Levi x Reader: Betrayal

Ch. 6 Traumatic Memories

A couple months have gone by since the war had ended and civilization has been slowly getting back on its feet since 80% of the world's population had been eradicated by The Rumbling. The Military Police, Garrison and Survey Corps had all disbanded and the Military is now one branch as it sets out to help those who suffered from war. Hanji, and the rest of the Scouts, were promoted to be the Special Interior Squad to be called when heavy crimes are aftoot.

Y/n and Jean were outside in the training grounds practicing their hand to hand combat skills on each other while everyone else were inside either cleaning or doing errands for Levi and Hanji. Jean smirked at her as he got into a fighting stance.

"Hey, Y/n! It's my turn to fight you!" He jeered cockily.

"Ha! Let's see if you can handle me Jean!"

"You don't even have half of my strength! Don't worry though, I'll go easy on you!" Cracking his knuckles as he spoke.

Y/n froze in her place. Her eyes wide as the sentence repeated in her head over and over again. Her hands went up to her ears trying to block out the voice inside her head. Her body trembled as sobs escaped her lips, lowering her head to hide her face from his view. Jean blinked at her sudden change and slowly came closer to her as a worried frown stretched his features.

"Y/n...?"

Jean's voice deaf to her ears as she lowered her body into a fetal position where she stood. She shook her head as she tried not to listen to Zeke's voice that was lodged into her darkest memories from that time in the wagon.

'Don't worry, I'll go easy on you.'

"Shut up...!" She cried.

"Y/n, what's wrong-"

"Don't touch me!" She yelled.

He didn't know what was going on. He tried to get her to calm down but it was like he wasn't even there. Her mind was stuck in the past of that horrible evening after she had made the wrong choice. Realizing he wasn't going to get through to her, he quickly spotted Hanji and ran over in desperate need of help.

"Hanji!"

The said former commander turned towards the sound of her name and saw Jean running towards her at full speed, waiting until he stopped in his tracks in front of her to speak. "What is it?"

"Something's wrong with Y/n!"

Hanji didn't waste another second and immediately began to follow him back where Y/n was. Her brows furrowed at the sight of her friend in such despair. The spectacled woman knelt down in front of her and carefully reached out to place a hand on the distraught girl's shoulder."

"Y/n? What happened?"

Hanji couldn't even react as Y/n quickly slapped her hand away unconsciously. The force of the smack made Hanji pull back to hold her hand in pain.

"Ah! Shit! What the hell!" She exclaimed.

Jean was shocked that Y/n had even smacked her that hard in her current state. Seeing the two scouts distracted, Y/n quickly got herself up on her feet and ran back inside as fast as she could as tears spilled down her face. Quickly finding a vacant room that no one uses, she ran in and locked herself inside to hide from the world.

"What the hell did you do to the girl Jean?!" Hanji looked at him, expecting an answer from the boy.

"I....didn't do anything...." He responded perplexed. "I was just going to train with her and then she suddenly did that."

"Well you must've done something to make her act like that." Hanji frowned.

"Oi. What's this commotion you two are causing?" Levi came over, a cane being used for support as he walked.

Jean instantly became nervous and gave a horse-like grin. "Uh, nothing sir! Everything is perfectly-"

"Jean-boy over here made Y/n cry!" Hanji grinned at him, ignoring the look Jean gave her for using the name his mother uses.

"Tch. That's it? Move out of my way, I have paperwork to go do."

Jean blinked at him. "You're not going to help her, Captain?"

"I suggest you follow my orders before I'm inclined to break your ribs, Kirstein." Levi harshly glared.

Not wanting to be hit upside the head, Jean backs away as Hanji sighed as they both gave the stoic man room to carefully pass through with his usual cold expression.

"He's no use." Hanji frowned.

"Wait, what do you mean?"

"You didn't know? They kinda ended things a while ago." She explained.

"That explains the crying...we should give her some time alone."

With a nod, The both of them started to make their way to her studies to gather paperwork to deliver to the premier. Upon finally realizing what Hanji had said, Jean gave a grin.

"Hey! Do you think that means I have a chance with her?"

"I mean, if you're not scared of Shorty getting jealous and breaking every bone in your body once you lay a hand on her, then yes you do." She glanced over at him through her glasses, watching the color leave his face at the mention of Levi kicking his ass, despite being disabled.

From the vacant room, Y/n's cries were barely heard as she curled herself in one of the farthest corners. Her constant begs and pleads for the memory to go away didn't help any as Zeke's voice continued to remind her what he had done.

'Don't worry, baby. I'll go easy on you'

"Shut up! I hate you, Zeke!" She sobbed.

'That's too bad..'

"Shut up..."

'I was really going to go easy on you'

"Shut up...!" Her voice got a bit louder.

'Now it seems like I'll have to hurt you..'

"Shut up!" Even louder than before.

'No one will hear you anyway'

"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!" She chanted. Pulling at her hair, fat hot tears spilled down her face while her body shook. Not being able to stand anymore of the torture, she gripped at her chest as she tilted her head up.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!!" She screamed. Her arms wrapped around herself as her body gave up when she gave a final cry-like scream, still being able to hear his disgusting voice. Y/n lowered her head as she rested her forehead against the cold stone floor, her cries reduced to nothing more than whimpers and hiccups while hugging herself for some form of comfort.

"Just....shut....up....please....." she whispered.