Attack on Titan Retribution

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Eren's POV

"Hey Armin, when this is all over do you want to head to the ocean?" I ask

"What, the ocean?! Of course I do!" replies Armin excitedly

"Hey Jean, are you going back to Trost after all this?" asks Connie

"Probably, what about you?" asks Jean

"Same here, I'm probably going to go back to my family."

"What about you Marco?" asks Jean

"I'm probably going to go back home too." says Marco, "Sasha?"

"I'm going hunting with my dad after all this." says Sasha with her mouth full, "What about you Annie?"

Everyone looks at Annie with eyes of curiosity except for Mikasa.

"I'm probably going to be with my father." she replies

But something about her sounded sad in a way. I wanted to live with her after all this, so hearing her say this kind of made me sad.

"Mikasa? Armin?" asks Marco

"Home." says Mikasa simply

"I'm probably going to go exploring the world." says Armin, "There's a lot of things we are missing out on."

"Eren?"

Now everyone was looking at me except Annie, which hurt me like hell even though it wasn't a big deal.

"I don't know yet." I reply

"Hey Eren you can come exploring with me." says Armin

"Thanks Armin but by then, I think I'm going to be very tired from all of this." I laugh

Everyone continues talking but I'm not listening because I was too focused on Annie that it pains me every time I though about it. I keep dozing off until Jean startles me with a question.

"Hey Eren, what do you think happened to the soldier back at home?" asks Jean

"Huh?" I startle from my thoughts, "Oh uhh, they're probably serving somewhere or just back at home."

"Yea, I never thought about that." says Connie

"Well uhhh I'm going to go to sleep so wake me up when we get there." I imply

I close my eyes and try to think about something else other than Annie, but it doesn't seem to work. So all I was doing was close my eyes for like an hour before finally just giving up and opening my eyes.

But by then everyone was asleep, even Annie but what made me even more sad was that she wasn't leaning her head against my shoulder.

I just stared and looked at her for a moment until the vehicle came to a stop. Everyone began to wake up from their naps and look around.

"Why did we stop?" asks Marco

The doors open so we file out and it looks like we are in some kind of forest on a mountain, I could see a beautiful view of the plains at the base of the mountain. Others began to come out of their BTR as well and set up a perimeter.

"Captain Ghost, why did we stop?" asks Erwin

"Apparently the roads blocked and this is the shortest route to West Virginia. The blockade looks like it's going to take a lot of firepower to move the blockade." replies Captain Ghost

"But we need the firepower just in case." says Hange

"Exactly, that's why we are reporting to HQ to find another alternative route." continue Ghost