Life with a family eremika

Chapter 10 love*

BEWARE OF SMUT

~The heavy downpour of rain and lightning was Loud enough to keep eren awake in bed for the last two hours it had been storming since dusk and didn't look like it would leave any time soon~

~Languidly, he turned his eyes over to Mikasa and watched her sleeping form. It was a habit he picked up when they both shared a bed as a couple, and after they both began sharing a bed ever since Mikasa was pregnant, he instantly reverted back to it. ~

~Ever since the night they first shared the same bed, seventeen long years ago, Eren was still sure he hated that way Mikasa slept. She would lie there, still as corpse, not even moving to make the tiniest breath and that would always make an irrational part of him panic. To this very day, he would sometimes shake her awake in the middle of night, just to make sure she was still breathing.~

~A particularly sharp boom of thunder made Eren jump and everything in the room seemed to rattle and shift but Mikasa laid there, unmoving and silent. Heart pounding, he quickly placed a grip on his wife's shoulders and began shaking her. ~

~It took nearly two minutes before Mikasa was roused from her slumber and sleepily she looked Eren in the eye. He didn't say anything, though his face looked concerned.~

"Is something...wrong?" she drawled out sleepily, though she was quite used to Eren randomly waking her up at night.

~He shook his head and ran his hand down her arm, brushing against her elbow, before coming to a stop at her palm. Slowly she interlaced their fingers and was again asleep in a few seconds.~

"Would it kill you not look dead while sleep?" Eren muttered quietly, though he knew she couldn't hear him.

~The rain continued to fall harshly and Eren found himself slowly drifting into sleep when his ears picked up on a strange thumping sound. When he realized the sound of small knuckles rapping against the door, he heard a soft cry come the hallway. ~

~He sat up and rushed over to the door, opening it. In the darkness, he made out mika's squatting form as she whimpered into her hands. Tenderly, he lifted her into his arm and closed the bedroom door behind them.~

"Couldn't sleep either, huh?" he whispered, cradling her in his arms.

She shook her head and buried her face into the crook of his neck, "The rain sc-scared me..."

~Eren smiled and gently rubbed his daughter's hair. Even though the toddler loved watching wrestling, fought boys six inches taller than her, and gave even her mother a hard time, she was still a little girl at heart; one who was apparently afraid of thunderstorms. ~

"Why don't you sleep with Mommy and Daddy tonight?" he asked, making his way to the bed.

"Okay..." she pouted. He carried her over to the king sized bed and gently placed her under the covers before crawling in after her.

"Go to sleep, okay?" he said,

"It's too late for you to be up."

"Okay...is Mommy alright?"

"Of course, why?"

"She's not moving..."

"Yeah...Mommy sleeps a dead lady."

"A dead lady?!" the four year old cried, panicked.

"No no no! She's not dead! She...she's just really tired after watching over you all day, so she gets really sleepy at nighttime."

That seemed to satisfy Mika as she curled against her mother and studied her face before commenting, "Mommy's eyelashes are really long..."

"Yeah...they are..." Eren agreed sleepily.