"Come on, Natalie!" Mabel yelled as her feet ran in the field.

"I can't or else my dress with get stuck!" Natalie yelled back.

As the two little girls played in the field, a boy with h/c hair and e/c eyes scowls at them while he lets out a tch.

"You Eldian little girls need to get out of this field. I was here first! I'll report you and make you go to paradise!" the boy, also known as Kenneth, yelled.

Mabel stopped her laughing and smiling and froze at the mention of paradise. Her blonde locks fell down her back and her green hues widened in fear as she look at the boy.

"W-We're sorry! We'll go!" Mabel squeaked. "Come on! Let's go, Natalie!"

"Hah! That's right! You get goin'! I'll make you pure Titans you and you'll eat all the Eldians on that island like your ancestors did to the whole world! Bahaha!-"

"Good."

Kenneth's sadistic laughing stopped as Natalie turns around with a scowl and gritted teeth.

"Send me to paradise! I'll make sure to devour you first!" Natalie barked back as her brown hair waved back and forth everytime she stomped, her fierce carmel eyes glared at the Marleyian boy.

Kenneth was surprised at first but then smirked, "Good. I'll make sure you and your cute friend along with you're guy's family get sent to paradise where you'll be pure Titans forever and ever and ever." Kenneth taunted.

"Natalie! Stop it!" Mabel pleaded but Natalie didn't listen.

"A thing about Natalie is that she is persistent and holds her ground. If she believes in something, she'll make sure she shows that she is right. Not only that, Natalie is short-tempered and hot-headed which reminds of you, Eren."

"No way! Whatever, we'll leave but only because we don't wanna' be around you Marleyans!" Natalie yelled back and stuck out her tongue before stomping the other way.

"Don't say "Marleyans" like it's a bad thing! You would kill to be me, hah!" Kenneth smirked.

Natalie then stopped in her tracks and looked back at Kenneth with a scowl.

"Like I'd ever want to be you." Natalie said in a low tone.

"Natalie!" Mabel called out.

"Damn you Eldians!" Kenneth cursed then started chasing after Natalie.

"Come on, Mabel!" Natalie smirked as she pulled Mabel's arm while they were running from the angry Marleyan boy, Kenneth.

"Natalie! You have to stop! You're going to get us killed!" Mabel said with a distressed face.

"Don't worry. Just think of it as a game of tag." Natalie smirk

They then ran through the alley ways and bridges of the Liberio Internment Zone. Natalie and Mabel did parkour while Kenneth still chased behind them.

"Come catch me, l/n!" Natalie taunted.

"I'll kill you Eldians!" Kenneth yelled.

After jumping over many bridges and running through many fields, Natalie and Mabel's running stops when they are in an alleyway and they bump into three men. They look up and see they are in Marleyan uniforms.

Mabel's already distressed face becomes more wide to see the men glaring down on them. Natalie was also scared too.

"What are you Eldian kids doing?" one of them asks.

"I..." Natalie tried to speak but nothing came out of her mouth. She then looked behind to see if Kenneth was there but he was no where in sight.

"Oi. Look at this blondie brat. Where's her armband?" the man asks.

Natalie's eyes widened as Mabel gasp in fear to see her armband that classified her as an Eldian wasn't there. If Eldians take off their armbands, they are immediately sent to paradise even if they are kids.

"Well, well, well, what's your name missy." a fat Marleyan soldier asks as he bent down to Mabel's level.

"M-Mabel Cu-Custer..." she surprisingly managed to say as she was still in trepidation.

The Marleyan soldier let out a chuckle as he stood up, "Gather the Custer family and send them off to paradise. What a pity, foolish girl."

Immediately tears started going down Mabel's face and agonizing screams came out of her mouth as one of the guards started to restrain her.

"THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT, NATALIE! IF ONLY YOU WOULD'VE LISTENED TO ME, ME AND MY FAMILY WOULDN'T HAVE TO BE SENT TO PARADISE! THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!" she screamed. To the name Natalie, one of the guards there flinch and looked at the girl with slightly wide eyes.

"I... I'm sorry... Wait! Don't send her to paradise! We were running around and I purposely took off her armband! I am an orphan from the Eldian orphanage in the internment zone! So if I take her punishment, you wouldn't have to waste your time on shipping so many disgusting and terrible Eldians! It would just be me! It was I who took her armband off! Send me to paradise!" Natalie yelled as tears strolled her cheeks.

It was silent for a moment as all eyes were on Natalie before one of the guards cleared his throat.

"What is your name." the guard ask.

"Natalie Meier..." Natalie answered and the guard's eyes widens even more. After awhile of staring at her he gets back into his stoic expression.

"Send the Custers' to paradise but the girl lives." the guard orders.

"What? Why, Kruger? Wouldn't it be more fun with two little girls eating up the people of Paradis?" the guard chuckled but despite the joke, the so called man named Kruger didn't laugh but still kept his stoicness.

"What did she do wrong? She's not the one who took off her armband." Kruger said while lighting a cigarette.

"What do you mean? She said she took off the blondie's armband. She said she'll take that girl's punishment." the fat one said.

"That was a lie." Kruger said as he tapped the cigarette to make the ashes of it fall. "A sacrifice to save a friend. It was obvious with the look on her face." Natalie looks at the man confused.

"I remember when Natalie told me this story. It reminded me so much of Faya. Everyone in the restorationist room was tearing up and Dina was crying on my shoulder when listening to this story. It was truly tragic."

The other guards gave Kruger, who was causally smoking a cigarette, unsure looks. When Kruger took note of this, he sighed.

"Wouldn't it be better to also see this girl suffer from having the guilt of killing her best friend?" Kruger asks and Natalie glares up at Kruger and grits her teeth.

"Hah! You're always the best at human torture, Kruger... Well I'll give it to you. I'll take her back to the orphanage-"

"No I will." Kruger cut him and put a hand on Natalie's back. "Let's go."

~*~

The walk was silent as the tall man and the little girl walk side by side to the orphanage Natalie goes to.

"So how old are you, Natalie?" Kruger asked as he let the smoke from the cigarette flow into the air.

"Fourteen..." She answers.

"Its been that long...?" Kruger says under his breath. Sooner or later, they were at the gate way of the orphanage.

"Follow me." Kruger says as he walks to the bench next to the gate way of the orphanage. Natalie gave an unsure and confused look but complied.

They sat down on the bench as Kruger smoked more of the cigarette.

"Do you remember anything about your parents, Natalie?" Kruger asks.

"All I remember is that I had a mother named Emily Meier but... people said she's dead. Too bad that she was classified as an Eldian, though." Natalie answered.

"Emily Meier... Dirty blonde hair and brown eyes, aye?" Kruger asked and Natalie looks at him with wide eyes.

"That's what it seems like according to the photographs... how did you know?!" Natalie asked while screaming in his face which he only responded with a chuckle.

"You act like her too."

Natalie's eyebrows scrunch.

"You knew my mother?" Natalie asked.

"I did. I have a secret to tell you. Can I trust you?" Kruger asked.

"Depends..." Natalie responds.

"My name is Eren Kruger. I'm your father. Me and Emily were together and had you but she was later killed by Marley soldiers after having you, simply because she was an Eldian. I then got the power of the Attack Titan which dwells within me currently. I anonymously lead an Eldian restorationist organization. If you don't want anyone to end up like Mabel and the Custer family simply for taking off her armband that proves she a descendant of Ymir, lend me your strength and join and patriots. There, I want you to lead as well and help the Eldian Empire regrow again. Will you do so, Natalie Kruger?" Eren asked.

Natalie stares at him with wide eyes as she digested everything she took in from him. But her surprised expression turns into her normal determined one.

"Only if I go by Natalie Meier." she slightly smirked and Eren let out a scoff.

"I was going to order you to do that anyways. Nobody can know I am an Eldian. Understood?" Eren asks and Natalie nodded.

~*~

Natalie was finally twenty and still leading the Eldian restorationist with the help of her father; the Owl. Many people looked up to her and her leadership. She was seen as a strong women who held her ground through the end.

After the meeting ended, Natalie got up and left as she walked the ghostly streets of Liberio until she felt a pair of eyes on her.

"If you want to come out just do so." Natalie says aloud and there, a handsome young man steps out of the shadows and towers over Natalie.

"Kenneth?" Natalie asked.

"Hello, Natalie. It's been six years, hasn't it?" Kenneth asked.

Boiling rage and anger stirred up within Natalie as she remembered what happened to Mabel and the Custers. "You shouldn't be talking to an Eldian like me. You said you'd ship me off to paradise, didn't you? Well look, you got the whole Custer family dead." Natalie growled as she tried walking away from Kenneth.

"Wait! Please! Let's just talk." Kenneth said with a sincere and sad expression. Natalie looks at him stoically.

"Fine."

~*~

They stared out into the ocean where the starry night and the moon reflected it's light on it.

"What is it you wanted to talk about, Kenneth?" Natalie broke the silence.

Kenneth took a big sigh, "I'm sorry."

Natalie scoffed and rolled her eyes, "That's all? If you're expecting me to forgive you that you are terribly wrong and mistaken-"

"I'm sorry!"

Natalie's eyes turn wide as Kenneth grabbed her by the shoulders and looked in her eyes as tears poured from his.

"I was there the whole time! Just behind the wall of alleyway! I heard everything the guards said and how they shipped the whole Custers to paradise! Natalie, the reason why I would always bully you is because... I liked you! Me, a Marleyan boy liked an Eldian girl! I thought the only way to prevent my feelings to grow was to bully you to convince myself that I had no reason to like you! Ever since the day I heard Mabel died, I could only think how wrong Marley is! I voiced my opinion at a family dinner by accident and my family disowned me in fear of them getting all killed. This is what Marley does to us! Please, my sin is so grave I think about all sorts of ways to die!" Kenneth yelled and Natalie's eyes widened even more than it should have as her heart stammered by every word that came out of his mouth.

Natalie than brought Kenneth into a hug which Kenneth melted into as he sobbed on her shoulder.

"You think... Marleyans and Eldians should be treated equally despite the sins of our ancestors?" Natalie asks him.

"I do."

Natalie then pulled out of the hug and looked at his face. "I know I shouldn't trust you fully but... I have a good instinctive feeling I should. There is an Eldian Restorationist organization I am in. Join it and help the Eldian Empire." Natalie says and Kenneth nods.

"After Kenneth joined the Patriots, not soon after I did as well and so did Dina. Me and Dina had a child named Zeke Jaeger and at that time, Natalie Meier and Kenneth L/n got married and Natalie renamed herself Natalie L/n."

~*~

Natalie goes the bench of the old orphanage she used to live at and sit next to the tall man.

"You called me, father?" Natalie asked quietly.

"I have an assignment for you as a patriot." Eren replied and Natalie raised an eyebrow.

"Assignment? What is it?" Natalie asked.

"Steal the Thunder Titan."

Natalie's eyes widened as she looks at her father confusingly. She then saw Eren's hand come out of his pocket while slidding a black case on the bench towards her.

"That Titan spinal fluid. Become a maid for the Belair family. They will pretend that the holder of the Thunder Titan is the head of the family, Louis Belair, but in reality it has been passed onto a teenage boy, Lorenz Belair. Work up your ranking and trust with them. Once you steal the Thunder Titan, have a child with that Kenneth man of yours." Eren explained and Natalie becomes fluster to the thought of her father telling her to have children.

"Y-Yes, sir." Natalie blushed.

"Succeed. You have to."

And with that he walked away.

~*~

Natalie was now twenty-one, serving as the Belair's family 'maid'.

"Have you heard?" she heard one of the maids ask.

"That's awful!"

"It serves those Eldians right."

Natalie could hear everything they were saying but she didn't care to try and listen until they brought up something that did caught her attention.

"That many Eldian Restorationist and a Titan shifter?!"

Natalie perked up.

"What are you guys talking about?" Natalie nervously chuckled.

"Haven't you heard? A whole entire Eldian Restorationist organization got caught and sent to paradise. This information isn't released to the public but only to the Belair family, the Attack Titan appeared too." one of the maids answer and Natalie's breath hitches.

"Did they say anything about a Marleyan being in the group?" she asks and the maids look at her skeptical. "O-Or was it all Eldians." she nervously chuckled as she tries to cover up her suspicious question.

"No, I don't think so. It said all of them got shipped to paradise and Marleyans can't turn into Titans so it's impossible. If you want more information you should just talk to Louis instead." they answered and Natalie let out the breath she was holding.

"Good..."

~*~

Natalie jumps out the window as tears streamed over her Titan markings. She just ate a boy but she had to do it for her fellow fallen comrades.

After a week she finally meets up with Kenneth and tells her all that happened.

He explains when they were caught he managed to escape and he felt so guilty leaving everyone behind. It reminded him of Mabel. But he was beyond happy when he heard that Natalie now has the Thunder Titan within her.

When Natalie and Kenneth turned twenty three, they made love and Natalie gave birth to a little girl name Y/n Emily L/n. For the time being, Kenneth and Natalie never did any Eldian restorationist duties because there were no assignments, due to the Owl somehow going missing which concerned Natalie, however they took this to their advantage to raise y/n to be a strong girl. Natalie even taught her how to do hand to hand combat at only nine years old.

But soon, all of their happy lives changed when Marley found out someone in the family stole the Thunder Titan from the Belair family. But they mistaken Kenneth of taking it and he died.

But when Natalie and Y/n were about to be sent off to paradise, later that day y/n inherited the Thunder Titan.

This is the end of the book for Natalie Meier L/n's life. She is known in Marley as a murderer and a their for stealing a grave possession of an honorary Marleyan family like the Tyburs.

You will have a future with y/n, Eren. I know so. Soon, this will all make sense.

Sincerely,
Grisha Jaeger

A/n: I am the best at names hehe >:)
Natalie Meier
Emily Meier
Kenneth L/n
Mabel Custer (totally wasn't inspired by donuts for that name)
Louis & Lorenz Belair

bruh I'm so good and I am very proud rn

2nd A/N: I excluded out the part where Grisha says in his book that Y/n's memories were taken away when Eren touched Dina so pretend I never even wrote that hehehe.

updated author's note (6/3/21):
I found a drawing of what I imagined Natalie

Kenneth obviously looks like you but the older male version lol