Attack On Titan - Levi x OC/Reader -COMPLETED-

Homeward Bound

>>This song and it's lyrics are not owned by me! Credit to the song's owners.<<

"Jack? Hikaru? What's going on up there?" My mother shouts worriedly.

"Don't tell them, please!"

"Don't worry, I won't. Promise. And you know I keep my promises." I smile at him, my eyes red from also crying with worry.

He rubbed his eyes and shouted back, voice a little wobbly, "The ropes came undone again! Sorry Mrs. Zen!"

"Oh alright, do you need some help getting it back up?" I heard her coming up the stairs.

I quickly responded, "No, we're alright. Don't forget we're almost thirteen! We can handle small things like this ourselves.." She was outside our door. I knew she was sensitive to age and such, trust issues. "Okay. Take care." She left.

We were holding our breath until we heard a door close. We let it out at the same time. We sat there for a while, not breaking the silence, just holding each other.

Then, he asked out of the blue, "Could you play that song for me?"

"That song? Are you sure?"

"Yeah... I'm ready for it now."

It was his favorite song, the one his parents sang to him up until he was nine. I had went through extensive research and experimentation for him to cheer him up. I finally got the melody down. After I showed it to him he screamed with tears in his eyes, Don't. Ever. Play. That. Again. I was hurt of course, but then realized the reason why. He just wanted to forget his parents, not remember them even more.

I smiled, "I don't want you to be hurt, but I practiced behind your back and added a few things. I hope you like it."

He looked at me. I got up, sitting on the stool in front of the old keyboard.

I blew on my hands to make them warm again, because playing with cold ones is as bad as not playing at all.

I started off by playing the melody, "In the quiet, misty morning, when the moon has gone to bed... when the sparrows, stop their singing and the sky, is clear and red."

My fingers glided over the keys, not missing a single beat.

"When the summer's, ceased it's gleaming, when the corn is past its prime, when adventure's lost its meaning... I'll be home-ward bound in time."

I added the left hand, putting all of my passion into this song.

"Bind me not, to the pasture: chain me not, to the plow, set me free, to find my call-ing and I'll return to you somehow."

Jack joined in.

"If you find it's me you're miss-ing, if you're hop-ing I'll return. To your thoughts I'll soon be list-'ning in the road I'll stop and turn..... Then the wind will set me rac-ing as my jour-ney nears its end, and the path I'll be re-trac-ing when I'm home-ward bound a-gain."

Our voices merged and we sang the song beautifully through till the end, slowing down as we sang the final words, "I'll be home-ward bound... a-gain."