ONE ʙʏ ONE 𝟸 : ᗩᗷᑌᔕᗴ ᗩᔕƳᒪᑌᗰ

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Eren thrashed as he was dragged to electrotherapy. He yelled for help, which caused the entire place to go in an uproar. Patients trashed their room and slammed against their locked doors to try and get out. The staff began to panic, and they began to sedate patients in their rooms.

"Let me go!" Eren growled, sounding animalistic. The guards were struggling to keep hold of him.

Rin was following close behind, watching him closely. "Eren, why can't you get it? Levi left you, but I stayed. I want to help you!"

"Why do you care?" Eren shouted at him.

"Because right now, you're under Levi's control. I've seen you calm and happy. That's the real you."

Eren was pulled into a room with a center table and strapped down. Eren hated being immobilized, but that wasn't his biggest concern. Rin and a couple other nurses pulled up a machine with strange dials and buttons.

"Eren, relax, and it'll hurt less." Rin sweetly advised as he powered on the machine.

It was game over for the teen. He was out numbered, and his allies were mostly unconscious. He couldn't fight. Rin was going to reset him, and Levi will disappear.

Eren stopped struggling abruptly and relaxed in the binds. Rin paused and stared at him, thinking he may have passed out with stress.

"Even if you reset me, Levi is still apart of me. His name is scarred on me - he won't give up." Eren softly mumbled.

Rin rolled his eyes. "Time to let him go."

Eren looked up at Rin with doe eyes. "If I will forget about Levi, can I at least leave him a note? That is, when they find him."

Rin wanted to say no, but Eren's innocent eyes convinced him. "Fine, but you're not being untied."

Eren agreed, and Rin retrieved a pen and paper. The boy smiled and thanked him.

"What do you want to say."

Eren grinned, "Eleven...Nine...Twelve...Twelve."

Rin furrowed his brow. "What?"

"You said you'd give it to him!" Eren whined.

Rin shrugged, "Fine. I guess crazy speaks crazy. Let's get going!"

The nurses surrounded Eren, and the machine whirled up with electricity. Rin removed the electrified rods and placed them at the sides of Eren's head.

"I'll find you, Levi."

Then everything went black.

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The boat was prepared, and Levi was approaching Colossal Asylum Prison. Then sun was setting as they arrived.

"Alright, Armin, set them off towards the administration. Do not hit the patient units." Levi ordered.

Armin followed his command and lauched a missile towards the administration office. "Five minutes til it's here."

"Then let's head in. Remember, I do the talking," Hange reminded.

Connie waited in the car while everyone else, including Sonny and Bean, snuck their way around to the back. There was an employee waiting at a staff entrance, smoking a cigarette. Sonny and Bean ran up to the man and jumped up on him, meaning he was a friend.

"Stay out of administration, and thanks again." Hange smiled as the staff member let them inside.

The nurse nodded in response. "Cameras are down, but the place is in uproar. Something is wrong with Eren. That kid has the entire place in his palm, they'll help you if you find security and let them out."

Levi grew a sick, nervous feeling. Eren was in danger.

"Where is security?" Levi asked.

"First floor, near the cafeteria. I'll show you."

The crew set off. Along the way, the staff member filled them in on everything that happened through the winter.

"Eren's grew aggressive. He's killed eleven - no, twelve people so far, ten of them being staff members. The nurse by the name Rin Okumura is the only one taking care of him."

Levi snarled, "I'm gonna kill him."

Zeke chastized, "Levi, watch it."

The raven grumbled under his breath. The nurse continued, "Rin kept threatening that if he talk about you again, he send the boy to electrotherapy and reset him. This morning is when the patients because agitated."

"You don't think Rin went through with it, do you?" Armin worried.

The nurse paused, "That man has issues. Plus, I haven't heard a sound from Eren's cell since."

Levi cursed under his breath. "God, I shouldn't have made that promise. I want that nurse dead."

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Rin smiled as Eren calmly hummed to himself. Eren sat in a chair by his bed, silently reading and humming a continuous tune. He was calm and polite.

"Eren, are you ready for dinner?" Rin asked.

"Yes, please." Eren politely replied.

He marked his page and stood. His movements were slow and gentle, the complete opposite of his usual twitching, aggressive self. And when his spoke, there was no sass or snarls. It was like his animalistic side was tamed.

Rin guided Eren down to the Cafeteria were other patients were. When the saw Eren, the place went silent, wondering if the therapy actually worked. Eren was smiling, genuinely smiling. He was relaxed and trusting of Rin.

A patient caught the boy's attention. "Levi can't be too far now."

Rin glared at the patient and urged Eren away from him. The boy a strange look on his face.

"Levi's coming to visit? That's nice." Eren smiled.

Rin corrected, "No, Levi's not coming. He is a bad man, okay?"

Eren paused before slowly nodding and repeating, "Levi's a bad man."

Rin excitedly praised Eren for his receptiveness, but the other patients fell into their depressive silence. None of them continued to eat or speak, just stare into nothingness, like robot that powered off.

"Eren, I think we've made tremendous progress!" Rin beamed, but karma was close by.

The hospital alarm went off, and a wave of clicks and squeaks sounded across the Asylum. Rin's heart dropped as all the cafeteria patients smirked at him.

"Don't even think about it!" Rin growled at them.

The same patient from before began to cackled, "Trust me. We know Levi had dibs on your head!"

The cafeteria began to roar with maniacal laughter, and Eren found himself smiling at them. Rin grabbed Eren's wrist as the other nurses began to reprimand their patients. They didn't fight, not without the command to.

"Levi has nothing to do with this!" Rin scoffed.

He opened the main cafeteria door and nearly fell back. Levi and his entire team stood in the way. They were prepared with weapons, and Levi had a disturbing, excited grin.

"Found Mon Amour's note. Thanks for holding onto the message for me." Levi smirked, holding up the paper.

Rin pulled Eren behind him. "You understand what it said?"

"Eleven, nine, twelve, twelve." Levi repeated. "K, I, L, L." Rin's eyes widened with fear.

Levi finally got Eren's permission to kill.

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