Two Years Later
Elliot stood away from a crowd of people, her 'mom' and 'dad' stood with her, but they looked less than pleased. After the wall was breached, Elliot had been taken in by the woman who had saved her life, said woman had a husband and together they tried their hardest to make Elliot feel as if they were her real parents. She had been rather quiet and hard to get along with for a long time, but they stuck through it 'we're family' was what the woman Elliot knew as Marian was called. "Oh my little Elliot! Why do you have to go?" Marian cried out holding tight to the young woman's waist, putting on quite a show as she sat on the ground. "M-Mom….!" Elliot cried out, trying desperately to find some kind of release from her mother's tight grip. "Marian, you're making a spectacle of yourself," came a gruff voice from above the two women, his large hand grabbing Marian in a firm manner, he pulled her to her feet. "Thanks dad…," Elliot said taking in a large breath after having her lungs borderline crushed by her mother. "You know why I have to go mom," Elliot said but, barely had enough time to finish her sentence as her mom threw herself onto the ground again and wrapped her arms tightly around her adopted daughter. "My little girl is growing so big…already sixteen and joining the military, I still remember when I had to remind you to brush your teeth at night!" the older woman called out, tears in her large blue eyes. Elliot's cheeks dusted pink as she tried once more to pry her mother from her waist. "That was actually just last night Marian," Elliot's father spoke and then laughed at how red Elliot's face became at that comment. "D-dad! You're supposed to be on my side!" she yelled gripping her mother's shoulders and gently pushing against the woman. "I just…I can't…I can't believe you're going to go off and fight titans despite everything," Marian spoke cuddling her face into her daughter's abdomen. Elliot only froze at her words, her eyes instinctively darting to the leather bracelet on her wrist.
"Marian…," came the voice of her father, his hand reaching forward and gently gripping onto his wife's. The older shook her head rather violently against Elliot as if refusing to let her daughter go. "Mom, I have to do this for my brother. I promised to see the world for him," Elliot said a low sigh escaping her pale pink lips as she struggled to lean forward and embrace her mother. "Alright…I can do this. If my little girl is strong enough to fight titans then I should be proud to have such an amazing daughter," she spoke and slowly released Elliot, only to watch her husband push passed her and embrace their only daughter. "Just don't forget, we're your family too," he said, sending his wife into another fit of tears as she threw her arms around the both of them. The small family slowly pulled apart and just as it seemed Elliot was finally going to leave, her mother tugged on her white locks of hair. "Don't let your hair fall in your face you'll break out, don't forget your sunscreen, take your medicine every night, brush your teeth, keep warm, find a nice man to have me some grandkids, don't forget to eat…" her mother said all while pulling Elliot's hair into a tight ponytail, of course Elliot only turned bright red at one of her mother's comments. "M-Mom, I'm only sixteen!" she called out before shoeing her mother out of her hair. Marian only laughed before giving her daughter one final embrace, her husband gently rubbing her back all along. Finally, Elliot turned to leave, tears forming in her eyes as her mother called out after her 'You'd make your family proud!'
The trip to the place she would call home for the next three years, wasn't so bad, it was a bit cramped but, it could have been a lot worse. Elliot gently rubbed her index finger over the faded leather, red eyes darting between people…they were whispering about her. She looked strange, pale white skin, big red eyes, and snowy white hair…it wasn't every day someone saw an albino person such as herself in this world. "What's up with your strange looks?" she heard a voice near her ask, finally, after all the whispering someone finally asked. She slowly dropped her hands into her laps and looked up to the owner of the voice. It was a woman, brown hair and light brown eyes, Elliot smiled happily up at her. "It's a genetic disorder," Elliot said unconsciously shifting her fingers through her white hair. The woman offered her a childlike smile before mentioning 'how cool' it looked. Elliot blinked, she had never been told it looked 'cool' before…if anything she was told it made her look freakish more often than anything. The young woman introduced herself as Sasha Blouse and little did Elliot know that this woman would become her best friend.
"Sasha don't do it," Elliot said watching as Sasha eyed a baked potato in the mess hall. They were passing through, about to be lined up and probably berated in some kind of way. "But, Eli is looks so good!" Sasha spoke watching as Elliot face palmed herself before shrugging her shoulders. "If you get caught, don't say I didn't warn you," Elliot said watching her new friends face light up with a creepy kind of joy. "Quick before someone sees you," Elliot said looking over the crowd of her peers, no one was paying attention to them…thankfully. It wasn't soon after that they were all lined up in the yard where a man quickly began berating the new recruits, Elliot held back a sigh, she saw this coming a mile away. What she didn't see coming was that her new found friend would begin eating the stolen potato, right then and there. Elliot's eyes grew to the size of saucers and mouthed the words 'what the hell do you freaking think you're doing?' over toward the brunette. Elliot hoped Shadis didn't notice her friend eating the potato, but of fucking course the gods were just not on her side and she mentally face palmed herself. 'What the hell is this idiot thinking?!' she thought to herself watching the exchange between the Chief instructor and her new friend. She lost it though when Sasha had the nerve to offer half to the instructor, snickering a bit under her breath and god forbid that Shadis didn't hear that. 'Shit! What kind of freakish hearing does this man have?!' she thought to herself watching as the bald man zoned in on her. "Did that amuse you maggot?!" he called over her, glaring down at her. 'God damn it, come on! You passed by me and everything earlier' she thought to herself before returning the man's glare. "No, sir," she called out back to him and quickly placed her right hand over her heart. He asked her the same question he asked the others, glaring down at her and getting a bit too close for comfort. 'Is this supposed to scare me?' she thought to herself before quickly opening her mouth to answer him. "Elliot Falkenrath of the Shiganshina district. My goal is to see the outside world in replace of my brother, sir!" she called out and for a moment she felt like all eyes were on her and they probably were.
A rough hand gripped around her shirt and pulled her forward, but she still refused to pull her hand from her chest or pull her glare away from him. "You think you can survive outside the wall you piece of shit?!" he asked and resisted a smirk when the girl yelled out loud and proud 'Yes sir!' In the next moment, he released her shoving her back into line and moved onto his next target. Elliot took a moment too look around, a few eyes darted away from her when she made eye contact. One boy in particular though, he actually turned red as if he had been caught doing something worse than starring at her unlike the others. 'Cute…' Elliot thought to herself before mentally slapping herself. 'Elliot, what the hell are you thinking?! You aren't here to meet boys!' she mentally yelled at herself and quickly threw all thoughts of the cute freckled boy out of her mind. In no time at all the berating was over and Elliot found herself alone, Sasha was out running laps. Elliot watched over her friend, leaning over the railing to yell encouraging words out to her. She laughed a bit though when she heard a group near her mention how Sasha seemed more upset about losing her food than the running she had to do. "You're probably right about that," Elliot spoke looking over toward the group and laughing a bit with them. She flinched a bit when they began discussing Shiganshina but, it wasn't so bad, it didn't get bad until they entered the mess hall together. It was then, that they had started discussing the fall of wall Marie in more detail, her brother's strong back fading in the distance, her mother's blood splattering her face. She unconsciously brought her hands up and gently ran her fingers over the old leather. "What's that?" a voice from above her asked, eye looking down at the strap of leather on her wrist. "Oh um…it's…," she stuttered out and the boy gently placed a hand on her shoulder, startling her, red eyes looking up and meeting the eyes of the freckled boy from earlier. "Sorry, I shouldn't have asked," he said, his voice sounded kind and his eyes compelled Elliot to trust him. "My brother gave it to me…h-he died when wall Marie fell," she spoke, her voice in a quiet whisper, the boy couldn't think of a response to that. He couldn't just simply tell her 'sorry' she had undoubtedly heard that a million times. He was saved though when Eren dropped his spoon at the mention of what the titans looked like. Elliot listened to the freckled boy as he tried to end all the questions, but Eren quickly told him he was mistaken and went on to speak of how he was going to send all the titans back to hell.
Elliot bit her lower lip and quickly went to rub her fingers against her bracelet once more, but this time she was not able to. The freckled boy had grabbed her hand in a gentle but, firm manner, his pinks quickly dusted a light pink probably because Elliot herself was bright red. "Y-You're going to wear out the leather faster…," he muttered softly grip gently tightening on her hand, Elliot found herself softly nodding her head. The two hardly seemed to notice the slight outbreak between Jean and Eren. "Um…Uh...I have no idea what your name is," she said mind having gone blank when she tried to speak up to him. "Oh, right sorry, I'm Marco Bott" he said smiling a bit, cheeks still stained pink, but Elliot wasn't one to talk on her pale white skin a light blush was bright red. "I'm Elliot Falkenrath," she spoke only to watch the boy softly nod his head at her. "So um, Marco….could you let go of my hand…maybe?" she asked using her free hand to gesture to his hand that was still gently enclosed around her own. "O-Oh! S-Sorry!" he called out quickly pulling his hand away, the blush on his cheeks intensifying. Elliot only starred before the most ridiculous thing slipped from between her lips. "Cute," she spoke starring for a moment as her brain caught up with her mouth. She blinked once, twice and then turned a bright shade of red. "I-I Should go! W-We should talk later!" Elliot said quickly offering an off handed wave to her companion as she stumbled out of the mess hall to escape her embarrassing blunder.