Wings : Attack on Titan x Reader Scenarios / Imagines ▼

[That Day :: Connie]

(F I V E  Y E A R S  B E F O R E)  

Today was perhaps the first day in your entire life that you'd ever felt even the slightest bit of fatigue. The sun was blindingly bright, no clouds were within your eyesight, and the sky itself was the most saturated blue you'd ever seen before, but a looming sense of tiredness still rested upon your shoulders.

Your best friend still hadn't come back.

You'd told your parents all about it seven days ago, on the night of the first Monday without her - how she'd just sort of vanished. No sick note, no signs of wanting to skip, no explanation whatsoever. Now, a full week had passed, and as you stumbled out to recess, you were still alone.

Fatigue wasn't the only thing that hit you - sadness was there, too. You missed her. You were worried about her. Maybe things would've been different if your parents hadn't found out what was going on.

As you plopped yourself down on your usual swingset, you rested your head against the rope that held it up, and closed your eye, your mind continued to make your heart pound. She's fine, you had to tell yourself. She had to be fine. There was no way that she wasn't.

"Why are you sleeping?" A familiar voice jolted you out of your thoughts. "And - crying? I thought we were gonna play tag again."

Your eyes snapped open. Until Connie had mentioned it, you hadn't noticed the tears rolling down your cheeks. You gave him a weak smile. You hadn't seen him or the rest of his class since Monday, either - at least he was alright.

"I can't play tag with you when you're crying!" He exclaimed, sighing in exasperation. "So why are you sad?"

He was still the same boy you remembered. Maybe you needed that. "Well - you heard about how Wall Maria was breached," you began, silently willing him to stay quiet until you could get everything off your chest. He seemed to have enough sense to remain silent. "And Amizia - that's my friend - was gone? She hasn't come back. And - apparently, her grandfather got sick, and so she and her family went to Wall Maria, where he lived, just two days before...before it happened...and..." you broke off, bursting into full-out tears.

The words you didn't say were the ones that struck Connie most. "Ah, jeez, [y/n]...but she's probably still okay, yeah? Maybe she left before it happened. And if she didn't, you said she was even faster than me, so she could outrun a titan!"

You couldn't help but give a small grin. Maybe he was right. His optimism was infectious. As your tears drew to a close - you'd cried most of them out last night, anyways - you continued, through muffled sniffles, "And - once she gets old enough, she'll join the Survey Corps. And she'll go out and kill those titans!"

"And you and me can go with her! And we can all get rid of the titans!"

Eventually, you managed to stop crying altogether. The rest of your recess went on in a similar fashion; you and Connie planning out the future of all three of your lives, joking and taking your mind off everything. And even though the fear was still in the back of your mind, you felt much better, knowing that Connie was still okay, and still up for joking.