The ground shook from the impact of the crumbling Walls as Colossal Titans began to rumble. Mia had moved towards a safer place with her mother as soon as Mikasa unexpectedly appeared by their door. Her eyes widened at the sight of the Ackerman staring back at her.
"Mia, Jean told me to take you by the mountains. Follow me and stay close."
"Is he okay?" Mia asked, to which she responded with a nod before they evacuated. A relieved sigh escaped her mouth. After Mia's encounter with Eren, she decided to bring along Jean's ODM gear and a gun secretly for when the time comes. A green Survey Corps cape was folded neatly along with her other clothes.
Mikasa had taken them to a house by the mountains overlooking the town as gunshots were heard from the distance along with a giant furry Titan looming on top of the Wall. They thanked her before she made her way towards the town. Mia checked her mother for any wounds before turning her head.
The scene that unfolded was nothing like she had seen before. It seemed that forces from Marley are involved as technologies beyond what she could imagine infiltrated the city. A sigh of relief escaped her mouth at the thought of her mother's safety and being out of the Rumbling's path. Although, her heart was unrest at the thought of the wellbeing of a certain light brown-haired officer.
"I'm in a squad with Humanity's Strongest, remember?"
His cocky grin rang through the back of her head as she recalled his words. Mia unlaced her fingers around the ODM gear that she was about to wear in her room and cancelled her intentions to swing towards the town for help. She had promised to herself to trust Eren's words.
"Two days after the Rumbling.."
Numbers of Colossal Titans began to march in the distance, walking away from Paradis and towards the Outside World. She began her wait patiently for her reunion with her lover.
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"Mia's fine. They're safe by the mountains." Jean let out a sigh of relief as he heard those words from Mikasa.
His body slided down a wall as both of his palms were placed on top of his ears to calm himself. Jean recalled his secret meeting with Hange a few hours ago about their plans to escape the Jaegerists. Four shots on the floor beside Onyankopon and wait until Pieck's Cart Titan comes to devour them safely out of the place.
Then, he planned to visit her by the mountains after that since he hadn't felt her warm embrace for months, in the hopes that Floch doesn't shoot him before Pieck arrives. Observing her from far away was pure torture for his soul as her figure was close but yet, so far. His mind began to recall flashbacks during days after his secret return from Marley.
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Jean triggered the wires of his ODM gear up on a rooftop near her house. He had a good view of the path where he once talked, laughed and joked around with her after a good drink. His legs dangled at the edge of the rooftop, far and tall enough to stay out of the girl's line of sight, with his body strapped with his gear and the warm glow of the sun hitting his face.
After a few minutes, his brown eyes followed a familiar figure, humming to herself with books on her left hand. Jean knew about her small routine of going back and forth from the Survey Corps library to her house, he even timed her presence perfectly. Before the sun sets, when vendors start to close their stores, kids running back to their houses after a day of playing, he would always find her walking back to her house.
His heart clenched at the sight of her unawareness for his presence, not that Jean wanted her to know about it. It's just how badly he wanted to hold her if it wasn't for the Jaegerists making moves undercover and risking her life.
Jean would've been by her, walking next to her while brushing his hands with hers and grin as a red tint erupts on her cheeks. It has also been a routine for him to swing to her neighbourhood and sit by this same roof ever since he got back from Marley.
It brings a sense of comfort before shutting his eyes to sleep after knowing that she got home safely, except for that one day. Jean widened his eyes as Mia was bumped with a hooded figure. He couldn't make out who it was since the hood perfectly covered his face, as if the man knew about his presence at the rooftop.
A shiver ran down his spine when Mia stopped and turned around with a frantic expression, before hurriedly walking to her house. He had no clue about what that man told her, but his eyebrows furrowed out of confusion and anger at the sight that he scared her.
Jean stood up on the rooftop, almost pressing the triggers to launch himself towards the man after he turned around a corner, before his familiar emerald eyes glared at him as he cranked his neck upwards. Jean's breath hitched as blood flowed away from his face, making him pale. His mouth slightly parted at those familiar and dull eyes.
Eren.
They stared at each other intensely from a different height, before Eren broke the gaze and moved his coat to make way for his ODM gear underneath it. He launched himself away from Jean, leaving him clueless.
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Promise. (Jean x OC)
Fanfiction"I promised her to stay alive, damn it." Jean gritted his teeth while holding Reiner with one arm, a single wire holding them both from falling into a pool of Colossal Titans rumbling below. "So, let's keep struggling. We're the Scout regiments, we...
