Hola readers! This is seriously just some junk that has been in my head a while and I thought, why the hell not. This will go along with the plot of the manga, though I do not know where the titans come from so I am making it up. This may be a side track to the manga, I guess you could say. Any way, just bare with me because I am pulling this mostly out of my ass.
If there are any mistakes, I apologize in advance and please, let me know. If you could leave a review and let me know how you like it, I would greatly appreciate it. I know it is a little different, but bare with me!
I will also be doing songs that I listened to while writing. Those who have been reading my other story, What You Deserve, may know that I am a huge Ellie Goulding fan. I will not apologize.
Though this first chapter is definitely belonging to the great Florence and the Machine - What the Water Gave Me.
I do not own Attack on Titan or any of its characters. I only own my OC.
It had to be a nightmare. There was no other way to explain what was happening. They were surrounded by titans, their commander was injured and out of sight. The Armoured Titan was throwing more their way and Ymir had turned to help the traitors escape. But then...then Eren's secret weapon was revealed. He could control the titans. They turned against the Armoured Titan and the others. They were able to make their escape, but then something even stranger happened. A girl appeared.
Appearing from the body of an evaporating body of a titan, the girl's naked body was hot with fever and she was unconscious. Her shoulder length waves flowed in the breeze and her creamy skin had angry red marks from where her body was attached to the titan body. What they evaluated of her is that she was not like the other shifters. Her legs had been attached to the titan body completely and when the tissue evaporated, her human legs appeared. She was covered and secured for the trip back to the wall.
The fear she instilled in their people was nothing they were prepared for.
She could feel his fingers against her scalp, his breath in her ear. "Come back to me."
She smiled softly and the soft light flowing into their room was gently stroking them. She sighed in content. Her husband worried about her. His new position took him out of the field and her position in the Survey Corps made it nearly impossible for him to watch out for her. She sighed and shook her head. "Darius, you are being paranoid. I am only going to the wall for a couple of hours."
"Things happen Ava, no matter how small the mission. Please remember that." His stern eyes evaluated her and she stared back in defiance with her wide and heavily lashed ones.
She cupped his face and brought him closer to her. "You know I will."
It was cold. So cold. And she could hear voices around her. The smell...she had smelt it before...a long time ago. A long time ago? She was only 23 and she had been in the Research department. And they brought people to places like these..
"Her eyes are moving under her lids. She's waking up."
She didn't recognize any of those voices. Where was her squad leader? Her eyes flew open and air hit her like a wave, making her gasp and arch her back in surprise. She was chained to the table and the candle light around her was dim and eerie. She frantically looked around for a familiar face to explain what happened. Things about these people made her think that she wasn't being regarded as a friendly face. Her mouth was dry, but there was an awful taste in it. Like blood.
"Hello. Do you know your name?" A strange person with glasses and unruly hair in a pony tail up on their head asked her in a friendly tone. The person's face was friendly enough, but those behind her had frightened eyes and their bodies were tense. "Do you know where we are?"
Ava stared at her in confusion. Did she know who she was? Did she know where she was? "That is an idiotic question. Where is the squad leader for the Research department?" Ava looked around for the face of the man she was talking about, but she didn't see him. Her brow knitted in worry.
"Ah, well, that would be me, but I don't think I am who you are looking for. Tell me, how long were you a titan?" The strange person asked again.
Ava stared at her in horror. What did she just say? Bile rose into her throat and the sickening feeling in her gut worsened. "Excuse me?"
The person smiled and sat in a chair close to her. A man behind her protested to this 'irresponsible' behavior. "I am Hange Zoe. Squad leader to the Research department of the Survey Corps. You came from a body of a titan and was partly formed to it. What was your last memory? Where you a solider?"
The need to vomit came very suddenly, but there was nothing in her stomach, resulting in dry heaves. She was a titan. How many innocent people did I kill? How many did I swallow just for the hell of it? I'm a monster...But what was her last memory? She knew that she needed to answer these questions of she would become the experiment that used to be her victims. She was able to calm herself and she clenched her eyes shut. "What year is it?"
Hange tilted her head to the side, a curious, yet understanding look coming upon her face. "858."
50 years. She felt a strangled cry come from her throat. Her mother, her sisters, her husband...where they all dead? Her mother and eldest sister she was sure, but her little sister Hattie and her husband, they must be very old and retired now. "50 years. I was gone 50 years. How..?" She croaked. "How is that possible? I...I want my husband. Please, tell me he isn't dead, please." She was begging and her legs where shaking against the chains holding them down.
Hange's face saddened and she patted Ava's leg. "We don't know who he is. Can you tell us your name?"
"Ava. Ava Zackly."
Word spread quickly from there. Erwin and Levi had read the reports and commander Pixis joined their meeting to read with them. It was astounding. How was this possible? And the girl's name had floored all 3 men. Zackly. When asked the name of her husband, she had declared that she was the wife of Darius Zackly. Levi called horse shit, but commander Pixis stared at the report with widened eyes.
"No." He stated calmly. "That information is correct. Ava Zachly was part of the earlier days of the Survey Corp's Research department. She was a very fine solider. She disappeared over 50 years ago and the picture-" He flipped the page to look one more time. "Is of her. This is indeed the wife of our beloved commander-in-chief, Darius Zachly. He was promoted the week before her disappearance."
Erwin sat there, casually flipping through Hange's report. The girl had been compliant, she said, but obviously perturbed and physically sick about what Hange had told her. He let a low hum rumble in his chest and looked at Levi. "Have you seen her yet?"
The detached eyes watched Erwin's face before they flicked to the papers. "Briefly. She seemed like a normal human being, except the fact she was heaving like a damn cat with a hair ball."
Erwin hummed again. Commander Pixis furrowed his brows. "Does the commander-in-chief know of this?"
Levi leaned back into his chair. "We sent a messenger over a half hour ago. It would not surprise me if we are blessed with his presence."
Erwin stared at the picture of the girl. The hallow look in her eyes and the way her mouth hung open in horror struck him. Her hair had a lovely wave to it that fell to her shoulders in dark shades and her eyes where sultry. She was described as being slightly shorter than Levi and with a very athletic body. She recalled that she was a solider and her squad leader had been some one that was documented to have lived over 50 years ago. Darius Zachly was named a widower and re-married, only to be widowed again 5 years ago. He had 2 children and an assortment of grandchildren. Ava had no idea of this when told, but had seemed heartbroken over the news.
"I am afraid this might cause an issue with our earlier plans." Erwin said calmly, yet his eyes were hard. "Will the commander-in-chief be able to carry out what was promised?"
Commander Pixis nodded. "Zachly is very reliable. His personal life has never affected his work or his need to protect humanity's best interest. This will be no different. If we do see him, I will be surprised. He is a busy man and work comes first."
"Yeah, but it is not everyday does your dead wife come back from the dead and demand you to come to her. Not only that, but he is an old man. Having your attractive young wife back is something you don't want to miss." Levi said with not hint of emotion, though Erwin could tell he was slightly annoyed. Levi didn't want to relay the message. They needed everyone in their right minds to carry out this overturn of the government.
"No matter. We can trust in Zachly to be there when we need him. To be more accurate, when humanity needs him. This is a serious matter, of course, but this will be handled by the Research department until further notice. If anything, this situation might be in our favor." Commander Pixis said with a slight smile. Erwin and Levi kept their eyes on him as he continued. "She might be able to tell us where or how the titans came to be."
Darius Zachly stared out the window of his office. The Capitol was bustling with news of the girl pulled from the titan. More interestingly was the name of the girl. Ah, his Ava. She always had terrible timing to do these things. He sighed, pulling off his glasses and rubbing the flesh between his eyes. 50 years. He had missed her.
He remembered the day of when he told her to be careful, even though she was just going to the wall. She and her squad all disappeared that day, leaving no evidence behind of the their existence. When he was told that she wouldn't be coming home, he had accepted it with little resistance, but then the nights tortured him. When he remarried, he found it hard to love another woman like he had Ava. He some how was able to have children with his new wife and continued on living, throwing his life into his work. That was how he had coped the last 50 years.
She hadn't aged and she was stricken with grief over the news that she had been a titan and had taken human lives. She had asked to see him, even when she was told that he was an old man and no longer the man she had married, she still wanted him. She was frozen in time. She was supposed to be the one who had grown old with him, bared him children, stood strong by him in all his battles. But she had vanished as if she never existed.
He looked back up to the window, seeing his reflection. Yes, he was an old man now. She wouldn't know him.
"I'm sorry sir, but I didn't hear your answer." Hange asked behind him, still waiting for his answer if he was going to visit the 'titan girl'.
He let out a long sigh and turned around. "Squad leader Hange, tell me, is she well?"
Hange's lips thinned and her brows furrowed slightly. "Physically, I am amazed by her, but mentally and emotionally, she is very unstable. She has refused to eat since she has woken and her memories of being a titan are coming to her, making her very...well the easiest term to say this is insane."
He wanted to chuckle. She didn't need those memories to be insane. She was naturally, he always thought. "I see. And do you think it is wise for her to see me?"
Hange hung her head in thought and he began to think that she was sad for the girl, until she spoke. "I am not worried about her, sir. How it will affect you is what bothers me."
He sat back into his chair, looking at her with level eyes. "Your concern is noted, but that is not my concern."
Hange meet his gaze and nodded in understanding. "Then I think you should conduct an interview with the titan girl, sir. She will respond to you better. I may also add, that she will stay on course better, since her constant asking for you is what is stalling us on receiving vital information about the titans. Further more, it might have some emotional healing."
He stood up, pushing his sleeves up his arms more, his neutral mask turning slightly angry looking. "Then take me to her."
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Thanks for the read, you little loverly. Those who are reading What You Deserve, I did not give up on the story! I just keep reading the manga and it has screwed up all my plans for it...that's what I get for writing with it...
-Jane