Author: Noodleslove
Rating: G
Warning: Hints of Al/Ed.
Takes place within the movie.
Notes: Well, I heard this song and wanted to include this fic in the Elricest 100songs challenge, but we are only allowed 4 author's choice songs, and I already have all my songs picked out, so I decided to just leave this as a drabble and post it separately. So think of it as a bonus or an extension of the challenge. :3
I highly recommend listening to this song, it is really beautiful.
Take a photograph; it'll be the last.
Not a dollar or a crowd could ever keep me here.
I don't have a past, I just have a chance.
Not a family or honest plea remains to say
-Rain, by Breaking Benjamin
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There wasn't a question in his head. Not a second thought or a tiny moment of doubt.
Every cell in his body, every fibre of his being screamed, "Go! Go! Now! Or you'll lose him forever!"
He didn't think about the people he was leaving behind. Didn't think of the places he grew up knowing, the landmarks, all of the familiar things that loosely held him together.
Didn't think about a life without alchemy.
He just thought of a life without His Brother. He had endured that pain for two long years. That hollow and empty loneliness where every footfall echoed on forever, every breath was a desperate struggle, every heartbeat dull and meaningless without that beloved brother to experience it with.
Not a single fragment of doubt.
He ran like he never had before, spirit ushering him forward with unnatural speed, his head pounding rhythmically with the words "before it's too late, before you lose him forever," his heart on fire, pounding hard enough to escape through his ribs.
He had only just gotten back what he wanted most in this, or any world, and he would be damned before he would let that be taken away again. His brother was rightfully his. All that work and struggle would not be in vain.
He ran.
His life depended on it.
And when he came to the Other Side his friends, familiar places, and alchemy lost forever, he didn't think twice about it. He had not a fleeting thought of regret in his body because his brother, his brother was smiling.
His brother was at his side.
He let out the breath he had been holding for those impossible two years.
He could finally live again.
