PSL / MEME CONTINUATION

[abandonhumanity]

I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine
and rage the likes of which you would not believe.
If I cannot satisfy the one,
I will indulge the other.

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[headhooligan]

[Eyebrow raise to the heavens.]

get out

[abandonhumanity]

already? I'm not even there yet
wait a week

[Purposefully obtuse in two universes.]

[headhooligan]

can’t wait

just for the day?

[abandonhumanity]

weekend before too
I'm staying with Mikasa

[Which means: decidedly NO Jaegerists allowed.]

[headhooligan]

[Shit. She might actually have to cancel for that.]
you drive a hard bargain jaeger

hypothetically [““hYpOtHeTiCaLlY””]
if my plans involved a costume party
how hard you crashing it

[abandonhumanity]

lol match me and I'm there

[headhooligan]

[Kim’s gonna be so pissed.]

sorry i’m matching you now?
were you invited?

[abandonhumanity]

[Fuck Kim. We ball.]

idk that sort of sounded like an invite
or maybe just wishful thinking, bow?

[headhooligan]

i’m thinking about it
i know you’d track me down regardless

[Read: Eren in town again = Aubrey’s seeing him whether she wants to or not. Annoyingly, she doesn’t hate the prospect. Three hours....]

unless my darling clingy ex has any better ideas for the weekend

[abandonhumanity]

ex? that hurts

[He's baiting her.]

I have plenty of ideas for the weekend and they all involve you so buckle up I guess

[headhooligan]

[Maybe she’ll bite in person.]

don’t sound too enthusiastic [she types, enthusiastically]

[Also typed, guess mikasa and armin can go fuck themselves, but she’s not annoyed enough to pull that card. Yet. Backspace it is....]

at least share what i’m supposed to buckle up for

[abandonhumanity]

[That's cool. He's into biting.]

Me, obviously

[headhooligan]

swooning already

[Mental note made: her unblemished neck is not surviving this weekend. Neither is his.]

[She just can’t drive safe with this guy.]

anything else? <3

[abandonhumanity]

yeah
what are our costumes?

[headhooligan]

wow, that’s sooooo many plans
we might not have time idk

[abandonhumanity]

don't play dumb
we'll keep ourselves busy and you know it

could go to the old spot

[You know - The Spot(TM). It's sacred to them even now; at least, it had better be. A place that no one else in the world quite knows how to reach. Their first kiss, their first time, their first "I love you", their first "Goodbye". The Spot.]

[headhooligan]

[Ah. That spot.

[The spot just far enough from the neighborhood, off the trail, for no sane kid to ever get near. The spot between broken houses. The spot where they carved their names in a tree, intertwined their fingers, and swore countless promises to each other, meant to last forever. Not all have been broken. Last they saw, their names were still there.]

[The spot Aubrey hasn’t touched since that last (“last”) goodbye. Of course not. She’s not that masochistic.]

[There’s a silence before Aubrey replies. Eren might start to think she got called away from the phone, as if that’s something she ever lets happen.]

we’re not getting back together

[Who’s she telling that to, really?]

[abandonhumanity]

[A knife. He’s reminded of the hatred, always rotting in his core.]

fuck you
didn’t ask

[It hurts badly. He wants her. He was fine not throwing titles and promises around. He just wants her. Is it really so much to fucking ask?]

[headhooligan]

[Hit a nerve, huh?

[Not intended, for once. But he’s the one who brought up their spot.]

we’re not going /there/
that’s all i meant

[abandonhumanity]

no that’s not what the fuck you meant
liar

who are you trying to convince?
I wanted to see you that’s it

[Thats never “it”.]

[headhooligan]

[A pause. Considerable, albeit less so than before.]

Incoming call from
Bow Girl 💗💗

✅ ❌

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[abandonhumanity]

[Ever the crybaby, Eren has to force the emotion out of his throat before answering. His tone is low and fake. Knowing Aubrey, she won’t buy it for a second.]

What?

[headhooligan]

[It’s about what she expected. There’s a reason she paused before initiating this, too. Not a fair play, really.]

Eren. [Likewise, he’ll hear a trace of irritation that Aubrey couldn’t quite snuff out. But mostly, her voice is steady, near-insistent. Talking him down....]

You’ll see me. Pinky promise.

[Eren probably can’t hear it, but… she bites her thumb.]

[abandonhumanity]

[It’s a tone he knows very well, as infuriating as it is soothing. It (almost) never fails.

[Embarrassingly, he sniffles into the receiver. He bites his thumb and lets it drop.]

I just want to go home for a while.

[Home. Mom. Armin and Mikasa. Aubrey, Aubrey, Aubrey. Familiar streets and sacred spots. The smell of his hometown. The shitty soft serve at the ancient ice cream shop that won’t close. His tree. The grocery store with the leaky roof.]

[headhooligan]

[There’s enough weight in his voice, that word home, for Aubrey to stifle a retort about how he didn’t have to leave. He’d fire the same right back, she’s sure. And now’s not the time.]

You will be. Soon.

[She’d hug him if she could. That sniffling gets her every time.]

And we’ll be right here for you. Okay?