Clemency (Reiner x reader x Bertholdt)

Chapter two: Sharing...

I am alive...

How much does deciding how to kill me takes? I ask myself, while I make a small braid with a lock of hair.

The door opens, caughting my attention inmediatly.

Its Bertholdt again. He has new tray, looks like a breakfast to me, Its a boiled egg and a piece of bread with a glass of milk. He bends and and puts the tray on my hands, I see there is no knife...looks like he already taked precautions. 

He proceeds to sit next to me.

I start eating while he stares at me, I still think about what happened yesterday, but I was starving... so instead of asking what I'm thinking I just start to pack bread into my mouth. I glare to him in confussion noticing his griefly eyes. Maybe the reason was what happened with the knife thing...I think with my eyes looking solidely to the ground. When my gaze focuses on him again a change in his factions is remarkable.

Dazed but decided I ask. 

"W-whats wrong?"

He directs his look to the front, avoiding my curious peep.

"Just noticed your braid..." He says oculting his face behind his shoulder.

 I continue eating thinking of hidden face, I can see his gaze stills slightly over me. Whem Im done I give him the tray back... and notice a slim smile in his large face. 

I smile back awkwardly.

"Yesterday the sky was clear" He asks a bit sweaty, trying hardly to make a normal conversation. 

I got to say he is bad at it.

We stare for a few seconds. "I would love to see the starry night sky one more time before I go." I response melancholic.

"Uh, why is that?" Bertholdt says.

 "When I was little my mother and I used to watch the stars every single night... the first of us who watched a shooting star, made a wish." I tell him with a wistful voice. 

"That's sweet..." He responses looking to my lips, he quickly looks elsewhere when he caughts me watching him. I touch his hand and I can see how he slightly jumps in surprise.

I thanked him, for the meal and for listening. 

He stands up smiling, opens the door and closes it behind him.

I sigh.

I'm satisfied...
But.

Why he was trying to be nice to me? Why he tries to talk to me like it was all normal? Why all the interest in me?
Maybe that is his way to "try" to get information from me, information I do not possess.

But even so...I'm not falling for that shit.

Minutes later the door opens. Its Bertholdth again, his eyes are wide open and a bit watery accompanied with a dismal expression. Disoriented, I stand making the chains produce their sound a little, I was about to ask him what was going on.

He walks in, not so much later behind...Reiner. I start to tremble, this is the moment...they are about to kill me. Reiner's face expression is enraged for a strange reason, his tin brows are shirked and I can see his neck veins stand out.

I close my eyes expecting for my life to end quickly and without pain.

"We need answers about who sent you" Reiner suddenly spokes.

I open my eyes feeling a bit dissapointed, answers? I don't have any...now what? I think.

"And for being sure you are speaking with the truth..." He reveals a whip. 

I can see he is boiling inside, a angriness towards me I could not understand well. He wants to get answers of things I don't know anything about.

"I didn't wanted to do this Y/n, but you left no choice." he continues talking.

Bertholdt stands in front of me "Sorry..." He says, while he makes me sit on my knees unbuttoning my shirt and taking it away. I am completely overwhelmed, cold hits my back while I look at him with tearful stare, he avoids eye contact with me. 

His face is troubled. 

He proceeds to chain my hands up... My arms are hanging and my back is strangely relaxed, you can almost tell I am dead. Bertholdt walks to a corner in the room. I start to hear Reiner coming closer to me, tears roll down my face and splash into the ground, my trembling increases and increases. My agitated breathing is cutted as I feel how he softly touches my shoulder . 

"I'm sorry." he says "But I need to know the truth." taking three short steps back.

He gives a first smack with the whip, I struggled... and tried to not cry, bitting the insides of my cheeks. 

"Who sent you?" He proceeds to ask.

 I cry and say in a very low tone "No on-" He whips me again, clearly he wants me to state out loud, with no doubt...his strength is enough to kill me with just whip...So I answer with a higher tone quickly.

 "No one"

"Why you were spying on us?" He asks. 

"I w-wasn't" I response while fat tears and drool travel my chin. He whips me two times in a row. I scream, looking to another direction... Looking at Bertholdt standing and shaking with a hand in his forehead. 

"What where you doing in the branch above us then?" Reiner asks with a desperate tone of voice, like he was running out of time. "I was resting, I-I lost...my squad in the same expedition both of you were in...I didn't even know you were there...I was just trying to catch up with my partners." I say with cutted-off breathing.

He stands quiet... trying to hear more of my response.

I don't say anything else..."How much did you heard?" He asked with a deep cold voice holding the whip tightly.

"That you are capturing Eren." I bend my hand down whining in pain.
My back burns like pure steaming firewood. 

When I thought my torture was over Reiner starts whipping me over and over again. I scream in misery while I hear the stunning sound of the whip colliding onto my skin. The physical suffering sounds released from my mouth are high pitched and continous.

"STOP IT REINER!" Bertholdt screams worried and grabs both of Reiner's arms from behind, blocking him from whipping my back more. I am crying in pain as I feel blood and sweat sliding down my back as I shiver in my knees.

My vision is blurry, all I can do is hear is Reiner breathing heavily while Bertholdt is screaming at him... I hear the whip falling into the ground with a hollow sound. My hair is completely wet and my limbs are looking like they were boneless, just like a corpse or an animal hanging in a slaughterhouse.

I feel how Bertholdt unchains me puts me carefuly in the ground, I hear steps coming out of the room and then coming back. Then, how he covers me carefully with blanket.  "You'll be okay, just keep yourself together a little longer" he says with a shaky and fragile tone.

"Just a little longer."

That words were the last words I hear before blacking-out.