Strings

Well, since he was here, he might as well...just jump. End it all. He was already giving, right? Why not give the epitome, the ultimate sacrifice.

He looked at the delicate scars on his pale arm. He knew. Erwin knew. Hanji knew. Rico knew. They all knew. They all pushed for him to do more and more...

Didn't they get it? He couldn't do more...He couldn't do more...he couldn't do it anymore....

He shifted closer to the edge.

Go on. It's so high up...you'll just disappear. It'll be so quick and painless. Then you can relax....

Another shift.

Stop giving to everyone else. Give to yourself. Give up yourself....

Yet another shift.

You're right there. Jump. Jump. Jump now.

With the tiniest sigh, Levi's grey eyes flickered over the rail. It was so far down....he could end it quickly. He could be freed from this scarred and damaged body....

He could finally end the silent nightmares for good.

With a slight breath, Levi let his body relax. He only applied pressure to the rail and slowly....

The blond burst through the balcony doors with a gasp as he watched the smaller male go falling from the railing. He wasn't even close to fast enough. His hand grasped air as Levi was already falling...plummeting to certain death.

"Levi, no!"

Excellent.

Now just....relax.

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Eren woke with a start, nearly yanking out the IV in his arm. Wait, an IV? The startled brunet whipped his head around in a panic. Where was he? How did he get here? His mind was trying to process too many thoughts and he began to get a headache.

The headache, however, was not from thinking too much.

He sighed, laying back down.

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep—

Oh for fuck's sake, Eren mentally grumbled. You have got to be shitting me.

He was in a fucking hospital.

Unbeknownst to twenty-two year old Eren, he was in the hospital, and he had saved a certain ravenette's life.

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Eren desperately tried to remember what the hell had gotten him in the hospital. Partying too hard? No...he hadn't gone to a party yesterday. Hit some bad weed? No....he wasn't anywhere near weed yesterday either. He remembered walking somewhere and...

Work! Yes, of course. He was covering that fucktard horse Jean's shift, and he was working a much later shift than normal. Maybe an accident on the job?

Either way, Jean owed him major big time for this.

It was at this point that Eren noticed the quiet sound of someone humming. Eren groaned. It was bad enough he had the annoying ass hospital sounds and a headache. He did not need some asshat humming to make it worse.

"Hey, buddy," he said sharply. The humming cut off. "Do you mind with the humming? I have a headache."

After a moment of silence, a soft reply came.

"I'm sorry."

"It's whatever," Eren said with a huff. "I just need as much quiet as I can get."

The other person said nothing. Eren accepted the silence.