~ Outside ~

When he parted the kiss and told her that they should wait, she nodded, disappointed but knowing he was right. She had been about to turn to lay down on the bed when he kissed her. Oh how the kiss felt on her lips!

Annie's back arched as she tried to quickly press herself into his body, eye closed and her hand trying to go for his cheek but he parted quickly, leaving the girl making kissing motions with her mouth until she opened her eye.

Watching him leave, she stayed knelt on the edge of the bed for a little while, hoping he would come back but he did not. Laying back on the bed, she ran three fingers over her lips and smiled softly; so this was what it felt like to be kissed, she liked it. She wanted more.

Maybe this guy wasn't an enemy, maybe he was different to everyone she'd seen. She had noted it over their time together but she had always seen him as 'one of them', one of her lost people who needed to be killed. She had imagined the day when the invasion came and she, charging through the streets in her Titan form, killing and butchering the people...

She had seen him in her dream, she had killed him in many different ways but now, she felt guilty for that. He was a genuine nice person. She did not want him to die.

However, he had left her unsaited and she did not know the name of this feeling, however she knew how to fix it. From her room, Matias would hear quiet murmuring moans and squeaking of the bed as Annie 'calmed herself'. He'd even catch the briefest "oh Matias!" s her whimpering moan reached a high point before silence.

The next morning, Annie was dressed and stood by the window, hidden out of sight by her training but she was watching everyone outside. It had been a weeks since she'd been outside, she wanted to go out. She hadn't even opened the window in case someone heard her or saw her.

Her foot was back now, her arm and eye were still missing but that could be easily covered with a bandage over her face and a long sleeve shirt. There were still hundreds of injured and maimed people from her attack so she would not look out of place if she did go out undercover.

"Morning." She smiled softly at Matias, a certain change in her mood, she never really smiled like this. "Do you think... we can go out today?" She asked nervously, knowing his answer already but wanting to ask and try.

A little relief and a little disappointment went through the older man as he looked at Annie. She was standing again but her arm was still gone and he had a feeling her eye was still gone too. It meant that he'd have to wait for them to heal before they could really go anywhere.

He shook his head at the thought of going out with her and as Annie turned to speak with him, he tried to ignored all the 'noises' he'd heard the previous night popping back up in his mind. Though they came back as she softly smiled at him, the sight he'd never seen before jump starting his heartbeat.

She looked completely different and beautiful when she smiled.

It took him a moment to respond to her question as a result, the tray he'd been holding put down before he walked over to Annie.

"Sorry I don't think so. I know that you might think your wounds will help you blend in but those people out there know each other by appearance, someone new with wounds as bad as those will stick out. Not to mention once your wounds heal you won't be able to go out at all since normal people can't regenerate. However with all that said!"

He smiled and pointed to his own hair. "I think that once your eye and arm have returned, we can give you a little makeover with a new haircut. Also!" He moved his hand to his hip as his other hand pointed over his shoulder.

"If you want we can go to the garden on the roof. It might not be much, but you can get some fresh air and sun. How does that sound? Good?"

Annie sighed, knowing she wouldn't be able to go out today made the smile disappear from her face, it was a brief moment that it had appeared and it had been crushed by her hopes of at least going out around the shops for an hour or so. Just to get some fresh air.

However, going on to the roof was the best she would get so she would take it.

"Sure. I guess." She turned back to the window and closed it gently with her one hand, sitting on the bed and staring at the floor. She had considered cutting her hair, it would help her blend in and hide but she liked her style; she'd kept this for years; it reminded her of her heritage.

Annie decided right there and then that tonight when he left, she was going to go out for a bit. Screw him not letting her out.

Matias watched Annie's smile and hopes literally shatter with a blank expression that turned into a flat grimace. His shoulder sagged and he sighed as his attention fell to the ground and a couple of different ideas ran through his head.

He did have a jacket with a hood and they could make the arm look like it had a cast on it, not to mention the eye wasn't that hard to explain if she wore a bandage.

"Fine you win. We'll go out." He said grabbing at his hair, running through it violently and then releasing a long sigh. His eyes fell on her with a smaller smile and a hand on his hip. "You're lucky that I like seeing you smile."

Matias turned around and then left the room for a brief moment before coming back with a hooded coat and some bandages along with the things to make a fake cast.

"Alright, here's the deal. We're only going to stay in this neighbourhood and possibly go shopping. I don't want to even risk running into someone in the Military Police or Gods help us Survey Corps. Also…" He crossed his arms over his chest and raised a brow as he stared at her hair.

"Don't cut your hair or anything just yet but do something a little unexpected like let it down. If someone sees you from afar with the hood down you'll have a better chance of not getting caught without the little top knot at the back."

Annie looked up as he said they were going out, standing up she walked over and took the jacket off him.

"Don't worry, if I get caught, I can run, they wont catch me or I can kill them." She suggested. "Worse case scenario I shift and make a run for the walls again. I'm not fully healed but I can make it to the second wall, then from there I'm only having to hide from Titans." Annie explained to him as she put on the fake cast and hid it in the sleeve of her jacket, pulling up the hood and making sure she was hidden from view. She then applied the bandage over her face hiding her empty eye socket with a believable reason of 'it's hurt and needs to be kept covered'.

By the time he was ready to go, she was stood by the door waiting, a soft smile on her face, almost like a dog waiting to go out for it first walk of the weekend.

Outside she kept close to him, she had liked to go to specific stores and shop when she was free to do so but now half of them were destroyed or were out of business thanks to the damage she and Eren wrecked. There were still a couple of wanted posters for her on the wall which she made a sly comment of 'They drew my face all wrong. My nose isn't that crooked.' She chuckled softly at her slight joke.

She did not try to run away nor did she try to flee and instead kept close to him.