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Eren Yeager -

They were riding quickly in the forest, the female titan trailing right behind them. Eren was already contemplating transforming so he could fight, but Levi was talking to him, telling him to trust them. He was about to fully agree when he saw you being one of the ones swinging in the trees. You were not going in to fight, but instead trailing for a reason that Eren couldn't understand. His blood started to boil as he turned his head back to Levi. "Why is {name} here?" he asked, clearly upset and worried. Levi didn't even turn back to answer him, "They are doing their job, they'll be okay. Now, choose quickly, do you trust us, or not?"

Eren obviously trusted them, but the worry for you was still great. Though most of his concerns surrounded you. His mind was swirling with questions, but he figured that you were aware of something that he wasn't, so he decided to trust you.

"I trust you!" Eren screamed to his captain. After two seconds, the female titan was being shot with harpoons attached to strings and confined. However, when trying to dodge, she knocked one of the harpoons off course, and Eren could see it go straight through your leg.

Eren saw red and brought his hand up to his mouth.

"Eren! The titan is caught; you doing that will do nothing but mess this up. {name} is strong, that won't take them down. Plus, half of the scouts are over there; they'll get tended to. Don't be irrational"

Guilt-filled Eren at the realization, but there was still a large part of him that wanted to tell Levi to go fuck himself.

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When the female titan escaped and Eren went to fight, he was more irrational than usual, but that made him stronger. The fact that she was the reason you were hurt made Eren more upset than he had ever been before; he didn't even know why. Something about you in pain set off a reaction in him that scared even himself.

When he woke up on the cart on the way back from the mission, he saw Mikisa when he opened his eyes, and the first word out of his mouth was your name. His voice may have been scratchy. His body may have been so sore, he wasn't sure he could stand. But he needed to see you. There was something in him that made him want to see you.

He started to push himself up, but a hand came to softly push him down. He looked to see who the arm was attached to, only to see you. Your eyes were still soft, but there was an exhaustion behind them. His eyes darted to your leg, where he saw the harpoon pierce your skin. In its place, he saw a bandage that was partially soaked in blood.

"Eren, I'm fine," you said, trying your best to comfort him, and it seemed to work. His eyes relaxed, and his hand found its way on top of yours, even though it was awkward to hold it. You were alright, that was all that mattered.

Levi Ackerman -

The mission was as normal as a mission where you go into Titan territory and hope not to die. After Shiganshina fell, expeditions were getting more and more dangerous. The fatality rates were out of this world, not to mention the number of injuries there were. However, you were confident in your abilities; your group's on the other hand, not so much.

You were in a small group with mostly new recruits, who were becoming harder to find, and were placed as their leader for this expedition. Your group was in charge of keeping the back of the formation steady. What that didn't entail, though, was the fact that the entire right flank started sending black smoke signals, a sign of abnormals, leading to a blue signal from the front.

Since your group was in the very back, one would assume that you would be the first to leave, but in this situation, you would have to get to the new back, and make sure the rest are covered, and that is just what you did.

Erwin's group galloped past you, giving you a nod, before you could see multiple groups pass by you, including Hange's and Levi's. Once you saw one more group pass, you knew it was time for your group to get back into formation, you gave your people a nod before you all started riding into formation, spreading out.

You were thinking to yourself how smoothly that went, too smoothly, actually. Your superstition was proven right when you heard a scream to your left as an abnormal grabbed one of the new recruits and ripped them in half.

Your instincts quickly brought you to reach and grab a black smoke signal and shoot it before standing up on your horse. You clicked your gear into place and jumped to the abnormal that was now running after you.

You maneuvered your odm gear to latch onto the damn thing's arm. You landed on the arm with little to no issue and began to run up the arm.

Once you reached the neck, you quickly latched on and jumped to get enough momentum to slash the neck.

Your blades searched through the flesh of the titan, filling you with that small satisfaction you get after killing it, before the inevitable guilt that someone else had just died to the thing because you weren't there to kill it.

Your melancholy thoughts were erased by a crushing pain filling your torso. You looked down to see a large hand hoisting you up several meters off the ground.

Shit.

Your hands were bound, unable to grab your gear or even shoot a smoke signal.

Before you knew it, you were looking into the mouth of the beast. The hand holding you loosened, dropping you in, before chomping its teeth into your abdomen. Scorching pain filled your entire body, but the only thing you could think about was not dying.

Your body felt as if it was moving on its own as you grabbed a pair of swords and slashed the jaw of the titan holding you. The titan's mouth dropped open, giving you the bit of freedom that you needed to push your way out of the jaw, and jump around to the back of the titan and slash its neck.

After that, your vision went dark, and you could only feel the wind rushing past you as you fell.

Levi was on high alert after a blue signal was sent by Erwin, especially since it was you and a group of recruits in charge of the back this time, even his he saw you when he went past. He was on even higher alert when he saw a black signal from the right where you were supposed to be.

He knew he wasn't supposed to leave his position, but something was clawing at him to go help. He tried to push it down, but it just wouldn't go away. But then he saw Erwin point at him them at the signal, telling him to go handle it.

Turns out, be humanity's strongest has perks in getting out of formation, even if he still didn't like the feeling clawing at him. He turned his horse around and started riding to where the black smoke was coming from.

Once he reached where the titan was, he saw a pair of legs dangling from the mouth of a titan, then a horse, your horse, rush past him.

He could feel his chest tighten, and for the first time in many years, he was frozen. You were in the mouth of a titan.

His trance was broken by the sight of blood splattering from the titan's jaw, and for a second, he felt as though his chest had been stepped on, but then he saw it. A figure jumped out of the mouth of the titan. It was you, covered in blood with a large area around your torso soaked with the red substance, but it was you. You were alive.

Before Levi could properly process it, you were using your odm gear and had slashed at the nape of the titan. Then, you were falling.

Levi's instincts kicked in, activating his own odm gear, latching onto the falling titan, grabbing you, and rolling to lessen the blow of the landing.

He whistled, and his horse came trotting over. Levi briskly hoisted you onto his horse before getting on himself and rushing to one of the med carts.

Once you were on it, he knew something was wrong. That something had changed in him, and he isn't sure if it's for the better or not.

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