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Chapter Four

The Curious Case of Sarah

The sound of the rain was falling softly against the window as the girl stayed seated observing it. Her long blond hair was falling on either side of her face, her dark eyes almost hidden behind the locks that were falling in front of her eyes.

A man kneeled beside her seated form.

"Hello Sarah," he said kindly, "Can you hear me?"

The girl remained unresponsive.

"I`m the doctor who took care of your wounds when they first found you some weeks ago," the man continued speaking to the girl, "I heard that you weren't eating your food and I came to see you again today."

The girl didn't acknowledge his presence at all, her eyes completely fixed upon the window in front of her. The man continued to talk to her asking her about how her day was, how she was feeling but whatever he did to make the girl talk to her, there was nothing…

Thought something about the girl`s eyes felt wrong to the man.

She had the eyes of someone who had seen a lot of horror…the eyes he usually sees in the face of a Survey Corps member…

Present Day

"This is the place,"

Levi looked up toward the rundown building in front of him. The place looked like it was about to fall apart at any seconds. The front yards didn`t have any type of grass upon it, only dirt and dead plants everywhere. In his opinion, this place looked like it was abandoned, or that no one had lived there in years.

"This place look like shit," he said, narrowing his eyes at how unclean everything was.

It will probably take weeks to bring it up to standards, he noted as they approached the front door of the house.

"A sad place for anyone to grow up," Hange said.

She raised her hand and knocked upon the door a few times and the duo waited a while in silence. Levi`s eyes were roaming the surrounding, noticing the spider webs upon the top of roof above their heads causing him to frown even further.

"This place needs to be cleaned up," he said, "it`s disgusting."

Hange simply giggled with how he was reacting. Their interaction was cut off when the door in front of them opened. A small woman stood in front of them, with gray hair and small brown eyes. She stared at the two soldiers in front of her, curious as to why they were here in front of her house.

"Yes," she asked.

"My name is Hange Zoe, I`m a member of the Survey Corps," Hange started, "We are looking for a man by the name of James Karl. We believed he had taken residence here and we wanted to talk to him about something."

The woman seems surprised at the name.

"You`re looking for Doctor Karl?" she said, "Then you must not know."

Levi raised his eyebrows, "Know what?"

"He died, three years ago," the woman told them.

Hange was shocked.

"He died?" she repeated, "How?"

"Heart attack from what they said about him," the woman told them, "His health hadn`t been the best over the years either, his death didn`t really surprise me when I`ve heard about it."

Hange bit her lips.

"I see," she said, "I was hoping to ask him some questions about one of his patient, but if he is dead, then it`s no use."

"Which patient I may ask?" the woman asked.

Hange glanced toward the woman, "A young girl with blonde hair and black eyes. He worked with her along another doctor by the name of Yeager."

"You`re talking about Sarah, aren`t you?"

The two Survey Corps member stared at the woman in front of them, both not hiding the surprise upon their features.

"You know her?"

"I`ve only met the girl once," the woman told them.

"Miss," Hange said, "I would like to hear about this meeting in greater details if you please."

The woman nodded lightly.

"Of course, c`mon in," she said.

The two followed the gray haired woman inside the house. There was hallway that lead straight toward the living room unto which the woman took a seat down. Levi and Hange seated across her, and brown haired woman leaned forward with both of her hands underneath her jaw.

"I only met her once you see," the woman continued, "A small little thing she was. Probably a few weeks after she was found, based on what they told Doctor Karl and I about her. We went to examine the girl at the hospital a few streets away from where we are right now."

"The hospital?" Levi said, "What happened to her?"

"The Doctor had theories about human trafficking and that she had escaped by killing her captors and even worse theories that the girl had being living in the forest were they found her for many years before."

The woman looked down.

Flashback

I followed Doctor Karl to the room they had indicated us where the girl was staying. I was nervous for it would be the first time I was working with the Doctor on actual patient rather than studying with him.

We stepped inside and the young girl was simply seating facing away from us. The first thing I noticed was that she had blond hair and that they were completely messy and unkempt. Doctor Karl approached the young girl.

"Good morning, my name is James Karl," the man introduced himself.

The girl gave no sign that she had heard him.

Doctor Karl approached her and went to the other side to face the girl and I saw his face pale looking at the young girl`s face. I never saw him like this before and it makes me wonder who that girl was…and what happened to her.

But like the professional he was, Doctor Karl went on about his check up as normal and writing them down in few notes and during all that time, the girl didn`t react to anything that was going on around her. It was like she was a statue.

When the doctor had finished he gave her a polite goodbye and it was when we were living that I gave the girl a last look…except this time, she was looking at us. It caused a chill to run through my body…

The eyes were so black and dead that it caused my heart to freeze in my chest and there was this pressure from that single look, I couldn`t really explain it but if fills my heart with fear…I didn`t know why I felt afraid of her but what I do know is that I never returned to that room nor met that girl again.

End of Flashback

Hange stayed silent after listening to the story.

"The Doctor stayed on the case for quite some times after that," the woman continued, "he even brought in a colleague of his, Doctor Yeager upon the project. They had plans to move her to Shingashina at Doctor Yeager`s request but then, the Fall of Wall Maria happened and Doctor Yeager went missing after that…"

"What did Doctor Karl did after that?" Hange asked.

"He worked with Sarah but the girl didn`t speak at all," the woman told them, "But then one day, she spoke to him and it was quite shocking what she had told him."

Hange stared at her.

"What did she say?"

"I want to join the Survey Corps,"

Both Levi and Hange had raised eyebrows.

"Her first words…were that phrase?"

The woman nodded.

"And she applied to join the Cadets soon after," she said, "Considering that you are here, I`m guessing that she actually accomplished what she said she would."

"That she does," Hange said.

The woman looked a little sad at that.

"Then, on behalf of Doctor Karl, please look after her for him," she said, "Whoever that girl is, she went through something horrific during her younger days, something that she still carry within her. Joining your group, I know that this request might seems like uncaring of my part but please don't let her die."

Hange observed the woman in front of her for a long moment. Levi wondered what was going on within her mind at what they have just been told. He was a little put off at the girl`s story. Not saying a word for just how long but her first words were to join their group.

Why? Did someone within the Survey Corps was responsible for what happened to the girl back then or was it something else?

"Thank you for the information," Hange said as she stood up, "But don't worry about her, in the Survey Corps, we take care of our own."

The two made their way out of the room and before they did, Hange turned to face the woman.

"The name "Sarah"," she said, "Who gave it to her?"

"It was Dr. Yeager," the woman said.

Hange nodded and the two walked out of the house, leaving the old woman behind.

"I wanted to get more information from the Doctor himself," Hange said, "Too bad that he is dead."

"I want to keep an eye on her," Levi said.

Hange gave him a glance, curious.

"Why?"

"Her first words were that she wants to join the Scouting Legion?" the man said, "Something about her rubs me the wrong way and I`m going to keep an eye on her."

"Either way," Hange said, "I don't think we`re going to find much about her…unless we ask her ourselves, but I don't think that will be beneficial to us at all if we suspect her without her doing anything."

"I`m still going to keep an eye on her," Levi said.

Sarah looked toward the new arrival for a few seconds before standing up from where she was seating, drawing the young man`s attention toward her. He raised his eyebrows at her, wondering what she was doing but the blonde girl simply raised her hand toward him for a handshake.

"What`s this about?" he asked.

"You look exactly how he described you to be," the young girl told him.

The boy, Eren, didn`t hide his confusion thought he didn`t shake her hand. Noticing this, Sarah simply lowered her own hand back.

"What are you talking about?" Eren asked her.

But Sarah didn`t answer him, simply turned her gaze toward the dark haired girl that was beside him. The girl was looking at her curiously.

"You must be Mikasa then," she said.

The girl seems surprised at that.

"How did you…"

"Stop being creepy and tell us how you know all of that," Eren snapped drawing Sarah`s eyes back toward him.

"A man told me," she said, "A man by the name of Doctor Yeager."

Eren looked shocked.

"You…You met my Father?" he said, "How? Where is he?"

"That was before the Fall of Wall Maria," Sarah told him, "I heard he went missing shortly after that…I am sorry."

Eren narrowed his eyes at her. The blonde guy that they were talking to earlier, Armin, spoke up drawing Sarah`s attention back toward him.

"How do you even know Eren`s father?"

Sarah glanced down at him.

"He was my doctor when I was younger," she said to him.

Caleb was surprised to hear this. The young man stared at Sarah`s back briefly wondering how she was when she was younger. He still remembers when he first met the blonde girl. She didn't talk to him but one look she had given him, take away everything that was underneath him.

Sarah sat down again to eat as Eren and Mikasa took their seat beside Armin, thought the girl was staring at her with a suspicious glance. Armin, however, turned his attention toward Sarah.

"Where you sick when Dr. Yeager was taking care of you?" Caleb asked, taking a seat beside Sarah while Leon took the other side.

Sarah thought about it for a few moments. The doctors took care of her wounds and tried to talk to her a lot of times when she was younger, thought the girl never understood why they were there.

"Everyone seems to think that I was," she said, "Even when I wasn`t, thought I remember a lot of headaches back then…"

"That could be why you needed a doctor," Armin told her.

Sarah simply shrugged her shoulders returning to her food.

"Why did you even join the Scouts if you need a doctor?" Eren said.

Sarah`s dark eyes met his.

"People always ask me that question," she said, "Ever since I said I would join the Scouts that day during Shadis`s intimidation. Then let me answer you with another question. Can you really live inside the Walls and pretend that this war against the Titan isn`t happening as most of the people try to live by?"

Eren stayed silent for a few seconds.

"That`s a…pretty strong point of view Sarah," Leon said with a little grin, "I had no idea you had it in you."

The first meeting with Eren and the gang...all the while...the mysteries around Sarah are slowly starting to unravel...

Next Time: The Days that Passes By

Jacques0 out.

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