The girl who runs with Titans

Chapter Two: Strange markings

"Hmm, that's quite strange isn't it?" Hange ran her finger of a the three meter Titans back.

"Hange, please get away from it." The handler shouted at her.

"Oh he wouldn't want to hurt me! Would you?" Hange gently stroked the markings ashy residue lifting from the pattern. 

"Hange please!"

"Hmmm."

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Jean was sitting in the mess hall, crutches off to the side as he looked into his mug. He couldn't get his mind off that girl. The look in her eye as the Titan picked her up. She wasn't even afraid, like she's done it so many times.

"Jean," Eren walks over, his head up high, but Jean doesn't hear him. "Jean!" Eren taps Jean on the shoulder causing him to jump.

"What!" Jean panted exasperatedly.

"I came over to tell you Hange wants to talk to you." Eren crosses his arms like he would rather be somewhere else.

"And she couldn't come get me herself." Jean stands up on wobbly legs. He forgot to grab his crutches. "She sent me, some Titan scum like you to-" he falls into Eren. 

"Get off me, horse face!" Eren struggled under jeans weight. Jean straightened himself up groping for his crutches.

"Like I wanted to fall into you." Eren helps him get his crutches. "So why did Hange send you?" 

"Something about how she wanted my opinion on it. To be honest she sounded excited, more than usual." Eren walks beside Jean as the exit the mess hall.

"Do you think it has to do with that girl outside wall rose?" Jean stops and looks at the boy. Eren looks up at the sky thinking.

"I hope not."

"What! Why not if someone can live outside the wall maybe-"

"No! It's not that. If someone can live outside the wall they must be a Titan or a shifter." Eren looks back at Jean and crosses his arms. "What are the chances that girls still alive anyway? You told us the titan picked her up and ran off."

"He didn't eat her right there." Scowling Jean started moving again. "Anyway, I'm saying she's still alive but she looked like she's been out there for a while now. Who knows what happened to her."

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"Ah hahaha." Hange avoids a snap from the three meter. "Well, aren't you a feisty one!"

"Hange, I got Jean what's next?" Eren and Jean walk into the holding area.

"Well, introductions are necessary." She giggles and clears her throat. "Jean, Eren, meet Theo. Theo meet Jean and Eren."

"Theo?" Jean scoffs looking down his nose at the Titan. "Why Theo?"

"Because I have a....Theory." She bursts into a fit of laughter and Eren and Jean stare at her.

"She's crazy." They said in unison.

"Anyway," she wipes away a tear. "The markings, you told Levi about, Jean. Aren't scars, of course you silly boy," she spoke to the Titan. "Are actually ash. Titan Ash to be specific."

"Titan ash, but-" interjected Eren.

"Don't interrupt." Hange adjusted her glasses. "The Titan ash is strange. Usually it gets blown away in the wind, but it seems someone or something, has used it almost as a paint."

"Paint? Who would-" Hange put her finger on Jean's lips.

"They used it as a war paint almost. And no interrupting I've said this. Pictures. They drew pictures." Hange strode over to the Titans back. Jean and Eren grudgingly followed. This one looks like a sun, see." She pointed to a very crude drawing of what looked like a sun.

"They're like wall painting in that book Armin showed me when we were kids." Eren whispered, no one noticed.

"You see, I was thinking that this Titan was marked for a reason. Like a sacrifice, or a leader, or-"

"To tell them apart." Jeans blood goes cold as he says that. Hange simply looks at him mouth a gape.

"I....I didn't think that." Hange pulled out a note pad and made some quick notes. "Tell me what she looked like, the girl form the forest."

"I already told Captain Levi."

"Well tell me, I want every detail."

"Well, I couldn't really tell you what she looked like, she was covered in blood and dirt....but....."

"But what, detail I need every detail." 

"When I cut her hair I....I saw...I think I saw markings on her forehead."

"Ehhhhhh!" Hange stomped her feet like an excited school girl. "She did it! She put the markings on the Titan!"

"And your happy about this?"

"Ecstatic. This means the Titans can communicate with other creatures. They have a culture!" She grabs jeans face and gives him a quick peck on the lips. She pulls away still holding his face. "I have to tell Levi!" She gasped. Running off toward his office.

Jean looked at the Titan, the strange marking, and he felt a pit in his stomach. He thought of her again. His leg throbbed immensely, he groaned is annoyance.

"Jean we should take you back to the infirmary." Eren said guiding him back to the med bay.

"I'll walk myself!" Jean pushed Eren away shuffling back on his crutches to the infirmary.

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Okay....... Gonna stop here for this chapter gonna be a bit of a time jump small but a time jump next chapter. Remember vote subsribe share what ever da fuck we do on this site and byyyyyyeeereee