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paypay0315 · 4 years ago

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The Space Between (4)

She didn't sleep a wink last night. These nightmares are becoming too much for her and all she wants is for it to end.

But she has to keep pushing through or she want be able to defeat the Titans. "HARMONY!" She hears her name being called out, she wakes up.

Was she asleep? She really was that tired.

"WHY ARE YOU SLEEPING!?" Her commander screams in her face.

She immediately stands straight up giving her best form she could think of. "AM I BORING YOU CADET?!!"

"N-NO SIR!!" She stutters.

"IF YOU WANT TO SLEEP THEN YOU MIGHT AS WELL LEAVE THIS PLACE NOW!!!" he screams again this time up in her face.

"YES SIR! I UNDERSTAND BUT I WANT TO BE HERE SIR!!"

"WELL THEN ACT LIKE IT!" She can feel the spit starting to hit her face.

He walks away and to be honest she was honestly scared at how fast his mood can change.

......

Pushing this cart was alot harder then what she thought it would be. How does he expect them to push this cart with two cases of water in them? She huffs trying to control her breathing but its no use she feels like she could pass out at any moment.

Before she could take another breath the cart immediately starts to fall down from the hill. She strains her arms to try and pick the cart back up. "It's your fault" she heard a faint voice

No not this again.

"You're weak" she heard it again she looked behind her and saw Jean.

"What did you just say?" She questioned him.

"Huh?! I didn't say anything?" He points his eyebrow up.

She turns around with confusion written all over her face. Is she going crazy?

It gets harder for her to push up the cart since it just got knocked back down almost all the way to the bottom of the hill.

She's pretty much the only person who hasn't succeeded in getting the cart up to the top except for Eren of course but that's not a surprise there.

She struggles to even pick the cart back up and by the time she gets half way, time is up.

She failed...... again.

She can't keep going on like this.

........

Training becomes a lot harder for her. She can't even seem to keep her eyes open long enough to do any of the training. Ever since she started having nightmares again she hasn't slept at all. How will she ever do anything if she is letting stupid dreams get to her?

She starts to become weaker everyday and Eren notices. From the very beginning Eren kept an eye on everyone, he only did that because he wanted to test everyone's abilities to see if he can get stronger than them.

At the very beginning Harmony was on the top of many, she went through each training session in a blink of an eye and now it seems as though she can't even keep up? What's wrong with her?

Not that he cares or anything. He watches her struggle trying to pick up the cart for the second time. Why can't she pick it up?

"Hey Eren!" Armin calls out to him and knocks him out of his trance. "Hey can you please help!" Armin struggles to breathe while picking up the cart.

"Oh yes sorry" He says and picks up the cart all the way to the top of hill. When he looks down he sees Harmony at the bottom once again.

.......

After training was done all the cadets just went to bed after the tiring day they have had.

"Hey Eren!" Armin calls out to him.

"Yes?"

"What's up with you? Today you were out of it" Armin asks him.

"Nothing, and I wasn't out of it, what are you talking about?"

"I'm just saying, everytime I saw you, you were looking away" Armin says.

He noticed that?

"You were staring at Harmony" Eren becomes shocked at how much he noticed. Was he that obvious?

Eren face starts to heat up. "Didn't me and Mikasa tell you not to let her get to you, besides she's not doing very good right now so what's the problem?" He asks.

Is that what he thinks this is?

"That's not..... I mean-" he doesn't even know what to say.

What was he doing with her? Does he hate her still? Did he truly even hate her to begin with? After all he is just a kid who wants to kill Titans and anyone who stands in his way will get pushed back down. That's what Harmony was to him..... at first.

Someone who was in his way, but clearly something has changed. What was it? Pretty much all of there interactions with each other have been them yelling at eachother or calling each other names. But what changed?

The one time he felt like he saw the real Harmony. That's what changed. That day in the Tavern when they were cleaning. That felt so long ago, but he can't stop thinking about it. He can't stop thinking about how pretty she looked under the stars or how nice she treated him. And he couldn't also get it out of his head that he knows her from somewhere but where? That day at the Tavern he actually got a real good look at her that time.

And he noticed how she actually has a small dot on the right side of her lip, he's surprised he can see it even from her smooth dark skin. But it was very cute. And how her hair looked soft, he swears he has seen her before but he doesn't know from where.

"What is it?" Armin interrupts his dazing.

"L-Look it's nothing, and it's really none of your business Armin" Eren spits.

"I know but...... don't you think you are being a little bit..... mean" Armin struggles to say.

"Huh?!"

"I mean- I don't see what's got you so worked up about her? We are all here for the same thing are we not?"

"Yeah, but she's rude and she punches every chance she gets, she's loud and she doesn't even acknowledge me as a human being!" Eren almost screams. What was he saying? Does he still hate her?

"Maybe because you don't acknowledge her as a human being either"

Eren doesn't say anything back to that. He was...... right. So then he doesn't hate her? Lord this is so confusing. It makes his head spin.

"Maybe being a little nicer to her will change who she is..... and maybe you guys can actually work together on things" Armin suggests.

Eren still doesn't say anything back. What can he say? Armin was right.

Armin always had a way with his words. And he always knew how to calm Eren down when the time was right. He doesn't want to or rather he is too stubborn to admit it but he wants to maybe possibly....... be friends with her.

Will she even accept him as such? He at least has to give it a try right?

......

She walks outside to get some more fresh water from the well when she sees Eren at the same well.

Great.

She can't let him stop her from getting water. Cmon Harmony just go up there.

She takes slow steps just in case he notices her too early and she will have to start a conversation with him. But it's too late because once he is done getting the water he turns around quickly and sees her there.

They stare at eachother once again and don't say anything to one another.

It's quiet. A bit too quiet.

It's so quiet you can hear the sweat coming from Erens forhead drop on the floor. And it's honestly getting really awkward at this point. Usually the two will be yelling at each other but neither one of them has said anything. Why is it weird all of a sudden? She thinks.

"Can I help you?" Eren breaks the silence.

"No, actually you can't!" she growled.

Is she angry with him?

She walks up to the well not breaking her eye contact with him until she drops her pot in the well.

Remember Eren, just treat her like a human being.

"So u-umm nice weather we are having right?" He says with a sly smile.

Eren what the fuck is wrong with you? He immediately regrets even saying anything but she doesn't even say anything back to him. Is she ignoring him?

"Y-yeah that's a pretty dumb question" he laughs it off but tension starts to fill the air. She still isn't saying anything back.

"Piss off will you!" she snapped.

Eren sometimes lets his anger get the best of him and all of a sudden he gets furious at the lack of respect he is receiving. He just doesn't understand why she's being such a bitch to him.

"Did I do something?" He asks.

She tries to ignore him but he just kept on bugging her with the same question.

"Can you please leave me alone!" She almost screams.

"Look i'm just asking a question, I don't know what i did to make you so angry"

What you are doing is talking so much. She thinks.

"I just wanna know what the hell I did? I told you I didn't want any distractions-"

"Excuse me?" she interrupts him.

"Oh, i'm sorry. Am i distracting you Eren?" She folds her arms around her chest.

He stutters. "Look, I just mean that I can't have an annoying little witch pestering me all the time when i'm trying to-"

"WHAT THE HELL DID YOU JUST CALL ME?!!" She immediately yells out.

"STOP DOGDING MY QUESTION!! I ASKED YOU WHY YOU HATE ME?!" He matches her volume.

"THIS! BECAUSE YOU JUST INSULATED ME!!" She screams.

"I ONLY INSULATED YOU BECAUSE YOU CALLED ME A LITTLE GRIMMLIN"

"ITS NOT MY FAULT YOU LOOK LIKE ONE-" She yells and picks up her fist once again about to punch him.

"HEY!" someone yells at the both of them and they stop.

It's their commander.

"What the hell are yall out here yelling for?!" People are trying to sleep!!" He yells.

They don't say anything.

"If I see you guys out here past bedtime again both of you will be KICKED OUT!" he yells at the end and walks back into his room.

They are both silent. This isn't how Eren pictured it at all.

Well that was a total fail. Armins plan sucked. She still was treating him like shit. Why should he have to be nice to her? Why couldn't she be nice to him?

He doesn't understand women at all.

How could she let that little man get to her like that? She's better than this.

She didn't fail to notice though how for the first time Eren was trying to actually talk to her, but why? She also didn't fail to notice how he has changed in some way, she doesn't know how but she feels it.

.....

Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you. Happy birthday to Harmony, Happy Birthday to you" The small crowd sang.

"Okay sweetie now blow out your candles" A young women said.

The little girl blew out her candles and laughed after wards because of her excitement about eating cake.

She loved cake.

Her mother cut the cake for her and she dug into it using her hands and mainly her mouth. Everyone around her laughed at how cute she was.

"Can you believe she is now seven years old?!" the woman almost cried.

"I know where did the time go?" An older man said.

Yes. Where did the time go?

"You're weak" the little girl turns around and looks at her family.

The little girls eyes go wide at the picture she is seeing. Her families eyes are not even in their face. It's like they have gone black.

"You're weak" the girls mother points at her.

"If only you hadn't been so weak, we wouldn't have died" the father comes up to her. He bends down and grabs her face and starts squeezing it.

"DADDY STOP IT!" The little girl cries out.

"You're weak" he says again.

Stop it. Stop it. Stop it!

She wakes up. Another nightmare.

When she wakes up she sees she's in the Tavern. When did she get here?

"You sure were sleeping good" Someone says in front of her she looks over and sees her annoying roommate.

"Are you sure you got enough sleep?" She asked.

"Yeah..... I was just shutting my eyes for a minute" Harmony tells her.

"We've been here for an hour and you have been alseep the whole time" Sasha says with a stuff face full of food.

"Maybe you should eat all that food first before you talk, it's disgusting" Harmony nagged.

Sasha doesn't even care she stuffs her face with more food. What is wrong with this girl? Doesn't she have a stomach?

"You should eat as well Harmony" Sasha suggests.

"Oh and a question, why is your skin so dark?"

Did she seriously just ask that? Harmony honestly doesn't even know the answer to the question herself.

"I-I" Harmony stutters out.

"You haven't been eating either" Sasha doesn't progress on the last question.

Thank god.

"Have you been watching me or something?"

"No and yes I mean you are my room mate, I notice things...... like how you use your trauma to hurt Erens feelings" She says with a smile on her face.

"Huh?!"

"Are you gonna eat that?" She points at the bread next to Harmony and she shakes her head no, Sasha has never grabbed anything so quickly in her life. She grabs Harmony's bread and stuffs it in her mouth. "Well we all have noticed Harmony" she says.

"And to be honest I think it's wrong, you see I understand you lost your family but that doesn't mean you have a right to bully people" She doesn't even stutter when she says this stuff. It seems like she has been wanting to tell her for a while.

But Harmony can't stand any of it. Who the hell does she think she is?

"What the hell do you know about me?" Harmony spits.

"I'm just saying, the past couple of weeks Ive noticed Eren has refrained from being mean to you so maybe you should stop being mean to him" She gulps down her water.

Harmony just sits there and watches her like she is watching an animal eat.

"I have no idea who the hell you think you are, but you don't know me. So I would refrain from trying to tell me about my life!" She almost yells.

"I'm just saying-"

"I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING BUT ITS NOT TRUE!!"

Sasha stops eating.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ME???!!"

"You're weak" she hears again.

Everyone in the Tavern starts to hear her.

"YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I HAVE BEEN THROUGH!!"

"You're weak"

Her head starts pounding again. "IM NOT WEAK!"

She throws the food along with the table on the floor about to pounce on Sasha. "HARMONY" She hears a familiar voice call out to her and she looks over, she sees it's Eren.

She looks at him softly and she calms down. But that doesn't stop her from walking out the Tavern.

Sasha was right. That's why she got so angry because she knows she is right but once again she will not admit that.

.....

She finds herself outside again. Ever since the first night she did it she can't seem to stop. It calms her. Thinking about 'the big toe' star. She has no idea why that's the star that calms her down but it does.

The story touched her heart more than she liked to admit. It was cute in a way.

She just wants her mind to be clear for once. Since she can't seem to sleep she comes out here to clear her mind. It helps in more ways than one.

She's just so tired. She's tired of all of it. She's tired of the fighting she's tired of this world, this place. She doesn't even feel like being in training anymore.

She just wants to see her family again.

But the one person who's mind cant stop running is Erens. He's watching her again.

He just wanted to see if she was alright especially after the incident earlier, okay maybe he is some what fond of her but that's only because the past two years he has gotten to know her. But he just can't stop thinking about her and he has no idea why. It's honestly driving him crazy. One minute he wants to hit her in the face and the next he just wants to see if she is okay.

He hates feeling like this. So confused on everything. But it's also because he can't stop thinking about how he may know her from somewhere. But where?

He knows he has seen her from somewhere.

"Staring at people is rude you know?" He hears her say. Did she know he was here?

"Oh- ummm..... s-sorry I wasnt trying to"

"It's fine" she looks his way. Wait what?

She didn't yell at him? "You aren't going to call me a gremlin or yell at me?"

"No, i'm..... too tired" she looks down.

She seems sad. And she looks like she had been crying. He notices some stains on her cheek and how puffy her eyes are.

"Are you okay?"

"Are those the only words that come out of your mouth?" She asked clearly annoyed at the question.

"N-no, look I just wanted to see if you were okay, your outburst earlier......"

"Yeah?"

He takes a deep breath. "You seemed more aggressive then usual" he says all in one breath.

She looks over at him she honestly should feel offended but at this point she just feels numb.

She looked up at the stars once again, and doesn't even answer his question because she doesn't even know if she is okay.

"Why are stars so pretty?" She asked Eren. He looked over at her looking up at the stars.

This was the Harmony that he wanted to get to know, the Harmony that was soft and kind. Why was she always hiding this side? He thought. Its nice.

"Oh I don't know, you know i've always wondered how they got up there" He says. "It's something i wanna do though"

"Go see the stars? How would you even get up there?" She smiles.

He shrugs his shoulders. "I don't know, so where do you wanna go?"

"What?"

"Like what's the one thing you've always wanted to see or go to?"

"Ive always wanted to go to the ocean" she tells him.

"What?'

"Ive heard from my grandparents that the ocean is pretty, that the water is always cold and how blue it is" she smiles at the memory.

He looks her way. "I wanna go to the beach, I wanna watch the waves, I wanna go beyond the wall"

She sighs, "OH- I even heard that there are animals in the water too, isn't that so cool?!!!" She cheered. She was so excited she started to clap her hands at the memory of her grandparents that told her these stories.

She's so cute, "My friend, Armin.... he told me about it, his parents went past the wall before they died"

"Really?" Her eyes glow at that, Eren's cheeks start to turn into a faint pink. Shes really cute.

"Y-Yeah, he had a whole book explaining these things, his parents made it"

"You have to show me" she beamed.

"Oh... well we dont really have it anymore"he sighs.

"Why not" she pouts.

"The attack... on my hometown.... it got lost...."

Oh yeah.... he still doesnt know that she was there that day. The attack.

If that attack didnt happen she will be able to see the book of the sea. Hell if that didn't happen she would still have her grandparents here to tell her these stories. If only she hadn't been so weak. If only she had just been stronger. It was all her fault.

"Its your fault" it all comes crashing down on her hard. Her head starts banging once again.

"You're weak"

She doesnt know why this keeps happening to her. Is it the lack of sleep? The lack of food?

She puts her hands on her head to stop the trobbing that is happening but it doesn't work it feels like the pounding is actually getting the louder the more she does it.

"AHHH!" she yells out in pain. And she falls off the well and she hits her back on the floor.

Eren runs to her side and tries his best to lift her up, "Harmony are you okay?" he asks panic in his voice.

She keeps holding her head but its no use, "GET OFF OF ME!" she pushes Eren off of her.

"Hey what the hell!" he yells at her but he stops when he starts to see she stopped screaming. Was she in pain?

He just sees her curled up in a ball rocking back and forth saying, "it's your fault" "you're weak"

Her eyes are wide open and she looks like she is just about to lose it.

"Harmony-" he reaches to touch her shoulder.

"GET AWAY FROM ME!" she pushes her self up getting into a fighting position.

She sees them, the Titans, they are there.

She holds her head again trying to stop the images from coming.

"DAD NO!" She yells out. Eren doesn't know what to do. He just stares and watches her fight the air.

"Harmony-" he says again. She can't hear him all she can hear is buildings being crushed and screaming.

"No go away!" She yells. It's like she can't even hear him. What's going on with her? She keeps punching the air like someone is in front of her but there is no one there.

He runs up to her to try and grab her arms to make her stop.

"HARMONY!"

"NO!!! GO AWAY!"

"HARMONY!" he yells louder than he has ever before and all of a sudden she stops. She stops struggling to get out of his hold and she looks him in the eyes.

She seems so scared, so lost. It's like she's in there but she's trapped and she wants to be freed.

"Eren-" is the last thing she says before she passes out.

......

When she wakes up she gets confused on how she ended up here because she doesn't remember anything.

"Oh, so youre alive?" Sasha asks.

"What?"

"Well last night you looked like you were dead" she poked her cheek.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean you were all passed out like" she starts to imitate exactly what she did "And Eren even had to carry you back here"

"Eren carried me?"

"Yeah, he did. He carried you all the way here. Ah so sweet!"

Harmony doesn't refrain from showing her confused look. What the hell happened last night?

.......

Another day of training for her. She wouldn't lie and say she wasn't getting tired of the same old stunts being pulled.

"Today class we will be doing something different today...... we will be sparring" the bald man shouts. The whole class rumbles with excitement and so does she.

Finally some real action.

"I will give you a partner for the remainder of your training, here is the list"

He puts a paper out in front of the class.

Harmony runs towards it hoping she gets a good partner that helps her training.

When she looks at the list her eyes go wide because she got the one person she couldn't even look at.

Eren Yeager.

Why? Why of all people did it have to be him?

Why couldn't she get someone else?

She hasn't spoken or even looked at Eren since..... that night. She doesn't even remember what happened and she honestly doesn't even want to know.

"Sir I think there has been some mistake!" She tells him.

"There has been no mistakes maam" he tells her.

"No, you see I can't work with him" she points towards Eren who doesn't even realize she is talking about him.

"This was the list I made and it's final if you have a problem with it then you can leave and never return to the Military Training again" he spits.

"B-but Sir!"

"No buts, This is final! Now get to work!" He shouts.

This is just great. She hopes she will be able to handle herself while training with him. Knowing him she probably won't but she can't let him distract her from her goal.

They get in there standing positions ready to start. They stare at one another for a quick moment and Harmony takes off.

She reaches back her arm and punches him right in his face knocking him down to the ground.

Maybe that was a bit too personal but she doesn't care.

"Hey, what the hell man!" Eren yells out in pain.

"What? Are you hurt by one little punch?" She smirkes.

His eyebrows furry. "No, but I think you're forgetting we are just sparring" he informs her.

"Whatever, if you can't handle my punches what makes you think you will be able to handle a Titan" she was challenging him.

She has a point.

He picks up his hands again and gets in his fighting position. This time he is the one to take the first punch but he misses it because she dodged it.

"Too slow, pretty boy" she smirked again and another punch landed right on his nose.

He falls to the ground once again. This time he struggles to get back up but he eventually does.

"What the hell is your problem?" He asks.

"My problem is you!" She yells out.

"What did i do?"

She doesn't answer because she doesn't know what her problem is.

"Look just fight me" she says.

He swings and she blocks and punches him right in his stomach.

"You dont need to punch so hard!" he screams in pain. "What the hell is wrong with you?!""

"I told you"

Before she can swing again he catches her arm and holds one in the air, when she uses her other arm to try and hit him he also catches that one and puts it beside the other arm. Shes now locked in place and can't get out.

They are face to face and breathing heavy. "I asked you, what the hell is your problem?" This was a different type of Eren. He wasnt just mad, his whole aura had changed into this dominate man. He wasn't asking, he was demanding her to answer.

He looked down on her, and she saw his eyes up close for the first time.

She eventually used her strength to let go of his hold and push him away and on the ground.

"You think you can come in here and talk about what happened that day like you just won some prize for going through it" she spits.

That day? Does she mean the attack?

"What?!" Eren says while standing back up.

"A lot of people died that day...."

She swings at him but she misses "alot of people lost there families.... lost there loved ones" She swings again but she misses once again. Eren notices her swings are starting to become a lot weaker the more she talks.

"I lost......" she stops swinging

She starts to take deep quick breaths, she can no longer think. Its like every thing from that day comes crashing down on her, everything that she was holding back comes out. The tears that she had built up in her come down like a water fall.

Erens eyes go wide when he realizes shes crying.

"I LOST EVERYTHING THAT DAY!!!" she screams so loud everyone in training turns and looks at her.

"I LOST MY MOM *she swings and misses again* "I LOST MY DAD" she swings.

This time Eren grabs ahold of her arm again and holds it in place, she swings her other arm and Eren grabs that one as well she got caught in the same position she was before. She tries her best to get out of his hold but fails.

"THEY ARE GONE!!!! She says spit coming out her mouth. "and they arent coming back." she says soflty. She puts her down, more tears start to stream down her face she can barely even see because of how blurry her eyes have become.

Tears still streaming down her face she stops once again because now all she can see is the images pictured in her head from that day. The images that she tried so hard to get out of her head.

The image of her mother dying, how her father sacrificed himself to save her, her grandparents. Everyone was gone.

"AHHHH" she screams in pain because of the pounding in her head. Eren catches her from falling on the floor when her legs give out.

"They are all gone!" she yells out.

"MAKE IT STOP, MAKE IT STOP!" she cries out.

Eren looks like he might cry as well. He's never seen her suffer this much before.

She looks up at Eren but she doesn't realize Eren is there. "It's all my fault" she says before she slowly passes out...... again.

Everyone in the training just looks at her wondering what had happened. Everyone was quiet, not knowing what to say or do.

All they see is Eren picking her bridal style and taking her to her to rest up.

........

She was there that day? The day the Titans attacked. Why didnt he see it? Why didnt he know?

All the times he told the story of the attack must of have triggered her. He hates this. He hates how hurt she is because of this. If only he had seen, he would have helped her. The last thing he wants to do is hurt someone who has been through the same thing as him.

But then he remembered something it finally hit him where he had seen her from.

........

He remembered her parents, he remembered how she would always give him bread when he was hungry. Her parents owned a bakery and they would always give him milk to bring back home. They seemed so sweet and kind.

He has to apologize for everything.

......

When she wakes up she sees, she is in her room once again. What happened?

Oh yeah, she passed out again.

"Oh, you're okay. I was so worried about you." Sags runs over to her to give her some food and water.

"Sorry I ate some of the bread" Harmony looks down and sees most of it all gone. She quickly sets down her food on the bed.

"Thank you" Harmony says softly. Sasha clearly tells something is still bothering her.

"Im guessing things didnt go good with Eren?" she asked

"What?"

"Well everyone pretty much saw saw what was happening, did you even take my advice?"

"Your advice was shit" she spits.

Sasha just looks at her, she was clearly offended by what Harmony had just said and she couldnt help but feel heartbroken by the comment. Sasha was a nice person, yes she was dumb but she was always there for Harmony.

She doesnt know why but she felt a stinge of guilt in her heart when she saw the girl form a small pout and put down her head.

"Ummm... look, things with Eren are complicated...." she stuttered.

...

"Yeah it seemed pretty tense" she said back.

Now that harmony was sitting there she didnt realize what exactly had happened. She had completely forgot she had a mental breakdown in the middle of training out in the open. She can't help but feel a little embarrassed by it now and she honestly doesn't want to step foot out this room anymore. But all those feelings that she felt finally feel washed a way out of her.

But she finally realizes what Sasha has been saying this whole time. She didn't realize she was holding it all in like that. She thought she could just bury it down and forget about it eventually but she never did. She never wanted to.

All that anger that was bottled up inside of her finally feels free. And she can't help but feel terrible at the way she treated Eren. She never once even gave him the light of day all because of what she went through.

Should she apologize? She doesn't know, her head starts to spin at the confusing decisions she has to make. Since that day she has been alone, she never really talked to anyway. Her pride was too big and so was her ego.

She tries to wash it all away once again, she stands up about to walk out the door leaving Sasha there, but she stops at the door knob.

"Maybe you were right Sasha" she says aloud. Sasha looks up from eating the rest of the bread that was in the plate and Harmony turns towards her.

"You were right about everything." Tears start to well up in her eyes again and she tries her best to not let them loose. "Maybe I was a bit mean to Eren- I mean i dont know..... I just" tears start to come down again and before she can finish her next sentence Sasha runs off the bed and hugs her.

"Im sorry, i dont know what happened but I am truly sorry about what happened to your family I know if they were here today they would be so proud of you"

Harmony shivers in her touch, she hasn't felt this close to someone in years. She hasn't felt the warmth of someone in years. She feels like a child, she feels like this is her first time experiencing this at all.

Sasha deepens the hug and for a moment Harmony felt safe. She felt like she could be free from the anger that had built up in her all this time. She slowly puts her arms around her to complete the hug and they stay there a lot longer.

.......

"Now everyone get into your partners I assigned you with and start killing titans!"

Great. Another day with Eren.

She sighs. She hasn't spoken to him since the day she went all crazy. She honestly doesn't want to. She doesn't know what to say.

"Eren-" Mikasa calls out to him.

"Yes?"

"If she even thinks about hurting you i'll hurt her back, don't forget to tell me" Mikasa nose flares.

"Mikasa i'm okay she's not gonna hurt me" Eren tells her more aggressively.

Eren walks up to her more determined then usual. "Are you ready to kill Titans partner?" he has a big bright smile on his face. And of course something has changed. She didn't want this to happen. Why couldn't they just keep there regular banter going? Why did he even have to say anything to her?

"The team with the most cuts in the Titans neck wins, alright now everybody....... start!" Their commander yells.

And everyone jumps up in the air ready to take down anything that stands in their path including Harmony.

Flying through the air she notices the first Titan on her right but she sees Connie trying to get their first. She speeds up as much as she can but it's no use she isn't going to make it. He's too fast.

But she doesn't give up she keeps pushing through only until she sees Eren from the corner of her eye right beside Connie. Eren pushes himself off of a tree branch and it makes him go farther than Connie and he slices it. That's one point for their team.

She huffs put in anger at how slow she was to reach his neck.

Next one she will do better.

The next three times she got all of them.

They now have 4 points in total. They were in the lead but not for long though because Mikasa and Armin come around the corner with a total of 10 points.

Eren and Harmonys eyes go wide. "Did he just say 10?!" Eren gulps.

How is Mikasa beating her?

She swings from MOD gear onto one of the last Titans. She has to make this, if she doesn't her and Eren will lose. She will lose.

She pushes her self off of a tree branch and sees Mikasa flying towards it as well. She has to hurry this time. She realizes her and Mikasa are almost getting close to one another.

Mikasa is purposely doing it though. The more she scoots back the more she gets closer. Eventually Harmony has no where to back up to because she hits a tree and her MOD gear snaps back into her pouch.

She starts to fall from the air. Did she purposely try to kill her?

She might be a bit dramatic but the fall was very long and there was nothing on the ground to help her land softly. Before she could close her eyes she was stopped and her hand was being grabbed.

When she looked up she saw..... Eren.

He saved her. He had her hand tight and pulled her up with all the strength he could conquer up. When he pulled her up there faces almost touched eachother. Maybe he used to much strength.

And they looked at eachother and for the first time she actually saw his face up close and more personal.

And for the first time Eren wasn't calling her names but he was actually helping her. Is this what Sasha was talking about all this time? How he had been nicer towards her.

If he knew who Harmony was at the beginning he wouldn't have even called her those things. This is how he wants to repay all those times he did.

He hasn't even apologized to her because he doesn't know how to. But he does know that she didn't deserve what she went through, he will kill all the Titans just to make her suffering stop.

Harmony looked at him closely. Were his eyes really that green? They looked beautiful in a way.

What? No Harmony stop. She pulled her hand away from his and backed up away from him. She gulped and eventually pushed herself off the tree they were just on and she quickly goes back to the task at hand.

She didn't want to look back. But for some reason her heart was racing, and it wasn't because of her fall but something else.

What was it?

.....

218 cadets managed to make it to graduation. Including Harmony.

It was such a long road but she finally did it. She finally did what she came here to do and that was be apart of the survey Corps. She smiles brightly.

A lot of people were shocked at how big her smile was and Connie even laughed at it but she didn't care because she was happy. For the first time in forever she was happy.

It was a strange feeling to have because it's something she hadn't felt in so long. But she can now finally get her revenge.

.....

He didn't realize how fun doing this with his friends was. He is so glad that he had Armin and Mikasa and everyone esle by his side to fight the good fight.

"EREN CONGRATULATIONS ON MAKING TOP 5!" One of his fellow cadets yelled out to him.

"THANK YOU!" He yells back.

He can't believe he even got top 5. Well he can, he did train hard for it. But even though he is smiling and laughing it up with his friends he still feels weird...... he feels like something is missing.

Like there was something missing he looks around and he doesn't see the one person he wanted to tonight.

"Hey Sasha have you seen Harmony?" He asks her.

"Oh yeah, she stayed behind to just do some cleaning I guess" Sasha slurs her words because her mouth is filled with food.

Why didn't she come? He quickly grabs an extra plate of food and is about to run out the Tavern when he stopped by Mikasa.

"Eren, where are you going?" She asks him.

"No where! Mikasa let go!" He tries to swing his arm out of her hold but she brings it back down.

"You can't possibly be going to Harmony, especially after how she treated you" she tells him.

"Mikasa stop it! You are not gonna stop me from seeing her!" He now swings his arm so hard he almost gets knocked on the floor. But Mikasa doesn't stop him further because Armin holds her back.

As Eren is walking out the Tavern he tries a figure out a way to actually apologize to Harmony. It's been months since they have even spoken to each other the way they used to. Now was time for a change.

He knocks on her door slowly and she opens it.

"Eren? What are you doing here?" She asks.

"Oh umm..... Well I-I didn't see you at the celebration so umm I just wanted to see if you were okay" He stutters.

"Oh- yes umm I'm fine, I-I was just cleaning the room a bit more, living with Sasha, she king of leaves food everywhere" She laughs and so does he but the laughs start to die down and it starts to get really awkward.

"So- umm i brought you this before Sasha could eat the rest of it"

"It looks like she did already" Harmony takes the napkin off the plate that reveals a half eaten bread and all the corn being gone.

"I must have grabbed the wrong plate, let me go get-" He freak ti leave but Harmony stops him.

"No, No Eren really it's fine. It's not the first time Sasha has eaten my food before." They both laugh again and once again it starts to become really awakes cause of the long silences.

Eren runs the back of his head. "So I'm-" they both say at the same time.

They both give off a small smile. "You can go first" Eren speaks.

"Umm look, Eren i'm so sorry. For everything. The way i treated...... was horrible. I should have never treated you that way, I was just throwing my trauma into you and it wasn't right-"

"N-No Harmony I should be apologizing to you" Eren interrupts her.

"I'm the one in the wrong, if i had known you went through something like that as well I would have never said anything about that day. It clearly triggered you when i was talking about it, and for that Im sorry"

"Eren it's okay really, thank you though....... how about we just start over. We never got to have a decent relationship now did we?"

Eren shakes his head. "Yeah let's do that"

"Hi, My name is Harmony"

"Hello, Harmony my name is Eren" They both shake eachothers hands and laugh at the sarcasm in their tones.

She walks out the porch with the food in her hand and she sits down and looks at the stars.

"Are you gonna come look at the stars with me?" She asks Eren. He rushes over and sits right next to her.

They both end up sharing the half eaten bread and laugh all night. She didn't realize Eren was this funny. She always saw him as some hard working, determined kid but she never saw him as a clown type. Though he was a bit dumb at times.

She wishes she could have seen this Eren from the very beginning but she is glad that she is seeing it now. That night was honestly the best night of her life.

......

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jean-does-not-have-a-horseface · 4 years ago

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Before Dawn ~Pt4~

I was so so so so so insecure to post this chapter so I only hope you enjoy first smooches with Levs. My requests are always open so if you're in the mood you can always drop by and request anything.

Find the other chapters here

Warnings: mentions of blood and a tad if nudity

As always @hidehaskak

Snow veil

"I'm so cold."

The raging blizzard blows mercilessly onto you and Levi. As tremendously large snowflakes fly to every direction as the wind makes an unbearable howling sound you clutch your one hand closer to Levi's winter cloak. Your lower jaw is radically colliding with your top one as you wrap your other arm around you in hopes of warming up. You can feel Levi tensing up every time a new wave of ice cold snowflakes land on him at the freezing weather and even though he's shaking, much like you, he speaks no words back to you.

He probably feels guilty for being the one to accidentally force your duo into this. After last year's fiasco involving Levi's, Farlan's and Isabel's inclusion to the military without having received proper training Mike had taken upon himself to investigate on any lack of training between both new recrewts as well as older veteran corps members. As a new squad leader and section commander he didn't want to take any chances against the survival of his soldier and you admired that deeply. His compassion and determination were always things that made you trust him blindly whenever Erwin assigned him in command of your old squad.

Therefore the plan was simple; you'd take the route assigned to you in small groups of four and you would head to a training corps base according to map. It should only take three hours to get there by horse and then you were free to relax, always following strict curfews.

But as beneficial as Mike had thought winter training would be he would have never guessed the raging blizzard or the avalanche that separated you and Levi from your groups.

It's had taken an hour for him to try and locate anyone of his team, his flares weren't working due to the hawling wind scattering the smoke around, when he finds you. He watches in horror as you try to cover your face with your arms to protect yourself from the cold, ignoring the necessity of looking at your surroundings and most particularly, ignoring the vast cliff that lays only a few teeny centimeters away from your horse's feet.

Speeding up to catch up to you, Levi hit the sides of his mare in a tender manner with his feet. The horse speeds smoothly for only a few meters, as if there isn't any snow around to be bother by. Levi takes it upon himself to treat his horse to some fresh apples and carrots he has in his bag once this was all over. His mare deserves a little rest and some extra treats for all the excellence and delicacy she carried.

"Hunny no!"

He had only avert his eyes for a fragment of a second when your horse tripped over the edge of the cliff urging you to let out an eardrum piercing screech that made the ravenette run to your direction. With a harsh dry halt his mare stopped on her tracks just at the tip of the cliff in a rather convenient coincidence of time. Had he been a second later how wouldn't have been able to grap your forearm as you shot up in the air. No matter his strength and his quick tactics you had managed to startle him with your despairate scream for your horse as it detached from the stirrup that was stuck to your leg, causing him to let you slip for only just a bit. Nonetheless it turns out to be enough to send the rest of your body clashing with sharp rocks. The levels of adrenaline inside you prevent you from realising the damage you have received; an enormous wound that stretches from your back ribs to the under side of your breast, gashing enough blood to slowly drench your clothes crimson.

Levi much in a stressful haze as you, ignores the wound as well, his orbs glued to your petrified expression as your body gives in to a potential tragically painful death. Without wasting anymore time he forces your body up, none of you hearing the sounds of bones cracking and in seconds you find yourself sinking in a puddle of delicate white. This time Levi doesn't fail to notice the hot crimson liquid that contrasts with the snow.

You find yourself unable to speak. Your voice is cracked, stuck in the back of your throat as your sides and more importantly your leg, finally start pulsing with agonizing pain. Even if you try to fixate your hearing to Levi's words you fail miserably, battling hot tears that gather at the bottom of your eyes. Levi helps you on his mare, wrapping you securely with your winter cloak to keep you warm and you sigh in return to his comforting actions.

You only force yourself to speak to inform him of your location in the mountains.

There should be a small barrack like resort of hot springs and saunas around that nobles have abandoned in the last few years and if you took the right path you could reach one of them in time, before the sun set.

That was your initial plan nonetheless, from the moment you got separated with your team. Search parties could definitely find you there faster as well, they would be aware of the locations and by thinking of a right way to pinpoint your location you would save them from a lot of extra trouble. Nobody really wanted to spend so much time in the cold snow searching in vain. You knew that one so far.

"T-theres a hot springs resort, not very far-" you speak, voice trembling with each exhale, making Levi drop his shoulders just a tad in blissful relief.

"Tch, don't push yourself"

"I was searching for one, it shouldn't be far, judging by that cliff we have to head a few miles southwest."

Levi simply nods in response and urges you to hold tight onto him as he sets off. You reach your hand to apply pressure to your wound, you know there's a chance that if you don't even try you're going to die by immense bleeding and Mike will not hesitate to haunt you in the afterlife for not dying like a proper soldier.

Words barely slip your mouth whenever Levi asks for directions or of your condition, the pain you're feeling is excruciating to say at least and you begin to wonder if you're ever going to manage to one of those springs. Levi will have another burden on him, a full dead body to take care of and even though somewhere deep inside you a little ring of panic lingers and you hate yourself for thinking like that you try to stay calm and collected.

As if the God of Walls has been invading your very thoughts you quickly stumble into a breathtaking scenery. A small, snowy paradise lays before your eyes; a wooden cabin with a roof so white that it resembles a bride's vail and a teeny puddle of water that emits sheer smoke. The oasis is well hidden from the tiny trainee headquarters, but you can still make them out, maybe a flare once the storm is over will help you get found out sooner.

"Levi is that really a hot spring, or am I hallucinating?" You check with him, merely to confirm that you're still not in a close to death state.

"I'd be damned if it isn't"

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"I'm not getting naked in the freezing cold" You bark at him with a tone so high pitched he feels that his eardrums will burst.

"Unbelievable! You're not even calling the shots, your leg is shattered and your side is torn open." Levi's voice is harsh and stern and swelling from the boiling anger in his chest for that he can't bring himself to understand how you even manage to deny the essential medical care you have to receive.

"No!"

"You have wounds to attend to, and I can't do it if you are soaked in dried blood, that being said you'll be infected and full of maggots tomorrow if we don't take action."

Your lips have formed a distinguishable pout in your face, he knows that expression as the one you get when you're being stubborn, difficult even so he takes it upon him not to buck down. No one else is going to die on his watch, especially if it not even by titans.

"Well" you nervously avert your gaze "Maybe I don't want you to see me naked!"

"Do you ever think about what you're saying or do you blurb shit out of your mouth like it's explosive diarrhea?" Levi snairls at you. "This is no time to be a prude."

You're suddenly at loss of words. Prude? He really had just called you prude out of all things, then and there and even he was probably just a little right, you really couldn't bear the thought of you being so suggestive around him. And he seriously doesn't see that, when he is supposed to be an expert at reading people.

Perhaps believing that he looked at you under any other light apart from being your superior was a misjudgment of yours.

Nevertheless when you decide to take off your clothes your efforts fall in vain. The pain in your leg won't even let you have control of the limb and you can barely even shuffle around due to your side. Levi takes a notice, he has to since his eyes are fixated on you and you watch as he comes closer. His hands are most delicate to the touch, helping you wordlessly with the binds of your chest that have stuck to your wound. You let out eventual flinches, huffs of misery from the extravagant pain, making Levi sigh in turn. When his arms wrap around your form your hands go to cover anything you can salvage from his eyes even if he seems to not pay any form special attention to your bare chest.

The situation is rather hard to grasp. One, because you haven't had such soft, warm bath in years and two because Levi, out of all people is in the very same hot spring as you. The water is soothing, flowing peacefully around your body as Levi works his handkerchief around your wound with one hand. The other, he uses to keep you steady in the water making up for the fact that you can't stand on your own feet.

It's a prominent position, if you had to admit. Your forehead rests on the top of his head while your chests barely graze and you have to remind yourself that he's only doing this to take care of you, because he's Levi and he's extraordinary compassionate with his comrades and not because he has any affectionate intention towards you. As unfair as it sounds to you, even if it makes your head and heart grieve the loss of a lover that's not even yours, you can't help but want to look into his eyes. You only manage to do so when he slightly pulls away to grap the bar of soap that rests close to his hand.

You bite your trembling lip in hopes of halting it. He looks like a God under the moonlight, bathed in hot water. Soft unevenly full lips are tinted with sheer purple and his skin is so much more paler than possible that you can see blue and purple blood vessels underneath his eyes. His short ebony locks are sticking to his forehead while droplets travel from their ends to the expansion of his face only to finally gather underneath his chin. Why did he have to look like that, and why did your heart flutter every time his steel eyes blinked into yours.

"Can I kiss you?" It falls out of your mouth mechanically, serving as a bold reminder that your words have once again taken over you.

Levi doesn't exactly react, not just yet, he only examines you with his eyes. Up and down you watch them run until they stop at your lips, your chin, anywhere in that area of your face.

His thumb flickers on his lips but never dares to jump the few centimeters that stand in the way to yours. He's undoubtedly awestruck by your inquiry and you can see it, but your vision is quickly blurred by an unfamiliar piercing feeling. Of course that's rejection. Why would he ever say yes. And most importantly what were you thinking?

"That morphine shot is messing with your head, which means it's probably time to patch you up."

But he doesn't make a single move to ruin the moment. You take notes as his hand leaves his own lips and dives into the water, standing just inches away from your waist. The ungrant permission to touch you in such suggestive way prevents him, even if you're the one who's waiting for a reply to drop from his lips.

He contemplates on the dynamics, is it you that tops him or are you downgrading your position to the title of his chair, he hopes it's the first, it makes him feel free, as if he's not needed to lead for once, deep down all he wants to do is follow.

That boiling spitfire inside of you insists of getting a solid answer, even if you try to push it in the darkest crevice if your mind. It wins, almost without any fight, mostly because you want to hear to believe it.

I don't want you to kiss me. That's all he has to say.

"If you don't do it, now, I'll shit my pants from the anticipation." What?

Without a second thought you shift your head forward, closing the gap between you. His lips are strong, cold and they taste like green olive soap, the one he's always using, but they don't feel foreign on yours. If anything the two pairs lock perfectly as if they're a match made by heavens, meant to find each other in this dark December night under a million snowflakes.

It doesn't last for long, a fact that engrosses you out and it's not lust filled either. It's soft and extremely fragile and you're taking the lead while you slowly move your lips up and down. Levi doesn't know your stomach is about to burst and that you're sure it will slip from the wound on your side if it continues swelling up with all this pride. In turn you don't know that his heart is clenching his chest in agony.

You're extremely against pulling away but you do, to inspect his expression for a brief second. The adorning curling of his lips is in perfect balance with his soft brows. Before you know it his hands are at the small of your back and underneath your clothed bum searching for ways to support you without hurting you. The only hand you can move goes to graze the coarse shaved hair at the nape of his neck.

The second kiss you share is much more passionate and greedy. It takes all you've got to limit your breathing through your nose; you want this to last. Your longing to taste him for as long as you can doesn't allow your lips to slips away from his.

His hands still grip on you so respectfully, as if you're going to regret this and push him away. But it never happens, you just continue to scratch at the back of his head, urging him to get impossibly closer. Even though panic ensues through his whole being, making his hands shake and his cheeks glow red, he manages to pull through this loving task with ease.

He doesn't want to pressure you just yet, so his thoughts never reach the tip of his tongue, but is this for real? Or was it his wild imagination?

With a pinch on his nose he pulls away, sparing a last glance at your swollen lips. "We should... Get out. I'll patch you and then-" As you interrupt him he doesn't miss the way your eyes avert from his.

"Of course sir. I'm sorry I got so carried away."

Levi snorts. So that's how it is then.

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ivedonestranger · 5 years ago

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Teen Titans (Animated Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Jinx/Wally West, Dick Grayson/Koriand'r Characters: Dick Grayson, Garfield Logan, Victor Stone, Raven (DCU), Jinx (DCU), Karen Traviss, Wally West Additional Tags: Halloween, Teen Titans Horor, Temporary Character Death, Blood and Violence Summary:

Robin just wanted a vacation day before the Halloween crimes. It was not what he got when a broken communication of Beast Boy brought him back to the tower.

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Robin raced as fast as his motorcycle would take him towards the rising T-shaped tower in the bay. His day off before the Halloween rush of criminality had been cut short by the frantic calls from Beast Boy. He had no clue what he meant do the broken signal barely got through the words' crazy', 'raven,' 'monsters,' and 'blood.' His heart pounded in his chest as he flew through the streets, finally making his way to the bridge that connected the tower to the mainland. He screeched to a halt to find it shut. That was not how he left it when he had embarked on his day off earlier.

Richard Grayson slammed his fist on the remote on his bike, but nothing happened. A quick change showed that the frequency was not being accepted anymore.

'Shit!' he thought to himself as he kicked the stand down and got off his bike to examine the hardened shell that protected the outside panel from the weather. He found the secret button and popped it open to see the computer inside. The entire system was blinking lockdown in bold, threatening, red letters.

The boy wonder tried his password, but the system immediately refused it. Someone had changed the codes of the entire system. Only one person in the tower had that know-how, and it did not make sense Cyborg locking him out.

A buzz of wings appeared behind him, and Robin spun to see Bumblebee alight in full combat guard pattern yellow and black. The helmet she was wearing recessed back into the neck bracer she wore. Kid Flash appeared beside her while a certain pink-haired girl in a black dressing and multicolored stockings trotted in beside them.

"We heard the alert," Karen said looking up at the tower.

"And what is she doing here?" Robin asked looking at Jinx.

"Tryin' to help," Jinx shot back. "When the high and mighty Teen Titan tower goes into lockdown, The HIVE is more worried than you."

"She's with me, Robin," Kid Flash said with a grin. "You can trust her."

"Pfft, you wish I was with you," Jinx said with a snort, but a quirk to her mouth was apparent.

"Any idea what's going on?" Robin asked.

"Nah," Bumblebee said, stepping up and examining the computer panel. "We just got Beast Boy's message that some sort of monster has gotten loose in the tower, and they were locking the facility down."

"You heard more than me," Robin said, frowning. "They came overall broken and static."

"The code?" Kid Flash asked, zipping to the door.

"Cyborg seems to have reset the whole system," Robin mused, rubbing his chin and trying to think. "We're not holding any artifacts or anything like that. What type of monsters could they be referring to?"

They all looked at him, and Robin raised an eyebrow. The mixture of bemusement and sheer surprise at his statement told him he had missed something.

"What?"

"Ummmm….you got a half-demon in there and tomorrow is Halloween night. Don't her powers get a bit wonky around this time?"

"That's a myth," Robin said sharply. "And I doubt Raven lost control of her powers. She's been much better since her father's defeat."

"And yet here we are not able to get into home, sweet home," Jinx mused.

Robin turned back. His gut was churning at the suggestion they had made. Had Raven somehow lost it? If she did, what were they going to do?

"We need to get in and find out what's going on before we start making assumptions," Robin said with finality. "How?"

"I gotta an idea," Jinx said with a smirk. "Hey, flash. Come, give me a kiss."

Wally's grin grew brighter, and he zipped over to her. As he was about to stop, Jinx sidestepped, and he caught her tow and stumbled. Wally tried to overcompensate but wound up running into Bumblebee, who fell forward, was caught by Robin, who then fell back and hit the encased pipe protect the wiring to the security system. The stunner attached to Robin's best misfired injecting the system. With a scream of protest, the system reset, and the door slid open.

"JINX!" Bumblebee and Robin said at the same time.

"Hey! Bad luck isn't pretty, but it gets the job done." Jinx said with a shrug as she marched through the gate.

"Does that mean I can't kiss you?" Kid flash asked mournfully.

"Ya can kiss my ass," Jinx said with the middle finger over her shoulder.

"I can do that too."

"Wally," Robin said with a roll of his eyes as Jinx giggled and a flush to her gray cheeks.

"And here I thought we grew out of our childish shenanigans," Karen muttered as she activated her helmet and the rest of her suit.

"Never," Wally laughed as he took off to catch up with the Pinkette.

Robin did a mental check off all the equipment on his belt. He had only stopped two crimes on his day off and was still stocked for the most part. Smoke bombs, birderangs, and a few reloads of his wrist tasers and grapple gun. He was not going to leave anything to chance.

It took a few minutes to cross the bridge on foot, but they soon came to the large bay doors that were re-enforced concrete and steel. The entire computer system was shut down here, so Robin's only thought was the side door. It still had power but was on back up system.

The air had taken on a sense of lethality he could not explain, as if life had stayed out of the Titan's property and only death awaited inside. The door, fortunately, had not been repaired from the last time Cyborg had tried to upgrade it and wound up frying the entire system. A placed miniature explosive was enough to shatter the metal lock and swing the door open.

"Alright, We play it careful and don't take anything for granted," Bumblebee started. "We don't know what we're facing. Could be an enemy or could be a rogue titan."

"Why do you keep saying that?" Robin said, irritated. "My team isn't going to go berserk."

No one responded, but he did pick up on some sorrowful and pitying expressions. Why did it feel like he was out of the loop on this?

"Switch communicators to Frequency E-22. Encryption modulating is phase 2. That way, we can be sure of our transmissions being secure," Robin said as he adjusted it in his communicator. He remote linked it to the Bluetooth earbud he pulled out of one of his belt's compartments and placed it in his ear.

"Jinx and Wally, your team one." Bumblebee said. "Sweep towards the Titan's rooms and see if you can find anyone."

The two grinned at each other, and Bumblebee frowned. "And keep your clothes on, you two."

"We'll try," Wally said as he led Jinx towards the first set of steps.

"Main room?" Karen inquired, and Robin nodded. They had to get to the computer systems and figure out what was going on wrong. Moving to the second flight of stairs near the dead elevators, Robin and Bumblebee began to make the climb slowly, and dread began to fill him.

A smell had begun to permeate the building. A bouquet of rot and iron. He had smelled it before in Gotham. Blood. And a lot of it.

"What the hell is that smell?" Bumblebee asked with a crinkle of her nose.

"Blood," Robin growled. "A lot of it."

Pushing open the stair door to the floor that held their conference rooms and living room, Robin was assailed with the smell. He looked about in the emergency lightning and saw dark stains trailing about and all over the floor.

"Oh, god!" Bumblebee gasped as she covered her mouth to block the stench. "This is a massacre."

"ROBIN!"

The voice peeled out, and Robin drew his bo staff ready to strike. Running towards him through the darkened hallway was the willowy form he could recognize anywhere.

"Starfire!" he called to her. He caught her and held back a gasp. Her hair was matted in dark red blood, her clothes were a shamble, and there was a look of terror in her eyes.

"Robin! You must flee! She is too powerful!" Starfire gasped out.

"Starfire, where is everyone? Where is Cyborg?"

"He was going to try to call the Justice League or Doom Patrol. I have not seen him since!"

Her breath was coming in short gasps, and her eyes were wide looking about.

"And beast boy, where is beast Boy?"

Robin watched as the wide eyes grew even bigger, and she randomly gestured about. "Here, and here. he's all over the walls." She sobbed. "You're stepping in him."

"Oh, god!" Bumblebee said, moving away, trying not to retch.

"Who did this? Who did this!" Robin yelled.

A low, lilting laugh emanated from deep down the darkened hallways, and Starfire squealed in fright. Lashing out of the darkness was a black tendril of energy that wrapped around the girl's middle and ripped her free of Robin's grasp.

"Starfire!" Robin screamed.

"Save yourself!" she cried back in a sob as the tendril. Her scream was silenced by a terrifying crunch and squishing sound.

"Oh, god, it's Raven," Bumblebee said pacing.

"Nnno…." Robin tried to say, but his mouth had gone dry. The sticky stuff was his friend Garfield, and the horrible sound had to be the beautiful Tamaranian coming to a gruesome end. Robin frowned and charged forward bostaff ready. Bumblebee made a grab to stop him, but she missed. She went around the corner and found the hallway empty except for a large red sticky puddle on the floor. He knelt down, trying to keep the rage inside. He gently touched the pool wishing somehow he could have saved her. He found a strange black seed stuck to his hand.

"What did you find?"

"A watermelon seed," Robin said with a grimace. "Beast Boy loved spitting these everywhere. We've been cleaning these up for weeks."

"We...we need to get to the control room," Robin said firmly. He had to agree with her now. Raven had lost it.

For the next five minutes, they crept slowly through the blood splattered walls and the blinking lights. The emergency power had slowly begun to fade.

They came to the cavernous rooms and found it empty. Nobody was there. Robin strode over quickly and activated the computers. The readout showed him that outside communication was down and also the ability to scan the building. He did find that the fried network still held footage from the last few hours in it's backup memory.

"Do you...do you want to watch?" Bumblebee asked in a horrified surprise as he queued up the code.

"We have to."

The first clip stamped four hours ago began. The room was bright, and they were all in the living room together. Cyborg was tinkering on something in his lap, Starfire was playing a video game with beast Boy, and Robin was leaning back on the couch with a grin.

"I'm gonna enjoy this day off, you guys," Robin was saying. "Gonna go do some stuff I've been meaning to do for a while."

"Pfft, I wouldn't go out in the evening," Beast Boy responded as he focused on the Tamaranian who had gotten a bit too good at the Lethal Punching II. "You heard the stories about ghosts and monsters that come out around Halloween."

"Just stories," Robin laughed.

Raven moved past the back of the couch silently with a book up in front of her. He had not realized she had been that close to him as he was focusing on his friends.

"Really?" Cyborg said with a wry expression. "Darkseid and his parademons? Zatanna and that other dude and their fight against the underworld. Trigon of all things."

"Not the same thing," Robin said. "Plus, we can handle what they throw at us."

"You ain't' scared?"

"I never get scared."

"Not even Raven?"

Robin laughed. "Like I said, not even Raven. Goth chicks dig me."

The three who could see him rolled their eyes.

It was at that point he noted Raven by the teapot who shuddered and doubled over quietly. He saw the black tendrils lick at the bottom of her cloak before they receded.

How did they miss that? Raven had some sort of spasm, but everybody kept going on with their lives as if nothing had changed or happened. He queued up the next video and braced himself. It was an hour and a half ago, 20 minutes before the call.

The scene was the same, except everybody had moved. Starfire was now watching Cyborg work while Beast Boy was playing Mega Monkeys XI. Raven had returned but was standing in a darkened hallway, bracing herself between the door jamb watching everybody.

"Oh, hey, Rae Rae," Beast Boy said, noticing her when he got up to get a soda.

"I…." Robin heard her voice come through thick and modulating. "I need meat."

"Umm…." Beast Boy said, faltering. "I think Cyborg has some leftover meatballs."

"I want it….fresh," Raven said, a tone of ravenous delight filling her voice.

"Uh….Cy….dude... Raven's acting weird."

Cyborg had stood while Starfire took up a flanking position putting Raven in the middle of the triangle they formed. Raven was now breathing hard, her body shuddering as if it could not get enough air.

"Raven-"

The shriek that followed was painful and terrifying. Raven had thrown back her hood, and he could make out the glowing four red eyes and the small rows of serrated teeth as her demon side manifested. The tendrils of onyx colored power shot out striking Starfire and Cyborg, sending them flying while Beast Boy scrambled away. Raven leaped at him, taking him to the ground and began to chomp down on his arm.

Beast Boy began to scream. "DUDE! SHE'S TRYING TO EAT ME!"

Cyborg lunged and tore Raven away, blood covering her mouth and running down the corners of her lips. A crazed grin was on her face as she turned and tried to bite Cyborg. He hurled her away, and Starfire helped Beast Boy up.

The footage cut, and it began a darkened room. The timestamp was 20 minutes ago, and all he could make out was Raven, sans cloak covered with blood standing in the center of the room. She was breathing heavily, and she was staring right at the camera, her four red eyes watching it with glee. It was almost as if she was looking right back at him, knowing he would watch the footage. In a blink, her entire face filled the camera.

Bumblebee and Robin fell back at the freeze-frame of Raven's gore covered face in the camera lens.

"SHIT!" Bumblebee squealed as she fell flat on her back. "That girl's terrifying."

"That confirms it," Robin said with a growl. "Raven's lost it."

"What do we do?"

"We need to stop her. Capture her or put her down," Robin muttered, pulling out the devices and changing their settings for a much more powerful foe.

The communicators crackled to life, and the two jumped again.

"Robin, Bumblee! 22nd floor! Raven's gone full demon!"

"Retreat!" Robin roared. "You're no match for her."

"She's got Jinx, I can't leave her, get here as fast as you can."

"Wally!" Bumblebee called, but the device went silent.

"We need to move. Now!"

When the elevator opened, both Robin and Bumblebee had their weapons pointed forward. The hallway was empty and dark. Only their flashlights illuminating ahead. They crept slowly forward as Robin thought about what he was going to do. He had to stop her, but he did not want to kill her. Even though it appeared she had murdered their teammates, the boy wonder was not yet ready to rule her out as a lost cause.

"We gotta do something," Bumblee was saying quietly. "We can't hold back, Robin. She's gonna get us too."

"We can't just-"

"There!"

Robin and Bumblebee looked ahead and saw that their flashlight illuminated a standing form. As they slowly grew closer, they saw the svelte form of Jinx though it appeared she had been through hell. She was facing away but was wearing her skirt with torn leggings and no top except for her gray bra. Her hair was tousled and matted.

"Jinx?" Robin called softly, but the girl didn't turn. He placed a hand on her shoulder. "Jinx!"

The girl turned, her eyes white and rolled in her head, her mouth opens in sheer terror. Blood ran down from her mangled throat, and she collapsed gurgling in his arms.

"It's a trap!" Bumblebee cried panicked, looking around. A body came hurling out of the dark, catching the female superhero and throwing her to the ground. Wally's bloodstained corpse weighed her down.

Strolling out of the darkness and into the light was the blood-soaked form of Raven. Her red eyes were glowing, and he could see the serrated teeth in an evil grin.

"I wanted to do so much to her, but she wouldn't play," Raven cooed. "So, I ripped her throat out."

Robin fell back, crawling backward while holding Jinx in his arms. Bumblebee pushed Kid Flash's body off and was about to fire her gun when a black tendril shot out, grabbed her, and a sharp crack filled the hallway. Karen's lifeless body hit the floor beside Grayson.

"Just you and me now, Robin," Raven said with a smirk. "I'm in a...lecherous mood. Wanna entertain me? I might let you live."

"What happened to you, Raven?" Robin said.

"I decided to be what I am."

"How could you-"

"you're not going to take me up on my offer?" Raven said with a sigh. "Oh, well. I'll wait for the next male heroes that come to investigate the tower's silence."

The black tendrils shot out of the darkness and grabbed hold of him. They lifted him in the air, and Robin braced for the inevitable.

"Now, there is one thing I want you to remember, Robin," Raven cooed in his ear. "never EVER say that I can't scare you."

A grin broke across her face as she gently set him down on his feet.

"Ummm….what?"

He was blinded as the lights of the tower snapped back on, and he saw blood-covered Raven but a smile and usual amethyst eyes looking back at him. She was the small, demure girl he knew and not the demon he had seen in the videos.

"What...what is going on?" Robin asked, trying to breathe and figure out why he was still alive.

"Yous got played, DUDE!" screeched a voice from down the hallways in peels of laughter. Robin looked around confused and down at the corpses of Jinx and Bumblebee that were inexplicably pulling themselves to their feet. Each was laughing with silent mirth.

"I can't believe you," Jinx said as she leaned on Bumblebee with laughter. "You coped a feel while I was dead. You're a pervert."

"I was trying to save you!" Robin exploded.

"No groping my girl, Robin," Kid Flash said, walking over and slapping his friend on his back.

Joining him in the hallway laughing and hugging him was Starfire, still matted and covered in blood, but she kissed him on the forehead.

"You silly gnup narp, You should never challenge friend Raven,"

It was at that moment that it all kicked in.

"This was a prank?"

"Best prank in the world!" Cyborg said, exiting the elevator and holding on one of the master remotes for the tower. "When you once said that Raven couldn't scare you, she decided that you need to learn a bit of humility."

"This...this was your idea?" Robin asked incredulously as the relief flowed through him.

Raven was putting on her cloak that Starfire handed her. She simply met his eyes, and he knew the answer without her saying. Robin braced himself on the wall as his friends held him up.

"Starfire...I heard you die," he said, trying to pull himself together.

"That was me squishing a melon of water."

"I thought the game was up when you found the seeds," Bumblebee said. "Thank goodness for your overactive imagination."

"And Raven made sure that we act out everything in front of the camera, knowing you'd find it," Cyborg said. "She's a little mastermind herself."

Robin's friends were fine, and he had fallen for a prank. He was just relieved to have them. He wrapped an arm around Star and Beast Boy and pulled them close. He laughed to cover up his tears of happiness.

"I'll never take you guys for granted again," he said with a smile. "Raven got me fair and square. She's the scariest thing on Halloween."

"Thank you," she murmured, pulling out a book from her cloak.

"Now, if you all don't mind. You have a tower to clean while I go back to my reading."

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sickficlover · 8 years ago

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My first fic ^.^

So @thesickficsideblog wrote the following: “How about Eren from AoT getting a stomach bug, and it affects his titan form as well?”

And here it is. Again, I’m sorry for any grammar or spelling mistakes or wrong use of words. Please feel free to send me suggestions for corrections!

***

“Are you alright, Eren? You look a bit pale.”

The dark haired boy looked up from his plate where he had been pushing his breakfast from one side to the other for almost half an hour. His gaze landed on Armin who had asked the question. He noticed Mikasa examine him worriedly from the side as well, though she didn’t say anything.

“I’m fine,” he lied. “Just… didn’t get much sleep last night.”

He knew that the other would assume that he had been having nightmares – which was by no means uncommon among the members of the survey corps – and wouldn’t press any further. And he was right: Armin shot him another concerned look but then turned back to his own breakfast.

The truth was that Eren felt awful. He had woken up to a pounding headache and a queasy feeling in his stomach and had felt dizzy getting up. But he was determined not to let his discomfort show to his comrades. He needed a lot more training to perfect his control over his titan form and it wasn’t like titans would wait another day before their next attack just because he was feeling a little bit under the weather.

He managed to get a few bites down, just to reassure the others before they had to clean up and go outside for training.

***

It was probably the first time in his life that Eren was not happy about a sunny morning. Normally there was nothing that could make him feel better faster than the sight of sunlight flooding the meadows of their training grounds.

But today it was almost impossible for him to keep his eyes open. Everything was far too bright, piercing his eyes like needles and making his head pound like hell and in consequence making his stomach churn even worse.

Also the sun did nothing to lessen the shivering that had started the moment he set foot outside.

“Are you cold, Eren?”

This time it was Mikasa that asked. He turned to her and did his best to smile as carefree as he could.

“I guess my blood flow is not yet awake,” he said laughingly. “I’ll be fine once we start training.”

She looked at him as if she wanted to say something else, but thankfully she was interrupted by Captain Levi and Hange who came out of the house to announce today’s trainings regimen to them.

“All of you except Eren will do some field training with Zacharias in the forest; the focus is on team work. Eren, you’re going to train your titan form with Levi and me.” Hange announced.

Eren groaned inwardly. It was hard enough to control his titan form on good days, he had no idea how he should manage it today. On the other hand, his wounds always healed when he went into his titan form; maybe it would do him some good today.

But he didn’t say anything and followed his Captain and Hange to a large cliff next to the forest.

“We want to test your ability to climb today,” Hange explained. “It could be of great use to know whether you’d be able to climb over the walls or not.”

Eren nodded and looked up the cliff. It wasn’t quite as tall as the walls, but it was tall enough to pose a significant obstacle for his titan form.

He glanced to Captain Levi who was getting in position in case something went wrong with the transformation and then gave Eren a short nod as a starting signal.

The boy brought his hand to his mouth and bit down hard on his thumb. The taste of the blood in his mouth was almost familiar by now, as well as the strange feeling of being wrapped into living tissue.

He kept his eyes closed during the transformation. When he opened them he noticed immediately that, no, his titan form had not helped with his feeling sick at all. On the contrary, thanks to the strange movements during the transformation, his stomach felt even worse and his vision was swimming from dizziness.

Oh well, he would have to make it somehow. He turned to the cliff, grabbed an overhanging rock approximately at the height of his titan eyes and started to climb.

But somehow, even in his titan form, he had no strength. After only a few steps up the cliff, he could feel his titan muscles quiver from the exertion, and fucking hell, his titan was madeof muscles. He tried to pull himself up a little higher and promptly lost the grip on the rock in his right hand.

He slid down the cliff and landed stumbling on his feet, a titan hand going to his titan head instinctively while his own head inside the titan was reeling.

“What’s wrong, boy?”

The voice was coming from his right shoulder. He turned his head slowly in order not to aggravate his head any further and found Captain Levi standing there, looking up at him with a frown, that showed maybe a little bit of concern.

He wanted to answer that he was fine, and that he was going to try it again, but suddenly there were dark spots dancing in front of his eyes. His titan legs gave out under him and everything went black.

***

Levi was really glad that he had such good trained reflexes. Where it not for them he might have been really hurt when Eren’s titan body collapsed. He managed with great presence of mind to shoot one of his 3D-Gears into a nearby tree and then descend safely.

He had been very worried when Eren had seemed unstable earlier, dreading that his young protégé might lose control, but that was nothing compared to the worry and confusion he felt now when he saw the giant body of the titan lying sprawled out and unmoving in front of the cliff.

He ran as fast as he could, joining Hange on Erens back where, only seconds after the titan’s collapsing, Eren had emerged from the back of the titan’s neck, equally unmoving as his former shell.

When Levi got there, Hange had already pulled the unconscious boy from the titan. Together they carefully moved the boy down to the grass and laid him on his back with his head in Hange’s lap.

Eren was skin was scalding hot, which was not unusual after him coming out of his titan, but his face beneath the red burning marks was white as a sheet, which was less usual.

“What’s wrong with him?” Levi asked, trying his best to sound professional and not let his anxiety show.

Hange just shrugged.

“Something like this has never happened before,” she just said. “We’ll have to wait for him to wake up. Let’s move him more to the shadows.”

Levi nodded. They took the limp boy between them, each putting one of his arms over their shoulders, and carried him to the edge of the forest where they carefully lowered him to the ground.

***

When Eren came to, he was greeted by the same pounding headache that had been lurking around the whole day – only this time it was a lot worse. He stomach was still churning too, making him emit a tiny whimper. He felt something cool caress his forehead. A hand, he realised.

“I think he’s waking up,” he heard a voice say. Hange’s voice. “Eren, can you open your eyes for me?”

He squinted a bit, trying to obey. Instantly he was greeted by a nauseating brightness. He shut his eyes again immediately, hissing at the sudden pain that was shooting through his head.

“Eren!” Captain Levi’s voice. “Eren, what’s wrong?”

He didn’t answer and instead tried to open his eyes again. This time it worked better and he could see his two superior officers kneeling above him with worried looks.

“I’m fine,” he mumbled and began to sit up. Immediately there were strong hands on his back, supporting him.

When he was upright he realised that that might not have been such a good idea. His nausea skyrocketed and he could hardly see straight.

He tried to breath calmly to get his stomach back under control, but soon he felt something crawling up his esophagus.

Shit, he was going to be sick. In front of his superiors. Shit, shit, shit!

He clamped a hand over his mouth and scrambled to his feet, towards the trees. He made it three steps before he collapsed to his knees and brought up a small torrent of vomit all over his hand that he had no time to pull away. He wrapped his arms around his stomach and before he had time to catch his breath, a second, bigger and more violent wave spilled out of him and on the gras.

Where the hell did all that vomit come from? He had hardly eaten anything that morning. Eren had just managed to finish that thought before he was doubled over retching again.

He felt hands on him, one holding him up at his shoulder, one rubbing circles on his back, another supporting his forehead and the last resting on the back of his neck. When had they appeared there?

He realised he didn’t care. They were giving him the comfort he desperately needed right now, as wave after wave of sickness forced itself from his stomach.

He didn’t know how long he had been kneeling there when his stomach was finally calming down, though he didn’t feel empty. He stared at the sizeable puddle of sick in front of him panting and noticed that he had also gotten some vomit on his pants. That was so humiliating.

***

After a few more minutes the managed to calm down enough to slump against Levi, who was kneeling on his right side, cradling his stomach with his left arm. He looked as if he had absolutely no strength left so Levi didn’t say anything and just put an arm around the boys shoulders, letting him rest his head against his own collarbone.

“Was that from the transformation? Did something go wrong?”

He looked up at Hange and shook his head weakly.

“Been feeling bad all day,” he croaked, his voice raw from the stomach acid.

“Why didn’t you say something?” Levi asked, sounding more strictly than he had intended.

“Didn’t want to miss out on training,” the boy whispered. Levi shook his head. He was the last one who could to reprimand someone for training despite being ill (he couldn’t even count how many times Erwin had to almost forcibly send him back to bed after he collapsed from a fever or something else) but he still didn’t like the fact that Eren put himself and others in so much danger by turning into a titan when he was not feeling good.

Well he could lecture him once the boy didn’t look like death warmed over.

“Can you walk?” he asked the dark haired teen. A feeble shake of the head. Levi sighed. “Ok, I’m going to let you ride me piggy back this once.”

He got up and turned. Hange helped the weak boy to climb on his back and they made their way back to the base where they took the Eren to his room in the basement, helped him change and get into bed.

Once he was settled Hange gave him a short examination.

“Looks like the stomach flu,” she concluded and went to get a glass of water. “You need to drink a lot to keep hydrated. Do you think you can keep some medicine down?”

Eren took the glass hesitantly and shook his head at her question. He brought the glass to his lips and managed to slowly drink about half of it before he set it down, turning pale.

“Are you going to be sick again?” Levi asked concerned. Eren nodded hesitantly and cupped his mouth in one hand. Levi looked at Hange, but she had already understood and left the room. A few moments later she was back with an empty metal bucket, the kind they usually used to give water to their horses, and put it in the boy’s lap.

He leaned over it, coughing weakly. Levi put a hand on his back. The boy really looked pitiful. Suddenly he pitched forward with a gag. He dry heaved a few times before bringing up a stream of the water he just drank that landed in the metal bucket with a hollow splash.

Levi rubbed his back as the boy coughed again, retching weakly and then throwing up a larger stream of more chunky substance. He could see tears forming in the younger males eyes as he was sick over and over again into the bucket.

The vomiting continued for a few minutes before it tapered off into painful sounding dry heaves.

“Breathe, Eren!” Levi commanded, still rubbing circles over the convulsing muscles of the boy’s back. “You’re going to be fine.”

Finally Eren managed to calm down and sank back against his pillow shivering. He definitely had a fever.

“Get some sleep,” Hange advised quietly. The boy just closed his eyes.

“Thanks,” He whispered. “For… you know.”

Levi and Hange understood.

“Just tell us next time, you idiot,” Levi mumured. But the boy had already drifted off into a rather peaceful looking sleep.

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thefruitsofloveff · 8 years ago

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Chapter 13.

King

1 Week Later

Monday 7:20 am

“So, How you liking this new house baby?”.

I questioned Sanaa as I got her ready for her first day at her and Trent’s new school. She smiled brightly, still rubbing her sleepy eyes.

“I love it daddy. I’m ready for school too”.

I laughed, sitting on her bed and looking around. After I got all the stuff out here 2 days ago, the whole weekend was dedicated to getting Tiana and the kids settled in. Now it’s back to reality for me. I gotta fly back to NY in a hour for the day to handle some last minute shit, so I wont be able to see Sanaa and Trent off too school. But I’m sure Tiana will have it all under control.

“I’m glad. Because daddy put his hard earned money into this house with his Princess in mind”.

She laughed, shaking her head and walking over to her dresser. Looking in the mirror she fixed her shirt then put lotion on her face. Walking back over, she handed me some oil for her hair. I looked at her with a confused expression.

“Put a little in the middle of your hand and rub it through my hair”.

I chuckled, doing as she said and moved my fingers through her coils.

“I met the 2 girls down the street. She was like how old are you and I said 8 and she said do you have a sister and I said no I have 2 brother-”

“You introduce Titan and Trent as your brothers.”.

She chuckled, getting up and closing the oil.

“Yes. I use to only say Titan because Trent is annoying, but I guess they are both my brothers now”.

I laughed and nodded. My head.

“I guess so. Come on Baby”.

Grabbing her book bag, we walked out of her room and all the way down the hall to Trent’s. He smiled, jumping out of Tiana’s lap and grabbing his own book bag.

“Is she ready? I’m ready? My book bag is all together”.

Tiana smacked her teeth, putting his bush on the dresser and rubbing lotion on his face.

“Are w-:

“Downstairs Downstairs!”.

I cut Sanaa off from talking, following behind them as they spoke and talked while walking down the stairs.

“Do we take french classes, or we always talk french?”.

Sanaa questioned, sitting at the breakfast bar with a bowl of cereal Pollie made in front of them. I shrugged, looking at my watch and adjusting it.

“It’s both baby, you’ll have a french class, but all your teachers are french, so basically you’ll be speaking and learning it everyday”.

Tiana interjected. Sanaa smiled and took a spoonful of golden grahams into her mouth.

“I think it’s cool. So i can talk to people here”.

I laughed at Trent and ruffled his head.

“Yeah you right. Cause they speak a lot of it here in Nola”.

Walking over to Tiana, I placed my hands on her waist turning her body towards me. Leaning down I pecked her lips and smiled, looking at her sleepy face. It was sexy actually, made me wanna dig in them guts like how I did last night, but I gotta go and catch this jet before I miss it.

“What time will you be back home?”.

“3 hour flight, 2 hour meeting, 1 hour lunch, 3 hour flight again... I’ll be back around 5 this afternoon”.

He smacked her teeth, pulling me into a hug and holding me tight. I smiled, kissing the crown of her head and hugging her a bit tighter.

“I know, but luckily these type of trips only occur once every 3 months. But I gotta go”.

I kissed her lips once more, before waving to the kids and heading out the door. Looking down at my phone, I cursed lowly to myself as another text came in from Terence.

From: Terrence

Where the fuck you at nigga. This shit is set to take off in 10 minutes

I laughed to myself, quickly hopping in my Bentley and pulling off.

To: Terrence

Nigga I can make that. I’m on the way now.

Throwing my phone on the passenger seat, I buckled my seat belt and sped down the Nola streets to the airport.

Tiana

11:20 am

Ever since I dropped the kids off this morning, I’ve been running around like crazy. Not only enjoying all Nola has to offer, but also picking up more stuff for the house. I decided to let Polly have the day to herself, I had Titan so it was just him and I.

I exhaled, enjoying the beautiful warm weather. Back in New York it would be freezing right now, but not here. The weather was just right.

“Here Papi”.

I handed him a small piece of shrimp from my gumbo. He frowned as he adjusted his taste buds to the new taste. I laughed, watching him finish then grab for my bowl.

“Aye no, sit back.Hold on”.

Sitting him back down in the high chair, I grabbed a bag from his bag and placed it around his neck. Pushing up his sleeves I then grabbing a small plate and placed some food on his plate. I laughed as he dived in and smiled. His fat ass.

I looked back to my phone. Scrolling through and looking for a University near by. I promised myself I was gonna go back to school, and that’s what I’m gonna do. No more making excuses, there’s no need to especially since King is offering to help me along the way. I’m really appreciative of him. I’m truly blessed and so glad God placed him in our lives.

My train of thoughts were broken bu a man and women in the booth behind me talking loud as hell.

“Kimberly, we have these kids here and nobody to coordinate the outfits. This shoot has to be sent off to Gucci TOMORROW”

My mouth dropped a little. Gucci campaigning here in Nola. Wow, I wouldn’t have thought here. It’s kinda secluded and it’s own little world. I turned my head a little and continued to be nosey.

“Listen. I’m sure we can find someon-”

“The shoot is in 2 hours. We don’t have that much time”.

I began to think. I could do it, Lord knows I love fashion and design. I don’t wanna butt in but God has a funny way off doing things.

Standing up a bit, I walked to the side of their booth and smiled.

“I couldn’t help but notice you needed a coordinator”.

They nodded and shrugged their shoulders.

“Ok? And?”

I kept my cool. Her ass was obviously getting smart. But I had to remember I ain’t the same women I use to be.

“I could coordinate”

“No thank you we-”

“No no. Actually I’m open to suggestions Kimberly”

I smiled as the man interrupted her and smiled at me nodding.

“I’m from New York. I know a a lot about design and fashion. I’d love to help”.

He looked at me hard, tapping his stand on the table. Finally he responded.

“Well I’m desperate. Please don’t make a fool of me”.

I nodded with a small, shaking his hand as he extended it.

“Are you avail-”

“Absolutely”. .

King

11: 30

“How’s it going man. New house, New lady, More Kids?”

Terrence questioned.

I laughed, sitting back in the chair and shrugging my shoulder.

“I’s good man. I’m loving it so far. Only God knows the future. Nevermind me though. When you gonna get you a a Mrs?”.

I questioned. He smacked his teeth and shook his head. Terrence was one go my best friends. We came in this shit together, and been boys since Middle school. He’s never been the tie them down type. He just fuck them and kick em to the curb. I use to be the same way but that lifestyle gets old.

“Never nigga. You know me. I never love em. Bitches ain’t sh-”

Before he could finish his dumb ass statement, My old secretary opened the door to my old office.

“Someone name Lourdes is here to see you?”.

I stood up nodding. I remembered that was Tiana’s cousin. What the fuck was she doing here?.

I bond cringed as she walked in with a battered face. Running beside her, I helped her in the door then closed the door behind her.

“Yo, Lourdes what’s good?”.

“Dominic, He’s looking for Tiana. I wouldn’t tell him shit and he fucked my face up on the stoop”.

I shook my head then looked at Terrence. This nigga been overstepping his boundaries. I think it’s best that I go see him. Man to man about this shit.

“If I asked you were he be at could you tall me”

Terrence hopped up and stood beside me.

“Yo what you doin-”

I cut him off and raised my hand looking back at Lourdes. She paused for a moment then nodded slowly. I nodded, placing my hand on her shoulder and rubbing it.

“Ima uh. Ima get you up out of here. We leave for New Orleans around 5. I’ll have my boy here take you to get your stuff, then you can fly back with us. You can stay in the guest bed room. Find a job and get on your feet iight?”.

She nodded. I stood up from the chair. Grabbing my jacket and keys.

“Ayo, Ima meet ya’ll at the airport. I got something to handle. Lourdes text me the spot. Now”.

Terrence began speaking but I ignored him, walking out the office an closing the door behind me.I looked down at my phone smiling at the text from Lourdes. I got his ass.

4:00 pm

I pulled up to the location that Lourdes had gave me. Placing the car in park, I blew some air out of my mouth before hopping out of the rental. Grabbing my .45 from my duffel bag,I put the silencer on it then placed it in the back of my pants and walked up the steps and through the building. I stepped off on the 7th floor and walked down the hall.

227 A. 226 B 225 C 226 D

I stopped, and knocked on the door. I listened as some rustling game from behind the door. Standing patiently, I watched as it swung open. His eyes widen and he laughed.

“What the fuck. Ain’t you the nigga that’s getting me time?”.

I laughed. I shrugged my shoulder and nodded.

“Yeah. Guilty”.

Not waiting for him to invite me in, I stepped passed him and stopped in the middle of the living room. I watched as he closed the door and held a stare off with me.

“What your tight suit. Feds ass doing up in Bedford Stuyvesant ”.

I laughed shaking my head.

“Nigga I grew up here. I paved the way for ya’ll little niggas. Little do you know. But I’m here to talk about Lourdes and Tiana. I seen what you did to Lourdes”.

He chucked and shrugged his shoulders. Grabbing a cigarette, he put it in his mouth and lit it up,

“And nigga. The fuck you here talking about some bitches for. Either way. Them bitches gonna die. And Ima see to that sh-”

Before he could finish, I quickly pulled the .45 from my back. Backing up, I shot him once in the stomach and once in the chest. I watched him drop down the floor, suffering. Stepped towards him, I smashed the cigarette with my shoes and bend down beside his ear.

“See that’s the problem... I don’t play behind Tiana. And I’ma die and kill for him”.

I smiled, watching as he chocked on his own blood. Backing out the apartment, I closed the door. Making sure nobody was around I walked down the hallway calmly and hopped on the elevator.

Back to New Orleans

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