All Shall Fade P2 (Levi X Reader X Eren)

You stretched your arms above your head as you lay back in the stable, your horse munching happily on the last of the food you brought as you hummed to yourself with half closed eyes. A sigh escaping your parted lips.
"You could have killed him." A voice hummed to you as you continued stretching unfazed by Levi's sudden voice as his face appeared in front of your horses stall earing a snorted hello from the horse who recognised the short males scent.
"I didn't though." You replied, your (e/c) eyes fully closing as you breathed out softly through slightly parted lips.

"Because I stopped you." He quipped back.
"Yeah..." You sighed as you felt his glance sharpen at the comment, he knew if you wanted to kill the titan shifter he could do nothing about it; the only reason you stopped was due to not wanting to dirty your hands with blood for no reason.
"You're still difficult to understand." He clicked with a 'tch' causing a hint of a smile as you sat up, your eyes now fully open as you watched the stoic man amused.
"Well you've only known me five years Levi." You watched with a tilted head as he glanced at you before quickly looking away those silver eyes seeming to soften for a second.

"The day the wall Maria fell..." He breathed as you nodded, the day wall Maria fell, the day Levi met you, the day you came to this caged off world you had never known. You stood walking towards the man, his shoulders tensing at the thought of that day; the many lives lost as Levi and Hanji's group rushed back from a small mission they had been sent on.

"Do you still think of them?" You murmured as you leaned over the door of the stall looking up at the blue sky pushing away stray (h/c) hairs.
"Who?" He replied.
"Your fallen comrades that day." You breathed as his silver eyes turned searching your face with curiosity.
"Sometimes, do you? You fought along them too." He called as you started humming to yourself once again, you had fought the titans that day; mainly fighting to make your way into this caged world. To meet those who had not seen what you had seen and help them reach freedom, you pushed away from the door twisting on your heels ignoring the heaviness in your heart.

"No, those who have faded away will not return, no matter how hard they are thought off." You replied, your voice steady despite the darkness in your heart, you had learnt not to remember those who faded away; those who were torn from life. If you remembered them all, from that day; from your days outside the wall; from the day the titans attacked again and so many had died in that simple town to save wall Rose. You would be consumed by a darkness you could never escape. You hummed to yourself softly as your horse flicked an ear towards you at the sound, Levi shaking his head gently at your cold words before leaving with a small click of his boots.
"Get back to work... brat." He muttered with a small wave as you watched him gently, a small smile as your horse nudged you.

"I know he is cold, but to him I am just an aid for humanity." You happily sighed to the chestnut horse as you stroked its strong neck, its ears pricking at sound as you heard it too. The small crunch off boots coming closer. You gently touched the horses nose with your hand in a goodbye as you stepped out of the stable to meet the incoming cadet. Wide turquoise eyes met yours as you glanced over Eren with the usual stoic gaze as he seemed to jump back at the sight of you.
"I just came to apologise." He spoke, his eyes glancing around anxiously while his body was set on edge while you simply blinked at him.

"For what?" You questioned, he had not done anything wrong?
"Saying you were slacking when you've been here longer than any of the other cadets." He murmured but you waved it off.
"You did not know." You replied, turning on your heels as silence filled the air believing the exchange was over.
"Urhm (Name)..." Eren breathed shakily as your (e/c) eyes looked back at him with a tilt of your head.
"Yes Eren." You spoke, his name rolling of your tongue with ease causing him to start slightly at the sudden use of his name.
"W-would you like to sit with me and the others at dinner? You usually sit alone and..." He started causing your eyes to widen slightly in surprise, much to his misunderstanding that being by choice but you slowly nodded. Was he pitying you? Was he worried? Or was he curious? You had thought he would simply be afraid after the near death experience but he seemed to hold a glint of respect in his large sea colour eyes. You needed to know his angle in this.

"Great, see you then." He flashed you a large grin before turning and running back towards the group of Cadets, their eyes on you before you turned away shaking your head softly walking towards the side entrance of HQ.
"What is it (Name)?" Hanji's voice called as you looked up at the grinning women leaning out the window of her office, beaming at you.
"You humans are confusing, it was easier to understand Titans." You shook your head softly while she readjusted her glasses.
"You're human too (Name), we even have the tests to prove it." She gleefully spoke as you tensed your legs jumping up into the window causing her to fall backwards in surprise as you knelt down the ledge with a small sigh before slipping into the office.

"All humans feel fear, of death; be it their own or others, pain, heartbreak...don't they?" You questioned as she stood watching you carefully, you had only divulged your life outside the wall in pieces; and that was mainly to Erwin and Levi during questioning after you joined the Survey Corps.
"Yes, it is a basic human emotion." Hanji replied as you glanced at her with a small nod; leaving the room in silence.
Then maybe I really am not human You thought to yourself with an almost sad smile, looking up to see steel eyes watching you.

"What is it?" Levi called as you slid out of the way of the door with a small shake of your head, pushing away the darkness looming in you again at the earlier thought; glancing up at the Corporal who watched you with a worried gaze, no doubt worried you were going soft before the next expedition. Fear he had lost one of his best soldiers.
"Nothing." You breathed, walking away humming the same tune you always did as you set over that cold calmness that protected you from those you had come to drag into the outside world. You wished for them to see all those things you had seen, but that was still a dream and till it was fulfilled that chance of those around you fading into deaths embrace was a reality, trust in their existence waving still.

-Levi POV-

He watched you walking away, your (h/c) hair shifting as your head seemed to tilt down in thought. You had looked... sad almost when he had noticed you leaning against Hanji's door. An emotion he had not seen play across your features that was already limited in revealing most emotions. What had caused it? He pushed into Hanji's office the woman sighing as she pulled off her glasses and rubbed her temple.
"What happened with (Name)?" Levi contained his usually cold personality as the woman glanced up at him with a serious look in her eye.
"She still doesn't see herself as Human." She muttered as Levi nodded in understanding, you had always referred to them as 'humans' seeming to push away the idea that she was also Human herself.
"She is doing it to remain at a distance." He hummed as Hanji nodded.
"She doesn't seem to wish to accept she is the same as us, its as if she does not trust us to remain around her so she desensitises herself to our existence." Hanji sighed, her head hitting the desk as he flopped onto it. Levi clicking his tongue in thought.

"Fade away..." He breathed her earlier words as Hanji glanced up at his softened grey eyes, he had thought you were simply unmoved by death as many others were but in reality... maybe it moved you more than anyone. You had told him off how many you had travelled with and lost before their meeting, having given up on surviving with the surprised amount of others outside the wall.
"She really is still so difficult to understand." He hummed to himself, a shiver of fear and care at the mystery and coldness still wrapped around you after all these years.