Disclaimer: I don't own FMA, or the Rose...

Phayne: This is an inspiration I got after seeing that Scar and Lust were so NEGLECTED in the FMA section. I felt obliged to do something because I really touched at what Scar for the Elrics at the end of the anime. This fic follows the song, The Rose. The Rose was sang by many artistes, but the version I listened to was Sowelu's.

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Some say love
It is a river
That drowns the tender reed

The first time he saw her, she was with his brother. Like him, she was an Ishval citizen. She smiles and glow radiates from her face. But that sweet and tender sight disappeared when she came down with the deadly virus.


Some say love
It is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed

He wanted to do something to help her. So he prayed. To the God he was brought up to believe in. But she held his brother's hand and told him, "I love you," He knows that she can never be his, and blesses the lovers. However, the disease took her cruelly away from them.

Some say love
It is a hunger
An endless aching need

His brother's grief pained him. His own heart suffers in silence of the same piercing sorrow. But one day, his brother left him, on a quest to discover a long lost secret. The day his brother returned was the day where he lost his family, his friends, his home, his country. War devastated his beloved Ishval.


I say love
It is a flower
And you is only seed

And on the same day, his brother gave him a part of himself. Now that he still lives, together with his brother's arm, that contains the essence of the Philosopher's Stone. But he does not believe anymore. On his own, he sets upon himself to regain whatever that was taken from him. To return those who has transgressed back to God's side. He sees himself not fit to have a name, since he had betrayed God, like the alchemists did. And so, people named him Scar, since his face was badly disfigured in that same war that took his only brother's life.

End of Chapter one - to be continued...

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Phayne: Though I do not think Lust and Scar are favourable characters in FMA, but it's kind of sad huh, to love a girl who is your brother's lover. Reviews if you're a Lust/Scar fan. Even if you're not one, leave a review too, or I'll have Roy to fry you... (winks...)