Falco was sleeping peacefully as he took his seat before them.

"You killed everyone, Eren. Why are you keeping me alive then; to babysit them?" He sat on a chair, his hand over his forehead. "Just come back. End this. I know you can hear me."

Falco slowly opened his eyes; the sky was no longer dark. The sun was going to rise soon. His head was bursting; maybe it was the founder. It's presence ached every part of his body. It would always overwhelm him. His eyes went to his side, only to find Gabi sleeping next to him, holding his hand. He tried to get away from her, only to wake him up.

Gabi rubs her eyes as Falco nervously looks at her. "Hey um…"

"What?" Gabi asked him.

"Well, don't be angry with me, but I am sorry. You know that I have this habit of holding something during sleep." Gabi looked down.

"Oh, I am not angry at you for that. Just tell me this one thing: Does this happen to you only when I am around?"

"Of course not. "I don't know why."

"Okay, leave it; I want to discuss something more important." Gabi said before sitting up.

"Okay, what do you want to discuss?" Falco attentively said.

"I thought about what you said; I have no one else now, just you. You are correct; I want to live, but where will we live exactly?"

"Well, we can live with the Braus family." Falco suggested it to her.

"No, I don't think so. I killed their daughter. They may not show it to us, but they are still in pain. I will only salt their wounds."

"So what will we do then?" Falco asked her.

"Do you remember what you said on that island?"

"That we will live a long and happy life." Falco remembered the place where they were hiding with Colt when Marley attacked Singhashina.

Gabi suddenly stood up, sadness all over her face. "Remove the word 'long' now. We both only have 13 years now."

"Gabi, you don't know that."

"I am not a fool. I was turned into a pure titan. The only way to revert is to eat a shifter. And who would it be other than Reiner?" Falco tilted his head down. "In a way, this is good. At least we will go together."

"No, it isn't." Falco told her, but there was no reply from her. He didn't want this—to see his love die in such a short time. He felt hopeless. No matter what he did, he tried to take her place as the successor of armour, saving her again and again, and even shortening his own life. Still, it was better than the alternative.

"I don't know if we will be happy either. If they lock us inside a cell for the rest of our term or feed us to their men to claim the Jaws and the Armour for themselves,

"Well, let's hope for the best, and Mr. Yeager has promised to allow us to live there; by the way, where is he?" Falco says as he looks around for him. "We can ask him if..."

"Well, I think I made him angry, and he left us."

"What! Are you insane? He left us." He holds his head with both hands. "But he promised to take us with him."

"I do not think he can even take himself back. I feel that he is no longer sane now." Gabi said that, but Falco ignored her.

"He needs me to take him back to Paradis. We should wait; maybe he just went on a stroll, right, Gabi?"

Falco hopefully looked at her. Gabi knew she could not tell him what happened. She gave a simple nod. Falco sat down on the coarse ground, patiently waiting for Eren.

The sunrise began as orange light lit the sky. Falco was sitting on the ground, anxiously looking at the way Eren went. Gabi was walking around in circles. She periodically looked at Falco, whose condition was becoming worse and worse.

"Did Mr. Yeager abandon us? No, no…" Falco looked at Gabi and asked, "Where is he?"

"I…" Gabi sighed. "Think so." She looked in the direction, but saw no sign of Eren. "I am sorry."

"What will happen to us, Gabi?" Falco got up and walked to her. "What really happened between you?"

"It was just an argument."

"I don't think a mere argument will cause him to abandon us." Falco screamed at her. "Gabi, did you say something that upset him?"

"I already told you, it was just an argument. Stop blaming me. He is a crybaby; what is my fault?" Gabi said as Falco grabbed her hand.

"Gabi," he sniffled. "What will we do now?"

"I don't know." Gabi collapsed on the ground. "I just said that he did the rumbling for fun, and he snapped."

"You," Gabi looked up at Falco as his face twisted in anger. "Why can't you just shut your mouth when things are not in your favour? You are so reckless." He turned around as Gabi could only listen to him: "You went to that bloody airship, shot Miss Braus dead, then killed that guard, then provoked Mr. Nicolo to hit me and put Zeke's fluids in me. And now, our only ticket to safety has left us here to die." He began panting, stress giving him a headache. He looked back at Gabi, still on the ground, her eyes on the ground.

"Maybe you are correct. I am the worst person who has ever lived. I just give everyone suffering." She looked at Falco. "You are correct; I killed Colt. I am sorry; it should have been me instead of you who should have been hit with that bottle." She lowered her head and said, "How good it would have been if that redhead just threw me off that airship. At least no one would suffer because of me."

Falco kneeled down, regretting everything. Cursing himself for hurting Gabi, he took her hand, holding it gently. "No, you didn't kill Colt. Gabi, look at me, please." He held her chin and turned her face towards him. "I am so sorry; you didn't wrong me." He hugged her. "I am sorry; I love you. I will never talk to you this way again."

"Falco," she said, tightening her embrace, "we will go to Paradis; we will face whatever will come together." She felt Falco breathe heavily. "I will protect you."

"Thanks Gabi." Falco suddenly sneezes. Gabi let him go as she looked at him. His nose was red as cold was dripping from it.

"You got a cold. Not surprised though; this blanket was useless anyway."She got up and walked to the bag, unzipping it. "Let's see if there is something to keep you warm." She said this as she started searching for the bag. "Okay, there are a lot of things: packaged food, some fruits, water bottles. What the!" She pulled out a pistol. "It's loaded, what he was thinking; no one is left to shoot, animals included."

"Gabi, leave that thing. You may hurt yourself." Falco warned her.

She stuffed it back before continuing to search. There were some more useless trinkets. She started searching other pockets until, from the smallest one, she pulled a red scarf out.

"I think this would do. It looks familiar, though." She said this as she moved towards Falco.

"You know," she said as she wrapped the scarf around him. "Let them do anything with us—lock us up, kill us, feed us to a titan. It's fine till we are together in it."

"What if they kill one of us and keep the other?"

"Then I will turn that paradise into hell." She laughed as she completed wrapping. "Aw! You look cute in it." She brushed his hair as the scarf now covered his whole neck and his mouth.

"Thank you, Gabi. It is warm."

"Falco, Gabi." Both looked behind Falco. Eren was standing on his knees, panting like he didn't. His uniform was stained by red dust. "I am sorry; I left you both without saying anything. It will never happen again." Eren looked at them. He gave a sigh. The children were safe. "I guess we should now leave."

He got up, looking at Falco. His eyes suddenly went to the scarf, covering his neck.

"That scarf, where did you get it?" He looked at the scarf as an unknown but oddly familiar voice called his name within his mind.