Cursed

Epilog

Two years later, Eren was in the kitchen. He was cooking breakfast while Levi packed the picnic supplies. They had been living together all this time. Creating a rhythm all their own, they danced around each other as they set to complete their tasks.

"Mom will be there, but she maybe late. I already checked with the principal, everything is set." Eren confirmed as Levi snapped the container closed. Eren sat the cups on the table.

"Really, that's great." Levi kissed his boyfriend as he moved the container to the front door with the rest of their supplies.

"So, she's really OK with all of this?" Levi asked for the millionth time.

"Yeah, she stated we have basically been living here alone for the last few years." Eren shrugged. As a graduation present, Carla Yeager had decided to give the boys the apartment. She had bought a small cabin upstate where she planned to hole up for the winter and finish her next book. It did help that her current boyfriend lived near the lake she was moving too.

"That's great." Levi chuckled. He had received a scholarship to the local community College. It would pay tuition for the first two years. Levi had decided he wanted to own his own business. What that business was going to be changed depending on his mood. One day it would be a tea shop, then he would see an entitled ass in the community and he would change his mind.

As of late he had been thinking about a cleaning service. He currently worked nights for one. He often came home telling Eren all about how he would run the business differently if he owned it. Eren had smirked and told him to do it.

For Eren, his online life had spilled over into his real life. Many people were buying his manga's now. When it was discovered he was the author Carla Yeager's son, he got a book deal. He had his first two manga's being marketed worldwide. Which blew his mind! Yet as of three days ago, he was in talks with a studio company to make his first one into an anime.

Not only that, but the company offered him a job once he graduated. They would pay him to go to school for four years, as long as he agreed to work for them for four years after. He would be an animator with the potential to write more manga's. The only problem was they insisted that anything he created in those eight years, they owned.

Eren was in talks with separating his drawing ability and writing. He wanted to create the manga's for the book deal while working for the studio. It was slow going and a lot of back and fourth but it was looking like he may he on the right track of getting most of what he wanted.

Of course all of this lead to his father finding him. It was just after he signed the book deal and it went to public knowledge. Not many people knew he was still in high school. He had left home late. No longer was he bullied. Connie and Jean had become friends. Even Bertolt wasn't so bad once Reiner was arrested for assault on a minor and drug possession. Annie was still Annie, so Eren kept a wide path between them.

It was just after Christmas and the New Year. Levi had gotten sick and Eren forced him into bed that morning. This was why he was late heading out to school. The snow had made the path slippery, Eren was watching where he walked so he wouldn't fall. A fist struck his gut before he ever saw the person it belonged to.

His father held him up by his backpack as he punched and kicked Eren. He didn't say anything to the boy he beat the crap out of. When Eren was barely conscious, Grisha yanked him up. "Now, you fucking little whore ass faggot, we are going to the bank and you are giving me all the fucking money you have." He demanded.

Eren could hardly breath through the broken ribs he had received. Grisha had to practically drag him along. Bertolt saw this. He called Levi and left a message. Thinking the teen would do something, Bertolt went off to school.