PROLOGUE

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It was noon, when a man suddenly walked beside a beautiful lake and deeply sighed right after he saw who he was looking for.

Sunlight was directly hitting her face as she was looking down at the lake in front of her while holding her red scarf that was around her neck.

"Mikasa..." He called, looking down at her who was sitting beside a lucent lake. She was looking at her own reflection, watching her tears fall from her face as she remembered everything that happened. She did not respond at anyone who tried to talk to her for the passed few days, not even Armin.

"You shitty brat, cut the crap out and return to the head quarters." He said, using his foul words without meaning to do it. He got pissed for not having any response coming from her, when he was standing a few steps away right at her back, trying his best to make the soldier worth a hundred ordinary soldiers come back to her senses.

Mikasa on the other hand, suddenly faced him with furrowed brows that made him surprised. Even though she was angry, she was crying. He knew she was.

"You have the guts to tell me those words? Shorty brat?" She said, before her angry expression shifted to a soft one and started to cry endlessly one again.

Levi sighed as he placed both of his hands on his waist as he faced the tree that was near them. He looked up in the sky and saw a bird that was flying before he remembered two important people in his life. Farlan and Isabel.

"Crying won't help you get him back." He said with his usual deep and calm voice. Mikasa looked at him as if he was the dirtiest and most cruel person that ever existed in the world.

"I don't need you here, Captain. You don't understand a thing." She said as she faced the Captain with her face full of tears, but with furrowed eyebrows and angry eyes.

"Cut the crap out with this drama." He said, not meaning anything at all. He remembered those eyes. Those furious eyes that made him remember of himself way back when he was on the same state where she was.

"You're the one who can understand her the most, Levi. Talk to her." Commander Erwin's words replayed on his head.

With his both hands on his waist while looking down at her, Mikasa stood up and faced her Captain with rage.

"You don't understand a thing how important he is to me Captain! You're pissing me off! He..." Mikasa started to burst but then suddenly break down right after she remembered the guy who she was most attached to. "Eren..." She said and looked down before she started to cry again. "He saved me when I was helpless. He is my only family left. I only wanted to be with him, yet, I can't."

"If only I could have saved him." She said as she started to kneel down while crying endlessly. Levi looked at her with his emotionless face, but deep within, those words were the ones that pulled the trigger to break down the walls that Levi had built a long time ago.

If only he could have saved Farlan and Isabel back then...

"What's done is done, Mikasa. We can't turn back time and do the things that we should've done." He said as he looked down at her with a dark face.

Mikasa looked up at him as he noticed the sudden change of his tone when he said those words. Shock, curiousity and confusion was what she felt.

Levi walked towards her and kneeled in front of her with one knee, before he grabbed her wrist and stood up. He pulled her up with him and turned his back on her.

"Let's go. Everyone's worried already." He said, while pulling her with him as he started to walk towards their quarters.

Mikasa was blown up on what she felt on what she saw and on what she remembered.

Levi, grabbing her wrist while she was helpless, made her remember about the day when she first met Eren, that made her tears endlessly fall from her eyes.

She was pretty sure that she saw it, but she could not make herself believe in it. As Levi turned his back on her, she saw a tear fell from his eye. She was so sure about it, but her mind was occupied with a lot of things at the same time.

Shock, for having Levi grab her wrist and pull him while walking.

Curious, on why would a tear fall from his eyes, and lastly...

Confused, on why she felt so comfortable with him holding her wrist, and with just that, her raging desire to take Eren back calmed down.

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Caution: This story will have its own twist and most of the details in the story will be made up by the author (Meaning: it might or might not happen in the original story of Isayama Hajime «but of course it probably won't»). Only some details will come from the original storyline of the manga.