Chained (Ereri AU Sequel)

Run

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I ran.

I ran to Eren.

I hurled myself into him, almost knocking him over. His warmth heated my shivering body. I wasn't shivering from the cold, though. I was just on fire.

I was shivering from excitement. It would be a bitch if this was all just a dream.

"Levi."

His voice was heavenly. i buried my face into his shoulder and didn't even try to fight back the tears threatening to still tarnish my non-existent reputation. I didn't care about anything else but this moment. I felt his amazing wings flutter and tickle my face as I breathed in the smell of him.

He pulled me away, keeping his palms on my shoulders.

"Why are you here?"

Oh yeah. I still had to explain myself. It's gonna really hurt to describe my sins to the most beautiful angel ever. I had so many questions to ask him! But I figured that the least I could do was tell him everything. All my regrets, all my broken promises, and all my mistakes. Eren was ultimately my ticket to happiness.

Sighing, I took a deep breath and spilled it all.

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Three years ago:

Levi sat on the curb, shuffling his feet absentmindedly. As the pebbles skid along the cracked asphalt, he heard pairs of feet stomping against the potholed pavement.... closer and closer.

"Hey short-stack! Where's you're homo friend?" A taller blonde jeered, stepping up to Levi.

"Get the fuck away from me." Levi blushed at the thought of his crush...

 Farlan.

The bully grabbed ahold of Levi's collar and pushed him against the abandoned brick building behind him, and hovered above him. It looked as if Levi's hands were simply dangling at his side, but they were reaching for the knife in his pocket.

Quickly pulling it out, he sliced at the blond, causing him to curse as he cradled his badly cut arm. Levi charged and stabbed him in the chest, knocking him over after the first blow.

"I. TOLD. YOU. TO. GET. THE FUCK. AWAY." Levi screamed, as he ripped the body apart.

"Dude! I'm sorry! Please!"

"Sorry doesn't cut it, you homophobic bastard." Levi knew he should have stopped and walked away. Was it really something to kill someone over?

But he couldn't stop. Anger throbbed through his skull.

Then the blond-who Levi didn't know the name of- stopped struggling.

Sitting on a bloody limp body, Levi got up, and ran.

Ran away. He had to get the fuck out of the hell hole he was in. He couldn't keep living like this.

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Levi spoke his reason for being in Hell to Eren, who was soon crying too. But Eren wasn't crying from fear or sorrow. All that mattered at the moment was he was with Levi, and he would do anything to keep him here. Levi was a mess. Eren was bound to fix him.

Then Eren remembered what his mother told him.

"Hell is a state of mind"