Epilogue

4 years later

Eren parked his car in the nearby lot. He grabbed his keys and locked his car. The climb to the fourth floor was tiring but lately Eren has been trying to avoid the elevator because its on the fritz.

Eren grabbed the spare keys Levi gave him out of his pocket as he approached the apartment. When he opened the door Mikasa turned her head to see him. She sat on a stool at the kitchen counter working on her algebra 2 homework.

"Hey where's Levi?" He asked.

"He ran back to work for a second. He said it was an emergency." She told him.

Eren nodded and dropped his bag on the counter next to her.

Mikasa tucked a strain of her raven hair behind her ear.

"Did you get a hair cut?" He asked as he grabbed a bottle of water out of the fridge.

"Yeah." Mikasa muttered as she played with a strain of it. Eren smiled and ran his hand through her shoulder cut black locks.

"I like it better this way."

Mikasa patted it down and muttered a thanks.

Eren patted her head. The cold metal of the ring on his left hand irritated her.

"Are you really gonna marry him?"

"Of course that's the point of being engaged."

Mikasa watch Eren as he went to the fridge and grabbed an apple.

"I can't say I exactly like the idea of you marrying my uncle."

Eren turned his head around surprised by her words.

"What do you mean." He asked.

"Not what you think its just... I think you could do better."

Eren laughed at that comment.

"Well as flattering as that is, I love Levi and I'm going to marry him. " Eren said leaning against the counter.

"Well what if someone else loved you?" She asked.

"What do you mean? Who?"

Mikasa looked down at her work.

"What about me...?" She asked.

Eren chuckled. "I love you too Mikasa, what about it?"

"No Eren that's not what I'm talking about."

Eren stared at her confused.

"What are you talking about?" He asked.

"I love you Eren...so I don't want you to marry my uncle."

Eren stared at her a mixture of confusion and surprise on his face. He was completely flabbergasted.

"Mikasa... I'm too old for you." He said the only excuse that could come to mind.

"Hypocrite." she whispered.

Eren flinched when unexpected tears began to fall out of her eyes.

"You say that but you'll go and marry a man almost 10 years older than you!" She yelled.

Mikasa threw down her pencil and stood up so fast the stool she was sitting on fell to the ground.

She ran out of the apartment so fast Eren barely had time to register what happened.

As soon as his senses came back to him he rushed out the door after her. He ran down the stairs out into the streets. There was no sign of her.

Dammit! Where did she go? He thought.

Eren began running up and down the street until he final got in his car to search for her.

He went the only place he would think Mikasa would go.

When he parked his car on the side of the road he ran out into the field of grass toward a bench near a playground. This had been where he met Mikasa. Sure enough there she was sitting alone on the bench. The exact bench he had held her on over 4 years ago after she had lost everything.

After that Eren had become her everything. She wanted to return the favor. She wanted to always be with him. She wanted to protect him.

However he didn't feel the same about her.

"Mikasa..." Eren said slowly as he approached her from behind.

"Go away. I want to be alone." She said.

"Mikasa... We need to talk." He said.

"I think you've said enough." She said.

"No, you're going to listen to me." He said.

"What's the point?" Mikasa slumped in her seat. "You've made it pretty clear."

"No I haven't." Eren sat next to her on the bench. They didn't look at each other, they didn't touch each other, and the silence was like a wall between them.

"Mikasa I think you're misinterpreting your own feelings."

"What's that suppose to mean." She asked.

"I don't think you love me. Not in the way me and Levi love each other." He said.

"How do you know?"

"What makes you think you love me?" He asked.

"... Whenever my uncle holds you or kisses you I get really mad." She mumbled.

"Do you want I kiss me and hold me?" He asked her.

"I want to protect you..."

"But that's not love." Eren said.

"Then what is it?" She asked.

"It's like a mother bear protecting her baby cubs."

Mikasa laughed. She looked down at her lap. Tears flowing out of her eyes again.

"The difference in mine and Levi's age difference is that we're both adults. You're still a kid."

Mikasa laughed sarcastically. "Please, he told me that you two were dating when you were 17."

Mikasa stood from her seat. Eren stood with her. She wiped her eyes with the back of her sleeve.

"Can we go home now?" She asked.

Eren pulled her into a tight hug.

"Yeah we can."

This family was made up of broken pieces. Somehow they were able to fit together in order to become a true family. They're like three shards of glass broken off of different windows, but somehow they form their own puzzle. There were times when they all had their doubts, but they were all able to have the family they always wanted. Their love for each other is more than blood could hold together.

This is a cheesy ending to a story about two dads and a child.

Hello everyone so this is the end end of this story. Sorry for the corn.

I will soon be posting the sequel of my KarmaxNagisa fanfiction Cold Shoulder. It will be called Heated Kisses. I hope you enjoyed this fanfiction. I enjoyed writing it. I hope you will read more of my fanfictions in the future.

Sorry it took so long but this is the end. Please review on your final thoughts.

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