A Second Chance (Marco x Fem Reader)

Chapter 48

"Wanna know?", Jean's tone was suggestive as he raised a brow.

"No.. I- I think I'll, uh, ask later". He must have seen something in your faces. Something telling him he ought to stay in the dark when it came to the things you've seen on the front lines. And with that they left you alone.

"Alright, I'm gonna head out. See you in the morning", Connie said while getting up. You and Sasha gave him a puzzled look.

"So soon?"

"Tomorrow's a prep day, so I'm heading to my village in the morning. Might find something new there... Good night", he waved as he left for the doors. You watched him leave with a pained expression and an unsettling silence spread across your table.

"Turning Connie's mom back to normal... isn't impossible, r-right?", Sasha asked quietly.

"Yeah... If our understanding of titans keeps improving, someday we might be able to bring her back", Armin answered, though not sounding very convincing.

Poor Connie. You can say he's an idiot all you want, but he's truly the toughest guy out there. Still being able to carry on brightening other people's days after experiencing something so traumatic as the circumstances of the loss of his family, really says something about his character.

"A nightmare, huh?", Eren mumbled to himself, deep in thought.

"Huh?"

"With all that's happened, it's been so vague... But what exactly are we fighting against?", Eren's tone was so dark, so somber. You've never heard him speak like this before. "That is, are titans just people being tormented by some nightmare? For a brief time, I was one of those titans..."

"Eren!", Mikasa snapped him out of it, and he looked at her with his mouth slightly agape. "You still have bread and soup left. Save your talking for after you've eaten"

"Right... Sorry, Mikasa"

"For crying out loud, Eren. I swear that's all you do lately... mumbling shit to yourself, when you should be trying to remember that one guy", Jean said, and you all looked at him with furrowed brows. "The one you saw, right? In the cavern when those memories came back... The one in the scouts you think met your dad...", he kept suggesting, trying to trigger a memory. "Am I the only one who remember him mentioning it?", Jean asked dumbfounded, looking between all of you.

'Wait, that does sound familiar...'

"Yeah, I think I remember you mentioning something like that Eren", you looked over at him, but based on the look on his face he already remembered it.

"I feel like I've met that guy somewhere..."

"You mean not Dr. Yeager, but you, yourself?", Armin asked him.

"I think so"

"Smack your head and see if you remember", Sasha suggested.

"That's not how that works Sash", you gave her a well-meaning smile.

"No she's right Y/N. He might remember if he stopped holding hands with Historia for once. Go get a head-butt from the Commandant", Jean said sarcastically, referring to the one he received himself during the opening-ceremony for the Cadet Corps.

"If that helped me remember, I'd- Wait...", Eren abruptly stood up from the table, smacking his hands against the surface making the whole thing rumble; you almost spilled soup all over yourself. "The Cadet Corps commandant... Keith Sadies!"

"T-titan-face-Sadies?", Sasha asked nervous. Ever since the initial attack on Trost, the nickname you had for Sadies stuck with your friends, since they had finally seen real titans in the flesh and could confirm Sadies was just as scary. You swallowed the sudden lump in your throat.