[She would. Because she's a comrade, because she's family. Because she's Mikasa. and she's a pest and she's good at what she does, even when he doesn't ask it of her, or want it from her.
After something of a pause.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org we'd be dead without each other
[It's not a romantic notion, or a dramatic one. It's just true, a thousand times over. But she's not a topic most people dare to broach to him, it's not something he's very good at handling gracefully, most of the time. They don't understand each other, they'd barely even be friends, in another life, but she's unconscious in medical right now and the loud absence is grating on his nerves. And it's entirely possible this conversation would have tipped more causally if she wasn't. He raps his knuckles restlessly against the keyboard before following that up with—]
no subject
After something of a pause.]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
we'd be dead without each other
[It's not a romantic notion, or a dramatic one. It's just true, a thousand times over. But she's not a topic most people dare to broach to him, it's not something he's very good at handling gracefully, most of the time. They don't understand each other, they'd barely even be friends, in another life, but she's unconscious in medical right now and the loud absence is grating on his nerves. And it's entirely possible this conversation would have tipped more causally if she wasn't. He raps his knuckles restlessly against the keyboard before following that up with—]
FROM: jaeger.eren@cdc.org
do you need something