Fear and Love (an ereri boyxboy fanfic)

Coping With A Nightmare

Ok, so this chapter is the longest chapter so far. There is some more torture(yes I know. I hate myself.), but Eren finally gets to leave and I have added a person to help Eren cope. Although the "help" will cause Levi to get jelease IN THE FUTURE. I hope you enjoy!

By the time Eren woke up, he was back in the dungeon. He was on the bed, alone and cold and aching. How was he supposed to endure this for seven more days in this hell hole? Alone while being tortured both physically and mentally. How would he be able to stay sane? 

He got up from his bed and started to feel the pain from yestarday. He was so hungry, but there was nothing he could do. Then, he heard someone at the door. A small door like thing at the bottom of the door opened, and a tray with a piece of bread, a glass of water, and some porridge. Finally he would be able to eat. Grabbing the tray, he went back to his bed sat down, and started to eat the food.

"Here." The person outside said and another piece of bread was passed to Eren.

"Thanks. Won't you get in trouble for giving me extra food?" Eren said, picking up the bread.

"Its ok. Are you ok?" The conversation between Eren and maybe the only decent human being in the facility not stopping.

"Why are you being nice to me?" Eren asked stil sceptical of the man.

"Your eyes." Eren was confused. Why would the man help Eren because of his eyes?

"What do you mean?" Eren wanted to know the man's true reason.

"Your eyes are full of lonelyness and fear." The man answered, sounding genuine.

"Whats your name?" Eren decided to learn the name of the nice man.

"My name is Retter, and you're Eren, right?" Eren passed the tray back through the door, before answering.

"Yeah." Eren and Retter stayed quiet for some time after that. Then Eren heard Retter walk away.

- a couple hours later -

A man came to drag Eren to the experimentation room again. Before the man had even touched him though, Eren had jerked away. His body had seemed to think that any touch meant pain. His body would not allow anyone to touch it. This was now an instinct of Eren's, to protect him.

Once the man had finally managed to grab Eren, he punched him, which only lead to his body reacting more.It seemed that every other day the torture techniques would switch. So today would be Jason's turn to torture him. Eren had decided to not let Jason have the pleasure of hearing him beg to stop of scream, so from that day forth, he would never beg for it to stop. He would simply endure it until it was finally over.

Eren was brought into the room and strapped down to the metal table again. Jason came into the room with the crude tools and the same bin, but there was nothing in it. Jason came over to Eren, and began to announce what he was going to do this time.

"This time, I'm gonna fill this bin up with your blood. Then, I'm gonna boil it, and give it back to you." Jason started to laugh maniacally. 

Eren simply layed there and did nothing. Jason began by moving Eren's hands, so there were above the bin, then taking knife like tool, he cut into Eren's wrists. Blood started to run down his hands, into the bin. Jason started to cut everywhere around his body and the blood ran down every part of his body. 

After five hours of this torture, the bin was full, and Eren was unresponsive. His mind had shut down to cope with the torture. He would only become responsive again, if his insticts told him that the torturing was done and that it was mildly safe. Which would not be soon.

Jason had left with the bin, most likely to boil it like he had said. After some time, Jason had returned with boiling hot blood, with steam rising from it, and a syringe. The tip of the syringe was put into the blood, and was filled with it.

"Now that you've lost lots of blood, I decided to be nice and pump some back into to you!" The syringe was brought up to Eren's forearm, then the tip was inserted into his arms. 

The metal of the syringe was extremely hot because of the blood, which burned Eren's skin as it went into his arm. The boiling blood was then injected into Eren bloodstream. As Eren was unresponsive, he didn't move, which angered Jason. But even though Eren was unresponsive, it didn't mean the boling blood inside his bloodstream had no effect. Some of his blood veins would be burned from the inside, causing extreme pain when he would become responsive again.

Jason decided to wrap up the torture with one last thing. 

The bin full of boiling blood was lifted into the air, and in one motion, the boiling blood covered Eren. His body began to thrash around and he screamed. His body was now covered in burns and even some of his skin was gone, showing the muscle beneath. 

This was all he could take. His body shut down. All that was left now, was a hollow shell of what used to be Eren. 

- 5 days later -

Eren's eyes slowly opened. He awoke to nothing but darkness. He was still in this nightmarish place. It seemed that he had not been tortured during his "coma", and simply been left alone.  He didn't know if he had received any nutrition during his "coma". He probably did, seeing as though he hadn't died yet from starvation and lack of food.

While he was thinking of these things, food was passed through the door to him. It was most likely Retter.

"How are you feeling, Eren?" Retter sat down next to the door, outside.

"Good, thanks. Who gave me nutrition?" Eren asked him.

"I did. I'm one of the only people who have medical training. You should be ok now, but don't push yourself." Retter was a thoughtful person when it came to Eren, so when Eren was unconscious, he had persuaded the higher ups to let him take care of Eren.

"Thanks. Without you, I'd probably dead right now. How many days has it been?" Eren hoped hsi time in this place would be over by now.

"Its been eight days. You'll be out of here in two days, but I managed to pull some strings, so you won't be tortured for that time." Retter only wanted to help the boy through this nightmare.

"I don't know how they actually said yes, but thanks, Retter." Eren was extremely happy that the torture was over and that soon, he could go back to Levi.

"I'm gonna come in" Retter said while opening the door.

Retter approached Eren, and sat down next to him. Somehow, Eren had not flinched away. His body seemed to only recognize Retter as not a threat, whereas absolutely anyone else would be a threat. Eren hated the way he couldn't control his body. It made him seem scared and traumatised. But he really was scared and traumatised. He hated it because it made him realise that fact.

In this nightmare, the only friend he had was Retter. He was probably the only thing keeping him sane, so he was thankful that Retter was here.

- After the last 2 days with Retter -

After the two days, Retter and Eren had become even closer. Mainly because Eren was stuck in the dungeon the whole time and because Retter had been assigned to watch him. Today was the day Eren would finally be able to leave this place. Apparently Retter, and some other guards, would accompany Eren back to the survey corps.

Finally Eren could leave.