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

Part 47: The Shadow of Death

"How do I look, hmm?" Logan asked as he held his arms to the side, looking up at his husband who chuckled and put his cup of coffee down in the table. Logan was dressed in a suit, much like he was a few weeks ago for their wedding. Except this time, he would be speaking to the scouts, giving them some sort of motivation speech for their attack on Marley.

"You look great, love." Armin spoke, walking closer to the boy, wrapping his arms around the back of his lovers neck and pulling him close, laying a kiss on his lips.

"Hey Dad!! Do you know where my pants are?!" The voice of the twos son asked out from his room causing Logan to break the kiss, a smile playing on his face.

"Duty calls, Lo." Armin mumbled, unwrapping his arms from his husbands neck and making his way up to Clouds room to help him find his clothes.

Logan sighed, pulling out the piece of paper that he had small scribbles on. The man had been trying to figure out what he would be saying to the men and woman willing to chance death on their trip to recover his ex lover. He looked down at the paper, clenching his chin as he read over the terrible words that he had written down.

"Damn it... How the hell did Erwin do this?" Logan muttered to himself, tossing the paper to the side as he sighed, running a hand through his hair as he put his elbows on the table, leaning his head from his hands.

"Hey, you ready? Don't wanna be late." Armin spoke softly, walking over to the side of the man and wrapping his arms around his waist, placing his chin on his shoulder and looking at the side of his husbands face.

"How- how am I supposed to do this? How do I go and tell a bunch of new recruits who have barely fought titans that we're going to attack a city? Full of people just like us... Families, kids? Am I supposed to tell them that it's perfectly okay to go slaughter them all?" Logan asked his husband who sighed, placing a small kiss on the mans cheek before responding.

"Logan, just say how you feel. No one's asking you to lie." Armin softly whispered, causing the man to turn his head and look at Armin who gave him a soft smile.

"I guess you're right..." Logan mumbled causing Armin to slightly chuckle and smile wider.

"Of course I am, I always am." Armin teased causing Logan to smirk and shake his head as the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs interrupted the couple.

Logan watched the staircase as his son arrived at the bottom of it, wearing a nice suit with his hair pushed back.

"Well don't you look nice." Logan said, walking over to his son who rolled his eyes as his cheeks slightly reddened at his fathers words.

"Trying to impress someone, kiddo?" Armin asked causing the boys blush to deepen. Logan quirked an eyebrow at the boy, surprised at his reaction.

"Wait- Are you?! I guess you're almost at that age." Logan spoke cussing Armin to chuckle before walking past him towards the door.

"Come on, we're meeting Levi and Arthur there before the announcement." Armin spoke causing Logan to roll his eyes and follow his husband from the home, Cloud joining the two on their way to the meeting.

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The family of three arrived at the stage nearly on time, being a few minutes late as Cloud had to use the restroom on the way there. They walked past the large crowd of soldiers that was abuzz with guessing on what was going on.

"Look who's finally here! Nice of you guys to join us!" Arthur yelled, teasing the family as Cloud pushed his way in between his two fathers and made his way to his Uncle. He sat next to Levi, both wearing nice military wear. They were flanked by Yelena, Pixas, and Onyankopon, all waiting to go on stage. Yelena glared at the family while the other two were relatively happy to see the family.