This is a songfic to the Beatles' Blackbird. Normally, I don't even read songfics, this idea just came to me out of no where, and I just had to write it down. Sorry if it seems a bit out of the ordinary compared to other songfics.
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Blackbird singin' in the dead of night,
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
He couldn't sleep. All the memories were coming back again, flashing in front of his eyes. The horrible things he had done. The terrible orders that he was forced to follow, that defeated him, taken over his mind and eaten away at his soul. He was a broken man. Everyone who had to be a part of that awful massacre was. He had needed a reason to live. A reason why to move on in his life.
All this time,
You were only waiting for this moment to arrive.
"I'm going to become the Fuhrer, Maes. I'll transform how this whole country runs. It's the only way I can justify my next breath."
He made that vow many years ago. It had always seemed as if that day would never come.
Blackbird singin' in the dead of night,
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see.
That goal was the one thing that ha driven him forward, a vow to prevent anything like it from ever happening again. To prevent young soldiers from having to endure the same hellhole he had to, the sleepless nights such as this one that he only knew too well, and from the suffering that resulted from having to follow such cruel and unreasonable orders. It was only by accomplishing this goal that some of his guilt could be relieved.
All this time,
You were only waiting for a moment to be free.
But he couldn't just do this on his own. No, he needed people who supported him, people willing to help him reach the top. His best friend, Maes Hughes had been one of those people. Someone so devoted to their friendship that he gave his own life in order to help his goal become a reality.
Blackbird, fly.
Blackbird, fly.
Into the light of a dark black night.
Standing up from where he was sitting near the window, he wandered out into the empty nighttime streets, headed for the cemetery where his friend now laid at rest.
He must have stood in front of his friend's grave for hours, for the next thing he knew, the sun was beginning to rise off in the distance, framing the image of his soon-to-be major approaching him.
Blackbird, fly.
Blackbird, fly.
Into the light of a dark black night.
"I thought that you might be out here, sir. Everyone's looking for you. You need to go get ready for the ceremony."
"Thank you, Major, go ahead and start heading back towards headquarters, I'll catch up soon."
"Alright, sir. Don't be too long, though."
"Don't worry, I won't."
Blackbird singin' in the dead of night,
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arrive.
Soon after leaving the cemetery, he could see the mayhem at Central Headquarters, preparing for the ceremony that afternoon.
He thought back to everything that had happened on his path to fulfill the vow he had made with himself. He thought of the Elric brothers, all of his loyal subordinates, and his deceased friend.
"I did it Maes," he whispered, a single tear rolling down his face. "I'm going to become the Fuhrer. I just wish that you were still here to see it."
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