Author's note: Hey there everyone! This is Gumi. I'm transferring this from a different website as it was highly requested. I don't own any of these characters (sadly) nor do I actually ship Levi x Petra. But hey. To each his own. I'm gonna do it anyway! Please let me know what you think, and enjoy. :)
Levi knelt in the grass before her grave, a bottle of wine placed on the grave, a flower beside it. The name was marked in a dark gold against the gray stone of the cross. Petra Ral, Member of the Survey Corps Special Operations Squad. A black cloak was drawn over his shoulders, and he sat there in the early morning light, holding it tightly around himself. The wind brushed his hair against his face, and the light danced on the leaves around him. He could still hear her, still see her riding across the grassy fields on her horse, cloak billowing in the wind, her hair tossed by a rushing wind, that ever-burning fire in her eyes. A pillar of strength and goodness, beautiful and powerful, a symbol of the light she had finally found. In death, she had finally found the light to which she belonged, carried by the Wings of Freedom to her final glory. Wherever you are now Ral, I will use your death as fuel for my own fire. Your soul will stay by my side, keeping me strong. Levi pulled the cloak tighter around himself, but not because of the cold. Looking down at the grass, leaves falling all around him in the dawning sunlight, the Corporal allowed himself to grieve alone. He would avenge her, and all his team. Oluo, Erd, Petra, Gunter. He would avenge them in every titan he felled, every step he made for humanity. Alone in the breaking sunlight, Corporal Levi allowed himself to cry in the light, the wine sparkling in the sun. If I had been there, would she be here? Would Oluo still be strutting through the halls, Erd and Gunter still riding their steeds beside him beyond the wall? There was no way to know. Where was I when you needed me most?
Where was I.