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you were awaken with a pat to your cheeks. you stirred for a few moments before remembering where you were. the rumbling worked. Mikasa, Armin,Jean, Connie, Hange, Levi are living peacefully in a villages, forever ashamed they couldn’t save Marley and the other nations of the world. Or what it was. Eren had his former friends exiled. Eren was not easily swayed but seeing everything Floch did for him, he allowed Floch to keep you.
You lied in flochs guest room. “Ah.. good morning.” He laid his hand on your forehead and rubbed it to the back of your head a few times, comfortingly. “How did you sleep?” You were still stirring awake. Blinking a few times. He began rubbing more aggressively to wake you up. “I slept fine… just so tired.” You responded to his question. He nodded and looked satisfied. “it’s currently only.. 12AM and I brought you to your room to sleep at 10.” “Why did you wake me up in the middle of the night?”
Because I wanted to see you. “I visited your friends earlier today.. I didn’t tell you” That got out attention and you whipped your head up. “Oh.. no not the traitors of Eldia. I visited Eren. As I do everyday. He said that back in the cadet core, Mikasa once told him that you woke up the 5 people in your section of the corridor during a nightmare.” He stated. You wonder where he was going with this. He was never this nice to you. Has he been drinking? “Sasha sat by your bed and sweet talked you until you fell back asleep.” He finished. You nodded. “Would you like me to sweet talk you? I know you haven’t been enjoying your time at my house but I want you to..”Floch cut himself off based on embarrassment. “Do you want me to sweet talk you or not?” you turned over, not facing him. He took that as a yes. “I know, I know you’re mad at me…” He continued to pet you. You wondered why is he being so gentle? This is SO out of character for him. “I just have to keep you here. To protect you” Protect you from what?? Sure you weren’t in the top 10 in the 104, but you didn’t need anybody to protect you. You could easily handle your own. “Protect me from what?”you mumbled, floch didn’t hear you that well, because he was cooing something to you, but he did hear you enough to know your tone. “don’t disrespect me. you’ve been such a good girl.” you cringed. “If you keep being a good girl I can continue to pet you. And you like when I pet you don’t you, baby?” You didn’t like it.. but feeling his hands scratch your head. and seeing how gentle he was.. You didn’t answer. “Cmon.. say something.” “I don’t hate it. Not nearly as much as I hate you.” You said to him, you tried your best to make sure your words hurt. He sighed. “I wish you weren’t so bad. I don’t like doing this. I wish I didn’t have to keep you locked up in this room. I wish I could show you around the house, maybe take you to the garden down the river. Why are you so mean to me?” The question hung in the air. Because he helped the rumbling go through. After the rumbling however, Eren, the new leader of the Eldian empire made sure nobody talked about it. “You know why.” You spat your words at him. He pinched your ear. He learned a while ago through trial and error that your ears and sensitive. “You’re not supposed to talk about life before it.” He explained. “Im sorry about then. It had to happen.” What a liar. Killing 80% of the world didn’t have to happen. Floch sighed. “We got so distracted about then, I forgot why I was here.” He kissed your head. He’s done this a few times. He picked you up which wasn’t that hard. The days you were being ‘bad’ he didn’t feed you. That happened a lot. You dropped at least 12 lbs here. (A/N. I’m 5’0 and 98 lbs so now we’re ALL 5’0 and 98 lbs - 12 lbs) so you were relatively easy to pick up. He placed you on his lap. His chest was touching your back, he forced you to lean down so your head was resting against his chest. “Do you want to sleep on me tonight, baby?” He asked. NO. “Absolutely not,No. Never.” You said where he placed his finger over your mouth and made a shh’ing sound “Well I already decided I want you to.” What the fuck? Does your voice not have a meaning. “you’re so so beautiful in my arms like this” He whispered in your ear. You wanted to kill him. “I’m going to sweet talk you until you fall back asleep. Alright?” You hated him. but in the moments where he was so gentle you could almost forget he was a war criminal. “You’re my precious little thing. Okay?” He grabbed your head and made you nod with his hands. He giggled. “Adorable.” He learned to kiss your forehead one more time. He played with your hair, scratching small patterns. When he was confident you were asleep. He lied down fully,put his legs over yours and held your wrists so tight so you wouldn’t be able to move from him when you woke up. He also took off your handcuffs so they wouldn’t bruise your wrists more than they already have. “Goodnight sweetheart. I love you” He whispered in your ear. You moved your head reflectively. Floch easily moved it back to place, cuddled up with you and kissed you goodnight.