A/N: Sorry it is taking me so long to update all of my fics, but you see I am in school, so things get a bit delayed sometimes, along with the fact that I have more fic ideas than I can handle currently. I will update as quickly as possible though.))

Dreams are powerful things.

part 5

Hanji got back to the HQ safely, to which Levi was quite relieved about, still confused over how he had managed to push her out of the way of the titan. He figured that maybe he wasn't a ghost but a poltergeist, he had read books involving poltergeists before, and they were the ones that could interact with the living world somewhat, but it almost unheard of for one to be able to directly push a human around, the contrast between dead and living seemingly too great. To test this he tried picking up and moving objects all around the castle for the next few days, sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't, but at least he got to see surprise on the faces of others at random objects casually floating around, it was worth it.

Eventually Levi returned to watching Hanji, a rather interesting thing to do now that he was dead, but instead of being a ghost he was a poltergeist. At least now he knew that he could watch over her when she got into troublesome situations, which he knew happened all too often, far too much for his liking at least. It seemed that she still had not recovered any memories of him though, instead she was regaining memories of her life in the Scouting Legion, but anything relating to him was being left out.

"You know shitty glasses, it would be less painful on my part if you just remembered me, it would be a lot nicer than just sitting around watching you or saving your ass time and time again." He sighed, she was sleeping currently, at least that was better than spending countless nights in her lab as she tended to do.

After a bit she started to toss and turn in her sleep, sweating and panicking, and he figured that she was having a nightmare. It was nothing out of the ordinary for anyone in the Scouting Legion, but it still pained him to see her in this state. What pained him even more was when she started to cry out and mutter words in her sleep. Specifically, something involving his name.

"Levi...no...no Levi, I'm sorry."

He froze. Not once since he had died had he heard her speak his name with such familiarity. He had been perched on her bed, but when he heard his name Levi bent over her body to look at her face.

"Hanji?" He said her name, knowing it was pointless to do so but feeling the need to anyways. He kept forgetting how little he could do in death, and it was still frustrating. He moved to touch her forehead anyways, to attempt to awaken her, but when his skin came in contact with her forehead something else happened.

Suddenly he was standing back in that abandoned town, the one where he had died, only this time he was already dead. This time he could see what Hanji had seen, and see what she had done afterwards.

He took the steps needed to where she was, finding her right where she had been when the titan caught him. He could hear her shouts, see her tears, and determination. As she stood to go kill the titan, she was nearing tears, so Levi put a hand on her shoulder.

"Relax."

Hanji rapidly turned around to face him. "Huh, Levi? But you were just over there.."She motioned to where the titan had been, but it faded away, and they were both surrounded in a sort of yellow glow.

"You're dreaming shitty glasses," he sighed. "That already happened, more than two months ago. That's why this is a nightmare." Levi hated having to explain this to her, but he needed to, because if this was her subconscious then at least it showed that she still remembered him.

"Dead? Then how are you here? Especially in my head, just a figment of my nightmare still, to make me think you really did die?" She laughed madly for a moment. "What then? If you really are dead and it has been two months, why am I not recalling those months? Surely I should be able to now that I am aware that I am dreaming."

"Hanji, you hit your head pretty hard, twice, once when you got attacked by the titan, and the second time was when you tried to kill the titan that was about to eat me, surely you, a scientist, knows what head and emotional trauma does to people. Currently, in the waking world, you have amnesia. You are slowly gaining your memories back, and yet you don't remember a thing about me, your mind trying to protect you from remembering my death I guess."

She didn't speak for a bit, but when she did, it was with an odd tone. "Then how are you still here? Speaking to me, dead people tell no stories after all, not by themselves at least."

"Well, apparently, if someone dies with too many unresolved matters, they get to stick around a bit." Levi then hugged her softly, kissing her forehead. "Now wake up shitty glasses, it is nearly noon."

"But if what you are saying is true, that I have amnesia, then if I wake up I forget you again."

"Out there, when you wake up, I will just be your guardian angel, but if I figure out how to speak to you again, I will, for now though, I think you have left your duties alone for too long." He sighed. It was nice being able to talk to her for once, but he also knew that she would have to wake up sometime, better now than later in his mind, saves the trouble of explaining everything that had been going on to her right now.

"Alright, just, if I don't remember soon, come visit me here in my dreams again please."

"Of course, we owe each other a wedding after all, and amnesia is not an excuse for missing it."

"Neither is death, clean freak." She grinned at him, and he quickly memorized the exact way it formed on her face, teeth showing, eyes crinkling, and cheeks pushed upright, she was even more beautiful than usual when that smile was directed at him.

end part 5

She woke up, confused and disorientated, but having slept much better than most nights before, he removed himself from her dream feeling happier and more content than he had since death.