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Lives Intertwined Part 2

It's been half a year since the deaths of Mikasa's parents. The Yeager family openly took her in and now she was living with them.

Mikasa watched Carla squeeze the towel scorched with warm water and placed it on Eren's head. He had a fever. She shook her head disapprovingly almost as if she was minutes way to lecture her son.

"I told you not to play in the rain. Why don't you ever listen to me?" Carla scolded but all Eren did was roll his eyes at his mother.  "Now you have to just stay in bed and get enough rest."

"But mother, who's going to bring the logs?"

Carla sighed thinking pensively. "We'll just get it another time besides I'm not planning on letting Mikasa go on her own." Eren groaned at that and rolled to his side, facing his back to his mother. "You always go easy on Mikasa but not on me.' He muttered under his breath.

"Rolling your back on your mother, how rude." Carla crossed her arms she couldn't bear with her son's nasty attitude towards her but she couldn't bring herself to be mad at him. She dropped her arms and sighed, got up from the chair and left to the kitchen leaving Mikasa and Eren alone in the room.

Mikasa sat on the edge of the bed, keeping Eren company. She was there the whole time while Carla and Eren had their usual mother-son bickering. "Why don't you go somewhere, your always around me, it's quite annoying."

"I don't want to leave you, your sick." Mikasa stubbornly wanted to stay by Eren's side even when he thought of her as nothing more than a nuisance.  Just when he was about to get on her again, a light bulb  lit in his mind. He sat up from bed. "Actually, why don't you go pick up logs, convince mom to let you go." 

"But-" She stood up fast about to refuse the suggestion.

"You have to! Don't burden mom with so much tasks. Anyway, when you get sick, I go alone so it's your turn to do the same." Eren said in nasally voice, 

"I know." Mikasa muttered out begrudgingly.  She got up and left the room leaving Eren alone, He sighed relieved." Finally, what a breather to be without Mikasa's pesterniness." He extended his arms on the bed enjoying his time alone.

Mikasa went to Carla who was preparing a meal.

 "What is it?" Carla asked as she tended to the food in the stove.

"I want to go bring some log." Carla looked at Mikasa, dumbfounded at her request. "Are you sure?" Mikasa nodded adamantly convincing Carla that she wanted to go on her own accord not until Carla raised a suspicious eyebrow at her. "Did that boy push you to go? Usually you never once leave his side. That boy!"

"It's not that! He didn't push me... I wanted to help you." She said quickly defending him and deflecting the accusation "Is that so?" She rubbed Mikasa's head with affection. 

"Then, I'll watch you go from the porch. Just get some log sand immediately return home without stopping, understood?" Mikasa nodded. She put on the log pack while Carla watched her from the front porch of their home, She went on her merry way, passing the busy streets, markets, and vendors. She made it her mission to not get distracted at all, focusing on her task and getting to Eren as soon as possible thinking he was so hopeless without her and needing her to return soon even if it was just in her  head that she created such a Eren, a needy child who only needed her. 

She turned a corner, this street was isolated and vacant compared to the streets she passed through. No soul was there it was completely empty, She was walking the street until she heard a commotion coming from another corner, she stopped mid-step to see what the ruckus was about. She saw a group of boys surrounding a chubby little boy who seemed to be taunted and teased while a group of girls were watching and laughing at the situation. She looked away to mind her business just wanting to get to Eren as fast as possible, She was about to move on when she glanced one last time and her eyes widened. in the place that the chubby was seconds ago was replaced by Eren that was getting taunted and teased in the  boy's place.