I'm still alive guys, sorry for the wait.
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Eren was up early the next morning with Armin, and Mikasa. They sat on the outer wall of Shiganshina, above the destroyed gate they plugged the night before.
Eren desperately wanted to tell Armin what happened yesterday between him and Annie, but couldn't as long as Mikasa was there. He had a pretty good idea as to how she would react.
Eventually Mikasa excused herself to relieve. As soon as she was off the wall, Eren spoke.
"Me and Annie had sex." Eren said. Excitement was spewing off his voice.
Armin's eyes went wide. "What, when, how? I knew you guys were always flirting, but still."
Eren confidently shrugged his shoulders. "What can I say? I guess I'm just that irresistible. It happened yesterday, but you can't tell anyone about it, especially Mikasa."
"Believe me, I like living too much to break that news to her." Armin said. "So anyway what was it like?" Armin asked.
Eren thought for a moment. How would he describe it?
"Like heaven I guess. I can't wait to do it with her again. God, I can't stop thinking about her."
Suddenly ODM gear attached to the side of the wall.
"Quick change the subject." Eren spat out.
"Ugh, yeah the sea… pretty cool right?" Was the best Armin could come up with.
Reiner, Berthold, Annie and Mikasa all came up on the wall.
"Eren, Armin, how's it going?" Reiner asked.
"I'm great." Eren said. He glanced at Annie, who shyly looked away. Then he noticed Berthold. He was staring at Eren with a glare that could freeze his soul. His hands were curled into fist. "Hey, Berthold you good?" Eren asked.
"Fine, Eren. Just fine." He said, although it was obvious something was wrong.
"Anyway, guys we have to talk. It's important." Reiner said. He looked over the wall to the rising sun. "We haven't been completely honest with you guys."
"About what?" Eren asked. Reiner didn't seem like the type to lie. He was always straight forward with things ever since bootcamp.
"Everything you know about the world, how the last of humanity only exists within these walls, and that the rest of the world is ruled by the titans," He asked. "What if I told you that it's all a lie."
"What are you talking about, Reiner?" Eren said. Everyone knows we are the last of humanity.
"Me and Berthold, we're from outside the walls." He said.
Eren got to his feet with excitement. "Reiner, you're not making a lot of sense right now. If you weren't born here then where were you born?" Armin asked. Eren didn't realize he had gotten up. The excitement in his eyes was only rivaled by when he talked about the sea.
"Don't get it wrong, most of the world is still ruled by the titans, but there are other holdouts. Me and Berthold came here with a group, to learn about how you guys fend off titans. We hoped to take what we learned back to our hometown, and use it to fight the titans there."
"What happened to the rest of your group?" Mikasa asked.
"We… Me and Berthold were the only two who made it here. We had a leader, a great guy named Marcel, he gave his life so we could make it here." Reiners face was full of sadness and regret for a moment before he quickly hid it and continued with his story.
"Anyway we reached Shiganshina the day the wall got attacked. We tried to tell the soldiers about how there were more survivors, but they didn't want to hear it. It didn't make sense to us at first, why wouldn't they want to strategize with other survivors? After some time here we realized that, if word got out that there were more humans, everything they've been telling you guys about the world would be disproven. They tried to arrest us, but we escaped in the confusion of the colossus' attack."
Eren stood still trying to take in all of the information he had just gotten. Their entire view of the world was wrong. They weren't the last ones left. Which meant that somewhere out there beyond the walls, someone was living his dream, someone was free.
"I know it's a lot to take in, but we've been talking." He gestured to Berthold. "We should go back to my hometown first, there's a man there, Zeke, who studied titans quite a lot. He knew more than anyone I've meant here. Maybe he can help you both when it comes to your Titan powers."
Annie's eyes went to Eren, trying to read his face. Eren wasn't sure what to make of this information. More survivors holding out against titans, and a supposed expert about them as well, seemed amazing.
"Why are you just telling us about this now, Reiner?" Mikasa asked.
"Like I said, I tried to when we first arrived but-"
Mikasa cut him off. "Not the government, us. We came all the way to Wall Maria to find more information about the titans and you never once mentioned there's a Titan expert living outside the walls."
"What if the Armored and Colossal show up again while we're outside of Wall Maria?" Eren added on. Everyday he worried that they would attack again while they were away. Truth be told they could have already. They had no way of knowing what was happening back at Wall Rose. For all they knew it could have fallen the day after they left.
Annie put her hand in Erens. "Eren," she said in a low voice. Erens heart fluttered at the sound "We came all this way to find out the secret of the titans, and we found nothing. If we reach this guy Reiner mentioned, we could still do that. Otherwise we didn't accomplish much." She said,
"Besides save Erens life you mean." Mikasa said in the same cold voice she always addressed Annie in.
"Mikasa, stop it, you know what she meant!" Eren snapped. Mikasa looked hurt. She turned her head to the ground. Eren immediately felt awful. Ever since he almost died at Trost he never wanted to yell at her again. The thought of his last words to her being those of anger depressed him to no end.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to yell." Eren said, "I just wished you two would get along better."
"Whatever." She pouted.
Eren sighed. "How long would it take to get there, Reiner?"
"Should be Two days there, two days back. Assuming we don't encounter too many titans" He said.
Only four more days. Four more days before they actually can learn the secrets of the titans and save humanity.
"With the hole in Shiganshina plugged, we've already helped humanity a great deal." Berthold added.
"I say we do it, Eren." Annie said, gripping his hand. "Think of what we can learn."
Eren smiled. "Alright, four more days. We can manage that."
"Mikasa, Armin. It's going to be a rough journey. We don't know what's out there. You guys don't have to come if you don't want to. It'll be safer-"Reiner began, but Mikasa quickly cut him off. "Where Eren goes, I go." Her tone did not invite argument.
"You're crazy if you think we came all this way to not go all the way to Reiner." Armin added.
"You don't think someone should stay here in Shiganshina, that way." Reiner stopped himself this time. "There no changing your minds is there?" He said. "I guess it is what it is."
