The Once and Future Monster

Epilogue

A/N: Foxallena86, thank you for your unwavering enthusiasm and support for this story. If not for you, I doubt I would have ever finished this.

14 Months Later

Levi startled awake to the obnoxious beeping of his alarm clock. Seeing he was awake, the body in bed next to him started leaving kisses all across his face. Levi had to get ready for work so he placed one kiss on their head before lightly pushing them away and dragging his tired body to the shower.

They were still lying on his bed when he returned so he tapped them on the rear. Titan stared at him with intelligent, playful blue eyes, letting him know it was pointless to make the bed because it would be a mess when he returned home anyway. Levi sighed, knowing this to be true, but still shoved the husky off the bed.

He scratched behind Titan's ear as he ate a bowl of cereal and promised the dog a run when he returned from work, praying the promise of exercise would get the hyperactive dog to contain its energy until he came home. It would be nice to return to a clean house for once.

Levi sighed when he entered the police station; the excitement and workload from last week had yet to die down. After years of evading the cops, the mafia in Fairview had finally been caught. Levi read all about it in the paper; a massive shootout took place in the next state over, down by the docks, as the mafia waited for a shipment.

Some of the men were from Massachusetts and were processed at Whitebridge police station, the station responsible for catching them, but since the rest originated in Fairview, they were sent back to Connecticut where they were being detained until trial.

Before being shipped in heavily armed vehicles to a remand prison, it was Levi's, as well as the other members of his teams responsibility, to book the criminals, take their finger prints, and enter the charges into the police record.

Three familiar faces were not among the arrested.

Moments after Levi sat at his desk, Chief Anderson's door opened and he stuck his head out.

"Officer Ackerman, I need you in my office."

"Yes, sir."

Chief Anderson was a tall, broad-shouldered man with peppered brown hair and a Jekyll and Hyde personality. When it was necessary, he was the no-nonsense Chief of Police, and when there was nothing to worry about it, he was the laid-back boss bringing his wife's cookies in to share. A good man to work under.

Levi entered the office and greeted the Chief, allowing his attention to briefly swerve over the other cop in the corner before fixing his attention to his Chief as he spoke.

"Officer Ackerman, I would like to introduce you to one of the cops from the Whitebridge police force. He received high marks during his time at the police academy and is largely responsible for the drug bust of the Fairview mafia, which is why he is being transferred here to help handle the bookings and paperwork."

Chief Anderson stepped aside as the young cop stepped forward and extended his hand, his rakish grin growing ever wider as Levi's jaw fell closer to the floor.

"My name is Eren Jaeger. I look forward to working with you, sir."

A/N (again): I considered writing a spin-off about what Eren did in the 14 month interim but since it took me flipping forever to finish this story,  it will be much quicker to outline what happened instead.

So: Eren hops onto a bus for MA and has no idea how to turn his life around until he runs into Dot Pixis, who works at the police academy and convinces Eren to apply. Pixis vouches for him and Eren's street-fighting/mafia skills give him a leg-up against his older classmates. After graduating in the top whatever % of his class, he joins the Whitebridge police force and does undercover work taking down small gangs until he proves himself enough to be placed on the team handling the mafia. Cue epic battle between Eren and Zeke at the docks. Eren wins, the mafia is arrested, and Eren is a hero. He requests/it just makes sense for him to be transferred to Fairview where he works alongside Levi and they move in together and Eren loves his husky puppy.

As for Annie, Reiner, and Bert, they find the letters Eren left them at their shared PO box. Eren apologizes for how things ended (only Annie understands the part about forgiveness) and promises to return one day. Father can tell they know nothing about Eren's whereabouts so he doesn't do anything to them, and when Eren kills Zeke at the docks, Annie, Reiner, and Bert are finally safe to flee. They find real jobs and reconnect with Eren another year down the line. Yay happy endings for everyone! Also Jean has a heart attack the first time he sees Eren patrolling the streets in a cop uniform. They grab coffee with Marco and though Marco never remembers, Jean sometimes has vague recollections or only recalls emotions and he and Eren become good, bantery friends again. The end.