The Ereri Project!

Embrace

A/N: What happen to Eren's leg in the last chapter!?

And guess what...? I keep on getting writers block! So I'll try my best to publish stories!

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Waking up missing a limb is a sobering experience.

I'd known before they even put me under that there wasn't much they could do for my leg, but it was still... upsetting? Frightening? I don't know what I'm feeling.

I look out the window so I don't have to keep staring at the dip in the blanket where my leg should be.

It's snowing.

It's a blizzard.

I wonder if Mikasa's alright.

We were up at a cabin, going skiing and snowboarding together because no one else we know likes cold weather enough to enjoy outdoor winter sports.

We'd gone down one of the lesser used mountains and there was an avalanche that turned out to be snow androck. The rocks crushed my leg and knocked Mikasa unconscious immediately.

I haven't heard anything about her since I woke up from the anesthesia.

I just really don't want to be alone.

"Papa!" I hear from down the hall.

In runs Petra, her cheeks flushed and her hair and clothes mussed and damp from the weather outside. She looks so relieved to see me as she runs over to give me a hug.

I'm so happy to see her I don't care that she's pressing on my bruises.

"Dad called as soon as he heard, are you-" it's then her notices the strange empty space beside my left leg. As soon as her brain catches up with her, her hand in in front of her mouth.

"Oh Papa," she says. "Does Dad know?"

"Not yet," I reply.

She sits on my bed where my leg should be and gets comfortable, laying her jacket on the chair. She takes a deep breath. "He's not gonna be very happy."

"I'm not very happy," I reply. "But there's nothing to do about it now. Have you talked to any of the nurse's yet?"

"No why?"

"I've been waiting to hear how Mikasa is."

"Auntie Mika got hurt too?"

He nods. "It's making me nervous."

She holds his hand. "She'll be alright," Petra says. "And Dad should be here in like ten or fifteen minutes."

"Are the roads that bad?"

"They're awful," she replies. "I'm surprised it didn't take me longer to get here."

Eren furrows his eyebrows. "Wait, who drove you here?"

Petra smiles sheepishly. "I borrow Aunt Hanji's car."

Eren's eye almost twitches. "That monster truck? She actually let you drive that thing?"

"It's a Hummer, Papa, not a war tank. I can handle it."

He shakes his head. "It feels like only yesterday you were hopping around Levi's feet asking him to braid your hair. Where did my baby go?"

She chuckles. "To London, San Francisco, Berlin, Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Puerto Rico, and then Paris next month."

Eren snorts a laugh.

"Eren!"

Eren goes tense at the sound of Levi's voice. As soon as he walks in the doorway, Petra puts her hands up. "Daddy, I need you to keep calm," she says.

"Petra? What?"

He scans Eren with his eyes and almost immediately Eren's recognized the racing thoughts through his eyes. "Oh my God," he mutters.

"Levi," Eren says warningly.

Levi strides over quickly and grabs Eren in a tight embrace. "Jesus Christ, Eren," he mutters into the younger man's hair.

"I'm alright," he says.

"Missing a fucking limb is not alright."

"I'm ok-"

"It's not okay either."

Eren sighs and looks at Petra around Levi's arms. She smiling at them.

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A/N: My dad got a Hummer for my mom and I got my dad into The Walking Dead so he's always like "I'm gonna run the zombies over with the war tank!"