Bratty thief stole my heart

Chapter 5: Through the window

Eren's Pov:

Today was the day. Today our plan would take place. This evening I would break into the king's palace to steal the documents for this master guy.

Everything was planned out perfectly to minimize the risk of getting caught for me. The countless hours of brooding over the shedules and cards had finally come to an end and everything was prepared.

The plan was rather simple, but it still took a lot of work to figure out the safest way for me. Of course it had to be night, so the chances of me getting seen were lower. I would go to the palace half an hour before midnight. That was the time when the old guards who patrole on the outhern wall of the castle leave their posts and the next ones come to take over. To garantee that nobody was guarding the part where I wanted to climb up, Jean and Ymir would distract the soldiers by starting a loud fake fight in front of the gate.
After I was inside the walls, I would take the way behind the stables Jean told me about, which would lead me to the east wing of the palace where the king's office was. There I would have to wait until his personal guards had passed, then I'd shoot my wires and fly up to the window. I would crack it open and sneak in. As soon as I was inside I could search for the hidden cavity, that should, according to the coureer, be behind one of the shelves. We assumed that there was a safe inside, so I'd have to forcefully it, like the window. Of course opening a locked window was nothing compared to a fucking safe, but as Sina's most wanted thief I should be able to complete such a task.
Once I had the papers, I would get out through the window again and fly straight back to the base of the walls, where I would hide until the next patrole had went by, then I could just jump over it and head back to our house. Mission completed.
In case something went wrong, we had a bunch of different back up plans that would ensure me a safe return. If anything went wrong, I would try it again the next day. Just because I really wanted to succeed in this mission didn't mean I would take any unnecessary risks. Mikasa wouldn't allow it anyway.

Jean and Ymir would accompain me until we reached the city above, then we would part ways. Distracting the guards definetly did hold a risk for them seen as the soldiers would imprison every downworlder  (everyone exept Magnus, high warlock of Brooklyn of course), just because they lived in the underground, cause Every person there was of course a criminal, at least to them.

Mikasa had wanted to come with us too, but I told her I needed her to watch over the house. This was still there underworld and leaving it ungarded would be horribly irresponsible. I couldn't allow the rest of my family to get in danger because of me and my mission, too. And she had to make sure that Connie didn't follow us, cause I was sure he would try to.
It was 11 pm and the tree of us were standing in the small hall as we said our good byes to the others. While Connie was overly exited, Christa and Sasha were close to crying and all the olders wore serious expressions on their faces.

I recieved a lot of hugs, and when Marco hugged me I got a jealous glare from Jean, which turned into a flustered one as the freckled boy pulled him into a tight embrace.  " Please stay safe", Marco pleaded with eyes full of worry. Jean smiled at him reassuringly, his cheeks still tinted red. "It will all be okay. You don't have to worry."

Ymir was hugging Christa too, while she had to assure her girlfriend that she would be careful. The loving look on the brunetts face was a very rare sight, it only appeared when she was with Christa.

While I watched the others saying good bye to each other, Sasha walked over to where I stood, leaning against the doorframe. "Eren" She looked at me, her eyes wide and tears glistening in them.

"Hey little one", I send her a genuine smile and kneeled down to her height.

"You won't leave, will you? You will come back?!", she asked me. I was taken aback by the seriousness and desperation in her voice that always sounded so joyfull.