《𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭》|𝐄𝐫𝐞𝐫𝐢/𝐑𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐧|

ᴄᴀᴘɪᴛᴜʟᴜᴍ xᴠɪɪ: ᴅɪғғɪᴄɪʟᴇ ᴇsᴛ ʟᴏɴɢᴜᴍ sᴜʙɪᴛᴏ ᴅᴇᴘᴏɴᴇʀᴇ ᴀᴍᴏʀᴇᴍ

📜Chapter 17: It's especially hard to quickly forget a long-lasted love.📜

𝑁𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟'𝑠 𝑃𝑂𝑉

"Eren, you can go with her if you want.
You're leaving in three weeks."
And this said, Levi turned around to walk away as quick as he could, ignoring the pain in his legs.
He shut his room's door closed, so hard that everyone living in that house could hear.

Eren just stayed silent: he wasn't even given the time to elaborate, properly think and speak, to justify himself.

He wished to run, hug the raven tight in his arms, and threaten to not let him out of that warm cage until he'd let the other explain.

But his legs didn't move, no words came out of his mouth.
Instead, he felt a pair of unknown arms hugging him from behind.

"Eren, trust me with this: he isn't a bad person, or not that bad.
But he's very possessive, and he'd never set you free."
"Wha..?"

"You have to know that... very few people actually like him, and the vast majority of them are close to him just for power and money.
He was a silent and antisocial child, a lonely kid without friends.
He silently got on top of the social hierarchical and now he's hated and feared by many, as it's well known he won't hesitate to have blood on his hands for his own interests.

Now, you also have to know that I know about you two.
But it won't be a problem because you're coming with me, right..?"

Some seconds of silence followed.
Hated and feared?
Blood on his hands?
Someone knew about the two of them..?
Had he told someone..?
Who else knew?!

Eren was disappointed, and angry.
Levi had sure not told him about his past, his dark past, but those were important pieces of information.

The brunet stared into the void, entering a kind of trance, memories flashing before his eyes.

That day: the destruction of his village, his mother's death, being beated and tied in chains, the humiliation of having his face forced on the ground.

And when he'd been kept in a wagon for two days straight, without any water or food, chains forcing him on the dirty floor near the walls, and that little window that was his only contact with the outside.

What he could see from it, for two straight days, was what he first thought to be weird symbols.
That he could now actually read: SPQR.

📜Standing for "Senatus Populusque Romanus", the symbol of the Roman Republic was exposed everywhere its power extended.📜

The hatred he'd learnt to ignore overwhelmed him in that moment, making him clench his fists and jaw.

"Yes, I will follow you in Spain."

The ravenette girl caressed his face, to then turn around and leave.

Eren, he tried to go back to his work: but he couldn't think about about anything than that relationship, that'd lasted for months, that he now regretted.

'I went to bed with the enemy.
The same man who may have ordered to destroy my little world, for all I know.
And yet, I learned his language to talk to him about it.
We shared beds, food, lonely nights, everything.

And for what?
How could I.

Hell, I'll never be chained again.
I'll be free.'

𝐿𝑒𝑣𝑖'𝑠 𝑃𝑂𝑉

After having worked at my desk for hours, I had decided to go outside for some fresh air.