Blessed: Reader X AOT AU

Chapter 1: Maybe

AUTHORS POV

You stare down at your plate, a few slices of apple and a slice of bread with it, the meal joined by a cup of room- tempered water.

Clinks and clanks of the other people's knifes and forks sound through the room, making the atmosphere thicker with woe.

You felt sick to the stomach as you remembered earlier that day. If it wasn't bad enough that you had fallen under the Evil One's temptations, the old woman you had seen earlier before that was a dreadful memory.

FLASHBACK

You just got out the shop and were hiding the bag of food away from anyone's sight.

Who knows what they would've done to you if they saw you with food...

It wasn't that easy though, because the people could smell the food. The warm bread, the juicy apple, and the water made splashing sounds every time you stepped.

Your steps were quick and wide, for you had to step over the sleeping figures of the hundreds of evacuees, and sneak past the thousands of limping, zombie-fied people who were left homeless.

Suddenly, as you were about to step over another sleeping figure, a strong tug gripped your robe.

"Eek!" You yelped as you turned around to see an old, skinny woman; her bones protruding to the point where it looked like they would rip through the skin.

"I hear water- COUGH ... please...dip your finger in it and just tap my tongue, that's all I ask."

You tried to keep your balance by pulling away, but she started pulling herself up your robe.

"I want to do that more than anything, ma'am... but this is for my famil-"

"Lies...GIVE ME THE WATER!!"
She shot her hand up while you moved the bag away.

People started looking at you upon the sound of that sacred word.

"YEAH, she had WATER!! And BREAD!!"

You looked around at the attention you had drawn.

As the people stared at you with wide eyes, you couldn't help but feel as though they were Titans.

Titans would rip you apart to eat you...

And these fellows... would rip you apart to get your food.

You had nothing left to do but kick the old woman off you and run...run, run,

RUN!!!

FLASHBACK END

"Savor this food, we probably won't eat for months after this."

All the tapping utensils stopped upon their users looking up at Nick.

He placed his hands together, locking his fingers before placing them to his lips.

"The lift will carry the chosen Titan over the Walls within a few days, we have to prepare the bunker and stock up whatever food and water we can."

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"U-um... I found...a berry bush next to the river..."

You picked up your fork, trying to stab the Apple and eat it...

"Sally...best if you just eat your food, ok?" Martha said gently, trying not to let little Sally know that those berries were actually poisonous.