The Ereri Project!

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Eren's day was normal.

He'd had cereal for breakfast, soup for lunch, and he'd gone out with Levi for dinner since it was Friday and they could.

He felt weird going to bed that night.

"What wrong?" Levi asked.

Eren shrugged. "More tired than usual for some reason."

Levi smiled softly and pet his hair. "Get some sleep then."

Eren had fallen asleep nearly immediately. He kept see weird things as he fell, though, visions of the ocean and fish people, visions of a red string connected to his hand, visions of mouths with crazy vampire teeth.

He opened his eyes to a clear, blue sky. He sat up immediately and looked around. Grass and trees and-

He screamed.

What appeared to be a giant, naked, human (with no genitals) was running toward him. He seemed frozen on the spot. "Eren!"

Suddenly, almost too fast for him to see, an amazingly fast figure flew at the giant and cut the back of its neck open. Eren stared with wide eyes as the giant fell and the figure that destroyed it landed.

He looked up and his jaw dropped. He'd recognize this person anywhere. "Levi," he said.

Levi glared as he turned to look at him. "Why the FUCK did you get out of formation? I didn't see any kind of signal from your squad that you were changing course, yet you are way out here!" He rubs the bridge of his nose and takes a deep breath.

"What?" Eren asks.

Levi looks him over. "What the hell are you wearing?"

Eren doesn't know what to say, Levi has never looked at him like this so he's a little unsure what to say. "I just- I was asleep a moment ago and... look, I don't even know where I am."

Levi suddenly grabs the collar of his shirt and examines his face with squinted, scrutinizing eyes. "You're eyes are different," he says. "Who are you?"

Eren is taken aback by that. "I'm... Eren."

Levi shakes his head. "The brat doesn't have that dumb look like you do."

"I don't-"

Levi sighs. "Guess it can't be helped, come with me."

When Levi turns, Eren suddenly gets a gut feeling something is really wrong. "Levi, I-"

Suddenly from behind a tree he hadn't noticed before, one of those giants sprung out with the intention of grabbing the raven haired man.

Eren doesn't know what possessed him to do it, but he ran after Levi. "Look out!" he shouted and just as Levi turned, he shoved him out of the way.

The giant didn't grab Levi, but Eren instead.

Eren locked eyes with Levi as the giant lifted him, kicking Levi before the older man had time to run or use that strange machine on his back.

"Levi!" he shouted as he saw the older man tumble and run headlong into a tall, thick tree.

Eren didn't even try to escape just trying to focus enough to see if Levi was still alive. He had to be.

He wasn't moving.

He saw a group of soldiers on horseback ride up just as the giant closed its mouth around him.

"Ahh!"

His chest is heaving as he sits up in bed.

He scrambles to turn the light on, he has to see Levi.

"Eren!"

The moment he sees Levi's face, he cries. "The giants! And you were... and it ate me... and I thought you were..."

Levi holds Eren. "It was just a dream," he says quietly into the brunette's hair. "It was all just a dream."

"It felt so real though."

"It can't be though, right? You're not in a giant's stomach and I'm right here, whatever you saw wasn't real."

Eren doesn't go back to sleep that night.