The Corporal's Daughter

Chapter 1- Nestling

It was raining. Hard heavy rain that pounded like savage bullets on the window. The room empty and cold, while the distinctive smell of mold lingered in the air. The night grew dark and ravenous eating away the hopes and dreams of the light, with a wave of darkness' hand the sun disappeared behined a cloudy oily sky of the night. But it was not silent. Oh no it was not silent at all. A piercing crying scream could rattle the books on the shelves and smash glass. A baby.

Small a feeble. Defenceless in the cruel world it was brought into. Her mouth was wide open screeching, and her eyes tight shut, her finger couldn't even rap around her father's smallest finger, even if she tried. Her Milky skin was soft and cream looking, as she riggled to life, begging for freedom to move.

"Leah"

"Erwin would take her away if she was found out...." A mans voice concerned and deep rumbled through the room. He glanced up with his eyes glazed over with worry, at a younge woman sitting in the bed clutching the child close to her chest. She sighed and started "Or... he would k-" "NO NO NOT AFTER EVERYTHING WE'VE BEEN THROUGH I WON'T LET HIM TOUCH HER" His growling powerful voice shook the room to life, and the sleeping child twitched in disturbance and began to whin. "Well...." The younge woman began. She was smaller then Levi and had long oak coloured brown hair, and beautiful ocean blue eyes, that glistened under the dim candle light that blazed like hell fire. Her hands where skinny and dainty, and it seemed her arms almost trembling under the weight of the baby she was holding. The new born only sneezed slightly in response. "What should we do then?"

".... I don't know... I'll think of somthing! But so help me if Erwin lays one finger to hurt that child I will not stop this time to kill him with my own two hands!" The room went to a uncomfortable silence. The raven haired male stood in the middle of the room. His sleeves rolled up and his shirt slightly un-tucked with a few buttons at the top undone, revealing a part of his defined collarbone. His boots came up to his knees over the top of his black tight trousers. He ruffled his hair with slender fingers and sighed in frustration. "We could take her to wall Maria and get someone there to take care of her? I'm sure-" "No." "Come on Levi work with me here! I'm trying. Try to think whats best for her as well! What sort of life is a sheltered one! That's the reason you wanted to leave the underground right!? For freedom! I don't want to keep her here locked inside here for her whole life, at least inside the wall she can have some what of a life!"

"What is living Zia!? Tell me! Inside those walls are cowards who know nothing! People who don't know what they're talking about, people who are driven by money and there own needs and desires-" "YES and out here is a Fucking war zone! This is no place for a child!" The women snapped and growled that could match Levi's. And the room was again silent deep in thought. "Fine... she'll go to wall Maria tom-" "LEVI CORPORAL LEVI WHERE ARE YOU!!!??" The noise of running footsteps and a women shouting bellowed through the HQ walls coming towards Levi's room. "Quick pass me the baby!" Levi scooped up the child and pulled open part of the wall in his room that led to a secret study. He placed the frail child down on a pile of blankets softly, and ran back out shutting the open wall behined him. And he ran over to help the women lying in his bed up. She wobbled to her feet as a young woman charged in flinging open the door "LEVI THE TITANS HAVE COME HERE! WE NEED YOU! THE HQ IS UNDER ATTACK!"