Survive (Annie x Eren)

Chapter 4

Annie starting to wake up, for the first time in months upon months upon months. She must've fallen asleep with Eren. She was cuddling him. 'Ehm ... What happened last night?' She couldn't remember. Annie looked at the clock on the wall. 07:49. Good. She'd still have time to wake Eren and get him back to his bed before anyone noticed anything. Annie nudged Eren. No response. She nudged him again. No response. "Eren!" She whispered, nudging him a little harder. Still no response. Growling quietly, she pushed Eren off the bed and threw a pillow at his face before he could shout. "Finally.." She muttered. Eren yanked the pillow off his face and threw it back at Annie. He scowled. "Go back to your own bed, yeah? We have 10 minutes before the others wake up." Slowly Eren got up, seemingly bruised and weary, but from what Annie was unsure.

A few minutes later, Annie got up from her bed, pulling on her uniform-jacket over her white hoody. She pulls on her boots and heads out to the training arena, leaning against the wall with her arms folded as she waited for everyone else, and the instructor.

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"We going to talk about last night?" Annie muttered, sitting down and crossing her legs on the cliff, where they were the night before. She turned her head to look at Eren who was blushing and seemingly nervous. She sighs. "What happened? I've seen you train a few times, and I've never you seen you like that around other girls. So what the FUCK man?!" I started to lose it, he wasn't responding. I was about to give him a slap when I saw his eyes well up and tears start to fall. 'What.. What the hell? Why is he crying? Did.. Did I push it?' Annie looked confused and a little worried as Eren's eyes continued to weep, while he himself stayed silent. She pulled his face to look at her, before pressing her lips to his. 'He's making me feel... He's making me feel safe and warm. I... Can't let him go..' Annie slipped her hand behind his head, tugging on his hair a little, making him release a small moan. The kiss was gentle, soft, yet full of passion. She pulled away slowly, pressing their foreheads together as Eren continued crying while keeping eye contact. "What's wrong? Please.. I know something's up.." Annie seemed almost scared. Eren had never seen her like this. In training, she was always hard, the best, and didn't show any emotion.

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Annie was cuddling Eren's who's head was on her lap. She leant down and kissed him on the temple. "Can I just ask...?" Eren nodded, his eyes red from crying. Annie sighed a little before speaking. "You say it wasn't you last night.. But even when someone's possessed, or 'not themselves', they're always there, somewhere. Trust me on that one.. So I know part of you was in there.. But why me?" Her face seemed to go red as she looked up at the moon. He smiled at Annie, using his palm to bring Annie's face to look at him. "Because you're different.." Annie closed her eyes, only opening them again to reveal tears starting to stream down her face. 'What's happening to me.. He's made me-..' Her thoughts her interrupted by the calm sound of Eren's voice. "Annie?.." His brow was creased. She laughed a little, still crying. She attempted to convince Eren that she was fine, but failed. He got up, and before she could say anything else, he switched their positions and carefully laid her head on his lap. "Sly.." She smiled, closing her eyes and cuddling into Eren's stomach.

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08:00. Everyone was slowly getting up and dressing, ready for another day of training. Armin and Mikasa head over to Eren's bed, going to wake him up, as he usually over-sleeps. They walked past Annie's bed, and peered at it, presuming she'd already gone as usual after seeing it empty. But as they got to Eren's bed, the blanket void of a body underneath got them worried. It wasn't like Eren to already be up.. "Where is he? He wouldn't have already gotten up, right?" Mikasa spoke to Armin, confused. He merely nodded at Mikasa, shrugging his shoulders. "I guess we'll see.."

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"Eren Jaeger! Annie Leonhart! You're up!" The instructor called out. Mikasa and Armin shared a look. "Eren Jaeger! Annie Leonhart! I said, you're up!" He was clearly starting to lose his patience, looking around. Armin called out. "Uhm, sir? Eren wasn't feeling too good, so he's gone to the infirmary. Perhaps he's passed on an illness to Annie too?" Mikasa shot him a look. She shook her head, and sighed, then nodding at the instructor and hoped it was enough to let their absence slide.

A few seconds later, in comes Eren, running as fast as he could, clearly panicked. He took his place next to Mikasa and Armin, and whispering, "I'll tell you later.." to them.

30 minutes later, Annie comes waltzing in, as if she had all the time in the world. She'd caught the attention of the Instructor however, and wasn't going anywhere without an explanation. "Sorry sir, couldn't be asked to show up to pointless, shitty training. Hope you don't mind." Everyone stopped, their jaws dropping. Had she just said that, to the Instructor?! She had some guts! She was frowned at, and gestured to enter the sparring arena. Annie rolled her eyes, entering with her hands in her pockets and a distant look on her face. As the Instructor was blabbing about how she was roughly half an hour late for training, and how it could affect whether or not she lived out in the 'real world', (I'm sorry, is this not the real world?), she drifted off into memories of earlier that morning/the night before.

{{Hey again! Yeah, sorry if you didn't like that this was a long chaper, I just kinda got caught up in it :") Comment and what-not and all that stuff :3 Thanks!}}