Not The One Who Dies ⇀ Attack on Titan *Original*

Part 34: The Death of Eren Yeager

Logan sat atop the wall, looking over the now destroyed battleground with glazed over eyes. They'd won. They'd beat back the titans and actually won back the land that was taken all those years ago, but at what cost?

"Logan? Are you okay?" Eren's voice asked out, standing next to Mikasa who was making sure he was okay. Logan went to reply but was cut off by a cough erupting from his throat. The boy sighed as he placed his hand on his steaming wound, still healing after Mikasa put a sword through his side.

"I'm fine, worry about yourself, Eren." Logan grunted, causing Eren to sigh. Logan stood up and looked to the right of the battlefield, to where the battle started. He sighed as he hopped from the wall, using his ODM gear to attach to it as he flew towards what he was looking for.

He landed roughly on the ground as he heard people shout from behind him, Eren the loudest. He heard the sounds of another ODM unit behind him as he looked behind him. He spotted Jean flying down behind him, a pissed off look on his face.

"Cap, I know you consider yourself some unkillable badass, but right now, you've lost too much blood to be flying around!" Jean yelled causing Logan to just sigh and turn around, walking towards the lone tree that was standing ontop of the hill that he had seen earlier while fighting the beast titan.

"God damn it... Fine, just let me help you." Jean mumbled, running up to next to the beaten and bloody captain, grabbing his arm and putting it atop his shoulders while wrapping his arm around the captains waist. The two walked up the hill, Jean muttering sarcastic remarks as Logan stayed silent, just trying to keep his emotions in check.

"But no... The captain has to get to the top of this hill to do- Oh." Jean was saying, his heart dropping to his stomach as he saw what the captain was coming down her to get. The setting sun shined it's orange rays onto the corpse of Arthur, Logan took a deep breath before sighing, his eyes softening at the sight. He took his arm from Jeans shoulders and stumbled over to the body, crouching down to pick it up, weakly trying to get the body into his arms.

"Cap, do you uh, just- here." Jean said, walking over to the corpse and picking it up into his arms carefully. Logan looked to the  body with soft eyes. Jean had never seen Logan this defeated before, even in their victory, it was clear to him now that the boy had lost almost everything he had in the fight.

"Thank you..." Logan mumbled out causing Jean to nod, walking back towards the wall as Logan followed behind, shooting up and landing on it right after Jean who quickly put the body down. The brunette quickly left the boy to give him some time to himself.

Logan grunted as he sat down next to his older brothers body, his back to the rest of the scouts. He finally let silent tears begin to flow from his eyes, the tsunami of emotions he had held back the whole fight finally wearing off. Logan looked to his older brother, tears slightly blurring his vision.

He didn't say any words, having both too many in his mind and none to say at all. He felt someone approach him, seeing the shadow cover him. He quickly dried his eyes, trying to hold back more tears as he prepared to look behind him.

"W-What?" Logan's voice broke, even with how hard he was trying to hold it back, it was clear how badly he was hurting. Logan turned around to find Levi standing there, his normal look on his face as he stared down at his boyfriend's body before looking over to the wounded boy, seeing the sun glint from his wet eyes.

"I- It's my fault, Levi." Logan managed to get out before more tears began to fall, Logan quickly hiding his face from the man he considered to be his father. Levi didn't say a word, he just knelt down to be in front of Logan, putting his hand on the back of his neck and pulling him into his shoulder. He let the boy he loved ever so dearly cry his heart out into his shoulder, getting his shirt wet as he did.