Authors Note: So I'm very nervous about this idea. This is an idea I've had for awhile now and I pitched it to a friend of mine and she said I should it. So, here it is.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT own Shingeki no Kyojin in any way, shape, or form. Enjoy.

His eyes fluttered open to the sight of a grey sky. Levi could feel the rain drops as they hit his face. It was annoying. He lifted his right arm to wipe the water from his face but was instead greeted with the sight of a stub. His arm was severed just below the elbow. That's right. One of the titans took a good bite of him. He lifted his head and looked down at his feet, seeing that both his legs were bitten off too. He dropped his head back down into the wet grass, letting out a hollow laugh. He practically flew into the other titans mouth after losing his arm. It's kinda hard to control the maneuvering gear using one hand with out modifications to the triggers. He looked back to his stub arm, watching the blood from it begin to stain the grass red. He looked back to the sky as he began to feel the ground shake with every step of the two approaching titans. Levi was going to die. He knew it. He was bleeding out in the grass. Maybe if he was lucky the titans would make his death quick. The grey sky was soon blocked out by the eerie faces of the two titans, now towering over him. A friend once told him when you're about to die, your life will flash before your eyes. She actually told him this when she was dying herself. But for him, all he could see was her. Her bright smile, her bird nose, her dirty brown hair, and most prominently, her shitty fucking glasses. The titans both reached down to grab him. One picked him up by the upper torso, the other by what was left of his legs. They began to pull him, like his body was a rope in a game of tug-of-war. Even though he let out an agonizing scream, Levi felt no pain. He could hear the sounds of his bones snapping as the pulled him apart. He clenched his eyes shut letting out an even louder scream that almost muffled the sound of his flesh tearing. Then there was nothing.

Levi jolted upright in his bed, covered in a cold sweat. He used his hand to wipe some of the sweat from his face as he flipped the sheets off of him. He stood up and walked to the bathroom of his small dorm room, taking a good look at himself in the mirror. Levi had bags under his eyes. Obvious evidence of other night like tonight. He began to run some water and splash it on his face. He toweled off his face as he walked back into his dorm room. He threw the towel into his laundry hamper as he slumped into his desk chair. For as long as he could remember, Levi has been plagued by these dreams every single night. Now they haven't all been bad. In fact some had been quite enjoyable, But they all had the same basic premise. A world behind fifty meter tall walls. Humanity hiding from the flesh eating giants he knew as titans. And he was a soldier fighting them. He would ask his parents when he was little, but they always told him that it was just his over active imagination. When he would wander into their room in the middle of the night when he had a dream of watching someone die, his mother would kiss his head and tell him it was just a dream. But it never felt like a dream. It was just to god damn real to be dream. He felt strong emotions during these dreams. It felt like he was actually there, Fight the man eating monsters with the people he called comrades. The dreams are normally different from each other. A few have repeated over the years. But the most consistent part of these dreams was her. The one ray of light. Of warmth, and it came in the form of messy brown hair and a pair of glasses. "Hanji," He found himself saying her name out loud.

He started out hating her at first. She seemed to happy and excited all the time. But she had this way of getting under his skin. He could never explain how she did it. She was messy, crude, and always spoke her mind. He guessed that's why he began to take a liking to here. She wasn't afraid of the consequences. He envied that. But in these dreams, sometimes it would be the two of them and she would be jabbering on about some new theory of the titans or whatever was on her mind at the time, and he just sat there an listened. he found it to be peaceful at times. He enjoyed those dreams. The times it was just the two of them. The times when he was with her was when they felt the most real. He could feel he every touch as if she was actually there with him. Even when he woke up he could still feel her touch on his skin. Could still taste her lips. He could even feel his heart break when she died.

Levi let out a sigh. It was weird that he could feel this much for person created by his subconscious. It was just that she felt so real when he was in his dreams with her. He looked to the clock. it was five-thirty in the morning. No point in going back to sleep. His first class of the day was in a few hours, followed by a meeting with his therapist. Levi got up out of the chair and walked back into the bathroom to take a shower. Hopefully a hot shower would help to clear his head.

Levi was sitting on the couch in his therapists office. It wasn't his idea to have a therapist. It was more of an order by his resident adviser after he had cracked and had a mental breakdown in the middle of the common room after passing out on the couch. He had the dream where he watched Hanji die again. He awoke screaming her name and crying. And now here he was, once every week he had to meet with Doctor Cage. He was a man well into his forties. Looked like the stereotypical therapist. He was a tall average built man and spoke in a soft and kind voice. His hair was graying and he had a neatly trimmed beard. He wore a stupid wool sweater over his dress shirt and khakis. And here was Levi, a short, skinny, twenty one year old with a nearly permanent scowl on his face, sitting on a noisy leather couch in this man office. Levi watched the man carefully as he scribbled down some notes on his pad of paper. He was clearly analyzing Levi head to toe as he does every week. He paid attention to everything Levi did. From the way he was dressed, to the way he talked and the physical mannerisms he used while speaking.

After about a minute more of writing Doctor cage looked up and gave Levi and gentle smile. "So, Mr. Ackerman. How are we this week?" Levi just shrugged in response. "Anything new with these dreams you are having?"

Levi clicked his tongue. "Not really. Same old shit," he said quietly.

The therapist wrote something down on his paper then looked back to Levi. "So you were telling me last week how sometimes the dreams repeat. Any of that recently?"

Levi slowly nodded his head. Doctor Cage gave him a look as if he was waiting for Levi to say something. Levi let out a sigh. "It was the one where I die."

"Any changes in it?"

"Nope." Levi began. "It started with me laying in the grass and ended with the sound of tearing flesh. as per usual."

He wrote something the paper again. "and what do you feel during this exactly?"

"I don't know." Levi crossed his arms, shrugging. "Helpless I guess. I'm missing both legs and an arm." Levi's voice was filled with sarcasm. "On top of that I lost my sword, so I cant really fight back. So helpless seems like a very accurate answer." Levi always got annoyed by this question.

"Have you tried those lucid dreaming techniques I recommended?"

"Yeah. They don't work. Hell, its more like I'm watching the plot of a movie unfold. I cant control my body motions." Levi let out another sigh. Sometimes it felt as though he was speaking to a brick wall. He told him all this shit before. "Sure I can feel everything like I'm actually there, But it's almost as though I'm reliving memories."

"Of you and all your friends dying?" Levi just nodded in response. He began to write more down on his sheet of paper. "How did these affect you as a child?"

Levi looked back up to the Doctor. "Well being a six year old kid, watching a man get bitten in half by a naked man eating giant tends to traumatize you. Some nights a was terrified to sleep." Levi leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees. "My mom always told me they were just dreams. That the titans weren't actually going to come and eat me."

Doctor Cage nodded and wrote more down. He flipped to page and looked back to Levi. "And did you believe her?"

"Sometimes. Other times it felt to real to trust her word." Levi dropped his gaze to the floor. "The dreams are just to real not to believe either." The therapist gave Levi a quizzical look. "Everything is just so in depth. There are no oddities in the dreams. Nothing that seems out of place. Everything has a reason behind. There is even history and science for the titans. It's just..." Levi clicked his tongue. "There is just no way it can't be real." Levi thought he sounded like a crazy person. He thought for sure that sooner or later this therapist would lock him up in an insane asylum.

Doctor Cage began to stroke his beard. "I'm intrigued, Levi. What do you mean?"

Levi looked up to him with a confused look. "What?"

"Please Levi. Explain. The titans I mean."

"Well," Levi began with a sigh. "According to whats said in the dream, about one hundred years ago the titans just appeared. They nearly drove humanity to extinction. But we erected three walls that were fifty meters high each. Taller than any titan seen. The titans they only eat humans, but they don't eat us for any other reason than to well, you know, kill us." Levi leans back in his seat again. "They even go as far as to say that titans don't shit. They don't have a digestive system. Hanji told me that."

"Hanji," The therapist said. "She's the girl you mentioned. the one who is in most of them right?"

Levi feels a small smile play on his lips as he thought of Hanji. "That four-eyed freak is the only abnormal thing in these stupid dreams." Levi looked out the window behind Doctor Cage, focusing on a passing plane. "I'm not saying that she acts differently every dream. She's actually quite consistent. She is just the thing that seems most alive and bright in the dark world filled with death and fear." Levi paused for a moment. "She just feels so real. Her touches linger, even after I wake up."

Doctor Cage spent the next several minutes writing things down on the paper. The room was quiet except for the sound of him scribbling words on the paper. Once finished he put his pen down and closed the folder that held his paper. He gave Levi a smile before speaking. "Well I'm afraid that's all the time we have Levi. I have another appointment who should be waiting in the office now. I'll walk you out." As they walked out, he talked more to Levi who only nodded in response. Once out in the waiting room he held out his hand for Levi to shake, lowering it when Levi didn't shake it. "See you next week Levi. Go and try those lucid dreaming techniques again. They may work. Have a nice week," He said with a smile as Levi left the office.

Levi Leaned against a pole at the train station, waiting for it to arrive to bring him back to the college campus. It annoyed him that the school therapist wasn't even on the campus. Who was the genius who thought that one up? A breeze rolled through that went straight through Levi's hoodie, sending a chill down his spine. He pulled his hood up over his head and crossed his arms as he looked around. it surprised him that at noon on a Tuesday that there was nobody at this train station, save for a few people probably off to get lunch. He looked back down as he heard footsteps approaching from his left side. As the person walked past he watched their feet as they tripped over their own shoe lace.

"Ahh! Shit fuck!" They yelled as the fell to the ground.

Levi let out a sigh as he popped up off the pole and looked to the girl who was now getting to her knees. His mother raised him to be a gentleman so he decided he should help her up. "You okay?" he said as he held a hand out to her.

"Yeah I'm fine. Thanks," she said as she reached around to grab his hand.

Levi Hoisted her up off the ground "You should really tie your damn shoes" Levi said in a bored tone as she turned to look at him smiling. When he saw her face his eyes widened and his heart nearly stopped. "There is no fucking way?" He thought as he looked her over. She had the messiest brown hair he had ever seen in his life pulled into a very messy ponytail. She had a pair of glasses that looked like that had been through hell and back, one of the arms held on by tape. She was taller than him and had a rather lanky body. And her smile was one that was beaming with same warmth he only knew from his dreams. The woman standing in front of him was without a doubt Hanji Zoe.

She looked him up and down as she adjusted her glasses. "Hey, shorty?" She began as she looked at his face. she gave him a questioning look. "You okay? you're looking at me funny."

Levi quickly regained his composure. "Yeah sorry."

She then smiled again, instantly warming Levi's heart. "I'm Zoe. Or Hanji. Whichever. Thanks for the help."

"Levi." was all he said back as he shoved his hands into his pockets, letting a smile slip.

"So, Levi. What brings you here?"

"Huh?" Levi says not fully expecting her question.

"To this station I mean." Hanji followed up with.

Levi was at a loss for words. He didn't know what to say even though the answer was a simple one. The difficult part was the fact that Hanji was here in the flesh. He didn't know how to react. He wanted to hug her and cry. He's watched her die several times and now here she is in front of him. Alive. "Had an appointment," Levi says, shrugging nonchalantly.

"Sounds exciting," she said sarcastically. "I just got done with work. Now I have to go all the way across town for my internship at the med center."

"You're gonna be a doctor?"

Hanji laughed. "Well bio-medical engineering. What about you?"

Levi just shrugs again. "Medical like you, But I plan on being a doctor."

"You don't look like the doctor type." She said with a laugh. "What makes you wanna do that?"

Levi looked down. His dreams started to come back to him. The images of his comrades dying. He squeezes his eyes shut. "I want to prevent people from dying. I want to be able to save lives."

Hanji gave him a soft smile. "Sounds noble of you Levi." The sound of a train pulling up and an announcer filled the air. Hanji looked over to the train. "That's my ride." she began to walk towards the train before she turned back around. "By the way Levi. This is the first time we've met, but it feels like we've met before."

Levi gave Hanji a soft smile. "Maybe we have?" Hanji waved goodbye as she got on the train, returning his smile. after that the doors closed and her train left the station. "Four-eyed Idiot. People won't forget once they've met a weird woman like you."

Authors Note: So there it is. I feel the ending is a bit rushed so i may work out a few kinks in it. But anyway (time to whore myself) please review, favorite, recommend, and all that other fun stuff. Thanks for reading. It's really appreciated.