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Chapter 39

     Petra was panicking. Eren was hit with a tranquilizer, but the other sniper missed Annie. And of course, right then, Annie showed her true colors by slicing her index finger.
     The explosion of the Transformation alone disintegrated surrounding MPs. Petra had gotten away carrying Eren just in time though.
     Now they were in the undergound tunnels of Stohess, hearing the Titan go insane trying to find Eren. Or a way out.
     But on the way to there. Erwin explained their plans with his booming voice. They were to prevent her from leaving Stohess by all means necessary.
     She was shook from her thoughts when Eren started to wake. He grunted.
     "Eren!" She exclaimed. She started to shake him.
     "Huh?" He held his head as his eyes fluttered open.
    "Are you okay?!" She was screaming, needing her voice to be heard over the thunderous footsteps of the Titan above them.
     "Where are we?" He asked her, ignoring her own question.
     ''Stohess! Annie's really a Titan!" His eyes widened.
     "Shit!" he stood up. Having to balance against the stone wall he had been leaning against.
     "Eren! Slow down, you're not ready!" She held him back.
     "Whether I'm ready or not, I gotta get out there and kill that bitch!" He yelled, slamming his hand against the wall.
      "It does matter! If you go out there and die, humanity dies with you!" She screamed.
      "Gimme your ODM gear," he commanded.
     "I'm your superior officer and I order you to stay here!" She ordered.
     "I don't give a damn about orders right now Petra! Or seniority! Lives are on the line! This bitch is goin' down today!" Eren wasn't giving in.
     "B-bu-"
     He silenced her with a kiss. A deep one. She melted into him. She felt safe for the moment, and knew he would protect her. They broke off.
     "Listen Petra, this is important. You need to stay down here, and give me your ODM gear now," he ordered gently.
     "A-Alright," she gave in.
     Petra unbuckled her harnesses and core. Handing them to him. She gave him all of the equipment which she helped him equip.
     "I love you," he told her with true passion. She dove in for a final kiss. The deepest and most passion filled thing she had ever experience. She raked her hands through his hair and felt the courseness of it.
     "Don't you dare die, Eren, I'm gonna be a Jaeger some day!" She told him, her heart fluttering with love.
     And with one last glance, he was gone. His recovery was fast. She stood there. The absence of her ODM gear made her feel strange. She was alone in the tunnel.
     She prayed he would be okay.
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     Eren ran through the tunnel as hard as he could. His body sched from the tranquilizer that had knocked him out. But he kept going.
     The ground rumbled from the stomps of Annie's Titan form. This only fueled his rage for her.
     She decieved them! She had been under their nose the whole time. He would get revenge.
     He ran up the steps of the underground tunnel and onto the streets of Stohess.
     The place was massacred. Bloody bodies lied all around him. He felt even more rage.
     I shouldn't go Titan form yet, one Titan in the street's is good enough, he thought.
     He grappled away, looking for her. Of course it isn't hard to find a Titan in the middle of the street.
     He saw her smashing down soldiers trying to slice her nape. He hurried quickly. Blades would do nothing to that diamond on her nape. He landed on a house near the slaughter.
     He was close enough to see the men and women's faces before they were crushed. Look of fear, agony, and sadness.
     He didn't even think, he cabled his way over to her. But instead of slicing her. He punched her in the face.
     His Titan strength sent her flying. She grinded on the ground several hundred feet before laying there. Still.
     "Jaeger! Transform!" He heard Levi yell.
     "Shit's goin' down! Get back!" He heard a random man yell.
     "Fuck it!" He bit his thumb.
     Everything went black.

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     Eren woke up with a gasp. The room was bright and fresh air was blowing in. It was stone with a wooden frame.
     Everything was silent, but there was a presence in the room. He turned his head.
     There sat Petra, sleeping in the chair next to his bed. Her breathing was the only soundin the room.
     He smiled. She was beautiful. Nothing was able to ruin the moment. His heart was content.
      Until he remembered the past events. Annie, Titans, death, life, evil. It all flooded back.
     He sat there in silent shock. He had no memories after he chew his thumb up. Did she get away? Did he get to kill her? He hoped the second one.
     "Eren?" He heard Petra's soft voice next to him.
     "Yeah Petra?" He answered.
     "Are you okay?" She was suddenly leaning over him, her face over his.
     "I'm great," he answered. "But what about Annie?" He asked.
      "You transformed and tore her apart. Then she turned into a chrystal," she answered.
     "Chrystal?" He asked, confused.
     "She just... blew up. And when the smoke cleared she was a chrystal," she explained. Her voice sounded vulnerable.
     "Oh," he replied stupidly.
     "Yeah," she answered.
     There was a companionable silence between the two.
     "It really was her..."