Kurea-chan: I don't own Shingeki no Kyojin. Just the OC :P If there are any similarities or the like, it may just be a coincidence. Also, Levi's training year and age here was not canon. I just made those up since it wasn't really said in the anime or in the manga.
#4 False Identity
Petra's face lightened up when she came across Aurelie (/n). The new member has now been decided.
"You! Come with me. And the others, thanks for participating." Petra grabbed Aurelie's (/n) wrist and dragged her to the HQ.
"Good luck on your 'old friend'!" Ymir laughed as she teased her as she gets dragged by Petra.
Back in the HQ.
"I'm back!" Petra burst from the door with a large grin on her face.
"You're back early." Auruo, again, was trying to imitate the corporal again, much to Petra's disappointment.
Aurelie (/n) On the other hand, has this shadow from her bangs covering her eyes making it hard to identify her face.
"Aren't you that silent girl?" Eren asked out of curiosity as that girl was his classmate and her quiet nature in class made her earn that kind of nickname. Rings a bell, right? 'That silent boy' was how Levi was known during his underground days.
Levi, however, upon hearing Eren ask the girl the question, managed to keep his cool and looked at the girl. 'Quite the shy type huh?' was what he thought about her. Why would Petra want that girl as someone who would accompany her? Well, only Petra knows since she was the one who chose her.
"Her name?" Levi asked still staring at this girl Petra brought. 'Who does she resemble?' He asked himself.
Out of Aurelie's (/n) nervousness, she had her voice so soft that they almost didn't hear it.
"Aurelie (/n)... desu"
Auruo did hear what she said, only a bit though.
"Ellie? So your name's Ellie?"
Aurelie lifted her head on shock. Revealing her face, but the question is can Levi still remember her? "Huh?! Ah, yes. Ellie Scott." She hesitated at first in lying about her name but hey, that can be her nickname or some sort. After introducing herself, she posed a salute and a smile.
"Is that so? Then, welcome to the squad." Levi plainly said
Levi's POV
She reminds me of someone. I forgot her name though. Shit. How stupid of me to forget such important thing.
Wait, did I just said important? Is she someone important to me?
Never mind that. By the looks of this girl, why is she shocked when Auruo said 'Ellie'? Isn't that her name? It's her fault for speaking in a soft voice.
I know you're hiding something Ellie, I can feel it.
I'll know it in no time, you'll see.
Narrator's POV
As they've all decided to go to the former Recon Corps HQ, which is just an old castle, they decided to clean it first due to Levi being such a germaphobe and they all too don't want to stay in a castle of dust.
"I'll take a look around the rooms. You do this room, Eren" Levi ordered as he dismissed Eren
"Yes, sir."
While all the members were busy cleaning,
"I need to talk to him. I want to talk to him." Aurelie (/n) whispered to herself while sweeping the floor of one of the rooms in the castle.
"Oh? So you have a boyfriend, Ellie?" that statement and the weird emphasis on her so called name sent shivers down her spine. She slowly looked behind her with that nervous smile again. That manner of her looking behind her and smiling obviously nervous was a trait noticeable even when she and he were still children. Yes, it was Levi who appeared inside the room without her noticing it.
"Ehehe… Y-you've got it wrong Le~~ I mean heichou." She looked at him and noticed she is still shorter than him, makes her the shortest in the group.
"You suck at lying. It's obvious right from the start." Aurelie wasn't sure on what he is talking about. If it is about her telling him she really don't have a boyfriend and he is implying that she is lying, then he really got it all wrong. All this time around, she's been dreaming on this one person only.
"R-really, heichou, I don't have a~~"
"Did I tell you that I'm doubting you on not having a boyfriend?" his tone was still the same cold tone and so does his looks, but that question alone made her realize what he was talking about.
It was about her… Lying about her name.
She smiled at how clever he was in noticing that she lied.
"Heichou, you don't remember me, no?" it's hard to read her face now, she looked down again and her bangs hiding her eyes, which clearly shows that she's hiding the loneliness she is feeling right now.
Levi, still keeping his cool and decided not to talk, he wanted her to talk more.
Aurelie (/n) looked up only for her eyes filled with sadness to meet his expressionless eyes. It's really hard to read him due to his impassive look. But him being speechless, considered by her, that it answers her question.
She walked passed him and to the door, making an excuse that she has something to tell Petra, but paused before leaving.
"I guess you really don't. Sorry for the questions, heichou"
She was about to leave when Levi talked as he left the room.
"Did I give you permission to leave? You haven't finished your work yet. You bastard girl" she heard him say that in a commanding tone, well, too bad, she didn't hear him call her 'you bastard girl' since he whispered that part.
Slightly embarrassed, she turned to go back in the room she's cleaning and bowed to him as apology.
"I'm going to look on Eren, make sure if I come back here, this room is already clean. And leave your 3D maneuver gear here for the time being, understood?"
Aurelie (/n) smiled "Hai! (Yes, sir)"
After a few hours, they managed to lessen the untidy looks of inside of the castle. It was already night time and everyone was taking a break, enjoying themselves with the coffee the girls made as refreshments.
They were all talking about the upcoming expedition and then about the unexpected ray of hope, Eren being a titan, that is. He started telling about how he can transform into a titan.
"You guys should know this too. We couldn't get any more out of him than what's written in the reports. She won't stay put though." Levi took a sip from his coffee before continuing "Her meddling could even kill you, Eren."
As new members, Eren and Aurelie (/n) doesn't know who this 'she' he was talking about is.
""She? Who?"" Eren and Aurelie (/n) both asked until a wild knock on the door was heard, of course, all of them looked at the door aside from Levi who seems to be enjoying his coffee and ignoring the slamming door behind him.
Petra opened the door and a pony-tailed girl came in greeting the members of Levi Unit.
"You're early." Levi said maybe irritated or annoyed by Hanji's early coming.
She then explained that she's "in charge with experimenting on the two titans we caught alive in the city"
Hanji asked for Eren's help with experimenting but Eren resisted at first saying he don't even had the authority over himself until it's decided he's going to help her since he was just assigned on cleaning the garden tomorrow.
"But what exactly are these experiments on the titans?"
"Stop that. Don't ask her." Auruo said with disgusted look
"Seriously, Petra, what are those experiments?" Aurelie (/n) whispered to Petra not wanting the attention be shifted to her.
"All I can say is it's unbelievably disgusting" Petra whispered back as she had this look like she's reminiscing one of her disgusting stories on experimenting with titans.
They all left, knowing how awful her story may go and went to their respective rooms. Aurelie (/n) upon leaving, decided to go outside to catch some fresh air. She looked at the stars and started remembering her childhood memories with Levi.
Under these stars was when she met him. Under the night sky they agreed to not go back the capital's underworld and she realized he cared for her. And these stars also witnessed…
A tear then escaped Aurelie's (/n) eye.
… These stars witnessed her crying on him leaving so suddenly and maybe forgetting her.
"Wait, why am I giving up so suddenly?" she wiped her wet cheeks.
"He never said he don't remember me, right? Why am I giving up so easily? Giving up is just so stupid!" she stood up as she smiled to herself and posed a salute,
"I am not going to cry again until he himself tells me he doesn't remember me."
Again, like what happened when they were younger, Levi was behind the shadows watching her do those stupid things.
"You are so stupid that you just realized that obvious thing." Levi went back upstairs to the hallways of the rooms.
Aurelie (/n) felt sleepy and decided to go find her room, if she has one. She is a new member right?
She walked upstairs attempting to find Petra's room. Since she's the only girl aside from herself, she can ask her if she could sleep with her.
"Which was it?" she looked at the closed doors and tried to guess which is whose. Realizing staring at the doors will lead her to nothing; she tried opening the doors one by one. And when she was about to turn the first doorknob of the first room near her…
"What are you doing?" a familiar voice asked her as she was about to open one of the doors
"Lev~~ I mean heichou? Why are you still awake?"
"Don't answer my question with another question."
Aurelie (/n) don't know what to answer. She wouldn't want him to get the wrong ideas much as she doesn't want to embarrass herself in straightforwardly saying 'I don't know where I should sleep.'
'You don't know where to sleep, am I right?"
"Ehehe…" she scratched the back of her neck as she nodded.
"Come here." She did as he said. He opened the door behind him, which was the room Aurelie (/n) was cleaning hours ago.
It felt like all of her blood rushed to her face. Is he asking her to sleep here? In his room?
"H-h-heichou, th-this is you r-room. I can't~~"
"You cleaned this room so you have your part here." How can Levi stay so calm when her head's ready to explode any moment now? He's asking her to sleep with him! How can he remain calm on that!
Levi was still holding the doorknob as he stared at Aurelie (/n) like he was telling her to 'get to the freaking room already!' so she immediately entered the room upon noticing his glare.
She scanned her eyes around the room. Her 3DMG was on the corner of the room. The bed was big enough for the both of the~~ Wait a sec, did he even tell her that she's going to sleep beside him?
Levi closed the door and… locked it, to her surprise. He walked pass her stiffened stature as he threw himself on the bed.
After a few seconds…
"Don't tell me you know how to sleep while standing?" he sat up and looked at her with a disbelief look on his face.
Speechless…
Levi sighed as he stood up and grabbed her wrist, which shocked her like there was an electrical current from his touch, and let her sit on the corner of the bed, then he laid back again.
"L-Levi-heichou?" Aurelie (/n) looked over her shoulder to look at him with his eyes closed.
"Nanda? (What?)" he opened one eye which made her look in front again hiding her blush.
"Eto… Heichou… I-I can't d-do th-this n~~ Ah!" he knows what was running in her mind that he decided to cut her off by pulling her by the shoulders and letting her lay down on his lap, he looked down on her, their faces only a couple of inches away, which made her blush more.
"We have a mission on the next days so I'm not going to do now whatever you were thinking"
He tapped the position beside him "Now you sleep here." She fixed her position and moved from Levi's lap to the position he tapped.
"Oyasumi, Levi-heichou" she said before falling asleep.
Levi looked at her sleeping face as he brushed her bangs to the side giving way for him to see her closed eyes and forehead.
He kissed her forehead before looking back from her whispering, "Oyasumi, Aurelie"
Preview:
He remembers her but still doesn't tell her.
Tomorrow is a day off, what will they do on their free day?
#5 (Title undecided yet :P )
Kurea-chan: I would really want to be in Aurelie's place Q^Q Author is jealous on her OC…
- Next chapter may be the last chapter TT^TT gomen if it's really short. Please forgive me -/\- Tell me what you think! Reviews are welcomed, favorites and follows are too!
