Hanji x Levi (Staying Strong Till The End)

Coming back to reality

*Hanji's pov*

I was in my realistic dream land for goodness knows how long but there I was happy and not in that mach pain. Slowly I could feel my self falling back in to reality. The pain was increasing. My eyes slowly opened and I couldn't see very much because someone had pulled off my glasses and put them on the top of my head. "Hanji, don't move okay just stay still" I heard someone call out to me. They sounded so far away, so why couldn't I move. The weight was on my chest but then it was gone again. I could sort of make out ginger hair from the blurs and there was only one person I knew with ginger hair who wasn't dead, Petra.
"Petra" I managed to say.
"Hanji I'm here" she said grabbing my hand to try and confort me "don't speak we will have you out of here soon"
"I'm in pain, what's happening to me?" I asked. So the pain in my dreams was real but worryingly it didn't wake me up.
"You have just lost some blood but I've got it under control" she stuttered. From her tone I could tell she was lying to me and even I could feel that the bleeding wasn't under control. I gripped her hand as tightly as I could, I needed comfort I could feel myself slipping away.
"Where's Shorty?" I asked "I need to tell him a dream I had"
"He's fighting titans at the moment, but he will be back soon" I could see her look around. She then muttered "Where are they? We fired that flare ages ago"
I guess they had called in for back up but if they hadn't seen the flare then everyone was just going to be stuck here. I could hear the sound of horses galloping over to us.
"Petra we need to get moving" I heard someone call out.
"What about Hanji, Eld we just can't leave her here she's still with us!" Petra shouted back at him.
"It was Captain's orders to leave now, help isn't coming" Eld told her.
"Come on I'll help you get her on the back of your horse,  you will have to ride with her if you insist on taking her with us" I heard Gunther say. Petra just nodded and she got her jacket and tied it tightly around my wound to keep the pressure on it.
"You're coming home and there we will get you all better and fixed, soon you will be back fighting and experimenting on titans" she told me.
Gunther then helped put me on the back of Petras horse. Petra got on herself in front of me making sure that I was stable enough and wasn't going to fall off. She then pulled my arms so they were wraped around her waist and told me "hold on tight we will be back home soon"
"Come on Petra we need to go!" Eld shouted.
Her waist was small and I could easily reach my hands together so they could hold each other. We then all set off back towards the walls and safety.

As we rode I could feel the wind hitting my wound and making it feel cold as the blood hadn't yet dried-up. Still I could feel the trail of blood flowing out of the wound and into Petra's jacket. I was slipping away and I knew that it wouldn't be long before I joined my old friends once again. "Petra, I need you to tell Levi that I had an amazing dream about him when I was lying on the ground" I told her.
"You will tell him yourself when you see him back a base" she told me.
"You're being too optimistic I know I haven't got long" I said as I rested my head on her shoulder. My head felt really heavy and I just needed to rest it somewhere.
Oluo was riding just behind Petra and Gunther and Eld were at the front guilding us back to the safety of the walls. I looked up at the sky and just thought about everything I had experienced in this world and how some (definitely not all) of my experiments had helped humanity's understanding about the titans. I smiled to myself and all I could taste in my mouth was my own blood. I could feel my body shake and quiver,  it was like the old saying someone used to tell me when I was younger and I had a shiver 'someone just stood on your grave'.
Petra's small warm body comforted me, I could feel her breathing and in the back of my mind it reminded me of the nights when I was a child and I would have nightmares about titans, only my mum could comfort me. I would lie with my head on her and feeling her breathing and warmth would help settle my nerves. That seemed so long ago I had been alone for so long but resting on Petra made me feel safe and like I was with my family again.

Where was Levi, all I was holding on for was to tell him about my realistic dream and how I wanted him to have a family even if it wasn't with me. I knew if he would just listen to me he wouldn't regret it, but then again it was Levi.

Still even though he hit and hurt me I adored him and I was holding on just to tell him one final thing in hopes he would listen to me.