It killed him to slowly forget your features, to forget the color of your eyes, to forget your scars and the story behind them.
It killed me to slowly forget his sharp features, to forget his voice, to forget his scars.
"I took it as my responsibility to save you, while there was something left to save, (Y/N)."
"But, Levi, there's nothing to save. I'm fine and alive as ever!"
I remembered when we said that, I remembered it clear as day. We were children- delinquents. We were just children bound to a broken fate. Well that's what I thought anyway, until Levi, Farlan, and Isabel all disappeared, leaving me only one clue as of where they were going.
"I hope you don't hate us for this," he said.
"I wouldn't hate you guys, I couldn't."
Oh, how naive I was. We had a place we could call home and no one else was enabled to touch our fragile lives. I thought our childhood would last a lifetime, but I was wrong. As orphaned children, we were angry and desperate, always doing what was instructed by the Military Police; those pigs would never be able to emphasize with the pain of having to truly struggle. They were all just rotten animals that cowered behind the safety of a cage; all rotten to the core.
Not a few days after they had left, I found a note that Isabel had written and left for me:
"Dearest (F/N), I genuinely hope you don't despise us for this, but Levi refused to get you involved. You're the youngest of the three of us and I guess he wanted to spare you. Anyway, Erwin specially requested Levi to join the Survey Corps and I don't know what happened, but I do know that Levi decided to leave, and being his friends, Farlan and I were set on leaving with him. This is as much as I can write in this small space. See you soon."
It's been years since I last encountered those three. And to this day Isabel's empty words, "'see you soon'," rung through my head, reverberating off my every thought.
"Yeah, see you all soon. In a better life," I mumbled to myself as I continued walking. Each step taking me further and further away from them.