AN: Chapter XIX and part two of I-have-no-idea-how-many of the Forgotten Arc! I hope you guys enjoyed the last chapter and Thanks to those who reviewed.

CHAPTER XIX:

ROAD TO RECOVERY

While Petra was sleeping, she dreamed. She was dreaming blurry snippets of her life for the past 18 years. She dreamt of a black portal, visiting that girl, Celeste, while she was training and Celeste and Levi fist fighting. All of a sudden, she woke up. She realized that the sun was up. Petra immediately got up, took a bath and put her clothes on. Heading to the kitchen, she made breakfast for the others. Levi told her that Armin and Mikasa replaced Erd and Gunter and that until Celeste came along, they weren't able to find a suitable replacement for Auruo. By suitable, he meant someone who can rack up a bunch of solo kills and not a lot of team kills (which she does a bang up job of) and not a mimicking jackass but apparently she fits the jackass part as well. Petra snapped out of her musings when someone came in. Looking behind her, she saw that it was just Celeste, whose bloodshot eyes could make anyone from the future think that she was smoking weed when in truth it was just from crying.

"Good Morning." She greeted.

"What's so good about the morning?" The younger woman snapped. Oh, she fits asshole part well, alright but something about that statement made Petra halt in her movements; why does she feel like she's heard that before. Shaking it off, she continued cooking.

"Can I have some coffee?" Celeste requested. All of a sudden, another memory came back to Petra.

"I can't have coffee. I'm good with water, Miss Petra."

"Oh, health problems?"

"Not exactly but coffee makes me way more paranoid than I already am. I don't know if that's classified as a health problem."

"Are you allowed to have coffee?" Petra asked her. Celeste's head shot up immediately. Was she starting to remember already?

"Uh…I'll make an exception." She answered as she rubbed her eyes. Suddenly, a cup of coffee was set in front of her as well as some food. Celeste and Petra started eating.

"You're starting to remember, aren't you?" Celeste asked and the older woman nodded.

"How did you know?"

"Oh, we've danced this coffee dance before. If you don't remember me, you would've given me coffee without question." She answered. She's good, Petra can give her that.

"Um…would you like to take a walk with me?" Petra asked.

"I would love to." She answered with a small smile. When they were done with breakfast, they left the HQ and walked away from it, talking about Celeste's training as they went.

"So, why did I always visit you when you were training?" Petra asked her. Celeste thought of an excuse immediately.

"Commander Smith's orders." Okay, maybe it wasn't an excuse. "I was kind of unique, in a way."

"How so?" She asked.

"Close your eyes." Celeste ordered her. Petra did so and suddenly, she felt something cold in her hands.

"Open them."

When she did, Petra saw an Ice sculpture of the Scouting Legion Emblem in her hand.

"That's not even how far my uniqueness goes. Keep it. It would never melt." Celeste said as they kept walking.

"Did I ever tell you about my dad? I wonder how he is." Petra said. The younger woman froze in her tracks. Her grandfather was a touchy subject for her mother. She knew because Petra told her about him once when she was visiting during her training.

"Uh…yeah…well, you see as of this year, your dad's been dead for 15 years." She answered. Petra told her that when she was 16, meaning he died when she was 3.

"What?" Petra asked. She couldn't remember how her dad died or if she was even at his funeral. She sat on a boulder as she cried.

"Hey, come on now. Don't cry. You-you were there at his funeral. He died because he was sick. Don't cry and wipe that frown off. It doesn't suit your face." Celeste said as she wiped Petra's tears away with her handkerchief. The moment she said that, another flurry of memories came to Petra; she was in the woods, talking to Celeste, who had wounds in her face. Wounds that told her that she just came from a fist fight. Probably the fist fight with the Captain. She gripped her head and shook the headache off.

"Hey, you okay? Want to head back?" She asked.

"No. No, let's keep going." Petra said as they kept on walking. They talked about things like how their lives were before they joined the Legion. For Celeste, it was like she was getting to know her again. She even got to know a thing about her grandmother, like how she taught Petra how to cook or that she taught her that awesome coffee recipe. Back then, she never got the chance to ask about her grandmother. In return, Celeste told her half the truth about her life; that she was adopted by a wealthy family from Wall Sina. Okay, maybe that wasn't even half true but she was adopted and her adoptive family was rich. When they got to the woods where they found Celeste, more of Petra's memories came back. This time, she remembered a black portal, putting Celeste on the ground and taking her back to HQ.

"Hey, you remember something?" Celeste asked her and she nodded.

"I do. A black portal. What is it?" She asked.

"You'll remember on your own time." She answered. "Let's get back. It's getting dark."

Celeste held her hand out to Petra who took it and they started walking back to HQ.

'This is good. She's remembering at an unusually fast pace but come to think of it, if she remembers, Dad and I are going to be skinned alive for lying to her.' Celeste thought as she looked at Petra 'Meh, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it, I guess.'

It'll be a long road to recovery but she swears that she'll help her mother to remember their real bond to one another.

AN: And that is Chapter XIX! Sorry if it's a bit short but I hope you guys still enjoyed this chapter of mine. Thanks to those who reviewed to the previous chapters and to those who will review to this one.