Stories of You & I

Russian Roulette

Another request I made for a friend, and another drabble that became into a long one-shot :]

This is a crossover between "Shingeki no Kyojin" and the "Primeval" series. You might don't know too much about "Primeval", but I'm pointing few things related to it, assuring you won't lose in it and have the need to watch the series before to read it (I highly recommend you those series anyway):

I - Eren works for the ARC (Anomaly Research Centre), team of scientists responsibles for investigate about temporal gates called "anomalies". He and his huge squad (the 104) started a journey across time with the objective to investigate about anomalies, but Eren would become in the only survivor with his companion Mikasa, a Victorian lady who joined to the squad during their visit to the Victorian Era.

II - The story is set in the future of the series, which is a post-human era where my favPrimeval predators habit in it... okno. I'd called it "Russian Roulette" because I was inspired by Rihanna's song.

     

 If there was a time silence calmed him down, now it was the reason of his restlessness.

There was something in the environment that perturbed Eren, but he couldn't describe what it was; he knew something was wrong in that place, as if they approached to a lair of wolves. The abandoned city showed signs it had been habited by humans of the actual era, which Eren and his squad belonged before their journey started, but also showed it had been inhabited for a long time ago.

Maybe for centuries, or maybe for thousand years.

Breathing had become in such a hard task during the last three hours, and things got harder because of the brightness, which were more intense than any other era they'd visited. Eren hardly could see the map which was on the screen of the device he held, which map would take them to any other operational device which could give them the information they needed and, if it was possible, bring the devices to the actual era.

They were explorers of time, responsible for the investigation about the origin of bright gates which broke time and space: the anomalies. Still they hadn't found many things related with anomalies but learnt more about the primeval eras, they had hope in one day they could find an anomaly which could bring them to future eras.

Yet none of them would return home to talk about their journey, but Eren and Mikasa. Five years and twelve different and dangerous eras had been enough to annihilate all the members of the squad.

His companion, Mikasa, followed him with cautious movements, silently, just like every time they entered to a new era. Unlike Eren, who wore a black military uniform, Mikasa wore a different outfit which would be considered by the actual era as "Victorian": a black coat combined by a long and wavy grey skirt, adorned by the red scarf Eren a stormy night gave to her, which lately would be used as a cravat. Inside her skirts long leathered boots would be hidden, and inside her coat, meticulously placed, daggers. Instead of an overloaded rucksack, Mikasa carried a black cross-body bag where she kept her diaries that explained about their journey, personal objects and other weapons.

Mikasa didn't even belong to the squad since the same beginning, but to a well-off family from the Victorian England. Even so, the lady hadn't taken any minute at joining the squad and left the life she had before. Mikasa hadn't been happy, and Eren never dared to know more about her.

"Shall we communicate in sign language?", Mikasa had suggested a while after to explore that post-human city.

"Yes...", he agreed with a nod, and after continued doing slight movements both hands: "It will be the better choice"