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Dan climbed the steps to the porch that the group was standing on.

"Hey guys", he said to the group, before offering his hand towards Connie "Hello" he greeted "My names Dan"

Connie smiled back before accepting the handshake "Connie" he replied, "Hey you're the one that Shadis gut punched, right?"

Dan rubbed the aforementioned area with his hand, sending pulses of dull pain through the his stomach, "Yeah" he winced "and it bloody hurt as well" he caught what he thought was a look of pity from Mina

"Why IS your hair so long?" he heard Eren's voice to his left. Dan rubbed a few of the long strands of hair between his fingers "Well I can't exactly say because it's cool." he mused to himself.

"Well ever since my mum died," he began "I've not had it cut. But I guess I need to now..." he paused "Uh, where can I get it cut?"

He noticed that the others were staring at him in disbelief.

"What?" he asked nervously

"You mean you don't know how to cut your own hair?" Connie asked

Dan's face began to feel incredibly hot, one by one the group began to laugh, and Dan felt anger well up inside him

"FUCK YOU! My mum never taught me!" he yelled, which did little to stop the others from laughing.

He felt a hand on his shoulder and looked towards it, it was Mina, "If you want," she continued to giggle "I can cut it for you later on?". Still bright red from the embarrassment Dan accepted the offer "Thanks..." he muttered, the others were wiping tears from laughter out of there eyes.

"Hey look, Potato Girl's still running"

They all turned to look towards Sasha,

"Not bad...She's been at it five hours"

Dan's mind began to wander as the conversation progressed , in his mind he had accepted that this was not a dream, that punch wouldn't have hurt if it was, one thing stuck in his mind was.

Why?

He was never particularly religious, but he had been raised Catholic, and new enough to wonder, if this was Heaven, some shot at life somewhere else. Or was it Hell, somewhere with an extremely high chance to die a horrific death. Or was it something else entirely, no rational explanation came to mind, and thinking about it was giving him a headache.

He felt a light shove to his left, which snapped him out of his thoughts he turned to see Connie smiling at him mischievously.

"Why ya staring at potato girl?" he snickered

"Uh-wha-n-no" he stammered in response "I was just zoning out, that's all."

A bell rang, breaking the conversation.

"Finally time to eat" Connie sighed, patting at his stomach before moving off towards the mess hall, Dan and the rest of the group followed. Dan looked over his shoulder to see Sasha still running, but looking towards the mess hall sadly. 'I know Christa's gonna give her something' he thought to himself, to get rid of the pang of guilt he felt.

"Hey Dan," he heard Mina ask "we should finish dinner quickly, so I can cut your hair"

"Uh, Y-yeah sure" Dan didn't expect her to do it so soon "Thanks"

"No problem" she smiled just as they reached the mess hall. They soon got their meals, and sat at some empty spaces on the large wooden tables, where Dan stared at the meal before him. In a strange tin dish there was what seemed to be potato stew, and with it was a small loaf of bread and a tankard of water, Dan dipped his spoon into the mixture, and tentatively tasted the small pool on his spoon, to his surprise it tasted pretty good and after a few more spoonfuls his suspicions were proven correct, the small lumps were potato. After finishing his stew he moved onto the bread, which was cold and hard, he swallowed it with the water to make it go down easier, and then drained what was left of his tankard, before letting out a satisfied sigh, he turned to look at his surroundings, and noticed that a large group had built up around Eren. 'Ah, he must be telling them about the titan's' he thought to himself , he began looking around for Mina, but he noticed that she was not where she was in the anime. He began to take a wider sweep of the room, before noticing she was stood by the door. He stood up and took his dish and tankard to the counter that they were being placed on, and made his way towards Mina, she smiled as she saw him approaching and motioned towards outside with her head. When they were out they made their way towards the cabins, and she had him sit on the bottom step of the boy's, while she sat on the top one, she then pulled out a small pair of metal scissors, and began to cut, there was little talk between the two, as she was concentrating on the task at hand, and he was beginning to doze off from the full belly, and therapeutic like feeling of his hair being cut. This had always happened in his old world, he thought to himself, if his hair was being cut he struggled to keep his eyes open, once again his mind began to wander, and this time he was too sleepy to control his thoughts, they were slipping out unrestrained like sand through a closed fist. He began to think about his future here, if he did manage to make it through the training, could he face a Titan? And what about his new found friends? His mind lazily filtered through them, well Eren and Armin were fine as far as he knew, after all he had only ever watched the Anime, but he was sure that they would be ok, and Connie too. But then what about...MINA AND MARCO!