'I swear if this woman says one more thing about a titan and her experiments, I'll...' Mikasa thought to herself annoyed. No wonder Captain Levi despise Hange so much.

Mikasa ackerman sat on the back of her horse as her captain for the expedition talked and talked, and talked, and... You get the point.

The dark haired girl's objective: keep Hange alive.

It didn't sound so difficult back at the castle but after riding by the woman's side for the last three hours, it was proven extremely hard work. The scouts were on a mission to capture the Rogue titan for research and although Mikasa was agianst the plan, she had no say in it.

"Keep hange safe. That's all you have to do." Petra said as she pushed Mikasa towards the crazy researcher. "Yeah piece of cake. Just keep the crazy bastard talking." Oulo said from behind Petra.

'Yeah piece of cake my ass.' Mikasa thought as she stroked her horse's mane.

"Oh and my new subjects, Sawney and Bean- Mikasa are you listening?" The crazy woman asked the girl next to her.

'Oh just shut up already woman!' Mikasa wanted to say but cept her mouth shut and replied.

"Yes sir. You were saying?"

"Okay. So anyway, Bean's been-" 'Blah blah blah and the crazy keeps talking.' Mikasa said to herself, but silently in her mind of course.

As the older woman kept on talking Mikasa thought back to the first few weeks without Eren and Armin. She had cried herself to sleep every night. Thought about how they'd be just bones by the time she would be able to go out on a real expedition with the scouts and find them.

She wasn't the only one back then who lost someone dear to them.

"Mikasa are you okay? You're crying?" Jean asked as he came to stand by the canons. The both of them were asigned back then to clean the canons. A few others were there to help but all kept their distance from the stoic girl as they knew she needed space. Jean unfortunatly did not get them memo, and in a way Mikasa was kind of happy he didn't.

"No, I'm fine." She replied in a cold voice. She stopped cleaning for a second and she wiped away any trace of tears from her face. Jean bent down and sat at the edge of the wall.

"You know," he began again, "your not the only one who lost someone."

"Marco..." The girl said as she went to sit next to Jean.

"I always thought that Marco and I would join the MP's together... But after what those pigs did to eren and Armin, I never want to be one of them. Those two were scared and even I could tell that eren was just trying to help. It was unfair to them, and to you. And... And I'm sorry." Jean finished part of his speech and looked at the girl next to him. "I know I should have said something earlier but I couldnt find the words. I shouldn't have been such a jerk to them. I just-" he looked at his shoe, finding it very interesting, "I'm just sorry. That's all I wanted to say." His cold voice was back. He clearly didn't want to talk anymore.

"Jean," mikasa said softly, it was so quiet said boy had to strain his ears to hear it, "I'm sorry too." She continued, "I'm sorry that you lost marco and I'm sorry that you never got to say goodbye to him. But know this. The past is the past. There is nothing that we can do to change what happened. Our lives are to short to regret the things that happened and be sorry for our fallen. So stop apologising and be the man you're meant to be."

After that incounter the two of them had a spesial bond. One where Mikasa could go to Jean for comfort or the other way around. They were both like brother and sister.

Mikasa looked over at Jean as he rode on the outside of the scout's formation. The boy felt familiar eyes on him and turned to look back at mikasa. He smiled and nodded, his way of saying: be careful and don't die on me.

"OH MY GOSH IS THAT WHAT I THINK IT IS?!" Mikasa was ripped out of her thoughts as Hange all but screamed in the girl's ear. "OH MY GOODNESS IT IS!" The crazy thing (she's not considered a human) yelled again while pointing to the large figure in the trees.

It was him.

It was Eren, coming to look at the commotion the scout's were making. He stood big and proud, to his tallest hight of 15-meters high, the trees' canopy just a few meters above his head.

"Glasses don't get yourself killed. Got it?" Captain Levi said as he came to ride beside Mikasa. "Ackerman, protect her." The girl replied with a simple: "Yes Captain."

"Oh come-on Levi! Loosen up a bit." Hange said with a lunatic smile on her face and hearts in her eyes as she looked at the Rogue.

Levi tsked at her and turned back to mikasa. "I mean it cadet. That woman can get herself into more trouble than what she's worth." With that the short man disappeared just as fast as he had came.

Mikasa looked back at the 15-meter titan as it started following the scouts back into the woods they were currently entering.

'Eren. Please still be in there.' The girl tugged her scarf closer to her neck as she entered the forest.

Eren's pov.

Its was a normal day for the Rogue and a quite slow one as well. The 15-meter woke up at sunrise uncurled himself as he stood and looked around the cove. For the last few days there was something missing from his home but the titan couldn't put his massive finger on what it actually was. All he could remember was sky-blue eyes.

But maybe that was just some random deer's eyes he saw and his mind was playing tricks on him.

The Rogue streched his big arms before doing the same with his legs, then he was off again, ready to kill titans and everything that stood in his way.

The rest of the day was normal. He killed some titans, scared the crap out of a deer, stole some bread from one of the old houses that still stood. You know normal.

The 15-meter was about to head back to his cove when he heard horses just outside his forest. The titan turned to the direction from where the sounds were coming from and started walking, curious as ever.

As he got to the edge he saw tiny humans riding on horses, these humans wore green flapping leaves (well he thought those were leaves) and a pair of wings on the said leaves.

Most of them were silent until an extremely loud human, female by the looks of it, shouted something weird and pointed at him. The Rogue was confused but decided he would follow the tiny humans into his forest. Just to make sure they don't break or take something from him, you know.

As the titan turned he saw a smaller female on the back of a brown horse. The girl was very familiar, in a way but the thing she was wearing around her neck made the titan want to rip it from her grasp and keep it for himself.

With that thought in mind the Rogue advanced toward the girl.

Mikasa's Pov

Eveything was perfect. The Rogue followed the scouts back into the woods but as soon as the beast saw Mikasa something snapped.

Right now the girl was fighting for her life as the beast tried grabbing her. She shot her cable to another tree trying to get away. She had ditched her horse the moment the titan made the first grab. She shot a cable to the nearest tree trying to get away but the Rogue quickly recovers and tried to grab her again.

She had no idea how this had happened. At first it looked as if everything would've played out smooth but then her scarf must've triggered something within the Rogue because said titan was eyeing the red fabric with want in his eyes and as hell would she give this monster the only thing she had left of Eren.

She shot her cable again but this time the Rogue had predicted it, he grabbed the cable and pushed down making the girl fall to the ground. The force of the sudden pull on the cable caused it to snap so all Mikasa had left was one cable, and to make it worse, she was already running low on gas.

She shot her last cable to a nearby tree, trying to get off of ground level where she would easily be squashed, but it didn't work. The Rogue grabbed the remaining cable and swung the poor girl into a tree. Said girl cried out in pain as her leg was caught between the tree's trunk and her back. A sickening crack could be heard from her leg as she made contact.

She tried standing up but it didn't work. Her right leg obviously broken. Scouts tried getting the beast's attention on them but it didn't work, it's mind set on one thing and one thing only.

That red scarf was his.

And no-one is going to take it from him.

The 15-meter moved its hand to the injured girl, tugging hard on the scarf and making said girl scream in agony.

"STOP! STOP! PLEASE!" To her and everybody else's shock the beast stopped moving. "Please let go." The girl tried reasoning. "Its the only thing I have left of him. Please…."

The Titan made a distressed noise as it looked at the girl who had tears running down her face. "Please Eren. Just stop….."

The Rogue looked her in the eyes and with a sign let the scarf go. The girl collapsed from both pain and relief (if that's possible) as the titan took a step back. Jean raced to the girl's side and helped her sit up, both of them looked up at their used-to-be friend with shock and sorrow in their eyes.

The titan felt sorry for hurting Mikasa like that over his own needs and tried to apologise.

"S….sOrriiii…." he tried, lips not working so well. He hadn't spoken in months so this was to be expected from him. He fumbled over his words like a baby trying to speak for the first time.

"Er-Eren sorry. Eren protect Mi..kasa an Ari..min. Not hurt.." With that the Titan walked away and as some of the scouts tried following him he started sprinting, to fast for them to keep up with.

"Mikasa are you okay?" Jean asked his friend. The girl nodded, still shocked to see a part of Eren still in control. Jean tried getting Mikasa to stand up but the moment her damaged leg were put under preasure she cried out in pain, collapsing again on the cold ground.

"Reiner, help!" Jean yelled. The muscled boy came and took Mikasa's right as Jean was already on her left, as one they lifted her up and onto one of the few remaining wagons. Jean sat beside her as a field medic tended to her leg, he whispered sweet nothing to her all the while holding her hand as pain finally over took her body. (I just made it sound like Mikasa's giving birth…. Huh *shudder*)

Six Months after the encounter Mikasa's leg was as good as new and they were off on another capture expedition but this time all Eren did was ran away.

He might not have been in full control of himself but he knew never hurt another human being like he did with Mikasa.

A/N: Hi! sorry for the long wait. school got in the way. Tomorrow I'll be writing my last test then when I get back I will post ch7. Its nearly done I just need to proof read and edit it.

I'm not proud of this chapter but that's okay, I'll rewrite it a other time.

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