New Year’s Blues
Fandom: Shingeki no Kyojin | Attack on Titan
Characters: Annie Leonhart, Eren Yeager, Mikasa Ackerman
Pairing: EreMikaAni
Raiting: General Audiences
Other Tags: Alternate Univers - Modern Setting, Established Relationship, Relatonship Study, Character Study
Words: 7552
Summary:
Annie doesn’t like New Year’s parties — or fireworks — and yet she accompanied Eren and Mikasa to one.
Notes:
I wanted to write MikaAni waking up on New Year’s, but then things happened and suddenly I was writing the evening instead and Eren got involved.
Happy New Year!
The air is chilly, forcing its way through the thick layers of clothes and making her shiver. Annie is standing at the far end of the driveway between the front door and the half-full beer crate. Her arms are crossed before her chest to make up for where her winter coat is starting to fail her.
She’s by herself, unless you count Ymir and Historia a few metres over, past the most popular beverage of the evening. They’ve been busy making out with each other even before midnight though, so Annie wouldn’t consider them company. Not that she minds. She arrived at the place Jean and Armin share with little energy to socialise and it’s gone downhill since.
The rest of the party guests has formed small groups lingering on the sidewalk from where they’re watching Jean and Armin send up one firework after another. Each one howls as it soars into the sky and then breaks into multiple sparks that form patterns. Annie has given up on looking at them after a minute of being unable to concentrate on any of the shapes. She can see the different colours light up the scene playing out before her.
It’s too loud, though. Everything is too loud and bothersome and that doesn’t even take into account the firecrackers Reiner and Connie are blowing up on top of it all. They send out bangs that echo between the houses.
Annie wants to go home.
