"I can tell you two things."

The silence greeting her bade her to continue.

"First: she is not another human with titan powers like Eren Yeager. And second: she's been severely abused."

The woman stood with a medical report in her hand and an uncharacteristic frown on her lips. Her auburn hair was pulled back into a messy pony tail with strands framing her tense face, the concern in her brown eyes emphasizing the expression. The papers in her hand detailed her report from an examination performed on a girl that had come through the wall a week ago with Commander Erwin's squad. They had gone out on a mission into the titan infested Wall Maria, but quickly had to turn around when Rose was breached. The girl had been found by Erwin just before he declared the retreat and few questions were asked right away due to the priority of return, as well as saving a civilian.

Of course, once they returned, there was a clustered chaos surrounding the boy who could turn into a titan, and they'd been forced to lock her away almost immediately until Eren could be dealt with, saved from certain death, and brought into their ranks.

Now that the girl was the new spotlight, they had been ordered to keep her at their headquarters until Captain Levi could determine whether or not she was a threat to humanity's survival due to her survival in titan territory, which was going to prove more difficult with the state of the court's fear from the previous case.

Needless to say, the man was less than pleased with his work load of late and sat at his desk regarding Hanji with bored, half lidded eyes the shade of steel. He ran a hand through his raven black hair, scratching the buzzed strands in his undercut while trying not to snap at the woman. He was already well aware of the second part of her statement which should have been obvious, therefore annoying him much more than he'd admit.

They'd both been standing over the girl when Hanji pulled the blanket back to reveal her. She'd had a cloth over her chest and pelvis, but the rest of her young body had been on display. Her skin had been deathly pale, while hanging onto a golden sheen that made her glow beneath the harsh light above her. Levi could remember her cheeks darkening in the silence while she grew self conscious. The story written across her skin had locked his jaw tight. Hanji had been unable to stop staring with her mouth hung open catching flies.

Her stomach was filled with scars speaking of battles; knife wounds, brass knuckles, webbing around her hips that could have been whips, and two scars that were unmistakably from arrows being cut out of her. At some point very recently, someone had even bitten her. Every tooth could be clearly seen in purple ink except the one they were missing on the right side of the jaw. The worst part was that the size of the mark clearly stated it was not a titan souvenir; it was a human's much smaller jaw.

Across her ribcage and chest was a littering of fading brown bruises and an infected stab wound that had begun to ooze red after the clotting and scabs were washed away in her earlier shower. Neither of them missed the distinct shape of fingers which painted her legs and arms in purple or brown, depending on their age. Her legs were sliced up as well, some wounds bleeding while others were scabbed and yet more were thin, pale scars. It was if she'd been clawed up by a beast out there, but the only beasts they knew of didn't have claws; only jaws.

"What on earth happened to you out there," asked Hanji in awe.

"It's a long story," the girl had muttered, training her eyes on the ceiling while dark memories flashed behind them.

An irrational spark of fire lit up in him at her response and he knew he had to leave. He had made his escape swiftly, telling Hanji to be quick, thorough, and report back when she was done.

Now she was telling him that she basically had no new information for him, and he gladly informed her of that with a glare. She hurried to continue:

"It wasn't just external wounds, though. There is something hard covering her ribcage that I can't identify without cutting her open. Her left wrist shows signs of a previous break that had not been set properly, leaving the healed bone weak. Her heartbeat is irregular, which can happen to someone when they've been struck hard in the chest multiple times. She has muscle damage in her shoulders that is trying to heal. Her left knee is weaker than her right, and her lower back shows signs of muscle damage mostly healed now, but it is littered in the same lacerations you saw on the front. There are also two thick columns of scarring that run up both sides of her spine. On top of that, she's starving and malnourished-," the woman cut herself off suddenly, collecting her thoughts before stating exactly what he had been starting to think. "Sir I don't understand how she was even physically capable of riding a horse back to the wall, or walking with you to my lab, let alone surviving the constant threat of titans."

Levi took his time repeating the information in his head. He wondered just what kind of hell the girl had to have been living in all this time. More disconcerting still was the question he had to answer by the end of the next couple days, which had just become very difficult to understand: how had she survived all that and the titan threat?

"Where is she now," he finally asked.

"I took her to the canteen, of course. The girl needed some food!"

Levi closed his eyes, frowning. The purple bite mark on the girl's side glared at him from his eyelids. He opened them with a heavy exhale.

"Bring her here. I think it's time to hear her long story," he stated quietly, glaring at the woman when she began to protest. "She can eat in here while we question her, shitty glasses. Now go."

Author's Note: This is my first try at fanfiction, normally I am a reader of it or writing original content. I ONLY own River and any extras that will further her story with Levi. I would love to read some feed back because I honestly have no clue what I'm doing; my brain simply exploded with AOT loves and this came out, so if there's some things either out of character or that don't fit the timeline or the world, let me know and I will see what I can do. (Apologies for rambling, but I'm nervous)