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Eren watched the threes retreating backs as Hannes dragged his mother and Mikasa away. His mother’s face, crying and begging Hannes to let go, as she screamed for him. Screaming in panic and unbridled fear as she was carried further and further away. He couldn’t see Mikasa but he could hear her screaming at Hannes too. A tear falls as he watches his mother resign to their fates, her face morphing into one of true anguish, her eye hollowing as she turns away from begging with Hannes to look straight at him… or at least as straight at him as she could, tossing about on the guards shoulder, distressed and discombobulated, and looked right back at her.
A tear falls from his face as he stares at his mother’s sobbing face and withdrawing form.
As the distance grows between them, his heart squeezes as he hears her voice oh so faintly with all the destruction happening around them.
He watches as her mouth lines up with her faint voice. Watching her mouth as closely as he can, knowing distinctly that it will be that last time he will ever see her speak or hear her speak to him ever again.
‘I’
‘Love’
‘Y-‘
His mother’s final words to him are cut off.
The giant blonde monster that crushed their home, trapping him under its broken skeleton, stomps a grotesquely deformed hand on the ground in front of him as it kneels down. He can feel the looming presence of its other hand above him, likely leaning on a non-destroyed building for support.
His eyes widen and his pupils constrict in fear, heart pounding loudly, as too loudly in his chest. He stills in fear, holding his breath before turning his head to look up…
..
And up…
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..and UP. ..
Its wide grinning face meets his eyes and the beast locks onto him, eyes lifeless, beady, yet filled with nothing but the desire to feast.
Eren slowly lets out a shaky breath, a small, meek and unrecognizable to his own ears, noise leaving him.
The thing starts moving at an unfair speed and an overly-large, gluttonous hand reaches closer to him. He squeezes his eyes shut, and quickly turns his head, ducking into his shoulder and his good arm as if it would shield him from the titan.
He felt its hand start to weight down on the rubble on top of him and he holds his breath before scrunching further into himself. Eyes stinging and face scrunching as he lets out a muffled sob that has been building ever since came to the realization that he wouldn’t be able to escape with the rest of his family.
He can do nothing but wait for the hand to grab at him, crush him in its grip. For the gaping maw to bite him in half and swallow his remains.
A moment goes by and he hears an ear piercing shriek in the distance that shakes the rubble and remaining windows of the nearby and surrounding buildings. It makes him want to cover his ears, but his fright wins over the urge to move and he remains still.
He can feel the hand of the deformity loosely start to close around him, rubble and all. The horror in his body increases tenfold as he will it to be over quickly, but all-the-while knowing he will die, he gains a bout of stupidly placed courage and defiant rage wells up inside him.
His eyes snap open and he desperately fights against the hand enclosing around him with all his might. His struggle is in vain, however, because the monsters clutch is already tightly wrapped around him. Tears of frustration and terror come down when its grip becoming excruciatingly tight. He grits his teeth and with the last bit of fight in him, he cursed the man eating monstrosity before him.
It brings him closer to its gigantic mouth, already opening to invite a new morsel of food in. The curses die on his tongue and he turns away again, fear coming anew as he braces.
‘You goddamn bastard!’ Is the only thing his mind can seem to conjure and he grits hit teeth harder, eye growing hot as anticipates the end.
He feels the hot breath just before a wet, heavy noise rang throughout the abandoned town.
It nearly takes his breath away and his eyes snap open on reflex just when a sudden enormous gust of wind hits him in the face-
Eren stilled in shock, eyes widening in confused disbelief.
The massive, soulless eyes, the filthy, mangled blonde hair, and the wide, open mouthed grin were all completely gone-…
. . .
In place of where the head of the titan used to be was an enormous hand, curled up into a fist.