Love & War || Levi Ackerman

Chapter 40 | Had I Known

Third Person View

Sara knew that something like this could possibly occur today. Regardless, she remained smiling and continued conversing with Kevin. She's gone this far. There is no reason for her to pull back now that she's this close.

"Oh, it's getting a little darker here." She hummed, following him in a sketchy hallway. Her eyes remained vigilant as they delved deeper within. "Are we going through a back door of some sort?"

"You could say that." Kevin hummed. "A little darkness can't scare humanity's strongest female, right? We're near."

"I'm not that much of a wuss, you know?" Sara pouted, her arm slithering around Kevin's to hold in the dark. She pushes herself closer to him.

"Is that so?" Kevin chuckles.

"Heh, such an idiot." Sara snickers in the back of her mind as she let Kevin guide her through the dark. Even so, she was aware of everything that surrounds them. A little darkness cannot bring her down, but she needs to make this person believe that she is under his arms for her plan to reach success.

It wasn't long until they reached a wooden door at the right side of the alleyway. They were already at the dead end, a brick wall blocking Sara's way. With pursed lips, she follows Kevin towards the door and let him open it first. "Is this the place?" She asks.

"Yeah, my guys are probably having a drink or two in there." Kevin chuckled. "I hope you don't mind. Just stick with me."

"Alright." Sara nods back.

Right before entering, she glances over her shoulder without Kevin noticing and narrowed her eyes towards the crate a little away from the door. "Tsk,"

The door closes behind her silently after she passed through. Only a dimly lit oil lamp in sitting on a table provided light inside the room. She looks at Kevin, who was taking his keys from his pockets, and moved a little closer to him while quietly taking out her butterfly knife behind her.

"My men are just downstairs. We can pay them a little visit and—" Kevin wasn't able to finish his sentence as the sharp blade buried itself deeper in his abdomen. He drops the ring of keys on the ground and coughed out blood at the sudden impact. Pain surged through his veins and his mind began to fog over. "A-and...S-Sara...."

Said girl let him drop down the floor in his own pool of blood and knocked him out completely with a hit on the back of his head with the handle of her knife. She glances down her weapon and swiftly flicked at it to rid of the blood staining its blade. "If I finish within ten minutes as planned, you'll live." She mumbled under her breath. "That is if your men won't give me much trouble."

She takes the keys from the ground and made her way to the door by her left. She easily unlocks it because of the access she stole and found a staircase leading down the building. "If their report is accurate, then there must be a total of fifteen down there." She hummed to herself as she walked down the stairs silently. Her heels never made a single click that alerts them of her presence. She was swift and agile on her movements, never giving the enemy her location.

"Let's get this over with."

***

"What?"

Levi stands in front of Hanji and the commander of the Military Police himself, Nile Dok. After Sara disappeared behind the wooden door, Levi was about to follow them inside when Hanji suddenly pulled him back and surprised him with the other supposed stalker of Sara.

His commander chuckled sheepishly at the discovery that she just told him, scratching the back of her head as she glanced at Nile beside her. "Apparently, they reached out for Sara to help them capture this group." She repeated. "It seems like Sara only agreed to the date to get this far. It explain why she looks so vulnerable earlier on."