Hi there guys. sorry. i said before i was gunna update soon, but mistakenly i thought i had already written this chapter out, but surprisingly i didn't . oh wells. i gots the next two chapters outlined. so the updates should definitely come sooner now. thanks for the wait.

The steps that he took stretched out twice the steps as he took. He followed him until they were a good distance away from the crowd. Levi found his old habit once again, crossing his arms across his chest while waiting for a response. Erwin stood his ground. Levi followed his action.

"You seem to be acting peculiar, Lieutenant. Is everything alright?" Erwin started questioning. He didn't even turn his head to face him or his direction. Only continued to look ahead beyond the tall hills.

"Peachy and surprising as ever, I suppose," Levi responded.

"You received the paperwork Jaeger was supposed to deliver, correct?"

"Correct." He replied. 'What papers? I'm going to have to talk to him about this later.'

"Good. I expect your report on them within three days, "Erwin said turning around finally facing the shorter squad leader. He smiled, looking down at an old friend. "How's that arm? Any better?" he asked as he playfully patted his injured shoulder.

"Stop it, ya idiot! It won't heal any faster with useless beatings!" Levi scolded the taller man. Funny. Even though he hadn't spoken to Erwin at all, he seems like an old schoolmate type of friend. Then a couple of flash backs revived some of his early memories. The camp. Training together in the same class, to become part of the scouting corps.

"Ha-ha. Well knowing us, even if one of us loses an arm, that won't stop us from fulfilling our mission, "Erwin laughed it off. Humph. Then Erwin pivoted around and moved toward again the scout headquarters. Then jumped a bit, lifting a finger up. His head twisted and faced Levi standing adjacent to him who surprisingly was keeping up as if he were competing with him. His face then turned serious. His eyebrows lowered.

"Oh. And one more thing, Levi. Don't allow Eren to come out of his cell till I receive your reports and my direct command to do so. Understood?"

Levi stopped in place, letting Erwin leave first. "Clearly," Levi answered leaving Erwin.

'What just happened though?' Levi contemplated to himself, looking at his boots. Suddenly, a hand took hold of his good shoulder.

"OOOIIIIIII! Revai! Crazy stuff today, right?! That titan that came into the camp? I mean. If I only got there sooner. UGH!"

"Hanji. You really need some self-control, "responded Levi, giving her the unamused eyes.

Hanji and Levi walked together into the main dining hall. "Me? Talking about me? We should be talking about you, Revai. How much do you remember so far? Still fuzzy?" Hanji asked as she poured out two cups of coffee. She handed one to the already seated Levi, who slowly took a sip. Then flinched from the heat on his lips. Hanji shook her head. "At least the habits remained the same."

Then Levi recalled the incident that just took place outside. The giant titan. Eren. And his titan?

"Hanji. Tell me something, will ya?" Levi started to ask.

"Something," said Hanji as she sipped her hot steamy coffee without a problem.

Levi picked his cup up holding it from the top and drank it. He placed it back down and rested his arms on the table.

"Not funny. About Eren and those titans. It seems I'm remembering some memories again, but I think I need help understanding that, "he begins.

Hanji's expression changes once more. "Ah. That. That would be useful information, wouldn't it?" Levi waited for the explanation of it all. Anything could be reasonably plausible at that point. Hanji stood up and grabbed the almost empty cup of coffee from Levi.

"This is going to take another cup to explain fully."

Levi sat silently. He could wait. After all. He had three days to make a decision about something he was going to evaluate from this info.

Eren awoke. He looked around. The absence of windows in the cell made it impossible to know what time of the day it was. Then Eren remembered the incident with the titans and Heichou. He started to move himself to get up, but was stopped by chains on his wrists and ankles. Man. The farthest they would allow him to extend is a couple centimeters away from his face. Not allowing his hands to reach his face in case of him trying anything funny. He released a sigh of disbelief.

He thought to himself 'It's over. Now that I've lost the Corporal's trust and now having him fear me, I'll be sure sent back to the inner walls. And be executed.' Then a couple of footsteps are heard coming down to the direction of his cell. Eren already in his mind assumes for himself it's a soldier sent to ship him back to the walls. He shuts his eyes, waiting for the worst treatment as he is to be treated. The cell creaks open. The soldier walks in slowly. The door closes. Ten seconds pass. Eren continues to keep his eyes shut. "Well? Let's get this over with if you're gonna send me back or kill me."

"…. Kill you?" a very familiar voice responded "This is what my former Corporal says in his defense. We're in a worse state than I'd thought then."

Eren opens his eyes to reveal his savior. "Levi-san!" Eren exclaimed happily. Then sudden shame doted him once again. "I-I mean, Heichou!" Looking away. Levi understood and broke the silence. He held a bowl of hot soup and a cup of water. "Here. Haven't eaten all day, right?"

Eren was touched he recalled such little info like that. Levi places the bowl aside for a second. "Hanji told me about your shifting. And my real position.""…." "Eren... Why did you lie to me?" Eren didn't respond. He continued to look away. "Eren."… Still nothing. Eren was not talking. Levi walked right to Eren. He crouched down, a leg on each side of Eren's underneath. "Oi. Brat. Answer me." Eren's head dropped even more now, hiding his eyes. Levi was losing his patience with the boy. With his good hand he grabbed Eren's chin and made him look directly to him making eye contact. He was unaware until then that the younger teen started tearing up reluctant to speak. "Speak. Or I'll-"

"It was fun at first."

Levi's eyes widened.

"The way I treated you, was the way you treated me. Only for a bit though. For my own good. Just thought I'd give you a taste of your own medicine."

Levi removed his hand gripping his chin.

"B-but it was just going to be until you remembered enough!" Eren explained then flinched as if waiting for a blow to be given onto him. Something even more frightening happened. Levi started to giggle.

"What a gutsy brat I have as a member of my squad. Then what's this about some paperwork I have to report to Erwin, eh? You must've known something 'bout that?"

"Ah, that. It's in a folder in the shed we were in. The horse one. It's under a chest. One paper's about the scouting mission to Wall Maria. The other one's about-"

"Go on, "Levi countered. Unexpectedly, Eren's stomach grumbled. It echoed quite a bit within the cell. Levi revealed a faint smile. "Well… I'll just have to read myself won't I?" he said as he stood up once again. Eren nodded embarrassed by his body's reaction that moment. Levi moves the bowl and cup of water tray underneath Eren's arm. "Eat. I'll speak to you in the morning."

"Ha-Hai! Thank you, Heichou!"

As Levi walks towards the cell door, clasping the handle and pulling it open, eren uses his leg and moves the tray closer to his hand. He achieves picking up the spoon with his hand. However… his hand is chained down, not allowing his hand to reach anywhere near his mouth. As Levi closes the door, he notices him struggle with his supper. Levi's eyes roll and he enters the cell once again. There sat Eren with a confused look on his face, with his mouth puckering for the spoonful of soup.

"Geez. Is there anything useful you can do besides turn into a giant muscular beast?" Levi teases him. He picks up the bowl of soup from beside Eren and plops right down beside him. He swipes the spoon from his hand and redips it into the soup. Grabbing a full spoonful this time. He moves it toward Eren's mouth.

"No. Heichou! Levi-san. No. You can't. Not you-mmm!" Eren answered refusing to let his mentor to feed him like a child.

"Tch! Swallow your pride," Levi complained back. Eren hesitated, but his stomach knew what it needed and wouldn't allow pride to get in the way. Eren opened his mouth allowing his Corporal to feed him. He fed him spoonfuls for a bit, all while Levi mumbled complains at him. Eren didn't seem to mind after a while. With every spoonful, his respect for his Corporal grew, more and more. His Heichou, the one he looked up to, he was regaining once again, little by little.

"H-Heichou," Eren muttered. Levi stopped swirling the soup and looked up at the boy. "Hm?"

"Ah-uh. Do you remember me now? At all?" he asked. Levi looked on at him. Trying to recall his face. Any memory he had of him before waking up injured in bed. Nothing. He tried to remember other memories perhaps. Old friends? Missions? Ah... There was mike. Hanji. Petra. Eld. Gunther. He remembered. Them. But no recollection of Eren.

"I'm slowly remembering everyone. Everyone except you. But the thing is… I can't seem to remember much of who I am either. Or was for that matter." Levi responded. He seemed really down about not remembering, Eren thought.

"Heichou. The other part of that report. It was about me."

Levi, interested in hearing again, waited for the rest. "The other divisions from the inner walls want any excuse to execute me. They believe I'm a threat to humanity because of the shifting ability."

"That's partially true though."

"They said in the letter, if-… if after my final trial, I have no evidence of my usefulness of being in the scouts, they are going to make you personally execute me."

Both their heads lowered. Levi picks up the cup of water and offers it to eren. He drinks and as he drinks, Levi whispers to Eren so that the outside guards down the hall wouldn't hear. "If you help me, I'll help you."

"Help?"

"Cooperate, you fool. I'll write a good report to the high officials about you in exchange that you help me remember and teach me how to be the Leader I used to be for all of us."

Eren's face lit up with hope and excitement. "Yes! I'm in! You can count on me, hei-!" Eren's mouth was shut by Levi's hand trying to silence him from being too loud. The soldiers stationed a couple of feet away from the cell door turned their heads, but after a bit turned back, hearing nothing after. Levi sighed.

Eren mumbled under the firm hand clasped over his mouth "Um… mcho." Startled, he released him. "Huh, you're hand's pretty warm. I was expecting a cold and clammy one. "Levi stared at him with discontent. "I was holding the bowl of soup remember?" "Oh ha-ha right. Stupid me." Eren became flustered with embarrassment after that. 'Stupid! Stupid! Argh! What was I thinking saying that?'

"We're all warm since we're all warm-blooded, Eren. See?" Levi explains placing his hand on his cheek. Eren flinches, but then allows Levi's hand to touch. "I'm sorry about your arm. That was my fault." Eren confesses.

Levi feels as though he needs to leave him in a good mood or things will be hard on both of them tomorrow. "I'm alive. So it's fine. You'll receive you're punishment for that when it heals." Eren smiled once again. There. Fixed.

'Keep smiling, Eren' Thought the Corporal.

"Well then, you and I have a lot to catch up on tomorrow. So I'll take my leave now." He said as he stood up. He picked up the empty bowl but left the cup of water behind for him.

While walking up the lower dungeon cell's staircase, another of Commander Erwin's soldiers met up with Levi.

"The Commander said to tell you the mission of retaking the inner wall of Maria will resume again tomorrow. He said to be prepared for tomorrow's departure. Good night, Corporal!" and with that he left.

Levi continued silently up the second set of stairs leading to his temporary bedroom. He laid there on his bed, thinking of his possibilities of having it work out tomorrow. 'I won't have time to train myself again to my former self. What the hell am I to do tomorrow? Shit!'

"Eren".

He made his way back down, looking for the only one he thought of turning to at that time. Strange. No soldiers guarding his cell. One of the Fires that lighted the cell went missing as well. Could it be he- It can't be! Levi flung open the Cell door. Only to find an empty room. With only the remaining cup of water he'd left behind. And a small puddle of blood nearby.

"Eren!"