SupERERInatural

Chapter Ten

Going Back in Time!

(Carla's POV)

It was already getting late, and Grisha was gone again. This time to some city on the other side of the world. Not a surprise. Eren had just gone to sleep and I finally got some moments of silence. Which was interrupted with the sound of scratching coming from the walls. Great, rats again. Deciding to call the exterminator tomorrow I walked to the bedroom and got ready to go to sleep. Just as my head touched the pillow a piercing scream made me jump. On instinct I ran to Eren's room. He was curled up in his bed crying.

"What happened sweetheart?" I asked as I sped across his room. There were spots on his bed, and as I approached I noticed it was blood; increasing my concern.

"There was a monster under my bed." He managed to say between sobs. Oh god, that cut is deep. It stretched from his wrist to his elbow. I quickly did a check of his bed and found nothing.

"Come on sweety I'm going to take you to the hospital." I picked him up and carried him out the door.

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I was stuck in the waiting room of the ER for an excruciatingly long time. I knew he was going to need stitches, but I didn't think it was going to be this bad.

"Mrs. Jaeger?" A nurse walked out of the double doors leading to the rooms.

"Yes." I stood up, ready for whatever news she was going to have for me.

"Your son's starting to wake up now, so you can visit him." She told me and lead me down the hallway. We stopped at a room with a small figure under the covers of the bed. The bed looked almost three times his size. "He had to get quite a few stitches. Do you know what happened?" She asked me. Of course the first thing the doctors thought was abuse, but I don't really know what caused it.

"I don't know, one second he was sound asleep and the next time I found him he was bleeding and screaming." I could feel tears resurfacing. The judgmental looks I was getting from everyone made it evident that they blamed me, and I blamed myself too. I should have checked on him. Finally he started stirring under the covers and looked in my direction. He was on pain medication and would probably have to be on it for a few days.

"He's not going to be able to get his stitches wet for twenty-four hours, so baths and showers are going to be a little troublesome for a little while." The nurse informed me. I already knew that because I have had a few stitches myself, but didn't make any move to say anything. There were a few chairs in the room; I moved one to the bedside and sat there for a while. Eren wasn't the type to talk about monsters; I never had a problem with him waking up from nightmares and claiming a monster was in his room, so why did he tell me there was a monster under his bed?

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Once we made it back to the house I did a thorough check of Eren's room before I let him go in there, and found nothing that he could have accidentally cut himself on. If he did it it would have to have been intentional. His screams last night kicked that out the window though. I was about to look under his bed when there was a knock on the door.

I opened the door to find two teenagers. What are they doing here? though most kids their age wore unseenly clothing they seemed to be dressed up for some reason. The shorter of the two was a boy with black hair carefully parted in the middle and the taller one was a brown haired girl with glasses.

"Hello ma'am we were wondering if we could talk to you? We are writing a story for our journalism class and were wondering if you could tell us about the history of this town." The brown haired girl said. Her friend mumbled something to her before speaking.