Eren Pov

I woke up to a sound, something I don't usually wake up to.

I was still laying on my bed, but listened closer to the noise. It sounded like a bird flapping its wings. Then I remembered.

I sat up, my shackles dangling from my bed. I thought about what the girl could be doing in the cell right beside me.

I could hear her grunting and struggling, although I couldn't picture her doing anything.

"Hello?" I called out to her. "Are you awake in there, or are you, like, sleepwalking or something?" I tried to strike a conversation.

It was silent as she stopped moving. Finally she spoke. "W-who is there?"

I was surprised that she actually responded, it must be that she doesn't see who she is talking too.

"My name is Eren. I'm in the cell next to yours." I told her.

"Did they capture you too? Do you have an idea how to get out of here?" She asked suddenly.

"You're talking a lot more than last night." I said.

"Wait, you were here last night? Are you one of them? You're not him are you?" She asked, showing slight shakiness in her voice near the end.

By him, She must have meant Levi. He was the only one that frightened her to an extent.

"If you mean the short angry one, no. I'm not him. I'm the younger, taller one, um with the blue eyes." I told her my obvious trait.

She paused before asking another question. "And the blond hair?"

"No, Brown." She must've thought about Erwin. "So, how come you didn't speak this much when the others were here? And what were you doing out in the open? And what's with the wings, are you a monster?" I ask, remembering little by little.

"So, you are just like them. Only wanting answers and jumping to conclusions, calling me a monster." She muttered under her breath, but loud enough for me to hear in the echoing basement.

I stayed silent, I could also hear sniffling, as if the girl was crying.

I felt bad. "Look, I'm sorry if I offended you or something. Its just, I was curious. Please don't cry, I don't want to imagine you full of tears." It pained me to hear her whines become louder.

"I-I just didn't want to be left alone again. W-why did he have t-to go?" She cried aloud.

I frowned, not being able to comfort her, hurting me somehow. "Um, .." I didn't know what to say to make the situation better.

She continued to cry. The darkness probably didn't help.

"Hey, uh, I don't really know what to say to make you feel better, but you could tell me what's wrong. I'll listen if that's all I can do." I said scratching my head confused.

It sounded as if she was drying her tears. "You wouldn't understand,  He was the only one that could. Even if you do look like him, you aren't him." I was utterly confused now.

"Well, who is him? How did you meet him." I asked, trying to get her to calm down a little.

Sniffling, she decide to tell me. "Well ... I never knew his real name, he decided not to tell me. I met him one day, he was very badly hurt. He was also unconscious." She suddenly became silent.

"Are you okay, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to?" I said realizing, she probably didn't want to talk about someone she's lost.

"I'm fine, but, if I tell you this, I want to know it's going to stay between us. I know if someone who can do damage knows what I know, bad things will happen. And I don't want that." She said strictly.

"So, you want me to promise to keep our conversations a secret? I can do that." I said honestly.

"Promise?" She said anxiously, I guess waiting for my response.

I smiled, even though it was unseen. "Cross my heart - hope to die." I said.

She giggled painfully. "He'd say the same thing, and I'd respond with: 'no love from me if you try'... I miss him so much." She strained the last part.

"So you gonna tell me how you met, or keep me clueless?" I joked.

She snickered. "Well if you insist. It is almost funny, since it was so long ago, but now it seems more like a dream, one that won't come again."

I laid in my bed, in the new cell, and got comfortable, it seemed as if this was going to be a long story.

~*~

~2nd person POV~

You sat in a dug out cave, in the side of a mountain. The cave faced the distant sunset, giving a nice glow into the empty cave.

You continued to look onto the plain grassy field, as you sat on the edge of the cave opening. Your hair and pearl wings being nudged by the soft breeze.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, you seen one of the giant people, a name you would give to the strange people. (Titan, if you couldn't figure it out)

You looked closer as you could actually see that the giant was following something, but kept a good distance. Looking close enough, you seen it was a regular sized person.

Your 10 year old self questioned why someone would be this far out, and with a giant following them. You stood, and unknowingly began to stretch, your wings spreading to the max, being only a couple feet.

You began to flap them, getting some air that could lift you up a few feet from the ground. This was just enough to give you a soft landing.

You would definitely need one after jumping clear out of the cave, and basically swan diving towards the ground.

You had the most fun every time you got to get out the cave. After landing on the grassy ground, you ran towards the person.

Your bare feet barely touched the ground, for your wings were assisting you in speed, which also gave you a kind of glide.

Even though you were running to the person, the giant person was getting closer than you were, meaning it was going to get the person before you could.

You knew very well what would happen if the giant got a hold of the person. You at least wanted to meet the person first, if anything it wouldn't be like your 'daddy'.

The giant was basically standing beside the person, that you recognized as a man. The man stopped walking and turned around to look at the giant, he seemed to start talking to it.

You still ran towards but seemed to slow down, since it was probably going to be too late when you got there.

The giant squatted down and grabbed the person by the neck. Gripping him in the other overly sized hand, the giant gently caressed the man. You hadn't seen something like this before, supposedly the man was going to scream in terror and cry for help, but he was silent, maybe he had already died.

You were finally close enough to get a good look at the giant, but not the man. The giant had short black hair, Brown eyes, and a smile that stretched from ear to ear.

This didn't frightened you. You weren't scared by the giants, not anymore at least.

The giant turned its head to look directly at you, it's gaze not changing. You still ran at a steady pace, but now getting slightly tired of running.

The man noticed the distracted giant and looked towards you, too. At least he wasn't died.

You still couldn't make out what the man looked like, but you were very tired of running now so you walked. You were only a couple of yards from the two after all.

The giant looked back at the man, the man saying a few words, then surprisingly the giant set the man down gently.

The giant stood and turned to you, then turned around and walked away.

This was kinda normal for you, it seemed as if the giants didn't like you or something and always walked away before you could get near them.

You were finally close enough to the man that you could speak with him. The man stood.

"Hello! Are you okay?" You yelled as you walked.

He waved. Now only a couple of feet you started a conversation.

"Are you okay? Why are you out here? The giant almost killed you? Do you hear me?" The man's bright yellow eyes blinked twice, just before he fell to his knees and fell asleep.

You didn't know he fell asleep, so you reacted frantically.

"U-uh... uh...!" You ran to his side, nudging him roughly.

"A-are  you okay? Sir? Sir!" Not knowing what else to do, you backed up and attempted to walk away.

Then you heard him groan. Shocked, you turned around and ran back to him. Although you weren't very fond of strangers, it seemed like you had to save this one.

The sun continued to set as you thought if what to do. You came to the conclusion to just bring him back to your cave.

So you dragged him, slowly but surely, all the way to your cave. Or to the mountain, for you didn't know how you would get him up hill of it was hard enough to drag him a mile or two through thick grass.

Either way, you tried. Each step you took in the grassy, almost rocky, hill, you flapped your wings vigorously. About halfway to your cave, you sat and took a break, resting on a groove in the ground.

Sighing heavily, you watched the sun descended into the ground, nighttime finally here.

"You are a very heavy man, but at least your quiet when you sleep." You said loudly as the sky darkened.

The stars weren't fully out, but you wanted to see them inside your cave. Which gave you the momentum to carry on.

Dragging the man, step by step, you finally arrived at the edge of your cave. You pulled the man into the cave and set him in the back, closer to the dead end that had a lump, that resembled a pillow.

"You can have the soft part, but only until you wake up, then I want it back." You said, knowing he probably wasn't going to hear you anyway.

You walked over to the edge of your cave and sat, dangling your feet over the edge. The stars finally appeared, they glistened lovingly and shimmered as if nothing would taint them.

You laid on your side and dreamt what it would be like to live on a star.

~

Early the next morning, you woke up to more groaning and moaning coming from the back of the cave.

You leaned up off the soft ground and turned around to see the man still asleep, but instead of where you laid his body, he was curled up in a ball on the other side.

You stood up groggy, still half asleep. "Hey, you could've told me you didn't want the soft spot." You said sarcastically.

~

It was now later in the day and the man was still asleep.

"You've been sleeping a long time, maybe you should wake up." You said, sitting in a separate corner, next to a pile of pebbles.

You began to throw the pebbles at the man. Missing a couple of times, but aiming for his back.

"Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up." You said repeatedly as you threw each pebble.

After a about 50 pebbles the man finally, tried to wake up.

"Hey, this is worse treatment then camp. Calm down."

He sat up. It was silent for a moment as he stared at you.

Then he laid back down. You were enraged. "Hey, why go through all the trouble to wake you up just so you can go back to sleep!!" You said loudly as you threw more pebbles, this time at his head.

"Ow! What's with this? Isn't heaven supposed to be a peaceful place?" He said quickly sitting up.

"Heaven? What's that?" You said seriously as you stopped throwing pebbles.

His bright gold eyes looked at you with confusion as he crossed his legs. "Did you just ask what heaven was?" He closed his eyes and laughed.  "Well, I guess I didn't die, and I must have just imagined you came to save me, with your Angel wings, and flew me to heaven."

You sat across from him confused completely. "Well I did save you from the giant, but I don't know anything about heaven."

He opened his eyes and stared at you, then your wings, they moved slightly.

He laid on his back. "I must be going crazy."

You crawled over to him, hovering over his face. "Are you trying to go back to sleep again? I'll kick you out of my cave if you are."

He laughed. "So I'm in a cave, with a girl who has Angel wings and doesn't know what heaven is."

You sat back as he sat up. "So.. what's heaven? Does it have something to With 'angel', cause of it does, I hate heaven." You said, ending it a with slight anger.

He looked at you with confused eyes. "What, you don't like the word Angel or something? It seems like you don't even know what it is."

You blushed softly, feeling embarrassed. "I-I don't know what it is. But I do know that I hate it, whatever it is."

"Hmm" the man presumed you must not have liked that word for a reason, so being the gentleman he was, he pushed it aside. "alright, well, when your ready to tell me why you don't like that word I'll tell you what it has to do with heaven. I promise."

"Promise? What's that?" You asked.

"You really don't know anything, huh?" He smiled.

You blushed a dark red, this made the man giggle. "A promise is saying I'll do what ever I promised no matter what."

You nodded. "So, you promise to tell me about heaven, .. no matter what?"

"Cross my heart - hope to die." He held out his pinkie finger.

You jumped. "Die? Why do you want to die? And what's with your finger?" You asked, genuinely worried.

The man smile grew bigger as he tried not to laugh, knowing this was probably your first promise. "Hey, don't worry. My finger isn't a weapon, but saying hope to die, means, if I break my promise, something bad'll happen."

You calmed, but was still worried. "Something bad? Just because you broke a 'promise'? Are they that special?"

"Yes. Look, to make you feel better, when I say 'hope to die', I want you to say 'no love from me if you try' okay. That way, if I broke my promise I'd get a result worse than dying."

You thought for a moment. "Okay, I think I get it. But what does my love have to do with it? And how can it be worse than dying?"

"You have a lot of questions little one, why don't we just try it over, you'll get use to it sooner or later right?" He said, easing you on.

You shrugged."Sure. So you're going to promise me that you'll tell me what heaven is, when I tell you why I don't like it?"

He held out his finger again. "Cross my heart - hope to die. Now you hook your pinkie on mine and say yours."

You did as said. "No love from me if you try."

The man squeezed your finger, then let go. "Good, now we have a bond between us. So what else can we do now?"

You pulled your hand back to your lap. "Bond?" Another word that confused you.  "Uh... what else can we do? How about get to know each other, I'm (y/n). And then,..Why not.. talk about how you got here? I did ask you this earlier, or rather yesterday, but you fell asleep."

He blinked before having a guilty expression. This intrigued you. "Oh, well, that's a story to tell. Get comfortable (y/n), this might take a while."

~*~

"And so, he told me about his story, and told me many other stories of his small adventures. He continued to teach me things everyday, and eventually taught me how to write and read. He even taught me about myself." She giggled. 

"I wish I could've spent more time with him. So, what about you?" she asked unexpectedly.

I stuttered out a response. "A-about me? What do you want to know about me?"

"Um, how did you get locked up I guess. I mean the both of us are being held captive, at least that is what it looks like.

I sighed. "Oh.. Well, I guess you'd say I'm a special case."

"A special case?" She asked confused.

"Yeah, I guess you could say that I'm helpful to the regiment. They take me out of this cell frequently to assists them in duties, like capturing and killing titans."

"Titan? What's a titan?" Her voice perked up, maybe she was interested.

"Uh, you don't know what a titan is? You've been outside the walls this whole time, you must've seen thousands." I questioned.

"Well, I'm sorry for not knowing." She said sarcastically.

"You must know what it is, you said that guy that I look like was captured by one, You called it a giant person." I was able to connect some dots.

"Oh. So you kill the 'titans', what else to they let you do when they let you out?"

"They let me see my friends. I have a few that I'm really close with, let me eat with them from time to time. Why do you ask?"

"N-no reason, just wondering." She stuttered.

It wad silent for a moment, then I heard the sound again, the wings flapping.

"Are you trying to escape? I mean, I'm just listening to your wings moving is all." I ask, changing the subject.

"No, I'm not trying to escape." She said simply. "Just moving around to find some sort of light. It is dark and I can't find the stars."

I snickered. "I don't think you'll find stars in here, we are in the basement after all."

"Yeah, I figured." She said disappointed.

"But maybe," I began. "In the morning, when they come back, you can cooperate and by chance they could let you help too, like with me."

"You think that?" She paused. "So, they won't let me go, but they can take me out of here?"

"Um, sure." I agreed. "I think the main reason that we kept you here was because you were different and you seems interesting. Or at least that is what Hange said. I don't think you are harmless, so, there isn't really a reason to hold you for a long time. 

"Because I'm different." She sighed. "I'm not that different."

"Maybe not, but I don't have any say in it. Sorry." I sympathized.

"Yeah, I guess it isn't you who put me in here." She whispered.

It was silent for a moment, I began to think she was falling back asleep.

But I stayed awoke, just thinking if they would allow her the privileges I get. Like being able to be out of this cell and wandering around with my friends.

But she doesn't have friends, or at least she hasn't spoke of them. I guess since the only person she had with her is gone now, she is alone. How did he die? How did she survive outside the walls for so long? Is there anything else special about her than just her wings?

These questions lingered in my mind until I fell asleep. They came back to me later in the morning when I was awoken by Hange, telling me it was time for breakfast. 

She shook me slowly and whispered. "Come on Eren, it's time to wake up. Let's get grub before the grub gets going." She whispered cheerfully.

I looked at her with squinted eyes, trying to block most of the light coming from the candle she held. "H-Hange? Why we whispering?" I whisprerd a question.

She smiled brightly and continued to whisper. "The girl with the wings next door is still asleep, I was just thinking maybe we could inspect her a little more." 

I sat up. "You mean (y/n),  she's still asleep?" I thought for a moment. "No, Hange, let's not."

"What?" Hange asked confused.

"Let's not mess with her now, maybe later." I stood from the bed and watched as Hange undid my shackles. "We should let her sleep." 

"But, Eren, Why~?" Hange whined. "She probably won't let us do anything to her later."

The both of us began to walk out of the cell, I looked back at my cell, where (y/n) stayed. "I think if we just ask her nicely, she will allow."

I started up the steps, Hange followed. "Okay. I mean, i guess we could ask. What's with the sudden decision though, did something happen last night when I left?" Hange got close as she smirked, giving off a sense that she wanted me to gossip.

"Nothing happened really." I say honestly, Hange backed away disappointed. "I mean what would you expect would happen if you locked us in seperate cells."

"Aw, I thought something exciting might've happened is all. Maybe ya'll talked about how to escape together or you two would've gotten closer by talking, like a imprisoned bond or something." Hange blabbered on.

I just laughed at her silly assumptions. But we did talk a little thought, but I don't think we've gotten closer because of it. I only found out about how she met her friend and that was all, I wouldn't have mind if she told me more though, it was kinda nice listening to some talk, especially in the dark cell.

Me and Hange finally arrived at the dining hall, Meeting up with the rest of the scouting legion. I quickly see my friends who sat bunched up together at two tables. I walk over to them after getting me my tray of food.

As usual, once I sit down, Sasha asked for my food. I obviously denied her plead, I mean I got to eat too. I bet (y/n) needs to eat as well, I wonder if they'll feed her at some point.

They didn't really feed me for the first few days just because I didn't answer a few of their questions. I looked down at my tray and seen what I could take without anyone noticing. I looked around  my area, everyone was talking amongst themselves, so i secretly took the bread off my tray and stuffed it in the bottom of my shirt. 

Unfortunetly though I was seen. Armin leaned over to talk to me privately. "Eren, why are you trying to secretly take bread? They won't let you take it out of the dining hall."

Sasha jumped into the conversation. "Of course they won't but that doesn't mean you can't try." 

"Yeah, " Connie joined in, "And they don't even check if you just walk out normally, don't look suspicious."

Sasha lifted her shirt up slightly to show Eren the several loaves of bread, a couple potatoes, and even a few slices of meat. "Me and Connie are champs at this kinda stuff."

Armin was shocked by how much food they usually smuggle. I was also surprised, but also interested. "how do you get by them with that much food. "

Connie acted out queitly how they usually did it. "Well, just make it look like you got a fat belly from eating so much, and don't linger around them too long. Simple." Connie smiled.

After that interesting lesson on how to smuggle food out of the dining hall, I finished eating what was left of my tray and told Hange I had left something in the cell. I had hoped she'd allow me to just go down there, but here I am now walking beside Hange down the hall.

"So, Eren," She began happily. "What did you forget in the cell?"

I freaked out, had she noticed some thing was up?

"Well, uh, if like to change out of my night clothes, just something I needed to do at the moment." This is one of the most awkward moments I have been in, I didn't know what to say or do.

"Oh really?" She teased. "Or are you going to feed your winged friend in your cell?"

She found out!

I decided to just outright tell her. "Hange, I-I just wanted to give her something to eat, because I had thought you guys weren't going to feed her for a while and I didn't want her to starve." I felt ashamed.

"Awe," She cooed. "It's okay Eren, I completely understand what you're going through!" We stood in the hallway for a moment as she blushed and fantisized, or at least that is what I thought she was doing. 

I was utterly confused now, especially on how she figured me out. "So how did you know?"

Hange paused her weirdness. "Oh, that's simple. You had a large lump right above your pants. And I saw you when you stuffed the peice of bread in your shirt. You are really bad at smuggling food, unlike your friends. They must be pros to sneak so much food like that." Hange giggled.

I was shocked, Hange knew more than I thought. "So is it alright if I feed (y/n) this loaf of bread?" I asked, still wanting to do so.

"Oh yeah sure," Hange started walking again. "Come on, you don't want her waiting on you forever." Hange giggled again.

She is a very odd leader.

We finally arrived at he basement, it still as dark as I remember. I watched as Hange lit a torch that hung on the wall.

I looked into my cell, seeing (y/n), legs propped up to hold her head up and her hands crossed and dangling from her knees.

 (Y/n) must've sat in the dark this whole time, I knocked on the bars, she looked up slowly at me.

Her (h/l) hair revealing her glistening, damp, red (e/c) eyes. She must've been crying. It kinda pained me to see her like that, it was worse than my imagination last night.

She looked at me with anger and confusion, the same look she gave everyone last night. She didn't recognize me.

Before I could say anything, Hange spoke first.

"So, (y/n) was it, you hungry?" She asked nonchalantly with her cheery voice as she leaned on the bars of the cell.

She looked at Hange with hatred, not saying anything, although (y/n)'s eyes could tell it all, she was hungry.

Hange glared, being serious for a moment. "Well, since you seem to not be hungry, Eren can go ahead and eat the bread he stole for you." Hange smiled evilly.

I was shocked, Hange rarely was serious. (Y/n) looked up surprised and confused. She looked at me with an unsure look, it looked as if she remembered my name at least.

I decided to finally speak. "U-um, (y/n), here, It is a loaf of bread. I thought you would've been hungry so I took it out of the dining hall." 

She hesitated before inching off the bed and attempting to reach for the bread between the cell bars, until she noticed she was still restrained by the shackles that held her back. She looked at them, then me, her (e/c) eyes begging for help.

I quickly react to her plead, asking Hange if she could open the cell. Hange smiles, "I guess she was hungry then." Hange then opened the cell with her keys.

(y/n) had reverted back to the bed after I swung open the cell door, she inched backwards the closer I got. She still scared of me, or at least Hange, who was literally right behind me.

It also seemed as if (y/n) was curious, I guess she didn't believe it was me or not. "Uh," I began. "So here, you go." I held the bread out again, but now I was close to her, she was definatlely in reaching distance. 

She hadn't tried to get it this time, maybe she thought she couldn't trust me. "(y/n), I had talked to Hange on the way here about what we talked about last night. We agreed if you let her 'examine' you, she might be allowed to let you out of the cell." I bargained. 

Hange nudged me, then smiled. I hope she understands that we didn't talk about this but at least Hange would get what she wants.

(y/n) perked up, realizing it really was me from last night. She then willingly took the bread from my hands and held it. She spoke before she decided to eat, "So, if I let her just look at me, and 'other' things, I can be let go, or at least out of this dark cage?" She looked at me with hope.

I stuttered before answering. "Yeah, hopefully at least." 

(y/n) smiled, then ripped a peice of the bread and ate it gladly. 

After finishing the bread, she glanced at Hange again, "So, what of me do you want to examine first?" (Y/n) said accepting Hange's request.

Hange was shocked. "I-it's that easy, really? Um at the moment I guess, your wings. They seem to be the thing that stands out the most."

(Y/n) looked away from Hange to her lap, then to one of her wings. (Y/n) slowly extended the pearl white wing, the tip of it almost reaching Hange's nose.

I watched Hange admire and fawn over (y/n)'s wing. (Y/n) didn't seen to mind, but she did flinch every stroke Hange took to feel the soft feathers.

"So," Hange began. "How much control do you have over your wings."

(Y/n) seemed confused. "What do you mean, control?" She looked to me for an answer.

"How well can you move them?" I told her.

"Oh. Then a lot of control, or at least I believe I can do a lot."

I remembered yesterday. "You mean, like what you did yesterday, and more?"

"Yesterday was simple, I said I could do many things." She said rather snarky.

"I'm sorry for asking." I replied sarcastically.

Hange just ignored us and continued to examine (y/n). She had finally reached (y/n)'s back, where the rip on her dress from yesterday was.

Speaking of the dress it didn't really seem like a dress but more like a random cloth used as clothes. The dress had two holes in the front right above (y/n)'s chest, I looked away for I didn't want her to think I was staring.

Looking at (y/n)'s back, Hange realized the wing was definitely part of (y/n). "Hmm," Hange was thinking. "How long have you had these wings?"

(Y/n) looked down in disappointment. "Since I was born."

Hange knew she probably struck a memory, so she said she was done for now.

"So, what do I have to do now? And when can I get out of the cell?" (Y/n) asked wanting to leave the cold cell , She looked to me again for an answer.

"Uh, I only told Hange about the idea. You'd have to ask her." I told her.

Hange jumped in then. "Yeah, I'll talk to the rest of them about this idea, maybe I can get then to agree. You at least seem like you aren't the rebellious type. Unless you are just skilled in pretending." Hange joked and giggled. "Hey, Eren, put on your uniform and come tell them with me. You just sit and wait till we come back." Hange said as she pointed to (y/n).

I had forgotten I was still wearing my night clothes. I actually had a drawer in my cell, so I grabbed my uniform. "I'll get dressed in the next cell, since you're in my usual one. Then I'll meet you upstairs, Hange." I said to (y/n) as I began to walk out the cell behind Hange.

"Wait!" (Y/n) spoke out loudly. "Are you leaving again?" She asked with a shaky voice.

I looked back at her as Hange continued walking. "U-uh, well after I get dressed I will. Don't worry though I'll hopefully come back with good news." I smiled to reassure her.

"Okay." She said with a saddened tone.

I went to the next cell and surely got dressed, I walked back to my cell to put my night close in my drawer.

I looked over at (y/n) who had her knees to her chest with her head sunken in her lap.

Feeling worried, I didn't say anything. I walked out the cell and turned around to shut and lock it. As I began to blow the torch out, I heard (y/n).

"Wait Eren," she began. "Can you at least leave the fire burning? I don't want to sit in the dark, alone again." She asked.

"Sure." I left the torch alone and continued up the stairs. "Don't worry (y/n), I'll help you for sure."

"Promise?" She whispered to a point that I could hear.

"Cross my heart." I said as I opened the basement door, walking out to meet Hange.

I wondered how we were going to asked the leaders about (y/n)'s request.