[Celine]
Our first night at the training fields was scheduled for settling in. Soon, I was finished with cleaning up the place, and the girls began to file in noisily from dinner, one that I was absent from. They observed in awe and looked around the place, amazed at the cleanliness and the clarity of their surroundings. If only they knew how to preserve it.
I was resolute upon keeping it that way, anyway. Even if it meant working on my own. I will just never get used to the murkiness and disorganization clouding my surroundings, it truly sets my mind ablaze.
That was one thing Levi couldn't censure me of, my undeniable discernment when it comes to optimal cleanliness. I never miss a spot. Still, it relieved me to know that for three years, three, whole, peaceful years- I would not be constantly tormented by his nagging and snide remarks. Of everything. Of the way I speak like a noble as trained, of the way I choose my company, of the way I sometimes mess up my room with tools and equipment necessary for my little projects, of the way I loved my jewelry, of the way I dress and wear my hair; he'd always find something wrong with me.
His demanding arse would not be pestering me for thirty-six full months, and my, did that sound like haven.
Will things change with him, or me, when we come face to face as fellow soldiers in the future? One thing I knew for sure that whatever advancement of myself I could rub in his face, I would. Perhaps my future abdominal muscles that would surely outshine his.
Not literally rub in the face, of course.
After the girls all settled in, talking and making friends again, I took my sketchbook and pencil, and made my way to the porch. I sat on the floor, my canvas on my lap, and watched as some cadets thinly dotted the dimly-lit area of the grounds before the mandatory bedtime. Girls and boys alike were conversing. Like three years from now, we wouldn't be laying our lives on the line for humanity. It was amazing and terrifying at the same time.
I took in the cold gust of the night, filling my lungs with the earthy, forest scents of the fields I was going to be in from then on.
"There you are," A familiar, male voice said, making me smile as I immediately craned my head to his direction.
Bertholdt approached me from my right, carrying a bowl and a piece of bread. He was smiling faintly, taking a seat down next to me.
"You've been looking for me?" I asked, smiling as he handed me the food.
"Well, I... You did ask me to enlist you. It's only natural that I come finding you, right?" He said, shyly, as I received the bowl. "I didn't see you anywhere at the dining hall. So I thought you may have skipped dinner. The girls kept talking about the Stohess girl cleaning up the cabin, and I immediately thought, that should be Celine."
I laughed softly, taking a spoonful. "Thank you, Bertholdt. This is appreciated."
"So..." He began, putting his elbows on his knees as I ate slowly. "Why the sudden decision? You seemed like you had no plans joining the regiments when we first met."
"Would you be surprised if I said I'd always thought about joining?" I asked him, a small smile on my face.
"Honestly? Yes." He answered. "You didn't come to me as the type who would sacrifice her life for humanity. I thought you liked the life in Stohess. Who wouldn't?"
"So you didn't think I was different from the others?" I asked, curious myself.
"No, no. It's not that." He replied, looking out into the velvet black sky, glistening with a hundred stars recording our journey. "Maybe it's because you told me that you wanted to make new memories, to compensate for the ones you can't retrieve, hopeful that titans have nothing to do with it."
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