One Last Time

Ch.9: Before The Fall

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Chapter 9: Before The Fall

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Rumors have it that Elise Dietrich was the most beautiful woman in the Survey Corps ... and also the 'easiest one.' Coming from a wealthy family from the inside wall Sina, it was questionable as to why someone like her would join the Survey Corps.

"I heard that her family found her having sex with a man from the Military Police ... and because of that, her family sent her here!"

"I also heard that her family made the military police hang the guy ... With the excuse that he was plotting against the king."

It was the same thing over and over again. Whenever she walked past people, whenever she tried to eat at the dining room, it was constant chatter and gossip about her. And she couldn't say anything because they were true, about everything.

Growing up in a rich family, were emotional affection wasn't something natural ... It was hard to find the affection and love she needed.

When she was a child, Elise was playing in the garden and got her dress dirty with mud. Next thing she knows, her mom sent a servant to lock her up in the closet for a week. No food, no light.

Elise knew that her mom would have preferred a physical punishment. Like lash her back or slap her in the face, but according to her words, 'We can't afford to leave marks on your body, men won't marry you if you do."

So, starvation and deprivation of light were a good punishment for her.

Shaving her head and de-nailing her were also her mother's option because those things can simply grow back. It had been a couple of times when that happened, once when she spoke out of turn in a political matter, and her father was there. He didn't hesitate to shave her head and kept her locked until her hair was at an acceptable length for men to see.

They removed her fingernails once and that was when they found out she slept with a man without being married.

She was impure now, and unable to marry and so she was here now on the Survey Corps. Her family sent her for two reasons, one to keep the high status of her family and two ... With the hope that she dies outside the walls.

Elise didn't feel love for the military men, but instead what she liked was the affection he gave her. Flowers and secret letters from him and it was just nice to have someone love her. Her feelings for him weren't strong, but she did love him more than anyone from her family.

He was the only person who was there for her. And she was happy, to go against the rules of her family, to sleep with someone who loves her. And although the feelings were not mutual, at least in her side, she still cared deeply for him.

And her family killed him.

"She has probably slept with the entire male population at the Survey Corps,"

"What a whore, now she is sleeping with Levi too."

It was comforting, the sex. She, who had never felt the love from her family, was seeking for it in someone else. And even if it was just sex, she liked to think that the men had strong feelings for her and that they loved her. And in all honestly, must of them did. But when she asked them why they would answer with "I think you are beautiful."

Of course, she was well aware of her good appearance. But even Elise knew that true love couldn't be based on that, the men she slept with weren't in love with her but her looks.