Broken Hearts, Severed Limbs (Levi x OC x Erwin)

|118| Nightmares

Screaming.

Her nightmares always comprised of screaming. But usually, the voice screaming would be her own, though this time, it was her own and something else. It was another little helpless creature’s screaming, but she couldn’t quite point her finger on. If she could, she’d go insane.

She just knew she had tears rolling down her cheeks. Back arched up. Her head pressed back against the table she was tied on. And the pain… the pain was insufferable. It was in her belly. No. Beneath. Unbearable. She screamed. And small little cries came. Small little screams. It almost felt like they were tearing something out of her. It almost felt like they were ripping her skin apart, and they were pulling out whatever she had beneath.

“There’s another one,”

A man’s voice came, and yes. Her torment hadn’t yet ended. She had no one to grab onto. She had nothing to grab onto. Her wrists were tied down in black leather that was impossible to break out from. And there she was. Screaming again, and again, till they had torn something else out of her, and her eyes shot open. Her heart, beating faster than ever. Her whole body jolted forward as if by some instinct, she wanted to stand up and see. She wanted to stand up and look at them.

But, no, she was restrained. There was no way she could stand up and rush towards them. She was in pain. Her body, bleeding. There was blood everywhere. But she didn’t care about the stinging pain in her abdomen. She didn’t care about her warm blood that had coloured the white gown she was wearing. All she cared about, was that they were taking them away from her.

“NO!” She shouted. “Where are you taking them! GIVE THEM BACK!” She screamed. Tears ran down her cheeks as she heard their little cries, their little whimpers. She wanted to hold them. She wanted to hold them so close and stop them from crying. She wanted to see them. Just this once. “Give them back…”

She tried breaking free. She tried so hard, the skin around her wrists was now torn and bleeding from the excess effort she put into trying to break free. But her vision was blurry as she tried to at least get a glance. One last little glance at them. They took them away, closing the door behind. They had ripped something out of her. Something small and precious. Something her own. And they had taken it from her, and she knew she was never going to be seeing them again.

Nathalie wept. She wept loudly. Her tears unnumerable. “LEVI!” She shouted hoping he was going to hear her. She didn’t even recognise the name. She no longer knew who it belonged to. She had no memories of her past. But she knew it was someone who was going to save her if she screamed too loud. It was someone who was going to hear. Someone she hoped was going to show up somehow. “Levi… come take us out of here… Please, come find me, please…” She gave in to her fate and her body rested back down on the table. Exhausted from the blood loss. Exhausted from what had just happened to her. She stared up at the blinding light like a dead woman. “…I miss you…” She breathed shakily. Cables planted in her wrists once more, drugging her enough to drain all the energy that she had left. “…I miss you…”

“NATHALIE!”

Levi had almost gotten used to waking up like this in the middle of the night. He had almost gotten used to having her snapping out of her sleep, trembling and mumbling and jolting. And he’d have to wrap his arms tightly around her. He’d have to switch on the lamp on his bedside table, and he’d have manhandle her in order to keep her body from tossing, and turning, and moving back and forth.

But this time was something else. He had never heard her scream his name like that. So helpless, and hopeless, and painful. And he had never seen her cry as hysterically as this. He had to cry out her name to snap her out of it.