I feel consciousness start to come back to me. My body is sore as I move to notice the chains around my wrist. I sit up and reach for the bobby pin I keep behind the clip in my hair when I notice my clothes have been changed. If it was a man that changed my clothes he is going to pay. Well at least they left me with my mom's hairclip and the necklace my dad gave me. If they had taken that I would hurt them no questions asked.

I pick the lock to the chains on my wrist just as I hear footsteps coming down the stairs. So I'm underground. They hope that will keep me from transforming. If my understanding is correct they will keep me away from Eren. I really want to stay and help fight, but if they give me no other choice I will leave and take Eren with me.

I sit on the edge of my bed as Commander Pixis, Ian, Mitabi, and Rico stand on the other side of the bars. "Oh I see you are awake." The commander says.

"How long have I been out?"

"A day." His stern look relaxes as he looks into the darkness that hides me from his sight. "My men tell me that you saved their lives, and that we would of had at least fifteen more people dead without your help."

"I can't take all the credit I watched as Ian pulled another man out of the jaws of a titan. Mitabi distracted two titans long enough for me to kill them. Then when we got Eren free if Captian Levi hadn't of stepped in we would all be dead."

They all look at me in a strange way. "You may not realize it, but you did save all of our lives and we are grateful for that." The woman said stepping forward.

"As our thanks we have come to worn you." Pixis grabs my attention on that one. "You and Eren will be put on trial to decide where you go. Either you will end you with the MPs as a test subject or with the Survey Corps as a weapon."

Mitabi steps forward and grabs one of the bars. "Personally I like you chances better that Jaeger's. You showed that you will actually be of some help."

I think for a moment. The man is right I am more likely to end up with the survey corps. But Eren is like me I can not abandoned him. Not only that but his father saved my life and this will be a chance to repay that debt. "I will not let Eren be an experiment. If there anyway I can save him than I will do it."

A chuckle escapes Ian lips as he smirks at me. "Do you love him?"

"No, it's just a debt to repay." I say not an ounce of emotion in my voice.

"You are a good girl and special. Maybe now that you found, someone like you, you don't have to hide behind that mask anymore." Commander Pixis says with a sad smile. He walks off without saying anything and the others salute me before they leave.

Once they leave I realize I did not ask who changed me. Ugh why me? I lay on the bed with my feet hanging off the side. Now I have to go on trail. Wait let me rephrase that. We have to go on trail. Eren's actions will be reflected on me, and vise versa. Things could not get any worse. Eren had tried to kill someone close to him. Which in all actuality is normal when trying to learn how to control your titan, but people are not going to see it that way. All they are going to see is their fear. They are going to let their fear rule them and let common sense out the window.

There is three way this can go. We could end up dead, either from trying to escape or being experimented/ tortured. We escape and live outside the wall. Then lastly we end up with the survey corps, where we should be. An aggravated sigh leaves my lips. Suddenly the image of humanities strongest standing on top of a dead titan, and the sunsetting behind him comes to mind. I sit up quickly, despite the protest of my muscles. Why am I thinking of this right now?

Then the door closes loudly at the top of the steps. I listen as the footsteps slowly make their way towards me. To say I'm surprised to see Commander Erwin and Captain Levi is an understatement. My body is stiff on the bed hiding in the shadows as Erwin sits in a chair and Levi leaning against the wall.

"We know you are awake. Commander Pixis told us." I don't answer the blonde man as I continue to stare. He lets out an exaggerated sigh. "Anyway we came to learn more about you." He flips a file open. "So you're second in class. Also you got ten confirmed kills in your human form then fifteen in your titan. Not only that but when everyone was low on gas you lead one of two groups and not a single one died." Levi shift slightly, obvious not comfortable with that piece of information. "Not to mention you saving superior officers." He closes the file as he looks into the darkness surrounding me. "If it was not for your situation every part of the military would be wanting you to join. There is one thing that bothers me though." He pauses for a moment for me to speak, but I continue to stare. "How come no one knows you by name?"

It is quiet as he waits for my answer. "Answer you damn brat." Captian Levi growls at me. I stand up making the bed creak. My footsteps echo through the cell as I walk to the bars, and into the light. "How did you get out of your chains."

"Now, now one question at a time. I say with a slight teasing voice. The stoic man raises his eyebrow at me. "To answer your question," I turn my gaze to Erwin. "When you have something that will get you locked up, you don't bring attention to yourself." I than turn my attention back to the shorter man. "If you must know I picked the locks. My father was a blacksmith. I use to play with the things he made."

We glare at each other, green meeting silver. Commander Erwin clears his throat bringing our attention to him. "Yes, so where is your family?'

"I have no living relatives." I say blankly.

They both seem to question this. "Then what motivates you to fight?"

"I don't want another child to go through what I did."

"And that is?"

"Watch their parents be eaten." The fringe that frames my face covers my eyes.

"What do you want to do?"

I look back at them with cold eyes. "I want to kill titans. I want to kill every last one."

That seems to catch Levi's attention for he pushes off the wall and walks over to me. He stands in front of me with his hand holding onto the bar.

He looks over his shoulder at Erwin. "We should let her join. I'll watch the pair of them." He looks back to me. "If you put one toe out of line I'll straighten you out."

I take my finger and trace it along the back of his hand and up his arm. "Oh you would like that wouldn't you?" I don't know what it is about him, but I have never acted like this before. After my finger reaches his shoulder I let my fingernails scrape gently against his jaw line. I notice that he shallows. "That will give you an excuse to punish me." My finger travels down his chest and as I get to his stomach he grabs my wrist.

I tilt my head up to look into his eyes I see something then he covers it up. "Stop that." He says in a gravelly voice.

I hear a deep laugh behind him. We both look to see Erwin with an amused expression. "This is going to be interesting." Levi gives him a glare as I control the blush trying to show on my checks. What am I doing? He is my commanding officer; not to mention that he is like twice my age. "But I do hope to get the set. I hope you can handle both of them."

The way he uses the word set does not sit well with me. It's like he sees us as things not as people. I look into his eyes and I see a hint of a calculated look. Levi steps away from the bars and let go of my wrist. "We will see you at the trial in a few hours."

Without another word they leave making me wonder what I am truly getting myself into. I fall backwards into the small thin mattress. Shallowing I hold back the scream that wants to past my lips. It would seem that Commander Erwin only sees us as pawns. I refuse to be a pawn; I have too much pride for that.

My mind shifts to the trial. The fat pigs that only care about themselves will fight for me to go to the MPs. They are going to have no idea what is truly going on and they don't care. Ugh, this is why Dr. Jaeger told me to wait. No way I could have dealt with this as a kid.

After racking my brain trying to figure out how to go about this there is yet another man standing in front of my cell. "You are coming with me. It's time for the trial."

He holds out a set of cuffs for me to wear. Before he can see me I grab the bobby pin from my hair. Once cuffed I am taken up the stairs I see Eren, also cuffed. He is stand behind a woman with glasses who is drooling. Her eyes are wide and she is bouncing up and down on her toes.

"Hi, I'm Hanji. It is very nice to meet you." She said just a little too energetically, but at the same time a nice change. One of the guards clears his throat a signals with his head for us to move. Eren and I walk side by side behind Hanji and the man that let me out. I notice by their jackets that they are part of Scouting Corps. "I'm a squad leader of the survey corps as you can see. That's" I look over to see the man sniffing Eren. It's funny because Eren looks really uncomfortable, but my face does not change to so my amusement. "Mike, he is also a squad leader." Mike comes over to sniff me but I just ignore him and what Hanji is saying.

We are at the doors when I hear one the guards behind us call us monsters. I turn and kick him the shin, hard. He starts hopping around on one leg.

"Call us monsters again and I beat you to a bloody pulp. I don't care if my hands are tied or not." I look up at him. He gulps turning as white as a sheet. Turning back to the others they just give me strange looks. I take a deep breath. "Sorry, we have saved people's lives there is no reason to disrespect us." I give a sideways glance at the two guards.

Hanji gives me a small smile then opens the doors for us. We walk into the courthouse and Eren seemed surprised. There are two platforms for prisoners in the middle of the room. I walk to the side closes to the MPs and despite what they say sit down cross legged (Wearing pants) They put the pole over my cuffs making it seem like I'm trapped. Immediately I start picking the lock.I refuse to be helpless. There is no telling what they are going to do.

Everyone stares at us as the man who is our judge comes in. Darius Zackly, creator of the of the military today. He is a cold man that is said to only look for what is best for humanity. There is something about those eyes that are off though.

"This hearing will be a military tribunal, where ordinary laws do not apply. I have been given the authority to make all judgments." He says as he reads over some papers. "This will determine if you to live or die. In the end it was impossible to keep the two of your existence a secret. We need to announce your existence one way or another. I will be deciding which corps get control of you. Eren Jaeger let's begin with you." The man's demeanor is very calm and relaxed, like he is not deciding the fate of two lives.

The MPs and the Survey corps give their proposals. Then just like I thought the damn pigs had to open their mouths. Not only that but the church of the wall had to get their two cents in too. At least Levi told them exactly what they are. I finally got the cuffs unlocked,but let they hang around my wrist so no one noticed. They bring up the incident where Eren attacked Mikasa. It is obvious by his face that he does not remember. Then the MPs pulled records of him killing people to save Mikasa. Shit this is not good for him. How can they make saving someone seem so bad. Then the courthouse is letting their fear take control.

"How do we know she is not one of them?" one guy points to Mikasa. This is what I was worried about, panic.

"She is not, leave her out of this." Eren yells.

"We can't believe you."

"No, that's not true." Eren pulls on his chains making the whole courthouse quiet. "You people, you're carrying on using whatever excuse is convenient for you." He looks up from the floor looking at the MPs. "First you have never even seen a titan, so what're you so afraid of? What's going to happen if people who have the power don't fight? If you're afraid to fight to go on living then at least help me! You cowards, why can't you just shut up and take a chance on me?" Steam starts to surround him as the room just stares in shock. Shit the boy isn't helping his case, but I have to admit I wanted to say the samething to the idiots.

After a moment of everyone staring one of the MPs came back. "Take aim" a gun is aimed at Eren and he seemed surprised. 'Tch' damn idiots. Next thing I know there is the sound of Eren grunting. Turning I see Captain Levi kick and beat Eren. My face is blank as this beating continues. The room is quiet as the raven hair man has the boy's head under his boot.

"This is just my personal philosophy, but I think pain is the most effective punishment." He glares at the boy as everyone that was so loud before are now pale. "What you need now can't be taught by words, only action."

As Captian Levi continues to kick to boy repeatedly, I look at Erwin. Nothing shows on his face as his subordinate continues, but his eyes show everything. He planned this. They continue to talk about Eren, but my focus is on Erwin. I hear the click of boots on the floor. Looking in front of me I see Captian Levi. He raises one leg to kick me, but my pride will not allow me to be used as a pawn. Wrapping my feet around his shin I flip over, bringing the short man to the ground. As I get to my feet, leaving my cuffs under the pole, I feel two silver eyes glaring at me. I ignore him as I dust myself off.

"How did she get free?" One of the MPs are able to get out.

"I picked the locks." Say simply as I put the bobby pin back in my hair. "Actually if I wanted to I could of escaped very easily. As the daughter of a blacksmith I know the ins and outs of every cell you would put me in." I stand straight as I look at the man that decides my fate. Zackly looking back indifferently.

"Alexa Kennedy, we have just ignored you, but as I understand it the proposals are the same for you." He looks through some papers that back up at me. "All it says is that you joined at twelve, are second in your class, you from Shiganshina District," I hear Eren gasp behind me. "And you did really well in Trost, despite it being your first time in the field." Without breaking eye contact with the man I make sure to show nothing behind my mask. "No one has even asks how you got this power. Why don't you share with everyone." He sits back in his chair with his hands laced together.

I take a deep breath before I begin. " I lived a street over from the Jaegers. When I was five I became deathly sick. My organs were slowly shutting down one by one. After trying everything else Dr. Jaeger gave me the serum to become a titan shifter. I got better and then he taught me how to control my powers. I was six.

"If that is true then how come no one knows you? Even your fellow cadets can't put a name to your face." The man from the MPs yells.

I turn to look at the man with an icy glare. He turns ghost white and the one around him scut away. "That's because I learned a long time ago it was better not to bring attention to myself. That is was better this way."

"Miss Kennedy earlier you said you could have left if you wanted to. Why didn't you." I turn back to Zackly. His eyebrow is arched in question.

I sigh heavily before I answer his question. "For humanity"

"Do pretell." He encourages.

"Humanity, is a disgusting and messy. Most are just cowards just trying to live a little longer. We are greedy,selfish being, but the fear of a titan is something no one deserves." I push down the image from all those years ago. "So I want to fight to save humanity. I'm not a pawn to be played with as most in the capital believe. Eren and I are humans. We did not asks for this. It was always my plan to join the Scouting Corps. If you decide to hand me over to the MP I will leave the walls and fight out there. I can either fight with humanity or for it by myself, sir." I give a proper salute and wait for his answer.

He lets out a deep chuckle. "I guess you leave me no choice." I just stare up at the man hiding my surprise. It was very odd hearing that come from the man.

"I have a proposal." Erwin says. "We put them both under Captain Levi, and take them out on a excursion outside the wall. See if Eren can learn to control this power, as it is obvious that Alexa does. Then we can see if they are a benefit to mankind."

Zackly thinks about this for a moment. "Do you think you can control him Levi?"

"If you mean can I kill him? Certainly, I can kill both of them, but there is no inbetween."

"Hmp, I have made my decision. Eren Jaeger and Alexa Kennedy, I hand you over to the survey corps, but Eren Jaeger will be on a trial bases. We will see if he can control his power, dismissed."

I feel a strong hand grab my wrist to the point of breaking it. As I'm dragged out of the courthouse I watch the back of Levi's head. I can feel the anger radiating off him. He dragged me to an unoccupied room. Next thing I know I'm thrown against the far wall with him holding me up eye level.

"What do you think you're doing, idiot?" He asks through clenched teeth.

"As I said in there I'm no one's pawn, and that includes Erwin Smith, sir."

He knees me in the gut and lets go of my shirt. Blood comes from my lips as I cough, but I refuse to fall before him.

"This is the second time you have disrespected a commanding officer." He punches me in the gut. I wince slightly but refuse to show anything else. He tch's and knees me in the stomach again. The pain is unbearable but I will not let him know that. "I told you if you steped out of line I would straighten you out."

I don't know what it is about him, but he brings out a part of me I try to hide. "What are you going to do put me over your knee and spank me?" I smirk at him and see something is his eyes, but again he quickly hides it.

"Don't tempt me little girl." His eyes are cold, but there's something in his voice.

"It must be nice to be able to call someone little for once, but don't worry captain I'm not fragel."

"I can see you take my abuse very well." He puts his arms on either side of me, and whisper in my ear. "But this is just the beginning. We have a lot of training to do."

He pulls away from my ear and at that moment Erwin, Hanji, Mike, and Eren come in. Captain Levi steps away from me. Following Eren to the couch I discreetly wipe the blood from my lips. Hanji tends to Eren. They talk back and forth. I notice that Hanji will still be conducting some experiments, but I don't really pay them any attention. The thought of how this stoic man is able to bring out my snarky side won't get out of my head. That is until said man sits down on the other side of Eren making the boy flinch.

"Do you resent me Eren?"

"No, I know it was all an act. His tone is light as the Commander kneels before us. "I look forward to working with you Eren." They shake hands as Eren babbles. "Alexa" I shake his hand and lock eyes for a moment. He smiles but his eyes show he is not happy. I just nod and let them continue. This is going to be rough.

Author Notes: I haven't had any comments. I know it's early in the story but I would gladly like to hear from readers. It can even be what you don't like about the story, anything you might not understand, or question. It is all welcome. Hope to hear from you.