Left Behind (Erwin Smith X Reader)

Chapter 6: Orion

Authors Note: Happy New Years everyone! School should be starting up soon and I wont be updating as often but I'm trying to bring you what I can. Love you all!!

(Y/N) POV

I landed on a roof after slaying some more titans. I felt sweat drip down my face and neck with a mix of adrenaline keeping me upright. A pair of footsteps clattered next to me.Expecting it to be my squad member who I left behind I spoke

"Hey Ingrid you feeling better?"

"Hey Captain who are you talking to?" A voice spoke out to me that I didn't expect.

"Oh Leon it's you sorry." I laughed sheepishly as I had referred to the wrong person.

"Have you seen Ingrid at all?"

"No Captain" I nodded my head at the answer and waited for the rest of my squad to meet at my location. After waiting for about 2 minutes I got ready to continue my slaughter. I turned my head to check who had joined me only noticing Leon, Albert, and Natalie. Knowing how Ingrid could have turned out I start to speak.

"Alright let's move forward and get rid of any titans we see. Make sure to help out your fellow soldiers and new cadets. Now let's move!" I started to move towards the edge of the roof and was stopped by a hand grabbing my wrist.

"Wait, Captain!" I turn around and am met with Leon who eyes pleaded with mine. "Ingrid still isn't back we should search for her." I rip my wrist out of his hand forcefully and calmly replied. "If you search you may not find anything, we have to keep moving." Leon looked down and away like a hurt dog. I sympathetically placed my hand on his shoulder. His eyes met with mine as I had to now encourage him to go with us and not on his own. "I be she is fine, she will find us at some point ok?" He stood there frozen for a second. Until his eyes were filled with an unbridled rage as he grabbed the collar of my jacket. I felt his hand shake with anger. Maybe it was because I was used to losing someone or what but I didn't understand his anger until he spoke.

"How can you say that about her, these monsters wont spare a life and you have no concern about her when you tell us to help your fellow soldiers? You're a joke, I'm going to go look for our fellow soldier whether you like it or not." I stared at him straight in the face completely calm but inside I hurt because he was right. I never practiced what I preached.

"Fine be my guest Leon, I pray for your return." I removed his hand from my collar and placed my left hand on top and right hand underneath it. Cradling his hand, I move it down in front of our chests. "Like I said I pray you return." I let go of his hand as it falls down to his side. I turn around and nod to my other two squad members Natalie and Albert. We all step off the roof and move forward.

3rd Person POV

Leon watched as his comrades moved away from him. Blowing gas in his face and taking off he was stunned. The leader that was supposed to lead  walked away and left him to fend on his own. He turned around and headed back for the area in which he fought his first titan. Frantically he fired his anchor into sides of buildings, the roads, and anything that would propel him forward. Finally in a rush he scraped the roof of a building. This tearing his uniform and skin as well as putting his off balance. He tried to rebalance himself and in a sad attempt he hit another building. Still trying to fight his way to be balanced through pain,sweat, and tears he almost caught his balance when he turned to fast around a corner. This corner belong to destroyed houses that contained pointy broken beams of woods and shattered windows. 

Due to Leon going too wide he ended up right where he least wanted to be, with a broken beam from a house pierced through his stomach. Warm blood started to soak his clothes as he tried to pry himself off. His face started to beat red and contort. Tears rolled down his cheeks as he struggled to find the strength to pull himself off of the cause of his death. His limbs started to feel heavy as blood dripped down him and onto the road beneath him.

"(Y/N)? Ingrid?" His cries for help were barely a whisper. He started to lose hope as his vision started to become blurred. He looked up in one last attempt for help only to see a titan had its eyes fixated on him. With one last burst of adrenaline he wiggled a screamed. One that could my your blood chill as more and more of his stomach ripped and the titan came closer. But to no avail nothing could help him as he was removed from the beam by the titan and died before the cracking of his bones were sounded throughout the town. His body was dropped to the ground with a thump as only his top half remained. His eyes were stuck in a permanent state of shock as one last tear rolled down his face.

(Y/N) POV

I was just finishing up another titan kill as I noticed how long it has taken Ingrid and Leon to get back as they haven't come back yet. The reasonable side of my brain said they were dead and long gone eaten by titan's while the other more human side thought they were still alive. I stopped on a road and just looked around at my surroundings. I saw cadets fighting with each other on a roof. As well as others with faces of pure shock as they had seen their friends killed. Blood had littered the streets and pure chaos had filled the atmosphere. This was almost as fast paced as our scout missions. Speaking about scouts I wonder if they had been alerted by now. I was ripped out of my thoughts when I felt a light tap on my shoulder. I spin around with my blade ready to cut anything or anyone. Turns out it was only Albert as he towered over me.

"I am going to go look for our comrades." He started to turn around but I was done. How have they not realized that Leon and Ingrid are dead. Our chances of this squad dying were high enough and with each member running off ups it. I kick out the back of his knee and watch him fall as I grab his chin forcing it up to face mine. 

"Listen to me buddy, our comrades are gone how have you not gotten the memo. You only help the soldiers in front of you, you don't go off looking for them because you will end off dead. Now then neither Leon or Ingrid have returned you should use that big head of yours and not go off. But if you simply must I cannot stop you." I let go of his chin and walk off putting some distance between him and I as Natalie lands in between us. Albert gets up quietly and uses his ODM gear to escape. Leaving only two members of the original squad left.