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At that moment she sat on her bed staring at the dark void over her, soreness on her body, tiredness on her mind and pain, pure pain in her heart. A certain feeling clouding her, a feeling she wished she would never feel again, the feeling of not being able to save a loved one.
Three times, three times she felt it.
Three were the times her heart broke in more pieces someone could imagine, three times a piece of her was taken.
First her parents, Second the boy who gave her life, and Third the boy who taught her how to live, the boy whose only sin was being the bravest and kindest person of all.
And now, the girl whose roots were just as deep in her heart as the last three, whom she considered the sister she never had, her confident, her friend and most important her family, her new family.
The one she swore to protect.
Yet she failed, again.
Beside her was the blond boy, the one who had a smile as bright as the sun, but now only a fading sun remained, and a grim reminder of what happened marked on his mind and his eyes.
“Mikasa.” A quiet voice said, almost a whisper, as he moved closer and closer and finally, pulled her in a tight embrace. Feelings flowing between the two as he embraced her tighter.
“Mikasa, I’ll always be here for you, you know that, right? No matter what happens, no matter if it’s right or not, i will always be here for you, as you have always have for me.” Armin added while squeezing her hand.
“Yes.”
The boy then rested against the bed, pulling Mikasa’s head in his chest and letting his arms held her in a loving embrace. She turned her face up to see him, beautiful moonlight shining on his porcelain face, just as beautiful as his heart.
“Now rest Mikasa, we have to keep fighting, we can’t give up. To remember her, to remember them.” He said before pressing a kiss on her forehead and with his free hand, playing with her hair and caressing her cheek. Bathed by the shining moonlight and feeling warmth emanating from his body and soul she slowly drifted away, being held by love in a ocean of pain and despair.
Then, on that moment, she felt it.
Even surrounded by an ocean of darkness she felt it.
A light.
A light of hope.
But one day,
It would fade too.