A/N: I own nothing, and all that jazz.

Thanks for reading!

-J

A gentle shaking woke the sleeping girl with dark colors streaked through her tousled white blonde hair, and she groaned as she turned over underneath her thin blanket, trying to ignore it.

"Ari, wake up." her brother's voice laughed lightly, and she whined as she opened her eyes, deep dark blue irises squinting at the sunlight coming in her, now open, curtains.

"Ughhh," she groaned again, extending a hand and letting Armin pull her up into a sitting position, she yawned and ran a hand through her hair as she asked, "What time is it?"

"Around 10, I think." the younger, more golden colored blonde sitting on the edge of her small bed guessed, "But we're supposed to go to the market today."

Getting up from her bed and opening one of the drawers of her dresser, the girl smiled as she offered, "Why don't you go find Eren and Mikasa, and I'll go to the market."

Armin's eyes lit up as he smiled and asked, "Arianna, are you sure?"

"Yes, I'm sure. I'll be fine, Gramps was just worried I would need help carrying things, but i'll be fine." And I dont know how much time you three have left to just be kids…

She was caught off guard by a tight hug, but she laughed as she returned it.

When Arianna Sawyer woke up in the care of one Dr. Yeager a year ago, she thought she was dreaming. But if you woke up, to find yourself living in one of your favorite anime series, what would you think it was?

It didn't take her long to figure out it was real. She knew pain, and the pain she felt from her mystery injuries was definitely real. The tears she cried as little Eren, Mikasa, and Armin tended to her when the doctor couldnt were beyond real. For the first few weeks, the deeps slashes were so bad, leaving the bed wasnt an option. But in the months following, she was determined to get her strength back.

Dr. Yeager talked to Armin's grandfather, and she became part of the Arlert household.

In just a short time, Ari was back to full health and training in her spare time, knowing what was coming. As she and Armin grew closer, as well as with Mikasa and Eren, Arianna was waiting for the day everything she'd come to love came crashing down around her.

Hearing Armin leave the small house, Arianna got dressed, putting a light grey tank top on over her black bra and shrugging into a thick dark blue sweater. After pulling on a pair of white pants, much like the survey corps uniform ones, and black boots, She pulled her hair up into a high ponytail and grabbed her backpack, like she did every time she left the house, before heading out into Shianashina.

Despite knowing so much, there was a lot of questions left unanswered for Ari.

She had no idea how she was magically transported into Attack on Titan, or why.

She didn't know how she got the eight deep slashes on her ribcage, arms and legs, or why she woke up wrapped in a Scout Regiment cloak, being stitched up by Dr. Yeager and his wife.

Or why after a year, her dyed hair hasn't grown out in it's natural black like it should've. in fact, it barely grew at all, and what did was the same streaked black white and silver.

She didn't know when Shanashina was going to fall, just that it would, and what would happen afterwards. She didn't know if she could make a difference, and save anyone from a horrible death. She hoped she could.

The market was close to the main road the cut through the city center, so it took a while for Ari to walk down there. The streets were busy as always as she weaved through people and stands, and stopped at a few along the way to pick up a few things.

Stopping in a small alcove of a building, Ari slipped her bag off her shoulder to put the bread and other food she bought inside, being careful to wrap them in a towel so they wouldn't spoil the green cloak she always kept at the very bottom.

When her bag secured on her back again, her head snapped up at the sound of the bells ringing through the city's corridors.

The Scout Regiment is returning…

Following the crowds, she ended up on the edge of the main street a few block from the market.

Seeing the broken and battered men on horses, carts, and limping on foot, she turned her eyes away from the sad sight.

I should get used to this… It definitely won't be the last time I see them so defeated…

Arianna started the long walk home, attempting to plan out what she would do when the time came. She could find Armin, Eren and Mikasa before the colossal titan appeared. Maybe she could stop them from running home. But then they wouldn't get the say goodbye to their mother.

She couldn't do anything to stop Eren's determination later on. So much was already riding on his little shoulders.

By the time the blonde reached the water's edge, knowing the three of them would be somewhere around there, she was utterly confused about what to do with the knowledge she had. But, over the course of the past year in Shiganshina, she'd been there many times.

Seeing them sitting on a set of stairs, memories started to flash in her mind, of herself in a different time and place, watching the same scene play out on a tiny handheld screen, just before everything they were speculating bout came true only moments later.

Walking up behind them, Ari's hands were shaking.

How didn't I see it before? GOD! HOW COULD I BE SO STUPID?!

And as the gentle breeze stopped short, leaving everything silent and still for only a few seconds, she knew. She knew for sure, that this was it.

The moment she'd been dreading since she accepted all of this was real.

She saw the sky light up with a greenish yellow flash that she knew to mean only one thing in the world, paired with the lightning strike on the opposite side of the sealed south gate.

It shook the earth, jarring her brother and his friends up off their seats on the stairs, and knocking her off her feet briefly, before she was up again, holding a hand out to pull Armin to his feet as Mikasa did the same with Eren.

"Ari!" the blonde exclaimed as she helped him up, "W-what was that?"

"an explosion?" Eren thought out loud, before Armin bolted to the main road, ignoring his best friends and sister running after him.

"What is it? what do you see?" She heard Eren ask her brother next to her, but all the multicolor haired girl could see was the hand of the colossal titan gripping the wall.

She'd seen it a hundred times but it still shook her to her core.

I have to protect them…

She gasped as a lightbulb went off in her head.

I have to find Hannes... I can't stop Eren and Mikasa… but he can. He does.

But as the titan kicked in the gate from the outside, and disappeared in the cloud of debris that followed, the force knocking her and Armin to the ground, angry tears slipped from her eyes.

Im sorry i didnt do anything to stop this…

Im so sorry…