A few hours later Imelda found herself lying on one of the infirmary beds; her shoulder and leg soaking in freezing cold water, looking up at Hanji who held a scalpel and tweezers.
"I'm afraid we have to get these bullets out Imelda," Hanji smiled excitedly, "even if the flesh has healed those bullets are still in there, lucky for you we have Levi on the scene to hold you down in anything goes wrong-"
She was cut off by Levi's elbow in her waist as Imelda let out a noise of fear; she didn't want this to go down that rout. After Levi gave her a reassuring stare Hanji set to work; first removed the water from under her shoulder and quickly cut above the shadowy bruise that was the bullet. The cut automatically began to hiss and Imelda gritted her teeth. Hanji found the bullet and dug it out with the tweezers, earning a grunt from Imelda as the round bullet fell into a tray.
"Right" Hanji beamed, "role over" and Imelda did so. Once again Hanji cut above the shadow of the bullet, but there was a problem; when the bullet had hit Imelda it had gone through to the bone, and stayed there. There was no way to get it out as the bone and flesh had healed around it, sticking it in place. Sighing she straightened up wiping the sweat off her brow, "That one won't budge, your bone has encased half of it, I'm sorry."
"No wonder that one hurt like a bitch." Imelda huffed, turning over again and sitting up, as her wounds hissed and melded back together. Levi raised an eyebrow at her language but she ignored it, they swore all the time here why couldn't she?
"Can you stand?" he asked coming over and helping her off the bed; gingerly she placed her bare feet on the ground. As her feet touched the ground her leg gave an uncomfortable twang and she bit her lip, her arm around Levi's shoulder tensed giving him the sign that she couldn't walk. With a quick elegant swoop Levi had Imelda in his arms and was walking out of the infirmary. Imelda squirmed, obviously embarrassed at her Papa carrying her everywhere, but she had to admit, she did feel safe in his arms. With the gentle bumping of Levi's footsteps Imelda could feel her eyes drooping, even though it was early afternoon. As Levi got to Imelda's quarters she was sound asleep, a peaceful smile on her lips. His regular frown lightened as he brushed the hair from her head; if only she wasn't as troubled when awake, she would probably smile more.
Early the next morning Imelda woke before anyone else; it was the first morning she'd woken up without sweaty palms and ragged breathing. Yawning she placed her feet on the stone floor and held her breath as the freezing cold stone surged through her body.
"Fuck that's cold" she mumbled before placing her feet on the floor again, her body temperature fighting the cold stone as she crept towards her door. Opening it she peeked into the corridor; no one, good. Imelda began to head down the corridor and down the stairs towards her workshop; she hadn't been in there yet and was desperate to see it. Opening the door she held back a sneeze; dust covered the room, cobwebs were in every corner and she saw a few cockroaches scuttle along the floor. She grimaced before rolling up her sleeves, "Let's get dirty" she muttered.
A huge crash awoke Levi and Erwin that morning; it came from Imelda's workshop, which was directly below Erwin's room. "The hell is happening" Levi hissed swinging his legs over the bed and throwing his discarded clothes on. Erwin groaned trying to grab him but Levi slapped his big hand away. "You had enough last night Erwin, come on, I think Imelda's cleaning."
The two men arrived in less than three minutes to find the room in a cloud of dust; violent coughing could be heard from the other end from the other end of the room.
"Stupide *cough* shelf *cough* bloody fucking shelf, shit that hurt." Imelda cursed harshly in the dust cloud; how had Levi not cleaned in here?
"Imelda, are you alright?" Erwin sasked through the dust and the coughing was abruptly halted as the latch of the window was clicked open. Slowly the dust began to make its way out of the room and finally Levi and Erwin could see the carnage. The large metal shelf was on the floor, all the spanners, screws, nails, screwdrivers and hammers were scattered across the floor. Broken glass and pot also littered the floor as Imelda went around picking up all the pieces, in bare feet. She was wearing a bandana over her head and over her mouth.
"How did this happen?" Levi sighed after taking Imelda's moving a figure as a sign that she was okay. She looked up and dropped the pieces of shrapnel in the metal bin behind her before saying, "I was trying to move my shelf so I could clean underneath it, but there was too much stuff on it so it kinda fell." She finished lamely looking back down at it; Erwin saw Levi's eyebrow twitch at the mess before him and before he could open his mouth, the tall blonde ordered loudly, "Imelda clean up this place, after lunch I wish to see how your 3DM Gear training is going; come on Levi, there are plenty of other places to clean besides here." And with that he dragged to twitchy little man away from the scene. Imelda's face paled as her Daddy finished his sentence; 3DM Gear? But she was so rubbish at it, how could she show them when she was so appalling at it? Turning back to her cleaning she moaned loudly; this was going to take a while.
Finally after four hours of solid cleaning and fixing, Imelda was finished. She breathed a sigh of relief as she sat down on her work bench, smiling smugly at herself; despite how much she said she hated cleaning, she always felt proud when the job was done. Of course it wasn't clean enough for Levi's standers but he'd given up on her work shop ever since the day she picked up a saw and a block of wood. As long as she had space to move and the table was clear, she was all good. Heading to the mess hall, still in bare feet Imelda smiled at Petra who came over.
"Captain Levi has been in a terrible mood Imelda; probably from that massive crash this morning, do you know what happened?"
Imelda smiled sheepishly before explaining to her friend what had happened. The pretty little red head laughed until they reached the mess hall. Levi was sitting with Hanji who was talking animatedly about their next trip outside the wall.
"We gonna catch another abnormal and I'm gonna call him Bean" she squealed as Imelda came over and sat next to Olu, opposite Levi. Hanji noticed Imelda first and gave a dramatic gasp, "and YOU can be in one of the experiments, want to see if the titan's react to you differently to other humans and-" but her plan was stopped abruptly as Levi shoved the scientist's bread role into her wide mouth.
"No way in hell is Imelda going to be in one of your experiments four eyes" he snarled before looking back at his child, his steal eyes softening slightly as he asked, "did you clean your workshop to my standards?" Imelda shrugged saying, "No one can reach your standards; I did it to my standards- OUCH" she yelped as the heal of Levi's boot dug into her foot.
"Don't talk back to me" he said plainly, "and that wouldn't have hurt as much if you had worn all your uniform."
Imelda glowered at the table, she'd forgotten about Levi and manners; and now her foot was probably blue and pulsing thanks to his heel. Levi clicked his tongue before getting up saying, "Come on Imelda; time to show me your 3DM Gear training."
Well this wasn't going to go well.