Gray (A SnK EreMika One Shot)

Gray

(A/N): Hey, Guys! This was supposed to be for 2014's EreMika week, but I wasn't able to post it until today due to my Wattpad being a huge asshole :')  

I hope you guys like it! I worked so long on this haha XD

There will be some spoilers in this, so you've been warned, but I haven't really spoiled that much on the actual plot of the story, in my opinion. The spoilers start around Year 850 after the Graduation part. 

I'm going to warn you now, there will be major feels in this, I'm sorry XD

Ahh I'm just rambling now XD

Enjoy the story! (Ah, last thing I promise! The song on the side is Coldplay's Violet Hill, and I personally think it represents Eren and Mikasa's relationship really well. Okay, I'm done now aha XD) 

GRAY

MIKASA

Year 844

          The girl was huddled in the corner of her room, her raven hair falling in messy piles as she continued shivering in fear. Her gray eyes were shut tight as she continued to rock back and forth, trying to muffle her sobs, but it was no use.

          She gasped as she heard someone enter her room, but did not bother to open her eyes. Instead, she pressed herself closer to the wall, as if she were trying to disappear.

          “Mikasa…It’s only me,” she heard him say. “Were you having nightmares again?”

          She didn’t have to open her eyes to know who the voice belonged to. “Eren…what are you doing here..?”

          “I hear you crying around this time every morning,” he confessed. “I’ve always wanted to talk to you about it, but you just cut me off whenever I try to.” He continued to step forward until he was directly in front of her, and she felt him wrap the scarf he had given her around her before sitting down. “And you shouldn’t take that scarf off; you’ll get cold.”

          Mikasa hid her face in between her knees, refusing to let Eren see her tears, but the turquoise eyed boy was determined this time. He tugged on her head gently until it was facing him, but her eyes were still closed.

          “I’m here for you,” he started. “I know it must be hard for you to be suddenly living with us…to suddenly have so much taken away from you. I’m not going to say I understand because I don’t, and I’m not going to say sorry because it won’t help, but I will say this: You don’t have to go through this alone.

          You’re stuck with me now, so we have no choice but to have each other’s backs. I’ll always be here for you, remember that. I’ll always be here. I know I seem pretty lousy at it, but I’m hell bent on protecting you, too.

          Let’s be friends in this cruel, yet beautiful world, Mikasa.” He finished, grabbing onto her hand and giving it a reassuring squeeze.  

          The girl gasped, and opened her eyes for the first time, looking at him as turquoise met with gray. She felt something warm bubble up in her stomach, a feeling she hadn’t felt in a long time.

          The way he looked at her right then was so real…so genuine that she let a few more tears fall, but not because of sadness anymore.

          She had always felt detached from the world ever since her parents died before her eyes, and every day she struggled to live the next.