Sorry for the lost wait, I didn't intend for it to be as long as it was.
For those intrested in knowing I compleated NaNoWriMo getting 50k words in November for a project not related to fanfiction.
On with the Story!
Hari sat in her cell, she wasn't locked up, she just wanted to find a quiet place to think where no one would expect her to be. She wouldn't even expect herself to be here honestly, it was the place she hated most in this damned cabin in the middle of nowhere.
Sighing she turned back to her thoughts.
The battle against Reiner and Bertolt had been violent, Commander Erwin had even lost an arm, but what had she done? She remembered Commander Erwin calling for retreat and then Reiner threw some Titans. Eren punched the Titan that ate Captain Hannes, and then, what?
A sharp pull in her mind, it said to kill, Kill Reiner, rip him to pieces, CONSUME HIM! Hari grabbed her head wincing, even thinking about it hurt, as well as filling her with the urge to run outside and find him.
What was this voice, how did it control her? she knew her Occlumency wasn't very good, but she had never felt the urge she had had when being attacked from her mind before. It had always been involuntary she had just not been strong enough to block it out, this though, even now she desired to kill him, she wanted to.
"I never thought I would find you down here." Ymir said walking into her open cell and sitting on the bed next to her.
"Do you know what personal space is?" Hari asked sarcastically.
"Nope!" Ymir sounded so happy when she said it, like it was the greatest thing ever.
"What do you want." Hari sighed leaning back against the back wall.
"Two things. First, I wanted to apologize for being a pain, and treating you like garbage when you came out as a Titan Shifter." Ymir said sounding sincere, but Hari gave her a wary eye anyway.
"I'm serious, I don't know why I was like that, I just, you died and then you come back having a whole other side to yourself that I didn't know, and even now you still are hiding stuff!" Ymir said exasperated.
"You have another side to you too." Hari pointed out.
"I'm a hypocrite, shoot me; it won't do anything but go ahead!" Ymir yelled throwing her hands up.
"Levi would complain about the mess." Hari deadpanned, making Ymir laugh.
Hari laughed too, the conversation lightening her mind, and making her forget about those thoughts, and the desire to kill vanish.
"What was the other thing you wanted to talk about?" Hari asked after calming down a little.
"Historia won't talk to me." Ymir said, sounding sadder than Hari had ever heard her sound.
"She hasn't talked to anyone really." Hari pointed out but it only seemed to anger Ymir.
"She had always talked to me, and it isn't like I'm waiting for her to talk I approach her and talk and she just waves me off. She never did that, especially not to me, and I just want to know why." Ymir yelled angerly, her voice wavering.
"Why did you come to me though? I don't know Historia as well as you." Hari said.
"You just seem, smart. I don't know." Ymir said.
Hari stared at her, Ymir thought that she was smart, the people at Hogwarts would be rolling on the floor laughing if they ever heard that. Hari had to try herself not to laugh, the idea of her being smart was so foreign.
"My advice." Hari began slowly.
"Wait till both of you are off shift, then lead her to a private place and have some consensual fun time." Hari said absolutely seriously, Ymir just looked at her, questioning if Hari really was a bad person to get advice from.
"I'll try it." Ymir sighed after a while as she got up.
"Invite me to your wedding!" Hari yelled after her.
Ymir flipped her off.
/Annie/
It was night, everyone off watch duty was supposed to be asleep, but Annie's mind was buzzing with too many questions to even think about sleeping. All of which involved Hari in one way or another.
Annie walked outside hoping to clear her head with the fresh air and moon light, but those ideas went out the window when she saw Ymir sitting on the porch looking at the sky, a far-off look in her eyes.
"You aren't supposed to be out if it's not your shift." Annie said sitting next to Ymir.
"So?" Ymir asked, not aggressively like Annie would have expected, but more far off like Ymir's thoughts seemed to be.
"You are acting odd." Annie deadpanned glaring at Ymir.
Ymir didn't respond instead she fell back, the thunk of her head hitting the wood not seeming to bother her. She continued to stare at the stars, as Annie looked at her brows raised.
"I know I ate your comrade, and I am sorry for it, but I am so happy that I did." Ymir said still looking at the clear sky.
"I don't really care. It was a long time ago, and I betrayed them all." Annie said disinterestedly, though she did care somewhat still, more questions rolling in her head.
"Why bring it up?" Annie asked suddenly, wondering why Ymir seemed to be in a talkative mood.
"Historia is the most amazing person I have ever known." Ymir said smiling.
"What did she do to make herself this amazing?" Annie asked having no idea the advice Hari had given Ymir earlier that day.
"She topped." Ymir said, not a hint of shame on her that Annie wasn't even sure if she got the proper meaning.
"What?" Annie asked, more confused than she had been when she came out to clear her head.
"I bottomed." Ymir said and Annie finally got it.
"Why are you telling me that!" Annie said trying her hardest not to wake anyone up, but knowing that Levi and Mikasa were probably awake because of it. Sasha may have woken up too, depending how deep her sleep was.
"I don't know, you're a shifter too, you know we need to find something or someone quickly." Ymir said sounding more sober than she had a minute ago, though Annie didn't smell alcohol on her to begin with.
"About that, do you know which one Hari is? I have been trying to figure it out, but nothing has made since." Annie said remembering her original thoughts.
"She could be the tenth." Ymir suggested.
"There is only nine." Annie said in return.
"Does Hari strike you as someone who obeys the laws of the universe?" Ymir asked making Annie pause.
"How could she brake that?" Annie asked.
"I don't know. But she knows things, she suggested me and Historia, and turned out to be right. Damnit now I have to thank her." Ymir said suddenly, lifting herself off her back.
"She does seem to have a lot of luck, good and bad, in the end though it always turns out though." Annie said memories of all of Hari's shenanigans coming to mind.
"I have to thank her." Ymir moaned not listening to anything Annie had just said.
"How are you so calm with her, we thought she was dead, and then she was a shifter, and then kidnapped!" Annie said listing off all of Hari's recent insanities.
"Well I mean, we aren't much better." Ymir pointed out.
Annie sighed a long sigh. It was true, and she hadn't really been fair to Hari recently, she needed to apologize.
"When did you get smart?" Annie asked looking at Ymir.
"Historia rubbed off on me." Ymir said smirking, knowing what she said and how it sounded.
Annie glared at her, unamused by her inappropriate humor.
/
Annie walked down to the basement Hari was in, none of them were held there, even at night, but it was so cramped in this small house that some people had been told that they would sleep down there.
Annie opened the basement door the candle in her hand barely illuminating the dark basement. Annie turned her head to Hari's bed and stopped. Hari was awake her eye seeming to glow as it reflected in the candle light as she looked at Annie.
Annie walked over to her, and she scooted to the side to make room for Annie to sit. Annie took the seat and turned to look at Hari.
"It's late." Hari whispered, pointing out the obvious.
"You told Ymir to sleep with Historia." Annie said glaring at Hari.
"Oi they are aloud to love whoever they want, don't make a deal out of it." Hari said, glaring.
"No not like that, I just got an earful from Ymir explaining her conquest." Annie glared at Hari when she snorted, unamused by her idiocy.
"I came to apologize for being how I have been recently." Annie confessed looking downward, away from Hari's single eye.
"Ahh." Hari exclaimed; her nod only visible by the movement of her hair in the light.
"You haven't apologized yet." Hari said amused.
Annie was thankful for the little light that the candle provided, as it hid her blush at being called out.
"I'm sorry for being a jerk to you." Annie said softly, Hari seemed to except it, as Annie saw the movement of Hari's hair in the shadows again as she nodded slowly.
"I'm glad that we are friends again." Hari said happily, but Annie inwardly cringed at it.
Friends. It was all they were, all Hari saw them as, had she been wrong about Hari?
Annie brushed off those thoughts, they weren't important.
"Do you want to train tomorrow, in Titan form?" Annie asked looking at Hari, her face mostly hidden in the dark.
"Levi may not allow Titan form, but we should be able to fight hand to hand regardless." Hari said leaving Annie disappointed once again.
"Yeah… It's late, I'm going to bed." Annie said getting up and taking the candle with her, Hari making no move to stop her from leaving.
She walked out of the basement, and once the door was closed behind her Annie sank to her knees.
She sat there like that for a moment before she collected all of her thoughts and stood up once again continuing her way to her room. Her face like stone betraying no emotion.
/Ymir/
Ymir sighed as she watched Annie throw down Hari once again, Hari not even reacting to the pain instead just standing up smiling at Annie like nothing had happened. Ymir knew that was false, something defiantly had happened for Annie to be how she was today.
Annie and Hari got into position again before Hari lunged, only for Annie to grab her arm, snap it and slam Hari back on the ground. It was not how Annie fought, at least not unless she was desperate. There was no need to be desperate, this was a fun fight, made only to practice skill and random idea's that came into their heads.
No, Annie was angry with Hari, and from how Annie seemed to be going after Hari; the fresh anger, Ymir assumed it had to have happened last night.
"Had Annie gone to ask for forgiveness last night?" Ymir wondered.
If she did, it didn't seem like it had gone wrong, Hari was happy and smiling at Annie, despite the fact that the shorter girl had broken her arm several times now. Looking closer Ymir noticed something, Annie seemed to get especially angry when Hari smiled at her.
"Did Annie have feeling for Hari?" Ymir wondered, having not bothered to pay attention to them before.
"Had Hari rejected her?" The knew thought entered Ymir's mind making her sigh.
She almost wanted to help Annie and Hari, but she only really owed Hari for getting her with Historia, plus she didn't want to get into that mess. As if proving her thoughts correct Hari had managed to grab Annie and throw her into the air, and punched her in the gut on the way down, her weight, Hari's force, and gravity making the blow very powerful.
Ymir did not want to get involved with that.
"Are you okay Annie?" Hari asked flopping her hand she had used to punch Annie around uselessly; her wrist having been snapped under all the pressure.
"How do you not feel any of this?" Annie asked looking at Hari's broken wrist as it healed.
"I've had worse injuries without the Titan abilities, plus I barely feel this anyway." Hari said, emphasizing her point by shaking her wrist making it bend at angles it should not be able to.
"Please don't do that!" Jean yelled from behind Ymir, sounding like he was going to be sick. He had been brought along under Levi's orders because he wanted to have someone watch the shifters.
Ymir assumed that it was more of an honorary position, or Levi didn't want to listen to Jean and Eren yell at each other, either way Jean wouldn't do much if one of them decided to turn for whatever reason.
"Oi you two, make sure not to beat each other up too much, we aren't allowed to turn into our Titan forms, and Hanji wanted to experiment with us later as well, so don't exhaust yourselves." Ymir yelled not wanting to deal with Hanji being upset because they couldn't do the test today.
"We should probably stop now then so we can heal up." Hari sighed walking away from the place her and Annie had been fighting, Annie following right behind her.
Ymir watched them go Hari in the lead with Annie glaring at her back as they walked back. "Hari what did you do?" Ymir wondered getting up from her own seat to follow them.
The walked back was silent, Ymir and Jean watching Annie glare at Hari, and Hari either being oblivious to it or ignoring it; Hari wasn't one to ignore things though, so she probably didn't notice.
Though Hari should be able to since Annie behind her, the anger radiating off of Annie making Ymir on edge. Hari really didn't have a since of danger though, proof being that she was a Scout, they were idiots.
"She is the only one of us that wasn't originally from the Scouts though." Ymir mussed as they continued walking back.
The walk wasn't far, they just didn't have any incentive to get there quickly, but they still made it back reasonably soon. Conny was sitting outside with Sasha waiting for them. They approached them only Jean seeming to be slightly more tense.
"You aren't even doing anything you wuss, calm down." Ymir said looking at him.
A long sigh escaped from Jean's nose, annoyance clear on his face, but he didn't make a comeback knowing that Ymir could, and would happily have them both shooting insults at each other all day.
"Hanji wants you to go over to the cliffs over there." Sasha said when they arrived, pointing off to her right.
Hari and Annie nodded and started that way while Ymir and Jean walked to the door, both ignoring each other.
"Hanji wanted you as well Ymir." Sasha said hesitantly, not wanting to face the wrath of Ymir, but Levi's wrath was obviously a worse thing to face.
"I was-
"You and Historia can study biology later!" Hari yelled over her shoulder as Annie and her continued to walk.
Ymir gritted her teeth, before turning away from the door and jogged to catch up to Hari and Annie who had not bothered to stop and wait for her. She glared at Hari, who kept her face completely natural as they walked, no indication that she had said what she did.
Annie seemed to be struggling to keep a straight face, the comment most likely having caught her off guard. Ymir chose to glare at her, wanting to be angry with someone, even if they weren't the one responsible to her anger.
The walk was silent, Ymir's glare bouncing between the two, but neither of them reacted, which only infuriated Ymir more. She wanted to fight, not physically, she knew she would lose at that, but with words and wit.
/Hari/
They soon arrived at the cliffs, Eren at the bottom of them, working by himself in his Titan form, Levi and Hanji down with him, everyone else up on the cliff watching. Hari leaned over the edge, watching Eren attempt to solve one of the puzzles that Hanji had set up to test his brain functions in Titan form.
Hari had no idea how to do it even in human form, but that was probably du to her lack of standard education, with only her reading and writing skills being on par with anyone who didn't know magic.
He eventually completed it, and exited his Titan form. Hanji was running around looking at notes and seemed to be talking to herself, Hari was to far to hear her though. While Hanji did that Levi helped pull Eren out of his Titan form, his nose bleeding profusely.
When both Levi and Eren were on the ground Levi got Hanji's attention and then pointed up at her, Annie, and Ymir. Hanji got excited and quickly went through her notes as Levi flew up to them on the 3DMGear.
"Climb down, there is a path way over there." Levi said pointing to his side, where the cliff seemed to be carved into a slope that led down to where Hanji and Eren were.
They nodded and then headed that way as Levi flew back down. They quickly got down there Hanji smiling widely, and somewhat maniacally as they approached, giving Hari a moment of pause in worry. Hanji seemed to be in the mood where she would easily forget that she was actually working with humans, something that they could all survive, but not something that they would want to be involved with to begin with.
"Can all of you change into your Titan forms and then stand still. I did a physical evaluation on Eren's Titan, and I want to see the differences in appearance. Between the four of you." Hanji said, still looking at her notes, a drawing of Eren noticeable in the mix of them.
Hari hesitantly rose her hand to her mouth, unsure when she was supposed to actually transform, since Hanji hadn't seemed to most focused when she had spoken. Hari opened her mouth and set her hand between her teeth.
A large burst of hot air to her left side made Hari pull back and look to see that Ymir had transformed. Seeing this as a confirmation she put her hand back to her mouth her Titan form exploding around her, there was a moment of nothingness, and then she was standing eleven meters off the ground.
Hari took a deep breath in her Titan form; she didn't actually need to but the habit was in place. She exhaled, steam shooting out from between her teeth, and out her nose.
She turned her head to the left and saw Ymir's Titan squatting on the ground. She was only a few meters tall when squatting, but her limbs did not make it easy for her to stand up straight like the other Titans could.
A large burst of air came from her right suddenly, much hotter and stronger than when Ymir had transformed. She turned and saw Annie's Titan form, it was standing at fourteen meters in height, making Hari have to look up so she was looking at her face, and not her…
A pinch on her left shoulder made Hari stiffen, she was unable to see what was the cause since it was her blind spot. She quickly turned and she saw Hanji fly up to her on her 3DMGear.
"If you could all spread out a bit more that would be very useful, you will also have to stay still so that you can be drawn as accurately as possible. I recommend getting into a position that is comfortable to stand in." Hanji yelled from Hari's left shoulder.
Hari turned her head to see Hanji better and glared at her. Hanji hissed through her teeth, realizing her error.
"Sorry, I will try not to go at you from your blind stop." Hanji said, before hopping off, back down to the floor where Moblit had already gathered supplies to draw then.
They all stood relaxed as they were drawn, their minds left to wander, probably not a good idea for any of them.
If Hari needed any further proof of that, is was when her thoughts drifted back to England, deep into the cell she had spent so many years in.
Her subconscious made her scars throb in memory of it, and Hari sucked in a breath from the phantom pain. Closing her eyes, she slowly released her breath, while calming her mind of the violent thoughts. She pushed her thoughts away from violence and pain, to happy memories, similar to what she had practiced in third year.
"How long had it been?" Hari wondered.
Third year was ages ago, and Voldemort, her imprisonment, and the insanity of this world did nothing to make it feel any shorter. It had already been over a decade since she had gone to Hogwarts. Teddy would be in school now; if time of day was the same at least.
When had she last sat down and thought, when was the last time she had put her mind to Lupin and Tonks's child? It hadn't been since her early days in Azkaban, Hari realized in surprise.
She reluctantly pushed those thoughts away as well, they would not be good for her, but she was still supposed to stand still for a while.
Hari hated being trapped with her thoughts.
Looking for something to do other than be in her head Hari glanced around, before her eyes caught on to Annie's face.
A light blush graced Annie's cheeks, something that would have been considered pretty on a human face, but on a Titan's face it was a mixture of fully and scary.
She did not know why Annie was blushing, though she had an inkling that it could be that Hanji's and Moblit's attention was currently on her, and she was not used to people staring at her in Titan form.
A slight smile graced her lips, pulling at the scars on her face, but the smile was light enough that it didn't pull the scars into a sneer. Annie did not seem to notice Hari's smile though and continued to blush lightly while looking forward.
Annie's eyes quickly glanced over and her blush grew redder when she noticed Hari watching her. She glanced down so she wasn't looking Hari in the eye only for her eyes to immediately turn back up, her face completely red, before she quickly turned her eyes forward again.
Hari raised a brow, amused by Annie. She turned her attention to Ymir, though she lost interest with her much quicker since she was just looking forward like she was supposed to be.
Sighing Hari turned to face forward as well.
/Erwin/
Erwin sat in his room in Trost waiting for what he knew was about to happen.
A nock on the door pulled him from his thoughts. Sighing he slowly stood up, the absence of his left arm to pull himself up slowing the process more than he would have liked.
Another nock on the door was made as he opened it, revealing Nile Dot.
Erwin invited him inside and they sat down together on either side of Erwin's table. All was quiet for a moment before Nile finally spoke up.
"The heads of the government demand that you surrender Eren Jaeger to them, as well as the Reiss girl." Nile sighed, seeming to already know that this conversation would not be pleasant for either of them.
"Eren won his freedom with the capture of the Female and Scarred Titan. And he proved it yet again with the recapture of them as well." Erwin stated calmly.
"Historia is free to go where she want to, she hasn't officially taken up the name of Reiss and holds no criminal record either." Erwin continued looking at Nile calmly.
"I don't know what they want with either of them, but there is more if you want to hear it." Nile said looking like he was not pleased with information he was about to reveal.
"The Scouts are to be officially disbanded, and will all be considered committing treason if Eren and Historia are not brought to them." Nile said obviously not liking what he had said.
"I suggest that you bring your men to arrest me then." Erwin said, his tone not changing from what it had been before.
"It will take about ten minutes to get them up here; you might want to have food delivered up while you wait. It could very be your last free meal." Nile said getting up slowly with Erwin.
"Thank you Nile." Erwin said, Nile nodding as he opened the door and left, a Scout coming in immediately after.
"Sir." The Scout said saluting him.
Erwin sighed before straightening.
"Report to our current base as quickly as possible, inform them that the Scouts are dead, and that there objective is to keep Eren Jaeger and Historia Reiss from falling into enemy hands no matter the cost." Erwin said quickly to which the Scout nodded in response to show that they understood.
"Inform them as well that everyone except the Scouts is our enemy, and even then not all Scouts can be trusted." The Scout nodded again before quickly saluting him and running out the door.
Erwin sighed again, lowering his head before he walked to the window, and looked out of it.
He watched the Scout ride off into the streets of Trost and once they were out of site, his door was opened, Nile and two Military Police soldiers standing at it.
He turned around and held out his hands, Nile stepped forward and handcuffed him. Leaning forward Erwin whispered thanks to the man's ear before he was led out the room and to the cart that would take him to be imprisoned at the capital.
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