"With Vien part of the Special
Ops Squad, she's also being
hunted down"
---
"Look, those two are at it again"
Jean rolled his eyes, mumbling lowly "I swear those lovebirds act like they're the only ones around"
Vien and Levi seemed to get lost in their own world, flirting and joking around as if no one was around. They didn't realize that the cadets already stopped talking and was watching them from afar instead
"I feel like I'm the pathetic one around here" Eren murmured
Mikasa stared at the man weirdly, muttering "What are you looking at?". After that, Jean averted his eyes from her in embarrassment
"I don't really get them. They'll be flirting around then the next thing you know, they're annoying the hell out of each other" Sasha spoke
"Shouldn't we snap them out of it?"
They watched in silence as the two were joking around, Levi kept tangling her hair while Vien was biting his arm lightly "Oi you brat, does my arm look edible to you?"
"Don't, that shorty deserves pain once in a while" Mikasa grinned
The cadets turned to look at Mikasa weirdly, but her blunt expression showed that she wasn't joking. It looked like she was amused seeing the Captain complain at the doctor, it's revenge if that's what you call it
Connie scoffs "It's like we're not even here, how could they afford to make jokes at a time like this?"
The cadets began thinking of a way to pull them out of their world without dealing with Levi. When Eren found a stone beside him, he picked it up and threw it at the crates behind the busy lovebirds
Inches from his face, the sudden thud behind her made her jolt away from him. Vien's facial expression shifted from shock to confusion when a rock dropped beside them. Levi quickly averts his blunt stare to the rock, raising a brow "Where did that come from?"
Levi glanced at the cadets with an unfriendly expression "Did any of you little brats throw the stone?"
"Throwing a stone at their Captain? They wouldn't do such thing right?" Vien smiled faintly at them
The two stared at the cadets, Levi was eyeing them and Vien was waiting for a response. Some of them looked away, whilst Connie nudged Sasha's shoulder lightly
"O-of course" Sasha held her nape
Vien patted Levi's shoulder to ease his hard expression, and walked towards the tied up man. Once the Captain eyed them, they all turned their heads to avoid eye contact
"Okay oky, now it's your turn to do the talking old man" Vien harshly ripped the tape off, but she acted oblivious to it when she just smiled
---
"This is insane, why hasn't Vien come back yet?" Exclaimed Eric
The two medical workers were the only ones left in their quarters, piled with more paperwork than ever. Unlike the others, their only job nowadays was to watch over new recruits and work in the clinic for the whole day. It's been almost a year since the four were together
"Aaron has been unconscious for months now and we don't even have word on Vien either. How worse can this get" Eric resumed
Handing over a piece of parchment to Eric, he widen his eyes when he read the writings "I-isn't this Captain Levi? He's being targeted?"
"Not just him, his whole squad too"
The paper crunches when Eric tightened his fist, he mumbled
"So you mean, also Vien-"
Francis harshly pressed his fingers against his forehead in frustration. He was hesitating to say what they had in mind "Is she part of it too?"
The other one was looking at an agitated Francis, waiting for an answer. Even if he never showed it, Francis was concerned about his friend. Because to their medical team, Vien was considered a younger sister even if she hated it
"When Commander Erwin was taken away an hour ago, the rest of us here have no choice but to stay put and freeze all of our activities. But with Vien part of the Special Ops, she's also being hunted down"
"It sounds bad of me to say this, but I'm glad Aaron's unconscious after that severe concussion" Eric spoke
"What?" Francis blurted, throwing a wilted daisy at Eric's face "How could you say that about a friend?"
The two of them threw the flower repeatedly at each other's face, before Eric finally answered him
"You jackass. I didn't mean happy in a way where he almost cracked his head in two" Eric responded
Francis raised a brow "So, what?"
"If he was to hear that we haven't heard any shit from Vien in the past seven months, who knows what that guy's reaction would be"
What he explained got through the mind in a second, only then did he realized what Eric meant. Letting out a huge sigh, he spoke "Now that you mention it, I'm also glad that he won't hear anything about Vien"
They got startled when the door slowly swung open, but their hearts dropped when someone in crutches, and a huge bandage on his head appeared in front of them
Eric jolted up immediately, and rushed over to the boy in concern. Whilst Francis was about to do the same, he halted in his tracks when the boy had his eyes locked on him
Aaron's voice was weak, "Who wouldn't hear what about Vien?"
---
"We're back we're back we're back baaaack" Vien sang lowly, skipping beside the three cadets when they entered the forest the others hid at
Jean scolded her "Dr. Vien for the hundredth time keep your voice down. Someone else might hear"
When they finally found the area where Levi and the rest stayed in, they lowered their hoods and gave the supplies they recently bought
"They'll be hunting us down by sunset, and they plugged the roads with their men too" Vien sat down beside him, giving him the poster
He read it quietly, and the look after seeing his face on it made Vien blurt out a small chuckle
"Funny, it looks nothing like you. They got your nose shape wrong"
Levi lightly smacked the paper on her face to stop her from laughing
It only made her laugh more, so he put back the hood on her head and tightened it shut. When she was busy trying to untie the straps he tangled, Levi used the little time of silence to reassure the rest of them
"When this brat finally gets serious enough to stop making fun of things, we'll be able to think of a plan before nightfall" Levi stated
When Vien was able to untie it, she glared at Levi before looking away. As much as she hated playing around right now, it was the only thing she was able to do to strengthen her guard. After witnessing Erwin being arrested, she could feel like bursting into tears any moment. Who knows what they'd do to him down there
"I hear footsteps" Sasha muttered
They shot their heads up where Sasha was looking. They perked their hearing senses to figure it out, but Vien already assumed it was the Military Brigade. No one else would be roaming in the forest
"Let's all head towards that river. Armin put the hood on and just do as I say" Vien carried her bag, and began walking closer to the bank
After suggesting an idea, Armin stayed calm as he sat on the river bank. And the rest of them hid low on their areas. Whilst Vien stayed on another tree branch, positioning her sniper just in case they'd fire
A minute later, two military police approached from behind. And aimed their gun "Don't try to move"
Vien closed her one eye, targeting the man who was threatening Armin to turn around. They were certainly unfamiliar to her, but the logo on their capes were that of the brigade. One of them had a weird bowl cut too that almost made her laugh. But unfortunately, she wasn't able to hold it in for long when she actually let out a chuckle