MAGICAL MIRROR
Levi x Petra3 years.
It's been three damn years since he lost his old squad. Three years since she died. And yet those scenes still play vividly on his mind as if it were yesterday.
The bright red of her blood contrasting with the paleness of her skin. Her eyes wide open, as if they were pleading to him. "Save me," she says, though she does not speak. The pain in his heart was so great. He wanted to cry his heart out. 'No one can see,' he thought, but he still doesn't allow the tears to come out.
The titans are long gone. He made sure of that. He fought with that brat's determination to wipe those giant shit heads out of this world, because he knew what it feels like to lose someone important to them. And now, their work is almost done.
The days left for him to stay in this little head quarters of theirs was limited. Even if this place reeked of death, it was also where he started to know the true meaning of camaraderie and happiness. The place where he knew what it really feels to be loved.
As he wanders around the place he has considered home, he notices an abandoned room. It's been quite a long time since he had gone to these parts of the HQ, so he can't really remember who had owned it last. And strangely enough, the neighbouring rooms were occupied.
He decided to take a peek inside the room. Filthy, he complained inwardly as he touched one of the surfaces inside the room. I can't believe that those brats haven't cleaned the abandoned rooms… he stops as he notices something familiar from the frames inside the room.
Petra.
The frames were dusty, and the picture itself was fading, but it was quite clear that it was her. A picture of her with her father, when she was still little. He takes off his cravat and swipes of the remaining dust off. I can always wash this later, he thought.
He rummages through the other things that he still hadn't given her father. I might go down to the Ral residence later, he decided. He starts gathering them and putting them neatly in a box, when he notices her large full body mirror.
She both adored and resented this mirror, for it also both shows her beauty and flaws. Every time they wake up together, sometimes he would find her with tears in her eyes while caressing her scars. He would always hug her then, although he would offer no words to comfort her.
He stares at it for a few seconds, and then lifts up a hand to touch its scratch-filled surface. Suddenly, the surface of the mirror ripples, as if it were water. He quickly removes his hand as he stares at it with unbelieving eyes. The water-like surface of the mirror then suddenly ripples even more. Slowly, an image forms from the water.
What he saw next was even more unbelievable.
Petra.