CHAPTER 7: Eren?!
//“I keep getting the feeling that you’re so familiar. I just want to ask; have I seen you somewhere before?”//
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His breath came out in shaky puffs, the ropes that tied his hands were starting to sting and he felt so cold, lying there on the concrete floor. He couldn't see anything; it was dark. Worst of all, his abdomen inflicted a hell of pain on him. Blood seeped into his once clean shirt.
He felt like as if his life was slowly slipping away and he didn't even know how much blood he had lost.
Suddenly, his ears perked up when he heard distinctive chatter.
"Why'd you shoot him, dumbass?!" He heard a gruff and menacing voice holler from outside.
"I-I'm sorry, boss! My hand slipped!" Another voice pleaded.
"Idiot! We need him in a good shape!"
Eren's eyes slowly turned to look at the small crack of light filtering in from below the closed doors. He could see the pair's shadows.
"B-But why boss--"
WHACK!
"Isn't it obvious, egghead?! This boy may be the key for us to manipulate that stupid bastard! Alone, he can just whoop all of your asses with no problem! But...."
The door cracked open and Eren caught sight the man- but he was wearing sunglasses so he couldn't really get a very good look at his face. He remained defiant; Levi would never be moved just by Eren's condition, right? He didn't care if anything happened to him, Levi just needed to be okay!
The man knelt on one knee, gripped a fistful of Eren's hair and pulled him up forcefully. The pain that ripped through his abdomen made him grunt. He felt his vision blur.
The man continued his previous sentence: "...with this boy, we'll have that one-man army in the palm of our hands. He'll be hopeless!"
He dropped Eren back to the floor and stood up in a fit of manic laughter. "Besides, it'll be killing two birds with one stone. I have a score to settle with this bastard anyway."
Eren's vision started slipping as he felt the darkness come to eat him up again.
The man smirked in triumph and took off his sunglasses to leer at Eren.
Feeling and hearing his heartbeat speed up, the last thing Eren could mutter was: "...Le...vi..."
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"...!!!"
THUMP!
Levi suddenly got up with a bang on the table causing silence to take place in the meeting room.
Erwin turned back to look at his companion with worry in his eyes.
"Levi...?" Hanji slowly followed Levi and stood up.
"What's the matter?" Erwin asked the male. He truly felt worried this time; he had never seen Levi's face so full of emotion.
But then, Levi slowly eased his emotions back, masking his monotonous look again despite the fact that his eyes still showed it clearly.
"Erwin, I need to check on something." He asked.
The blonde just nodded a go-ahead and exchanged glances with Hanji and Mike while Levi stormed out.
"Something smells wrong here..." Mike mused after a short period of silence.
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"Eren!" Levi swung his office door open.
When he saw no one, he scowled and immediately went out again- failing to notice the note Eren had left for him.
He rushed to the elevator and hit the button to go down. But, when the doors slid open, he was surprised at the sight of Petra with a look of dread on her face.
She gasped when her eyes met him and almost immediately took hold of his shirt. "Boss! Thank god! You have to do something! It's horrible! All that blood--"
"Blood...?" Levi's frown deepened. "Take a deep breath, Petra. Tell me what happened.... Is it Eren?!"
She did what he advised and nodded frantically. "I-I saw a group of men corner him outside and... one of them shot him! They dragged him away after that. I'm so sorry I couldn't do anything! I just stood there stunned..." she lowered her gaze and he could see small teardrops form at the corner of her eyes.
It really was Eren... Levi's uneasy feeling had been right. His jaw clenched and so did his fists.
"Levi!" Hanji's voice suddenly cut in from behind. He turned to her.
"What's wrong--?"
"I have no time. Take care of Petra, I need to find him!" Levi ignored Hanji's questioning calls for him and left.
Her brows furrowed, she helped Petra to sit down. Slowly, Petra started to explain to her too after calming down.
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He didn't wear his coat when he went out and the cold air smacked him the moment he had stepped out. But he didn't care about that right now. He couldn't remember the last time he had felt this worried. His heart ached at the thought of the many things that could have happened to Eren by now.
He couldn't let anything happen to the teen- he wouldn't.
TO BE CONTINUED...
★[Author's Note: Yosh, as I promised: the 7th chapter for my double-post!!! Beforehand, I'm sorry if there are gramatical errors. I wrote this chapter on my phone so there might be some errors that I didn't notice, please bear with me!
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