Grisha Jaeger's POV:
'Grisha come look at this quickly, but be quiet', my wife's voice alerted me.
'Coming Carla', I whispered in reply, putting my briefcase down to walk up the tall staircase, the wooden planks creaking as I arrived to see my beautiful wife outside of the children's bedroom.
Acknowledging I was there, she slowly pushed the wooden door open, hoping the sound of the metal hinges moving wouldn't awaken them.
But they were all fast asleep.
'Seems like Eren climbed into F/N's bed last night', she giggled whilst observing them, 'They do look quite peaceful, maybe she had a bad dream'.
Now thinking about it, I did hear people talking at early hours in the morning, 'Perhaps', I agreed with her, 'She's probably still frightened as this is a new home with new people. We're the first people she's seen since she woke up yesterday'.
'Oh what a poor soul she must've been so scared', a sad look appeared on my wife's face, as genuine as it could be.
'It's okay Carla she's here with us now and she'll be safe. Why dont we try to cheer her up and after breakfast, well maybe lunch now they've slept in, let Eren and Mikasa take her to meet Armin? I'm sure Eren has mentioned him once or twice by now so he should be familiar'.
The mood on her face became brighter, as she was hoping for them to have a good day, 'I'll prepare a little snack for them to take with them, but for now let's let them sleep in and i'll get started on lunch, I imagine they'll be very hungry when they wake up. Are you coming Grisha?'.
'I just need to grab a few things for the family i'm going to visit today so i'll be right down', I replied with a smile.
'Okay dear see you downstairs', Carla said to me as she tied her dark hair into her signature low ponytail, and began walking down the staircase.
Once she arrived at the bottom, my head slowly turned back to look at the three of them fast asleep.
So peaceful.
So innocent.
'Why does the world have to be so cruel', I quietly whispered with a single tear rolling down my cheek, hoping them nor Carla would hear...
But someone.
Someone out there who could save them.
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F/N's POV:
Birds began to chirp as I opened my tired eyes, the light getting brighter as the curtains opened and the glorious sunshine came right through, a breeze fell into the room.
'What happened last night?', I questioned, raising my palm to my head with a slight headache.
My words seemed to have awoken Eren as he too started to open his emerald eyes, 'You had a nightmare F/N, early on in the morning, I wouldn't worry though it's all good now'.
The memories of my nightmare came rushing back after that.
'Do you wanna talk about it?', he questioned as he saw the concerned look on my face.
'Actually, yeah I do', and with that his pointy ears turned attentively.
'I was in some room, there were loads of people but I couldn't make out much of their faces. Then there was this lady who picked me up. I tried speaking but no one could hear me and all of a sudden the room was broken into and I got separated from the lady holding me. It was much more vivid than that but i'm not too sure how to describe it'.
'Wow that seems scary, could you see the woman holding you? What about her face?', he questioned with a concerned look on his face.
And now that I thought about it, she was the only one I could make out.
'Yeah, but I cant remember much of it', I looked down with sadness as my brain knew her from somewhere too, I just had to connect it.
'Wait a second', I picked up my necklace off of my delicate neck, 'She was wearing this, I swear she was'.
'Your necklace?', he asked concerned.
'Yeah! that's the only detail coming back to me. I wonder why', I thought as he shrugged his shoulders, also in confusion.
Abruptly, a growl came from somewhere.
My stomach.
My eyes darted to Eren as he started to laugh, 'You hungry?', he questioned trying not to fall off of the bed.
'Yes actually I am! I feel like I haven't eaten in years!', to be honest I couldn't help but laugh too, it was quite a funny grumble.
'What are we laughing about?' a tiny voice arose from across the room, I looked over to see Mikasa, with major bed head, rubbing her eyes.
'Oh sorry we woke you Mikasa, my stomach just made a noise because i'm so hungry and we couldn't help but laugh', I admitted to her clueless self.
She also let out a small giggle, wishing she had heard it, 'We best get some food then, come on F/N let's go downstairs'.
Eren soon dragged me out of the bed by my hand, although not forcefully, as Mikasa opened the heavy door. We three hastily made our way down to the kitchen, with the smell of a fresh lunch filling our nostrils.
'Good afternoon you three, quite the lie in you had!', Carla spoke as the three of us looked at each other, realising none of us had checked the time.
'It's 5 minutes past 12', a voice came from behind a giant newspaper, as it was brought down to reveal Grisha with a cup of tea.
'Morning Dad!', Eren said as he ran around to his seat to eat.
'Good morning, how was everyones night?', he asked in reply.
About to reply, I walked over to the same seat I had last night. I wasn't 100% sure if I could pull it out, but I did, I felt a lot stronger already.
It wasn't as heavy as last night either.
'I see we have two strong girls in the house', Carla stated with a giant smirk surfing her face, as she brought over what smelled like a fresh tomato soup.
'I had a nightmare' I quietly let out.
Carla nudged Grisha's foot which I noticed, so I suppose they must've heard something. Whether it was me crying or Eren comforting me i'll just leave for them to know.
'Oh dear what happened?', she asked whilst setting down some fluffy baked bread on the table.
This would be the first time Mikasa was hearing about it too, so I decided to explain again.
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'So yeah that's what i've told Eren because it's all I can remember... and also my necklace. The lady being the only person I could see, was wearing this'.
I lifted up the purple stone on my neck for everyone to see.
'Maybe it means something F/N', Mikasa pondered.
'Perhaps, but i'm sure it's nothing to worry about too much. I hope your feeling better now F/N', Grisha insisted.
'Yes me too sweetie that must've been scary. Why dont we have some lunch now and I was thinking you guys could go and meet Armin later?, introduce F/N to him?', Carla put forth as Eren and Mikasa very quickly agreed with excitement.
He knows something. He's not very good at hiding it, I once again thought to myself, There's something off about him.
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'Here you go there's a little snack for the each of you in this basket, including Armin so make sure to give him one', Carla requested whilst watching us leave the house to go on today's adventure.
On me I had a little purple dress, with a white cardigan. It was very cute, and I was so grateful that I had some clothes given to me.
'Come on F/N and Mikasa let's go!' Eren shouted as he picked up the pace. Mikasa grabbed my hand so that I could keep up with them, but the both of us went past him, smiling as we ran.
I assumed that Mikasa knew where we were going, as Eren trailed us and we eventually got to the so called 'meeting point'.
'I told Armin to meet us here, he should be here soon', Eren assured when a tiny figure came around from behind him, holding what looked to be an old book.
He had golden blonde hair that shone bright in the sun, about shoulder length, and he had on him a blue cardigan.
'Hello everyone', he said with a timid voice, 'I didn't know we had a new friend coming today Eren'.
Slightly nervous, he walked up to me and stuck his hand out. 'My name is Armin Arlert, nice to meet you'.
'My name is F/N, nice to meet you too, what have you got there?', the awkwardness quickly vanished as we soon became intrested in eachother, now knowing we'd all get along swimmingly.
'My book! I brought it out to read today to Eren and Mikasa, and of course now to you too. She's apart of our group now right Eren?', he asked.
'Of course she is, always will be', Eren assured, giving me a smile.
It felt so nice to have good people around me, people that I could trust and love, and in general have around to be there for.
We sat down on the grass bank, just above the stream that carried Shiganshia's boats through the walls.
'What's your book about Armin? I do love books', I questioned.
'It's an old legend, it's called 'The girl born of titan vomit'', he showed us the front cover of it.
'Ew gross', Eren stated as he made a mucky expression with his face, 'That can't be a true legend'.
'I swear it is!, just let me read it to you all!', he pleaded.
'Go ahead Armin', I insisted giving a reassuring smile as I truly wanted to hear it, and in return he smiled back.
'It begins with a young girl, no older than we are, probably the same age actually, she opened her eyes to being covered in a mass of titan vomit, the stench covering her body as steam evaporated from her clothes...', he began.
All of our eyes widened, listening so carefully to him. This was going to be an interesting story.
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'...and that's the end', Armin concluded after the story, or well, legend.
'What do you mean that's the end? It's clearly unfinished!', Eren moaned.
'Yes I know Eren, but my grandad told me he's had this book since he was little and the end pages have always been missing, see here i'm not lying', he turned the old book around to show us the last pages, all blank.
So much space to be filled.
'Well who does that?!', he moaned once again.
'Calm down Eren i'm sure there's a reason', Mikasa assured him.
'My grandad said that the book rewrites itself', Armin revealed.
'What do you mean by that?' I questioned.
'Well I pulled this out of my grandad's library, upon questioning he told me that the book was all blank when he first got it. Now a few pages have writing on them, we assumed the book began to write itself', he told.
'That's cool!', my eyes widened in excitement.
'As for now, my grandad and I try to make up an ending for the story, although it seems like there is still alot to go... What do you guys think?'.
We all thought for a while, trying to think of the perfect ending. But it was hard, none of us could decide.
I thought of a little one to myself, but didn't want to share it.
'What about you Armin, you've read this plenty of times so surely you have an answer?', I posed to him.
'Sure I've read it loads, but the book only recently changed and so i'm yet to come up with a definite one. I just like to think she does what is right in the end. What she believes is best for every one, you know?', he answered me.
'Wow that's good', we said to him in unison.
'You know I really hope we get to find the ending of it one day', Eren expressed as he played with the small grassy patches, twirling the blades between his fingers.
'Yeah i'd like to know what happened to her', Mikasa placed as we all agreed.
'Yeah me t-' achoo!!', I let out a sneeze before I could finish my sentence, 'Ah sorry!!' , I exclaimed whilst holding my nose, looking around for a tissue that I didn't have.
'Here it's okay', the blonde boy affirmed whilst running over to me with a handkerchief. He quickly put it to my nose, letting me wipe it and my hands.
'Dont worry it is a fresh one, and I'll wash it too no worries, I have plenty of clean ones in my left pocket i'll put this one in my right', he smartly fixed the situation.
'Thank you Armin', I said as I folded it before giving it back to him.
'Are you sick F/N? any allergies?', he questioned with sincerity.
'No not that i'm aware of, i'm sure i'm okay though it's probably nothing', I told.
'Okay, but you should probably check with Grisha just incase, he's a good doctor', Armin insisted.
'Yeah F/N i'll have him take a look at you when we're home and he's back too, just to be safe', Eren added as we started to pack up our things.
'We better be off now', Mikasa stated, pointing up towards the sky of many colours, soon to be dark.
'Yeah it's getting dark', Armin said in reply, 'It was nice to see you guys again, and F/N I hope you'd love to always be apart of our group'.
'Thank you Armin! Of course i'd always want to be here with you guys, shall we meet again soon?', I happily answered with another question.
'Definitely', Armin assured, 'We can meet tomorrow if you'd like? I'll bring another book!'.
'Sure!', we said in unison, 'Same time same place?', Eren checked.
'Yeah Eren, see you guys tomorrow!', Armin waved goodbye and ran off, clutching onto that book of his.
As he disappeared from our sight, we slowly started to make our way back home, through the streets of Shiganshia.
'I really enjoyed today you know? Meeting Armin was really nice', I conversated.
'I'm glad you enjoyed it F/N', Mikasa smiled whilst putting her arm around my shoulders.
'Yeah it was alot of fun, we should sleep well tonight if we're going to be back out tomorrow', Eren suggested.
'But first... race you home!'.
All of a sudden Eren bolted off straight ahead of Mikasa and I, 'Hey get back here you cheat!', I shouted.
Mikasa and I looked at each other and in deciding to start chasing after him we quickly caught up, passing him once again.
'Come on Eren, thought you said this was a race?, Mikasa teased as we both ran backwards, then turning around to run off even faster whilst laughing.
Out of breath we approached the Jaeger household, 'We won!' I panted whilst knocking on the door.
'Yeah but only by a little bit!', Eren argued as Carla opened the wide door.
'What happened to you three?', she questioned with a giggle as she could evidently see we were so out of breath.
'Eren asked us to race back here', Mikasa pointed.
'And i'm assuming you two won?', she could see as we were standing closer to the door than him, 'That's my girls, come on inside to the warm and tell me about your day'.
We stepped inside as a gloomy look covered Eren's face, 'Eren dont beat yourself up about it, you'll win one day'.
He then lifted his head, for some reason that brightened his mood, and with that we sat in the kitchen with Carla, retelling her everything Armin told us.
'Also Carla, F/N started to sneeze before we left, we were wondering if you could get Grisha to check her out before bedtime?', Mikasa wondered.
'Sure darling, i'll get him to make sure she isn't sick, F/N how are you feeling?', she spoke, placing the back of her palm on my forehead.
In all honesty I was feeling fine, I haven't got a headache or anything like that, 'I'm feeling good Carla dont worry'.
'Okay well i'll still get him to check, he should be home any moment now anyway', she noted, concerned still.
A loud knock appeared as we turned our heads, 'I'm home!', came Grisha's voice from the door way. As he set down his case Eren rushed over to him to ask about a basement, assuring him he had been well behaved, 'At least let me in the door Eren, one day you'll see it but not right now.
'Hmph', Eren sighed as Carla raised her voice, 'Grisha could you take a look a F/N whilst your equipment is here, the children have a feeling she might have caught something'.
'Sure no problem', he stated as Eren coughed.
'What?', Eren questioned, seeing everyone staring at him.
'Nothing to worry about', Grisha responded, 'Come on F/N, let's see what's up with you'.
With that I went with him to his office where most of his new equipment was, turning around to see Mikasa sniffling and Carla wiping her small nose.
Then turning back I couldn't help but wonder, what's going on?