Never Trust Me

Chapter 9

Hanji gave everyone a well needed day off, as she interrogated the men they had captured. Mikasa decided to take Crystal out to buy something to wear other than her uniform, and while they were walking she spoke up.

"What did they do to you?" Mikasa asked, concerned about their newest asset of fighting humanity's war against itself.

"They did things one can never take back... Tell me, do you know what violation is?"

"I do..."

"That's what they did to me. They violated my body and paid for it." Mikasa stopped in her tracks and looked around, acting as though she was looking for a shop but honestly, that shocked her core.

"That's a good shop." Mikasa pointed out to Crystal who in turned nodded before running over there on her own, leaving Mikasa to watch as she conducted business with the old lady, and Armin suddenly walked up to her.

"Find out anything about her?" Armin watched happily, realizing Crystal was happy to try on the dresses the woman was giving her.

"Those men we have... I want to kill them..." Mikasa mumbled, her face turning dark, and Armin looked at her in confusion before she continued, "They raped her."

"They did what-?!" Armin was cut off as Crystal walked up to them, the dress is a cute kind of baggy. The top half was a pure white while the skirt was a dark blue.

"That looks warm..." Mikasa said, looking at Crystal's joyous face made her feel unnerved.

"It really is!"

The day went by so slow that Crystal decided to stop by the training grounds and train against a wooden dummy. These training grounds were known to hold the training cadets and some MPs, along with scouts alike.

Crystal merely watched as she pulled out a wooden Dummy, and began to spar with it, punching it along with kicking it.

He'd turn his sight to her. Seeing what she was up to. I haven't practiced on wooden dummies for a while... He said to himself.

Crystal kicked it once in the side, clearly lost in thought and that caused her to kick to be harder than intended, making a crack go up the side of the dummy "Shit.." Crystal groaned

He strode slowly to Crystal, thinking back to the parts and anatomy of a wooden dummy.

Crystal grabbed the dummy in a lock and tossed it over her head, ending up holding it to the ground "I'm still a bit rusty"

"Mind if I try?.." He'd query, waiting patiently for her to finish.

Crystal jumped at the sound of his voice and looked up at him in slight confusion, "Oh! Fritz, uh sure you can try!" Crystal scrambled to get herself and the dummy back to standing. The dummy was beaten up, small cracks and missing chips of wood seemed fresh. "I have to wrap my hands anyway."

Fritz would start off at a slow pace, using his normal freestyle technique and not the typical army ones, slithering his arm back and forth through its upper and lower arm.

Crystal watched as she wrapped her bruised and slightly bleeding hands until her knuckles were covered. "Don't like the formality of army techniques?" She questioned, as she readied her ODM gear to start titan training

"No, not really... Too predictable." He'd mumble, soon kicking the leg of the wooden dummy.

"You've got a point. I don't know any kind of military training, just survival instincts taught me how to fight, along with Yagi." Crystal said the name freely, not noticing he had slipped out of her mouth but she seemed to not care as much as she checked her blades.