You're Not Alone

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Eren and I sit in a room, both of us perched on a couch with Hange attending to Erens wounds and Miche using a wet cloth to wipe away the blood that's on my face.

"Well that went better than I expected," she puts a cotton swap up to Erens face with disinfectant on it. "Does it hurt?"

"Yeah," Eren grunts and puts a towel on his cheek.

"Yeah?" Hange beams. "Describe it to me!"

I look over at her, raising my eyebrows in skepticism. She's got a few screws loose up in that head of hers.

"Sorry about the theatrics," Erwin walks in with Levi.

"It's fine, I understand," Eren looks down.

"I can assure you the pain was worth it," Erwin stares out a window. "We played our trump cards at the perfect time."

Levi beating the crap out of my brother and I was the trump card? These guys are something else. Eren fits right in with these crazy bastards. Me... not so much.

Erwin walks over to us, crouching down to our eye level as we sit on the couch. He sticks his hand out towards me.

"You both have my upmost respect," he smiles. I take his large and and shake it. "Sophie. Eren. I'm glad you're on our team."

"Huh? Me too!" Eren chokes on his words, then takes Erwins out stretched hand in his. "Glad to be here sir!"

Levi steps over to the couch, sitting down between my brother and I, his arms stretch out behind us on the back of the couch.

"So, Eren, Sophie," his voice clear. "You don't resent me now do you?"

He eyes me closely, then turns to look at Eren. I see the fear in Erens eyes as Levi examines him. Having Levi pull my hair and make me face him a couple times, washed away my fear of him right away.

"N-no. I can see that what you did was necessary, sir." Eren cowers under Levi's gaze.

I don't say anything and Levi seems to understand that I too don't resent him. No words needed to communicate.

"Good. Then you understand," he closes his eyes and leans his head back.

"Still, don't you think you went too far?" Hange defends us. "I mean you knocked his tooth out! And Sophie's whole stomach is black and blue!"

I clutch my stomach. Remembering leaving the court house and lifting up my shirt, displaying a large bruise that had already formed across my abdomen.

Hange sits on her knees in front of Eren and unwraps a cloth, displaying one signal tooth. "Neat, huh?"

I scrunch my face is disgust at the sight of it.

"You picked it up? How disgusting," Levi glances sideways at her.

"This is a precious sample I'll have you know!" She grins.

"Hey, just be glad people like that aren't dissecting you," Levi stares at Hange.

"Don't you dare compare me with them. I would never even dream of killing them. Specially Sophie, her eyes are just so pretty," Hange beams at me. Levi glances at me and looks at my eyes. I look away out of embarrassment. They're nothing special. "Hey Eren! Let me take a look inside that mouth of yours!"

She brings her face up to his and he reluctantly opens his mouth for her. Hange looks inside and I watch her eyes widen as she gasps.

All of us look over at them. My eyes narrow in confusion as to what the big deal is. So what? He doesn't need all his teeth, right?