Bratty thief stole my heart

Chapter 8: Experiments

Levi's Pov:

This shitty brat called Eren Jaeger was starting to really piss me off! It's been nearly a week since I caught him in my office and he still hadn't revieled any usefull informations about his plans or the ones of his remitter.

Everyday since he woke up I had interrogated him, but he still insisted that he didn't knew anything about the person that hired him. And even though he ended up all bloody and bruised each time, he denied to tell me anything about his friends or their hiding place. The only thing I managed to get out of him was the fact that he wasn't living alone but together with his friends, or family, how he called them and that he provided them with anything they needed to survive. But that was nothing we hadn't already assumed, so it was worthless to me.

What I needed were informations about the headmaster of this plan, the one behind all of this. The person I had to find and eleminate before he could eleminate me. Imprisoning the Jaeger brat has definetly prevented them from getting what they wanted for the moment, but I knew that wouldn't stop them to keep on trying. And that was why I so desperatly needed Eren to finally talk.

I had to admit I was kinda impressed how stubborn and persistent he was. Even though I tortured him enough to make anyone else beg me to stop, he still was determined to keep his sweet cherry lips sealed. Wait.. what?! Ugh, feels, stop messing with my brain!

However, I never have seen anybody with such a strong will like him. Apart from me, needless to say. And although I really hated myself for it, I had developed some sort of respect for the bratty thief and his stubborn bravery. But unfortunately these feelings didn't change the fact that I needed more infomations and I needed them soon!

"Alright, I guess that's enough for today."

I took a step back and looked down at the bloody figure in front of me. As usual, Eren was chained down to the metal pole, breathing heavily and barely concious. Today I've treated him even more roughly than I usally did. I had taken all my frustration out on him and you could really see that. His face was covered in cuts and bruised and his hair was a total mess. His clothes were stained with fresh blood and sweat, but no tears. That was another thing I found astonishing about him. He never screamed or cried, he barely made a noise. But I could tell it took all of him not to cry out in pain from the way he harshly bit his lip every time I hit him.

I got myself a new clean pair of gloves while Hanji unchained Eren. I was standing with my back towards them, but I could hear the loud 'thump' as the boy fell to the floor. It was only the second time that he wasn't even able to stand on his own, the other had been when I first brought him here. I just had left back then and Hanji had to help him back to his cell because he couldn't walk without support. But now he was even worse. I turned back around and saw Eren lying on his side, eyes closed and breath ragged. He looked like was was about to loose conciousness at any moment.

Hanji walked over to me and crossed her arms. "You've taken it a little too far today, don't you think? If you keep beating him like that, you might cause severe damage to his body."

I rolled my eyes and sighed. "Shitty glasses, you know that I need this brat to talk. And I'll continue until I got what I want from him."

"Maybe you should try to a different way. I could..."

"No! I won't let you do any of your crazy science stuff on him. I need him alive."

"Ok ok", the brunett put her hands up in surrender. "But if this doesn't work, you could make some kind of deal with him."

I stared at her in disbelieve. "What? Did your chemicals melt your brain? I won't make a deal with a filthy criminal! Especially not with a brat like him!"