[ Eren hates a lot of people. An unfathomable amount of people, though he recognises they don't all deserve it. It doesn't matter.
But somewhere along the line, he stopped hating Reiner specifically. Maybe in Liberio. Maybe before that, though he wasn't ready to know it.
Maybe just here, in another world, up against an alley wall in the rain with his heart pounding and his feelings confused, out of his depth but desperate with it.
It's not as if he hadn't been close to Reiner before. But was that really Reiner? Where does the line blur? He's not sure it matters.
He's not sure he could say it out loud but he can write the words, finger tapping quickly across the screen, hitting send before he can take it back. ]
You're important to me too.
[ From Eren, words like that could be a death sentence as much as any threat could, or a one way trip to heartbreak. Not that it could stop either of them. Even if they were actually damned, Eren wouldn't even slow down.
After a minute, another message:]
I know. The future is only bad though. There is nothing good left
[ He types in me but deletes it. Still, he usually closes his sentences but he forgets the punctuation there. ]
Do you even want to know?
[ It's not an offer to reveal anything, just a question. ]
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But somewhere along the line, he stopped hating Reiner specifically. Maybe in Liberio. Maybe before that, though he wasn't ready to know it.
Maybe just here, in another world, up against an alley wall in the rain with his heart pounding and his feelings confused, out of his depth but desperate with it.
It's not as if he hadn't been close to Reiner before. But was that really Reiner? Where does the line blur? He's not sure it matters.
He's not sure he could say it out loud but he can write the words, finger tapping quickly across the screen, hitting send before he can take it back. ]
You're important to me too.
[ From Eren, words like that could be a death sentence as much as any threat could, or a one way trip to heartbreak. Not that it could stop either of them. Even if they were actually damned, Eren wouldn't even slow down.
After a minute, another message:]
I know. The future is only bad though. There is nothing good left
[ He types in me but deletes it. Still, he usually closes his sentences but he forgets the punctuation there. ]
Do you even want to know?
[ It's not an offer to reveal anything, just a question. ]