Duplicate

The bell rang and we all headed to our next class. Levi and I fell behind the group. His hand held mine tight and when we had fallen far enough behind he stopped walking.

"Look, I know you're worried and confused, but honestly, I myself don't even know what's going on," he let out a sigh. "I've had a bad feeling for a while now, and Jean came to me saying he's having the same bad feeling. That can't be a coincidence, right?" Levi asked his other hand was fidgeting with the bottom of his shirt his fingers anxiously twisting the fabric. "The last time I felt this emotion was the night Isabel died, so I can't help but think that something bad is coming."

"I see," I said starting to understand the sense of panic. It also helped that I could feel the panic radiating off of him. "So you're worried someone might be in danger?"

"Yeah, but I don't know from what. Is it something preventable, or is it something totally random, or is it just nothing at all and I'm losing my mind?" Levi started to pace as his panic increased. "I mean is someone planning on killing themselves? I can try and prevent that I can look out for that and at least try to help. What if it was just an accident, I don't know what if someone gets struck by lightning or something. How am I going to be able to prevent that?" I watched as he started to spiral right in front of me. "What if-," I had to cut him off.

"Babe," I said calmly getting him to snap out of his rambling, "look I know you're worried, but this isn't going to help," I said taking both his hands in mine. "Look out for what you can. If it's something preventable then we will find out what it is and stop it. If it's not, then promise me you won't blame yourself," I said, knowing exactly how he is.

"But-."

"No buts. If it's not preventable then it's not your fault." I said squeezing his hands. "I know you want to protect everyone, but sometimes you can't." I know first hand that sometimes you can be doing everything right and sometimes you still lose the people closest to you.

"Okay," Levi said quietly before taking a calming breath, "sorry, I didn't mean to bring up any bad memories," he whispered. He must have heard me thinking about my mom.

"It's fine," I smiled before looking him in the eyes. "We will face whatever this is together. You keep watch over everyone mentally and I'll watch body language okay?"

He nodded, "Jean's also looking out for any concerning signs."

"Good." We will need all the help we can get with this.

We started making our way back to the next class. Surprisingly we weren't late, but we did get a few weird looks from our friends who had realized we had disappeared for a few minutes on the way to the class. We took out seats and I saw Levi pull out his headphones.

"I'm a little overwhelmed and I need a few minutes to calm down, After I get my thoughts cleared I'll be able to focus more on everyone else's." He said before slipping them in. I just held his hand and gave him a smile. I'm glad he was taking care of himself before tackling this. Sometimes you have to help yourself before you can help others. I'm glad he's starting to see that.

I took this chance to let my thoughts free for a second. Levi managed to calm down a little with the help of his music, but I could tell he was still really worried, and honestly so was I. Just the thought of losing someone scared me, but I have to keep my head up. I have to be the voice of reason. I know if I'm not, then no one will be.

I kept an eye out on the class everyone pretty much looked normal, well as normal as I think they are. Then again I never really look around the class that often. It didn't take long for Eld and Mike to come in and greet the class.

"Good afternoon," Mike said giving us all a smile. He took role before starting off the class. "I'm sure Hanji and Erwin told you what we are all doing now," Mike said before looking to Eld. Levi pulled out his headphones as they were taking role. He was more focused on the class rather than what the teachers were saying.

"Will our student-teacher come up and join us," Eld said softly. Nothing happened for a moment and then we heard it.

"Oh shit that's me," Sasha said before awkwardly standing up and walking to the front. "Sorry I forgot for a minute," she laughed as she joined them at the front of the room.

"Sasha will be telling you all about her power," Eld smiled giving her a smile before the teachers stepped out of her way.

"Alright, hey everyone. I'm sure you all know my power by now," Sasha said as she stretched her back. "Actually, I don't feel like explaining my power," she said and the teachers gave her a confused look as she smiled. "So I'm going to have her do it," she said before splitting into two.

"Awe do I have to," the second Sasha said with a playful pout.

"Yup," she said before leaning back and letting her double do the work for her.

"Well," The double started talking, "I can control everything that these duplicates say and do, and before you ask, yes I was essentially having conversations with myself. Sometimes you just need to talk to yourself," Both Sashas laughed. "So I can see everything she sees and I can hear everything she hears. However-" she paused.

Sasha spoke up next, "can I call up a volunteer for this next part? She asked turning towards the teachers asking permission.

"Sure I don't see why not," Mike shrugged.

"Perfect," Sasha's double said before pointing to Jean, "do you mind helping me out?"

He just shrugged and stood up, "what do you need me to do?" He asked.

"I need you to burn me," Sasha number two said with a big smile.

"What the hell no," Jean said shaking his head.

"Please, just pretend I'm Connie," She said and Jean looked back at Connie before looking at Sasha's double. "Fine, but if you get hurt it's not my fault," he looked nervous and I felt myself nearly stand up in my chair to stop this. That was until I saw Mike start to walk forward and Eld put his hand out to stop him allowing Sasha to go through with this.

If the teacher is okay with this then how bad can it be? I just pray this isn't the incident that Levi and Jean were getting bad feelings from. I looked at Levi and he seemed totally fine with this. Maybe he knows something I don't?

Jean's hand engulfed in fire and he clenched his eyes shut as he grabbed the doubles arm. A scream rang out in the classroom. Jean nearly jumped back and everyone was worried but before anyone could say or do anything else Sasha burst out laughing causing the double to laugh too. "Only kidding," she said. "I can't feel anything the duplicates feel, and they can't feel anything. I mean I can make them look like they are feeling stuff like I did just there but in actuality, they don't feel anything." She smiled.

Jean just glared at her he looked so pissed off at her. "You can burn her again," she said. He hesitated but did so anyway. This time the double just looked down at the fire engulfing her arm and looked unphased. Her skin didn't even look burned.

"So ask you can see the fire isn't actually doing anything to the double, but if I think hard enough I can make it look like it is. She said before closing her eyes and really focusing. Before we knew it the skin started to burn on the double's arm however the double still remained unphased.

"This part of my power is new and takes a lot of focus, but I'm getting there," Sasha said before thanking Jean. Jean took his seat muttering some curses under his breath as he did.

After a moment the damaged parts of the double returned to normal and Sasha shrugged. "I'm still learning," she shrugged it off with an awkward laugh. "Also, I personally can make up to ten duplicates of myself." She said before doing so.

"Now as you can see most of these duplicates have their eyes closed," She said pointing to them. Only the first duplicate that was talking before had its eyes open.

"Now this is because I can easily get a headache if too many of them are looking around at once since I can see what they see. It gets very overwhelming. I can also hear everything they hear which can get overwhelming too but at the moment it just sounds kinda normal since they are all listening to the same thing."

One by one they all disappeared aside from the one that was there before. "Any questions so far?" She asked and a few hands raised.

I looked to Levi who seemed more focused on a different person. What's up? I thought before leaning closer to him to hear his response.

"Eld's thoughts seem darker than normal," he whispered. "Normally he has some depressing thoughts here and there, but so far he's had more than usual.

Wait this whole time I was thinking it must be a student. I didn't even realize that the teachers could be in danger. What's he thinking. I thought to Levi.

"A lot of self-hatred and just bad thoughts in general."

I took a deep breath before trying to think about this. How are we going to talk to him about this can we even talk to him about this? I mean isn't he going to ask why Levi's snooping around in people's heads? What if-.

"Eren control your thoughts," Levi said rubbing his head probably since all the thoughts that just flooded through my mind gave him a headache. "I'm just going to ask him if he's okay. I'll tell him that I overheard what he was thinking on accident and just wanted to make sure he's okay." Levi said calmly. "I'm going to wait until class is over though since he's going to be busy with lessons."

Oh, that sounds reasonable. I thought before giving him an awkward smile. So much for being the voice of reason. I shook my head.

Levi just raised an eyebrow before we both turned our heads to the front as Eld started talking.

"Thank you, Sasha, for that very educational, and very entertaining display of your powers," he said giving her a smile before letting Mike take over.

"Alright as for lessons. Hanji and Erwin passed down the list of students they believe need joint lessons this week. We will be taking those students first. After we finish them we will call out the rest of you and you can tell us which one you would rather have a lesson with.

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