Deseriè and I were sitting on the roof simply looking at the stars. It's been so long since I'd acted like a parent this felt nice.
It was the middle of the night but sleep had been escaping me and it was beginning to take its toll I could hardly keep my eyes open and got fatigued easily. A certain bottle under my bed could help but I took so long to get over a hangover Levi would shoot me when I was up and about again.
This was the first night since joining the Scouts that I finally felt safe and at peace, simply content to hold my daughter sitting on a roof. I still didn't quite understand what Erwin wanted with me and my girls but one thing was certain, we had become the Scouts wildcard. We arn't the typical solider a civilian would expect. Because we knew these walls and these streets we knew far more about what little land was left. I could navigate these streets through every wall by heart maps were a thing of the past.
A small breeze blew my half bangs into my face. Nights like this made me miss Levi. We had been growing apart as of late. I had been so blinded by tracking down public enemy number one I didn't just neglect my daughter, I neglected my personal life as well.
Hours passed like minuets as the full moon found it's place in the center of the clear night sky. Suddeny I heard someone walking across the rooftop behind us. I push my now knotted hair away from my face and look to see Hanji and Levi coming towards us.
"What?" I say rather irritated but not sure as to why.
"Give the brat to Hanji I need you for something." Levi replies just as abruptly. I comply and Deseriè gets off my lap.
"Race you inside?" She asks Hanji who laughs.
"Your on." She says and they both go flying across the roof out of sight. I can't help but smile at their childishness.
Levi rolles his eyes at the scene before joining me on the roof. "I should get my flute out one of these days." I say somewhat absent-minded. Levi looks at me from the corner of his eye.
"When the fuck did you have time to learn." His tone reveals nothing to me as to why he wants me.
I scoff at his answer. "Back when I was a kid I learned piano too." He finally turns to look at me then studying me to see if I'm lying.
I draw my knees up to my chest. "Although I didn't have a privileged or even half way normal upbringing my parents didn't fail to teach me some culture." I trail off and fall silent.
Levi didn't bring up the discussion in Erwin's nor did he seem like he wanted to. He was simply content to be in my company. It made me wonder how many opportunities if any did he get simply be around other people. If any of these soliders really did or spent time with families they left behind.
There was a small commotion we could hear downstairs but Levi dismissed it as the idot recrutes fucking around in the dining hall. "Your not gonna let me intervene are you?" I question the man next to me.
He shakes his head but doesn't speak. A man of few words indeed.
After some time the rumble below us in intensified and spilled onto the training field spanning out around us. I looked at Levi but he held up his hand as Mike and a few other officers haul them away, most likely to await the assignment of cleaning duties.
"You can run them ragged in training tommorrow." Levi speaks for the first time in a number of hours. I strech out my arms along the length of my legs as long as I can while looking at him.
I snicker he knows me so well albeit I'm an open book. From the edge of the field in darkness I see approximately 4 shadows move. I watch them carefully but they merly move about the edge of the field. I look at Levi who nods, they weren't Scouts on patrol. We have company.
Levi walks calmly back inside so we don't let our friends know we had seen them. I pull my guns out which are once again cold from no use. I release the safety on both and check ammo clips and my pouch to find them both fully stocked. Much obliged Hanji.
Pulling my hood up I quickly hook a line from my gloves onto the roof and jump. This feeling never gets old. Feeling the wind on my body, through my fingers and my hair.
My moment of bliss is ended when I run out of cable and am forced to drop to the ground. Keeping to the shadows I race along the edge of the field and reach where Levi and had detected movement.
After carefully combing the area I came up empty. "Anything?" Levi asks as he walks up behind me.
"No they cleared out but not on 3DMG they were most likely on foot." I reply without turning to face him. Right in front of me as if to answer levi's question we hear feet crunching on the still grass in front of us.
Out of the shadows appears a man I thought had met his end when we were children. "Brother." I wisper mostly to myself but Levi clearly heard me. He turns to me, the confusion in his just as clear as my skepticism.
The man before me with eyes as black as Necro's to meet my silver ones and height to match Erwin grinnes cynically.
"Yes indeed hello sister dearest."
"None of us really change, we only become more fully what we might be." -Tokyo Goul
Yes yes I know a whole month without an update plus yet another cliffhanger I'm evil. I'm super sorry for the slow updates school is kicking my ass and I'm trying to prep for the ACT. I will try to have the next one up sooner I spent so much time rehashing this chapter I wanted to end it right.
I'll try to bring Deseriè into the story more nest time I know she's taken a backseat lately
Thanks so much for the support my lovelies keep mashing those buttons
~Shadow