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Previously:

I need to speak to Eren but I haven't seen my phone since the crash and he looked pretty pissed anyways... maybe I should just give him a little bit of time alone to cool off.

I realized the blood had stopped and pulled the tissue away from my nose, shooting it at the waste bin on the other side of the room and luckily making it in perfectly first time.

I sighed, if only life were as simple as that.

Now:

Eren P.o.v:

"Eren! Stop running off like that, especially near the road. You could get hurt, how many times must I tell you?" She said with an annoyed expression.

"Sorry..." I muttered as I watched our bus (that I had been running to catch so that I could stop the driver at the bus stop.) drive away down the road. 

Needless to say I failed my mission. 

"We'll have to walk, it'll just leave us running a little late but it's fine, I can explain what happened."

I nodded and reached for her outstretched hand, falling into step beside her as we took a left that led to the never ending maze of alleyways and side roads. I hate going down here, it smells like pee and alcohol and there are always strange groups of people lurking at every turn we take.

As we kept walking, the comfortable silence that we had grown used to over the years was shattered by loud voices that echoed through the narrow alley we were walking in.

Four people rounded the corner we were currently heading towards, they were tall and scary and three of the four had an evil smirk on their face as they approached.

"Well looky 'ere. We got ourselfs some luck. You're just the person we were lookin' for." Said the man closest to us, he was the tallest of all of them and perhaps the scariest.

She gripped my hand tighter and tried to lead me past the group, only to have a female with fiery red hair step in her way.

"Oh I know you're not trying to walk away from us." She said with an evil grin.

"P-please. Don't do this... we've d-done nothing wrong."

Three of them laughed and proceeded to back us into a corner whilst the fourth leaned against the wall behind them, acting almost disinterested in anything that was going on.

"He aint, so we'll leave 'im alone... but you, you don't deserve to be 'ere after everything you done."

"I-I don't know what you're talking about. P-please just l-let us leave."

She was crying now, the sun that was barely lighting up the dingy alleyway making her tears glow as they trailed down her face.

"H-hey!" I spoke up hesitantly, "Leave her alone, she hasn't done anything to you!" I said stepping forwards, letting go of her hand to glare at the group.

"Eren no, don't get involved. Come back here."

The girl with red hair laughed and stepped towards me, leaning down to look me in the face.

"Get a load of this kid... you know one day that mouth of yours is gonna get you in trouble."

I felt movement behind me and suddenly I was yanked back, her figure loomed over me as she stood guard, making sure I was out of their way.

"Don't you go any closer to him. He's just a child."

There was more confidence in her voice now as she held me firmly in place behind her. I peeked around her arm hesitantly, keeping my eye on them all.

"Well well, playing the hero now are we?" The third man spoke up. He had a head of long dirty blonde hair that covered his eyes, making me wonder how he could see.

"I already said we'll leave the kid alone, it's you we want and you only." The first man again.

"I'm afraid you've wasted too much of our time already, so we'll have to cut this short. Excuse the pun."

There was a flash of silver, and a painful cry that turned into an ear piercing scream.

And then the shadow that had loomed over me seconds before was gone.

The three figures looked down at her on the floor and then at me. The woman walked over with a sad smile.

"Sorry you had to see that kid, but it's for the best." She said, ruffling my hair.

"Get... a-away from... h-him."

The redhead kicked the hand that had wrapped around her ankle weakly and spat on the floor in front of her face.

I was frozen as the figures retreated, unable to move as the shock ran through my body and sent chills down my spine.

I looked down and saw the thick red liquid pooling around my feet, saw the pained expression on her features, saw the jagged rise and fall of her chest.

"N-no..." I whispered, almost inaudible as the footsteps got further away.

"No!" I shouted this time.

In four seconds flat I had caught up to the group and swiped the knife from the redhead's hands.

"W-what? Hey! Give that back you little shit!"

I didn't hesitate long enough to reply, I  propelled myself forwards and rammed the knife straight through her stomach. Blood immediately began to soak through her shirt as I pulled the knife away again.

She screamed and then fell to the floor.

"You bastard! Come here!" The blonde haired male called out, running towards me.

I dodged what would have been a nasty punch to the face and turned midair to kick him in the back, he stumbled and fell to his knees and in the next movement I had moved around to his front before stabbing him through his right shoulder.

He screamed.

He stumbled to find his feet and when he did I kicked him right in the crown jewels and then stabbed him two more times in the stomach.

He tried to catch me a fourth time, but the wound to his shoulder was deep and a man can only stand so much.

He fell to the floor and didn't move, blood pooling around him.

I turned to the other two members of the group only to find that they weren't there.

I cursed loudly and dropped the knife, running over to the limp figure I had abandoned in my frenzy of anger and pulling it into my lap. She was barely breathing.

"N-no... no you can't leave. You promised you'd watch me grow up... y-you said you'd always be there."

'I-I’m sorry Eren. I-I’m so s-sorry... I love you."

"D-don't say that! Don't talk like you're not going to live!"

"I love you, b-be safe."

"Please!"

Her body went limp in my arms and her eyes closed, a small sigh leaving her lips as her chest refused to rise anymore.

"Mom! N-no! Nonono! Mom wake up!"

Tears were flowing freely from my eyes now, blurring my vision.

"HELP! S-SOMEBODY HELP ME!" My voice came out desperate as it bounced off of the dirty brick walls and into the air above.

There were footsteps approaching and I turned to see two figures.

"O-ohmygod. R-reiner go and get my dad!" A boys voice. But I wasn't concentrated on that.

"Mom! Mommy please wake up! You can't leave like this... you -sobbing- you promised... You promised!"

"Hey, it's going to be alright. My friend over there is getting help. What happened?" The voice was somehow calm and extremely soothing in light of everything that had happened in the space of ten minutes. I felt the boy crouch down next to me.

I tried to speak again but only sobs escaped my mouth.

He shook his head and moved to wrap an arm around me, rubbing circles into my back in an attempt at comfort and I broke down completely.

I screamed loudly and then continued to cry. The boy began crying too as I fell into his arms, sobbing into his shoulder.

There were sirens and more footsteps as I continued to cry and he continued to soothe.

Many cries of disbelief made their way to my ears but I blocked them out.

Somehow the redhead and the blonde had disappeared whilst I was distracted meaning it was just me and my mom in the dark alleyway.

What did I do?

What did I do to deserve this?

She is- ...was my everything and now she's gone.

The next few hours were a complete blur. I know there was a lot of concerned glances and some pitying smiles, and a lot of questions too.

"What happened?"

"Who did it?"

"Are you okay?"

They're the main ones I can remember, and I didn't answer any of them.

I kept my mouth locked shut as I waited in a cold, dark room of the local police station.

The boy, who's name I had learnt was Bertholdt, was there the entire time. Hugging me and reassuring me that everything would be okay soon.

But it wasn't, and it never will be.

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A/N:

I'M SO SO SORRY.

Lmao, no I'm not.

I've had this planned for a while but I was waiting for the perfect moment to write it. So voila.

Lol y'all wanted an update so y'all got one.

Okay but fr I cried like three times writing this. Send help :')

Okay so question:

Do any of you like Klance? Because I'm in the middle of writing a Klance oneshots book and I thought I'd ask so that you're all aware of its existence.

It's just a draft atm but if you want me to I will publish it.

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