Hey guys, hope you enjoy chapter 5 ~ Kroganman
The thought that passed through Dan's head shocked him enough to cause his head to jerk up, Mina squeaked and pulled her hand back in surprise, he then felt a sharp pain on his right ear and instinctively clapped his hand to it, upon pulling the hand back away he noticed that there was blood on his hand. It took a few seconds of staring at his open palm to realise that the scissors had nicked him, he heard Mina gasp behind him, before she began to apologise.
"I'm so sorry Dan," she said with one hand covering her mouth.
"It's just that your head jerked back and I thought that I had hurt you, and then, well. I did".
Dan turned and smiled at her, albeit sadly, "It's fine, it's just a scratch. It was my fault anyway".
He saw concern in her eyes "What's wrong?" She asked in a worriedly.
"Nothing important really" he said, struggling for an answer "A memory popped into my head, it wasn't a particularly happy one". 'Well I'm not lying' he thought to himself.
"Your ear..." she whispered, her voice full of guilt
"It's fine" he forced himself to laugh "I've got no chance here if a scratch is a problem"
She smiled in relief "Well I suppose you have a point there, shall we continue?"
She continued to cut his hair, when she was done, he stood and looked into the closest window to see his reflection, his hair was now considerably shorter, and looked a lot like it did before he was hit by the van.
"Thanks Mina, It looks brilliant" He smiled at her
"No problem, Sorry again about your ear."
He touched where the scissors had nicked, and after looking at his hand noted that it had stopped bleeding.
"It's fine" he laughed "see it's stopped bleeding already."
"That's good" She paused, and her face showed she was contemplating something, she finally looked up.
"Forgive me for intruding," He knew what was coming "but what were you thinking about?"
"Uh-" She stared at him inquisitively "Ju-just thinking about when my mum died..." he lied through his teeth "Afterwards, I had to live with my aunt for a bit, and she didn't like me, so, uh-, sometimes the memories crop up when I'm tired" He felt awful for lying, but he couldn't exactly tell her that she was going to die.
He noted undeserved pity in her eyes, it only made him feel worse. A bell suddenly began to ring, making them both jump, it was signifying that it was time for bed.
'saved' he thought.
"Well I guess I will see you tomorrow"
"Yeah" she smiled warmly "See you tomorrow"
She began walking off towards the girls bunkhouse, whilst he turned and climbed the steps into the boys, once he was at his bunk, he removed his shirt, and lay on top of his covers, soon all the others began to pour in, he saw Eren and Armin walking off towards their bunk, Reiner and Bertholdt towards theirs.
"Well you're hair looks better"
Dan looked up to see Marco standing over him,
"Feel's better too" He responded, smiling towards Marco
"Anyway, Goodnight" Marco said, before climbing up to his bunk
"Yeah sleep well."
Dan hardly slept at all that night, he tried repeatedly, closing his eyes, wishing himself to slip into unconsciousness, however his head was so full of thoughts, that it was impossible. He had decided to stop thinking about his past now, what was priority was focusing on the future. He knew that tomorrow they would be doing the aptitude test, he was a little concerned about that, but almost everyone was capable of doing it, the only reason Eren couldn't was because of broken gear, so he decided it was pointless thinking about that. Then there was the hand to hand training, but he had done some self defence classes in his 'previous life' so he theorised that would help. He assumed there would be training with rifles, as everyone knew how to use them in Trost, and finally there was the 3DMG, he had never had motion sickness, but he had no idea how he would hold down his food when using the gear, but he assumed that was a ways off yet.
He decided to not worry about the titan's as it would be a few years before he encountered them, and there was no point in worrying that far ahead. With the stream of thoughts slowing down, he finally managed to drift into slumber.
That night, his sleep was fractured and restless. When he drifted off into the dark of his mind, he was in a large room, it looked a lot like the interior of a church, and directly in the centre was a coffin, and around it stood a circle of black clad figures. He knew that this was a funeral, he began to look closer at the people. He first noticed his mum, she was stood closest to the coffin, then it was his uncle and aunt, and his cousins. then his friend's and roommates. Time seemed to be frozen, he moved around the room looking at everyone.
He woke up to someone shaking his shoulders, his eyes cracked open and he saw Marco "Come on man, It's time to wake up"
"Y-yeah I'm up, I'm up, stop fucking shaking me" Dan said grouchily
"Hey, are you ok, you were crying..." Marco said in a low voice, so only Dan could hear
Dan felt his face flush red "Yeah, I'm fine"
"Ok" Marco replied before standing and half smiling at the ground. Dan was relieved he didn't push the matter further. "Come on, were gonna miss breakfast!"