Not The One Who Dies ⇀ Attack on Titan *Original*

Part 25: Phoenix

Logan's eyes fluttered open in the same house he had been in when he had his scrape with death, the pain of the torture he had gone through now gone. He sighed as he leaned against the wall of the house, furious at himself for giving up so easily.

"Oh." A female voice said from the hallway that had been connected to the room. Logan's eyes widened at the voice, a wide smile breaking out over his face. The boy looked up at the woman in the doorway with tears in his eyes.

"P-Petra?" Logan stuttered out at the girl who dropped the food she was carrying, Logan couldn't move at the sight of her, it was like his whole body had been frozen in time.

"Logan... Oh my god, Logan!" Petra shouted as she ran to the boy, tackling him in a hug. Logan stared at her with a dumbfounded look on his face, not willing to believe the sight.

"Oh... Oh my god." Logan mumbled out as he breathed out before tears began to fall from his eyes. He had thought he was done with crying for a while however these were different, these were tears of happiness. He wrapped his arms around the shorter girl with a breathy chuckle.

"You're here- you're not gone I thought- I would never see you again..." Logan said as he pulled the girl as close to him as he could, worried that she'd disappear once again. Petra chuckled as she pushed her head into the boy's chest.

"Petra? What's goi-" Another familiar voice asked from the hallway before turning a corner. Logan looked up from the girl he was hugging as a slightly older looking Eld Jinn looking at the sight he had been wanting to see for almost half a year.

"Kid? Logan?" Eld asked, stumbling backward as tears began to well up in his eyes as Logan felt more tears fall down his face as he chuckled again, looking at Eld with a trembling smile.

"Eld..." Logan said causing Eld to wipe his eyes and stumble forwards towards his two friends, his family.

"Oh my god..." Eld said as he quickly wrapped his arm around the back of the boy's neck, pulling his head into his shoulder. The three stood there, all having tears fall from their eyes at the sight of their best friends.

"What-What is this place? It feels like-" Logan stuttered out as he pulled away from the two causing Petra to smile and look around.

"It's peace, Logan... There's no fighting, no pain." Eld said as he sat down on the bed in the room causing Petra to nod. Logan wiped his tears as he looked around the house, rubbing his hand through his hair.

"What happened kid? You aren't- You aren't supposed to be here yet." Eld asked, letting his hand reach over to the boy's face and run his thumb across his the boy's cheek to dry the tears.

Logan gave the man a sad smile before sitting next to the man, folding his hands in his lap.

"My uhm, my brother who I didn't know I had killed me, I don't blame him. Apparently, your dad ruined his life." Logan mumbled out as he looked to his hands.

"But before that, the people holding me who were ironically enough MP's tortured me, they cut off all my fingers before letting them regrow and did it again," Logan said, running his fingers over his knuckles.

"They did it for three days... I don't even know what I did to deserve it." Logan cried out as he pulled his knees up to his chest.