Crack of Sunlight (Ereri/Riren)

•~Chapter Two~•

New chapter to celebrate 3K views (holy shit you guys?!?!). And, quick question, does anybody read the little quotes/tweets I put up ^^^ there? Bc they're usually kinda relevant to what happens in the chapter. xP Just wondering~

This is one of my favorite chapters. Enjoy~

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The car ride was virtually silent, and long. Alex knew exactly where she was going. Having anticipated this, she'd done her research and found a rehabilitation center that would fully accept her insurance.

To Levi, the ride wasn't long enough, despite it being a good forty miles from his apartment. He clutched Eren's hand the entire way, staring blankly out the window at the passing night. He wasn't really seeing it, though. His mind was more preoccupied and clouded with haunting thoughts of where they were heading, of what waited for him there. His mind flitted back and forth between made up scenarios of people in white coats coming at him with simply their gloved hands and memories of his aunt...touching him, violating him. He could almost still feel her cold, rough fingers on his skin - his ribs, his hips, his thighs, his mouth, even his throat, and other, more unspeakable places.

He could imagine these strangers shoving strange pills down his throat or sticking needles in various places to inject him with something maybe even worse than his monster. He imagined himself in the same position he was in now - throwing up, shaking, sweating and in pain - in a sterile, white, enclosed room with no way out, and no warm, soft, tan hands to comfort him or chase away the darkness in his mind. He could see himself going absolutely insane, alone and dying, forgotten about even by people who were supposed to be helping him. His brain even toyed with the idea of him in a straightjacket.

He shivered at the thought. Eren rubbed his shoulder.

"Cold?" he whispered.

"Hardly," the raven muttered back, involuntarily moving himself closer to the teen.

Alex's eyes flickered up to see them in the rearview mirror, illuminated only by the neon clock on the dashboard.

"Then what are you thinking?"

Levi only shook his head. There was no way he was going to articulate any of his thoughts while his sister was around to hear it. On top of nerves and withdrawal symptoms, his uneasy feeling about her showed no signs of subsiding or even growing weaker.

Not too much longer later, Alex was pulling up to a brick building, smack dab in the middle of a small town to the north. She cut the engine and swiveled in her seat to look directly at Levi.

"Are you ready?" she asked softly.

Levi didn't meet her gaze. Instead, he peered out the windshield at the sign that marked the rehab center as what it was, gnawing absently on his lip. No, he wasn't ready. He had half the mind to call the whole thing off, to tell her to turn around and take him home where he could pass away in familiar surroundings, in mild comfort.

"Take a deep breath, Levi," Eren was saying. "Everything's gonna be fine."

"Easy for you to say," mumbled the raven, shifting his focus on Eren's bright orbs. That simple gaze gave him a sense of calm, though, as it always did, and he remembered seeing those eyes in pain more times than not and found himself saying, "Let's just go..."

Eren was the first to hop out of the car and leaned down to help Levi from it as Alex slid out. The closing of the doors echoed against the surrounding buildings and had the males flinching. No brainer that a town was mostly asleep at almost 3 AM, and nearly dead silent.

Inside the building they headed for was a dark complected woman. Her smooth skin reminded Eren of dark chocolate and her hair sat upon her head in a messy, curly bun. Typically, she wore a nurse's uniform. The most striking thing about her was her eyes - bright blue against her dark skin. She flashed a pleasant smile at the three of them, her teeth dazzling as well.