My Dirty Little Secret

Secret Fifty-Nine: Farlan and Isabel

"Levi! Levi!" a red-headed female ran at him from behind, hugging him tightly. He knew that she liked him but he chose to ignore that. He liked Farlan. It was an elaborate love triangle, one they could never free from.

"Bella, what are you doing?" Levi groaned, unable to hold her weight.

"Oh, come on, we just started moving up in the ranks! Aren't you excited? The Basement is our home now, that is worth celebration. None of us come from good families...we are our family," she said. This was the code they lived by. Their own families rejected them, their own blood cast them to the streets. So they would live on the streets, participating in crime was the only way they could survive till the next day. This didn't bother them, they didn't commit murder, it was just a means to an end.

Or at least, that was how things should have been. The closer you get to the heart of a gang, the worse it becomes. A new drug spread through the streets, some mysterious combination that turned people into monsters. It hurt people in different ways, each person reacting differently, but after a time, they would lose their last hope of being sane. They would succumb to the evil wishes, the terror that lies within all humans...

They called these people Titans. 

The ones that took the drug and couldn't handle its effects. 

These people started sneaking themselves into The Basement, the gang was no longer what the three had wished it to be. They didn't know what to do, how to escape the trap they had laid for themselves. It only got worse. People only got worse.

Eventually, The Basement's higher-ups forced everyone in the gang to take the drug. One night, they all were locked in a room, all injected with the mysterious liquid. Levi had managed to escape it but Farlan and Isabel couldn't. They weren't so lucky.

"I hear noises," Levi mentioned. The three were walking down the hall at the gang's headquarters.

"I'm sure it is just your imagination," Farlan scratched his head, not understanding why his friend was so jumpy.

"No, I hear voices, we have to leave, we can't stay here, something bad is going to happen," Levi warned.

"Aw, come on, don't be such a scaredy-cat, it is fine! Everything is okay. The Basement has gone through a cleansing, remember? The drug isn't around these parts," Isabel laughed smacking Levi on the back.

The two didn't heed his warning. Levi remembered the night very well, he left them behind. He left them there to save himself and he hated himself for it. Why hadn't he tried to save them? Why hadn't he gone back and suffered through it with them? He made a mistake but he couldn't change that now.

...

"I gave you a choice, now what is your decision?" Farlan pointed the gun to Eren's head. The boy tied to the chair didn't know what would happen. He didn't want to get beaten up but he didn't want to die either. Levi should just do it, yeah, that would be better than a bullet in the head. However, would he be able to look at his boyfriend the same after this? Would he be able to honestly put it all behind them, pretend it never happened? What if these two came after him again? What then?

Levi clenched his fists and teeth. He didn't have much of a choice, either decision he made would hurt Eren, the last person in the world he wanted this to happen to. He could hold back but Farlan would notice right away.

Levi walked over to Eren, brushing past Farlan. Isabel grinned, it seemed that Levi was making the choice they hoped he would.

'I'm sorry' Levi mouthed before kicking him in the stomach full force. The chair slid across the floor for as much as the chains around Eren's feet would allow. The chair fell to the ground, Eren coughed, awaiting the rest of his doom. He felt the key's chain around his neck. He knew Levi loved him but he wasn't sure what to think now. Eren lied there, on the floor. It was cold, how long would it be before this was over? 

Levi turned, away from Eren, and faced Farlan. He moved too quickly for the male to see, and grabbed the gun from his hand. Levi pinned Farlan against the wall, hand behind his back, cheek against the stone. Farlan gasped at the pain, trying to get back the air that was knocked out of him.

Farlan laughed at Levi's attempt to refuse the choice, "you forget, that there are two of us," he said. Levi turned to look at Isabel, with her own gun, she walked to Eren. Levi turned on his heel and threw Farlan into Isabel. They both fell to the ground, in the collision she dropped her gun. Levi picked it up, with both guns in his hands he pointed them at the two, making sure they had no more tricks up their sleeves. Levi took a few steps back, walking towards Eren. He didn't have the key, so he shot four bullets to break the chains, worrying about the rest of it later.

Levi picked up the male and ran out the door, he didn't have the time to worry about anything else but getting back home safely. Eren zoned in and out, not sure about what had happened or how they got free. Before he knew it, he was safely in his own home, on his own bed, free from the chains, by some miracle. 

His boyfriend sat on the bed next to him, his back facing Eren. He sat there with his hands folded, wondering what to do next. Would the two try something like this again? He couldn't be certain they wouldn't. Levi sighed, what was his next move? Would his past decisions always haunt him like this?

Eren sensed that Levi was thinking too hard, so he sat up and hugged him from behind.

"What are you doing? Eren, you should rest," Levi said.

"It's not your fault, what happened, I don't blame you," Eren coughed, still feeling the kick on his stomach. It hurt, but it wouldn't be anything too serious, maybe a bruise.

"You don't resent me?" 

"I love you," Eren whispered, trying hard not to fall asleep, he was exhausted, "and I always will."