Tomorrow did come. Nathalie woke up from those soft kisses that her husband pressed on her forehead, her temple, her nose, her cheeks. She loved it when he woke her up like that. Standing out of the bed was tricky, but he helped her out, until she finally got the hang of walking. The two of them got dressed in their Survey Corps uniform. Clothes that they wouldn’t be taking off for a while. He let her tie his ascot around his neck. His arms lingered around her waist as he watched the focused expression on her face whilst her delicate fingers worked on the knot and her blue eyes stared behind the lenses of her glasses.
Today was going to be a long day. And tomorrow was going to be an even longer one. He was going to keep her safe. They were both going to come back. At least, that was what they wanted to believe. Everybody was going to come back. They just had to trust Erwin’s flawless plan that it was going to be carried out successfully.
Hange, Moblit, and Nathalie handed the Resurrection Serums to their soldiers. One syringe to each, except for Eren. Eren didn’t need it. Nathalie had shown and explained how to use it and how it worked. Should you be brought near to death, just inject yourselves with this, and all damaged tissue will be restored.
Everybody was so excited about it. They were excited about not dying because that serum was going to bring them back. Alas, Nathalie made sure she let them know. They only had one chance. It was just this one chance that was going to bring them back. They didn’t have any other chances. They didn’t have the time to prepare more injections and they could not carry them. They were too fragile and too precious to carry entire bottles whilst on titan territory.
It was dusk when they left. The horses were taken on top of Wall Rose and placed outside in the titan territory of Wall Maria. It took a few hours to do that with two hundred horses. Nathalie was on top of Wall Rose with all the others when she heard something that caught her attention. It was the people that had gathered beneath, cheering and shouting up at them. Nathalie tucked her glasses further up her nose and she took a better look beneath them. It couldn’t possibly be.
Erwin walked beside her, then Levi walked on the other side and then Hange and Moblit. Their squads stood behind and they all looked down taken aback by the cheery reaction of the people. The Scouts had never been sent to a mission like this. Everybody was surprised.
“EEYYYYY! HANGEEEE!! GOOD LUCKKK!!!”
“Flegel?!” Hange asked surprised.
“Go out there and take back Wall Maria for us!”
“The future of mankind is onto you!”
“Captain Levi! Good luck out there! Thanks for saving our City!”
“You guys come back in one piece okay!”
“Yeah! Get us back our land!”
Nathalie cringed. They were supposed to keep it a secret, weren’t they? The people weren’t supposed to know that the Scouts were heading out to retake Wall Maria. Levi frowned as he looked down.
“Somebody’s got a big mouth,”
“Yeah well, that celebration did get a little rowdy,” Hange said.
“Actually, we ordered all of that meat from the Reeves Company so…”
Hange groaned. “Flegel…”
“YEAH!” Jean, Connie, and Sasha cried out excitedly staring down at the people. “YOU CAN COUNT ON US!”
Nathalie laughed seeing how excited they were. “I wonder how long it’s been since the Scouts got a send-off like this,” She said.
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Broken Hearts, Severed Limbs (Levi x OC x Erwin)
FanfictionNathalie and Levi have been together ever since they were children. They had nothing and no one to rely onto but each other. Both, broken by the loss of their friends Isabel and Furlan, accept their fate to serve under Commander Erwin Smith as soldi...
