"What do you mean?" Pixis asked. "What's wrong?"

"We need to call a "family" meeting." Pixis's face got serious as he turned to Shadis. "Wake them up."

Shadis ran to the room and everyone headed up to the top floor. It was a big room with nothing but a long table and a ton of chairs that Petra and I had made.

Eren and I sat at the head of the table this time since we were the ones that called the meeting. We waited for everyone to finish stumbling in. Everyone looked half asleep as they took their seats. We had the two new people take a seat off to the side. When Shadis came in and gave us a nod we knew everyone was here.

I stood up to speak but the second I tried I was cut off. "What's so important that you had to wake everyone up?" Reiner asked he was trying to sound pissed, but I could tell he was worried. We hardly ever have to call family meetings. The last time we had to call one was when they implemented the badge system.

"While talking to the people we rescued Eren and I realized something that you are going to all want to hear." I looked at the two guests who were sitting off to the side to see if they would be willing to come up and talk, but they both seemed too nervous. I just took a breath and continued.

"There were two people who we rescued who didn't seem like they belonged; they weren't exiles and they didn't seem like they were rebelling in any way. So we asked them why they got captured."

Eren stood up as I took a breath, "They were both taken from their homes in the middle of the night. Both of them are blue badges. They are taking out any people who are potentially threatening before they even do anything." I heard whispers throughout the room.

"The government is now kidnapping it's citizens in the middle of the night and shipping them off to correctional camps," I started back up again, "or worse, one of the people we rescued was threatened to be shot if he resisted. It makes me wonder how many people were shot in their own homes because of this." I asked specifically looking at Auruo, Molbit, and Mom. I was going to talk with them privately later to try and figure out if they could find out how many times this has happened. Auruo could help us get in contact with allies that might know whereas Molbit and Mom could figure out through their roles as spies.

The room roared with everyone's frustration as they all expressed how disturbed this made them.

"I knew they were all stupid but this... this is insane!" Ymir shouted.

"They are killing innocent people!" Hanna yelled.

"How could they do this? Do they not have any remorse?" I heard Mom say.

"That's horrible," Christa shook her head.

"They really are some sick fucks," Annie closed her eyes and put a hand over her face.

"We have to do something about this!" Jean said, shooting to his feet.

They all started yelling in Harmony. I could tell Eren wasn't really able to follow along with the chaos that roared across the room. I, on the other hand, was able to follow a little better.

"Alright. Everyone quiet down please!" Pixis spoke up, "I know this all sounds troubling and I know we all want to do something about it, but as of right now we need to get more information before we can," he said trying to calm everyone down. "As for right now, the meeting is over you should all go back to bed. We will be discussing this more in the days to come."

Everyone slowly cleared out of the room and I could feel the anger coming off of most of them still, though I could be blinded by my own rage as well. "Nice catch," Pixis said, walking up to Eren and I. "We would have never realized this was happening if it weren't for you two. I'll have Auruo look into it in the morning."

"And tonight?" I asked.

"Tonight, you rest," he said, putting a hand on my shoulder, "you guys pulled off an amazing mission, you saved five people, and found new information. You've done enough for tonight, now it's time for you to get some sleep you deserve."

"And them?" Eren asked, looking towards the two civilians who we couldn't exactly just send back to their homes as if nothing happened.

"I'm going to have Erwin teleport them back home and let them grab a few things. Then we will decide what to do from there until we figure it out we will have them stay here."

It was hard to argue with him; we both just agreed and headed back to our room. Mom was waiting for us just by the door. We walked into the room and had her follow us in. The second we were inside the room she pulled us both into a group hug. I could feel how tired she was.

"I'm so proud of you boys. You saved another group of people," she said holding us tight. She kept her face out of our sight as she hugged us and I knew she was tearing up. She had been sitting up all night just waiting and worrying about us. Every time we went out on a mission she was scared we wouldn't come back and every time we did she would tell us how proud she is and how much she loves us.

She cleared her throat and let us go before standing up straight and looking at us, "anyway I should let you boys get some sleep," she said ruffling our hair. I could see the red tint to her eyes from crying and the bags under them.

"Thanks, mom," Eren said, giving her a smile.

"We love you mom," I said, giving her another hug to calm her nerves. Eren joined in and I felt her muscles relax a little.

"I love you too boy's," I could hear the smile in her voice. "I'm going to head back to my room and get some sleep," she said before placing a kiss on each of our foreheads before heading out.

Eren's smile dropped as soon as she left the room. He turned to me with worry in his eyes. Before he could even speak I just pulled him into a hug, "I know babe, I'm scared too," I whispered.

"They were just ripped from their homes, how could they treat people like that." Eren's voice cracked as he tried to hold back his tears. "I knew they hated us, but them- they didn't do anything. They are innocent people trying to live their lives and they could have been killed for just existing."

All of the muscles in his body were tensed up and his hands were balled into fists. I could feel the air around us growing heavier by the second. This wasn't just sadness and fear anymore this is pure rage.

"We never asked for this! For any of it! Do they think we want to be traumatized so badly that our bodies think that if they don't adapt in some way that we will die!" his voice rose and before I could try and calm him down to stop him from waking anyone up, or worse destroying half the building his voice got really quiet. "I never wanted any of this," I could barely make out what he whispered under his breath.

"Baby," I spoke softly, looking into his glazed over watery eyes. I watched as he blinked a few times and looked up at me as he snapped out of his thoughts.

"Sorry," he mumbled out.

Our curtain flew open. Our room was closest to theirs and I knew they had heard Eren. I was waiting for them to chew us out for being too loud and keeping them up, but Jean just walked straight in the room and up to Eren before throwing his arms around him.

"I thought you hated hugs," Eren whispered to him.

"I do, but you like them and it sounds like you need one right now," he mumbled before sitting Eren down on the bed so we could all talk. Marco awkwardly stood in the doorway. He wasn't the type to just barge on in without being sure he was welcome. I gave him a nod and he came closer. We all sat down on the bed and talked about what had happened.

I knew Jean and Marco were worried about the whole ordeal too but it seems they were just as shocked as me to hear Eren's outburst. He hardly ever raises his voice unless he's arguing with Jean but this was different.

After Jean was sure Eren was okay they headed back to their room. With not a single insult from Jean. He must really be worried about him, as am I. I looked at Eren when they left and he looked absolutely wiped. He could barely keep his eyes open and his wrists were sore from the long night as well as the braces being on too long.

"Here babe let me free you," I teased and he held out his arms with a small smile.

"Please," he mumbled.

I carefully took them off and put them aside. "Let's get ready for bed before you decide to pass out in your costume."

"I'm not even," he yawned, "that tired."

"Yeah okay," I rolled my eyes helping him to his feet which he swayed a little on.

We both changed and got ready for bed before cuddling up next to each other. "Sorry about earlier. I didn't mean to yell I'm just really worried about what's to come. I almost don't want to know how many times this has happened already, or how many casualties have come from it."

"Me either," I said pulling him close to me, "I'm scared the number will be higher than we think and we both are already thinking of big numbers."

Eren just let out a depressed sigh. "Hopefully Auruo or Molbit will have somewhat of an answer in the morning," Eren said wanting to forget all about this for the time being and get some sleep.

"Hopefully," I whispered.

"Baby," I heard Eren whisper.

"Yeah?" I whispered back.

"I love you so much."

"I love you too. I promise you when this is over we will get married," I kissed him on the cheek as I saw his thoughts start drifting towards that field.

"Promise?"

"Promise."