Reiner sat with the Sorcerer, drinking coffee while his legs hung over the side of the Wall. Bert was currently talking to Zeke, and slowly Reiner envied him more and more, the Sorcerer was almost always silent, and when they spoke, there voice lacked, everything. No emotions came from it, nor any discernible accent or lisp. It was like reading a textbook and imagining what the voice would be like if it was spoken.
"Tell me more about Hari Potter." The Sorcerer said, making him flinch in surprise from the suddenness of it.
"Peverell." Reiner corrected, though regretted it when the figure sharply turned to face him.
"Peverell is a name of an old dead family, Potter is able to use the name since her own family derives from it, but she is not a Peverell herself, but that is not your concern I asked for information on her, it has been eleven years since I have last spoken to her, and much changes in that amount of time." The Sorcerer said turning back to face the open abandoned plains of Maria.
"Eleven years? How old is she?" Reiner asked, confused.
"Almost thirty years old, there are only about three months till her birthday." The figure said and Reiner paused, his mind drawing a complete and total blank.
"How is she that old? She almost as old a Levi!" Reiner said, the Sorcerer's words finally catching up to his mind.
"I don't understand what you mean." The Sorcerer said looking at him, and Reiner was pretty sure that if he could see the face under the hood it would convey confusion.
"She looks like and claims to be only sixteen!" Reiner said, and he thought he could see visible confusion on the Sorcerer.
The Sorcerer was quiet for a long moment, seeming to be both processing the information and thinking over it, before they suddenly shot to their feet.
"Those damned idiots, the spell was obviously messed up, but how on earth does someone manage to mess a spell up that badly, and still managed to get the correct results!" The Sorcerer waved their hands around in frustration, as they began walking across the Wall.
Reiner stayed where he was as he watched the Sorcerer go, hardly any of their words making any since to him at all. As the Sorcerer walked further and further away his mind drifted back to Hari.
"She's thirty!" He exclaimed out loud.
/Hari/
Hari wandered around with Ymir in the markets of Trost, both of them ready for anything to happen from any direction.
Yesterday they had received news that Eren and Historia were to be given to the heads of the capital and the rest of the Survey Corp was to be disbanded. They had left the base only for it to be ransacked moments later.
In an attempt to find out just who was after them, they had Jean and Annie dress and Eren in Historia with hopes to misdirect their pursuers.
"So how did it go?" Hari asked in a sickeningly sweet voice as she looked from cart to cart.
"How did what go?" Ymir asked turning to look at her.
"You and Krista." Hari smirked at the light blush that dusted Ymir's cheeks.
Hari had gotten good at remembering that Historia was Historia's actual name, but now it seemed safer to call her Krista again.
"Why do you care?" Ymir asked defensively.
"Because I want to be a bridesmaid." Hari said nonchalantly, making Ymir choke on the air suddenly.
Once Ymir had gotten her breathing under control again, she slapped the back of Hari's head, unconcerned for her safety, already knowing that she would heal.
"What ring do you think Krista would like most?" Hari asked suddenly, and Ymir noticed that Hari had somehow lured her over to a cart full of jewelry.
"Don't we have more important things to worry about right now?" Ymir asked finally getting angry with Hari's antics and not just annoyed.
"I have spent my whole life worrying about the big picture, and often forgot about the smaller things. When the big picture is complete you often realize that your life is rather empty when you don't have any small things to fall back on." Hari said seriously, and Ymir was suddenly given a whole new side to Hari, an older, wiser side, that had seen much more than Hari could have possibly seen in her life.
"Or would ever see." Ymir thought bitterly, the curse of the Titans crossing her mind.
"So which ring would Krista like the most?" Hari asked again turning Ymir's attention back to the small selection of rings being provided.
"She would like something simple and unassuming, she would want it to blend in and be easily forgotten. Because no matter how true to herself she becomes, that part of her seems to always remain." Ymir rambled as she looked through the assortment of rings.
"She would like that one." Ymir finally said pointing at a ring.
Hari looked at it; it was a small ring with a thin gold band and a small baby blue crystal sitting at the top of it. It was pretty in its simplicity, it gave of a beuty that you would find in the simple things in like. Hari thought it fit rather well.
Before either of them could do anything else a wagon suddenly barreled through the street, almost hitting several people; Sasha, Conny, and Mikasa chasing behind it.
Hari and Ymir followed them, Hari smirking as they ran, the bait had worked. Random people jumped out of nowhere and tacked their small group, a way to distract them so that the wagon could get away.
Hari was having none of that though, and punched her attacker in the throat, making him suddenly drop like a puppet whose stings had been cut.
She got up and began chasing again, but lost sight of the wagon after it went into more thin twisting paths between the buildings.
"Dammit." Hari cursed as she skidded to a stop.
Mikasa soon caught up to her, and stopped once she was by Hari.
"Where did they go?" Mikasa asked in a no nonsense tone.
"Lost them, but they were heading away from the gate so they have to still be in Trost." Hari said feeling like she was reporting her information instead of telling it to Mikasa.
"Take to the roofs, see if you can find them." Mikasa said before using her 3DMGear to get to the nearest rooftop. Hari followed and soon they were both going from rooftop to rooftop trying to find Annie and Jean.
/Oluo/
Oluo was walking the streets of Trost Mike by his side, both of their hoods up. They were infiltrating areas with Military Police to see who they were up against, and how many.
It was a good mission, perhaps not as important as keeping Historia and Eren from being captured, but this one was much harder. This mission required finesse, and skill beyond that of the average Scout, which was why Levi had chosen Oluo for this mission.
Oluo didn't know why Mike had come though, perhaps because he wasn't as connected to the younger Scouts as most of the others. It didn't matter though, extra help was always appreciated.
"Yo yo yo yo, what are you to lugs doin' around 'ear? Civilians and all that aren't allowed in this area." A voice said from behind them, before two large hands landed on Oluo's left shoulder, and Mike's right.
"Captain you aren't supposed to bother Civilians." A female voice droned, clearly tired of dealing with this man.
"Come on now, I wasn't botherin' them, just tellin' them to get out." He said it humorously, but the last part was clearly a threat.
"Who are you, I've never met a Military Police captain anything like you before?" Mike said, making himself sound nervous.
"I'm Kenny." Oluo could almost feel the grin stretching across the man's face that sat between him and Mike, though he didn't turn to face him out of fear of being recognized.
"Any last name?" Mike asked, still faking his nerves, and Oluo finally realized what he was getting at, Mike was still getting information and names!
"No…" It was teasing how Kenny said it, but it seemed that Kenny may have gotten a hint into what they were trying to do.
"It's a lovely day outside you know, and I hear that getting sun on you face is healthy." Kenny said, sounding overly cheery about whatever was going on in his mind.
"Perhaps it is best that you… Take your hoods off!" With that Kenny's hands flew from both their shoulders to their hoods, and like lightning their faces were exposed, to two dozen Military Police.
Both he and Mike pulled out the 3DMGear swords, and turned to face Kenny already knowing that their cover was blown.
Getting his first look at Kenny Oluo was surprised by how old he appeared. Kenny had to be in his late fifties at the earliest, though his hair still had most of its brown color. His face was wrinkled though, and his beard and hair wispy. Though perhaps his most striking feature was the large hat he wore on his head.
"Your one of Levi's, aren't you, tell me has he grown at all?" Kenny asked mockingly.
"No one insults Levi." Oluo growled pointing his blade at Kenny.
"Was just askin'." Kenny said in a surrendering tone. Then suddenly a gun was in each hand, firing just as quickly.
Oluo bearly managed to dodge out of the way, Mike's shoulder getting clipped by the shot when he tried to dodge.
Both of them shot the hooks of their 3DMGear to the buildings and flew up them, their only objective to survive.
Several Military Police got up onto the roofs with them, all of them wielding the guns that Kenny was, but strangely Kenny wasn't actually with them.
Neither he nor Mike had time to think about that now, they had to focus on getting away, and informing Levi of what was happening.
/Jean/
He hated this, he hated watching this. Annie may have killed a bunch of people but she didn't deserve this. She didn't deserve an old man standing behind her, groping her while she was tied up unable to do anything.
He wished that she would bite down on her tongue and burst into a Titan, perhaps killing or knocking him out in the process so he could burn this from his mind. He wanted to fight himself, if his legs weren't tied to the legs of the chair, he would have attacked, chair attached to him or not.
"Hay, get the hell of her." A man shouted, and the other reluctantly got off of Annie.
Jean looked to who had told the man off and was shocked to see Mr. Dimo Reeves of the Reeves Company.
"We were told not to harm Historia and Eren in any way. And that is most certainly falling under the category of harming, not to mention disgusting." Mr. Reeves said pointing at the man who was behaving like a lost puppy.
"Honestly you are worse than my son!" Mr. Reeves exclaimed before exiting again.
The man stood there for a long moment watching the door Mr. Reeves had left from before finally returning to Annie, and continuing.
He continued his abuse for a few more minutes before Reeves voice lightly filled the room, and began to grow stronger, signaling that he was coming back.
Once he stepped into the room however Mikasa appeared out of nowhere and kicked one of the men following Reeves in the face knocking them out instantly.
Hari fell from the ceiling, on top of another man, knocking him out as his chin slammed into the ground.
Reeves spun around hearing the commotion, only to be kicked by Mikasa sending him rolling across the room.
A gun suddenly fired, and Jean turned to see that Hari was standing in front of Mikasa blood trickling down her shirt. Before anyone else could react though, Hari ran up to the person who had shot her, the same one who had been assaulting Annie, and punched him in the face.
He could hear Hari's hand brake from the force, and saw it himself as her hand started to lightly steam from her pores. She ignored it though and started untying Annie, while Sasha popped out of the dark and started untying him.
Once he was untied, he flew up onto his feet and charged over to the unconscious man who had assaulted Annie, only to be pulled back be Petra, who must have missed what had transpired.
"Let me kill that bastard!" Jean roared eyes wild.
"Calm down, and think rationally." Was Petra's only response.
"He assaulted Annie, damn bastard is going to pay!" He roared again, ignoring Petra's words.
Hari perked up at that.
"Assaulted as in…" Hari trailed off not wanting to finish what she had said.
"Yes." Jean growled glaring at the man.
Hari's eyes darkened and she walked up to the man, and Jean had suddenly calmed down, realizing that Hari was probably a far more terrifying punisher than he could ever be.
She gently toed his right hand up with her boot, so that his pinky was against the ground and his thumb was only being supported by his other fingers. She let his hand sit like that for a moment, before suddenly bringing her boot down, the sound of breaking bones filling the air as she crushed his whole hand.
The man woke with a start screaming it agony, and Hari ground down on the bones till he passed out from the pain.
All was silent for a moment after, as Hari took her foot off of the destroyed hand, that no matter how much money one had could not be fully fixed.
Hari then pulled a handkerchief from her pocket and began dabbing the blood off of her uniform, even though it would fade away soon anyway.
"Are you okay Annie?" Hari asked sounding so kind and gentle that if Jean had not seen all that she could do, would have assumed Hari to be someone who couldn't hurt a fly.
"Umm, yeah." Annie said softly, while looking at the destroyed hand of her attacker.
"You guys interrogate Mr. Reeves; Annie isn't fit to be here right now." Hari said wrapping her arm around Annie and leading her away.
Jean watched her go, glad that she didn't have to be here any longer.
/Annie/
Hari walked Annie out of the building and through all the allies till they were back out in the open public. She couldn't do much right now, and honestly they both already had so much trauma that working with this seemed minimal, and really it was only the shock of the moment that was bothering Annie.
But Hari was determined to make sure to deal with this.
"After all this insanity is done, I'm going to kidnap a therapist and make them deal with all of us." Hari said as they walked through the busy city.
"What's a therapist?" Annie asked, and Hari paused for a moment before they both continued.
"Change of plans I will become a therapist and deal with all of the Scouts." Hari said.
"I still don't know what a therapist is." Annie said flatly, a deadpan expression on her face.
Hari ignored her in favor of buying a slice of sweet bread, and after doing so led Annie over to a seat and sat her in it, before handing the bread to her.
"Eat it. Eating sweet things is calming." Hari said sitting down next to her.
"We have work to do still." Annie said looking at the taller girl next to her.
"And you were molested; you deserve a break, even if we only have time for a short one." Hari said looking forward, watching the crowed move around itself in a strange mindless wave.
"We deserve a break anyway; it hasn't even been six months since this place was swarming with Titans." Hari said gesturing to the city around them.
Annie had just taken the first bite out of her bread when Hari had said that, making her pause.
Six months, all this insanity had happened in the span of less than six months. The thought of that was absurd, the amount of action that insanity that they had gone through felt like what could have been years.
So much, Hari had fallen off the Wall, been presumed dead, only for her to be rediscovered when Annie had attacked the 57th expedition. They had been taken back, brought to court only for Reiner to attack them and kidnap Hari, then a massive fight in Maria, where Eren had learned of the Coordinate ability.
And now they were here, the Scout's where on the run, Eren and Historia were wanted by the capital, and Annie was sitting against a building eating sweetened bread.
All this insanity and hardship, and a piece of bread was all she got. Worse of all, the madness wasn't even done, Hari had just decided that she deserved a break from it all.
She was pulled from her thoughts as cart barreled past her. Looking up she could see that the sky was suddenly filled with people on 3DMGear as well. Gun shots filled the air moments later, and Scouts started to fall from the buildings, dead.
The Military Police had made their move.
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