Complications Throughout Generations

Chapter 80

Levi's POV:

I was silent on the car ride home. I had my elbow against the closed window and kept sniffling. I tried to make them as quiet as possible. My mom didn't ask me any questions. She knew when I wanted to talk and when I didn't. But there were things I needed to know. It was getting too real. This past life. These connections.

"Has Mikasa ever asked you about past life memories?" I have no idea how any of this works truthfully. Mikasa never pushed it on me and Hange only knows things from books.

"Do you think you had one of those memories?" She was overly curious.

"I think so. Do you have them?"

"I do." She stopped at a red light and nodded. "I got them back a long time ago. Mikasa has all of hers too."

"Do you know who else does?"

"Uncle Kenny." The criminal, how nice. "Ask Hange to come over, I'm sure she's dying for you to read that book."

I shook my head as she started to drive again. "I don't wanna see her right now."

"Did something happen?" My mom loves Hange. She looks at her like she was her own. I shook my head. "What about Eren?" I froze up.

"No." I whispered. "Not Eren."

She pulled into the driveway and parked the car. We stepped out and into the house only to be greeted with a sad Mikasa. She wasn't crying but you'd think there was an actual rain cloud over her head.

"What's wrong, sweetheart?" My mom asked and sat next to her on the couch.

"I broke up with Jean." She sighed. I was paralyzed in front of the open fridge. That took me by surprise. I may not like Jean but it's undeniable that he treated Mikasa like a princess. If anything, this made me upset. How the fuck can you do that to someone who cares for you like that? I mentally slapped myself once I realized I've been doing that on a whole other level for 3 years. It's one thing to be in the situation but to see it from another perspective is another. I turned around to see Mikasa whisper something in her ear. Something I wasn't meant to hear. To me, that could only mean one thing. Eren. My mind immediately started running a thousand different directions. Was it Mikasa that didn't feel the same anymore? Does she like Eren now? Did Jean cheat? Is it Jean that has a crush on Eren? I'm getting ahead of myself. This is dumb. Maybe she just isn't into him anymore. I mean they started dating in middle school and now we're sophomores in high school so maybe she got tired of him.

I went up to my room with some tea I made for myself in my Venom mug that Hange got me for my birthday last year. One time we tried to match up everyone from Spider-Man to people in our lives. She tried to call me Harry Osborne but I wouldn't accept anything other than Venom. She was Doctor Octopus specifically from Into The Spider-Verse. Mikasa was Silk. Eren...Eren was of course Spider-Man himself.

I placed my tea down on the black marble coaster and decided to see what Mikasa had in her room. I didn't want to be nosey, nor did I want to touch other people's things due to the germs. But this was important. I got on the ground and looked under her bed. Nothing.

"What are you looking for?" Her voice made me jump.

"Nothing." I got off the ground and tried to leave the room but she was blocking the door.

"Mom told me you got your first memory." I groaned and rolled my eyes. Seriously? She couldn't of kept that to herself? "What was it?"

"None of your business." I mumbled as I tried to maneuver my way past her.

"Tell me."

"Tell me why you broke up with Jean then." I stopped struggling and she looked guilty. She stopped trying to get an answer from me and put her arms down. She walked over to her bed and told me she would leave me alone. I went back to my room and grabbed my not so hot tea and attempted to drown myself in thought.

How quickly do you get the memories once you've already gotten your first? Are they random? Does something trigger them? My therapist had said something that sparked a memory.

Goodbye my love, maybe I'll see you in another lifetime.

I was assuming it was Eren. But it was a letter that flashed in my brain. What if it wasn't? Wait, what if I was straight and it's actually a woman? Goodbye? Where did they go? What happened?

My session of overthinking was drawn to a close once I heard Mikasa on the phone through the walls of the house.

"No one knows except my mom." I got out of bed and put my ear against the wall. "Jean doesn't know."

"He's heartbroken, Mikasa." It was Armin on the phone.

"I know. I just can't help how I feel." She was upset. "Eren is so wrapped up with Levi that he wouldn't look my way twice ever again." My suspicions were correct, it was about Eren.

"Listen Mikasa, I understand that Levi and Eren had that strong connection years ago, but times can be different."

"No Armin...you don't remember...I still don't understand why you don't, but if you did, you'd know that them being together in the end is inevitable."

"You know I talked to Mikasa earlier." Hange said.

"About?" I took a spoonful of whatever Hange made up to my lips. Shitty glasses always puts too much salt. She gave me the 'oh please, Levi' look. "I see." I stared into the bowl, trying to build up the courage to eat more. "What was said?"

"She told me something you're not gonna like." She was hesitant.

"Tell me."

She sighed. "Mikasa was the last person Eren saw before he left."

"Okay?"

"He kissed her, Levi." I spilled what was inside the bowl on my thighs with my eyes as wide as they could go.

"Why?" I whispered.

"She...she told him she loved him."

"So he kisses her." I nod.

"I'm sorry, Levi." She put her arm around my shoulder and rubbed it back and forth.

"It's fine."

That made my head throb with immense pain unlike the first one. I don't know what Mikasa's talking about but it seems like she's wrong.

At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if Eren was using me to get to Mikasa. We look somewhat similar. Definitely not identical. But enough to know we're related. He probably went with the next best thing. He is bisexual after all.

I went back to my bed with the aching theory and a pounding head. I definitely just figured it all out. Eren doesn't like me or Jean, he likes Mikasa.

He's been using us both to get to her...