Weak (Eren Jaeger x Reader)

Two: Death

You didn't waste any time taking out any titans that were in your way. Blood splattered across your hands and face as you sliced the nape of a titan after escaping it's attempt to grab you out of the air. It steamed away against the wind that tousled your hair and kissed your face as you zipped past the carnage behind you. In a moment of both concern and curiosity, you turned to make sure the cadets behind you were still in one piece. 

And to your relief, they were. Barely managing to keep up with you, Eren and his squad were sprinting across the tiles of the roof, shooting their ODM gear out to connect onto the abandoned buildings and towers ahead. Undoubtedly, you could see fear written all over their faces--however they did a pretty good job masking it with determined grins and battle cries. You locked eyes with Eren for a moment--and only broke away when his eyes widened and he opened his mouth to shout. 

"Look out!! Abnormal!" 

Immediately, you whipped your head around just in time to see a titan jumping towards you through the air with its arms outstretched. In a moment of pure instinct and experience,  you hooked your ODM gear onto the street below you and immediately pulled yourself down towards the pavement. You watched as it flew over you, straight towards the cadets. Clenching your teeth, you sprinted towards a stone tower behind you where you could get up high enough to kill it. 

But it was too late. You watched in horror as its face slammed into a young man and crashed against the tower. As you started to move your feet again in any attempt to save the cadet, you watched the titan's eyes slowly turn from the meal it had just acquired to you. You stood, frozen under its gaze, as it watched you silently. 

"C-captain--" The cadet in its mouth choked on the blood that streamed out of his lips. Your grip around your blades tightened as you saw his body get split in two by the titan's wide, eerily human teeth. 

"I'm sorry." You whispered, and made your way towards the other cadets. 

They stood on a rooftop, save for Eren who dangled from the edge of the tiles. All eyes were fixed on the scene before them of their dear comrade getting devoured alive. It was one thing you could never, ever get used to seeing. But you understood that it meant far more to them than it did to you. Some of them flinched at the sound of your boots hitting the tiles below you. Eren turned to face you before pulling himself up onto the roof. 

"Captain--why didn't you save him..?" His eyes darkened as they glared at you. He took a step towards you, but you held your ground. 

"It was too late. And you said it yourself: abnormals are unpredictable. Even if I could manage to somehow save him in time, he wouldn't be able to fight." Your voice was low and dangerously calm as you spoke. Eren grit his teeth and turned back towards the titan, which had climbed off the tower and straightened back up as it swallowed their squadmate. 

Without another thought, he hooked onto a distant house and zoomed away, flying towards the abnormal titan. 

"Hey! Come back!" You shouted, but it was no use. The rest of the squad shouted for Eren to come back, but their pleas fell on deaf ears. Cursing under your breath, you hopped off the roof and followed him, shouting orders as you did so. 

"Stay close together! Avoid titans if you can and check your surroundings--" 

Your breathing hitched when you saw a distant one-meter titan jump up from the street and bite off Eren's left leg from the knee down. 

Damn it! 

You quickened your pace as you watched him tumble across the tiles on a nearby roof, falling just near the edge where his limp arm hung off the end.