Still Standing | Levi Ackerman

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The last snip of hair dropped to the ground, but my eyes didn't follow down to watch it fall this time. Instead, they remained connected to the eye contact with the man ahead of me. His face was inches away from mine as he slowly lowered the scissors from my hair.

"thank you" I shyly spoke, my face reddening at our close distance. Even thought he was done cutting my hair; he didn't move.

"no, thank you" he replied, his voice softer than ever. My heart melted at the music leaving his lips, the words gently humming to my ears.

And despite the comfort I felt in this moment, my heart was ready to run a marathon with the speed it was enduring.

The captain grabbed my chin, and used his other hand to grasp the back of my newly chopped hair. Before I could react, my face was pushed into his to connect our lips.

As our lips moved together in sync to form the perfect kiss, I was greeted by another feeling. This feeling of pain. A choke forced itself out of my mouth, disconnecting my lips from his as blood shot up my throat and left through my lips.

I ripped my eyes from his at last, and looked down to find the scissors in his hands stabbed right into my abdomen. He pushed his hand further to deepen the scissors into my rapidly bleeding stomach, and then spoke as he did so.

"I won't let anyone top me as humanity's strongest, knock-off brat" he hissed with venom dripping from the words.

The scissors were pulled out, and my eyes followed their movements as they were positioned in front of my face.

"wait!-"

The scissors shot into my face.

"Stop!" I sat up from the bed, panting as my heart was left beating hard from my nightmare. I slowed my breaths down in attempt to calm my body after waking up, and slumped back to lay down on the bed.

It was still dim in the room, but not pitch black. Through the window, you could tell it was a cloudy day. Instead of the marvelous scenery coming from the suns beams that peaked out the horizon as it rose, the sky only gradually became shades lighter. Going from black to grey.

Krista was still sound asleep, which surprised me as she was usually up early. This only meant it would have to be really early. By now, I was too awake to go back to bed. It was probably about an hour away from the time everyone gets up anyways.

I threw my legs off the bed and sat back up, getting off the bed completely. I blinked a few time as I scrambled to get my uniform on and change. Strangely enough, I wasn't in the mood for training. With extra caution, I finished getting dressed without making any sound to wake Krista up.

Most mornings, I spent time aggressively brushing out the knots in my hair. This time, my hair was so short that I had nothing to unknot. I felt satisfied as the bristles of the brush glided through my hair strands with ease.

It was still dim out, but I didn't have anything else to do and I hated the feeling of laying in bed with my uniform on. So I left the room, unsure on what I would plan to do so early in the day.

As I walked through the narrow hallways, my mind wandered to the dream I had woken up from. I had kissed Levi, and then he tried to murder me. I can understand where the part of him trying to kill me comes from, it's no doubt I'm afraid of what will happen if it became discovered that I was part of a science experiment. Or more like I was the experiment.