The Bond we hold [Eremika]

Healing

Eren and Armin, who had been extremely focused on their video game, had both jumped from the sudden loud noise from outside.

Armin jumped out of his skin, while Eren's heart sunk. "W-W-Was that a gun...?!", Armin stammered, freaked out, clutching the closet stuffed animal he could find, which was just Eren's old teddy bear his mother refused to throw out.

"I...I think so...but there's no wooded areas close by for hunting game...", Eren stood up, as he slowly walked towards his window.

His ears actually stung a bit from the loud noise. He looked out the window, and suddenly his heart sunk. He felt like he was suddenly weighed down by cinderblocks...as the grim realization hit him.

Across the street, at Mikasa's lit up home, the front door was wide open. Eren could see three men standing on the front porch.

Eren squinted a bit, and saw the man was pointed something inside the home...it was a pistol.

Inside the Ackerman home, Mikasa starred, wide eyed, frozen in complete shock and horror. Smoke came from the pistol's barrel, as the masked man held it firmly, finger still on the trigger.

Mikasa's faster stood there, staggering back several feet. He had a gunshot wound in his chest, right under his heart.

Blood spilled from the wound, as Herrick gasped breathlessly for air.

"H-HERRICK!", Akane screamed in horror, watching. Herrick looked at his wife, tears appearing in the corners of his eyes.

"A-Akan-"

BANG

The second gunshot this time hit Herrick Ackerman in the forehead. Blood and brains hit the wall and floor, as his body collapsed to the floor, in a pool of blood.

"MIKASA!", Eren bolted downstairs back at the Jaeger house, Armin quickly following behind. His heart pounded in his chest, as he heard his feet pound loudly against the stairs.

All he knew was he had to get over there, and protect her.

Eren had just came downstairs. He froze, and Armin jumped as they heard the second gunshot.

Grisha was on the phone with 911. "We just heard a second gunshot! Please hurry, there's a little girl in the house!", he talked urgently into the phone.

Eren suddenly glared, as he went to run outside then.

"EREN!", Carla grabbed his arm firmly.

"LET ME GO! SHE NEEDS ME!", Eren yelled, tears flooding his eyes, as he struggled against his mother's grip.

"You'll just get killed! The police are on their way!", Carla told her son.

Across the street, Mikasa cried out, but then quickly covered her mouth, shaking badly. Her hearing was muffled from the loud noise.

Akane snapped out of her shock, hearing her daughter.

She glanced, seeing a kitchen knife was in reach. Akane's motherly instincts kicked in, and she suddenly grabbed the knife, glaring dangerously at the men.