Fandom: Attack on Titan
Character: Levi Rivaille
Summary: Even as the walls fall, sometimes the best thing to be is a beautiful little fool.
A/N: Tbh, I wrote this during my Geology class because I couldn't be bothered with the lecture. I know it's a bit short but it's a drabble! Be warned, this does contain spoilers for episode 21. Proceed with caution my friends...
A Beautiful Little Fool
A daisy softly swayed back and forth, unaware of the destruction that occurred all around it. It was almost as if time could have stopped, and the daisy would have continued to gingerly bend with the wind.
Red. All Levi could see was red. Red drops fell to the forest floor beneath him. Red streaks led him closer to discovering a truth he already knew. They were dead. They were all dead.
His body ached with an excruciating pain as he glided above the wreckage. He was flying amongst the fallen; he hated it. Levi could feel himself sinking into a numbness that he had never known before as he learned what had happened to each member of his elite team.
He stopped only for a moment, although it felt much longer, seeing her lifeless face pinned to a tree. Something so small, so miniscule caught his attention more than anything. It wasn't the emblem of the Scout Regiment, or tiny splatter of blood sprinkled on her porcelain cheeks.
No. It was the fucking bite marks, tiny white scars that had formed on her hand.
She died for those bite marks and the ignorant child it was for. She believed Eren could be a hero. She believed in an almost impossible dream.
Petra, you fool, he thought. His mind still lingered on the image of her distinctive scars. Although Levi chastised her in his mind, he knew that he was also to blame. He was in too deep, no longer distant as he normally was. She often wondered why he was so cold and recalcitrant but she didn't understand.
It was because the world is cruel, and he too was once a fool.