Note: Oh my gosh, I actually updated this lolz. Sorry about not updating last week, I was busy making preparations for convention that just ended on Sunday. I am now officially back on schedule so expect weekly and daily updates from me. If you've seen my schedule than you know I usually update something everyday and that everything gets updated once a week. Thank you all for being so patient and a special thanks to KnightWriterRLK for leaving my first review :3

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Elliot felt like ass and she was pretty sure she looked like it, she had dead leaves and dirt stuck in her white locks, probably had some soot on her face because she had a terrible run in with a chimney, and on top of all that she was sweaty…oh, was she sweaty. Elliot landed at a crossroads that looked completely unfamiliar to her but, she knew that it had to be somewhere on the other side of town because after all the traveling to she had done it damn well felt like it. She collapsed onto the ground once her feet hit and corporal stick up his ass said they had finally arrived at the meeting point. She brought a hand up to gently rub at her shins, her red eyes looking over the short male for a moment, like seriously, he was probably the same height as her maybe even shorter, but she wasn't going to say something. Nor did she have any desire to stand right next to him and find out, no, she did not survive titan after titan just to be murdered by her superior for trying to compare their height. Not that his height mattered, the man still lived up to the name as humanity's strongest, if his display of speed and skill with the 3D maneuver gear had anything to do with that name. Elliot couldn't help but, let her mind travel to all the times she had been complemented on her speed and skill, hell even her ability to conserve gas had been complimented, but this man…she struggled just to keep up with him. She had never struggled to keep up with anyone before and she had to admit she hated the feeling, but in a way it made her want to train just if only to surpass him. "Brat, I didn't give you permission to sit on your ass," came the firm voice of the corporal and Elliot quietly groaned, but stood up none the less resting her hands on her knees and kneeling over. 'I'll kill him,' she thought to herself her mind quickly imagining a death for the short corporal for probably the 36th time today…she couldn't remember the last time she wanted to kill someone so badly. She thought on that for a moment before taking it back, 'actually, I don't think I've ever wanted to kill someone so badly in my life,' she thought to herself, glaring lightly over at Levi's back. When he turned to face her though she quickly stood up straight, glare still plastered on her face and she almost cursed her urge to salute the man.

"How the hell did you manage this? You're a fucking mess," he asked while he approached her, raising a hand to pull a few dead leaves and twigs from her hair his OCD having taken the better of him. Elliot blinked a few times in surprise, his words were so harsh and firm, but his hands were gentle as they shifted through her hair, dirt falling onto her shoulders. She continued to stare at him for a moment, but once he opened his mouth again she quickly crossed her arms over her chest and looked away from him. "I asked a question brat," were the words that slipped from his mouth, of course when he saw her reaction he frowned a bit about to say something more when he spotted a small little eight legged insect in her hair that probably came from one of the dead leaves he had pulled out. "You have a spider -," he started but, as soon as he spoke the word 'spider' Elliot visibly tensed, her screaming 'get it off me', quickly followed. She literally started to run around and had the titans in this area not already been taken care of Levi was sure she would have drew them in. "Tch. Annoying brat, are you sure you're a solider?" he asked raising an arm upward, scowling slightly when Elliot literally ran into his arm and hung onto him. He had expected her to stop, not run into him like that, but either way at least her screaming had stopped. He raised his free hand and easily squashed the spider between his index finger and thumb. "Hey, point me to a titan and I'll be the first one on that battlefield, but killing spiders that was not in job description," she muttered under her breath before pursing her lips and turning her gaze away from him. It was at that moment that the squad Levi was working with came onto the scene, a young looking brunette woman was the first to open her mouth. "Oh Levi! Why didn't you tell us that you had someone!? And oh what gorgeous white hair she has!" the woman exclaimed excitedly and much to Elliot's dislike the corporal quickly retracted his arm, in turn Elliot fell forward landing flat on her stomach against the ground with a groan. He then quickly moved to speak with his squad about each area they had been assigned to clear out, never even bothered to make sure she was alright or offer some kind of apology. The brunette woman made no move to speak with Levi though, instead she approached Elliot grabbing her arms and pulling up onto her feet. A second later, she was running her fingers through Elliot's hair, the young white haired girl could practically see the excitement in the woman's eyes as she combed through her hair. "Oh my gosh, it's real, even her eyelashes are white! And her eyes, they're red! Even her skin tone is unique, she's practically the color of snow!" the woman went on about Elliot's appearance rather excitedly, fingers trying to pry open Elliot's eyes even further if only to get a better look.

"Uh…um…it's a genetic disorder," Elliot muttered out not sure as to how she should handle this situation, in the end she opted for slowly backing away from the woman to escape her prying hands. "Of course it is sweetie! I already knew that much, I just haven't ever seen someone with the disorder! It's very rare you know," she said matter of factly and quickly closed the gap between herself and Elliot, but much to her dismay Elliot just kept backing up, until she hit something that she passed off as a building. She pressed her back against the building, barely aware of how the building was her height and quite warm; after all, she was far too busy trying to deal with the crazy woman in front of her. "Now now, honey running to your boyfriend isn't going to stop my research," she said watching as Elliot blinked a few times at her strange statement, Marco's image flashing through her head. She felt her heart twitch in pain and she instinctively raised a hand to press against her chest. "Oi, shitty glasses, leave her alone and give me your damned report already," the 'building' spoke and Elliot quickly glanced back behind her, her face inches away from the corporals cheek, but he hardly seemed to have noticed. He was standing stiff as a board and as tall as a man his height could reach, Elliot panicked at the sudden closeness before throwing herself away from him, right into the arms of 'shitty glasses'. "Aw! You've come back to me! I know, I'm so much better than Shorty over there!" she said happily, giggling lightly as she wrapped her arms around Elliot to hug her, Elliot could do nothing more than visibly stiffen against the woman. The corporal merely clicked his tongue at the two of them, making no gesture to save Elliot from the crazed woman even as Elliot eyed him down pleading with her eyes to save her. She would much rather be stuck with corporal asshole than the woman who was currently sniffing her hair and talking about experiments. Elliot was eventually saved though when a light haired ginger came over toward them gently telling the woman she called 'Hanji' to let her go. Hanji sighed lightly, disappointment evident in her facial expression, but she did finally release Elliot after a moment of hesitation. Elliot wasted no time in jumping behind her 'savior', the light haired female only laughed at Elliot's antics. "Don't worry, she's mostly harmless," the woman said turning to face Elliot and gently placed a hand on top of her head ruffling her hair as if she were a child. "Mostly?" Elliot asked a bit of concern in her voice, the woman only smiled gently at her, ignoring the question and quickly moving on. That only concerned Elliot a bit more, the last thing she wanted was waking up strapped to a lab table. "My name is Petra, it's a pleasure to meet you," the woman spoke, her voice was soft and caring, Elliot swore she could easily get swooped up in this woman's gentle nature. "Eld, Gunther, and Oluo," Petra spoke slowly gesturing toward each individual man as she spoke his name, Eld and Gunther seemed to smile or nod at her as Petra spoke, but Oluo…he glared at her. Elliot slowly nodded her head toward each man, a bit more cautious of Oluo before introducing herself.

It wasn't long before Oluo stepped over toward Elliot, hardened eyes set on her small frame and doing nothing more than making her feel even smaller than she already was, still though Elliot stood as tall as she could. She hopped that her lack of confidence was not evident on her face. "What were you doing out past the wall cadet? Were you not given the order to retreat?" he asked, eyes still looking into her own red ones, he waited for her eyes to flinch away but, to his surprise they never did; however, he did notice that her eyes slowly seemed to take on a look of depression at his question. She slowly opened her mouth to speak, but as she did she felt her throat tighten on her and she had to hold back a sob that wanted to escape her lips. She could feel her eyes slowly moisten and she imagined they glistened with unshed tears now. She could not answer that question hell, she could barely open her mouth to the question. Elliot's hands slowly clenched into two small fists at her sides and her eyes burned from the unshed tears, she was afraid to blink for fear of the those tears escaping. Hanji frowned lightly at the distraught look on Elliot's face, the cute girl looking as if she had been through enough today. Hanji was about to take a step forward and stop the scene before her, but Levi seemed to have beaten her to it, easily stepping between the two and shieling Elliot behind him. 'Take that bastard,' Hanji thought to herself, a wide grin spread across her face as she waited for the other male to get chewed out. "She's here under my orders. That is all you need to know Oluo," Levi spoke his voice was clam but stern, all Elliot could do was stare at his backside, eyes wide in a bit of surprise before she calmed down and held her head down low, hiding herself completely behind the man so she could finally shed her tears. "Yes sir," Oluo spoke voice still full of pride but, he slowly stepped away from Levi. Elliot was barely aware of what was happening before her, she knew Levi was speaking to the others barking out orders but, she just couldn't focus on the words being said. She just continued to silently cry from her spot hidden behind Levi. She wasn't pulled from her thoughts until she heard the click of the corporal's tongue after he had dismissed his squad from the area. Elliot slowly looked toward the man, well aware that her eyes were probably somewhat swollen and red….yet another thing to add to her unattractive appearance at the moment. "You have three minutes to get yourself cleaned up before we go back for your comrade's body and you better keep up," he said sighing lightly when Elliot nodded her head quickly, tears still spilling from her eyes. "Y-Yes sir," she spoke between sobs as Levi walked passed her, but her sobs soon became stuck in her throat when she felt a hand press gently to the top of her head. Elliot bit back a few more sobs at the corporal's kind gesture, this was far from the attention she needed at the moment, but somewhere in her she knew this man was giving it his all to comfort her in his own way and that was enough to make her feel at least a bit…happy despite the depressing situation.

-Small Time Skip-

Elliot was once more utterly exhausted beyond belief, but her exhaustion was nothing compared to the feeling of the pain in her heart. She had finally made it back over the wall with Levi whom had kept his word on bringing her comrade back with them. She could only imagine the kind of exhaustion he was having to fight at the moment, but she couldn't tell just by looking at him, oh no, Elliot had deduced the moment this man opened his mouth that he would be the kind of person to hide his own problems. Elliot watched as he laid Marco out on the floor before moving off to the side to talk with someone, probably to discuss what was to become of the body. Elliot took the moment to slowly approach Marco's corpse once more, settling herself in front of him and starring down at his still face. She felt the tears in her eyes threaten to spill once more, but they never did, no instead Elliot froze blood running cold when she heard a familiar voice behind her calling her name. 'Oh please no, not him…anyone but him…I can't…I don't have the strength…,' she thought to herself before slowly turning her head to glance behind her and sure enough there he was. Jean Kirstein, was approaching her, Reiner and Bertolt seemed to be with him as well, Elliot felt her fists clench at her side. 'No, please, don't come near me…please don't look over here…please for the love of everything still good in this world don't look over here,' she thought to herself not realizing how she stood up quickly and ran toward Jean and the others, ignoring how much her legs hurt. She quickly threw her arms around Jean's neck and brought his head down successfully burying his face into the crook of her shoulder, hiding him from the sight of his lost friend. The man quickly tensed and spread his arms out to the side as if to say he wasn't touching, holding his breath to avoid her girlish scent. Reiner started to say something but, quickly stopped when he noticed Bertolt pointing to a figure laying on the floor. The two men quickly took notice to whom was currently laying out lifeless on the ground. Reiner's fist clenched at his sides as he realized what Elliot was trying to do…it was pointless, she was doing nothing more than fighting the inevitable. Reiner slowly moved toward Elliot and Jean before prying Elliot off of Jean. She fought against him kicking and screaming against him, telling Jean in a rather frantic voice not to look, but her words fell on deaf ears for Jean's gaze was already dead set on Marco's corpse. "I-is that…Marco?" he asked eyes wide in shock barely aware of how Elliot currently screamed at Reiner to release her still struggling with all her might against him.