[It's scary. Frustrating. Because sickness is not an enemy he can defend her from. Transfer is not a monster he can bare his teeth against in any real meaningful way.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org since we were kids
[Since her family was killed and she'd come to live with the Jaegers, a year before the wall fell. And they'd been parted very infrequently, since, for better or for worse. Eren and Mikasa are...complicated. Maybe the way he loves her is not quite the same, and the way he shows it is not nearly as clear, but there are things that you cannot live through and come out of without strong bonds. They'd hit that point long before Shiganshina fell. It is fierce, and it is important, even if it is not always pretty.]
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FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
since we were kids
[Since her family was killed and she'd come to live with the Jaegers, a year before the wall fell. And they'd been parted very infrequently, since, for better or for worse. Eren and Mikasa are...complicated. Maybe the way he loves her is not quite the same, and the way he shows it is not nearly as clear, but there are things that you cannot live through and come out of without strong bonds. They'd hit that point long before Shiganshina fell. It is fierce, and it is important, even if it is not always pretty.]