Holding Everything

Chapter 17: Search Leads to the Crate

Kou

The pain suddenly subsides, my breathing rough and fast; I sit up fast and fling the covers off me. Eren must've taken me back to the room when I suddenly keeled over in pain; he sees me suddenly moving out of nowhere and grabs me, forcing me back on the bed.

"No, please lie down and rest! I don't know what's wrong but moving about like how you were, it was obviously too much on your body! You will rest until your body is completely healed!" The panic and worry in his eyes are obvious to see, I can tell by the sweat on his brow that he came running into the room and immediately tried to see to whatever caused me pain; worrying when finding no marks, cuts or injuries of any sort. He pants along with me as I try to speak.

"No! We...we have to...go to Lillya...NOW! She's-!! She's in trouble!!" My words seem to immediately affect him as he nods and rushes around, "I don't...feel any more pain!!" I try to calm my breathing but finding it very hard with the current state of emergence we're in. I jump up and slip my shoes on and run out the door right behind Eren, Rika following behind me with a worried look on her face. "I'm sorry, I don't know any details, but I just felt a sudden sense that something happened to her!"

"Got it! GET A CAR!!!" He hollers loudly at no particular person, everything remains silent and peaceful, making me wonder if he was heard or not. When we reach the entrance to the mansion I see a car at the bottom of the steps, doors opened and awaiting us. Eren stops in his tracks, turns around and shoves a cloth in my face out of nowhere, my vision begins to fade and I realize he must've drugged me using chloroform; but for some strange reason, I don't feel anxious or in danger, I feel like even without his explanation I can trust him. Before blacking out, a face of regret shows on Eren, and an apologetic expression lay on Rika's face, as if proving even further that I shouldn't fear.

I wake up with blurry vision and a slight headache, not knowing how much time has passed, but knowing it couldn't have been too long since it's still night time. As I wake up I can feel the car moving slowly then stopping, which probably meant we just pulled up. My head is lying in Eren's lap and he's petting my hair a little, his gaze meets mine and he jolts, pulling his hand to his chest and looking embarrassed as if he just got caught doing something he shouldn't have.

"I-I'm sorry I just thought it would help, after we knocked you out, your face looked pained, I thought maybe this was the first good sleep you had without pain so your nightmares were catching up as well so I thought that-" I cut him off by chuckling a little, he was afraid I would be angry so I smile reassuringly.

"It's okay, I guess it did help because I don't remember having any sort of nightmares at all, but anyways are we here?"

"You're not going to ask why we had to knock you out?" He asks, as if he himself thinks it's weird he had to do it.

"Do I need to ask? After learning what I learned today about the two of you, I felt you had your reasons, plus that fact that you let me in on such secrets without killing me right after, I felt I was trusted, therefore I think I can trust you." He nods and I look out the window, we are in front of my house in the middle of the night, I close my eyes and try to concentrate on that feeling I had earlier; where I felt something was wrong with Lil, but nothing happens. I look at Eren, "try her house; I'm not feeling anything from her anymore, something bad may have happened." Eren nods and points in the direction of Lillya's house; the driver speeds off and moments later we're there. I fumble out of the car, realizing only then that I was still laying my head partly on Eren's lap, 'how embarrassing' I think to myself while slightly blushing.

We run up to the door and run inside, ignoring the fact that we're pretty much breaking and entering, and we disperse and check all the rooms.

"Looks like the mom was put to sleep, she's laying on her bed and didn't even hear us." says Eren after covering the woman up with a blanket and closing the door softly, we head to the second floor and check the rooms, in what appears to be Lillya's room looks like some sort of murder scene. Blood splattered all over the floor, walls and ceiling, furniture knocked over and the room in complete disarray. I grit my teeth, thinking there's no way she could've survived this, even if she is a Handler, which means by the amount of blood splatter there is, this wasn't just any murder scene.