Part 31
The Day After
"So you've read it…" Came the soft-spoken voice of Fury as she had returned to Erwin's office after her early rise. To awaken next to the man, both still naked, had panicked her slightly. Don't blame her for wanting some air.
"And you've come back…" Erwin responded to match the obvious in which yes, he had read her journal. For she gave it to him to do such anyway.
The Commander, still bare chested, sat within his bed; the blankets covering anything else he had on show beneath them. His fingers tapped onto the tattered leather of the notebook as he was coming to terms with everything he read. "Is that village still out there?"
Of all the questions Fury was expecting to be bombarded with, he was to ask about the village? She simply nodded. It was there before she arrived; it will still be there now.
"I wish to see if these words of yours are true." Erwin continued. His commanding tone evidently returning, almost ignoring what the two did the previous night. "It has given me reason to think that if you can control Titans and the fact we have the likes of Eren on our side, my plans can start to bare fruition… and we can get to this basement of Eren's for more truth."
Fury raised an eyebrow. The basement? Was that all Erwin was fixated upon within this moment? She found it oddly disrespectful in some manner. Yet nonetheless, despite opening herself up enough to sleep with the man, she was not clingy and would rather forget it herself. "And how do you wish for me to prove it? There are still plenty of Titans out there I could try to control. Though do not expect a display…"
Erwin shook his head. "No. Not on a Titan." Now he was truly confusing Fury. "I want you to use your ability on me. I want to feel first hand if my own body will be beyond my control."
"Are you… Have you lost it?" Fury barked, clenching her hands into a fist. "No! No, I refuse to ever do it on another person. The pain… I witnessed myself how unbearable it was when I wasn't able to fully control it!"
"But you have claimed to have somewhat mastered it now, have you not?" The man held the covers over him as he stepped out of his bed, wrapping the covers themselves around his lower body. He then slammed Fury's tattered notebook onto his desk, narrowing his eyes enough to show he was in no joking manner.
"Yes… But…" Fury's eyes shook. Why did he want her to do this? "I can't… I just can't… You don't understand!" Fury took a step back, seeing the seriousness in his eyes. Feeling backed into a corner, Fury could already feel defensive in her own way.
"I'll not have undesirables in the Scouts!" Erwin snarled, pushing her further. He forcefully grabbed Fury's wrist and raised it above her arm, yet still she refused to prove it on himself. Perhaps a more emotional approach would trigger her, he thought. Erwin gritted his teeth. "Did you return in hopes of bedding with me a second time?"
Fury began to try to pull her arm away from the towering Commander. "I… Erwin, please stop it! I won't do it!"
"You've been gone for 4 years. Last night was just a welcome home gift. More for my sake than yours. You're nothing but a soldier to me."
"STOP!" Fury bellowed as Erwin was forcefully shoved away from her. It had worked. Fury's eyes glared red from being bloodshot and Erwin found his body to begin writhing against his will, groaning in pain as he fought against it. "Why… Why would say that?!" Fury called out to him. "I'm a human being, not a weapon!"
Her eyes strained in pain as she watched the Commander, as strong willed as he was, crumble due to the pain inflicted into his muscles. He had pushed her far enough, for now Erwin himself now knew that emotion was the way to trigger Fury should he need her to do this again.
"…F-Fury…" Erwin muttered, his eyes wide from pain as he was forced to the ground. "Those words… I did not mean… It was to p-push you!" Though he was against his own will, Fury was beginning to lighten, for Erwin then began to be able to move his arm; despite the pain and effort it took. "Fury… I lov-"
At this point, Erwin's office door flung upon to have two Military Police officers barge in from hearing the panicked commotion. It was enough to startle Fury out of her trance: blinking and her eyes returning to normal as they looked upon the intruders. Within a blink, she was tackled to the ground by both men, gripping her wrists behind her back as all they saw and understood was that she was attacking Erwin.
"Stop!" Erwin commanded, getting to his feet as he felt the release of control on his body leave, as did the pain.
"Sorry, Commander Smith." One officer spoke, slamming Fury's head to the ground yet she had nothing to say, nor did she want to fight back. "But we need to take it from here."
Fury managed to move her head so that her eyes could look up at Erwin. They were filled with regret and Erwin himself could see this, causing the Commander to feel truly guilty for what he just forced her to do. And for why? To see if this could be the start of his dream becoming a reality?
"….I'm… so sorry…" Fury cried to the man as she was pulled up to her feet and dragged out of his office by the two Military Officers. "I thought I was better than this!" She called back to him, leaving Erwin in a state of discomfort.
"…What have I caused…?" He muttered to himself, knowing Fury was to be taken to the jail cells most likely. Now he knew questions would be asked. Now he knew that everyone would need to know of what Fury herself is. Eren and now this? Erwin truly couldn't answer if what he did was to be for the best.
