I realize that I've haven't uploaded and it is completely and utterly...not my fault. Want to blame someone blame this world because apparently it allows people who have both insomnia and OCD to feel like their life it too boring and annoying (or is it just me). It has gotten to the point where I can't leave my room or go out much because I cringe and feel disgust at the slightest of germs + mess. Most people would just say to get some rest and clear your mind but you see, that doesn't work for a person with insomnia who can't talk to someone without 'insulting' them. It's not my fault if they're dull and their constant similar reactions are too. It's horrid having to live with a sister whose view on life and others is completely different than your own when she constantly chooses to try and change your view on life. I've grown to live with life you'd think my older sister would have by now but she hasn't. She just never learns.
Hyourin-kusabana: To me it feels like Alais hasn't changed much but instead just revealed a side of her that Levi had never seen before. As you read on you'll have mixed feelings about her, you'll feel sympathetic at times then think what she's doing is stupid and will only end up with her meeting her end. After all, Alais may be smart but that doesn't mean that she's verbally adequate. She can barely converse with someone without insulting them, and if she does manage not to they will eventually get insulted sooner or later. It is true, you saying that Levi must be feeling betrayed. It's good that you managed to pick it up because I've met people who have surprisingly never been able to forget someone or not care for them even after they have been betrayed. I don't know how but they're stupid to me. I've experienced betrayal yet it never impacted me, but then again, I'm apathetic at all the right times (Which is all the time if I'm feeling honest).
"A leader is someone who demonstrates what's possible."
She, as you may already have known, was prepared for it all. She preplanned her whole life from there on out. Her life was set in stone, something she could not change even with the greatest of perseverance. She was a leader, she would lead them to victory. They would finally have their own voice.
She is headstrong.
The ground kissed her skin bitterly as she fell, stomach flat to the ground and the weight of someone against her back. Curtains of black hair blocked her vision, someone pressing their hand to her head, keeping her from looking up. A hiss left her lips, the feeling of her lungs being compressed tightening against her ribcage. The usually stoic woman blew out a soft breath and slumped playing the role of the surrendered.
"You're glad I came aren't you, short-stack!" A puffed-up at the moment, Hange cackled as she sat on the woman she tackled to the floor. Almost like she forgot she was sitting on someone, she crossed her legs, leaning forward with her hands pressed against something soft. The idiot, being the idiot she was didn't notice that it was Alais' head and probably never will, "You should have seen yourself," She ranted, "You looked like you were the one constipated! HAHAHA! Who's the constipated one now? Oh ya! That's right, you are!" Hange laughed like a hyena, her loose ponytail bouncing against her empty head.
"Tch," He clicked his tongue arms crossed, "The day I look constipated is the day they find your brain, shitty-glasses."
In all truth he would be lying if he said some sort of sick deranged relief didn't course through him when he saw her, it was only amplified when Hange tackled her down. He was sure that if she didn't he would have done something, something that disgusted him. It would have happened again for the second time, and this time it wouldn't have been by accident. He cursed himself because he couldn't stop the thoughts of her, he never could. He could smell the pigmented smell of wild roses cling to her, the untamed hair and bags under her eyes something that he missed-As unattractive as it may have been. It was still her, it was everything that made up the essence dubbed, Alais. He hated it.
"Hange, I think that's enough," Erwin stood behind Hange, his calm demeanor ever so present except for the small twitch of his eyebrows. Something, which by any means could not go undetected.
"What are you-Oh!" She slapped a hand to her forehead and chuckled loudly, pulling away from the small girl she sat on. Still carrying her ever so, dunce-like smile Hange pulled up the girl, her grip on Alais' hands containing, "She's so small! I didn't even know I was sitting on something!"
Alais breathed out, her breathe bouncing off the scarf she wore and hit her face, "Yes, you didn't," The disturbed girl murmured tonelessly, "But I happened to while you were crushing my ribs into my lungs."
"It couldn't have been that bad," Hange waved her hands in the air, head hung high, "I weight just as much as a feather! Anyways, If something did happen I'll just fix you up! Experimenting is my specialty, I'm sure human bodies are close enough to titans!"
"That explains why you are as stupid as one," Levi murmured, eyes glaring as they settled on Alais' form.
"I don't mean to intrude," Alais drawled, flicking her hair back so steel grey eyes carried by purple and black looked at Erwin. It was Deja vu to Erwin, if you removed the pigmented black circles and got rid of the feminine eye shape, just making them narrower in the slightest he could have been looking into Levi's eyes. Yet her eyes set off a warning system in the back of his mind. Manipulative. "You're off topic, aren't you?"
Erwin merely stared at her, head tilted in the slightest before drawing out a small breath and a nod, "Hange? can you do the honors?"
"Huh?" The distracted experimenter hummed turning her eyes away from longingly looking towards the walls in the distance, "Which-ah-what honor?"
Erwin pursed his lips in aggravation, "Scenario 2."
In a flash of hypothetical wind, Hange beamed and skipped over to Alais who had found her way a safe distance away from the deranged titan lover. Leaning over the arched back of the short woman, Hange grinned eerily, "This will only hurt for a bit."
Alais wanted to bit her thumb, she wanted this to get along already. She knew they would do one of two things, take her down then knock her out or just knock her out, apparently it turned out to be her first pick. So when the shadow of Hange crept up behind her and the shadow of a syringe poked its way into her neck her excitement could barely be contained. So close.
"Just kidding!"
She was in no means a masochist, but when it came to being one step closer to her goal...nothing could stop her. I've said this before, but between you and I, something could stop her, not that she'd say, again.
Her lips were sealed.
"This is my way of unleashing the feelings deep inside of me."
If I have time I'll post another chapter tomorrow. I'm getting my haircut and I've got work so I'll see if I can cram writing a chapter into that. What do you think Levi meant when he said, "He would have done something, something that disgusted him." Hint* It happened before and he was greatly disgusted by it but I like to call it embarrassed in the Levi-est way possible.
Past Hauntings Arc still initiated.
Cheers.