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A wind of change ( prolog part 2 )

Everything will change for the better

London (Beginning 1917) a week later :

Doctor Meyer patiently cares for the infected wounds of his patient, patiently he listens to his curses and insults. He knows from his studies that patients like him don't mean something bad about their counterparts. Rather, they are angry about their own life story or their path of suffering, some people also talk about fate.
Well, Dr. Meyer is a rationally thinking person, when it comes to facts about something like predetermined fates he doesn't believe. He focuses on the people in front of him.
Just like the middle-aged man he's trying to treat:
His patient is called Levi Ackermann, a short, middle-aged man of 36 years. The last war against Eren Jaeger hit him hard. Since then, Mr. Ackermann has been sitting in a wheelchair and persistently refusing to do his physiotherapy exercises, which has resulted in his stiff leg.
In addition, a wound on the left knee has still not healed properly and needs a daily bandage change with iodine-soaked cloths.
Levi and his doctor both know that he has given himself up on the inside.
Outwardly, he still gives the impression that he is the well-groomed, meticulous - clean man (some call him a clean freak ) of the past: His hair is still dark brown, almost black. He wears it with an undercut, which makes his appearance look younger. What makes him older are his sad eyes, the right one is blind. Hit by a splinter from a thunderbolt and its additional facial scars.
At a glance you can see how much grief and suffering this man had to endure.
It's just a matter of time how long Levi can keep his outer facade up and he'll put an end to it all for himself.

"Are we done with that?" The man snaps like a vicious dog in the direction of the doctor. Today the doctor torments him especially with moving his knee joint, "AAAAH FUCK! SHIT !!!!"

The doctor looks at the bandage in frustration, "I haven't even started your treatment, Mr. Ackermann. I can not always stop my work, otherwise your leg will become infected and you will die of sepsis ... "
The war veteran in front of him just mumbles depressed: "And if I do ... Then I'm finally stinking in my grave with the others ..."
At the thought he thinks of Hanji and Erwin and everyone else from the Survey Corp. He misses them all so much and that the two Marley children Gabi and Falco cling to him so much doesn't make it any better for him. They both do their best, he knows, but they are no substitute for all the people he has lost and loved. One person in particular is always on his mind.
At that time three years ago she disappeared with Eren's head without an answer from her to stay with him when he asked. When Hanji died that day, it tore the floor from under his feet and he could only calm himself down with the fact that she was still among the survivors ... and she still does.
He remembers the words he said to her. It was the only time that he spoke openly about his feelings and his wishes.
In the end it hadn't worked, she'd left without a word of explanation with her stepbrother's head in her arms.
Back then he always wondered what connects the two of them. He always wondered what she found in him, although he often expressed his disapproval of her. How he would have loved to have been the one who would have had that connection with her. He wanted to catch her in her grief when it was all over.
He never heard from her again, and four weeks ago all the remaining members of the alliance visited Eren's grave.
He also intended to come. But fate has never been fair to him and his leg and his fear of her reaction has also hindered him on the journey.
He looks bravely out of his window. In no case should the doctor see his shiny eyes, which indicate that he is about to cry. Fucking crybaby! Look at you, you are a grown man and cry like a baby that has been torn from its mother.
Frustrated, he holds his hand in front of his eyes, "Carry on!" And he quietly lets the procedure go through.
Later that day he goes for a walk on the Thames with Gabi and Falco. Both are teenagers and you can see their adolescent facial features as adults. Both have grown a lot: Gabi towers a few centimeters above Levi and Falco is already as tall as Hanji was back then.
Falco pushes him all the time, while Gabi talks all the time. Fortunately, she was able to leave the vindictive war child from back then and only talks about it with Falco, if at all.