5 years later.
"As I call your name, come forward you are in the top ten."
"Soul Katsuo, Gabriel Feehan, Danielle Lei, Chamuel Victor, Alexan Wilde, Jergens Diore, Sebastian Grey,Rosie Snyder, Mattias Walker, Marcus Johnson. You are the best of the best, you have the option of joining the military police." The instructor dismissed everyone.
"Wow," Rosie breathed, "I made number eight! And Soul, you were number one! You were scary during training! Hey, Alex, Danielle, how do you get stronger? I want to do better in the field."
"You can not get stronger than you already are," Danielle, formerly known as Daniel, commented.
Alex rolled her eyes, "Ass, If you try harder and have a solid goal, like Soul, you can always become stronger."
Soul laughed, "I want to eat a Titan!"
Rosie nodded eagerly. "Okay! I want to…" She thought for a moment. "I want to...Uh…" She had no idea what she wanted.
"You want to live." Alex commented, "We all will so we can go to the beach again. And climb mountains and . . . not be trapped.." Her eyes were filled with sorrow and longing.
"Well, let's get a good night's sleep. We choose our branches tomorrow." Danielle said walking away.
"Hai!" Soul dragged Alex to the boys dorm, they somehow secretly hid the fact Alex was a girl from everyone for three years. Quite amazing how Soul did it, made Alex question everyone's intelligence.
Rosie didn't sleep well that night. She wasn't really sure she wanted to live- she knew she wanted her friends to live, for sure, but as for herself, she was shy of the world. All she'd seen within the walls was pain- especially since the Colossal Titan had broken through. Quite frankly, she had to figure out a new goal for herself. The next morning, it hit her.
'I want to protect all my friends,' she thought, 'And do my best to keep them alive. Then, we can all be happy.'
"Hey, Rosie!" Soul called over to the girl from their breakfast table. As usual, Alex had her head down in her arms with her bread in her hand, to eat later. Soul had taken the rest of Alex's breakfast only giving her, his own loaf of bread in return. Danielle had eaten her meal while quietly talking with Prim, who picked at her food.
"Did you decide which branch you're joining?" Soul asked.
Rosie nodded. "I don't want to be in the walls, so I'd prefer the Recon Corps, but I'll follow you guys wherever you go. I don't want to be alone."
Alex raised her head up, "Recon." Then flopped her head back on the table making a loud 'thump' Noise.
Soul smiled brightly,"Recon Corps."
Prim pushed her food around with her fork, "Ga-Garrison."
Danielle looked over at Rosie, " I will be joining the military police." She wiped her mouth with her napkin, "And I suggest you do the same, you are lucky you made the top ten, let alone eight." With that she walked off, Prim following not far behind.
"What do you mean, 'lucky to be in the top ten'?" She demanded, her temper bubbling over, "I worked hard to get there, too! You might still be better than me, Danielle, but at least I'm not some stuck-up bitch who's too scared to actually go out and DO something! While you hide and do nothing with the rest of the military police, I'm going to do my best to keep my friends alive- both the ones I meet and the ones who came from before. Speaking of which, I'm glad you're going to the military police. Less bitching to listen to all the time!"
With that, she stormed off, glad to be rid of the arrogant cunt. 'Lucky,' she thought, seething, 'maybe it would have been luck before, when I had a heart defect, but around here, I'm just about normal! A little short compared to most, but still about normal! I deserve my position as much as she does, and aside from that, it's none of her business what I do. I'm definitely going to the recon crops now- alone or otherwise! I'll meet new friends there, even if my old ones don't really want to go. I guess that'd be for the better, anyway. I wouldn't want to watch them get eaten, too. If it has to be one of us, it ought to be me for suggesting it.'
The day finally passed into night, most of the class had gone into the Garrison, except for the top ten trainees, up next was the Recon corps/Survey Corps/Scouting Legion.
"They really need to pick a fucking name." Alex said from her place on Soul's lap. Rosie giggled, it was the same as before, Alex sleeping on Soul's lap while he played with her hair.
"I really need to get around to scalping you so I can have your hair." Soul smiled playing with the short hair, it changed color the last few years from its brown to a black red, as Soul's had turned blue. Though, everyone loved the new hair color on the loud duo, they never knew how Soul loved experiments and often experimented on people in their slumber.
"You say that every other day." Alex hummed, her ears twitching hearing the sound of thundering hooves in the distance.
"So soft." Soul watched the horses pass them, such lovely creatures.
One of the members that was riding near the corporal called out, "Soul?!"
"Hey Eren!" Soul smiled and waved.
"Jaeger!" The Lance corporal snapped at the lower rank.
"So-Sorry sir." Eren bowed his head, it was best to stay silent.
Once they were long gone, Alex sat up looking at them she smirked, "Livin la Levi loca."
"Levi Jeans." Soul snickered next to the crossdresser.
Rosie watched as the higher ranking officers passed. "I'm just glad we aren't in the same boat as Eren. Remember how Levi beat the absolute shit out of him when he first found out he was a titan shifter? Man, that must have sucked. 'Wow, I'm going to court! Hey, what's he doing with his foot? Maybe his boot's dir-OH MY GOD HE'S KICKING ME.' Eren's thought process, maybe?"
"More like, yes Heichou hit me again, I'm half mast!" Alex mimicked Eren's voice.
"Just wait till you get back to the basement, Jaeger." Soul mimicked Levi's voice.
"Is Levi going to kick the shit out of him in the basement, too? Bad things always happen in dark, cold, cramped, stuffy places like basements, you know."
"More like he is going to be pounding Eren, again and again and again. Till cream comes out." Alex winked at Rosie before she stood up.
"Let's go, they're calling the assembly." Alex and Soul walked to the auditorium like area.
"They're in court, why would Eren be on a boat?" Rosie called out to her friends, who had left her behind as she pondered what they had said.
"Wait! Guys!" She ran to catch up to the laughing duo. "Guys, what if the court is on a boat and if Eren loses they're going to drown him? Drowning sounds horrible! Drowning would be like dying in an airless basement, depending on how deep it is. It would be cold, and probably dark, and there'd be no air, and it'd be really scary!"
"Rosie, let's end this conversation Now ok?" Soul smiled a rather frightening smile the promised doom it she spoke another word on this subject.
Rosie shuddered, still thinking of drowning, and then ran to catch up with her friends.
Alex blanked out while the Recon corps speaker spoke, it was such a drag. "If you don't wish to join. You may leave now."
Almost everyone left, in fear of titans and Eren. Danielle stayed behind staring at Alex and Soul, "I wish you wouldn't."
"You only wished, you never tried." Soul looked at Danielle giving her a quick hug along with Alex.
"Black and white roses on your graves, right?" Danielle chuckled as she walked away.
Erwin sighed, then smiled slightly, "For the three of you who stayed, Thank you."
He left the stage, Rosie looked and true to what he had said, only her, Alex and Soul had stayed.
"Why didn't anyone else stay?" Rosie asked walking to Alex and Soul.
"They are afraid." Soul replied, looking around for where they are suppose to go.
"Titans are pretty scary." Rosie whimpered.
"A. You can't say that yet. You haven't seen one. And B. They're afraid more of Eren, the unknown factor." Alex looked at Rosie, her visible brown eye stared at her hauntingly as if remembering the day she and Soul ran for their lives.
Rosie smirked, "Hey, Alex you can't wear your beanie anymore, joining the Corps and all. I can finally see that other eye of yours."
Soul snorted, "Don't you mean the other half of his face?"
Alex rolled her eyes, Rosie had been obsessed about seeing the other half of her face since they reunited. She thought that the skin under it was misfigured, or something along those lines.
"I don't have to do anything." Alex said walking off to where Hanji was motioning them to follow her.