Hope
"We don't know what the future will be…"
Her words repeated in his mind over and over again like a recording.
"So we still can hope, right?"
Hope. It seems too impossible.
"Will I appear in you future, Levi?"
What kind of future would it be without her?
"Even I am just your memory, can I stay with you?"
Levi perched by the window gazing into the night.
The night is silent. Too silent.
He leaned on the wall. Replaying the memories he had with her. All the kisses they had shared, those stolen moments. All the little things he loves about her. All the memories he had with her plays across his mind like a recording.
Levi closed his eyes and drifted to a memory on a particular night he had spent with her.
"What is it?"
Levi had caught her staring at him, while he was doing some paperwork. Though under the dim light, he caught a tinge of pink staining on her cheek. He continued to stare at her.
"Just look at you!" Petra replied, smiling brightly.
"What's wrong with you?" Levi asked, his face betraying no emotion.
"On your shoulder is humanity's future. These things make you carry even more. How could I do it? So it would be better if, I hide this love for myself only."
Levi's eyes snapped open, breathing heavily.
"I don't want to burden you."
She was never a burden to him.
"If so, leave me behind and keep moving forward."
His mind replayed the moment he had given the orders to the soldiers to remove the corpses from the cart. He had turned his head around the moment Petra's body was thrown off the cart. He faced back to the front ignoring the tugging of his heart.
He did leave her behind.
And he regret every second of it.
Levi could only imagine Petra's spirit shouting at everyone, after watching his broken state. "Everybody…Please…" she would have said.
"Don't leave Levi alone!"
"Please help him look for his future!"
Levi felt his eyes are burning, tears threatening to fall. He pressed his hands to his face to prevent it from falling. But it stubbornly trailed down his face.
"Why is that, Petra?" Levi said quietly, gritting his teeth. "Even when I still have hope. Even when my future still have you."
"I can carry our future too."
"Just say it!"
"Why aren't you here?"
Seriously guys, I almost cried writing this.
I apologize if it is confusing. The italics are all flashbacks.
This drabble is actually from a fan-art/comic. It is not mine.
I apologize again is Levi is a bit of OOC.
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~ Willow