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We Commit Our First Crime

Levi's POV

I was impressed. Not even I learned how to use 3DM gear that fast, and I invented it... with a bit of help of course, but damn. Right now, since I didn't have a pair for myself, we will have to go to where I put the spares.

Under the floorboards of a house I don't own anymore.

I told Eren my plan. We slip in through the window that faces the backyard, use my ID to pop the latch, slip inside where we will land in the laundry room, or it used to be. Than we head into the main section and go in the cellar and pry up the floorboards, set them down, get out.

It was simple.

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The simple two-story house sent a wave of nostalgia and sadness over me. I could almost picture Isabel doing cartwheels on the front yard while me and Farlan sat watching on the steps of the porch.

Eren easily hopped the fence with his long legs and all even though he didn't really have much muscle, meanwhile I struggled with the height, but still managed rather quickly. I landed in the backyard where Eren indicated for me to lead because I already knew the layout.

The new owners had put up a swing set and put gnomes in the garden, the little bastards scared me when I first saw them.

I made my way over to the window and proceeded with my plan. I jumped in the now opened window and landed on a desk filled with paper and a large variety of art tools, I saw a bag of spray paint in the corner, and I think Eren did too.

I quietly opened the door and stepped on the floorboards that I knew didn't creak, Eren followed silently behind me. I pushed the door to cellar open. I had an old skateboard and a hockey bag in it. I grabbed both and passed them to Eren. I stuck my fingers in the grooves and gently pried the slab out, than the next, than the next, and thankfully they were still loose from when I placed them here originally. I pulled Farlans out.

The memories hit me like a train.

After the incident with Annie, Bertolt and Reiner, I went back about two hours after the fight. If they were injured I could have saved them. But they were far past the point of being saved. Isabel had bled out from a cut on her neck, so pale I almost didn't recognize her. Farlan had a broken arm, collarbone and neck, he also had two stab wounds to the chest and abdomen, dried blood lay in a crusty red path out his mouth and into a small red spot on the unforgiving pavement beneath. I took their gear, not wanting the police to get their hands on our tech and using it to find me.

I left their body's, even though I knew that nobody other than me cared about their death.

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I pulled his gear on, put the boards back on and put the sports equipment exactly how I found it.

We left through the same window we came in through and closed the latch behind us, leaving no trace. Eren and I immediately took to the air, swinging between trees and through backyards until we gradually started using buildings as out anchors when we met with the city once again. I heard a clanking from behind me. I spun around and saw Eren carrying a black duffle bag.

Um, what?

"What's in the bag?" I said, grappling yet anther building. He grinned.

"Spray paint" Oh my god, he stole it from their basement. He must have noticed my look.

"Oh c'mon, I just wanna deface the memorial in the Central Plaza, please?" He said speeding up and spinning so he was in front of me. I looked away.

Shit. I want to spray paint too. But sadly its illegal, and I am The Eren Jaegers manager, I was supposed to keep him in line. Though if no one catches us... we're golden.

"Let's do it" I shot to the left and head the the Central Memorial.

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The shopping centre was closed and dark at this hour so no ones as around to witness our small crime. Eren gently landed on the ground in front of the statue representing the rich prick who founded the city, like, forever ago. He reached into his bag and pulled out a turquoise and tossed me a can of black, which I caught deftly. Eren also pulled out a dark blue.

"Hey Levi? Whats my street name?" He called over his shoulder while shaking the cans. I grinned only because he couldn't see it.

"Humanity's Last Hope" I heard his softly say 'perfect' as he got to work.

I watched his process of work, which was amazing, he was quite the artist. He had spray painted 'Humanity's last Hope' in turquoise and outlined it in dark cerulean, than just to make it epic, he surrounded all the words with a gaping, two levelled mouth that seemed to be devouring them.

Complete in about twenty minuets, not bad. The brunette turned with a grin on his face, his canine teeth look a bit longer than they usually did... Must be the moonlight.

"Your turn!" I walked over to the other, blank side of the memorial, I picked up a few different shades of grey, white and black. I took modern art in highs school, so maybe I could make something decent. I shook the a can of grey. I sprayed.

I created a picture than asked,

"Jaeger? Whats my street name?" I could basically hear the smile in his voice.

"Humanity's strongest" I nodded and finished.

When I was done, it looked like a blade from my ODM gear was slicing an almond shaped chunk out of some kind of flesh, reflected in white on the sword were the words 'Humanity's Strongest'

I looked over at Eren who had a cute smile on his face while looking at my work. I felt my chest ache with the now familiar feeling of longing I got in my chest whenever he smiled.

"Tonight was fun" Eren said as the sun started making an appearance on the horizon.

"Yeah, let's do it again sometime" I said, my lip curving up at the corner...

Eren noticed.

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