Within (Eren x reader)

Chapter 14- four words

Everything around me was bright. My body felt numb as if I was floating. I had never in my life experienced such a feeling of peace. As the light approached me I could see Eren and I when we were older. We had a big house outside of the walls with a large body of water right out the front doors. It reminded me of when Armin would talk about the ocean. It was sparkling and the prettiest blue I had ever seen. We had a girl and 2 boys who were both the spitting image of their father. I was so happy, but I knew... that it could never be real.

Suddenly the light appeared to be getting further and further away. The life that I wanted so badly is slipping from my fingers. I tried to reach out and grasp it but it was out of my reach.

"y/n..."

My eyes slowly fluttered open to see a pair of emerald eyes looking back at mine. My eyelids were so heavy I could hardly keep them open. 

"eren" I said raspilly, it felt as if I had not spoken in months.

His cold strong hands wrapped around my waist and I could feel the tears from his eyes soak through my shirt.

"I thought you were gone.. don't ever scare me like that again"

"w-what happened"

"you lost consciousness and the levi squad managed to kill rod reiss and save both of us, however sasha didn't make it. I thought when you were ready we could go bring flowers to her grave,"

"no, not sasha" the memories of her food obsession were still fresh, and how scared I was of her when meat was involved.

"as we made our way back your body was beginning to shut down and we didn't know if you were going to make it, But the doctors managed to stabilize you and remove the bullet. However, you remained in a coma until now, it's been 5 months since that mission (y/n)."

"5.... 5 months?" I said shocked. It felt as if I had just taken a little short nap. I tried to sit up but my body ached incredibly. I then realized that my stomach was the size of a watermelon, I looked over at eren with my mouth wide open.

"Our baby is healthy thanks to you. As we know, you are incapable of healing yourself but technically that baby is not a part of you. So throughout your coma, you continued to keep the baby healthy and heal the baby from the previous damage during the mission."

I gently laid my hands down on my stomach, before you could hardly even tell that I was pregnant. All of a sudden I felt a gentle kick against my hand that made me jump. I grabbed Erens hand and put it against my stomach. Eren laughed and rested his head on my stomach as he was trying to hear the baby.

"I love you so much eren, don't you ever forget that," I said with a tear rolling down my face.

Eren moved to lay beside me and pulled me into his arms so that my head was in the crook of his neck.

"I can't even put into words how in love I am with you y/n Brady. And I will never stop loving you.  We live in a world full of chaos, and I will do anything to fix it for our family. You and our baby are the only things in my life worth living for,"

"That was kind of cringe eren,"

"oh shut up," eren said laughing into my hair.

"there was something I've been meaning to talk to you about, since we now know the truth our top and final priority is to kill all the titans left, in the last five months we have been preparing for it and in 3 weeks from today we will go through with it. I just don't know if I can see you risk your life again after what happened last time" eren said looking to the ground.

I rested my hand on top of his and looked into his eyes. "I promise you I can take care of myself eren. I'm going to be a mother soon anyway so how am I going to take care of someone else if I can't even take care of myself. Besides I'm willing to do anything so that our baby will have a safe world to grow up in," I said stroking my stomach again.