Rewind

Chapter 12

"What did you just say?" Mikasa asked slowly.

"Shitty Eyebrows!" Levi said growled.

"Levi, explain what's going on," Eren asked confused.

"Nice going, Commander," Hanji said. "Spill the beans."

"Heichou," Jean said. "What was he talking about?"

"There's a reason none of you know my last name," Levi said rubbing his jaw.

"What is it?" Eren asked, suspecting the answer.

Levi turned and looked at Mikasa, watching for her reaction. "Ackerman," Levi stated.

Mikasa's eyes widened as Levi said his name. "Wait, so, what?"

"Erwin wasn't mistaken when he said sibling," Levi said. He took a moment to collect himself before saying the thing he had denied for so long. "I'm your brother."

"How is that even possible?" Mikasa asked. "My parents didn't say anything about me having a brother!"

"That's because they didn't give a shit about me," Levi said. "When I was eight they dropped me off in the undergrounds! They threw me out like garbage! I could have died if I wasn't found."

"No, you're lying!" Mikasa said. "My parents were kind people!"

"No, they weren't. At least not to me," Levi said, anger in his voice. Memories of that time flooding his brain, fueling the fire of his anger. "They only wanted one child. And they wanted that child to be a girl. Our father beat the living shit out of me every chance he got. Then one day they decided I wasn't even worth keeping. So they ditched me. I was picked up by this one woman and I came to know her as my mother. Then when I was six she took her own life. Apparently I was too much for her as well."

"No, they couldn't of possibly have done that!" Mikasa said.

"Believe what you want," Levi spat. "But that's what happened."  Levi turned around and headed back to his room. Eren ran after him.

When Eren got to the room Levi was shaking. Out of anger or sadness, he didn't know. "Levi?" Eren asked tentatively.

"What?" Levi snapped. He was facing away from Eren, purposely not looking at him.

Eren reached out and grabbed his hand and turned him around. Levi looked down at the ground, hiding his face. Eren put his hand under Levi's chin and forced him to look up. On Levi's face was a single tear.

"Levi," Eren said. He opened his mouth to say something else, but he didn't know what to say. So he shut it. Instead he pulled Levi into a hug. Neither of them said anything, they just stood there.

Eventually they moved to the bed. Levi had his arms around Eren, and Eren had his ear pressed against Levi's chest.

"My past-" Levi began.

"Shh," Eren said. "I'm listening to the heartbeat of my love. If you talk I can't hear it."

"But-"

"Shh," Eren said. "And plus, you don't need to explain anything. It won't change how I feel about you. I love you."

"I love you, too," Levi said. He bent his head down and buried his face in Eren's hair.

"He has to be lying," Mikasa said. "There's no way my father could have done that. He wasn't abusive! And my parents would have never of just ditched their child!"

"Mikasa, it's true," Erwin said. "Levi is your brother. I researched who he was when he first joined. And that's what I found."

"We don't even look alike!" Mikasa declared.