3 Weeks Later

"I just don't see why I can't go on the expedition too." Arabella argues with Levi.

"I just don't see why you have to argue with me every chance you get." He snaps back at her. She crosses her arms and makes a pouty face.

"Fine grumpy." Levi scoffs at her "insult".

"I'm the grumpy one?" He asks, pulling her close. She looks away from him.

"Yes." Levi puts his lips on her neck. "You're such a crybaby."

"Am not." Arabella says hooking her arms around Levi's neck.

"Alright, alright, let's not have a moment while Hange and Mike are in the room. You two would never live it down. Just cause you put a ring on it doesn't mean it's acceptable to do all...this while your Commander and Captains are present." Erwin scolds the two lovers. Arabella sighs and pulls away from Levi but smiles upon remembering when Levi popped the big question about a week ago. It had been raining all day and Arabella had been sitting in the window watching the rain fall looking sullen. When Levi walked in the room everything changed, he'd had a certain air to him. It wasn't like it was when he just wanted to have sex, it was like he had a purpose. They talked for a while and then he just came out with it. "Will you marry me?" He'd asked. Arabella sat there in shock for a few minutes, she even thought about saying no. Hadn't one of her life goals been to not marry? To not get involved with men, to not get emotionally invested. Still, there was something in the pit of her stomach that told her they were going to stay together. They were meant for each other. Before she could stop the words from flowing from her mouth she said it. "Yes." And that's how it happened.

"Sorry Commander." Arabella says to Erwin snapping out of her flashback. "I just want him to be careful."

"So you have to come for me to be careful?" Levi asks. "Then I would just be worried the whole time."

"Oh sure, worry about the Titan girl."

"Alright Camille." Arabella playfully punches Levi on the arm.

"Shut the fuck up pervert."

"How am I a pervert?" Arabella holds up her hand and wiggles her fingers, diamond ring shining in the sunlight.

"You're engaged to a 16 year old girl."

"At least your not 15 anymore." Arabella rolls her eyes. It was true. Her birthday had been only two days ago and it was a memorable one. When she'd woken up and went into the dining room everyone popped up and surprised her. She wasn't expecting anyone to even know it was her birthday, so getting a surprise party was almost heart attack worthy. It was nice though, Arabella couldn't complain. She'd never had a birthday party before, her family could never afford it.

"Wow Levi, I turned 16 two days ago." Levi shrugs at Arabella's reply.

"All the same, you're 16." Arabella shakes her head.

"Whatever, just be careful, okay?" Levi nods.

"I will be."

"Alright then, I assume we can move out now?" Erwin asks. Levi nods and Arabella wraps her arms around her.

"...Love you." She says to Levi. He turns and nods.

"Love you too." Hange claps her hands together.

"Isn't young love so sweet Mike?" Mike nods seriously.

"Yes, yes indeed." Then they all leave the room leaving Arabella in the wake of silence.

As she walks along the halls of the castle she can't help but think of how to tell Levi. She'd known for about a week now, but she hadn't thought of it much, she'd thought maybe he would noticed but it was clear he hadn't. 'Men...' Arabella thinks. Her long, black dress covered her feet as she pressed her knees to her chest. She laid her head down on her knees and watched as the sun began to go down. She already missed Levi. 'How in the hell did I get myself tied up like this?' She sighs. 'I didn't need a man. I didn't even want one, but here I am, ring on my finger and kid in my stomach.' She shook her head as the effects of being here alone in this castle really hit her. This was also the time, they'd never know if she did it now. She pulled a out the small knife holding her hair together. A cherry red fountain flowed down her back and pooled around her as she looked at the thin, long knife in her hand. 'Gary should be here soon and they won't be back for quite a while. Maybe a few days, right?' She walked downstairs and sat at the table and so began the waiting game.

Levi sighs.

"What's wrong Levi?" Erwin asks and Levi shakes his head.

"Nothing, I just don't think leaving her there by herself was a good idea. And I'm worried about her, she's been off lately." Erwin shrugs.

"Maybe this whole engagement thing is throwing her off. You know as well as we all do she's kind of awkward." Levi nods at Erwin's logical explanation.

"I know, but I can't help but feel she's keeping something from me."

"Talk to her about it. She's going to be your wife soon Levi, you can't just hold everything back from her and she can't do it to you either." Levi nods.

"Right." Erwin sighs and pats Levi on the back.

"Ask her Levi." He nods and straightens up on his horse. He did love Arabella, there were just so many things he still didn't know about her. He knew every crevice and dip of her body as if it were the back of his hand, but when it came to her as a person even Hange knew more (but then again, Hange is strange). He didn't even know that her birthday was two days ago, he'd learned from Hange who had apparently gone through Tara's calendar and seen Arabella's birthday marked there. It was just all so new and strange to Levi, but Arabella did a good job of coaching him through her idea of husbandly things to do. Brush her hair, tell her what lingerie looked good, fuck her on the dining table when everyone was training...Levi shakes his head. He was getting ready to go on an extremely dangerous mission and all he could think of was Arabella. He had to get his head straight. He shook her out of his head still feeling uneasy.

When the knock on the door came Arabella rushed to it. She was ready. She was going to do it, she was going to get that thrill back. She stopped for a minute and thought. 'Am I just doing this for the thrill? Am I just looking for a new high? I hadn't been thinking of getting revenge...' She pulled her hand back from the doorknob for a second. 'Levi wouldn't want me to…" She shook her head and placed her hand on the doorknob. 'This isn't about Levi. It's about getting closure for my family and my best friend.' She slung the door open and Gary stood in front of her. As soon as Arabella sees the smile on his face it appalls her. How could he be smiling in the face of the girl's family he'd had murdered? How dare he! Arabella threw a smile on her face and motioned for Gary to come in. When he turned his back to her she frowned, her face darkening. She shut and locked the door behind Gary and plastered on her smile once more as he looked at her.

"Wow…" He says. Arabella is forced to hold back the bile rising in her mouth as he speaks. "You've grown so much Arabella." Arabella looks down shyly and nods.

"I know, it's been too long Gary." She says. How has she grown? She'd only been here a month?

"And you're...different." Arabella nods.

"Yes, I've been trying to work on my etiquette." She says trying to appeal to the image of a lady in Gary's mind. He smiles at her.

"You're doing a good job."

"Thank you. Would you like to have some wine?" Arabella bites her lip remembering the time Levi asked her to work on her drinking. It was for a noble enough cause.

"That'd be great." Gary replies. The two walk to the dining hall and Arabella tells Gary to sit at the table. He does as she says and Arabella retreats to the kitchen. She had to make this quick, it had to be a quick job and a quick clean up. Arabella pushes her knife a bit deeper in her hair to make sure Gary doesn't see it. She grabs Hange's strange concoction of poisons from the cabinet and finds the one Hange had used on her when she wouldn't stop leaving her room on days when she was sick. The paralysis poison is in a small purple bottle with a white cap. Arabella quickly unscrews the cap and pours a bit of the poison into Gary's glass. She puts everything back and grabs the wine quickly pouring the two a glass. The poison mixing in with the red wine makes it look slightly darker than Arabella's wine. She shakes her head and grabs the glasses going back into the dining hall.

Gary sits in one of the chairs staring at the artwork on the wall. Arabella hands him his glass of wine, making sure it's his, and he takes a sip.

"Wow, this is great wine too." The two laugh at Gary's out loud thought. He looks up at Arabella. "So, tell me why did you invite me all of a sudden?" He asks.

"Well, I was wondering if you'd seen Tara." Arabella says. Gary's pales. "But," Arabella lets out a small laugh. "I think I know the answer to that." She shakes her head. "You know Gary, I trusted you," She looks him in the eye. "And now I want you to tell me one thing." Gary gulps. "Why did you have my family murdered and why did you threaten Tara?" Gary shakes his head.

"I would never-" Arabella laughs.

"You would never?" She barks. "You would never! Then why the fuck did you?!" 'You're losing your temper. Don't lose it, he will retaliate.' She shakes her head and stands at her seat.

"Camille…"

"Don't you ever fucking call me that! My fucking family called me that!" Gary's eyes get wide.

"Please, Arabella, you have to believe me, I didn't do it. I don't know who did it." Arabella can see the lie burning in his eyes. She pulls out the note Tara had made for her.

"You didn't? Then why would Tara-your closest friend-tell me you did?" Gary shakes his head and shrugs frantically.

"I swear Arabella, I didn't do it. I don't know why Tara said that. She was going crazy."

"She was going crazy because you were holding her family's lives over her head like it was nothing. You used her. How many times? How many times did you make her wake up in cold sweats or crying and praying for her family to be okay?" Gary says nothing. "Fucking answer me!" Arabella screams. Gary still says nothing and Arabella smiles and begins circling around him. When she's behind him she leans up to his ear and Gary shivers. "I'm going to pull of guts out and let you watch me play with them Gary. And after that I'm going to slit your throat and just let you die. I'm going to watch you choke on your own blood you bastard."

"And how exactly do you plan on beating me?" Gary stands and pulls out a gun. He points it at Arabella's face and she backs up, still smiling. "Yes, I hired someone to kill you rabid, diseased family and I did hang Tara's family over her head and after she died so did they. They're all together now and you get to rejoice with you "God" and your family." Gary scoffs. "I know as well as you do, you're going to hell." Arabella shrugs.

"You're going with me." Gary snorts.

"How do you plan on beating me?" Arabella shakes her head.

"I've had you beat Gary." Arabella nods to the wine glass and Gary drops the gun. His arm goes stiff and he looks at it in horror. Arabella laughs and walks over to Gary as his knees buckle under him. She leans down to his ear while grabbing the pack of cigarettes from his back pocket. "And FYI, I know I'm going to hell. Que le pécheur payer son méfait." Arabella takes a cigarette from the box and lights it with Gary's lighter. She takes a long drag as Gary finally hits the floor and grunts. Arabella turns him over to face her. She straddles him and grinds just a bit on him. Gary makes a face of pure pleasure and Arabella laughs and slams her fist into his jaw. "You're disgusting." She says and holds up her hand. "I have a fiancee." Gary's eyes widen.

"No…"

"And guess what Gary?" Arabella smiles. "I'm pregnant with his child." Arabella lifts up her dress showing Gary her rapidly growing stomach. "Do you think it'll be a boy or a girl?" She asks innocently and puts the cigarette out. "My fiancee fucked me so good I think he deserves a boy. He fucked me on my bed, on his desk, on the floor, on the wall, on the dining table…" Arabella tosses her head back showing Gary her hickies. "He's marked me."

"You bitch." Tears flow down Gary's face. "All I wanted was one night…" He sobs. "One night…"

"So you killed my family for one night?" Gary's eyes widen.

"I thought we could...we could have a family." Arabella scrunches up her face and hits Gary in the throat. He begins choking.

"Oh fuck you Gary, you're like 40 you pervert. I would never fuck you, let alone bear your children." She pulls the knife from her hair and it gleams in the light of the chandelier hanging above them. This is it. Arabella could already feel the excitement pooling in the pit of her stomach. She backed up and sat on Gary's numb legs. "Ready Gary?" She asks. "Oh wait, should I take out the small intestine or the large on first?" Gary shakes his head.

"Please don't. I love you."

"Shut the fuck up!" Arabella screams. "I try and be nice to you and you go and fuck it up." Arabella drags the knife along Gary's shirt. It rips open leaving Arabella to stare at Gary's stomach. She cocks her head to the side. "Levi looks so much better under his clothes." She states and rips into the flesh. She drags the blade along Gary's stomach, feeling the tip snag on some of his internal organs as he screamed. Arabella blushes as she pulls the two sides of Gary's not cut stomach apart. "Look at that…" She whispers and shakes her head. "Gary, it's been so long since I've done this...forgive me if I poke the wrong organ." Gary's whimpers and sobs fill the room. Arabella sets the knife to the side and begins digging around in Gary's stomach. He screams at the top of his lungs as Arabella finds the kidneys. She presses on them with her finger and then grabs the with her hands and begins pulling it away from Gary's stomach. There were tiny squelching noises and loud suction sounds as the kidney came out. Arabella showed it to Gary. "You had a nice kidney though. I guess we have to get to the other one later." Gary's cries fill the dining hall. "What?" Arabella laughs out. "Can't handle the pain?" She shakes her head. "Come on Gary! This is what I go through everyday!" She grabs the large intestine and begins pulling it out. Blood begins pooling around Arabella as she sets the intestine down next to her. Blood comes from Gary's mouth.

"What," He begins. "What is wrong with you?" Arabella looks up at Gary in shock. "Do you get a high off this? Are you that sadistic that you get a sort of sexual pleasure from pulling people apart, or is it just Titan instinct?" Arabella looks down at her blood covered hands and then back up at Gary. Her smile falls.

"This is your fault…" She whispers. "This is all your fucking fault!"

"What about forgiveness?!" Gary shouts back, coughing up blood.

"For...give...ness?" 'I can't feel my arms.' Arabella thinks. 'Am I being punished by God?' She backs away from Gary and shakes her head. "No, this is your fault!" She yells. "I didn't…I didn't do it." Someone's words ring in her head. "Grow up and be something Camille. Don't go down the same road I did. Don't kill, don't hate. Live and let live." Arabella falls on her knees. 'Lea...' She thinks. 'Lea told me...How can I go back home now?' She shakes her head. 'Let live? Let Gary live? No, he killed you. I can't let him get away with it now-not now, I've come this far-'

"Camille, we can die here together." Gary says and something in Arabella's head goes off. 'Camille? Didn't I tell him-' She looks at Gary wide eyed.

"Didn't I tell you not to call me that?" She whispers.

"But-"

"Fuck you!" She screams. She stands back up, a new fire lit in her eyes. "Fuck you!"

"You don't mean it." Gary says seeing the instability in Arabella's eyes. 'I've never been sane.' She thinks. "You're lonely and you know it." Gary tries to play off Arabella's state of mind. "You need me Camille!" Arabella shakes her head and puts her hands over her ears. She can feel Garys' blood getting on the side of her face. 'You're crazy. You don't deserve someone like Levi. You need to be lonely.'

"No…" Arabella whispers. "Anything but that."

"Camille…" Arabella looks at Gary with such a sinister look he whimpers. 'There's something wrong with you.' The thoughts zipping around Arabella's head scare her. Were they true? Was she crazy? Was this insanity?

"I told you twice…" Arabella walks over to Gary and leans in close to his face. "Don't fucking call me that." She presses the tip of the knife to Gary's throat and drags it across in a thin line. Gary begins gasing.

"I-I-" He can't get the words out and Arabella laughs.

"I'm not the crazy one!" She shouts. "I'm the stupid one! I thought I could run away from my problems and ride off into the sunset with Levi, but no! I'm getting what I motherfucking deserve, right?!" She shouts at the ceiling. She throws her middle finger up. "Well here's a big fuck you! Fuck you all! Fuck everyone and everything! Fuck it!"

"N-no…" She looks back at Gary and takes the knife out of his throat, blood seeping on the floor. She plunges the knife into the center of Gary's throat and scrunches her nose. Gary goes silent.

"I win."