difference between this time and their first time was that now, he knew what he was doing.

He laid down on the bed and grabbed at her hips pulling her up so that she was sitting on his face. Mikasa had one second to gasp before he was pushing his dick back into her mouth. He ate her out so intensely and with so much precision that Mikasa had no choice but to return the favor as she sucked him off. He grabbed at her hips and forced her down onto his face so hard she wondered how he was able to breathe, but the moans of pleasure that spilled from his lips told her this was everything to him.

Quickly, Mikasa could feel the now familiar feeling coming over her that was telling her she was close to climaxing. But she continued sucking on Eren until he broke, shooting cum into her mouth. She could feel him breathing heavily against her sensitive skin, but even through his orgasm, he didn't stop his assault on her clit. Pushing her over the edge, she broke her lips free from him to warn him.

"Eren I-"

But she got cut off by intense surges of pleasure coursing through her body, moaning loudly and squirting onto his face.

"That's it." She could feel Eren smiling against her skin. "Mmm yes Mikasa."

Before she could even regain her composure or come back to reality, he was repositioning her on her hands and knees. Another position they hadn't done yet. He had offically gone feral and was already hard again.

Just as she began being able to see clearly again, he was shoving his whole length into her, bottoming out in seconds. She gasped at the abruptness of his actions. He grabbed her hips in a grip so tight it could have bruised, and started thrusting into her with sharp, harsh strokes. Each thrust resulted in cries from Mikasa. She tried burying her face in the pillow to muffle the sound, but Eren grabbed it and threw it to the floor.

"I need to hear you."

She obliged, not holding back any sounds.

Eventually, the movement was too much and she started slipping off of her knees. Eren couldn't have that, so he grabbed under her hips and lifted her back up, grabbing all of her hair in his left hand, making her arch her neck and back even harder. His right hand snaked around her hips and started rubbing at her clit.

Mikasa loved the stretch, the pain, and the pleasure all equally. It was perfect. He was perfect.

Soon enough, she felt the feeling of another orgasm surfacing. She couldn't believe how capable Eren was of making her climax over and over again. This time she didn't even need to tell him it was coming. He could tell.

"Come for me Mikasa." He demanded.

As if on command, Mikasa exploded in euphoria.

"Ahhh you feel so damn good when you do that with me in you." He hummed. His words of praise only elongating her pleasure.

Eren was at the end of his rope. The sounds, the sight, the feeling of being inside of Mikasa. He had been holding back and couldn't handle it anymore. Giving three more deep thrusts, he pulled out quickly and pushed her down onto the mattress so that he could finish on her back.

Mikasa looked over her shoulder at his perfect frame. Spilling out onto her, he threw his head back and spasmed, all but yelling her name. He grabbed his shirt and quickly wiped her off before laying on the bed and pulling her into a tight hold.

For a few minutes neither person said a word. Finally, Eren broke the silence.

"Look, I'm sorry okay? I shouldn't have attacked you like that-"

"I forgive you." Mikasa cut in.

"You do?"

"Yes. But I think it would be best if moving forward we didn't talk about what happens beyond this little world we've created. Let's just keep living in denial and making everyday we are here count. I just want to laugh, smile, and enjoy everything about you while I still can. What happens after is going to happen regardless of talking about it."

"Okay." He paused. "Yeah you're right. I think it feels so good being here with you and having you like this, that any reminder that the world is still so screwed up just sets me off."

"Okay then I won't bring it up anymore. It's just you and me. Nothing else matters."

She grabbed his face and brought their foreheads together so that they could look at each other and share oxygen.

"I'm sorry if I was too rough with you tonight…"

Mikasa felt her heart drop at the thought of him never being like that again. It was too perfect.

"It wasn't too rough." She replied trying to stay cool for fear of sounding desperate.

"No?"

"Nope."

"So you wouldn't mind if I did it again in the future?"

"Not one bit."

Eren could see how much Mikasa was holding back her true feelings and smirked at her. He was starting to realize her preferences, and while she enjoyed making love, she enjoyed being fucked senseless even more. He knew it and she knew it, but he was going to let her pretend like she was being slick.

The good news was that they were on the same page about that.

"Alright then. Noted."