DISCLAIMER: Attack on Titan belongs to Hajime Isayama.
~ How Heavy Is Blood? ~
Hanji isn't sure exactly what their captors have in store for her and Armin, at first. The kid is taken to a different room, but separating prisoners is a standard practice that tells her nothing - or next to nothing, anyway - about the enemies' intentions. The same goes for having her ankles shackled together and her hands bound over her head, the rope secured through a steel ring high on the wall, and having her maneuver gear removed and carried off to some unknown location.
Once the underlings clear out of the room, Kenny reaches out to undo the fastenings on Hanji's pants and it suddenly becomes very obvious to her what his intentions are. He slips his hand under the loosened waistband and fondles her briefly through the worn cotton of her panties before returning to the task of undressing her.
She wonders if he is hoping to torture some kind of information out of her or if he's just doing this for his own sick pleasure. Her instincts scream for her to fight back, but she knows logically that she is unable to escape her bonds and that attempting to put up resistance in this situation will only lead to further injury or death.
"Why they gotta make these fucking things so tight?" Kenny grumbles as he struggles to remove the offending garment, and Hanji almost wants to laugh because despite the situation she is in - or perhaps because of it - it is almost funny. It becomes less amusing when the serial killer growls "fuck this" under his breath and pulls out a knife.
With a few well-placed swipes of the blade, she is naked from the waist down. She doesn't know why he chooses to leave her shirt on but she is grateful to still have that, at least.
Then Kenny is leaning into her body, grabbing her knee roughly in one callused hand, and Hanji lets out a startled sound that is somewhere between a gasp and a sob. As his hand begins to slide up her thigh, Levi's name falls from her lips. She doesn't know if she says it because she's trying to pretend that she is with Levi instead of what's really happening (not that she's ever had that kind of relationship with him in the first place), or because she is wishing he would come and save her, or if she's just saying it to try and annoy Kenny.
Kenny jerks his hands away from her as if he's been burned. She watches in confusion as he backs away a few steps and regards her with an expression that seems oddly familiar to her somehow, but she can't think of why.
"You Levi's woman?" Kenny asks, quirking an eyebrow.
Hanji hesitates to answer. Why does he care? Does he actually know Levi somehow other than as the enemy he's been hired to hunt? Will one answer save her and the other condemn her? What should she say?
"You love him," Kenny says, and it doesn't sound like a question. And is it just her imagination or did the serial killer's expression soften somewhat as he said that?
"How do you know Levi?" she blurts out, unable to contain her curiosity.
Kenny chuckles. "What, the last name isn't enough of a clue?" he says, sounding amused.
"It's a common enough name, though, isn't it?" Hanji puts forth uncertainly. She's thinking of Mikasa and how there must be more Ackermans somewhere, and Mikasa and Levi don't seem to be related to each other anyway, and there's no way that this guy is actually related to either of them, right?
"Not really," her interlocutor replies. "There's just one family of us, although I lost track of some of the cousins. Levi is my sister's kid."
~to be concluded~
A/N: Yes, there will be a second part, there will be closure, and Levi will actually be in it.