Hello, everyone! Welcome back to another chapter of Heart of a Wolf. Sorry for the delay. Let's get started!

Chapter 9

"I don't know, Mike." Armin heard his friend say from his cubical. "I think the Tigers have it this season."

"You don't know anything about football, Eren." Bertholdt chimed in. "Why would you say that?"

"Contrary to popular belief, Bert, but I actually happen to know a lot about football." Eren defended.

"Which team won the Playoffs against the Titans last year?" asked Armin, not taking his eyes off his computer.

"The Corps, Armin. Next question." From the sound of Eren's voice, he was getting cocky. Which wasn't new for him.

"Which team had the most MVPs from 2000-2010?" Armin looked up when he heard his boss's voice, Levi Ackerman, jump into the conversation.

Eren opened his mouth to speak, but he suddenly choked. Armin had to hold in his laughter as his friend stammered out an answer.

"Uh...T-The MPs?" Eren guessed.

Armin watched and waited for Mr. Ackerman to answer.

"Lucky guess." he said before walking over to Armin. "How are our sales, Arlert?"

Armin typed a couple of things into the computer to bring up his sales table.

"Our sales to Garrison Inc. have been stable, along with the others. The only thing that I've seen out of the ordinary would be the decrease in sales for the Survey Corporation. I would suggest you bring that up in your meeting today."

Mr. Ackerman nodded. "I'll take that into consideration." he said. "Keep up the good work, gentlemen. Jeager, I want those files on my desk by 3 today."

"Got it." Eren nodded as Mr. Ackerman walked away.

Mike turned to Eren with a confused look. "What files is he talking about?" he asked.

Eren shrugged. "Hell if I know."

Annie sat on the couch, like she had been from the moment she woke up that morning. The only she had gotten up to do was refill her coffee mug and wander around the house before returning to the spot she started at.

"Is this what humans look forward to?" she asked herself. "It's boring, if you ask me."

She had thought about going out and maybe hunting animals for sport, but with the heavy rainstorm that was happening currently, which seemed to be consistent in the area, had her think otherwise. She had just gotten over her cold yesterday and she did not want it to happen again.

Even if she did heal quickly.

She sighed and laid down on the couch. To her, the daily lifestyle of humans seemed to be boring. They didn't hunt for their food, they bought it. They couldn't sense anything that wasn't right in front of them. There was no excitement in the life of humans. Annie actually wondered what Armin did when he wasn't at work.

A loud ringing interrupted Annie's thoughts. Annie shot straight up and looked around, searching for the source of the noise. She sighed when she saw the small device Armin called a telephone light up and blare the loud noise. She got up off the couch and picked the phone off of its stand. It took her a second to remember how Armin showed her how to use it.

"Hello?" she asked when she answered the phone.

"Annie?" a woman's voice came over the speaker of the phone. "Is that you?"

Annie cocked an eyebrow, as if the person on the phone could see her. "Depends on who this." she said.

"It's Mikasa, Annie. No need to act hostile."

"Oh." Annie rolled her eyes as she heard Mikasa chuckle. "What do you want?"

"Well, since the guys are at work until 10 tonight, I was thinking maybe you and me could do something when I get out of work. I'm pretty sure that you're bored out of your skull being alone in that house all day."

Annie hesitated for a moment. How did she know that?

"What are you? Some kind of witch?" she asked.

She heard Mikasa chuckle before stopping abruptly. "Oh, you're seriously asking me that." she said. "Well, no I'm not a witch. I just figured because that's how I am when I'm alone at my house."

Anniee thought for a moment. "I guess that would make sense." she said.

"Yeah, so want to do something when I get out?"

"I don't know what this is made from, but I like it." Mikasa decided that the two girls would walk around town since the weather had cleared up when Mikasa got out of work and Annie didn't know the area that well. Surprisingly, Annie took to the city quite well. The blonde was currently drinking a soda that Mikasa got from one of the concession stands in the city.

"Have a soft spot for caffeine, huh?" Mikasa pointed out to Annie.

"Well, since it was basically the only thing I drank besides water when I was in the pack, yes I do."

"How'd your pack even find drinks like that?"

Annie finished her soda and threw it in a nearby garbage can. "My pack master came across a bag of some green liquid in cans, so we decided to see what would happen if someone drank it. It actually heightened one pup's senses and...hyperactivity. It took us an hour to get Connie to calm down."

Mikasa smiled at the last part. "I'm guessing it was her first experience with it?"

Annie looked at Mikasa and sighed. "No, it wasn't HIS first time being that hyperactive. He was a pup, after all. They're always that way."

Mikasa gave a small chuckle. "Sorry. I didn't know Connie was a guy."

Annie gave a tiny smile and was about to say something when a familiar scent caught her attention. She stopped dead in her tracks, sniffing the air in search of the source of the scent.

Mikasa looked over at the blonde and saw this. "Annie?" she asked. "Everything ok?"

"It can't be..." Annie murmured to herself, suddenly darting off across the street, causing cars to screech to a halt and honk at the girl. Mikasa quickly followed the blonde, apologizing to the drivers having to stop before hitting the girls.

The scent had lead Annie a few block until she had reached a small building. She looked at the sign painted on the front of the store. Page Corner Store, it read. Annie looked through the window of the store and saw only one person inside the building, a woman with dark brown hair and square framed glasses. The woman seemed to be reading a book behind a desk in the center of the store.

"So, this is where you went..." Annie said to herself. Annie was about to go inside of the store when Mikasa had caught up to her. Annie said nothing to the raven-haired girl and simply gestured her to follow her as she walked inside.

A bell jingled as Annie opened the door to the store. The sound caught the attention of the woman behind the desk and she put her book down as Annie and Mikasa walked up to her.

"Welcome!" she greeted. "Anything I can..." the woman trailed off, her eyes fixed on Annie. Her brown eyes widened in realization. Annie only smiled at the woman.

"Suus fuit diu, Hange." (It's been a long time, sister.) Annie spoken in her native language, hoping the woman didn't forget their tongue after all these years.

Thankfully, she didn't. Hange smiled back at Annie. "Longum, soror." (Too long, sister.)

Alright, I hope you all have enjoyed this chapter. Just FYI, the majority of the next chapter will be in Latin, which is Annie's and Hange's native language. Keep in mind that these translations might not be correct because I'm getting them off of Google Translate. If anyone has a better English to Latin website I could use, please let me know. As always, I'll see you on the flip side, guys. Peace!