Lance Corporal Levi paced the small strip of cobblestone between Arabella James's cell and the stone wall behind him for at least ten minutes. Commander Erwin stared at him.

"Levi?" He asked and Levi looked at him. "Is something wrong?" Levi shakes his head and leans against the wall, crossing his arms.

"No Commander, I just can't believe we wasted all this time trying to find a brat like her and now they just want to kill her. I mean if she was completely useless we would've caught her five years ago." Levi replies, frustrated. Erwin shakes his head.

"I know how you feel, but she's murdered countless people and now she has to pay the price for it." Levi looks at Arabella coldly as she lay slumped over on the floor of her cell. It appeared that flames danced in her hair in the light of the torch near her cell. She looked so peaceful with her pink lips slightly parted and her hands shackled in front of her.

"I know, but still...Humanity needs all we can get and I just can't help but feel if we taught her the ropes she'd do some good." Erwin nods at Levi's explanation and sighs.

"I'll make a deal with you," Erwin begins and Levi's ears perk up. "I'll support you in appealing against her case, but," Levi sighs. The dread but. "You will be the one training her and she will be under your watch. She has one time to kill someone and she's gone Levi." Levi nods.

"I can do it, I can teach her. I'll whip that shitty little brat into shape nicely." Levi says. He cocks his head to the side as he looks at her. Wasn't there blood coming from her foot when she got here? Levi uncrosses his arms and walks over to her cell. "Erwin," He says.

"Hmm?"

"Where's the key to her cell?" Levi asks holding out his hand.

"Levi-"

"No, this is important. I think I see something or don't see something…"

"Make it quick before the MP walks in here to get her." Erwin hands Levi the keys to Arabella's cell and he masterfully unlocks the door and sneaks inside. He squats at her foot and picks it up, examining all around the area that had been bleeding, but the blood on the floor and her body temperature was all he needed to confirm his suspicions. He saw the dark blood on the stone floor and felt just how hot her body was, she was burning up but there was no sweat, no uneven breathing, she was peacefully asleep, just like Yeager when he's healing.

"Erwin…" Levi begins.

"What?"

"Come here." Erwin does as Levi says and walks in the cell this time leaving the door open as not to lock themselves in by accident. Erwin squats down next to Levi. "She was bleeding when she came in. Her foot was cut open by some glass she'd stepped on and now look." Erwin thoroughly examined the area. At first nothing came as a shock to him before he seen the fresh blood on the ground in stark contrast to Arabella's now healed foot. Erwin looked up slowly at Levi.

"She's a…a Titan Shifter." They let the words hang suspended in the air between them for a minute before they were both snapped out of their shock. Arabella turned onto her back and kicked Levi in the face. She spun around on the ground and flipped backwards before standing up and kicking Erwin hard enough to make him fall to the ground. Levi pulled out his blades and slashed at her just to make sure he was right in his thinking. The blade makes a cut across her chest snapping her bra, but Arabella looks down and grins as steam rises up from the fresh wound. Just as Levi looks up he feels a kick straight to the jaw and falls back onto the floor.

Before Arabella can make it out of the cell Erwin stands in front of her and lifts her up into his arms, and puts her over his shoulder. "Now, now Miss. James. We can't have you acting out in your cell and kicking Commanding Officers like that." Erwin rubs the side of his jaw. "Definitely not." He mumbles. "Especially not when we have an offer to make you." Erwin throws Arabella back into her cell as Levi stands. The two walk out of the cell as Arabella sits up hair covering her face and nothing covering her well endowed chest. She looks up at Erwin and Levi and scoffs.

"Offer?" She sounds as if she's appalled. "I wouldn't dare take an offer from assholes like you all." She spits through the cell and Levi's face lights up with anger. How incredibly disgusting (did she know how long he was going to have to clean his boot now?!). He draws his blade and Arabella stands, grinning. "Oh, ready for another round, are we?" She says almost playfully. She gets in a stance not familiar to Levi or Erwin, but a dangerous looking one. She has both of her fists at her face, ready to punch and block. She's standing on one leg with her other bent so that her right knee is at a diagonal angle from her left breast and her foreleg looks as if it's suspended in a certain place about to kick while she leans at an angle. Levi heads back towards her cell but Erwin jerks him back.

"Go in there and she's going to tear you to pieces Levi and I'll be honest, I wouldn't care is she was chained, I'm not going back in there with her." Erwin admitted his jaw already beginning to swell and Levi was feeling the pain as well. Arabella drops her grin and gets serious.

"At least he's smart enough to not come in here anymore. I would love it if you fuckers would just let me have my space before I get my fucking head cut off." Erwin sighs at Arabella's short temper.

"Please, just listen to us." Arabella grunts but nods.

"Tch...fine. Keep it short and sweet." Erwin nods and clears his throat but Levi speaks up before him. As Arabella lowers her guard Levi can't help but notice that she's a very well built girl. Lean, but filled out in all the right places and it doesn't hurt (at all) that her facial features are petite and her long, red, curly hair complimented her nicely.

"We'll appeal your sentence under the condition that I will be watching over you in the Survey Corps." Levi said and Arabella's jaw fell to the floor.

"Wait, wait, wait," She let out a humourless laugh. "You're gonna appeal my death sentence under the condition that I join the Survey Corps and I become your little lap dog?!" Levi shrugs and nods.

"That's about how it sounds." Arabella lowers her head and laughs.

"Oh, fuck me!" She yells. "Literally, I would rather one of you fuck me than to be your halfass lap dog for the rest of my damn life!"

"Then take the second option and die." Levi spits.

"Gladly." A pair of sharp, grey eyes and a pair of icy, blue eyes meet and clash with each other, battling for dominance. Erwin sighs and steps forward next to Levi.

"Miss. James, just think of the extreme difference it would make in your life to be living around someone else with your incredible talent. You two could be trained together-" Arabella slams her palm on the bars.

"I'm not a dog, asswipe." She sighs. "And neither is the kid you have chained up. I bet he's scared shitless, probably doesn't even know what the hell's going on with himself. I bet the only thing he's used to is jerking off on a page and going about his daily business." Levi raises an eyebrow.

"And how do you know it's not a girl?" Levi questions randomly and Arabella snorts as she sits down on the ground.

"Because no girl in their right mind from my Village-or with this power in general-would accept your shitty training offer." Arabella grins. "We all have a high tolerance for shitheads like you two and the pricks in the MP." Erwin sighs and shakes his head.

"Then don't take the training, but we need you. Us humans need you. Eren can't do it all by himself. Please, I'm giving up my dignity to beg you to join us." Erwin says clasping his hands together. Arabella thinks for a minute. 'Come on Arabella, this is your big break!' She grits her teeth and sighs.

"Fine, but only under my conditions this time." Erwin looks up and Levi slides his cold, grey eyes over Arabella's figure. "I'll join the Survey Corps-if you can get me out of this situation-under Sir Asswipe's watchful eye but," Again with the dreaded but. "Number one: I get to wear what the fuck I want. I don't like green and I certainly don't like capes." Erwin nods.

"You still have to wear the emblem." Erwin pipes up but Arabella keeps speaking as if she didn't hear him.

"Number two: I get my weapons back and someone is to supply me with cigarettes or let me get them, but I need them." Erwin nods and Levi buries his head in his hands. 'Since when did the Survey Corps start yielding to the conditions of a convicted murderers? What have I gotten us into?' Levi thinks to himself. "And number three: I will not be trained to use my Shifting since I already know how to do it." Erwin nods.

"Levi?" He asks and Levi waves him off.

"Only if you think it's a good call Commander. I trust you." Arabella coks her head to the side at Levi's slight openness towards his Commander.

"Awwww," She says. "I bet this is the part where the BL scene comes into play, right?" Levi gives Arabella a look to kill and she shrivels up just a little inside. Levi was a fearsome man, Arabella had never paid witness to someone who could make her rethink her decision with a single look. Arabella had always been firm in her choices and always took the punishment for what she did, but looking at Levi she honestly didn't know if she would be able to handle the punishment this time. Maybe she should have said "Under Commander Erwin's watchful eye" instead of "Under Sir Asswipe's watchful eye". She ponders this in her head for a moment before Commander Erwin speaks up.

"Fine, but you will be trained to use 3DM gear and you will act as a part of this task force." Erwin says sternly and Arabella nods, finally being somewhat agreeable to the deal. "If I or Levi or any of the Captains-or even Rookies for that matter-feels you've made a traitorous act then you will be turned in to the Court." Arabella nods and grins.

"Seems fair enough to me. I guess we have a deal then?" Erwin nods and Arabella stands upon hearing someone call her name from outside. Erwin and Levi back away from the cell quickly and lean back against the wall.

"Arabella James!" The person, now revealing himself to be Nile Dok, Chief of the Military Police, yells once more.. Arabella scrunches her face up in disgust upon seeing the all too familiar face. Nile walks over to her cell and places his hand on the bars. Arabella grins and indirectly challenges him by pressing herself against the bars and grinning in Nile's face.

"Why, yes, my dear Nile?" Arabella sings sweetly. He narrows his eyes at her through the cold, steel bars.

"We've finally got you now, you little cunt." Nile spits at her.

"Awww, don't be sour because you want this cunt and just couldn't get it." Arabella makes a pouty face at Nile and then laughs as his face becomes red as a tomato.

"Get out of your cell bitch." He snarls.

"Alright asshole." Levi hands Nile the keys to her cell with a "Tch" and Nile unlocks the cell for the second time since Arabella's been awake. He grabs her by her arm and nearly drags her out of the cell but she puts up a slight fight. "Get your fucking hands off me you perv!" She yells.

"I can't believe these idiots want to let you out and into the Survey Corps." Nile says, his words filled with venom. "Dumb fucks." He mumbles the last part. "Straighten up!" Nile yells at Arabella as she is brought into the light of the courtroom. She gaps upon seeing a structure so nice. When she arrived at the Walls she was snuck in, but had never been in one of the nice buildings or houses. She'd stayed confined to her nasty streets in the Underground. She looks around at the bright, sunlight coming in through the windows and wonders how long she's been here. Then she looks all around her at the tens-no hundreds-of people watching her. Many have wide eyes and are pointing her way.

Arabella can feel the butterflies in her stomach beginning to flutter as she is escorted over to a stand where she then has two guards on either side of her holding her arms. She feels someone behind her and then hears a click. As she looks down she sees there are now shackles around her ankles to hinder her movement and she rolls her eyes. 'Christ, are they really that scared of me?' She thinks to herself. She hears a woman behind her, her whispering growing louder.

"She did it…" The woman whispers. "She killed my husband." Arabella turns to face the woman.

"Then I guarantee I did you a service." Hell breaks loose in the courtroom as Arabella says this and grins at the woman. She was just telling the truth. There's a loud sound like a gun going off.

"Order in the Court! Order in the Court!" The judge-a man with gray hair and a scraggly beard-Darius Zackly bangs his gavel on a his podium. Arabella sneers at the man sitting above the crowd as if he's above all these people in the Courtroom. 'Who the hell is he to think he's better than anyone else in this God-' "Tell me," He begins, cutting off Arabella's thought, only provoking her to act out more. Only looking at the calm and collected-and bored-faces of Levi and Erwin keeps her from lashing out. "What do you think your sentence should be Miss. James?" Erwin, Levi, Nile and almost everyone in the Courtroom gasps and looks at the judge. Arabella retains a bored look on her face at the judge's lame question.

"Is that a trick question or do you just not know how to do your fucking job?" She spits at him and he smiles slightly. Arabella makes a disgusted face. Was this how humans in the Capital were like? Happy go lucky, or was he being sarcastic?

"No, I'm asking you your opinion on the matter." He motions to Nile on the right of him and Erwin and Levi on the left. "I've heard both of their sides of the story so you tell me, what do you think your sentence should be and why?" Arabella ponders her options in her head for a moment thinking back to Erwin's offer. But then again she knows choosing the MP means death.

"Sir, with all due respect, we've discovered something important-" Erwin is cut off by Darius's hand. Arabella sighs after at least three minutes of thinking.

"I think my sentence should be death," A wave of gasps go through the crowd. "But I know it won't be because you're all so desperate for some sort of savior. I know that right after I give this explanation, I'm going to be headed to the Survey Corps HQ to be trained because you all see some twisted potential in a criminal with a God complex who was virtually impossible to catch." She gives a small laugh. "I don't know just how fucked up in the head you all are, but I know it's pretty bad to still support the criminal that's more than likely killed on of your family members, brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, even children, but I don't feel bad about it. I kill only those who have done wrong and I did it to earn money to live. I think I deserve the death penalty, but I think you all are hoping I'm a Messiah and all I can say is: If I disappoint you, I never promised I would save you in the first place. That being said, give me my sentence so I don't have to stand here in this shit hole much longer." The room is completely silent save for the always-there-hum of empty silence.

Women expecting answers to their husband's death, men expecting answer as to where their wives bodies were dumped and children wondering where their parents have went all stare at Arabella in shock. Did she practically say she didn't care what she did, that her own people were weak and stood no chance against the Titans? 'If only they knew I wasn't human and in no way do I fool myself into thinking I am.' Arabella thinks to herself. Darius clears his throat, cutting through the silence.

"That was quite the explanation Miss. James." He says to her. She rolls her eyes once more. "You're a lot more...pragmatic than it was first believed you were." Arabella nods.

"So I've been told." She locks eyes with Levi seeing his mouth slightly parted in shock at her long statement previously made. Erwin has his brows furrowed in confusion and Nile is grinning. He can't wait to have her gone. Darius sighs and shakes his head.

"While I'm thinking, tell me Erwin, what were you speaking of earlier?" Darius asks and Commander Erwin nods.

"Yes sir, I was saying that a very important discovery was made earlier. She was held in her cell for hours and her foot remained bleeding, even after it had been thoroughly cleaned and dressed it kept bleeding, so I was told. When Lance Corporal Levi and I walked in the cell, he noticed that she was did not have any sort of bandaging on her foot, but there was also no blood, nor were there numerous amounts of cuts on her foot which had in fact been sighted and reported when her foot was undressed." Erwin says it all without a hint of doubt in his voice.

"Then what are you suggesting Commander?" Darius asks as Nile's face drops.

"She has confirmed our suspicions herself sir, she is a Titan Shifter like that of Eren Yeager." The crowd gasps and even Darius raises an eyebrow.

"Really now?" Darius questions and looks to Arabella. "Would you mind explaining?" Arabella shakes her head and shrugs.

"What is there to explain?" She asks.

"How did you get these powers? You seem to know much more about them then our boy Eren." Arabella grins, but sighs.

"It's no surprise I was born outside the Walls, right?" Everyone nods at her question/statement. "When I was young the VIllage I lived in had many Titan Shifters but some of a different kind. There are two kinds: The Predators and the Prey. I am a Predator, meaning the other, more mindless Titan which have been known to attack and eat humans, would acknowledge me as their leader being that I would also eat them. Is this the case with the Yeager kid?" Darius looks to Erwin and shakes Erwin shakes his head.

"No, it's not. It was seen that the Titans did indeed attack Eren Yeager during the attack on the Trost District." Erwin replies and Arabella nods.

"Then he's the Prey. This is how it was referred to in my Village, and yes, Prey was predominant, but my family was the only family of Predators. Predators are rare to find and have only been proven more difficult to find since the murder of my mother, father, brother and sister. I was the only one left…" She mumbles the last part, but within seconds the hard look in her eyes has returned.

"I was born as a Dominant Predator meaning the Titans-including Titan Shifters-listen to me, even in my human form. I could signal all the Titans I liked right now if I wanted to, if only they were smart and strong enough to break one of the gates. I know how to control my Titan Form, it's just…difficult. I guarantee you it's more difficult for me than it is for Eren, even if he is a beginner. For me it's like having a constant bloodlust which is why I vowed to never go into my Titan Form again. I could do it for you all, but I don't know how long I would be conscious before you ended up having to put me down." Darius eyes her for a second before beginning to speak.

"Just how long can you go for and how much damage could you do?" He asks.

"I would estimate about...15 minutes and for me, personally, that would be enough to destroy...let's say Wall Sina. Other Titans don't stand a chance against me in the least. Titan Shifters have a better chance, but they may have enough power to take up at least five minutes which could be bad for you all." Darius nods at her confession, making sure to keep it in mind while making his decision. 'On one hand she could betray us and kill everyone in Wall Sina or do some mind boggling damage to Wall Rose. On the other hand if she is as loyal as it's said she is to the few comrades she has, then she could be a great asset to winning the war against the Titans, maybe even the key' He thinks. Darius sighs once he's made his decision.

"I'm sorry to all of you folks in the MP, but she's too great of an asset to just dissect her and then throw her to the wolves." Darius looks a smirking Arabella in the eye. Her icy, blue eyes gleam with a hint of mischief and an overload of talent. "I'm handing you over to the Survey Corps, they are in full custody of you, but if I hear you've slipped up even once," Arabella's expression darkens. "You will be sentenced to death immediately." She nods at Darius, feeling only the slightest bit of intimidation from his glare. "Release her." The two guards on either side of Arabella release her and she walks over to Levi and Erwin and stands with them.

"Welcome to the Survey Corps, brat." Arabella smiles at Levi's warming welcome.

"I hope you can keep up Asswipe."

"Challenge accepted."

A/N: Thank you so much for continuing to read to this point! I swear the plot will speed up soon, just bear with me for now!

Readers: We just want the smut!

Me: I know I'm sowwy...haha but thanks you guys I really appreciate it all and thank you for the review Perceptive! I appreciate it greatly! Alright, next chapter will be posted either tomorrow or the next day, but I'll try and keep a steady schedule! Thanks again and have a good night/morning! 3