A/N: Sorry about the inactivity, I wrote a few different stories but kept on scrapping them! I finally wrote this one which I liked and I hope you will too! This story has no connection to "Don't let me go" which will be continuing in the next few weeks so look out for that!
Mikasa was holding onto Eren as tightly as she could, they had been walking blindly for hours through a blizzard that seemed like it would never stop. Eventually, the blizzard died down just enough for minimum visibility to be returned and Eren could make out the opening of a cave.
Slowly, he trudged through the snow with Mikasa right behind him until they entered the cave.
Mikasa was freezing, she couldn't stop shivering until she felt a warm jacket get put over her shoulders. She gave Eren a surprised look, but he just smiled as he kept his eyes on the caves exit.
Eren and Mikasa had to abandon most of their gear when their horses ran off, they had the bare essentials.
Mikasa had lost her coat when her horse ran off, she was getting to warm so she took it off and put it in one of the saddle bags.
Eren being a titan shifter had a very high body temperature, but he could hardly stand the cold. Eren gave Mikasa his coat because he knew that at least he wouldn't freeze to death.
The two of them were silent for a few hours, there was nothing to say, nothing to do. They took the occasional glance at each other not sure what to make of the situation they had found themselves in.
Eventually Eren spoke out.
"Well this sucks." Eren said.
Mikasa just looked at him like he was an idiot for pointing out the obvious.
Eren just looked down and sighed.
"Look, stay here... I am going to look around for anything we can burn." Eren said as he got up from his seat beside Mikasa.
"Be safe." she said as she huddled deeper into Erens coat.
Eren walked outside and was blasted by the un pleasant feel of the cold, the blizzard was picking up again.
Eren knew he had to be quick if he was going to find his way back, his body temperature barely keeping him warm enough to move. He found a tree not to far from the cave and started peeling the bark off and cutting off branches with his swords.
He got back to the cave just as the blizzard made it zero visibility. Mikasa was still trying her best to keep warm inside Erens jacket.
Eren put the branches and bark on the ground and made a small fire pit in front of Mikasa, his only priority at this point was to keep her alive.
He broke apart the branches into small sticks and tried to light them on fire, but it wasn't working.
"Come on you son of a bitch." Eren muttered as he continued attempting to light a fire.
Mikasa noticed him struggling and offered him a hand, but he just ignored her, he was too focused on getting that fire started.
Eventually, the wood started smoking but never lit. Eren gave up at that point and took a seat beside Mikasa.
"You tried, that's what counts." she said.
Eren looked at her with a sadly, he knew that coat wasn't going to be enough come nightfall.
Another few hours of silence passed when Mikasa started to shiver again, the temperature had started to quickly drop. Eren didn't notice at first until she started to chatter her teeth.
They looked at each other for a few moments and then Eren got up to try and light the fire.
Mikasa knew she didn't want the fires warmth, she wanted Erens warmth but she was too afraid to admit it. She just sat there getting colder and colder as Eren failed to light the fire.
Once again Eren gave up with the fire and sat down beside Mikasa who couldn't stop shivering.
He let out a quiet sigh.
'Is this really the smart thing to do?' he thought as he slowly moved closer to Mikasa, she could feel the heat radiating off of his body getting closer and pretended she didn't notice.
Eren slowly moved closer and closer until his leg hit Mikasas. He felt sudden rush of joy and nervousness from being so close to her. Mikasa felt the same rush of joy and pulled her scarf over her face to cover her blushing.
Mikasa could feel his warmth heating the air around them when suddenly she felt Eren reach behind her and pull her into him.
'What the hell am I doing, this is probably going to ruin our friendship!' Eren thought angrily to himself as he hugged Mikasa, but to his surprise, he looked down and saw Mikasa snuggling into him looking like she was ready to fall asleep.
Mikasa found pleasure in his natural warmth, she didn't want to be anywhere else.
A big smile found its way onto her face as she let out a peaceful sigh and dosed off on Eren.
Eren just sat there, he didn't dare move and wake her up. He ran his fingers through her raven black hair and what he felt was shocking to him. Her hair was as soft as silk even after all the shit they just had to go through to get to this cave.
A few more hours passed before Mikasa Mikasa woke up. She could hear Eren snoring, he had fallen asleep some time after she did.
Mikasa looked to the cave exit and what she saw didn't surprise her.
The blizzard was showing no signs of stopping and she grew very cold very quickly when she pulled away from Erens warmth.
Mikasa looked to Eren who didn't look like he was going to wake up any time soon and walked over to the small fire pit Eren had made. Mikasa pulled some paper out of her back pocket, she had been saving it to draw on but there wasn't much to draw in the cave so she put it under the small sticks.
As quietly as she could, Mikasa chipped two rocks together until they sparked and lit the paper on fire. The fire quickly devoured the paper and spread to the small sticks and eventually, Mikasa had created a roaring fire.
The light woke Eren up and his mouth dropped open as he looked at Mikasa wh was looking at him with a smile.
Eren went and sat beside her at the fire and decided the silence should end.
"Did you have a good sleep?" he asked with a smile.
Mikasa blushed and looked away from him eventually answering him.
"Yes."
"I am glad to hear it." Eren said while still looking at her, his smile growing at the sight of Mikasa blushing.
"What does our food look like?" Mikasa asked changing the subject.
Eren let out a little chuckle and pulled over their rucksack.
''Uh... looks like six pieces of bread, three baked potatoes and what ever this is." Eren said pulling out a strange looking loaf of bread.
Mikasa looked down, she knew that was no where near even a minimum amount of food.
Eren put everything back in the rucksack and put it off to the side and then his gaze caught the small wood pile.
"We are going to run out." he said looking at the cave exit again.
Mikasa knew what he was thinking and put her hand on his shoulder.
"Eren, what if you can't find your way back? I won't lose you to this snow storm." she said with worry.
"Don't worry Mikasa, I know where the tree is." Eren said as he got up and started walking.
"Come back as fast as you can." Mikasa said as he disappeared almost instantly in the snow storm.
'Fuck its bad out here.' Eren thought as we walked through the deep snow to the tree. Again, he peeled off the bark and cut the branches taking as much as he could carry when he suddenly felt everything go dark.
When Eren woke up, he was in the cave and Mikasa was snuggled up to his chest again.
'Damn that crazy girl, she came out and got me.' he thought to himself.
One again, Eren didn't dare wake Mikasa from her slumber. Eventually, she woke up as well and was met with Erens smiling face.
She tried to hide her blushing, but it was no use.
Eren kept wondering why she tried to hide herself from him, he thought she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.
The fire was starting to die down and Eren realised that she had left the wood out in the storm, he started getting up to go find the wood but Mikasa pulled him back down.
"Please stay." was all she said to him.
"But the fire-" Eren didn't finish his sentence when he looked at Mikasa, she was looking right at him with tears forming in her eyes.
Eren clued in quickly, after what had just happened to him she didn't want him to go out again and never come back.
Eren grabbed the rucksack and reached in for some bread. When he grabbed it he split it in half giving some to Mikasa.
Mikasa grabbed it and devoured it, Eren was shocked.
'She must be starving... I don't need it.' Eren thought as he handed Mikasa his piece of bread.
Without thinking, Mikasa took it and devoured it as well. Eren could feel his stomach grumble, but disregarded it, he didn't care if he didn't eat today. He reached into the rucksack and pulled out a baked potato handing it to her.
Mikasa was about to eat it as well when she felt Erens stomach rumble.
"Eren, you need to eat as well." she said as she gave him back the potato.
"I'll survive, if anyone needs it its you." he said pushing her hand with the potato away.
"If you don't eat then neither will I." she said putting the potato down.
Eren looked at her stubbornly and gave in, he knew she would go through extreme measures to ensure his survival even if it meant she was to suffer and the last thing he wanted was to see her suffer.
He took the potato and split it in half like the bread giving her some and she took it thinking it was better than nothing.
The wind started blowing into the cave making the fire die faster and the temperature drop even more. Mikasa started shivering again as Eren moved in closer to her trying to warm her up.
"How long do you think we will be out here?" Mikasa asked as she felt the warmth of Erens body surround her.
Eren just kept looking into the blizzard as he held Mikasa close to him.
"I don't know."
Well, I hope it was to expectations, I think it was all right. As always, leav eany feedback doesn't matter if it's good or bad because every bit helps for future chapters and stories. If you have any ideas feel free to pm me and I will go over them and your content will most likely be in future chapters!