Broken Hearts, Severed Limbs (Levi x OC x Erwin)

|1| No Regrets I

Several years later

The sound of someone banging on their door drew everybody's attention. It had been another day like all the rest of them. They had to fight their hardest for food and money. Up until this point, Levi had been continuously rubbing that old knife of his with a handkerchief, and Nathalie couldn't really help but stare at how many times he was going to rub clean that blade.

She knew he was a clean-freak, but sometimes it still surprised her. She almost leaned close and said sarcastically. "Is it clean yet?"

She'd never forget that deadly glare he shot at her from the corner of his eyes. "Not if I poke your eye out with it," His voice, colder than ice. It would provoke chills down her spine if she didn't know better.

Nathalie's smile did not disappear though and the two of them stared at each other. He had that cold look, and she had that smirk that drove him insane sometimes. But then the banging came from their door, and Furlan, Levi, and Nathalie all jumped on their feet with their daggers in their hands, cautiously approaching the door. Furlan turned at Levi and only when Levi nodded, did he open the door.

The three of them jumped out of the way when a ginger-haired girl landed on their floor with a cry, face down. She was holding something in her hug that the three of them couldn't quite make out.

Furlan sighed in relief as he pulled his knife away and Nathalie slipped her dagger back beneath her sleeve. "It's just a kid," Furlan said, though, Nathalie could tell she wasn't older than the girl.

"I... am not... a kid!" She cried out, looking up at the three friends with a glare.

Levi raised an eyebrow. "Is that so?"

"As a matter of fact, she doesn't seem to be older than me," Nathalie said as she leaned down and helped the girl sit on the floor. She was hiding something. Probably something that she had stolen. Nathalie raised an eyebrow. "You're being chased?"

"Uh..." The girl tensed up. She wasn't going to answer the question, was she?

Levi sighed. "Both being chased, and dirtying our floor," He crossed his hands against his chest. "Get the fuck out, now," he demanded and she shot him a glare before she tried to stand up and leave.

"That was kinda rude, you know," Nathalie gave Levi a look.

"Do I look like I give a fuck?" Levi frowned.

"Over there!"

A voice came from the outside and the girl tensed up again. Nathalie knelt beside her and patted a hand on her shoulder "We'll take care of that," she said with a smile and the girl sighed in relief.

"No, we won't," Levi frowned.

Nat looked up at him shooting him a glare. "Yes, we will,"

He sighed heavily, once again regretting taking her in that day. Levi walked over the door with Furlan and they looked outside at the three men that came running.

"Oi! You didn't happen to see a dirty little kid running this way, did you?" One of them asked. The men walked upstairs. "You guys are the thugs of this area?" But once they reached upstairs, they did notice the girl sitting by the floor. "I've found her!" the men laughed. "Are you guys friends, or something?"

"Nope," Levi answered.

"Then hand her over to us. She tried to get past the 11th Stairway without paying. Anyone who tries to pass without paying is being prosecuted, and you guys will be charged too for being her accomplice," The men explained but none of the three responded.