A/N: IM BACK! FINALLY! I know I haven't posted in a LOOONGG time, but I finally wrote something I think is good enough to post on here, so here I am!
As for my other stories, I don't know if I'm going to update them. I have other chapters written, I just don't think they're that good. Maybe if I get some reviews, I'll let you all be the judge! :)
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AND THANK YOU SO FREAKING MUCH FOR READING!
-J
He'd been outside the Wall Maria when he first saw her, lying bloody and barely alive in the middle of the woods. A third of the men out on this scouting mission dead, and he'd stopped his retreat to wrap her practically naked body in his cloak and put her on his horse. What Levi couldn't know for sure, was why.
Maybe it was the way her white blonde hair, streaked with unnatural silver and black, stood out so starkly to her pale skin, and the red caked into it, against the green of the grass beneath her.
Maybe it was her small, slight frame, and the not so subtle curves she had, even at her young age, or the healed scars marring her perfectly sun kissed skin hidden by the fresh slashes and cuts that she was slowing bleeding out from.
Maybe it was the way that, even approaching death on the cold forest floor, her soft, yet defined features seemed relaxed and peaceful, and how he'd never seen anyone with such sheer beauty as her. Or maybe, it was just that. She was too beautiful to ignore.
She'd been so light when he'd lifted her into his arms. Too light, he knew instantly, even for a girl of her age and stature. She couldn't have been taller than him, so getting her on the horse was slightly easier than it would have been, and he guessed she was probably around sixteen years old. Putting her in front of himself, he started riding back towards the gate, letting her weight lean against him as he held onto her.
But what he was, and would always be sure of, is that she knew him.
Almost back to the gate, she started to wake up. Despite her injuries and the pain she was no doubt feeling all over, she'd relaxed into his touch as she drew in a deep breath, before letting it out as she mumbled lightly, "Levi…"
And for whatever reason, his grip on this strange girl tightened, as well as something in his chest. He'd remember looking down at her, imagining what color lay beneath her closed eyelids and thick black lashes, breathing in the sugary sweet smell that lingered in her abnormal colored, long pin straight hair, the sound of his name leaving her lips in a breathless gentle smile, for the rest of his life.
But he'd never forget leaving her in Shiganshina, either.
Years past, and still, the memory of her stayed with him.
Humanity was pushed back behind the Wall Rose, and still, he thought of her.
Who she could have been. What the hell she was doing outside the Wall Maria to begin with.
Where she was…
If she was even still alive…
If she made it out of Shiganshina at all…
Little did he know, he'd see her again, covered in the cloak he'd left with her.
Maybe if he did, he would've told her how much he loved seeing her in it.