The Commander's Neice A Levi x reader fanfiction
“Look what I did Mother!” I yell from the kitchen table, holding up the book of pressed flowers.
“Oh, wow Honey, that’s great!” Mother claps her hands.
“That’s Really amazing Kiddo.” Father ruffles my hair as he steps in through the door, his uniform covered in dirt.
“Hank!” Mother says, bringing her hand up to his jacket. “What happened?”
“Oh, the usual.” He brushes it off as if it’s no big deal.
“For goodness sake Hank.” Mother pinches the bridge off her nose. “You need to learn to stand up to the general public.”
“I do, but it’s a tad difficult when your superiors tell you to grin and bear what ever they throw at you, even if it is physical dirt.”
“Honestly, people are so cruel to the MPs.” Mother rolls her eyes.
“With good reason.” Father replies. “I’ve seen the way they think and it’s disgusting.”
I’m cut off by a sharp knock on the door.
“Who could that be?” Mother says, walking to the door. with a click she opens it. “Hello, what-?”
All three of us are cut off my mother stumbling and falling onto her back.
I look over the table at the now still silhouette of my fallen mother, gushing blood from her chest.
Father grabs me by the arm and pulls me close to his side as we look at my mother’s killer. My breaths are sharp and shallow. He doesn’t bother to ask another question, we step back, allowing a safe distance between the two of us.
We stand in a line on top of wall Maria, the stench of sweat and smoke, thick.
I look over at my squad; Marco, Jean, Reiner and Bertoldt. We fasten our gear into place, the leather pinching at the skin.
“You gonna be alright?” I hear Eren say from behind, I whip around to see the three of them beside each other. They wear worried expressions, even Mikasa who never seemed to warrant any kind of expression.
“Alright? Of course, I’m gonna be alright. When was the last time I wasn’t alright?”
“She has a point.” Armin shrugs. “I still can’t quite believe this is happening.” The last part had a tinge of fear.
He has a point, less than five years ago; we were safely house within the confines of Shiganshina where our biggest worry was how much we were going to have to eat that week, or where to get the best firewood.
It’s funny, but less than five years ago, I wouldn’t have even dreamed of joining the corps, but now here I am seconds away from risking my life for humanity. I can’t decide whether that makes me brave or foolish.
“We’ve got this, guys.” I say as confidently as I possibly can. “I mean, it’s just like training right? Except, instead of wooden cut outs, we’re fighting moving targets.”
“Yeah, moving targets who’ll devour us if we make one wrong move.” Armin says morbidly.
“Well, that’s true but at least we know what we’re doing.”
“Not exactly.” Mikasa Lectures. “We’ve only been at it for one day, the chances of us surviving this with the level of skill we have is unlikely.”
My heart drops. She was right. I barely knew how to use the blades, let alone slay an actual titan. What would that mean for us? I’m not ready to slay anything yet, I just wanted at least one more week.
“Mikasa’s right.” Armin trembles. “There’s no way we can make it out of this. They wanted soldiers, no matter what level of skill, just as many soldiers as possible.”
“Of course not!” Eren snaps through our tension. “I’m going to kill every last titan on this planet until there’s none left.”
“I like your…optimism Eren.” I place a hand on his shoulder. “But, what have we got going for us?”
“That’s why we’re not going to die, got it?” Eren grabs me by the shoulders, pinning his gaze on me.
“That’s very optimistic of you, Eren.” Mikasa says calmly.
I look over at the rest of my squad who stand side by side at the edge of the wall, looks like that’s my que.
“Please don’t die, that goes to all of you.” I raise an eyebrow. “And for the love of god, please keep Eren from doing anything stupid. I don’t want him to be crushed by a falling building or devoured by a titan because he dropped one of his blades.”
“Will do.” A smile tugs at Mikasa’s lips. “The same goes to you as well.”
I trot over to my squad, squeezing between Marco and Reiner. I look down at the town below us, the place crawling with titans. Their movements are scarily human like, walking on two legs as if they’re regular people going on with their day to day life. It sends a spark of dread through me.
“Awful, isn’t it?” Reiner scowls, looking over the wall.
Marco and I crane our necks at the blonde. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Reiner smile since we got here, he spent most of his time with Bertoldt, it was like they were inseparable.
“What are the chances of us trainees surviving this?” I ask, my voice wavering.
“Not likely.” Reiner replies. “We’ve been training for barely twenty-four hours, we don’t know how to properly kill a titan.”
“Don’t be like that.” Marco sighs. “Being pessimistic won’t get you anywhere in life.”
“That’s not true; I’m either right or pleasantly surprised.”
“That’s a very optimistic way of looking at pessimism.” I reply.
“Whatever happens, at least we’re doing our bit for humanity.” Bertoldt says absentmindedly.
“True.” I say, “But I don’t know about you guys; but I’d like to live to see tomorrow. So, I’d appreciate it if we’re a little more light hearted about the situation.”
“Right cadets!” We hear a loud, yet raspy voice booms. We look over to see a garrison solder stride over to us. “Are you ready for the most important moment of your life?”
“Commander Pixis!” Reiner straightens up.
“He’s a commander?” I whisper to Marco.
“Oh yes, they say he’s a little odd, but he’s very good at what he does.”
“Sir, with all due respect: what are you doing here?” Bertoldt asks.
“Commander Erwin Cannot make it today, he’s been called elsewhere. He sends his apologies.”
“Not being funny, but as the commander of the scouts, he should be here.” I mutter.
“Everything’s ready, we’re just waiting for the signal.” Pixis strolls across the wall.
My heart leaps in my throat. I can feel the second hand fear from everyone else. I’m not quite sure what I expected when I signed up, but it definitely wasn’t this.
A shoot of gas jolts through my ears. My head snaps to the side to see a green flash in the sky.
“Okay troops, on my signal.” Pixis draws his blade.
I draw my blade, my fingers run down the flat part of the metal. Every second that seems to pass feels like a minute. My breath quickens as I watch as the titans move closer to the wall. They’ve spotted us!
“To war!” Was all commander Pixis had to say before we leap off the wall, I glide to a nearby roof, followed by Marco who perches on a chimney.
“What do we do now?” Marco panics.
“We survive.” I say simply. “We’re not going to be much use to humanity if we’re dead.”
“You have a point there, but how can we survive when we barely know how to kill a titan.”
“It’s can’t be that hard.” I shrug. “All we have to do is watch someone else do it.”
I look up to see what seems to be one of our soldiers. They advance to a nearby titan and slice the back of its neck, the titan falls to the ground with a crash. I stumble back in awe.
“So, that’s how you do it.” I say looking over my shoulder.
“(Y/N), don’t you think we should find our squad?” Marco asks. “They went off without us.”
“I expect they’ll find us.” I reply. “I kind of don’t want to leave.”
“I’m going to look for them. I’ll bring them back here when I find them, okay?”
I nod. “Thank you, Marco. Stay safe.” I Step forward, wrapping my arms around his torso, bringing him into a tight hug, which he gladly reciprocates.
“You too, (Y/N).” And with that, he steps over to the edge of the roof and glides off.
I lean against the chimney carving a nearby brick into something with my blade. I wonder what Eren, Mikasa and Armin are doing. Are they still alive? I look down to my pendant. Who could my ‘distant relative’ could be? I know that it’s someone from the corps. Mind you, in don’t think I’ve ever properly met anyone from the corps yet.
I’m snapped back into reality, by a very familiar scream. I jump to my feet peering over the side of the roof.
Sure enough, I see Reiner gripped in the clutches of one of those beasts.
“Reiner!” I scream out to him.
“(Y/N)! Oh my god (Y/N)! I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy to see someone in my life.”
I leap to the other roof, the chords pulling me along. The titan clocks me and reaches out for me with its free hand, I narrowly miss the swipe and push my self to the back of its neck and slice with all my might. The titan falls to the ground along with Reiner.
I glide down to his side, prying him out of the fallen monster’s claws.
“I think I saw my life flash before my eyes.” Reiner says, his eyebrows knit together.
“Marco went off, looking for you and Bertoldt. Have you seen him?”
Reiner swallows, from what I can only assume is fear. “No. he hasn’t shown up yet.”
“That’s strange. I would’ve thought he’d have found you by now. You were pretty close.” My eyes widen. “You don’t think he’s got himself killed, do you?”
“Come on now.” Reiner chuckles nervously. “He may be a trainee, but his good at what he does. I’m sure he hasn’t died. He wouldn’t do something as foolish as that.”
“Perhaps you’re right.” I wipe away the slight tears from my eyes. “Where’s Bertoldt?”
“I don’t know. He went off north from here and I don’t know where he went.”
“Well, that’s just fantastic.” I sigh, “Our entire squad is in shambles and if we can find them; we aren’t going to stand a chance.”
“Okay, I have a plan.” There’s a small piece of glass that seemed to have come from a mirror. Reiner snaps it in half and gives one to me.
“Okay, you look for Marco and I’ll look for Bertoldt. When one of us finds them, we shine it and the other will come find it. Deal?”
I nod, taking the piece of glass and putting it in my breast pocket.
“Right, stay safe and stay hidden.” Reiner sighs. “Heaven knows, we don’t need any more casualties.”
I jump to my feet and swing through the town, jumping across building to building.
“Where are you Marco?” I mutter desperately.
I feel a tug at my wires, as if someone wanted to pull me down.
The entire world shakes violently and I feel a sharp pain in my thigh. When I twist my body to get a better look my right trouser leg is soaked in blood, I try to put weight on it I feel the jagged pain all over again.
Every part of the world around me rings and I look around anxiously for what could have injured me. I know full well that it was definitely a titan attack, but the question is; where?
The buildings around me aren’t very sturdy. Glass rains down on me as I hear large footsteps grow louder.
I cover my head in an attempt to shield myself from the shards, crouched on the ground and waited for what was to come next, and sure enough; it came.
Around the corner, strides a ten-metre titan, it’s mouth is twisted into a twisted grin. The titan’s appearance was nothing like I had seen before. A pale complexion and covered head to toe in burns. It eyes me up as if I were a banquet. Going by the way things are going, I think I just might be.
Unable to move, I sit and wait for the beast to approach me. is this my final hour?
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