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the end of us - 01

chapter summary: eren and friends mourn the loss of family, and run into trouble to save someone who's trapped in the past.

wc: 3160

content warnings: death, description of zombies being zombies (blood, biting, etc.) mentions of kidnapping, physical and mental abuse.

the world is ending. that's what eren knows for sure. walking through empty neighborhoods, passing by abandoned schools, the eerily silent roads, and the image of his parents' pale bodies lying on the living room floor of his childhood home in front of him engraved in his memory.

—

eren was returning from his freshman year of college, to surprise his parents. he was so gung-ho on the way to his home that he hadn't noticed the cars on the roads missing passengers. mikasa sat in the passenger seat of his jeep, while armin kept his head down in a book in the backseat. some may say bad survival instincts to not be aware of your surroundings but, the three were ecstatic to be home after a brutal school year.

once they arrived at his house, eren parked his car and said "you guys mind if i say hi first?" he grabbed his phone and keys out of the cup holder and shoved it in his back pocket. mikasa and armin nod, eren beams. "thanks, i'll be quick."

eren speed walks to his front door, grinning from ear to ear. he inserts the key into the keyhole and twists the knob. when he opened the front door, his smile plunged.

the scene in front of him: his father clawing at his mothers neck, and shoving his entire face into her flesh. absolutely devouring her meat. eren is completely frozen. "dad...? w-what are you doing?!" grisha whips his head to the sound of eren's shaken voice. eyes devoid of any vitality, completely grey and lifeless.

while eren stands in the doorway, trying to make sense of what's happening, grisha is already set on his next meal: eren. his walk is staggered but he's quick, the sounds of his groans bring eren back to reality and his eyes frantically search the room for something to defend himself with.

"DAD! it's... it's me, eren!! it's me! your son!" he cried, backing out of the doorway and onto his front porch. he quickly glances over to his car to see that's it's empty.

'fuck! where did they go?!'

eren gives up on trying to find a weapon and uses all the strength he can muster up to ram his own body into grishas to knock him to the ground, pinning him down. eren held grisha's wrist to keep him from grabbing him. saliva and blood gargled from his mouth and splattered on eren's face. he quickly closed his eyes and mouth then turned his face to the side to prevent any liquids from going inside his body.

the adrenaline rush is beginning to give out. eren weeps and shakes, using the last of his willpower to hold his father down. he can still hear carla's faint breaths and more tears fall.

he thinks, 'is this it? do i die here? right now? that wouldn't be so bad, i'll be with you guys...' he glances down at grisha who is getting restless, his upper body slowly rises as eren begins giving in, 'that wouldn't be so ba–'

"EREN, MOVE!"

armin rushes up to yank eren away from grisha so fast that eren hasn't even realized he'd been moved yet, so mikasa could bash him in the head with a mallet. killing grisha, instantly.

eren's eyes are wide with horror as he stares at his father. his head was completely smashed, and all the brain and a green, chunky fluid splatted on the ground in front of him. he's gone. grisha is gone. his father is gone. eren snaps.

"WHAT THE FUCK, MIKASA??"

mikasa drops the mallet and rushes to eren to check on him but he stands up and shoves armin’s hands off. "eren, are you okay—?"

"AM I OKAY? AM I FUCKING OKAY? YOU JUST KILLED MY FUCKING DAD!"

"eren. he was going to kill you…”

"NO! I HAD IT HANDLED! I COULD HAVE BROUGHT HIM BACK!

armin speaks up from behind him, "eren, grisha was already-"

"don't."

everyone goes quiet until they hear a gasp and cough from where his mother is lying. without hesitation, eren shoved mikasa and to carla. "mommy?" he looked at his mother, her eyes barely open, fat tears streaming down his face and landing on her cheek.

"eren? 's that you, baby?" her voice was so hoarse because of the graping hole on the side of her neck, he could see her esophagus.

"y-yea, i'm here. just like i promised. you promised you would listen to all my stories, remember?"

"mhm..." carla gives a weak nod, eren is so zeroed in carla that he doesn't notice mikasa sobbing into armin's arms, the two quivering behind eren.

eren gulps and sniffles, "so you gotta listen, ma. you promised...i want you to hear my stories…” he trails off.

"i'm a bit tired, honey. let me just close my eyes for a few." she spoke in short breaths.

“what? no! you can't be! keep your eyes open. lemme jus—" carla's frail hand lands on eren's twitching one.

"sweetheart. i'm going to sleep now, i don't think i'll be waking up anytime soon." she gave him a soft smile, lifting her hand to caress his cheek, "take care of armin and mikasa, i l—" eren froze when she suddenly stopped speaking, her cold hand drop to the floor from his cheek. "ma...?"

—

the trio had been sitting there for a couple of minutes after eren buried his parents. they sat in silence, mourning the loss. "i'm sorry i went off on y'all. i wasn't in my right mind."

armin huffs and walks over to give eren a warm hug, eren reciprocates it as well as squeezing armin. "it's alright, eren. emotions were high, i'm sure that was just the shock of—everything hitting you all at once."

"i grabbed this for you, eren." the two released each other and gave their attention to mikasa. eren grabs what mikasa held in her hand and smiles. "thanks, mika." he places the items in his school bag.

she smiles, he can see her eyes are a bit puffy. they sit in more comfortable silence, letting the reality sink in. "so we're dealing with an apocalypse." he declares and they all let out a shaker breath. "we should stock up on essentials, a few knives, etc. we can find somewhere to settle down for a while, then—we'll go see if anyone else is alive."

—

that was 6 months ago. eren, armin, and mikasa have tried their absolute hardest to get used to their new life. eat, sleep, run, repeat. that was their routine now. if they did more than that then they would over-exert themselves but if they did less than that then they would be at high risk of getting sick.

3 months into the apocalypse, they found sasha, connie, and jean hiding in an old bakery. the reunion was cut short when sasha was grabbed by a group of men with the�� flesh-eaters as their security.

the flesh-eaters had ropes around their neck and chains binding their wrist together, so they wouldn't be able to scratch anyone. sasha screamed for help, but the men pulled out guns and aimed them toward the group. "one step forward, and she's dead."

they stood there with baited breaths and watched as the men threw sasha into a van and drove away.

"what the fuck just happened?" connie mutters, his eyes wide as he watched the van drive away and out of their sight. "we just–we just let them take her! we have to follow!!" as soon as connie pulled his knife out of his sheath, jean grabbed a hold of his collar.

"what the hell are you doing, jean?! we gotta get her!"

"with what weapons?" mikasa interrupts.

"the fuckin knives—"

"they had GUNS, connie! GUNS! what the fuck is a knife gonna do against 6 men with guns?"

they all went silent. then armin spoke up, "i say we trust that sasha will be ok. " he hesitates, "i'm not saying we give up, but we should wait it out until we are strong enough to get her back. for now, we wait."

connie's breath hitches, "but—"

"trust her." eren cuts in. connie looks back towards the path they took her on, and sighs then gives them an approving nod.

"i trust her."

trying to get stronger was fucking brutal. and on top of that, they were running out of supplies and more eaters were starting to appear around their shelter at night and day.

grabbing the few supplies they had left and putting them in their backpacks, they hopped in eren's jeep and began to drive away to look for some more supplies and a safer place to stay.

"aw fuck, i liked that house." connie groaned, leaning his head against the head rest and toying with the sasha's friendship ring on his pointer.

"sorry man, they eaters liked it more. it's only fair that we leave." eren quips, keeping his eyes on the road to search for empty looking house. "we need to find a more secure one." jean said. eren turns right into a gated community, pulling into the driveway of the fifth house on the left side.

"holy shit, this house is huge!" connie remarks. they all hop out the jeep, and admire the structure and details of the house. "damn, sucks that the apocalypse came. this guy probably threw ragers here."

"let's go and scan the entire house. jean, mikasa and i will start from here and check the whole first floor. you" eren points to connie, "and armin will go around back and check upstairs. when everything's clear, come back downstairs."

everyone nods. they split up and begin their checking, armin and connie make their way around back and jiggled the door knob. it's unlocked.

"weird. you would think whoever lived or lives here would keep their doors locked since their house is such an attraction."

"maybe they forgot?" connie shrugs as they now make their way upstairs. "you know it's good they put us together."

"and why is that?"

"because i'm the brawn and you're the brains!" connie explains. he glances behind him to see armin giving him a confused look.

"and...?"

connie sighs with a smirk, "basically, i'm here to protect you!" armin rolls his eyes and nods his head for connie to keep moving.

now upstairs, they split up from one end of the hallway to the other. armin creeps open the door at the end of the hallway after checking the other two.

he is met with a gigantic bedroom, that looks like the master. the room was bigger than his kitchen at home. 'rich people...'

he walks in a little more and sees a—woman. a woman is sleeping on the bed, it's a alaskan king so she looks small in comparison to it. "connie!" armin whisper-yells. connie's quickly jogs up with his knife in hand, "what is it?"

"look. a woman."

"holy shit..." the woman must've heard their voices because she starts turning in her sleep, then she arises.

"aj is that you?" she questions. they can now see that she has a blindfold on and her hands are tied to the bed post closest to her.

"are you okay?" the unfamiliar voice makes her jolt. she begins scrambling, thinking the worse.

"please don't kill me! i'm sorry, i don't have anything! i don't know what's going on! please!" she begs, tears quickly wetting the blindfold.

"woah woah! we're not here to kill you. we just needed some supplies. who tied you up?" she stays silent and her head hangs low. connie walks up to lift the blind fold off her eyes and he is blown away.

she may have been the most captivating and gorgeous woman he had ever seen. her hair was disheveled, eyes were doe-like with worry and fear. there are old tear streaks, 'looks like she cried herself to sleep.'

connie and the woman had been staring at each other for a while before armin clears his throat, making connie blush and look away. armin rolls his eyes again, "connie , maybe you should, i don't know....untie her??"

"r–right..."

"no!" she yanks her hands away and scoots back up against the head board.

"what? why? we're only trying to help."

"please. you need to leave, they'll be back." the woman warns them.

"who?"

just then a deep male voice spoke from the ledge of a window in the bedroom. "who the fuck are you and why're you pointin' a gun at my lady?" he sneered, connie jerked and rotated to the voice, a fairly tall man with shaggy black hair and short stubble on his face. armin stayed quiet, only glaring back at the man. "you deaf or sumn?" he mocks.

the woman speaks from the bed. "baby, let's just—"

"you shut the hell up. can't even knock a bitch out to save your fucking life. oh right... you can't!" he taunts, causing the woman to lower her head in humiliation. armin glances over with an expression that displays pity. "you shouldn't talk to your girlfriend like that.'

he laughs at armin. "i talk to my woman any way i want, right, peaches?" he beckons her over, but the woman stays silent.

"you don't have to answer." the lady lifts her head to armin, who has a faint smile on his face. she opens her mouth to speak but the man voices her name, she looks away from armin, "yes."

"that's right." the man gloats.

the loud sound of a door being busted open interrupted the tense silence, "UGHHHHHH!" the man groans, "how the hell did all these fucking people get in my house??" she flinches when he steps over and grabs her arm, pulling and making her wrist ache from the tight zip ties, "ow!" he lifts his assault rifle to the people at the door.

eren stepped up a bit with his hand out, "there's no need to be so rough." he said. 'they must've heard the commotion...' she thought. behind him, mikasa stood still.

"stay back." he jerked the rifle in their direction, "drop the weapons, all of ya, and tell me why yer robbin' me. " he demeaned, while digging the nails in the woman's arm, having her wince in pain.

it was quiet, eren examined the lady's face, she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. even though most women he's seen have tried to eat him recently, his point still stands. the buttons on her shirt were slightly undone, the result of her being shoved around by a man he assumed, showing some of her collarbones, there were blood stains on the shirt and her hair was unkempt. eren continued staring at her face, her eyes shaking from fear, he sighed in frustration, "kay." eren watched as her lip quivered, she was terrified. from what he can tell, she'd been in this house isolated from the world. 'she has no fucking idea what's going on outside.'

but if she'd been isolated since all this started then where did the cut on her lip and blood on her shirt come from...?

oh god.

"we're putting them down." eren slowly crouches to put his knife on the ground, and he kicks it over to the man's feet. armin and mikasa copy, but connie remains with his knife pointed at him. he side-eyes him, "you too, bitch."

with much reluctance, he curses under his breath and follows the man's orders. "good boy" connie scrunches his face then eren speaks up. "i think you're hurting her." the man glances down at her face, he removes his hand from her arm and moves it to squish her cheeks and pecks her bruised lips. "am i hurtin' you, peaches?"

she grips his arm trying to remove his hand, she nods slowly with tears gathering in her eyes from his grip tightening. he shoves her head back, and she collides with the metal backboard, the force knocks her out cold. there's blood on her lip from biting at the cut that was beginning to heal. "fucking bitch."

everyone in the room, except for the man, gapes at her passed-out form, mikasa grunts, and dashes towards him, she drives head first grabbing his legs to slam him into the ground, she reaches to grab her gun but the man hits her head with his rifle.

mikasa tumbles but gets up with so much speed she could've created dust behind her, she yells for everyone to duck and screams out jeans name. he was ducking behind eren's figure so the man hadn't seen him. jean shoots the man with the gun they had found in a safe. he shoots his shoulder, hand, then thigh without hesitation. the man screams so loud that connie can see some eaters heading towards the house in the distance. "uh... i think we should start headin' out.”

they all grab their knives, plus, the now whimpering and injured, man's rifle then leave the room except for eren. eren rushes to the woman's side, he puts his finger under her nose to check for breathing.....he sighs in relief when he feels the warmth on his finger. he gently cuts the zip ties and removes the blindfold from her head. he picks her up bridal style, and begins to walk out until he hears the man's raspy voice. "leave her..."

eren turns to face the man, he's bleeding out so he should die soon.

"why?"

the man chuckles and coughs up blood. he says her name with a smile. "she's dangerous. people are looking for her," he gasped, eyelids fluttering, "if you take her with you...you will be hunted down until they get her."

eren stares at the man, he can't think of anything to respond with but the man continues, "she was my fiancée before all this shit happened," he coughs, "fuck... we were supposed to get married in two months! but some guys came here in suits and i–i fucked up all because i was scared, i was scared to disobey their orders... they locked her in this room, i wasn't able to see her...but when i finally saw her...i got jealous." eren's face contorted in confusion. "she was here, in this room, locked away from the world. she doesn't know what it's like out there! it's not engraved in her brain, she's never seen 'em. she doesn't have nightmares about those fucking..." he trails off, and he uses the little strength he has left to sit himself up against the wall with his head down.

"i should've saved us—her." he laughs but it sounds more like a cry. "please. if you're going to take her with you then take care of her."

eren scoffs, "coward." he then walks out the door, leaving the man to bleed out.

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