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📜 Chapter 12: Like I loved you before,
as well I love you now 📜

𝑁𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟'𝑠 𝑃𝑂𝑉

Time kept skipping: Eren had been now kneeling on the ground, his wide eyes had been staring at the void ahead, Levi's heavy head had been on his knees, for almost a minute.

He couldn't move: he felt frozen, paralysed, he could barely hear the loud noises coming from evey direction.

But, he had been ordered multiple times to 'pay respect to the dead', and so, his right hand uncontrollably shaking, he closed Levi's beautiful blue eyes.

And just there, he started to realise.

He was desperately trying to hold back tears and sobs; he couldn't even cover his mouth to hide his shaking bottom lip, as he still wanted to hold the older's head in his arms instead of laying him down, back onto the ground.

He didn't want Levi's body to be thrown somewhere near other corpses, in a pile, where the weight of other bodies could have damaged it more than the fire already had.

Eren looked down to see the ravenette's expression to be extremely peaceful: it didn't look any different from when he slept by his side.

...

Just in that moment, Furlan came in his direction, screaming the brunet's name, and: "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU TODAY?! WHAT ARE YOU EVEN DOING THER-"... he paused, having gotten closer enough to the younger to see what he was doing, and his eyes widened in horror.

He stood there, frozen on the spot: his jaw had dropped and his bottom lip was shaking violently; he covered his eyes, took two deep breaths to then order the brunet: "Just... don't leave him there. He deserves better. Go over there, there should be someone who can legally certify the death and get you to a stretcher for him only."

Eren nodded.

Then dried his tears quickly, making sure no one had seen him: he got the much smaller man's body in his arms, holding him as the head could rest on his right shoulder.

And he started walking towards the direction Furlan had pointed at.

He dropped his head, so others could not read his lips as he softly spoke to
Levi: "You're... you're finally gonna get some good sleep, I'm happy about that.."

To then keep on, switching to his own language: "I'm also happy you got to die as a hero.. You reached your goal y'know, I heard someone yell your mother is still alive... Thanks for having taught me how to love, and I hope you appreciated me teaching you about se..."

Eren frozed again, as several times he already had that night: he felt something gripping onto his tunic, and then loud uncontrolled coughing.

He once again couldn't believe his eyes, as he witnessed Levi blinking and coughing, attempted words coming out of his mouth too.

He looked up: he couldn't really see anything other than the fire and weird figures supposed to be people all around him, as so many tears were stuck in his eyes.

He blinked, and all that liquid flushed down to his cheeks, mouth and chin, leaving that weird taste of salt in his mouth.

He was approached by a small group of people, the blonde and tall man from before leading them.

Not even trying to get it together, Eren nearly shouted that Levi was still alive.

"Of course he's alive, he's been through so much shit I'm convinced he's immortal at this point."
"It's gonna take much more to kill that bastard..."