I watched as Levi got up and started running towards the dorms to get his book. When he was far enough away I let myself think freely. My chest hurt. It was so hard to breathe. I couldn't sleep at all tonight and just when I started falling asleep I heard something that made me wake up instantly. "Eren, don't jump." Levi had said in his sleep.

Don't jump. Is that what is going to happen to me? Why though? I've never been happier, but suddenly everyone is on edge and my name is the only one that's come up. I'm scared I don't know what to do. I don't what to burden Levi with these emotions, I know he's worried enough as is, but I don't know if I should tell him. He clearly doesn't remember his dream or telling me not to jump in his sleep. I feel like telling him would just panic him more.

I looked up from my notebook and tried to take a few deep breaths. I need to calm back down before Levi gets back. I looked around at the scenery to try and calm down to focus on anything other than my thoughts. That's when I saw something unusual. I sat there just staring at the tree line for a moment before realizing what I was seeing. That's a person. Shit, they are running towards the cliff.

Without thinking I sprang to my feel and bolted after them. I couldn't see who it was from this distance. All I knew was that I had to run as fast as I could to catch up with them. I have to stop them. Even if it means breaking my promise to Levi to not go anywhere near the cliff. I made it to the tree line and just kept running. My heart was beating so fast I could barely hear someone calling my name over the thumping in my ears.

That's Levi's voice. Shit, this probably looks bad, but I don't have time to stop and explain. I just have to catch up with that person. I kept running, I saw a figure at the edge of the cliff. Before I could yell at them to stop they went over the edge and they disappeared from sight. Shit. I pushed myself to go faster despite my body telling me to stop. I took a deep breath and without hesitation jumped off the cliff after the person.

"Eren! No! Please don't jump!" I heard Levi yelled from behind me. Shit too late for that. At least I know the context behind those words now. Well, Levi, you have faith in my powers, I hope you were right, or we are both screwed.

I used my powers to make myself heavier to catch up with the person who had jumped before me. I started falling faster and the ground was getting closer to the both of us. This better work. When I was next to them I grabbed them and pulled them close to me before using every ounce of strength to make us weightless. It came faster than expected and definitely knocked the wind out of the both of us, but hey it's better than dying. I slowed us down a bit so we didn't catapult into the sky. After gasping for air for a moment I finally was able to catch my breath.

On the way back up I saw who I was holding and instantly felt tears come to my eyes. I was only able to ask one question. "Why?"

"I'm so sorry," he mumbled, "I'm sorry." He hugged me tight and just cried on my shoulder. As we neared the top of the cliff I just hugged him tightly. I set us down gently away from the edge and we both fell to our knees.

"Eren!" I heard Levi say his voice was broken and his face filled with tears. I knew he was going to yell at me and ask me what the hell I was doing until he froze. "Armin?" He asked seeing the person who I was holding. I watched as Levi pieced together what had happened. Well, there's one less thing I have to explain.

"I'm sorry," Armin mumbled again clinging to my shirt. Levi just sat down next to us and threw his arms around both of us. "I don't know what I'm doing anymore," his voice shook. "I was about to walk away. I was starting to have doubts, but my foot phased and then I was falling and, and-," Armin rushed out before fully breaking down in my arms.

After a few minutes, he took some deep breaths and we were able to talk to him. "Why were you going to the cliff?" I asked and I felt his hands tighten on my shirt.

"I wanted to jump, but I couldn't bring myself to actually do it. My power did it for me."

"Why did you want to jump?"

Armin started shaking as he tried to hold back tears. "He's gone!" Armin blurted out, "he's dead. He was everything to me, and now he's gone and I can't even say goodbye," his voice started to shake as he started sobbing again.

Levi tapped my shoulder getting me to look at him. I pointed to his own head before pointing to Armin. Okay, so Levi's trying to tell me he read Armin's thoughts. His grandpa died. He mouthed to me.

I took a deep breath and felt tears come to my own eyes. Armin's grandpa was the most caring person I've ever met. We hung out at his house a lot and he would always take us out to lunch and bring us snacks. He was like a grandpa to Mikasa and me too. No wonder Armin's so upset. I just held him close to me and took some deep breaths.

"When?" I asked trying to hide the fact that I was crying now too. I don't think I did a very good job.

"I got a call earlier from the cops. Apparently the neighbor called them to check up on him since she hadn't seen him all day and when they checked they found him still lying in bed." Armin said taking some deep breaths between his words.

Armin's grandpa was always outside sitting on the porch every chance he had. It sounds like he passed in his sleep. I took a deep breath trying to focus more on comforting Armin rather than letting myself break down.

Levi just held us both and I hugged Armin closer. "I'm so sorry," I whispered rubbing his back. We just sat there for a while. I don't know how much time passed. It took us a while to calm down. Eventually, Armin had stopped crying. I don't know if it was because he was able to hold back the tears, or if there were no tears left to cry, but he

"Thank you for saving me," he mumbled taking a few deep breaths. "Why did you jump off the cliff after me?"

"Because I care about you. You're my friend I'm not letting you off the hook that easily. You can't just die on me what the hell were you thinking. If you're jumping then I'm jumping too. Mostly to bring your ass right back up here and chew you out for trying to die without Mikasa and my permission," I said trying to lighten the subject. It worked I got Armin to laugh.

"I really am sorry," he said getting more serious. " I didn't mean to. Well I mean I came out here with every intention of jumping, but I changed my mind but then..." his voice drifted off. "Well you know what happened next," he mumbled.

"Why didn't you tell us earlier? You know we are always there for you," I said putting my hand on his shoulder.

"I know. Earlier I was just in denial, I didn't want to think about it I pretended it wasn't real that it was just a nightmare.

"You were in shock," Levi said with a shake of his head, "I should have known," he mumbled.

"You tried to ready my emotions earlier huh?" Armin asked.

"Yeah, and nothing came up, literally nothing at all. Then again I wasn't next to you so that could have had something to do with it, but shock makes so much more sense. Shock is so hard to read since it could look like anything." Levi just let out a frustrated sigh.

"Sorry," Armin mumbled. "But once everything hit, it hit hard," Armin shook his head. I couldn't stop crying and all I could think about was if I could see him again and then the cliff popped into my mind and well, yeah." He took a deep breath.

"Connie didn't say anything?" Levi asked and Armin just kinda shook his head.

"Connie's in Sasha's dorm tonight," he said awkwardly.

"Damn him. I'm gonna kick his ass I swear," Levi mumbled and Armin let out a little snicker.

"Why don't we all head back to the dorms?" I suggested. It was better than sitting at the edge of this cliff. Besides Armin looked like he was freezing.

"I'd like that," Armin said. I helped them to their feet before feeling really light-headed. I grabbed Levi's shoulder as I almost lost my footing. I took a deep breath and blinked trying to get my vision to unblur.

"You okay?" Levi asked practically holding me up.

"Just a little disoriented," I said shaking my head a little as everything started to fix, "I think my powers have a bigger drawback than I realized." I let out an awkward laugh before we all headed towards the dorm.

Levi checked the time and it was about time we headed back anyway. We stopped by the blanket and packed up our stuff. I watched as Levi walked a little ways away before picking up his book that looked like it was thrown there.

We started walking towards the dorms when Armin nudged me, "I don't really want to be alone tonight," he whispered awkwardly to me.

"I looked at Levi for permission assuming he had already read my thoughts. He gave me a nod and I proceeded with my offer. "Why don't you stay in our dorm tonight?"

Armin froze for a minute before looking at Levi and back at me. I could tell he didn't know what to say. "I-I mean isn't that going to be awkward?" He asked.

"Not at all," Levi said with a smile, "we are happy to have you," he said and Armin nodded.

"Okay then," he smiled. "Thanks, guys."

"We're going to stop by your dorm so you can grab some clothes and whatever else you need," Levi said and Armin nodded.

We did just that we headed to Armin's dorm and waited outside while he grabbed some spare clothes for the night. While we were in the hall Levi wrapped his arms around me and pulled me close.

"You scared the hell out of me," he mumbled.

"I'm sorry, I broke my promise," I said placing a kiss on his lips.

"I'll make an exception this time," I heard him say as his hands wrapped themselves in the fabric of my shirt. "Just please never do that again."

"Believe me if it can be helped I never want to do that again in my life that was the scariest thing I've ever done. However, there are two upsides. I saved Armin, and I think I mastered my powers in the process. Well maybe not mastered but I definitely did something right." I said proudly.

Levi just shook his head with a smile before pulling me into a kiss. When he pulled away I heard him start to speak

"I don't care if I'm saying this too early, seeing you go over that cliff I thought I would never have a chance to tell you so I'm telling you now. Eren, I love you."

I froze hearing those words. I just pulled him back into a kiss before smiling like an idiot, "I love you too."

Armin came back out and looked at the two of us before I blurted out, "Levi just told me he loved me." To give some context to what he was seeing.

"Congrats," Armin smiled giving Levi a thumbs up. We all headed back to our dorm. I offered my bed to Armin and Levi and I laid in Levi's bed.

I felt exhausted but I couldn't bring myself to go to sleep. Not until Armin was sleeping peacefully. After a while, I heard some muffled sniffles coming from the other side of the room. I slid out of Levi's arms. He gave me a nod before we both walked over to Armin.

Levi sat on the bed and put his hand on Armin's back and rubbed circles into it through the covers. I slid my hand under the covers and found Armin's hand. He grabbed my hand and gave it a squeeze before rolling over in the bed and sitting up to hug us.

I ended up holding Armin close and Levi rubbed his back. It took a little while but he ended up crying himself to sleep. I don't know when Levi and I ended up falling asleep but we all ended up sleeping in the same bed that night.