Attack on Titan Retribution

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Ghost POV

"Are you fucking serious?!" asks Phantom

I'm standing there out in the field, far away from the camp so that Phantom's yelling doesn't wake up the soldiers back at camp.

"Yea I'm serious."

"I can't believe that you'll actually do that." says Phantom

"Look we can't deny the fact that it's the only option I have left."

"Are you serious?! I told you I'll do it, I'll kill her!"

"You have to admit that you can't." I reply

"Neither can you." says Phantom

I stand there looking at her eyes as I thought about what she just said.

"I know."

"Then why the fuck aren't you allowing any one of us to take her out?!" she yells

"I can't allow that."

"Why the fuck not?!"

"I can't lose you, not again." I reply

Phantom's eye went from angry and confused, to sadness.

"And what about me?" she asks, "What am I supposed to do if you die?"

Silence filled the air as a cool breeze was brewing throughout the field.

"I want to make sure you're alive." I reply

"Do you really think that's going to happen after you die? Huh? How am I supposed to move on, just like how you couldn't move on when I went missing."

"I don't kno-" I got cut off mid sentence with a punch to my face.

"Are you serious?! You're just going to leave me like that?!" she yells at me

"Then do you any better ideas?" I ask

"We can come up with one!"

"Like what?" I ask

"I don't know, but we'll come up with one!"

"By the time we come up with one Recon will have killed a lot more people out there, it's now or never situation."

"But there's always time." replies Phantom

"Not anymore." I reply, "Time is no longer on our side."

Phantom stops staring me down and stares at the ground.

"I can't lose you." whispers Phantom

"Neither can I."

Phantom lowers her bandana and sighs as she rubs her eyes.

"So you're going to kill her then, right?" asks Phantom

"Yea I will."

"Okay, I trust you."

Phantom looks up at me and smiles to reassure me.

"Let's go back to camp." I say

We head back and I enter my tent that was designated for me.

"How are your wounds?" she asks

"Getting better, it shouldn't be a problem by the time we get to Russia."

"Is your right side getting better?"

"Let me take a look." she replies

I remove my gun, then my vest. I put them to the side and start taking off my headgear, headset and mask. I finally take off my top to reveal my bare skin wrapped with multiple bandaids on my chest, abs and arms.