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

|2| No Regrets II

Nathalie always hated complicated missions like this one. Joining the Scout Regiment just for a job. She groaned. Two jobs actually. Retrieve some document, and kill a squad leader, Erwin Smith. It wasn't quite a piece of cake. Nathalie couldn't help but wonder what kind of document it was that a rich guy would need from a Scout Officer. She could only guess that it was an approval of the Scout Regiment's funds. She frowned. It wasn't a job she was fond of. The Scouts were the only Regiment that fought the inevitable threat, the Titans. It was a Regiment that needed all funding it could get.

But it was a job. She only cared about her friends' safety and finishing that job. The old man had promised them citizenship in the upper levels. They wouldn't have to return to that misty dirty place ever again.

What those people called training, it was nothing but a couple of hours of having fun with the ODM gear and slicing the throats of fake titans. Nathalie barely kept herself from yawning every five minutes. But at nights they'd climb at the rooftop and do nothing but stare at the vastness of the sky. Something that people above had taken for granted was so incredible for the four of them that they'd stay silent and just stare up.

Still, the days passed and the next Expedition was approaching. They had yet to find the document that they were supposed to retrieve. Erwin knew how to hide something well.

"We'll never find it. It's best to assume it isn't in his room," Levi said.

"It's very likely he's keeping it with him at all times," Furlan assumed. "Nat and I have come up with a plan. We could use the Expedition to our advantage,"

"Exactly," Nathalie started "Outside the walls, Erwin and everyone else will be too much focused on the Titans. We'll just have to wait for an opportunity,"

"Great idea!" Isabel said. "What do you think, Levi-bro?"

"Sure," Levi said before he stood straight and faced his friends. "But I'll be going alone,"

"What?!"

"You three just come up with an excuse to stay back," He added.

"There's no way I'm letting you go out there on your own," Nathalie gritted her teeth and approached him. Her fists clenched. "What if you don't come back?! Who's going to have your back out there?!"

"We've never even seen a real Titan. If I'm by myself I'll have fewer people to worry about," Levi said.

"How can you say that?! This is so unlike you! You won't know until we've tried!" Isabel protested.

"You're saying we can't handle it?" Furlan asked, both him and Nathalie and Isabel were offended.

"Exactly. I'm not going to lead any of you to your deaths. If you do not wish to stay behind, then we're done talking! We'll wait for another opportunity," Levi stormed off and Furlan growled. Isabel kicked the floor and Nathalie just crossed her hands against her chest as she watched him leave.

"No worries, I know just the thing," Nathalie said and the other two looked at her surprised. "I'll do the talking,"

He wouldn't be anywhere else but the rooftop where the four of them spent almost every night. Levi just sat at the edge of the building and he stared up but paid no attention to the stars anyway. He wasn't mad at them. He was mad at himself. He wasn't afraid that they wouldn't make it, he was afraid that he might be too weak to save them and bring them back safe and sound.

He didn't care about putting his own life. He could die today or tomorrow and he wouldn't give a damn about that, but he didn't want to live the rest of his life knowing that he was the one who had led to death the three people who meant most to him. He groaned and buried his face in his hands. He couldn't help but think of that. What was he going to do if any of that happened? How was he supposed to live with himself after that?