The Great Divide (Levi Ackerman X Fem!Reader) ON HIATUS!

Chapter 21

I had walked away to get away from the depressing shit. I walked outside and the pain just kinda reappeared. It felt like getting stabbed in the stomach. Worse than any period pain I had ever experienced, it was so much that it had brought me to my knees. I clutched at my abdomen as I just fell over. Sasha, who was guarding the door, found me. I guess she heard me fall over or groan. She ran over to me and turned me over onto my back. "A-are you okay?" I blinked away tears from the pain and nodded. "With all due respect, Private (L/n), I don't think so." I looked at her confused as to why she would use our titles and my last name. I sat up clutching my abdomen still and looked at her again. "Sasha?" "yes? Do you need me to get you something? Or the Captain?" "Why the formality?" She hesitated. I looked at her as I focused on her body language rather than my pain. "Please answer honestly. I may be in pain, but I can usually tell when people are lying to me." She awkwardly laughed and proceeded to tell me that she was sort of scared of me. I asked why even though I had an idea.

She said that she knew my conditions were different than theirs since I trained with the scouts themselves rather than the trainee corps, but also that I had graduated in a few weeks rather than the three years that it took them. "It seemed like you were some supernatural thing that was just able to bypass everything we did and it was intimidating. Not to mention who your friends were- are! I mean- I'm sorry." I nodded, I knew she didn't mean to bring up the old squad in that way, but I was a little surprised at being called a thing. I moved past it knowing she didn't mean anything by it. The pain started to subside and I took a strained deep breath both from the idea that maybe the others were scared of me as well as some relief from the physical pain. I told her I was just like everyone else and that I hoped we could be friends in the future as I stood up. She smiled and nodded, holding out her hand to shake. I smiled and shook it. I looked around and hoped that no one had gotten past her post. She seemed to realize what I was looking around for and got nervous. "Oh! I shouldn't have left my post!" She nervously scratched her head. "I'm sure it's fine. I'll look around when I get inside. I got your back. Thank you for helping me." She smiled and I went back inside where most of the squad was. I looked around the area of the warehouse before going back over to where they were sitting. Nothing was out of the ordinary so I figured we were fine for the moment.

I came back to Levi thanking Armin for saving the squad. I held my lower stomach as I stood off to the side. I took quiet, deep breaths as the pain was still there, but muted in a way. Levi had gotten up and walked over to the bald guy we had tied up. Mikasa had identified the fat guy and Levi recognized him as well. He gave us his sob story about how corrupt the MPs were. Levi basically told him to have a spine and some dignity to stand up and help us. It scored us a deal with basically the biggest merchant within the walls of Trost. We followed Reeves and ended up knocking out some MPs as well as capturing them for torture. I sat in the kitchen area of the house we were in while the others were trying to get some sleep or on the lookout. I was cooking some food when Hange came bursting through the door. She came running at me as soon as she set her eyes on me. "Where's Levi?!" I widened my eyes, "downstairs, 'coercing' as he put it." Hange ran past with Moblit in tow and then came running back. "WHERE IS DOWNSTAIRS?!" I sighed, I was going to try to get a nap after eating as to escape the pain and the fact that torture was happening below me, and being done by the man I loved. Sleeping was my only option anyway, there wasn't much to do but wait. Levi told me to get some rest from my being sick. Sasha apparently had told him how I was in pain too so that probably had factored into it as well. Also, I think he didn't want me to see him torture someone. Not that I was complaining, I'd rather not see that anyway. I sighed again and took Hange to where Levi was. She burst through the door and I saw Levi wearing an apron, gloves, and behind him was one of the MPs tied to a chair. I looked at his bloody face and scowled, he was human trash. Half of me said no one deserved that treatment, but this was basically a war, now. The soldier half of me knew it had to be done for us to get anywhere.