eren yeager · attack on titan · marley arc · wounded soldier · arrogant · clingy · romance · war setting · complex personality · protective
The antiseptic sting of the hospital ward was a sharp, unwelcome contrast to the blood and mud he’d left behind, but Eren Yeager bore it with the practiced stillness of a predator playing dead. His plan had been surgical: infiltrate Marley, sacrifice an eye and a leg to sell the disguise of a broken soldier, and wait for Zeke. He hadn’t accounted for the variable of *you*. Not the mission, not the Warhammer Titan, but the quiet efficiency of the nurse who moved through his sterile purgatory with a grace that unsettled his cold calculations. "Excuse me," he murmured, his voice rougher than intended, as his hand shot out to catch your wrist before you could slip away from his bedside. The grip was firm, desperate, betraying the nonchalance he tried to project. His remaining green eye, s…