Hello my amazing peoples! Waz up! I am so happy to be posting this next chapter. I know it took me a while but I got it up. After I had posted the last chapter I had worked on this one and finished then the next day I realized I didn't save it and had to restart. :p But I finished it yet again and here it is. I would like to thank everyone who has been following and favoriting I would love to list everyone but I have to do homework so I shall do that next chapter. Well enjoy and I will see you once more once you are done.

~Amaya XOXO \(^.^)/

Last time on street rat's

"I see well great job. I'll see you all in the morning." With that the Commander left the three alone. The sky was dark and candles illuminated the walk paths and stall doors. Each soldier took their horse in and cleaned them up before heading to their dorms. Alice was the last one out, taking her time with grooming her horse in the beautiful night air. As Alice walked back to her dorm room she was grabbed by the wrist and turned around quickly. Levi stood their gripping her wrist.

"I think it's about time for you to answer the question I asked you earlier."

"Oh yeah sure. Why don't we go over by the river instead of my room. I'm pretty sure my roommate doesn't want to hear this stuff." Levi nodded understanding following her as she dragged him. She took him over to the river a little bit away from the dorms, onto the small bridge. Alice hopped up onto the bridge ledge and sat down on it patting the seat next to her for Levi. Levi hopped up and took the seat next to her. Their legs dangled above the river. She looked up at the sky her eye sparkling with small tears.

"I really hate thinking about everything that happened back there but, I know you deserve to know." Alice looked back at him tears already rolling down her face. "I was only in the experimental labs for a year and a half but, in the year and a half I was there I've seen so much I wish I hadn't." As she spoke she brought her knees to her chest placing her chin on her knees. Levi felt his heart churn feeling sorry for the girl and what she had gone through, wishing it was him in her shoes. "The thing is...they didn't conduct any experiments...on us...but, enjoyed tor...torturing us. The...they all knew that...when they sent...me...there." She hiccuped in between words as she started telling him.

((Alice POV)) This is 4 years before wall Maria fell and 4 years before were our story is taking place after she was taken prisoner after her murders

The cold hard ground seemed to be the best place to be in this hell hole. Somehow it gave us all comfort, more comfort then laying on a metal table, bright lights shinning on us from every direction. Leather straps would tie you down as crazy people would surround you poking you with everything possible. The metallic smell of blood always seemed to fill the air. Every now and then the smell of decaying bodies alerted you of what just lies ahead. My body was numb I couldn't feel anything from all of the drugs they had implanted within me. None of them were meant to be mixed together, leaving my body unmovable. No matter what I tried my body wouldn't respond. As the man who took me to this retched place moved towards me sharp objects, that my mind was to frantic to name, were in his hands. The creepy smile the always seemed plastered on his face grew larger.

"Your my newest edition to my collection. I will be sure to give you the full experience." His voice was soft yet menacing at the same time, his glasses gleaming in the many lights focused on me. People in the shadows watched in horror as the man before me claimed another victim. I felt as the scalpel in his hand met my skin tearing open my stomach. The cut was deep, blood went every where splattering back onto him. My screams echoed through the whole facility. The man quickly muffled me with old moldy rags. I...was his new toy...what this man did...was sick...and the government...thought it was just experiments...how?

"You my darling...have such beautiful eyes...I love the way they just seem to sparkle." His scalpel was now under my eye tracing lines on my face. "One here...one here...oooo and one here. Fantastic!" Laughing he clutched his sides. Tears slid down my face muffled cries escaped my lips. Blood dripped down into my left eye enabling me to see anything he was doing on that side of my face. My body may have been numb but I can still feel everything he was doing the pain was to great. Little did I know he moved the scalpel above my eye.

"Finally I'll be able to get a DNA sample from you. People normally like finger prints but I think the eye is the best." The man then bared the scalpel down into my eye. Tearing the colored part and the pupal out. Screams erupted my throat barley able to be contained by the moldy rag. My hands gripped at the table, my nails scraping along the metal.

As Alice told him about her first day there Levi felt sick to his stomach. His hand covering his mouth, the other holding his stomach. She explained it in such vivid detail it made him feel sick. Yet she just explained it as if it were normal, even though she knew it wasn't.

"As...time went on there...everything seemed to be a routine...I made friends there...some never made it...some are still recovering. We were all condemned there...trying to break free...everyday. It was truly...hell on earth."

((Alice POV)) Almost a year after being brought to the 'experimental' lab

"Come back here you two!" We didn't pay any attention to what he kept screaming as we navigated through the labyrinth. All we knew was it was underground, not were the exit was or how to find it. I looked over to the other girl and the boy that I had embarked on this 'mission' with. We soon came to a dead end.

"What do you think we should do?" Rebecca the girl next to me asked her purple eyes were widened with shock. I looked around and found an ac vent and pointed upwards.

"Ill lift you up the most important thing is that you two get out of here." Lance said as he got on his knee patting it to lift one of us up, his sandy blonde hair sticking to his face from sweating.

"No Lance I think you should go your the weakest of the three and have been here the longest." I responded quickly. He went to speak and I silenced him. "Your going. I'm the strongest, I also haven't been here as long as you two." Even though we were all basically skin and bones from being starved but, it wasn't new to me. It worked that way when I was on the streets.

"Will you be alright here by yourself Alice?" I nodded though, I wasn't so sure about it.

"Ill be fine. I'm sure there will be another riot or something soon and I'll make my move then." She just nodded as I lifted her up and she took down the cover crawling in. Lance looked out for the guards. Once Rebecca was in, he quickly came over and I lifted him in. Footsteps started approaching. A gun resounded. Lance fell from his position that was half way into the vent. Falling right before me. His green eyes wide open in horror and shock. Blood leaking from his heart, the life sapped instantly out of his eyes.

"Lance!" I screamed hoping to distract the guards so Rebecca could get away and she did. The vent had already been closed, a small shuffling sound could be heard from the vents but, they didn't mind.

"Alright! Put your hands up!" The gun had shifted over into my direction and instantly my hands went up. There were three guys. All of them looked the same to me, I could never tell anyone apart in this hell hole. Well having no lights and them wearing all of the same stuff you could see how hard it was to tell the difference. One of them came up to me and handcuffed me. They guided me along the unforgiving hallways. As we delved deeper into the halls the guards seemed to get lost.

"I think we go this way." Guard one said as he looked at a small map a candle under it so he could see it clearly.

"No no no we have to make a left." The guard holding my hands said as he drifted slightly away from me. The last guy kinda just stood there in front of me wondering what to do. As he did that I quickly wrapped my cuffed arms around his neck, holding the linking chains choking him. The other two turned around to him choking.

"Let him go!" Guard one yelled, his gun back at me the second guy drew his gun as well.

"Well let me out!" I erupted glaring at both of the men. I pulled back on the chains choking the man even more, his hands coming up to the chain tugging at it. That only caused me to pull back even more.

"You bitch let him go! If you let him go now we will be able to save you."

"Bullshit non of you can save me even if you tried. You guys have all spiraled me into a place I never wanted to go. I could have stayed on the streets fighting for my life and it would still be better then this!" As I got more and more heated I pulled the chain even further back in the middle of my sentence I knew the guy in my 'arms' was dead. I let him fall to the floor with a loud thud. Immediately the other guards started shooting. I wasn't able to prevent getting hit by the bullets that were sent my way. One came from my left side, which since the first day I've been here I haven't been able to see out of it, the bullet penetrated my arm. The other one came straight at me tearing straight through my stomach. I fell to the ground but only for a brief moment, in that moment I grabbed the gun, of the man I killed and shot the others directly in the chest. They both collapsed in heaps on the ground. I slowly stood leaning against the wall for support.

"Not long after I killed the three guys I was found, yet again. This time I was taken back into the experimental center...they tortured me there repeating the same phrase...'you can't escape, we will only find you.'" Alice mumbled as she kept telling her story. "After that they treated me even worse then they did before."

"And Rebecca?" Levi asked looking over at Alice.

"They killed her...She took a wrong turn fell down the ac vent and...was tortured to death. I guess I got off lucky though at the same time I wasn't...They tried there hardest to get rid of me but no matter what they did, I was stubborn and refused to give up my life...Most of the other people in that place were missing hands, feet, legs, arms, tongues, you name it it was lost but, I only lost my eye. While others lost multiple things...They used every torture method in there books on me: gas chambers, they placed me in a coffin of spikes for hours, the chair of torture, or anything that seemed to catch their interest. Some times they would just suspend me in the air and let me hang there for days. But I always pulled threw because I knew at the end of all the pain and suffering...I would find my happy ending just as-"

"Just as a rainbow comes after the harshest of storms. There's always a spark of hope even in the worst of storms were a rainbow may never be found." Levi finished her sentence for her. "I remember when we were kids, and we were stealing from the old woman. When she gave us what we wanted and told us that."

"She really believed that our life would be good in the end." Alice commented looking down at the water. Small ripples formed as frogs jumped in and out of the calm smooth water.

"We can always make it good if we try hard enough." He said looking over at her drawing his eyes away from his hands. Alice noticed his eyes set on her from the corner of her eye. She looked over and smiled. Levi couldn't help but smile back at her, his face lighting up and looking softer then it would then around others.

"Almost 6 months after the incident I was rescued by Commander Irvin and Hanji. They rescued me and everyone else there. There treated our injuries and allowed the courts to put us were we were supposed to be. They were the ones who sowed my eye up and put a patch on it. So many lives were saved by them and others that helped. I'm so grateful for them, I am truly in their debt." Alice said moving her eyes up to the sky like she did in the beginning of their conversation. The moon was almost in the middle of the sky and constellations glowed brightly guided the way for misguided souls. The clouds that had once covered the sky had moved away, clearing the sky of all misfortunes.

"So if I remember correctly your birthday is coming up in the next month." Alice said changing the subject to a more happier one then the previous topic was. Levi sighed slightly.

"You still remember huh? After all of these years." He chuckled slightly. "You've always had the best memory of the two of us."

"Yep and I'm already planning on what I'm gonna get you. I have to make up for these past 4 years."

"No you don't I really don't even need a gift."

"Yes you do! Your gonna be the big 3-0. Another year over and a new year will start. Hopefully it will be better then the last." Alice she smiled once more unable to keep the smile off of her face. The tears that once stained her cheeks had disappeared, replaced by a grin the could cure the darkest of worlds.

"There's no way it couldn't be better then the last." Levi watched her as Alice brought her legs down off of the ledge and dangled them over the water. Her boots barley skimming the water. "Alice...I'm really glad that you told me what you did. I know it must have been hard but, I know your a strong girl. You've been through so much...all because you helped a stranger-"

"And helping that stranger was the best thing I could have ever done. I made a very valuable friend, with a bond that is almost unbreakable. Sometimes I ask myself if I made the right choice but, not matter what I always come back with the same answer. Yes. I would have my life no other way. Our paths were destined to cross one day."

"Alice..."

"I'm just glad that day came early. Even though I was young I still knew what I saw doing. Nothing would ever change that." Alice started getting up and stretching her muscles. "Now I think it's about time we head back. It's been a long day and I'm pretty sure it's midnight." She pointed up to the moon which was now about in the center of the sky.

"Your right..." Levi said getting up and starting to walk off.

"Hey! Wait for me! Don't leave me alone in the dark!" Alice slightly yelled panicked as she ran after him sticking close.

Hey guys so I hoped you enjoyed this chapter! So favorite, follow, review, and send me OC's! So I was thinking of making the next chapter a music chapter. You know were I tell you what music to play during certain sections and blah blah blah. Well if you think that's a good idea comment of PM me. If I get 10 people who want a music chapter I shall do that. Until then I will see you my fellow Scouting Legion brother/sister.

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