From Below to Beside you (Levi x reader )

She was born where the light doesn't reach-deep in the Underground, where survival mattered more than mercy, and children learned early that nothing good ever stayed.

He met her there once.

Long enough to remember her eyes. Not long enough to forget them.

Then she disappeared-just another life swallowed by the dark.

Years later, she stands above ground, unrecognizable to everyone but him.

She didn't just escape.

She tore her way out.

When she's offered a place among the recruits, it becomes painfully clear she doesn't belong there. Not with them. Not with anyone who had the luxury of a normal beginning.

She's faster. Sharper. Colder.

Like something the Underground refused to let die.

And when Levi sees her again, something doesn't sit right.

Because the girl he remembers is gone.

In her place stands someone stronger than anyone expected-strong enough to challenge everything he thought he understood.

But strength doesn't come without a cost.

And whatever she had to become to survive...

It didn't leave her untouched.

In a world built on loss, discipline, and blood, their paths cross again-not as strangers, but not as something whole either.

Because some things don't stay buried in the Underground.

And some people...

They don't come back the same.

(This is my first big fic I will be posting on wattpad, I will do my best to stay consistent but I have other commitments too :) )