Fear and Love (an ereri boyxboy fanfic)

Coming Home

Eren woke up in his dungeon, where things that had scarred him for the rest of his life happened. He slowly got up from his bed, and looked around. Today was the day. He would be able to go back to Levi. But he didn't know how to face him. He had been tortured and violated, and now he couldn't bear the touch of any person. He could only bear the touch of Retter, the only person who helped him the experience. He would have been completly alone if not for Retter. 

As he thought about Levi and Retter, there was a knock at his door. He guessed it was Retter and he was right. 

"Eren lets go." Retter called while opening the door to Eren's "room".

"Coming!" Eren shouted, got up and walked over to the door.

Eren walked up to Retter and looked him straight in the eyes with a smile.

"I can finally leave today. I can finally go back." And I can finally see Levi again. He said as though he didn't believe the words coming from his own mouth. 

"Lets go." Retter started to walk with Eren in tow.

- Levi -

Today is the day Eren comes back. Its been 10 days without him. The survey corps is eerily quiet without him and everyone misses him. But no one misses him as much as me. Without him here, I can't sleep, I can't eat, I can hardly even talk. But today he comes home.

I walk through the hallway of the castle, trying to kill the time before Eren comes home. I can't wait for him to come back. I think of how our reunion would be like, even though the other survey corps would be there.

The carriage with Eren would pass through the gates, and stop infront of the castle. He would step out of the carriage and everyone would welcome him back. I would stay farther away, but when he would see me, I would smile at him discreetly. After the commotion simmered down, I would approach him myself and welcome him home.

Then in the night, once everyone would be asleep, I would go down to see him. We would spend some time together, by ourselves and he would tell me what had happened. He would tell me that no one had hurt him. That nothing had happened. Because I wouldn't be able to forgive myself if something did.

I snapped out of my thoughts, hearing a voice call for me.

"Levi! Aren't you excited!? Eren's coming back today!!" It was Hanji and Erwin who were walking towards him.

I tried to ignnore them and kept walking.

"Levi!! Levi!!" Hanji continued to follow me and started to call out louder and more annoyingly. I finally turned to face her and glared.

"What?" I didn't really care to talk to her, I simply wanted to pass the time.

"Eren is coming home today! What are you going to do?" She stated exactly what was on my mind.

"I know he's coming home, and I will welcome him home." She started to pout at my cold answer.

"Aww. Don't you have a complex, romantic plan for his return?" I glared at her more, which unfortunately didn't do anything.

"No Hanji." I walked away after that and continued to walk around.

I walked around and ended up going to the stables. I started to clean the stables of its filth, when I heard some noise outside. I walked outside to scold the people. 

"Isn't that...?" Was it possibly him?

I found myself almost running to the courtyard, and looked around to find Eren. I saw a few of Eren's closer friends, like Mikasa and Armin looking towards a carriage pulling up in the courtyard. Once the carriage stopped, the door started to open. A man, about 5 7", with short dark brown hair(its Retter) came out of the carriage. He looked around at first, noticing the people.

"Hello there, my name is Retter. I'm afraid I must ask you to back up a little." The stupid tall guy's name was Retter.

Mikasa and Armin were confused at the question, and so was I. Regardless, they both backed up about 1 meter from the carriage and waited intently. The person that I loved and missed so much, finally stepped out of the carriage. But something was off about him. He didn't seem happy, he seemed scared and frightened. So unlike the Eren that had left 10 days ago, brave and strong.

TPPOV

He slowly stepped out from the carriage and looked around. Mikasa and Armin had smiles on their faces. Mikasa stepped forward towards Eren. She ran towards him and tried to hug him, but before she could even touch him he had jumped back. He had jumped back into Retter's arms. Then, he started to scream, as though he was in excrutiating pain.

"AHHHHH" Eren's scream was bloodcurdling.

"Eren, calm down its ok! It's ok, its me...ok?" Retter began to hug Eren and stroke his head. This was how Retter had always calmed Eren down after the countless torture session. 

He finally began to calm down, but was still shaking in fear. 

"Eren? Whats wrong?" Mikasa asked, confused by the scene infront of her.

"Come with me. I'll explain it all." Retter picked Eren up in bridal style and started to walk towards the entrance of the castle.

Once Mikasa had shown Retter where Eren's room was and put him to sleep, they had gone back to the mess hall.

"What is wrong with Eren?" Mikasa asked.

"Well..as you both know, Eren was taken in for "experiments"." Retter said and they nodded.

"Well those so called experiments were...." Retter didn't know what to say. That it was actually torture and they did the most inhumane torture imaginable?

"What was it?" Mikasa was starting to get more impatient.

"It was torture." Retter stated it clearly.

"What?" Mikasa tried to believe she had misheard him.

"I said they tortured him."