Different Kind of Love

Chapter 26 - Unexpected visitors

"Eren! Eren!!" Annie screamed as she dropped to her knees next to Eren. "Holy shit!" Eren laid still in the floor, blood forming a small puddle. "Wake up! Eren! You should be fine, it was only a bullet, you've survived worse! Eren!" Tears almost fell from Annie's eye, but she closed them tightly before they could escape. With her eyes still closed, she felt a hand softly cup her right cheek.

"Did I make you cry?" Annie opened her eyes to see Eren staring up at her. "Sorry."

"Your shoulder!"

"Don't worry about that, we need to get out of here." Before the two could even get up, there was shouting from outside.

"Move in!!" Almost instantaneously, a body came crashing thought the shattered window. The figure picked himself up off the floor and stood looking over the two teenagers. He was obviously military, but none either of them had ever seen before. The man didn't move, he just stood, staring. He glared at the two with an emotionless yet disgusted face. His black hair almost covering his eyes. His concentration was broken when another voice called.

"Coming through!" This voice was a women's, although with the excited tone, it sounded like a little girl. But that voice, it sounded so familiar to Eren. Was it...?

His suspicion was confirmed when his school teacher came crashing into the room the same way the man had. "M-Miss Zoe!?!" Eren called, both surprised and terrified.

"Oh? Eren! Hi! And we aren't in school so it's Hanji Zoe." The obviously crazy woman replied.

"You know this brat, four-eyes?" The man spoke with a deep voice.

"Yep! He was one of my students."

"Wait! Wait wait wait. What is happening!?" Eren asked whilst standing and wincing in pain, grabbing his shoulder.

"No Eren, it's me who should ask that. What are you doing here with these people?"

"Well that's..." Before he could finish, another woman jumped through the window, this one carefully landing on her feet. "Oh you've got to be kidding."

"E-Eren?" The bewildered woman spoke.

"Eren how the hell do you know these people?" Annie asked, just as confused as everyone else.

"Well this is Hanji Zoe, my old school teacher and this is... was my doctor in prison, Petra Ral."

"Tch, I don't care if these two know you, you're an enemy that's to be eliminated." The black haired man grabbed Eren by the neck and pressed him against the wall. He was much shorter than Eren but still managed to lift him off his feet.

"Levi wait!" Petra called out. "We do know him and we'd know that Eren is a good kid, I'm sure he could explain himself."

"Tch, fine. But the other four are as good as dead."

"You fucking leave them alone!" Eren thrashed out, landing a punch on the man's face.

"You've got a good punch. But now you've dirtied my face." The man retaliated with an uppercut that floored Eren, almost knocking him out, leaving Annie to cradle his limp body on her lap. "Yeah, tell the commander we've got them. Mike and the others should have the other three. Yes. Call him in." Those were the last words Eren heard before everything went black.

"...ren!!! Eren!! EREN!!" The voice tried shouting again but was muffled by something. Everything was bright when Eren opened his eyes, he didn't know what had woken him, maybe it was that voice. Yes. The voice of his love.

"Annie?" Eren tried standing but was quickly stopped by a foot stomping his head into the ground.

"Don't even bother." The same guy as before, the black haired midget.