Imperial Affairs (Levi X Reader) AU

16. Somewhere Far Away

Narrator's POV

"Mother?" The little girl pulled her mother's dress's arm sleeve as she stood on the bed to reach up to her mother who was sitting on the bed.

"Yes, Y/N?" Princess Historia of the French Empire and the first consort of the Emperor of the English Empire smiled at her while cradling her youngest daughter.

"Why do I have to live under disguise like this while Christa doesn't?" She pouted and crossed her arms unhappily.

Her mother just chuckled and sweetly responded to that.

"You are the one who said that you want to become Emperor, aren't you?"

"Yes."

"Then there is a price to pay."

"But won't Christa want to become Emperor?" The little girl asked as she jumped down from the bed and straightened her clothing and looked back up to her mother.

She didn't want to be in a disguise anymore.

She didn't want to be hidden from the world anymore.

"The fight for the throne is a very dangerous battle and as the older sister, I want you to protect Christa from it. I want you to keep her safe from anyone who wants to harm her. And when she grows up, she will protect you in return."

The blue eyed, blonde girl woke up at that moment and rubbed her eyes and her mother lowered her arms to show Y/N her younger sibling that just woke up.

"You'll protect her, won't you?"

"Yes Mother!"

"Even after I'm gone?"

"But where will you go?"

Princess Historia sat up straight and looked out of the window towards the clear sky with a sad smile.

"Somewhere far away."

Everything goes black and the (h/c) haired girl is met with a new scene.

She hears the distant cries of her younger sister and the cries come nearer and she can see what's happening around her.

She's dressed in black, still in her disguise with her nanny Ymir standing by her side, her head down with sadness and numbness while her younger sister cried uncontrollably and her nanny tried to reassure her that everything would be alright while crying herself.

She just looked at her mother's photo in front of her while she stood beside the grave that her mother's coffin was to be lowered into.

She remained quiet, she couldn't even cry because she couldn't accept the situation. That her mother really left.

Then, her mother's coffin was lowered into the ground. She looked around and saw her aunts and uncles, her grandfather and his wife and her great uncle all from her mother's side. Then there was her father who just stood there with a solemn expression.

She didn't know what to feel about him being there. She was glad that he bothered to attend and make time for the funeral in his busy schedule but she was also angry. Angry that he couldn't protect her. Though, she reasoned with herself. Ultimately, it wasn't his job to protect her mother. And besides, she herself was with him when they went out to the Ackerman Trading Company where she made a friend.

She looked at her friends. Reiner stood and watched from far away along with Mikasa. Annie and Bertholdt stood with their guards and accompanied their friend. They all were good friends to her and she felt like she couldn't even be a good daughter.

She looked away from her friends and looked at her mother's grave which was being filled up with mud after the coffin was put in.

Then she realised, and for the first time in her life, she cried for a real reason. She didn't cry for eleven years after that.