Hi :| ... This Chapter is long overdue...seriously I took my sweat time doing this one...

Disclaimer: I do not own Attack on Titan nor it's characters just my own such as; Aki, Erick, Dillan, and Sina.

Chapter 7

When I finally arrived two hours late everyone had already gone to the showers. I was greeted by my commander, the same one that had tried to humiliate me during my first day. The second he saw me running towards the training grounds he straighten his back and narrowed his eyes. He watched as I came up to him. Once I reached my destination I bend over trying to catch my breathe. My mind felt sluggish and sweat stung my eyes. Though I should of already had some sort of conditioning from all the intense training we received every and each day, I felt surprisingly out of breath. Exhaustion gnawed at my bones, and I could barely focus on my surroundings, but when I heard the sudden clearing of a throat I knew I was in for it.

"Did you have a good night sleep princes?" His voice was sarcastic and mocking, but I didn't respond. In a situation like this, I had no real chance of winning. He was the commander in charge of us recruits, his word was the law, and me trying to defy it wasn't going to make us friends. "What's the matter, too tired to talk." I stayed silent. "Well, what is it." I stood up straight, I looked him in the eye, but I said nothing. Speaking wasn't going to do anything, I just needed to wait until he gave up and gave me the punishment I was suppose to get. We stared down at each other for a couple of minutes, his eyes never leaving mine, and for a while I thought we were going to stay like that forever, until he closed his eyes, and shook his head. "Go run ten laps around the camp and head to the showers, tomorrow I expect you to be here two hours early to receive a proper punishment." With that he turned and left, heading towards the showers himself.

I stretched for five minutes and once every muscle in my body begin to feel l loose, and my nerves had finally calmed down, I took my stance and ran. I ran past the the cabin I first entered, recalling the meeting with Pixis and how I hated that smile. Then I ran past by the two cabins I had found Aki wedged in between. I could still picture his awkward, short body cramped into that tight place. As I ran I forced myself to forget the nights events that had played out in my dreams. I didn't need to be reminded of them, I didn't need to start analyzing that life, or regretting it because it no longer mattered. I was here now, and the past is one of the many things humankind can not repair. So all we have to do is keep moving forward and hope that the next time we get to do things better.

Time passed and as I ran I soon forgot how many laps I had already run. I couldn't remember if I had run ten laps or more, but when I stopped I my legs ached and my calf muscles burned. In a lazy, slow way I dragged my body to the showers, taking my time in reaching the door, opening it, and heading towards the small lookers plastered on the wall. There the girls would keep an extra uniform to change into afterwards. Once I took the an extra uniform I head towards the shower area of the room.

The showers were empty, and all that was left behind were splash puddles on the ground. I came in and turned on the shower head. The water was icy cold, but even though there was no warm water I allowed the cool liquid to fall upon my pale skin. It felt relaxing and soothing to my aching muscles. I breathed a breathe of relief and simply stood under the comforting gush of water. My fingertips soon begin to wrinkle, and I knew I had to get out. So with slight reluctance I turned the knob to the right, blocking the water from exiting anymore. I changed back into a new pair of training clothes and got ready to go to class.

Leaving the showers, I headed towards the south wing of the camp. My hair was still wet and had water droplets falling from the tips towards the ground leaving behind a trail. The warm summer air grazed my skin causing uncontrollable goosebumps to appear. Soon I could see the cabin from afar, it was its usual wooden self, with big double doors, and a slightly broken step on its otherwise grand staircase. Climbing up its steps, I reached out with my hand to push open the door, when it suddenly opened itself out. I jumped back in reflex avoiding impact with the door, but what mostly shocked me was the person who had opened it. Right there, facing me, face to face, I was met with a pair of dust brown eyes, that belonged to the same ugly face of Erik.

He stood there at the entrance looking quite shocked, like he thought I had died, which I'm sure he did. "Is something the matter Sir," Erwin's voice rang out from behind the man, but Erik simply stayed frozen in place. I didn't know how to respond to this situation, I wasn't expecting on finding Erik in a place like this. He's face stood dumbfounded and and blank with confusion. "Sir, we must go on to the next building." Despite Erwin's coaxing for Erik to move on, he remain still, but I knew what Erwin meant by his words.

I slowly removed myself from the entrance taking small steps, and although it wasn't necessary to be so cautious I felt that if I did one wrong move it be all over for me. Once I was out of the way Erik seemed to have snapped out of his trans. Trying to regain his cool, he cleared his throat and made his way through the door. Afterwards a herd of well dressed women, and nicely groomed men followed behind. One by one they passed by me, I was quickly overwhelmed by the sudden intoxicating smell of perfume. The women, with their heads held up high glanced at me, but simply gave off a grunt of disapproval. The men on the other hand eyed me, but not all looked at me with the same eyes. Some would analyze my hips, my chest, and my wet hair. While others looked, smiled, and walked onward.

Within all of these strange creatures I could see Erwin walking right beside them, his eyes never wavering from what was in front of him. Even though you could see at first sight that he did not belong with such men or women he didn't wither in their presence, in fact he stood out more in a refined, elegant way.

"Aren't you coming in?" The voice behind me called out from inside the cabin. I turned around swiftly and entered the classroom. Once inside I was greeted by many different pairs of eyes. They followed be up from the entrance doorway towards the front of the room. I stood in front of the teacher and apologized for my tardiness. He did not excuse me though, after class I was to stay and clean up before going to lunch. Afterwards he spent the next ten minutes scrolling me and dictating the importance of being punctual. He's nagging got so irritating to the point that I could feel the eyes of the recruits burning holes onto my back. I kept myself preoccupied trying to pretend that I was reading in order to avoid the glares sent towards me.

It took our teacher quiet a while to get back on to topic, but once we started talking about the Titan's anatomy there was no way to stop him. I pretended that I was jotting down some notes like everyone else, but in reality I was just scribbling all over the page. My mind still hung in the air, I couldn't stop from drifting off to the side, ignoring the words of the teacher. Erik was here, here at the camp, the one person, the only one person who knows who I am, who can bring everything crushing down is here. He bought me, and all I can do is hope that he won't hold be against a deal that my parents made with his. Although all the evidence had been left behind wall Maria, Erik is still a wealthy man, a man who now has power. The only question left is whether or not he'll use it.

"Sina... Sina are you alright?" Aki's voice rang in my head as I snapped out of my thoughts. I quickly gathered all of my supplies and looked up. "Hey, you seem to be daydreaming, is everything alright?"

I stared at his face as he spoke those words. His eyes looked darker, as if a shadow was hanging over them. His forehead was wrinkled and he held this expression I've only seen a mother have when her child had fallen down at one of the market days back in Wall Maria and couldn't stop crying. Aki was worried. This revelation shocked me, no one ever before held this type of concern towards me.

"Um..Sina?" Aki's face changed from its usual tan self into a bright red color, I guess he noticed that I was staring at him.

Standing up I made my way around the rows of desks and headed straight towards the blackboard. Aki was still beside me, just that he was now looking a lot more flustered. "I have to clean up before I go. You should head on towards the dinning hall if you want to catch something to eat."

"But what about you! You missed breakfast, and I can't have you missing out on lunch too!"

"Aki, I.."

"Don't worry, I'll go bring us both something to eat and then I can help you clean up!" Before I could say anything else Aki had already disappeared leaving behind only the sound the double doors made when they closed.

Sighing to myself I grabbed one of the chalkboard erasers and started to erase the lesson, all the while trying to sound out the words in my head. The first word was corpse, and it took me like five tries, but I was eventually able to sound it out, and find it's meaning. Aki's lessons were really paying off, and as I started to become more engrossed in my duty of cleaning, I failed to hear the sound of the doors swinging open and then closing. By that time I had finished sounding out half of the words on the blackboard a hand was placed onto my shoulders. As if in on instinct I grabbed hold of the hand and twisted it. A loud groan of pain erupted from the hand's owner, and as I turned to look around I immediately dropped the hand and took a step back.

The man standing in front of me, holding onto his hand was none other, but Erik. "What the hell! That hurt!"

Despite his declaration of pain, I stood still, staring at him. My body had entered into shock. Unable to move I stayed still.

"I.. I thought you were dead. Thank god you're alright!" Releasing his injured arm he started to approach me, talking small steps towards me. His eyes shined as the light shinning through the windows illuminated his face. His smiling face, the same smile he used when he chose to buy me. "But what are you doing in here? Why didn't you look for me? I heard from that officer that you lost your family, but don't worry, I'll take good care of you." He was so close to me. I wanted to run away, but my feet stayed planted onto the floor boards. His hand came up to my face and caressed my cheek, as if I was something precious to him. Through the reflection in his eyes I could see myself. I looked pathetic in such a position. My eyes had once again converted themselves into marvels, glazed over.

"Sina, you may not know this, but I've always liked you since I was a child." I stayed silent. "My mother never let me talk to you though. She hated your family for having the audacity to live next to our house. I don't blame her though, compared to that small shack of yours our house was like a grand palace. But once I saw you coming out of your home dressed in that beautiful kimono of yours I fell for you. I thought that such beauty shouldn't be left to rot in such an ugly environment." Erik was now practically hugging me, his left hand rested onto my lower back while the other one remained on my cheek, gently messaging it.

His touched burned my skin, as if someone had just dumped acid onto my flesh. In fact at that moment I preferred to be buried alive then to have to go through this. His breath was brushing up against me. It felt disgusting. My hands turned into fists and I had the overwhelming need, necessity to strangle this man, to watch his body drop dead, lifeless. I wanted that ugly smile to be torn off from his face. My temper was rising in an alarming rate, the blood coursing through my veins was boiling, and ready to overflow. I raised my hand towards my pocket knife in my uniform, shaking in anger to act upon these feelings when I noticed someone else was in the room, that someone else had blue eyes.

Levi was standing by the door, his composure as straight and cool as always, but his indifferent stare was not evident on his face. Instead he held this glare with piercing eyes that even send chills through my body. His eyes, his stare was so cold, it froze the hot blood running under my skin. How long had he been standing there, how much had he heard, I didn't know. Staring back at him, I searched in his eyes for some sort of reaction, wondering what he was doing just standing there. During my moment of searching Levi's appearance for an answer Erik seemed to have gotten ahead of himself. The hand that had been messaging my cheek was now firmly placed onto my flesh, he was holding my face getting ready to enclose what little space was between us. With my resolve to kill him being diminished I panicked, I was ready to push him away, to jab the knife onto his back and run, to do anything. Scared I looked for Levi, asking what to do, but all he did was shake his head no, as if he knew what I was thinking of doing.

Everything passed by so fast: Erik's kiss, my heart beat stopping, Levis footsteps towards us. All I knew was that the second Erik left the room, the air returned to my lungs in one big gasp and my feet crumpled onto the ground. I felt so small, and my hands wouldn't stop trembling, but the most strange thing of all was the sudden appearance of tears dropping from my eyes. I was so shocked, so humiliated! A hand was then placed onto my shoulder, looking up I saw the person who stopped me from protecting myself, that prevented me from killing that bastard. His eyes once again were so hard to read. I growled at him, like an animal would, slapping away his hand I stood up, wiped the tears off my cheek, and ran.

This was the first time I showed such weakness, that I felt so exposed and emotionally torn. I felt like I was becoming someone else, someone who is too easily affected by this feelings,