They Lead Me Here

Chapter 26

Y/N pov

When Levi and I get to the mess hall, all we hear is screaming. I hesitantly open the door and peak through.

"You can't have her!" Eren yelled

"I get whatever the hell I want!" Jean yelled back.

"Yeah? If that was true, wouldn't you have Mikasa on your arm?"

"No! She's not who I'm interested in anyways. I want-"

"I don't care what you want horse! I call dibs."

"You call dibs? You can't call dibs on a girl dumbass."

"I just did."

"I don't give a shit about your dibs. I liked her first! You just met her!"

I look over at Mikasa to see why she isn't intervening. She's sitting there with a broken look on her face. Well, the half of her face I can see. She partly covered in her ratty scarf. Armin is sitting next to her with his arm around her.

"Listen horseface. If you don't back down here and now, I'll..."

"You'll what? Tell on me? I didn't do anything. Now you listen to me. You've got a pretty girl sitting right there that obviously loves you, k? Go marry her or something." Jean says gesturing to Mikasa.

"I don't know what you're talking about."

"My gosh you're an idiot." Jean says. He picks Eren up by the collar. "Y/N is mine."

Nope. Nope nope. I walk in to the mess hall completely and Jean drops Eren on his face.

"Hey Y/N! I was wondering if you wanted to eat dinner with-"

I smacked him and he stands there baffled. Then I kneel and look at Eren. I give him a good smack too.

"Now listen both of you. I don't belong to-"

"She belongs to neither of you. Now listen here Kirstein. You've been warned once. Your punishment is still going on, yet you pull this shit? Damn you're just asking for it. You don't eat dinner now. Ever. You run through dinner and for an hour after dinner in addition to your original punishment. That starts tomorrow. Now this one includes you Jeager. You will both clean the HQ from top to bottom once a week. That starts now. But let's get something straight first. She doesn't belong to you Kirstein. Or you Jeager. Y/N is mine and if I hear you say one more word about owning her or anything of the sort, I will kill you. Do not underestimate me. You are both replaceable. In fact, you're both terrible fighters and cleaners. Don't think you're special Jaeger. I am the only thing keeping you alive and quite frankly, I'm getting tired of it. Piss me off and I won't send you to be dissected. I'll kill you myself and it will be much, much worse. I will tear your-"

"Levi. Stop. I appreciate it but everyone is staring at us. We're at dinner. In the mess hall. With all of the cadets. And you just said some stuff I highly doubt you meant to. Let's stop being violent for a minute and let them clean, ok?" I step in front of Levi and address the boys. "What are you still doing here? Stop staring and go clean! And the rest of you brats. Keep staring and you can all join them. Eat your damn food!"

The boys run off and everyone starts eating. Everyone except the people in the far corner. They're laughing histaricly. That would be Hange.

"Levi. Come on. I appreciate you standing up for me. Thank you. Now let's go eat, ok?"

Levi stays quiet and I end up dragging him to the table where Hange is still laughing and Sasha is looking depressed.

"What's so funny Hange?" I ask her with a deadly tone.

"You aren't a captain or anything. You can't just order people to do things."

"It worked, didn't it?"

"That's one way to put it." She says finally calming down.

"Why the frown Sasha?"

"The expedition was moved to Saturday."

"And?"

"I had a date planned! You don't understand!"

Oh. Right. That. "Can't you just postpone it to the next free day?"

"Well yeah, but what if I die before then?"

"You're not gonna die."

"How do you know?"

"You still have something left to do. Your love will keep you alive. You're not gonna die, he's not gonna die. It's gonna be ok."

She starts crying. She jogs her head a bit and continues eating with tears still rolling down her face.

"Umm, Levi?" Hange says.

He doesn't say anything. He just continues to stare art the food in front of him.

"I think he's broken." I state plainly.

"Broken?" Sasha asks.

"He's starting to realize what he just did. Now everyone knows were a thing. That means Levi has emotions. Levi doesn't want people to know he has emotions. Isn't that right Levi?"

He stays motionless so I grab his head and make him nod it.

"How do we fix him?"

I think for a moment and look at my untouched food. "I'm not hungry. See you guys tomorrow!" I say.

"But aren't you gonna fix Levi?" Sasha asks. Silly Sasha.

As I start to stand up, I feel a hand grab my wrist.

"Levi, I'm tired. Please let go."

"Eat." He says. We're getting there. I need him to talk more though. He needs to snap out of this.

"But I'm not hungry. I'm going to bed."

"Eat." He says again. He's like a robot that's only able to say one word.

"I said I'm not eating Levi. Now let me go!" I said putting a bit more emotion in it.

I fell his grip tighten. "Damn it Y/N! Eat your food. If you keep doing this, you'll starve to death! Now are you going to eat, or do I have to shove this down your throat?"

"That's better." I sit down and start eating dinner.

"Smart move." Levi says while eating his own food.

"Wow. You fixed him." Sasha said in awe.

"Not that hard. For a second, I was worried it wouldn't work." I replied.

After a couple minutes, I get really tired. "For real this time, I'm going to bed."

Everyone agrees and we head our separate ways. Well, Sasha and I go the same way, but whatever.

We go to our room and go to sleep. Tomorrow will be a good day. I know it.