For The Love Of Humanity’s Strongest (Part Five)
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Summary: When all seems lost Y/N knows that she can count on one person to always be there for her brother, Eren Jaeger, and herself. Can humanity’s strongest not only keep Eren in line, but keep his relationship alive as well?
Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four
I had been dreading the day that Eren would be put on trial since Levi and Erwin has sat me down to talk to me about it. I know their plan was to get him out of this, and I believed them when they said they could, but the thought of my brother being in shackles in front of all of those people was something I couldn’t grasp. This poor boy had been through so much lately.
Hange approached me, noticing that I was just standing in front of the door to the military police holding cells, not even attempting to go in. My brain couldn’t get out of its own way. She put her hand on my shoulder, startling me. “They’re waiting for you Y/N. We have to get him up there soon.”
I turned to look at her. “I know Zoe, but I can’t bring myself to walk forward.”
She smiled weakly at me. “I’ll come with you, how about that?”
Zoe Hange might be a mad woman, but she had been my best friend since the day we met. The day I joined the scouts was the day that our bond began. I took a deep breath and slowly opened the door, walking down the steps to the cells.
When we approached his cell Eren was already sitting up, a military police member on each side of the entrance. Hange flung herself at the bars and jumped Eren. I walked up next to her. “Zoe, calm down.”
She spoke to Eren, she had always been fascinated by the Titans, so being near a person that could become a Titan was making her gears turn. “So then... you’re Eren. Are you well? How are you? I’m really sorry you’ve been waiting so long, but here’s your chance to finally get out.”
Eren’s gaze was going between Hange and I. I tried to calm him. “You can trust her, this is Zoe Hange, the girl I always talk about.”
He relaxed a little. She took a pair of handcuffs off her belt loop and held them through the bars of the cell. “If you wanna get out you’ll have to put these on for me, okay?”
The military police members approached the cell and reached their hands out for the cuffs. I held my hand up and took them. “Let me do it, please.” They hesitated. “He won’t hurt me, he’s my little brother.” The men clearly didn’t trust me, but they opened the cell door and unlocked the shackles around Eren’s arms and legs.
Eren slowly stood and turned around, holding his arms behind his back for me. I spoke to him as I put the cuffs around his wrists. “I’m gonna figure this out Eren. I won’t let them hurt you. Trust me. Levi and Erwin will get you out of this.”
As we marched down the hall with a couple other scout members Hange started the introductions. “I’m Zoe Hange, I’m a section commander for the Scouts.”
As usual Mike was being a weirdo, sniffing Eren, clearly making him uncomfortable. I walked over to the other side of Eren and moved Mike out of the way. “This is a fellow section commander. Mike Zacharius. Don’t mind him, he makes it a habit of giving new members a thorough sniff.”
We reached the door to the courtroom way quicker than I had wanted us too. “It’s probably best if we don’t explain what’s going on Eren.” Eren was starting to fight back with the military police members that had come with us.They started to push him through the door. The fear in my little brother’s eyes was breaking my heart. “We’ve put all our faith in you Eren.”
Eren fought back harder. “Wait, Y/N, what’s happening?!”
Mike grabbed my arms and started to lead me away, knowing that Eren has always been my weakness. Zoe took over “Best of luck.” She shut the doors and turned to me. I could still hear Eren yelling through the doors.
I turned toward Hange and she grabbed onto me. “I know it sucks Y/N, but you know that Levi and Erwin are going to do everything they need to to help him.”
“I know, I just need a minute. You guys go in ahead of me, I’ll meet you.” The emotions running through me knowing that if Levi and Erwin weren’t successful basically warranted my brother’s death was more than my anxiety could handle.
When they all walked away and headed to the balcony entrance of the courtroom and I knew the coast was clear I leaned against the wall and let myself slide to the floor, burying my head in my hands, allowing myself to break down for a second.
After ten minutes I had calmed myself down, knowing I had to get into there and see what was happening. When I walked through the door there was tons of hollering going on, I was still too far to make out anything they were saying. As I stepped out next to Hange I heard a voice speak my name. “Y/N Jaeger.”
The commander of the military police, Nile, was speaking to me. I looked down at him from the balcony. “Yes sir.”
Levi had his eyes locked on mine, he was worried about what Nile was going to do. “Is it true that after Eren transformed into a Titan in the mission to retake Trost that he attempted to assault you?”
My eyes grew wide. There was only one group of people who would have said anything about that. My eyes turned to slits as I stared at the garrison members that had ratted us out. When I didn’t speak Nile spoke again. “He might be your brother, but this is a court room, you can not lie.”
I hung my head and spoke through gritted teeth. “Yes sir, it’s true.”
Gasps were heard through the courtroom and more hollering started. Eren had a look or pure shock in his face when I looked back up. People started to shout about Mikasa and I possibly being Titans since we had managed to survive his attack. The courtroom was now convinced we were all in cahoots. People shouted about how they should dissect Mikasa and I along with Eren. Eren’s face has a mixture of panic and anger as he heard the words spoken about us.
To the shock of all of us Eren spoke up, screaming at the top of his lungs to be heard over the chaos. “You leave them out of this, if you want to call anyone a monster and make someone suffer than let it be me! Y/N and Mikasa have nothing to do with this. They’re innocent!”
Levi’s gaze flashed to me again as he heard people making threats of dissecting the woman he loved. I could see his anger level rising with the people around him and saw Erwin’s rising as well. Erwin put his hand on Levi’s arm, trying to signal to him to calm down, he didn’t want the others seeing him get consumed.
“They must be Titans too if you’re protecting them!”
Eren was getting way to angry, we still had no idea what exactly made him transform. This anger could be really bad. Eren lunged forward, the shackles clanging loudly against the pole that held him in the ground. “Stop it!” As he lunged everyone went quiet, afraid of what could happen. “You’re wrong... about it all. But you’re so hellbent on pushing your selfish agendas that you’re blind to what’s in front of you!”
Nile was the first to speak as the silence in the room became deafening. “What do you mean?”
“What does it even matter? None of you have even seen a Titan. So why are you so afraid, huh?” He was taunting them. I knew this couldn’t be good. “There’s no sense in having power if you’re not going to fight! If you’re too scared to fight for your lives then fine, let me do it! YOU’RE ALL COWARDS!”
I leaned forward on the railing and Hange and Mike each grabbed one of my arms, afraid I would fall over. “Eren, stop it!”
He lunged forward again. “JUST SHUT UP... AND PUT ALL YOUR FAITH IN ME.”
I hadn’t seen Eren scream that loudly since we were kids. The panic in my eyes could be seen a mile away. Before anyone could even respond to him I saw Levi hop over the edge of the court room and enter it. What was he going to do? I saw Levi raise his foot and knew exactly what he was about to do.
A foot hit Eren square in the jaw, sending a tooth flying out of his mouth, but he didn’t stop there. Next was a kick to the gut before Levi grabbed his head and pulled him too him.
I lunged forward and hollered. “LEVI!” Levi didn’t look up, he didn’t even acknowledge that I had even spoke. What was he doing to him? How would this even help us? Hange grabbed my arms and held me back away from the railing.
“Y/N, stop, I don’t want to have to drag you out of here.” She had an arm around my neck. “I’m sure Levi has a reason for this.”
Levi flung his knee into Eren’s face before pushing his head into the concrete below him, stepping on his head like he was a bug. “You know, personally, I think nothing instills discipline like pain.” He was staring down at Eren as he spoke. “You don’t need a good talking too, what you’re in need of boy, is to be taught a lesson. And you happen to be in perfect kicking position.”
Eren gasped as Levi sent more kicks into his gut and back. I fought against Hange as I watched. I didn’t care what Levi’s reasoning was behind this, all I could see was red. Eren was my responsibility. It was my job to keep him safe. I had promised my mom that I would. It was her dying wish.
Nile stood in shock, he couldn’t believe what Levi had the balls to do in front of the entire court. “Now hold on Levi.”
Levi interupted him before he could speak further. “What is it?” Levi now has Eren’s head pinned against the pole behind him.
“It’s dangerous. What if he gets angry? Turns into a Titan?”
Levi kicked his face. “Don’t be silly.” He grabbed Eren by the hair and lifted him up. “After all, you guys just want to dissect him, don’t you?” Levi let him go and looked around. “They said that during the time that he was transformed Jaeger was able to kill twenty Titans before he finally ran out of strength.” He looked straight at Nile. “As an enemy his intelligence makes him all the more dangerous. But I could take him down without a problem.” He looked at the crowd. “How many of you can say the same?”
Everyone in the courtroom looked terrified. The fear that humanity’s strongest put into people was both terrifying and intoxicating. “Before you torment the beast you better think. Can you actually kill him?”
As Erwin stood I calmed myself some, still seeing red at Levi, but that would have to wait. “Sir,” he raised his hand. “I have a proposition.”
The General spoke. “Proceed.”
“There’s still too much we don’t know. And no doubt his danger will be ever present. As such I suggest this: Eren Jaeger will be placed under Captain Levi’s supervision and we’ll conduct a recon mission outside of the walls.”
“And Jaeger will join you on this excursion?”
“Yes sir, and then you can look upon the missions results for yourself. If he successfully controls his abilities Eren will have proven his value to mankind.”
“Eren Jaeger will be closely supervised?” The General looked to Levi. “And should he become out of control?”
Levi looked behind him. “I can definitely kill him if it comes to that.” His words cut me and I fought again. “There’s only one downside to that. There’s absolutely no middle ground.”
“Then I have made my choice..... the Scouts are now in custody of Eren Jaeger. He will be under the command of Commander Erwin and Captain Levi.”
When we left the court room Hange stayed glued to my side, afraid of what I might do. Eren had been released from his shackles and was standing by the wall, rubbing his wrists. I ran to him and buried myself into his chest. “I’m so sorry Eren.”
Eren clung to me. “For what Y/N, you didn’t do anything wrong.”
“For Levi, he should never had done what he did in there.”
“If he didn’t then who knows if I’d be standing here right now. He showed them that he had power over me when my brain wouldn’t let my mouth stop moving.”
I knew Eren was right, but I couldn’t let myself believe it. Levi walked out of the door beside us and when he saw the anger in my eyes he prepared himself. I walked over to him, trying to make myself look calm, and when I got close enough I threw a punch aimed for his face. He dodged me with ease, growing up in the underground had taught him excellent hand to hand combat. It didn’t even phase me, I continued to throw punches.
As scouts surrounded us and tried to grab onto me Erwin stopped them. “Leave them be, Levi can handle himself.”
They all stepped back and as I threw my last punch Levi spun me around and held me to him, pinning my arms at my side. “Will you stop it and let me explain?”
My breath was ragged as I tried to break free. “Why should I?”
“Because I just saved your brother’s life, now come with me.” Levi grabbed my hand and dragged me down the hall, finding a room that was empty and dragging me in. He had never liked to make a scene when it came to his personal life. “I know you’re mad, but I didn’t have a choice.”
I didn’t speak, just watched him. I walked to the desk behind where I stood and sat on it. He walked closer to me and put his hand on my cheek. “Will you please talk to me?”
I didn’t let him speak. I put my hands behind his back and pulled him toward me. Getting my hint he put his hands behind my head and pulled my face to his, planting a kiss on me, clearly wanting to let our emotions speak instead of our words.
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