Remnants of You: A Levi Ackerman Fanfiction

Year 847

With shaky hands and harbored breaths, I opened the metal box with same old passcode we shared, pushing away everything else around me.

12 25. December 25.

It was the day we fell in love. You still remember it, don't you, Rivaille?

I leaned back on the brick wall as the ground began to shake rhythmically as I took a glimpse of a huge 15 meter class Titan running at a distance, its eyes fixated upon me.

This is it, mon amour... Are you home yet?

With tears forming in my eyes, I push the box open and I was immediately pulled back into my dark past I tried so hard to forget. But of course, I couldn't... How could I ever forget about you?

Everything left of you- No. Everything left of us was still there. My late father's nameplate, the one I used to wear around my neck. The old black trenchcoat I bought for you. The withered cornflower, the only floret I've managed to preserve among all the flowers in the beautiful bouquet you gave me. And your first Survey Corps badge which you gave to me when you left...

But oh God, there it was... That white jade ring sitting on one corner of the box, forgotten by time. The very ring you put around my finger, along with promise of forever- a broken one, as it seems to be.

December 25. The day we fell in love.

December 25. The same day we fell out of love.

This is it Rivaille. The only remnants I have of you.