It was a typical Saturday morning like always at the Survey Corps Headquarters. Everyone dragged their feet into the mess hall lazily eating breakfast, well except for Sasha who was wolfing down her porridge. Being one of the few morning people around, you were as lively as ever despite of what happened last night during one of Hanji's experiments with Eren. Moblit was off somewhere else and being one of Hanji's other assistants, you were forced to take Moblit's place.

"Okay (First), you ready?" Hanji squealed as she shook with excitement grasping the metal mallet.

You just simply sighed and nodded mutely as Hanji swung the mallet down on Eren's fingers. The table rattled as all the other metal tools clattered together messily. The poor boy was already groggy looking from the last experiments conducted and was zoning off unaware of his surroundings.

"OW!" Eren dropped a few F-bombs as he retracted his hand back as if he just touched hot metal.

You winced feeling sorry for the Titan-boy who was being experimented on. He was being tested to see if he had the same pain tolerance as regular Titans in his human state. Obviously, he doesn't since every single time Hanji hits him with a mallet or smacks him across the face back and forth with her bare hand laughing like the maniac like she is; it always ended up with Eren cussing at the top of his lungs. You had to record all the results unfortunately last night. Under the results column for every single method, you put down, "loud cuss words along with scrunching of the face like he's severely constipated."

You really didn't like these sorts of experiments where Eren had to endure bodily harm and expressed your honest feelings about the tests to Hanji, but she always screamed with delight, "it's for the name of science!" before breaking down into uncontrollable laughter. When that didn't work, you tried to complain to Levi who you still found rather intimidating even though you've known him for a year, but he would never give you a reply, just a cold, steely glare. Commander Erwin just gave the same old answer like he always had, "I can't control what that woman does, I'm sorry."

Ever since meeting Eren for the first time, you seemed rather scared of him since he had the ability to turn into your nightmare, but once you got to know him, well rather awkwardly since he always had that slightly obsessive Mikasa with him all the time, you started to develop, well, feelings for him.

"Ugh," the sound of boots dragging against the polished floor of the mess hall made you snap back to reality as you scooped more porridge into your mouth. You scrunched your face a little forgetting to breathe on the rather hot, bland tasting mixture of oats.

"Stop dragging your damn feet on the floor that we finished polishing two days ago brat," Levi monotonously beamed at Eren who just weakly whimpered in response.

The curtains and windows were opened for the first time in awhile since the last few weeks have been full of crappy weather welcoming the first day of spring. The mess hall was actually brighter than usual despite everyone being so beat from yesterday's training. One of the few perks of being Hanji's substitute assistant meant that you didn't have to do the vigorous training sessions led by Levi. Eren groaned as he sat down on the bench making it shift a little under the sudden weight. Everyone just seemed to beat and tired except for you and a few other veteran soldiers. You quickly took notice that some of Eren's friends weren't eating breakfast and were probably outside for a morning run. You tried to remember their names, but since you never really trained with them or never got the chance to interact with them much, you were left staring out the window blankly.

"Eren, are you alright?" Mikasa worriedly asked the green-eyed boy who was rubbing the back of his swollen wrists not eating any of his breakfast.

All she got was a frustrated sigh and quickly shot you a deathly glance which you paid no attention to since you were still lost at thought. She resumed quietly eating her breakfast glaring at you occasionally. Sasha finished her breakfast with a happy grin as she messily wiped the residue from her face, but ended up smearing oats all over her faintly reddened cheeks. Levi held his teacup to his mouth about to take another sip when he scowled in disgust at the sight of her oat-covered face.

He lowered the teacup from his mouth a little before muttering in his usual unkindly manner, "wipe that damn mess off your face, we're soldiers, not fucking pigs,"

You thinned your lips as your gaze averted to the poor "potato girl" who was indeed looking more like a pig than a soldier as she mumbled an inaudible "sorry" before rubbing her face more harshly with a napkin. Mikasa gritted her teeth as usual abruptly getting up from the table and storming out of the mess hall leaving her breakfast tray behind. Levi sighed while setting down his teacup, "more dish duty for her then,"

Eren's eye twitched as he pushed away his breakfast tray; the scraping of the metal on the wood made you huff slightly making Levi dart his gaze to you.

"The hell is your problem?" he casually leaned back in his chair casting those steely orbs upon your hunched over form.

"N-nothing sir," you got up from the table avoiding eye contact with him or Eren as you cleaned up both yours and Mikasa's breakfast trays.

It's been obvious since the day that Levi beat Eren's face in during the court session that Mikasa has had a harsh grudge against the Captain. Even after it was cleared up that Eren's beating was for an act, Mikasa's burning hatred never subsided. She has seemed to become even more infuriated now that Eren is being caused bodily harm even though it's for a "good cause". She has seemed to bash you more commonly than Hanji or Levi since your ranking was lower. All the threats towards you however were more implicit than explicit. Whether it be simple deathly glares or an intentional harsh bump to the shoulder while passing by in the hallways, this woman was bat-shit insane with intent to break you in half, yet she hasn't snapped. Maybe because you have considered to also be against all these experiments with Eren which is one hundred percent true, but all you know was that Mikasa hated you with a passion. She might possibly snap today because of today's experiment.

"Hmm, your wounds are actually healing a lot faster than usual," you simply stated as you unwrapped the crimson stained bandages from Eren's rather muscular arm trying so hard to not blush.

He didn't respond to your statement and was looking really groggy with heavy dark lines under his sleepy eyes. You gently tugged away the last of the bandage revealing a faint scar where Hanji pinched with a pair of metal clamps on one of his pressure points. He started nodding off in his chair which you didn't pay attention to since you were entranced in your, strange daydreams as you gazed at the toned tan skin of Eren.

"I'm here!" Hanji busted through the door of the abandoned cabin located in the middle of a small forest not far from Headquarters.

Eren didn't react to the sudden loud noise, but you did immediately tugging yourself from daydreaming to salute the mad scientist as she laughed to herself pulling out small vials of brown liquid from a wooden box. Examining the worn labels of each vial breathing heavily with excitement, Hanji coaxed you over to her side in which you hesitantly strolled over. Stupid Moblit had to go run into Wall Sina in search of rare medical herbs leaving you behind in the dust of this rather dangerous experiment. Hanji was going to give nameless vials of rather foul smelling liquid to Eren to see if it reacted with his pain tolerance in certain areas while in his human form. All the clues that you got from Hanji about this liquid is that it originated from a Titan with a few modifications added in by her.

"Um, Hanji?" you rather timidly asked the Titan obsessed maniac who was mixing some different vials of liquid together in a glass, "why are we out in the middle of nowhere with this certain experiment?" you choked the last part out disgusted by the unyielding smell of the strange dark brown liquid in the glass.

"Oh you'll find out," she snickered not affected by the foul scent as she shoved the glass into Eren's rather sweaty hands.

His expression was rather blank as his eyes narrowed as he effortlessly gulped down the strange liquid. Hanji howled with a wave of mysterious laughter as she snatched the box and ran towards the door her messy bun threatening to fall out of place.

"I'll be back in a few hours! Observe any strange behavior if possible!" she grinned with her cheeks bright red as she slammed the old door shut.

You just stared in disbelief as you tried to process what just happened. Eren simply got up from his chair and set the glass on the table before his legs started to wobble. He fell backwards onto the old mattress sending dust particles flying in every direction. That woman just locked you inside a boarded up cabin with Eren who was considered to be an emotional wreak by his comrades. You didn't even bother yelling after Hanji thinking that she would be long gone by now, but you tried opening the door, but it was locked tight. Even kicking the weak looking door multiple times with the sole of your boot didn't do anything except fling more dust into the air. Eren was silently breathing as he didn't seem fazed by the vibrating of the entire cabin when you tried kicking the door down. His position on the bed was rather strange with half of his body on the mattress and the other half just barely dangling off the edge.

"Hope she left something for me to record the strange behavior with," you grumbled with a cynical frown rummaging through all the dust in search of a notebook or some sort of pen.

You didn't realize that you were being watched the whole time by Eren who kept one of his eyes locked onto you with abnormally enlarged pupils. Whenever you abruptly straightened your aching back, he shut the one eye pretending to still be sleeping. He was stalking his prey, waiting for it to come closer, he was patient enough to wait; it would be a waste of energy to pounce while his prey is far.

The foul smelling liquid was actually Titan brain fluid mixed in with a few other Titan elements. Hanji thought she could alter Eren's pain tolerance to see if it carried over to his Titan form as well. However, this liquid was altering not only Eren's pain tolerance, but his mental state as well. He was already emotionally unstable from day one and his mental state has been worsening with each and every experiment conducted. Everyone just brushed all of his sudden violent mood swings as normal behavior except you and Mikasa as you two were worried that all the emotions bubbling up inside of him would eventually burst sending Eren into a blind rage. His nightmares were already bad to begin with and Eren just told his friends that he just saw blood, death, and Titans everywhere. When he got into the Survey Corps, he explained all of his nightmares in gruesome detail enough to make Sasha lose her appetite. All these were warnings that no one cared about since everyone was used to him being this unstable, and now, you were about to live through another person's hell.

You glanced at your pocket watch noticing that only thirty minutes have gone by since Eren drank that strange liquid. Your entire body was covered in dust head to toe; if Captain Levi was in the cabin, he would be cussing you out for being such a "slob". Eren hasn't shown any signs of "strange behavior", so you inched closer to his side in an attempt to move his body more onto the mattress since most of it is hanging off the edge of the frame of the bed. His breathing seems more rapid from before he drank the liquid, you take a mental note of that as his chest rises and falls more hastily. A strange feeling overcomes your mind telling you not to touch him afraid that you might wake him. You should just let him sleep, he seemed comfortable enough.

"Eh?" you turned away from his sleeping body to feel a sharp feeling of painful warmth envelop your wrist.

What happened next was a blur to you. All you know is that Eren tackled you onto the floor making you harshly smack the back of your head against the old wood. The sharp feeling of warmth rapidly turned into what seemed like hot Titan steam roasting your body, especially your wrists and hips. Your eyes shot open only to widen immensely as Eren's bloodcurdling abarticular grin made your skin pale instantly. Aculeiform fangs were exposed as his eyes glistened with an obvious lust for your blood. The heat radiating from his inhuman body was rendering you helpless as you couldn't struggle under this death grip. Then it hit you, you weren't going to die a fast and painless death, Eren was going to take his sweet time killing you. You hoped that he was going to chomp into your neck so you could bleed out, but he wasn't eyeing any vital areas on your paled body, he was more interested in your face. Saliva spilled out of that unhinged mouth in a thick trail. It ran down his chin and neck, and pelted your clouded expression. You didn't know if you should scream or not. It's useless to scream for help because by the time someone got to the cabin, you would be a bloody dismembered mess.

"(First)," Eren managed to say clearly despite his uneven breathing and pools of spit pouring from his mouth, "help me," he whispered helplessly as a single tear fell from his bloodshot eye right onto your cheek.

The last of his innocence and sanity was swallowed up by a wave of madness as he swooped down towards your neck. Maybe you didn't suffer after all.

CRUNCH.

In a split second of hearing the crunching noise and feeling the unbearable amount of pain, you let out a shrill shriek in response. Everything was a huge confusing swirl of the sound of your collarbone being crushed and torn apart by Eren's teeth, the agonizing screams you made when he viciously shredded a huge chunk of your flesh and bone away from your body, and that Eren was delightfully grinning at the many screams of terror you were making like the masochist he is. Your reflexes took over in a desperate attempt to escape, but thrashing while he was still chewing through your collarbone only made his teeth tear more and more blood vessels. The heat steaming from his body was unbearable as both of you were sweaty mishmashes of blood and other bodily fluids. All the suggestive moaning coming from Eren as he started to jerk away at a hunk of flesh and bone made you sob uncontrollably both in fear and in agony. The already tight grip on your wrists that had become numb from the heat began to sting as his thumbnail dug into your pale skin. Even through all the vicious growling from Eren as a mixture of spit and blood spilled from the corners of his twisted smile and all of your cries of terror and horror, you could still hear the crude snapping of your skin as his nails pierced right through.

The entire left side of your helpless body was full of numbness and thorny pain. Eren's teeth slowly sawed through the tough chunk of flesh like dull daggers as you gave up struggling. All the blood and sweat accumulated in a puddle below you which soaked into your jacket and shirt. Most of your neck was splattered with tears, sweat, and more blood. Your face had a paled and wiry complexion as your expression was a mosaic of disbelief and pain. You screamed once more as the sound and feeling of a bloody chunk of flesh and bone was being ripped away from your body violently. Eren's head snapped back as he hovered right over your face with strings of muscle weakly dangling from his crimson lips. He looked more animalistic than human with your blood painted all over his face and neck in different shades. A piece of your once beautiful skin was barely clinging to the gory jaw line of the man you had developed special feelings for. Oh you had feelings for him now, feelings of utter angst, disbelief, and regret.

Eren was smacking his lips as he chewed and crunched the wad of flesh and bone merrily. His unethical meal squeezed out blood with every open-mouthed chew like fruit juice. All the droplets of blood landed on your face unfortunately since you weren't able to move your view away since your whole upper body was paralyzed from shock. His nails dug out of your wrists only to leave his fingertips bloodstained and trails of red cascading from the wounds. He slicked his tongue across his lips lapping up any traces of flesh left, but that just ended up pushing more red saliva out of his mouth to dribble down your temple. You involuntarily realized that his grip on your wrists was gone; the only thing holding you down was his weight as he sat down on your numb thighs. His hands reached up to his face now as he suckled each bloody fingertip as he giggled sourly as drool dripped down the corners of his raw lips. It was obvious that you lost too much blood since your vision was getting blurry not from your tears, but you were threatening to slip unconscious.

"Mmnn," you mumbled as you desperately tried to struggle free using whatever was left of your strength.

Moving your left arm wasn't an option since your collarbone was in shambles. Whatever was left of your collarbone on your left side were just splinters sticking into your raw muscle. The wound was filling up with blood quickly which may cause Eren to bite it again since he seemed so attracted to your sweet blood. Your eyes suddenly widened as you remembered that everyone would be outside training today. All these positive thoughts were suddenly rushing at you. Maybe when people are hanging by a thread with their life, maybe they think positively instead of dreading over the current situation. Maybe if you screamed loud enough which you thought you did, someone might come rushing to the cabin to save you. It was a gamble since the cabin was in a thick forest area that no one ever visited during training.

Eren's eyes widened once more with a passion for fresh blood as he snickered manically as he slid his tongue all around his fingers leaving soaked in a sticky bloodbath. You started inhaling as much air as your weakening body could handle as he let his arms go limp causing his form to hunch over you once more. He opened that fanged mouth once again letting his tongue flop outwards making a thin string of red spit dribble down on your face. You nearly vomited as you let out the earsplitting shriek that caused Eren to snarl like a hungry wolf. As a result of that scream, more blood. He chomped back down on the swollen wound his tongue slithering into the pond of chunky blood to lap it up. That one last scream you gave out made you even more lightheaded as you silently cried to yourself as Eren tore out even more flesh. He swallowed that chunk whole along with a few bits of bone, but that didn't faze him at all. Cackling sinisterly again, he descended back down to the purplish wound.

"Help," you feebly whispered just as Eren bore his nails into the raw wound easily ripping out more flesh.

Your eyes shut with a single tear streaking down your bloodied face. Eren was too occupied with the overwhelming amount of ecstasy he was receiving from chewing on your giblets. After he gulped down another large chunk, he giggled to himself like a satisfied child. Then, his eyes widened. He came back to reality only to find your dead body right below him.

"Oh, God no," he couldn't believe his eyes or the taste of blood that saturated his skin.

"N-no, NO NO NO!" Eren cringed away from your corpse only force fingers down his throat to inflict himself to vomit.

He coughed and hacked up chunks of bone and half-digested flesh. Tears streamed down his face only to turn red from the blood caked on his cheeks. The worn out wood flooring soaked up all the body fluids and was stained dark red. He stumbled to his knees to crawl over to the kitchen on all fours continuously puking a river a red.

"No no no, I'm a monster like everyone s-said!" Eren struggled to pull himself up using the corner of a counter as leverage. His bloody hands slipped and he ended up gripping a drawer handle.

He faceplanted in a small pool of puked up contents only to be startled by the sound of metal hitting the floor. His eyes widened at the sight of rusted knives.

"I-I don't deserve to live anymore," his hand trembled as he snatched up the largest blade.

"S-sorry mother," he choked back tears only to cough on his own spit up. He spewed more of your contents before raising the tip of the rusted blade to his Adam's apple, "you won't see me in Heaven," he shut his eyes before he plowed the blade deep into his throat.

Blood spurted out at first impact, but then continually trickled down his neck only to be camouflaged by your own blood. The tip of the blade was shoved forcefully through the other side as blood popped like a bubble through the new wound. Eren became paler and the contrast of the white and red was obvious. His turquoise eyes slowly rolled back as his hands lost their grip and fell. Soon his consciousness slipped and so did his body. He lolled forward and faceplanted once again, but the tip of his nose barely hovered over the reddened floor. Blood kept spurting through both wounds until the blade sunk deeper and deeper. Eren's face slowly rested onto the floor just as the cabin door flung open.

"E-Eren," Armin stood dumbfounded at the gory sight.

Tears burst from his eyes just as another familiar scream did.