Complications Throughout Generations

Chapter 66

Mikasa's POV:

I just can't imagine Levi not remembering anything. I was finally going to ask. I took home the books Eren and I had found in the library a couple days ago and I was planning on showing him.

"Hey, sweetheart." My mom said, washing the dishes. I walked over to her and sat on the counter beside her with 'Ackerman Clan' in my hand.

"Do you know anything about this?" I showed her the book. Her eyes widened like she knew exactly what it was.

"Do you know anything about that?" She said, putting emphasis on 'you'.

"Yes. So I'm guessing you do too."

"What do you know about it?"

I wasn't planning on ever bringing this up to her but the best way to go about this is by acting like she knows exactly what's happening.

"All of my memories are back from a thousand years ago. How would you have yours if you're an Ackerman through marriage?" She set her drying rag down and wiped the sweat off her forehead with the back of her hand.

"I am an Ackerman. I have Ackerman blood."

"How?"

This doesn't make any sense.

She bit her lips, questioning if she even tell me. But I need to know.

"I don't know your real father." I wasn't expecting that. After all, this is Levi's mother, not mine. I don't know the history.

"W-what do you mean?"

"I had a really terrible job before you were born. A very dangerous job. So that's how I ended up pregnant with you and Levi."

"So who did we grow up with? Who was that?" I felt like crying but no tears were forming. "How was his last name Ackerman too?"

"I told him how special my last name was to me and he agreed that it was cooler than Ness."

Holy shit, it just clicked with me that that was Dita Ness, a member of the Survey Corps.

"So he was my step father?" She nodded and sighed.

"I'm sorry." She wiped away a small tear from her eye, quick enough for me to barely notice.

"So how did I end up here? I wasn't your daughter. I assumed you were Levi's mom though."

"I was. All I've ever done is try to raise him the way I didn't before. This was a second chance. But when I found out I was having twins, my brother came and talked to me. He told me to name you Mikasa."

"You mean Uncle Kenny?"

"Yes."

"When did you get your memories back? Your uncle and I had a theory that every bloodline was different. The Jaeger's memories came back when Eren turned 8, which was the start of everything for him. The Reiss family was born with it. And the Ackerman's once..." she shook her head and squeezed her eyes shut.

"Once what?"

"Once Uncle Kenny...was involved in a terrible crime."

"What did he do?"

"He...he shot and killed a couple in a parking garage and never got caught."

I wasn't phased by hearing Kenny was still a murderer. If anyone was expected to be the same, it was him.

"So once that happened, you and Uncle Kenny got your memories back?" She nodded. "Then how come I got mine back when I was 8 instead of being born with that?"