Hanji x Levi (Staying Strong Till The End)

A fallen friend

*Levi's pov*

The coast appears to be clear and Erwin signaled for all of us to turn back. I can feel that something bad had happened but like always I kept it to my self and followed my orders. I looked behind me at my team and signaled for them to also turn back. They all looked at each other confused but nodded and followed my command. Erwin then dropped back so he was riding beside me before shouting "Levi take you squad and retrieve any wounded men from Hanji's squad. They have been signalling for back up as a huge titan wave struck, we have cleared the area of titans for now so go and find the wounded"
I just nod as a responce and Erwin hurries his horse up to join the rest of the retreating men.
"You heard the man, lets move!" I shout back to my squad.
"Sir" they replied.

Us five turned our horses to run in the direction in which Hanji's squad was ment to be heading in. As soon as we had broken off from Erwin's area of command I was now allowed to lead my team how I wanted. "Petra!" I called out.
The short ginger girl sped up her horse to join me before I continued "You and Oluo find anyone who still appears to be alive and report back to me, only help people if you think they have a chance of living"
She nodded as a responce and dropped back to tell Oluo what their role was to be.
"Eld, Gunther!" I called and the pair of them came to my side. "We keep titans away from the wreak until Petra and Oluo reports back on the number of casualties" I told them.
This was going to be one hell of a retreat and something told me it wasn't going to be easy.

As the sight came into view hundreds of horses and people had been trampled and left in a sea of blood and clothing. Petra and Oluo split from us and begain to look on horse back down at all of the fallen men. I glaced down at all of the deceased and some had been so smashed up you could no longer tell what body part belonged to them.
"Sir a titan is coming in from the right" Eld informed me.
"You two take the bastard out and keep a look out, I'm going to get the number of casualties from Petra"  I told him.
"Sir" he replied and he and Gunther galloped off towards the titan.
I pulled on my horses reins so he would turn around for me to go back towards Petra and Oluo. The horse let out a snort of disapproval but did as his rider told him. Petra saw me galloping over and came to meet me. "Sir there are too many casualties to count and we are yet to find any survivors" she explained.
"Have you found Squad Leader yet?" I asked.
"We are looking for her, but Sir I'm not sure she is still..."
I cut her off and shouted "Petra carry on looking only tell me that when you know it for a fact!"
She flinched as I shouted but nodded and  galloped off back to begin the look for survivors. "Squad leader Hanji couldn't be dead" I told myself "she isn't that careless"
I watched Petra and Oluo search in between the battered bodies and still they appeared to have no luck finding her. Eld and Gunther were fine they were standing their ground on the titan who came into range. So I raised my fingers to my lips and let out a loud whistle, if there were any alive horses they would come to that call. Oluo looked up from the bodies when he heard the whistle but then carried on searching when he realised that I was calling to the horses, and not to them. I scanned the area for any movement but I saw nothing. Again I whistled for any horses to come to me. Somewhere in the distance I saw a figure moving towards me. Slowly I ordered my horse forward to try and discover what the figure was which was now moving towards us. It could be a titan for all I knew but I was going to take that chance.

When it go into view I could make out it was infact a horse. Not really any big surprise considering I had called for them to come to me. It wasn't moving particularly quickly and appeared to be limping. So I whipped my horse with the reins so he would run towards the stray horse. When I got to the horse, I got down from my healthy horse to give this horse a quick check over and see if I reconised it at all. It was a dark brown horse with a dark brown almost black mane and tail.  It looked simular to Hanji's horse but we did have multiple that looked like Hanji's horse, as that was the most common colouring for the breed we use. Petra had seen the direction from which the horse had come from and had ridden off to search over there. Oluo remained searching in the same area and Eld and Gunther were still keeping a look out for titans. The horse had deep gashes down its thighs and across its knees it had be cut and grazed. It looked like something had thrown it or forcefully pushed it to get to the rider.

As time passed nothing really seemed to change until I saw Petra waving her blades frantically in the air to get my attention. I gave her a disapproving look and she shouted "Captain I've found Squad Leader Hanji!"
I could bearly hear her but from the bits I picked up I jumped back on my horse and began to head in the direction as quickly as I could. I left the wounded horse and headed towards Petra.

When I got over to Petra she was knelt next to Hanji and she had already begun to apply pressure to her wounds. Hanji was lying on her back with blood covering the right side of her stomach. Her eyes were closed and her mouth slightly open with a small trail of blood coming out of it. I got down from my horse and joined Petra on the ground. She looked up at me with tears in her eyes and wimpered "I can't stop the bleeding, I'm trying but nothing is helping"
I said nothing and looked down at Hanji's face, although she was sleeping she didn't look peaceful.
"Her breathing is also very shallow" Petra said weakly.
"Hey Shitty-glasses wake up!" I shouted at her. She didn't even move or make a noise as a responce. Petra the took off her small brown jacket and folded it up before she put it over Hanji's bleeding stomach.
"Captain I can't stop the bleeding" she told me again.
"I can see that Petra!" I snapped at her. She flinched and tears filled her eyes. I then went back to my horse so I could fire a distress flare. If she was still brething then I was going to do everything in my power to save her. I grabbed the flare gun and fired off a red flare to tell Erwin to send in back up as I could see that Gunther and Eld were struggling to keep the titans away from us.
Oluo came galloping over to us and said "Sir there are many wounded over in the east but their horses are no longer around"
"Stay with them and help Gunther and Eld  keep the titans away from us, Erwin should be sending in reinforcements soon" I told him.
"Sir" he responded as he galloped away to aid Gunther and Eld.
"Petra, stay with Hanji try and slow the bleeding" I told her.
"Captain where are you going?" She called to me as I walked towards my horse.
I mounted the horse and looked down at her "Those bastards will pay" I told her. I was off and I was going to make them pay.
"Captain wait!" Petra shouted "Captain!"
I ignored her, the titans were going to pay for what they had done. They had distroyed everything humanity had ever done and now they felt the nerve to take the people who meant the most to me away. I was going to make them pay with their own blood.