Note (s): As the summary says, this is just a long list of drabbles that I post when the ideas come to me. I hope you all enjoy this and please review.

Other: The drabbles are set before and during the events of the anime with my own twists on everything. You'll understand what I mean as you read, but don't worry, I'm not changing much. Just enough to slide my OC in there.

"She was attacked."

"Said you were family?"

"I don't have family…"

He stands outside of the room, peering through a crack to the young woman swaddled on the hospital bed. Her right eye is closed, left eye wrapped in gauze, pressing down her pale white hair. There is a fat (possibly pregnant) cat lying in her lap and it lifts its head when he opens the door. The doctors seem hesitant but he shuts the door in their face, ever the gentleman of course.

When the cat hisses, she stirs.

That one eye opens impossibly slow and she goes to stretch, toes peeking out of the bottom of the sheet, and she all but screams in pain. As she thumps back into the mattress, the cat hisses at him again, and she finally takes notice of him. She looks at him as a tear streaks across her temple and she smiles, tucking her chin into her shoulder, making her appear like a child rather than the woman in her twenties he was informed of.

"Captain Levi," her voice is hoarse, cracking gently. "I didn' think you would actually come…"

"I do not have family," he repeats his words to the doctors. "Who are you?"

She blinks again, this time much faster, and then smiles a little softer. "I just wanted to meet you," she sighs and looks up at the ceiling. "Figured it was worth the shot, ya know? They requested if I had any family…I gave them your name and they actually believed me."

"Hospital personnel is…" he trails off, her eyes finding his again. "What do you want?"

She chuckles and then coughs harshly, settling back into her pillows. "I just wanted to meet you, is all. I'm a big fan, really. Don't worry, I didn't bring you hear to fluster over you or scream my head off. Just…wanted to know if you were as harsh up close as you are from a distance."

He grunted, shifting his weight. "Have I met your expectations," he spits out the word.

"In fact, you have," she breathed in deeply and wiggled in the bed, burrowing further into the pillows. "But, that doesn't bother me," she paused. "Wait a minute, if you knew this was a scam, why did you come?"

"I wanted to know who was stupid enough to call me out as family."

She smiled a bit broader. "Seems we both got what we wanted."

He supposed she was right. "You didn't seem to thoroughly think this through, did you?"

She blushed. "Um…well, no."

What to do now? He looked around the room, noted the lack of flowers that was usually accustomed to someone in the hospital. But, of course, that meant you had family. Was she as orphaned as him? That peeked his interest and he eyed the cat that was still growling in the back of her throat.

"What happened to you?"

She stared at him blankly for a moment, as though she had not heard him. Then she breathed in sharply and her mouth popped into a small O. "Oh…oh, yeah. I um…I got attacked by some guys in the market…" she wiggled uncomfortably. "I was closing up the tomato stand for the night and well…that's what I get."

"That's what you get," his voice had a slightly growling tone to it; well, more of a tone than normal. "Did they tell you that?"

"It isn't the first time it's happened."

Her low voice swaddled the room in silence, his eyes lingering on her bandaged eye. He was willingly digging himself deeper and deeper into this situation. He huffed angrily and turned away from her, pinching the bridge of his nose. He knew he shouldn't have come. But…it wasn't everyday someone claimed to be related to him and that damnable curiosity…it had gotten him into some problems before, but this…

"You're gonna leave now."

He looked up, turning back towards her halfway. She was smiling at him, so happy.

"Well, yes," he cleared his throat. "You and I have nothing left to this interaction…"

She nodded, her smile dying a little. "Well, alright then," she raised a hand – he noted the heavy splint on her ring finger – and waved it at him in a shooing motion. "Go on."

He stared at her a moment longer and then the cat hissed at him, snapping him back to attention. He nodded once and turned to the door, exiting out into the hallway. His boots thumping hollowly against the wood of the floor, his chest heaving with unnecessarily heavy breaths. He stopped beside the reception desk, ignoring the way the nurse looked up at him with sparkly eyes. He grunted and looked down at her, narrowing his eyes a little bit more than usual.

"The patient in room 17," his voice was low. "What is her name?"

It took the nurse a moment but then she began to sputter and scrambled for the pad to her right; Levi sighed and looked up at the ceiling. He finally looked back down at her when he heard the pages stop flipping. She ran a finger down the page, letting out a sharp chirp when she found the name.

"Kanara Pepin."

He was gone before she looked up, hearing the name repeating in the back of his mind.

Dammit.