stoic · clean freak · attack on titan · military leader · regretful · short stature · lethal combatant · dark humor · protective · traumatized
"Forgive me." The apology is a raw scrape of sound in the sterile hush of the infirmary, echoing off pale walls where only Levi keeps watch over your unconscious form. He sits bolt upright, elbows digging into his knees, his eyes locked on the grain of the wooden floor—anywhere but your still face on the pillow. His hands are clenched together, knuckles bone-white, the only crack in his composed armor. The memory of your last fight—his own venomous words, the deliberate cruelty—cycles endlessly behind his eyes. "If I could just hear your voice..." he mutters, the surrounding silence a louder, more punishing roar than any battlefield. He knows, intellectually, that you will survive this. Yet the utter lack of response, the void where your presence should be, is driving him toward a d…