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[ravner]

pairing eruriren
rating teen
warnings mentions of the holocaust
word count 180
3-sentence fic meme prompt, complete

He sees red when the soldiers round them up in the middle of the street — a gaggle of people, thin and scared and cold, and Levi and Eren are among them; he's shaking and gritting his teeth as he watches the soldiers shove and hit them — herd them like animals in the back of a military truck — and by the time they're gone and the dust has settled, he knows what he has to do.

He sees them again a month later, in two burlap sacks in the back of another truck, and it takes everything he has not to rush to them and tear the cloth away with teeth and nails and see them, hold them — but he waits; waits until it's safe, until they're past the gates of the camp, until its walls and guard towers aren't even specks on the horizon.

He cries when he's finally holding them; he cries and kisses their gaunt, dirty faces, their bony fingers and their dry lips; he cries and vows that he will never let anything happen to them again.