Your knees were on the ground, and your hands trembles as you reach for his face, which is almost completely covered in bandages.
“Levi…” You don’t know what happened but he is severely injured. You roam your eyes all over his body, finding out he is missing two fingers.
Your tears drop down your cheek; you find it unbearable to see him in this state. You watched him sleep with his brow faintly furrowed; it must have hurt so much.
He wouldn’t endure this kind of suffering if I were just there at his side. I can’t let him die in this war.
Horses were nearby when you took a peek around. Everyone is in distance with you, they won’t notice if you take Levi with you.
Levi whimpered as you lifted him, he is heavy but it doesn’t matter. “I’m sorry Levi, just bear with it.”
You ride the horse carrying him. You must take him out of this place, you can’t let them make Levi fight again in this state even they are desperately need of help.
You keep looking at Levi as you make your way to the place you were living back then when you’re a shadow killer. That is the only place you think is safe.
There was a cave in the middle of the forest, one that was difficult to find, it was only a small cave. You gently put Levi down on the bed.
Your things that you left behind are still in place and are usable. You set a fire to keep the place warm.
He needed medicine and it takes half an hour to go the nearest town. You took a chair and sat down next to his bed.
You took a deep sigh as you place your palm on his forehead measuring his temperature, you breathe with relief. He will be fine soon.
You move your hand and cup his face, staring at him worryingly. “I’m sorry, I wasn’t there.”
You don’t care if you’re being selfish becase of your choice but you only want to keep him safe, it’s enough, he’s done with his duty.
Slowly, you lean in closer and press your lips to his. It only lasted for a fraction of second before you pull away. You then move your hand to his hair, stroking them very gently.
You ponder why it seems like it has already happened. “Get well soon, Levi. Don’t worry I will take care of you.”
You took a stand to get to the town to take some medicine and food; you consider it hard to obtain because of the chaos happening outside.
You grab your coat and are ready to leave when you heard him groan. You immediately turned around to see Levi sitting down, rubbing his head and looking at you.
He looked at you bewildered and uncertain of his whereabouts. You walked up to him and helped him settle back down. “You shouldn’t be moving you’re not well.” You said with a tone of panic.
Instead of listening, he forces himself to stand up. “Where’s the others, we will keep moving before scouts find us soon.”
You embrace him as he was lost at balance, he was looking very pale. “No one will find us here, you should stay still.”
He pushes you away weakly, and takes the coat in your hand and wraps it around his body.
You were worried knowing already what he was planning to do. You watched his back as he walked; he’s leaving even in his bad state.
“Levi…” You called him but he didn’t look back at you. You clenched your fist the fact that he ignores you.
“Can’t we just stay here?” You muttered causing him to stop and finally turn to look at you.
“Despite being in this condition, I can’t give up now. I am still useful.” He said in a very low tone of voice.
You gritted your teeth fighting your tears back. You can’t let him see you cry. Staring back at him it only causes your heart to ache, he’s tired, you can see it very clearly in his face.
You know he wants to give up but he can’t. Even though he is injured and can hardly move, he will continue pushing forward. He’s being a selfless.
He is no condition to fight, is he?
“It’s only a suicide if you go with them. It’s no use, Eren will wipe everything in this world regardless of your efforts to stop him and in fact it is still your victory…”
You pause when you felt your voice began to crack. You breathed out heavily before you continue,
“…why don’t you stay here with me and have our peaceful life here together. No one knows this place.”
You are begging him to stay, you know you sound desperately but that is how you really feel. You cannot just let him go.
“I’m sorry, Y/N. I still have promise to fulfill. I must kill that beast before anything else, I did swear to Erwin,” he said as he turned his back on you.
“What about our promise?”
He paused but never turn to look at you. You don’t want him to throw his self on that field and just let him die.
You will do anything to make him stay but sadly your words is not enough to make him stay when he began to walk. He left you with his words saying, “That promise only matters if this war will end.”
You watched him leave taking the horse until he disappear. You were still unable to stop him.
Why can’t I be with the person I love? Is this how I’m go to atone all of my sins
You continue to walk with your head down. It’s finally morning and it’s been an hour now since he left. You don’t know what you’re going to do.
It seemed like you were lost, feeling empty and powerless. You’re thinking of surrendering since you belong to be locked inside the cell for lifetime. Escaping is now useless there’s no place for the likes of you.
You lifted your head up after hearing a loud surrounding. You finally arrived at the town, the street were very busy it is because of the happening.
You no longer care and it doesn’t matter to you if they are panicked or rebelling in any way.
At this point only you can hope is Levi to survive, it fear you with his current state his survival is very low. He can die there.
“Stop right there.” You halted when someone pointed a gun at you, from the military police.
“She’s here, I found her.” He shouted calling his squad. They’re still looking at you despite of commotion. You remain still, lacking the will to resist and run away.
“Why apprehending her when it is the least of your concerns?” Someone said behind you with a familiar voice.
You watched him beating the MPs leaving them unconscious. Your eyes got widened looking at that person; you’re unable to believe who’ve you seen.
“Father…” He fought everyone who was coming in your way to capture you.
“Go, Y/N. Do whatever you wanted to do, I trained you so hard not just to slack around, if you’re going to fight, then fight, if you’re going to kill, then kill. Make me your father proud.”
You don’t know but those words have enlightened you to the point that you finally felt fire burning inside you. “Thank you, father.”
You take down the military police who have just arrived on a horse. You mounted on that horse and departed.
You curved a smile on your lips with those fatherly words moved your heart. “I’m on my way, wait for me Levi.”
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Promise (Levi x Reader)
Fanfiction"Shadow killer" is what people named you, being the greatest enemy on land the three regimes were after you. You were hiding in the shadows and were everywhere killing people that your client detested and wished to perish in exchange for payment. W...
