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Intro Post//Annie

WHO: Annie and whoever runs into her fleeing, disoriented self.
WHAT: Loses her shit at waking up in a cave and transforms briefly.
WHEN: Mid-day
WHERE: In the bay, or nearing the city.
WARNINGS:Chapter 77 spoilers, some language? Will put spoilery part under a different cut.

Annie's eyes fluttered as she struggled to wake.

Annie! Save me!

He heard us! We can't let him live!

Take Marco's 3-D gear off of him!

ANNIE!

Why are you all yelling at me? Why must I clean your mess? Do your own damn dirty work, you bastards. Don't drag me into it. And you, I didn't place you in the wrong place at the wrong time. And you, I didn't make you run your big mouth so that he could hear everything.

You risked your own life to save Connie's, didn't you?

So what?

Why would you put yourself in that kind of danger?!

Fuck you. Like you never play at being human. You're the 'good soldier' aren't you? So don't accuse me, you piece of shit.

Have you started to feel compassion for this evil race? Prove it to me, right here! Prove that you're different!

........we're out of time. I....

Stooooopp it! Annie?! Annie! Why?! Why?!

Why? Why you ask, like it would make it better if I had an answer. Instead of asking me 'why' you should be fighting me. Why don't you fight me? Kill me before I kill you. You fool. Why are human beings so unwilling to see the truth when it's not nice? You'll wait until the last moment, won't you? Or maybe you won't fight back at all. You'll die in denial.

Fight back. Do anything but look at me like that.

I'm not your ally. I never was.

-spoiler end-

Suddenly her eyes snapped open and she gasped. She was in something. Not her crystal, but some kind of container. She was trapped. She was captured. They were going to dissect her, cut her up - no!! She'd accept dying in battle, she'd accept even being torn apart by Eren or someone stronger, but this was not how she was going to be taken out. She retched and dry heaved, her nightmare still fresh and the fear of capture even fresher. She struggled to get her sore body to work and ended up tumbling out the pod, barely making it to the water as she emptied her insides. She had to get out of here.

[There will be a flash of lightening near where the bay area is. Having completely panicked at waking up underground Annie will have transformed the minute she emerged from that cave ready to flee. But it'll only be for a brief minute or so as she realizes she hasn't been captured by the Survey Corps and is not about to be given to that crazy scientist. But maybe one or many of you saw that weird flash and want to investigate. But she'll be human again should you run into her. (ooc:drop me a line if you have any particular plots in mine.)]

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[EREN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! is the first question that comes to Petra's mind when she sees that flash. One moment she thinks of calling Levi to ask about it and the next she decides to go take a look herself. Not even thinking it could be anyone else...

So when she gets there and sees her instead... Well, it's easy to put two and two together, isn't it? She'd like to deny it because she's a second away from dying back home and suddenly seeing her killer here is fucking terrifying.

She's shaking while she's also just ... staring at her. Everything is just repeating inside her head again and she's trying not to cry in front of her. Then again she's also feeling a lot of rage somewhere there but that might come later.

Welcome to Genessia, Annie. That sure is Petra Ral staring at you. She's not even wearing her gear or military uniform, nope. Just some cute, casual clothes that fit the weather so really, she's completely unprepared for this. And oh wow, looks like the girl here is engaged with someone considering she's wearing a ring.

Petra is way too shocked to say anything. She should just get the fucking hell away from her as fast as she can but her legs aren't moving at all.]

[At least Petra would have some small form of revenge in the fact that she was shocking Annie right back. The titan shifter stared back, fully convinced that perhaps her time in the crystal had broken the stability of her mind. Was this her conscience punishing her? Or had this girl somehow survived? It was impossible. She remembered the broken body and lifeless eyes. She was the one who had broken her.]

Are you a ghost?

[The question is whispered.]

[She's either getting some revenge or time to re-think about her own actions right now. She should call Levi, but ... She's too scared to do much. Who the fuck would want to give Annie a reason to try killing her again? The question surprises her, not like she's giving much of a reaction to it.]

No. [Her voice is shaking.] ...It's not like I'm dead here.

[Well not yet but she's almost forgetting to breathe right now.]

[It took her a moment to remember that she didn't have to kill people who knew what she was anymore. That was why she had laughed so hard that day that Armin had revealed her secret. She hadn't lost her mind - that has probably happened long ago anyway - it was relief. Relief at not having to sneak and hide and kill anyone that might suspect what she was.

At the moment, Petra's life was safe. But the conflicting feelings of desperately keeping her cover so that she wouldn't be experimented on or killed immediately and the sick feeling it gave her to have to carry out the means to keep herself safe were always with her. And maybe they always would be. Mikasa Ackerman was one thing. To be looking into the eyes of someone you had completely destroyed was another. Annie took a step back.

Her eyes darted left and right looking for a tree line, a place to use her gear and get away again. She didn't want to kill this girl again.]

[Now what? Usuaĺly Petra is cheerful, friendly and rambling a lot to almost anyone here. Now she feels like she doesn't even have anything to say to her and she's not going to ask any questions either. Maybe it's because she's still way too shocked to do anything else except staring at that short girl in front of her. Weird after over a year of being so full of life here every single day by not only talking but also making a lot of faces and gestures and openly showing her feelings to almost anyone. This state of nothing from her is stupid and weak.

She notices Annie taking that step back and looking somewhere else. Why? She has no idea if it's a good or bad sign but nothing's happening after it so knowing what's around them, she can only guess.]

... It's not like I'm going to stop you from going wherever the hell you end up here. [as long as Annie stays away from the people that Petra loves.] ...But if you try to repeat anything from that day, Levi will stop you this time.

[Because surely that shifting got his attention too and he could be anywhere near them right now.]

Edited 2016-02-18 00:51 (UTC)

The day I killed you. [Well, Annie is nothing if not blunt. Why deny it? They both know the truth. It will be facing Petra or the cave. She'll take Petra for now.]

I don't know if I'm still asleep and this is my mind having its last moments. [If it is, her body needs to just get on with it. She thought she was more rational than this, to make up some alternate reality. Maybe some part of her had not grown up after all. She resented it. She was supposed to have hardened herself. Her heart, not just her fists or any other part of her body. Warrior's had to be hard as diamond, they had to lock things like human emotion away. It only got in the way of the job after all.]

What I did was necessary in that world. [She's mainly speaking to herself now. Her expression looks like it's a million miles away, seeing things from another time and place.]And I've been told I'm not in that world anymore. Maybe it's true or maybe this isn't even real anywhere except in my head. In that case, who can say whether the humanity of this world is deserving of death or not? Also, I'm alone and with no orders.[Her distant expression fades and she observes Petra with some curiosity as though she's still not sure she won't fade away.]

With all of you, he couldn't stop me. There's only one person that ever came close. [She's not gloating. What's there to gloat about when you are several feet tall and your opponents are ants? There was no real victory to be had in that. Her training was wasted on the likes of that. It was never a real fight. Never a real battle. Not until she fought him. It had never been satisfying until then.

She's not sure what to say to Petra. Annie never had 'friends'. Comrades in arms maybe, but that wasn't the same thing. She hadn't killed her out of malice. She had tried to make their deaths quick. Though she doubted that would change their opinion of her. ]

Edited 2016-02-19 02:43 (UTC)

[Blunt is good, most of the time. Now? Petra just gives Annie a glare for clarifying what day they're talking about here. She's not wrong, of course, but it's not like either of them needs that to be said aloud. ...But Petra can agree on not being sure about how they're here; is this or true or a dream or just a very realistic dream, that looks like a nightmare right now?]

Tsk.

[Not like she's going to admit that she's agreeing with her on that. But no, really, she's a very tiny moment from going into very little pieces by that girl's titan form back home. She's been here for over a year and Levi's been here for almost all that time too. They're engaged, in love and as happy as one can be here. She works as a baker at Cat Eye's Cafe; something that wasn't even supposed to last for this long but fuck she loves it and it's safer than working as security like Levi. Ironically it's of course something her father would have preferred her to do back home, something else than joining the military and getting herself into suicide missions. Who knows, maybe her mind is staying at that cafe in memory of Mr. Ral and all the fights they had back home about what a girl should do with her life. ...So, that's... just a few reasons why this feel unreal anytime she stops to think about this stuff.

Hearing the word necessary just gets her even more on the verge of either getting furious or breaking out crying. She's doing neither as she's just trying to stay as calm as possible here. Not... that she's very good at it. She's also not very good at talking to Annie, apparently, despite usually being good at coming back with something to say to anyone.]

What you did back there was something I'll never forgive you and nothing you do or say is going to change it or bring us back... [Oh okay, so apparently she's leaning towards fury now.] Maybe you can go ask that from people, who've been here for even longer than me but if this was just inside our heads, I sure as fuck wouldn't invite you into mine. And don't even start about humanity deserving death anywhere... [because that's some really fucked up bullshit way of thinking right there.] Leave the people here alone, including us.

Don't flatter yourself, we all learn from our mistakes and things could go a lot differently...

[Hopefully there won't be a next time because this is a different world and as Annie just said, she's alone and without orders now. That could be good or bad. Either way, it's difficult to talk to her and Petra doesn't really know what to say. She shouldn't even be here saying anything, her feelings are way too complicated and she's surprised she isn't breaking down yet with all the memories coming back to her mind on repeat while they're here. But hey, at least Petra is not looking at her in shock anymore. Now she looks ... angry to say the least, not taking her eyes away from the other girl because who would even do that in front of a dangerous titan shifter. She should either walk away or wait for Annie to do the same.]

It doesn't seem that I have to. You're already back whether I will it or not. [Annie looks about impressed at Petra's display of emotion as can be expected from someone that's been closing off their own for so long. Now that she's getting used to the idea that this is not a ghost at least, she's retreating back under her facade of empty, cold soldier. Not to say there aren't any turbulent emotions that will crop up later but she'll deal when them when it's more appropriate a time to deal with them - not when facing down an angry member of squad Levi. Even one she's already killed.]

And I never said I wanted your forgiveness. If you did forgive me, would it change anything about the past? Make me into some kind of redeemable person? It can't do anything, so it's worthless. Hating me doesn't change anything either, but if it makes you feel better, go ahead.

[All delivered with that infuriating calm that usually drives people away. And Annie has honed it well. She has a low tolerance for dealing with people for long.

She gives Petra an arrogant stare.]

At least you admit it was a mistake.

[Scurry along now, little ant.]

[Someone would tell her to replace Annie's front teeth with her back ones about right now... Not that she's going to go for anything like that here.

Well, they have something else to agree on when she calls her forgiveness worthless.]

It's not about making myself feel better or even something I choose to do.

[And that's all she's going to say about hating her to the person, who destroyed them. She had a choice back then and she just says it was necessary to kill them? ...Yeah, Petra is starting to feel like she should get out of here. The sooner the better.

She'll be just glaring at Annie while she's giving her that arrogant stare. Ehh, she's had a lot of time to think about all the mistakes made on that day.

And then she's taking steps back instead of turning her back at Annie at first. Don't kill her once she turns around after many, many steps to get the hell away from her, she has things to do and she just wants to get away from her as fast as she can right now.]

If I wanted to kill you I could have already.[Again with the bluntness. Watching Petra act like a cagey animal is understandable, but kind of ridiculous looking as well.]

I don't see the point just at this moment. However, it was a poorly executed move on your part as a soldier. I cannot help but wonder what you thinking, knowing as you do what Titan steam means and still coming out here alone. [She looks thoughtful as though she has just deduced something.] Eren must be here. You probably thought I was him, correct?

[Well then her life might not be as secure as she thought it was if that's the case. But at least she'll see it coming.]

Gee, I wonder if I knew that already. [ She'd rather not show any reactions around Annie but well, that's not working very well. Killing anyone here is pointless anyway as people just come back -- unless, of course, it's done to see any reactions to it. She's listening to that and getting angry mostly at herself. Because as much as Petra hates admitting it to herself when it comes from Annie... She is right. And then she mentions Eren and there goes this girl's fierce temper again.]

...I just hoped the steam would be Eren and not you. And if he was here, you'd stay the fucking hell away from him!

[Eren is here but Petra is not going to tell that to Annie. She'll either find out from someone else, possibly from Eren himself if he runs here or into her anywhere. That boy sure makes it very difficult for that last part of her words to happen.]

The fact that you don't want to give me a straight answer already tells me most of what I want to know.[Such as: he's here and Petra is trying to protect him. Or he's not, but the girl doesn't want her to know that either in case she should try something.]

However, I don't need blind spots. And with you being foolish enough to show up here on your own all I have to do is capture you and wait to see who answers me when I announce that I have you. It would be less time consuming for both of us if you were forthcoming.

[Oh surely the girl didn't think it would be that easy. She thought the scouting legion had some intelligence about them. Then again, it's probably packed with people like Eren who put their emotions first before thinking things through.]

[ ...That ... Backfires fucking fast. Why does she keep making worst life choices in this company? Shit.

What choice does she have? Annie has her gear and powers against... Nothing because Petra was just having a normal day here. She's shaking again.

Nope, she really does NOT want to go anywhere with that insane Titan shifter. And if Annie is expecting her to say anything to that, well she can keep waiting!

Petra turns around and runs as fast as she can while she's reaching her phone from a pocket. You know what's a horrible thing to realize at this point? She didn't call Levi earlier while she was too shocked to do anything and then she thought she'd get to just walk away from this before Annie mentioned Eren. Welp. So she's trying to do that now, why not?! ]

[Sadly for Petra, she is up against someone who was forced to run all day without stopping sometimes as a child. Annie is not slow on her feet. She catches up in a few strides and tackles the girl to ground. From there the girl is going to find herself with Annie using her whole body weight to keep her down securely while slipping an arm around her neck to get her into a choke hold.

If Petra doesn't know how to get out of it then she is going to be going to sleep shortly.]

:ooc: I suppose Annie will be making a post soon.

[Hey, it's almost like back home when she runs after her. Except this time Petra is not fucking up how to use her 3dmg because she doesn't even have it with her right now and Annie's not in her Titan form. She's not really expecting to get far...

And then Annie is already tackling her to the ground and the phone flies to the ground too before Petra can even make that call. Then again, she wouldn't want Levi to hear her having troubles breathing because of that hold -- and yes, she tries to get away from it with no luck and then she tries to reach that damn device until she becomes unconscious.

ooc; i see the post and i'll start a new one there~.]

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