Trigger warning: dark themes ahead please read at your own caution. (Violence, death)
"Dad please, I don't want to." Eren begged as he tried to stop walking but his dad kept pulling him in the dark hallway of the dungeon by the tight hold on his wrist.
"You said you wanted to do more important things. That you wanted to be treated as the crown prince, right?" King Augustus sneered and Eren tried not to let the tears fall from his eyes as panic grew inside of him.
It was true that Eren was getting annoyed at always being treated as though he wasn't the crown prince. He had to do lame training sessions with one of the head trainers while Aslan got to be specially trained by his father.
He had asked his father to do more important things not realizing the timing of it all.
He just had to demand such a thing on the day that Elias Amin was to be executed.
Elias was a young fifteen year old who had been handed in to the royal guards by his own family.
His crime?
Liking men.
When Eren had heard of it his heart had dropped to his stomach and he had felt physically sick.
He couldn't believe that his own family would throw him away like this. His own family gave him away for him to be tortured and killed.
He just couldn't believe such an atrocious thing.
But the most nauseating thing of it all was when his father had given him a wicked smirk when he asked to do more important stuff and he had informed him that he would be the one to execute Elias.
He had to be one to kill him.
He had to kill a fifteen year old boy for liking someone he couldn't help but like.
Eren had begged his father not to make him do it. But here they were on their way to where Elias had been suffering for the last few weeks.
"Dad, please don't make me do this." Eren tried once again to persuade the cruel king. "I don't want to! Ask Aslan! He's strong, no? He's perfect. I-I can't do this."
"No Eren, you will do this. You're right by saying a crown prince must do more for his country. You will do us all the biggest honour by getting rid of a monster." Augustus sneered and Eren wanted to scream that Elias was not a monster but he kept his mouth shut as they stopped in front of a door.
The King pushed open the door and then he pushed Eren inside. Eren heard chains rattling, and he forced his eyes to stay on the ground.
He didn't want to see.
But then his father grabbed him by his hair and pulled his head up and forced him to witness the most horrifying scene he had seen in his life.
Elias was barely standing, the only thing that was holding him up were the chains attached to his wrist that were connected with the wall behind him.
His face was bruised all over, blood dripping from his mouth and Eren would have assumed he was already dead but he could see his chest moving with every shaky breath he took. His shirt was off and there was blood dripping from his back and Eren knew then that they must have whipped him.
He felt his throat clog up as tears filled his eyes and he took a step back to leave but his father pushed him closer. He felt a cold object being placed on his hand and when he glanced down at it the tears finally fell.
"D-dad please." He cried as he tried to push the gun away but his dad grabbed his fingers and forced him to hold it.
At the sound of Eren's voice Elias raised his head and when he saw who was standing in front of him his eyes widened and a flicker of hope flashed in his eyes only to vanish when he saw the gun.
"Hold it Eren!" His dad ordered and he moved Eren's arm to raise it towards Elias.
His arm was shaking and a broken sob left his lips when Elias's own tears started falling from his eyes.
"P-please d-don't." Elias choked out and Eren cried as he turned to look at his dad.
"D-dad." He begged one last time but Augustus grabbed his son's chin and forced him to face the prisoner.
"Shoot Eren." He whispered against his ear, his hand still holding Eren's own hand that was holding the gun.
"I-I can't." Eren cried but his dad didn't budge.
"I SAID PULL THE TRIGGER EREN!" He yelled and Eren flinched as his finger moved and he pulled the trigger.
There was a deafening noise that rang around them as the gun fell to the ground and a shocked cry left Eren's lips as his dad let him go and walked out of the room.
Eren looked at where the bullet had pierced Elias's skin and to his surprise it was his rib and Elias seemed to still be alive. Eren ran to him and hovered his hands over him, not knowing what to do.
"I-I'm so sorry. I d-didnt want to!" He cried as his hands finally settled on Elias's bruised face and he raised it to see his eyes dilating.
"Y-You." A cough left Elias's lips as blood spilled from his mouth but he continued to speak. "Weren't worth i-it"
"W-what?" Eren breathed out in the midst of his tears and confusion.
"T-they found o-out about me b-because of you. I-I wrote about y-you in my diary. I-I said I l-liked you." He gasped out and Eren's whole being was consumed with shock as he held Elias's face and suddenly all the memories came back to him.
Him seeing a group of boys bullying someone.
Him telling them to back off and they ran off after recognizing him.
Him helping the bullied boy as he brought them to his special tree where he would sit and play the violin.
The boy asking him to play for him.
Him being nervous about playing in front of someone for the first time but he did it anyway.
The boy smiling and clapping for him as he finished.
The boy reaching for a flower next to them and plucking it out of the grass to give it to him.
Him blushing as he took it and thanked him.
The boy being Elias
Another sob left Eren as he recalled that time. It was the first time Eren had ever seen Elias. He had forgotten about him.
But here he was, months after holding that same boy's face as blood spilled out from his mouth.
Suffering from a gunshot wound that Eren had given him.
He did this.
This was all his fault.
"I-I'm so so sorry." He cried as his hands started shaking even more.
"I-I wish I n-never m-met you." Elias said and then his eyes fluttered shut and his body lost all the tension and a scream left Eren's mouth as he fell to his knees, falling into the puddle of blood that had gathered on the ground.
"I-I'm sorry. I'm s-sorry. I-I'm so s-sorry." Eren continued to cry, his loud sobs echoing in the room around them as a dead body loomed above him.
Hello!
Thoughts?
These poor kids ð
-till next time <3