SnK - Levi X (OC) - Justice Dyed Crimson

Chapter 3 - Already Asking Questions

A/N -  Got another chapter of this out today as well.  It's a pretty good night.  It may be rather short, but despite that, I do hope you enjoy the chapter~

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The topic of conversation was changed and everyone soon went to bed. They next morning, it was early when Levi was stirred away by the sound of ruffling noises by the door. Lifting and twisting himself on the couch, because Farlan got stuck with the floor mat, he cracked his eyes open to see Alice sitting on the ground, putting on and tying a pair of boots. She stood up, her back to the open room, as she tied her hair up and walked towards the door. Grabbing her black cloak, she tied it around her chest and flipped up her hood, hiding her crimson locks. Unlocking the door, she quietly stepped out and left quickly. Levi, curious, quickly scrambled from his make-shift bed and slipped on his boots and scurried after her.

Levi was a rather recognizable character around the Underground, what with screwing around with Isabel and Farlan with their stolen 3DMG, how could they not be? He was called out, spoken to and caught the eye of many as he followed Alice through town. He found it smart that she would hide her hair to avoid attention, but that also arose a spec of suspicion in the raven haired man. He watched as she entered a run down and small tavern. Quickly afterwards, shouting and screaming emitted from the building. The people began to whisper to one another, Levi's ear catching that this action is quite frequent and almost expected among them nowadays.

Soon the door swung open with Alice's cloaked figure tumbling out. She stumbled and she held her side before turning to run, men from the tavern threw various things in her direction, poker chips, bottles, cans, whatever they hand in their hands. Levi felt a prick of annoyance as he began to run after her retreating figure. He panted as he found the girl hidden in a narrow alley way, collapsed on the ground. Her back was against a wall as her eyes were closed, her hood still firmly placed on her head, shielding her hair from sight. He saw her panting as she slouched against the wall. Levi walked over to her and bent his knees to squat down to her level. He then sighed, gaining the startled attention of the girl.

"What do you think you're doing?" Levi reached over and took hold of her hodd, using his wrist to flick it off her head with a single motion. Her red hair resettled on her head messily from the motion of the hood being taken off so quickly and her golden eyes stared at him. Her eyes were wide and held a ring of red around them from her small tear drops that dripped from off her chin. Levi furrowed his brow as he stared at her shocked expression. "What the hell are you crying for prat?" Alice blinked as she snapped to it and ran her sleeve over her eyes, leaving small raw marks beneath her eyes and attempted to stand. Her attempt was halted and failed as she fell back against the wall, wincing and panting. Glancing down, she was still holding her side.

"Dammit.." Alice muttered beneath her breath, but Levi's ears took it in loud and clear. He reached out and took hold of Alice's wrist, her eyes snapped open as she watched him lift her hand from her stomach. Red drenched and bled through the fine white fabric of her shirt. The shirt itself was torn in a place, where beneath it lay a cut.

"You were really going to just let it bleed until it stopped." Levi's voice sounded as if he was talking to a child. Alice wanted to retort to his snide remark, but decided against it. Levi glared at her small wound as it produced new beads of blood and quickly began to form a river and seep more into her shirt. He took into consideration that with each of her breaths, her stomach lurched in pain, it must've been painful to breath at all. "Did that happen at the bar?" Alice blinked more and red spread on her face.

"You followed me the whole time?!" Levi stared at her while she just stared back. "That's a bit creepy don't you think Levi?" He sighed as he let go of her wrist and move to grab her upper arm and he helped her to her feet. She winced and bit her lip, refusing to whimper.

"Be happy I'm offering to help you at all, prat." Alice wanted to chuckle at his cold disposition, but she didn't, she knew it would hurt if she did. Levi aided her home, pulled the hood over her hair, hiding her hair and face. Soon, he opened the door to her home, where Isabel and Farlan were awake and waiting for them. The two ran to the girl as Levi took off her hood and walked her to her couch. Setting her down, Alice had already fallen unconscious, the loss of blood, and the seer pain that she refused to show on her face, finally getting to her. Levi instructed Isabel to remove her cloak from her and go to her room to find a different shirt. Farlan with with Levi to search for the her medical kit, if she had one. Levi soon found it in the washroom and he walked out to the unconscious girl. Lifting her shirt up just to reveal the gash in her side, he instructed Farlan to bring him a towel and bowl of water, to which he complied easily.

As he waiting for the cleaning material from Farlan, he looked at her small portion of stomach that was revealed and saw faint recovery marks from what seems like more gashes and cuts. He glared as he wondered if what he witnessed earlier was really as common as he had heard. Soon, he was cleaning the dried blood from it and disinfecting it before placing a gauze pad n it and taping it to her abdomen. Isabel piped up now, from her unusually quiet manner.

"What happened to Allie?" Levi looked to her and stood up, grabbing the bowl and towel.

"I'll tell you later. For now, change her shirt and let her rest. It's the least we can do." The auburn nodded and began to carefully change her attire and placed her stained shirt aside, replacing it with a new one, Isabel could see all the cuts and bruises on her torso, and grew curious, but didn't mention it to Levi or Farlan, just in case. She then took the dirty shirt and took it to the washroom, filling the tub slightly in hopes to wash the stain out somehow. Farlan took it upon himself to drape a blanket over the crimsonette and then accompanied Isabel in the washroom. Levi, however, took a book from her shelf and glanced at her broken glasses. Grabbing something random, he sat on the floor in front of the couch and opened the large brick of text and began to read, all three of the personnel, waiting for Alice to wake up so they could get an explanation.