Disclaimer: I don't own Shingeki No Kyojin, it belongs to Isayama Hajime.

Author's Note: Happy New Year, guys! I hope you'll have an amazing year! And thank you to all those who reviewed, followed and put this fic in their favorites. You make me really happy!

I hope you enjoyed last chapter. I forgot to mention las time that this fic will consist of some situations in which Annie and Mikasa have to spend time together, or help each other. They will be in chronological order, from the last year of college following their adult lives.

I've decided that Armin will be an anthropologist and Eren's studying criminology. Mikasa might study law, but I'm still not sure. I have no idea about the others' majors, so it'd be great if you guys could give me some ideas. Also, if you guys have more ideas of how Mikasa and Annie might interact with each other, please share them.

Well, that's all for now. Without further adue, here's next chapter!

Guest: Thank you so much!

Chapter 2: Quality Time

It was a quite Saturday night for Mikasa: Eren and Armin were having a boy's night, and she was home alone since Sasha was out with Connie. Without her roommate, Mikasa had to admit that her dorm was very quiet, and she found herself missing Sasha's obnoxious laughter.

Sasha Braus had become Mikasa's roommate in an interesting turn of events. When Mikasa was about to start college, she found out that she couldn't share a dorm with Eren and Armin because girls and boys weren't allowed in the same dorm. Mikasa called bullshit on this horrible rule, especially since she knew that it was to prevent students from having sex, but a) they would always find ways to have sex either way, and b) there were same sex students, who were also roommates, having sex with each other, so the rule didn't actually work. Anyways, because of such rule, Mikasa found herself without a roommate, which was troublesome for her since she had a hard time socializing with other people. Fortunately for her, she discovered that Sasha Braus, a high school classmate, also needed a roommate, and so Mikasa asked her to become her roommate, and Sasha agreed.

Sasha was a great roommate. Even if she was a little messy, she made Mikasa's days brighter with her good disposition and amazing cooking skills. Sasha most of the time had an optimistic view of life, and was always trying to help Mikasa with various things. In a short time, she had become one of Mikasa's best friends. Plus it helped that Sasha was fun to mess with. The four years they had been roommates had been fun and exciting, and this was why Mikasa was now missing her so much.

Ever since Sasha started dating Connie she had spent more and more time at Connie's dorm, spending every weekend with him. Mikasa was fully aware of what type of activities they did, and was ever grateful that they were at Connie's and not at her dorm –frankly speaking, Mikasa didn't find the idea of finding a naked Connie in her bathroom, or hearing the sound of their love making, appealing at all− but she missed Sasha, eating Sasha's blueberry pancakes every Sunday morning, and watching stupid movies late at night, or complaining about the boys. She missed her roommate and knew that their time together was rapidly ending: with graduation fast approaching, it would be cut short.

If Mikasa had to be honest, she felt lonely.

With Sasha gone, and the guys busy, Mikasa didn't expect anybody that Saturday. Honestly, the only interesting thing she thought she'd do was finish most of her projects. So you can understand why she was so surprised when someone knocked at her door that Saturday at 8 p.m.

Wondering who could it be, Mikasa stopped her typing and opened her door, only to find the one and only Annie Leonhardt staring at her, with a scowl on her face.

"Are you going to let me in, or are you going to keep gaping at me like a fish?" The blonde girl said sarcastically, earning a glare from the other girl.

"What are you doing here?" Mikasa all but hissed, still not used to seeing Annie so much, even though she had promised Armin she'd try to get along with her.

"Mina is having loud sex with Thomas, and I need a place to stay while they finish fucking." Annie said bluntly, however Mikasa didn't react to her words.

Mikasa blinked once before saying, "Then why don't you go to Armin's?"

"He and Eren are having some dumb get together with the other guys, did you forget?" Annie stated matter-of-factly.

"What about Reiner and Bertholdt?" Mikasa said, remembering Annie's best friends, or at least the two guys who held that title.

"Probably fucking like Mina and Thomas."

"And Ymir and Krista−"

"Look Mikasa I just need a place to stay tonight, and you're literally the only person I can ask such a favor tonight. I won't even bother you, so could you please let me stay? For Armin?" Annie said, trying to be nicer to Ackerman than regularly.

"Fine." Mikasa merely said, and let Annie come in.

Mikasa noticed that Annie had time to bring a backpack before running away from her dorm. Once again Mikasa thanked all the gods that Sasha always went to Connie's place instead of the other way around. She silently watched as Annie took her laptop from her backpack, and settled herself at Sasha's desk, which was at the other side of Mikasa's. Shrugging, she sat down and continued writing her project, ignoring Annie as Annie was ignoring her.

About an hour later, Mikasa got hungry and decided to order a pizza. She got up and took the phone, but before dialing she remembered Annie was in the room. It would be very rude if she were to order a pizza without inviting any to Annie, and considering the promise she had made Armin, she decided to do the right thing.

"I'm gonna order pizza, want some?" She asked the other girl, who blinked twice before giving an answer.

"Yes."

"Pepperoni's fine?"

"Yeah."

Mikasa order the pizza while Annie watched her, silently surprised that Mikasa would order pizza for her too. Half an hour later the pizza arrived and both ate, momentarily forgetting their respective work.

"So Ackerman, what's the deal with you and Jaeger?" Annie suddenly broke the silence.

"What?" Mikasa said, dropping her pizza slide unceremoniously on her table.

"Yeah, are you going out, or are you fucking buddies, or just friends with lots of sexual tension?" The blonde said, as blunt as ever.

"That's none of your business." Mikasa hissed, remembering why she disliked Annie so much.

"I'm just curious." Annie shrugged. "I know that you don't consider each other siblings, and Armin's convinced you two will marry each other."

"Wait, what?"

"Yeah, he even has a bet going around on when you two will tie the knot."

Next time I see you Armin, you better run. Mikasa thought angrily. "Again, that's none of your business. And speaking of relationships, what's with you and Armin? Are you taking advantage of his kind disposition to then ditch him?"

"I'd never take advantage of him."

"I don't believe you. You're the kind of person who'd do just that."

"Take. That. Back." Annie glared at Ackerman, enraged about that comment that had actually stung her.

"As I told you before, if you hurt Armin I'll kill you, so I suggest you end this thing before you hurt him." Mikasa glared right back at her.

"You don't know anything about me or about my relationship with Armin. Why do you care anyways?" Annie countered, clearly pissed off at Mikasa.

"Armin's like a brother to me." Mikasa answered.

"Well, Armin's my boyfriend." The girl retorted.

Mikasa was stunned at the intensity of her words. She looked down and then looked back at Annie.

"So, you do love him?" The half-Asian girl asked, still surprised that Annie seemed to be sincere.

"What is it to you?"

"Just answer." Mikasa deadpanned.

"Yeah, so what?" Annie blushed once those words left her mouth. To her never ending surprise, Mikasa smiled.

"Alright."

"Alright what?"

"I believe you. Now I know you won't hurt him, not intentionally at least."

With that, they resumed eating their pizza in silence. Then, they continued with their projects, working silently and once again ignoring each other. At about 12, they decided to go to sleep, Annie sleeping for the night in Sasha's bed. Next morning, Mikasa surprised Annie again, handing her some blueberry pancakes she had made in the kitchen early.

"Hope you like them." Mikasa simply said when she served breakfast.

They ate in silence practically ignoring the other again.

These are actually good. Annie thought as she devoured the pancakes. She rarely got to enjoy such delicious food since neither she nor Mina knew how to cook.

Once she finished her breakfast, Annie decided to return to her own dorm.

"I'm going now."

"Okay."

Before opening the door, the blonde turned to look at the other girl with a small smile on her face. "You're not as annoying as I thought."

Mikasa returned the smile. "You're not either."

"Well bye."

"Goodbye."

Annie stopped, and turned around, looking at the owner of the dorm with an unreadable expression. "Oh and Mikasa?"

Mikasa raised an eyebrow. What does she want now? "Yeah?"

"If you tell anybody about what I said about loving Armin, you're dead." Annie glared at her, turned around, and calmly walked out of her dorm.

Mikasa snorted, shook her head, and closed the door. As if she was interested in telling anyone that. She then proceeded to wash the dishes and clean her room, all the time wondering what had occurred last night and during the morning. Perhaps Annie wasn't as awful as she thought, though that did not mean she wanted to spend more time with Annie than necessary.

However, when Armin sent her a text later that day that read 'Thanks for helping Annie :) You rock!', she thought that maybe, just maybe, she wouldn't mind helping Annie again if it meant Armin would be happy.