Choices

Chapter 26

     "So why do you even like me?" Eren asked as he leaned down on the bed.
     "You're sweet, handsome, caring, loving, selfless..." Petra started listing things.
     "Woah," Eren interrupted. "I'm not that great, I'm your average Joe," he told her with a laugh.
     "You're not average," she told him, laying down next to him. A silence filled the room.
     "Are you su-"
     "No," Eren deadpanned.
     "Okay," she quit asking.
     Silence filled the room again, she had her hands covering eachother on her tummy. She shuffled closer to him, her head nuzzling into his side. He wrapped an arm around her. She sighed in content. She really wished Eren had succumbed to her, but he used the word yet which meant she had a chance. But she knew the other girls did too.
     But now was her time with him. Or so she thought.
     "Hey Eren!" Krista skipped in with a sing song voice.
     She stopped dead in her tracks when she saw their position. The two were cuddling! What was she to do? She stood there, Eren sat up and stared at her. She just stood there, staring back. It sent chills up Petra's back. She sat up as well.
     Krista took three long strides across the room to the bunk they were sitting on. And once again kissed Eren deeply. It was like he was sucking his face off. Petra shoved her away and did the same. This time she pretty much was sucking his face off. He tried to push away?
     "Hey Ere-," Sasha had walked in now, right when Petra sucked on his face.
     "What the hell?!" She questioned.
     "We're kissing," Petra broke it to explain. "We are a thing as he calls it," Petra bragged.
     "I didn't say that!" Eren frantically contradicted her.
     "Well," she crawled into his lap seductively. "Ws're gonna be," she whispered.
     "Well we were gonna be!" Krista spoke up.
     "No we were!" Sasha argued.
     "Nuh uh! We are!" Petra joined in, standing up.
     Eren subtly left the room, the girls didn't even notice.
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     Eren sighed in relief as he left the room, wiping his forehead. Why did they like him? All he did was what literally every other person in the military did. Serve. Fight. Protect. He didn't do anything different. Now he had at least four girls liking him. It freaked him out.
     Then he realized something. They were fighting the guys' dorms. Of course. Maybe if he was lucky then he would get his bed back, but he highly doubted it. All he wanted to do was go to bed early. But Petra had to visit! Of course he wasn't mad at her. How could he be after all of that?
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     3 week later...
     Petra was training again, running across the country side. Of course Eren was by her side the whole time. He looked straight ahead, his face never changing from the stoic look. He was in deep concentration, not even paying attention to the 5k they were running. She qas panting and they were only halfway in.
     "Okay," she panted. "I gotta stop," she put her hands over her head. Running across the countryside had its perks. She had plenty of shade. She walked over to a tree, and he followed. She immediately collapsed when she hit shade. He climbed into a tree and hung upside down in it. 
     Once her breathing steadied she sat up. He hadn't broken a sweat. His face was still stoic. It was starting to worry her. He hadn't said a word all morning. He crossed his arms and stared at the horizon.
     "Love, are you okay?" She asked, standing up and walking to him.
     "Yeah, I'm fine," he replied.
     "You haven't said anything all morning,"
     "Levi shouldn't be pushing you this hard, you should be running a mile or so at most," he complained.
     "So? I can take it," she replied. Pumping her chest out.
     "Before this we could run the 5k easy," he retorted. She couldn't think of anything to say. That was true.
     "Still though," she pouted, crossing her arms. She was right next to him, level with his face.
     "I'm gonna kick his ass pretty soon," he said confidently.
     "I know you could," she did know. Eren was far superior to that midget in ever way. Physically, and mentally. Especially physically...
     "He will pay," Eren still didn't know that it was Levi, not training. That was gonna change.
     His shirt was drooping down, showing those amazing muscles. She had felt them more than once, and she was going to again. His arms were still crossed, and his shirt was still traveling, showing his lower chest.
      "The asshole thinks he can beat me," he muttered. "I'd like to see it in a fair fight,"
      "Eren, you question yourself about whether or not you're better than him," she complained. "Erwin said you were at least as strong as him, so I bet you would cruch him,"
      "Yeah," he agreed. Raising his voice.
      "So tell me again about how you got injured," he requested. Was he on to something?
     "Well he-" she slapped a hand over her mouth. She made a mistake,
     "He?" Eren asked, jumping outnof the tree.
     "I mean-"
     "This is the first time I'm hearing he," he questioned.
     "I meant to say-uuuh- the!" She shook her head up and down frantically.
     "No, you said he," he looked at her strangely before a look of realization dawned on his face.
     "Who did it to you?" He asked, his dace once again stoic.
     "No one, I wasn't even hurt that bad," she ranted.
     "Was it Levi?" He asked her.
     "N-"
     "Was it?"
     "Yes," she whispered out.
     "Get back to running when you're done with the brake," he told her, takin long strides north toward the HQ.
     She didn't stop him.
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      Levi sat in his office, reading a book. A bottle of wine was on the corner and he was nursing a flass of it as he read. The back legs of the chair were the only ones on the ground as he leaned back.
      His reading and drinking were interrupted when his door was suddenly blown off of its hinges. He looked up in surprise. He saw Eren Jaeger enter the room.
     "What the hell was that for?!" The Captain roared, dropping he glass of wine and book in his hand.
      He didn't say a word as he walked over to his desk and grabbed the bottle of wine off of his desk. Eren twisred the cork out, letting it fall to the ground. Levi realized that Jaeger had blood flowing down his hand.
      Did he punch the door off the hinges? He wondered. If Jaeger had that strength he was screwed.
       Eren then chugged the bottle down, Levi stared at him, eyes wide. Soon all of the red cherry liquid inside was gone, and Eren brought a sleeve up to wip his face.
      "What the hell?! That had been aging for one hundred and fifty years!" Levi sobbed out, rage filled him.
      "What? I thought this would be more fun with a buzz," Eren eerily echoed Levi's words from the court case.
      "Wait wh-" before Levi could finish his words, Eren had smashed the wine bottle over his head.
      He felt warmth cover his head, and eventually it covered his face. He looked down and saw a puddle of red, and he knew it wasn't the cherry wine. It was his blood. Suddenly his feet were off the ground, and he was looking at the man who had smashed the bottle over his head.
      "This is for Petra!" he bellowed , smashing his head into the bleeding Captain's face.
      Eren dropped him and picked up a piece of glass off of the groundthay came from the destroyed bottle. Eren's smile was one of pure evil. He was enjoying every second of what was happening.
      "Open wide," he sang out. Levi's screams filled the HQ
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    Erwin was punishin Eren. Oh he sure was. Although he didn't call it a punishment.  This certainly was a punishment.
      "I can't believe this is happening," Eren spoke out. Syanding in front of Hanji in the open fields.
     She got a free pass on any expirement she wanted. Courtesy od Erwin. The entire Survey Corps. Was watching them. She had an ODM blade in her right hand.
     "It's happening alright!" She cheered. "Get in your knees!" He obliged.
     The ODM blade flew down, cutting his arm off. He roared in pain. Why were people torturing him so much? He wondered. But he fell over, his shoulder-arm landing on the ground, causing more pain. Levi sat in a wheelchair with the other soldiers, a slit in the gauze that was wrapped around his face. Ere knew he was laughing and crying.
    Hanji cabled away quickly. Suddenly he saw gold, and all was black.