#galactic-blond-nerd

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   Today was beautiful, the sun was bright and birds were singing, it was the perfect day to get away from everyone and be on his own. Eren hadn’t gotten time to be alone for so many months it felt exhilarating just to be on his own headed into the woods where he could be freer than even this. He carried a basket of food with him as he hiked up the mountain he frequented on these days no matter how far or few between they happened to be.

   As he broke the trees into a clearing filled with flowers and fallen trees just big enough for him to sit down he felt his soul lighten. It wasn’t grace, he had given that up when he’d forsaken his creator and was sent to earth in this broken form he now inhabited; it was the mere sunlight that gave him a calmer state of mind. He smiled up at the electric blue sky peeking through the tree branches above him as he put his basket down in the grass.

   He was far enough away from everyone and their prying eyes he didn’t have to hide anymore.

   He released a sigh that sounded like it had been trapped inside his body for months as he lifted his shirt off, allowing then for his true form to expose itself. 

    Bursting from his back emerged two wings...that spread out as if they’d been crammed away for too long, spreading every feather to the wind, browns and grays, intricate designs on the ends that resembled that of a hawk’s. They gave a flap, the air around him catching even though flight had been stripped of him, part of his punishment, his hair fluttering around his face. A relief that came over him here...

It was Tuesday. Nothing fun ever happened on a Tuesday. Tuesday, Reiner mused, was the black hole of the week, the day where everything good and whole in the world went to curl up and die for twenty four hours. Forget ‘I hate Mondays’, at least Mondays were the start of the week, and you could do your catching up from the weekend. But on Tuesdays all you had was the over flow from Monday, and nothing new to talk about, because everything new had already been dealt with on Monday. 

Tuesdays. Tueesday. Choosday. Chews day. A day for chewing over how completely and utterly, mindblowingly, astronomically boring everything actually was. 

Working in the on campus stationary come book shop was not the most stimulating thing Reiner had ever done, even outside the endless void of Tuesdays. He didn’t look up when the small blond student in front of the counter neatly put down their supplies for Reiner to ring up. It wasn’t much, a couple of pens and some paper clips, but that wasn’t uncommon. At first he didn’t notice the slip of paper underneath them.

 “Hm,” he hums to himself, pausing as his eyes observe him. He’s in his hands, he reminds himself. He has him to himself; he can do anything with him. The thought almost makes him smile. He doesn’t. There’s no reason to smile.

 “After you managed to destroy my life,” he muses, “and now you think you can kill me?” His brows raise to emphasize the question. He laughs. It’s forced, cold. “You thought wrong.”

 He leans against the wall. “You’re so goddamn annoying with your ‘goody two shoes’ personality, you know that?” He clicks his tongue and sighs. He feels enraged, but he also doesn’t. He doesn’t like this man, not at all. He’d rather kill him, but he decides he’ll keep him captive.

 “I’m sure you’d rather me kill you than you stay here,” he mumbles, picking at his nails in a bored manner. He looks up, “But, too bad. You don’t deserve anything, honestly.” He shrugs. “Oh well,” he says, his tone monotonous as usual.

Mikasa gingerly held the crown between her fingers, careful not to crush the flower petals. She eagerly returned the hug with one of her own, smiling. "You don't need to apologize. It's alright. I hope you have a wonderful Valentine's day!"

Of course, it wasn't anything he hadn't seen before -- he'd had eyes everywhere in all three Arks. Still...she couldn't deny how awkward she felt with him in the room.