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Side Note: In this one, Mikasa and Levi can feel each other pain. Physically and Emotionally.

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Neither knew when it started or how long they had be joint together in the way they were. After all, they grew up differently and face their own injuries or accidents as children and it seen as perfectly normal. 

Along with growing pains or just sour muscle that children had, it wasn't anything wired or out of the normal.

So, when they felt a phantom pain, how where they to know to think anything much over it. It could just be an old bruise or just pain from moving to harsh or something. Their parents had answers for every pain they felt and it made common sense why they read books and found other children were as clumsy as them. 

But the random and unknown pains didn't stop even as they grew up. They only got worse in a way, sometimes unbearable until they got use to it. But still, they use to wake up or sneak away from their friends/comrades and check a certain part of their body to see if they had a growing bruises or deep wound that they never noticed before. But nope, it always ended up being blank and not a single mark to be seen. 

Neither ever told anyone, they weren't even sure what was happening. 

But they did feel a little less lonely, when some nights felt bad for one of them they could reach out to the mystery pain. Pinch themselves, digging their nails in and when they their heart felt even worse they would slap themselves to wake the other up from their drowning pain. It was a remember that they weren't alone, someone was with them and they couldn't just be swallowed up by emotions and leave the other behind. Sometimes when it was simple emotions in their heart, they with hold their hands together and squeeze, digging their nails in a little and squeezing their hands so hard that it hurt because to the other, it felt like someone was holding their hand. 

They weren't alone, that's what they learnt from the unknown pain. 

Sure, they still felt their own pain from bruises, bumps and injuries but they hated feeling the other pain more. Feeling the pain of the other without being able to be there for them. It was the cruellest pain for them both to feel and that's why they had their secret comforts, even if it did make them feel a tiny bit of pain at the time. 

Once they were old enough, they never tried looking for someone with certain injures or bruises. They just comforted each other in their own way and that's how they left it for so long. 

But he was her captain and she was his cadet. 

At first they weren't sure, just a surprise feeling when they took notice of them both flinching over a wound. A wound that only one of them had got. 

But it happened again but this time, the other had the wound why the other just took notice of them both flinching. 

Neither spoke, they didn't dare speak over the matter that they hid for so long. 

But one on one training helped proved their suspicions.

Fighting one another, feeling every hit or kick given to the other before they were both laying on the ground catching their breath.

No one was truly feeling because whenever one took the lead they just felt the same pain the other did.

It sucked.

But now they knew, they knew who the mystery pain was all along.  

They also gained a new fear, of knowing who would be stuck sharing their pain. 

But the biggest fear between them was feeling the other die one day, mostly sooner than later with how the war grew. 

They were humanity strongest and a girl worth a hundred soldier or more by now. 

They were sent to their deaths without a single break and both only had the comfort of feeling a pinching pain before falling asleep. 

A small pinch but it told them they were both still alive, both still safe. 

They may be apart but they weren't alone. 

But now, she had to crouch down in the cell.

Her right eye vision had blurred and she could barely seen outline of shapes.

All of her right side of her face was aching, her fingers screaming in pain like they were slashed away.

She bit down on her lip, stopping whimpering from escaping as she tried to calm her breathing. 

Her body was sore, agonizing and she felt half dead already.

Her heart was throbbing, almost daring to stop but a quick flick of her left ear told it to keep beating.

She felt a knowing pain in her heart, he had listened to her small warning over their heart and was fighting on once more.

Joining her hands together, squeezing past the pain she felt in her left hand and letting her nails dig in as hard as she could. Closing her eyes and knowing he felt her hand in his, even if it was only lasing a single seconds she knew he felt her in his hand.

A hidden smile on her lips as she felt a weak slap to her left cheek, the rest of her body screaming bloody murder over the action but it only brought her more joy.

A promise, a secret promise that he won't just give up and die.

That sneaky thought of resting in peace now out of his mind as he remembered he had someone waiting for him.

She didn't care if he was broken or damaged, she'll take him and keep him by her side until the day she died.

Just like he would for her.

Meaning, death wasn't an option for him anymore, no matter how much pain he was in or how badly injured he may be. He had to live, he had to push on and make sure he returned with a beating heart.  

"Mikasa?" Armin voice broke the heavy air and tensed silence around her. 

She opened her eyes, blinking and noticing the blurred vision in her right eye wasn't fading. 

She saw Armin but at the same time she didn't. 

She was going to have to get use to this new sight rather quick otherwise she might kill more than she saves.

"Are you okay?" Armin worried voice asked, he was knelt beside her, a hand on her shoulder as he stayed looking to her. 

"I'm fine, just taking a selfish moment to made a stubborn wish" Mikasa answered calmly, Armin just staring at her for a little longer before giving a kind smile and nodding. 

He didn't understand everything but he knew when to believe his friend or at least trust into her words. He noticed her right eye wasn't fully looking at him why her left was but he could ask about it later. 

For now, they both had to worry over being captured by the Yeagerists.

On a side note, can she just say how much of an asshole they are. 

Sure, she was friends with Eren but she wasn't a total dick .. she may have been a bitch to some but not as much as these guys were being. 

She's clearly sending Carla on Eren ass once they die, no mercy will be given when she get's her hands on her adopted brother.

Armin was clearly in the same mind because he was reading one of those books about bringing the dead back to life and let's just say they are in a half mind of trying it on Carla until they found out they needed her body for it. That was the one thing they didn't have.

"How's the other's holding up?" Mikasa finally asked, pushing herself to stand and ignoring the dizziness that wasn't her own and she knew it. She could hold out, if this was the pain he felt and the ache in the heart was his emotions, she could hold out as long as he needed her to. 

"Jean is just glaring at the Yeagerists guards outside the cell. Connie is .. well, he was sobbing then he did his angry Spanish ranting, I'm rather certain he insulted one of the Yeagerists mom and well .. now he's just laying on the ground. So, I say he's doing oddly well for himself" Armin awkwardly answered as he nodded towards their two friends, Mikasa focusing her eyes to lock on the people she was trying to look at her and take in any details over their well being. 

"As long as they handling this well" Mikasa weakly joked, lifting her arms in the air and stretching a little and feeling a couple of bones crack making Armin shiver beside her. 

"How's your body, you seem stiff" Armin carefully asked, unsure over the word he wanted to use. He felt like she was just brutally survived an attack and was heading to the medics to be patched up. But he couldn't see a single wound, it was just how her body seemed. 

"Trust me, I feel like it" Mikasa admitted as she swung her body side to side, trying to get use to the new feeling on her body. She was getting to her new vision and was getting ready to do something about being stuck in a cell. 

Cheering and commotion echoed the halls outside and fast running footsteps heading towards them. Everyone in the cell pushing them towards the bars a little more as one of the Yeagerists came to the two Yeagerists outside their cell guarding them. 

"He's dead!" 

"It's been confirmed, he's been killed"

The Yeagerists yelled, a huge grin on his lips as the other two Yeagerists turned to him. Everyone in the cell silently watching.

"Who's dead?" Jean asked first, his hands tightening on the bars as he tried thinking you'll be easily killed or capture by the Yeagerists. Sure, all those he mostly cared for was in this cell but he had Levi and Hanji out there somewhere and he was praying it wasn't them. 

"Your dearest little captain Levi" The Yeagerist answered with a mocking grin, stepping forward as he lifted his arms in the air. His two fellow Yeagerist taking the information before grinning over the news, high fiving in joy. 

"You're lying!" Connie cried back, stepping forward and glaring at the Yeagerist who broke the news. 

"Humanity strongest has fallen, you will soon follow in his footsteps" The Yeagerist smirked back, letting his arms fall for effect as he looked to them all. 

Mikasa glanced around as her friends and comrades filled with despair.

Connie falling to the ground as his eyes stayed wide in horror, Jean grip loosening on the bars and he stumbled back a little, leaning onto the wall. Armin shook, bringing his hands to his trembling lips as he held back tears. 

They came so far, they couldn't lose the one that held humanity hope the most. They weren't ready to finish this war without him. They needed him, he was the one person to not change and carried pushing them onwards. 

He was their true leader, the one they wanted to see the end of the war with. 

Mikasa couldn't help the slight giggle leaving her lips as she pinched herself, feeling a faint tingle in her hands as her reply. 

Armin shakily turned to her, his eyes filled with concern behind his tears that he was trying to not let fall. Looking at her like she just lost her mind, maybe the war and all the deaths had finally got to her. 

He had noticed she and the captain grew close, they were something behind friends but not lovers either. They held a relationship that was stronger than any fair tale he's ever read as a child. 

Maybe Levi was the reason she could carry on fighting, to stay strong and be the Ackerman they all took for advantage sometimes. 

"There's still hope" Mikasa promised, her voice barely above aa whisper but her eyes showed just how much she believed in her words making her comrades just glance to her surprised.

"Weren't you listening, your precious captain was blown to pieces. He's in bits, unrecognizable and completely dead. You lost it all .. you hold nothing left"  the Yeagerist laughed back, stepping even closer, begging for Mikasa to reply. 

"The captain is a real pain in my ass and he's one hell of a clean freak meaning he won't just leave himself to become a bloody mess even in death. Until he lays before me, proving he's dead than I'll simply think he's off taking a shit" Mikasa cockily answered, stepping towards the bar with the same strength and pride she's always carried before. 

Her friends looking to her before smiling and pulling themselves together. 

They knew she was right, the captain wouldn't just die without yelling at them for looking like crap and sitting in a cell that hasn't been cleaned for months. He would throw cleaning products at them until the cell was shining like brand new. Until his body was thrown at their feet, they won't believe he just died .. even by an explosion that was way too messy for the captain liking. 

He said it before, he won't die unless it's clean and he can actually rest in peace without stupid brats crying over him and running his restful bliss. 

"Hate to say it but we're still snot face brats" Connie agreed, standing tall once more.

"He'll never stop complaining if we let ourselves fall to such a fifthly ground so easily" Jean smirked, running a hand through his hair. 

"For your shakes, I'll start cleaning up that explosion site before the captain wore his best gear and he'll be pissed if you ruined it" Armin warned, a grin on his lips as his eyes filled with determination. 

"Oh, and how do you expect your captain to kick your ass's why you're trapped in this cell" the Yeagerist asked smugly, a daring look in his eyes why the other two Yeagerists leaning against the wall amused. 

"And who said we're trapped, didn't anyone ever tell you to not screw with an pissed off Ackerman" Mikasa whispered back daringly as she stood by the bars, her hands slipping through the bars gaps.

"Oh? And what can a trapped animal do?" The Yeagerist slyly asked, holding the bars by his face, begging Mikasa to try something.

"Clearly you're not a hunter but a dumbass for letting your guard down just because there's bars between us" Mikasa simply answered, pulling his handgun from his belt and pulling the trigger twice within a blink of the eye. 

The two Yeagerists by the wall sliding down as a perfect gunshot to the heart bled out. Blood being left on the wall as the guy looked over his shoulder in horror before freezing as he turned back to have the gun barrel to his head. 

"You have two chooses left. A, you pass over the keys and live or B, I shoot you and steal the keys" Mikasa coldly spoke, a threatening look in her eyes.

"I'll do what she says, you should never mess with an Ackerman" Jean warned with a shrug. 

"Not when you just laughed at her dear captain" Armin grinned, placing his hands on his hip. 

The Yeagerist shakily unhooked the keys, side stepping to the gate with Mikasa matching his every step. The gun perfectly aimed for his head and ready to shoot him dead if he tried anything she didn't like. 

The cell door soon opening and Mikasa stepped out first before knocking the guy out.  She lifted her head, nodding for her comrades to rush out of the cell and they quickly did so. She threw the Yeagerists inside the cell, locking the gate and throwing the keys over to the two dead bodies across from the cell. 

She said she'll let him live and she did but he still pissed her off enough to leave him locked up until one of his friends comes along. 

You really shouldn't piss off an Ackerman, it was a fair warning. 

"Where now?" Connie asked as he and Jean took the two rifles from the dead soldiers, Armin staying weapon-less since he could go titan if needed. 

"Ask Armin? I just know that Levi isn't dead .... Yet" Mikasa replied back with a shrug, slapping her face like an idiot and feeling a slight pain in her opposite cheek before finishing her reply to the rest.

"I ask so many questions but I'll just file that slapping thing as an Ackerman thing" Armin muttered back as he looked to his friend who just nodded, not really blaming him for labelling most of us moods or actions as an "Ackerman thing", it was all the explanation he or anyone else needed sometimes. 

"Um .. What's an Ackerman thing?" Niccolo finally asked like an innocent child as he stood with Sasha family, the two parents trying to stop the children from seeing the dead bodies and their other comrades using their body to shield the bodies from the children sight.

"I forgot about them" Mikasa whispered to Armin awkwardly, she was caught in the moment of buzz and forget about the family they were imprisoned with.

"Don't tell the others but so did I" Armin whispered back in self shame since he normally kept count of those around him. How could he forget such a small group that was with them. 

"Niccolo, We'll explain everything later. Mind taking Sasha family somewhere safe why I send Mikasa to make some trouble for our escape. Plus, I'm sure Mikasa dying to say some colourful words towards our captain and make him know she's not very happy at him, I'm sure he'll get the message rather clear" Armin smiled sweetly, holding his hands behind his back as he looked to their newest friend.

"Sure, leave them to me" Niccolo answered before moving the family away, their other comrades following them along. 

"Well? Where do we go" Jean asked as he looked to Armin and Mikasa who shared a mess.

"I'm going to make a small distraction for our escape" Mikasa replied, undoing the top button of her shirt and pulling her collar away from her neck.

"Small?" Connie asked with an unbelieving eyebrow. 

"Compared to what I could do, I would call it small" Mikasa argued back with a shrug. 

"We'll get out of the cells halls first, we'll separate once we're more in the open and have a high chance of being caught" Jean sighed as the four started walking once more. 

Mikasa bit down on her lip as she flinched a little, her hands turning into a fist as she felt a slight pinching pain in her rear end, mostly on her left butt cheek and she knew she wasn't the one who did it. 

"He's a dead man when I find him, I'll strangle him with his own cravat and show Zeke how to do it" Mikasa grumbled under her breath, digging her nails in her hands a little to show the other he was in deep trouble. She got a rather strange feeling in her heart as his reply and she knew he was most likely laughing like an idiot even why he might be on death door.