Hanji sat and painted her nails red and black. "Hey." she heard Levi greet. "Hey." she greeted back and gave him a kiss. "So what did you do productive today?" he asked, sitting down. "I've been pretty productive, I cleaned the counter off, had a few drinks, and just got done painting my nails." she answered. "Hella productive shitty-glasses, hella productive." he said sarcastically. "Sorry midget." she apollogized, putting her feet up on the table. "Feet off the table!" he snapped. "Sorry." she put her feet back on the floor. "So, the yard needs cleaning." Levi insisted. "Don't you have a flower garden to plant?" she asked. "That's what you were going to do." Hanji looked at the floor and got up. "Oh yeah." She was about to leave for the door and Levi stopped her. "Push in your chair!" he yelled at her. "Sorry Captain O.C.D.!" she yelled back, smiling and leaving out the door. Hanji kneeled down on her knees and began to plant the vibrantly colored flowers. When she got done she went over to the hose and washed the dirt of her hands and put her glasses ontop of her head. "Hey, uhh, four-eyes, got you something yesterday." Levi told her as he came up behind her. "Hm?" Hanji asked, turning around. "Lean down a bit." Levi told her, gently pushing down on her right shoulder. Hanji leaned down and he put a black dog collar around her neck, it had a small, gold colored, circular tag attached to it that said 'Hanji'. "Now I really claim you." he said. "Don't take it off." he added. "Thanks." she hugged him tight. "I don't like to be touched." he muttered. "Sorry, you're so small and huggible!" she hugged him tighter. "Hanji!" Levi scolded. "Sorry!" she let go. "So much for 'humanity's strongest'." she said under her breath. "What was that?" he asked. "Nothing!" Hanji hurried. "Thought so." Levi muttered, going back in the house. "Say Levi," she yelled after him before he closed the door. "No." he yelled over his shoulder. "But I haven't said anything yet!" she objected. "Dammit." she muttered. On the ground, Hanji noticed the shadow of a bird in a small cherry tree. It was a raven, and it was red. "You should be black little guy." she murmured. Hanji stretched her arm up a little and put out her index finger. "Here birdy." she made clicking noises to interest the bird. The raven tilted it's head curiously. It inched towards Hanji and finally stepped onto her arm. She slowly brought the bird near her, the bird seemed wet. Hanji gently whisked her hand over the bird's head and ran her hand down it's back. Her hand turned red, to her this could only mean one thing: that the bird was drenched with blood. "Oi Hanji! What are you doing?" Levi yelled from a window. "Hush! You'll scare the bird." she ran her hand down the raven's back again and slowly went to the door. "You're not bringing that filthy thing in my clean house." he told her when she reached the door. "Hell yeah I am, now get me a bird cage, a big one." Levi went and got an old cage, big enough for a parrot, that sat on a stand in the living room. Hanji brought the bird to the bath room and put it in the bath tub. She gently rinsed off the raven and put a towel around it so that it'd dry. "There you go baby." Hanji murmured to the big bird. She realised that the blood was not a bird's, put from a dead titan, Hanji realised this from the smell. "Have you been eating mommy's titans?" she gently murmured to the bird, Levi walked in and leaned on the open door frame. "Your calling yourself a mother to a random raven you found in a cherry tree?" he asked. "Yeah." Hanji answered, taking the towel off and putting her arm out to the bird, gesturing it to step up onto it. The bird stepped onto her arm, balancing on it as Hanji gently stood up. "What are we going to name you?" she asked the bird. "How about Dead Meat?" Levi asked. "Levi!" she scolded. "I think I'll name you Velvet." she said to the bird, walking down the hallway to the living room. Hanji gently set the bird into the cage and closed the door. "Do we have any left-over bird seed from the bird feeders?" she asked. "Yeah, it's your bird, you get it." Levi muttered. After Hanji got food and water for the bird, she went in the kitchen. "So, who's cooking?" she asked. "Me." Levi answered. "Why? I'm a good cook!" she objected. "Last time you made us something, it tasted like you had dead titan parts in it." Levi told her. "It did!" she answered. Levi looked disgusted, "That's why never eat what you make." Hanji sat on the couch and watched the bird, there was something peculiar about it, the song it sang, the way it looked at her, and how friendly it was. The raven was all too strange. "Hey captain clean-freak, come here for a second." Hanji said, not looking from the raven's cold eyes. "What." he said, folding his arms across his chest. "Look at Velvet." she murmured, her eyes locked with bird's. "What about the filthy thing?" he asked. "Look at it's eyes, it's body movements, it's friendliness, how it looks at me." she said, tilting her head a little and putting on her glasess. "Oi Hanji, don't you have titans to count?" he aksed. "We already did that for the day, just at least look at Velvet, he's strange." she said, finally looking up at Levi from where she was sitting. Levi sat on the armrest of the couch next to her and looked at where the bird sat in his cage. "His songs are quite different for a raven." Levi agreed. "Oh well." he got up. Hanji laid down in bed and curled into ball, it was cold. "Cold?" Levi asked her laying next to her. "Yeah." He hugged her close. "You in a snuggely mood?" he asked. "Always." she answered. Hanji closed her eyes. "I know what you're thinking about, that raven." Levi murmured to her. "It's just so strange!" said Hanji. There was a pause of silence, "Do you ever miss Petra?" Hanji asked. "A lot." was the answer she got. Hanji could feel Levi shudder with grief. "I know to you it probably looks like I'm just using you as a replacement, I've been accused of that by other people. But I love you very much, and I can see Petra's smile in your shitty little face." Hanji laughed. "Ease down the flirting there captain." she closed her eyes and sighed happily. She missed Petra too, but for some reason, that raven made her think of Petra.
