A/N: Oh gosh, I know I'm supposed to be writing my multi-chap fic right now… but this idea just hit me so hard I had to write it out. Yay for oneshots! :D And Riza-stalker!Pride is actually really fun to write. This is sort of a new writing style for me; let me know how I did! Thanks for reading, guys!
Thin tendrils of shadow snake across the concrete, leaving no trace behind as they disappear beneath the gutter. Teeth flash, eyes blink, and then darkness.
Boots click in muffled rhythm on the poured stone. Military-blue cloth rustles in a soft accompaniment to the percussion and hawk's eyes flick back and forth across the walkway.
Clicking slows, rustling softens, eyes focus. Shadow hugs the gutter, remaining one with the dark.
A tunnel yawns before her. A sliver of light runs parallel to the ground, a break in the arch above.
Shoulders straighten, boots click, rustling sharpens.
Shadow smiles.
Long creepers rush, rush to climb up past her boots, concealing themselves beneath her collar. She stiffens, aware of their presence. Boots click, cloth rustles.
A sharp edge grazes her throat, so gentle it draws naught but a drop of blood. Hawk's eyes harden in anger, frustration, fear, pride.
Shadow shows its eyes, and she cannot suppress a shudder.
Shadow grins wide and toothy, and whispers. Boots click, cloth rustles.
I could kill you now.
No, she thinks. I am too valuable a game piece.
I could kill your dear Colonel.
No, she thinks. He is too important to you.
I could make you suffer.
To this she has no response, not even for herself.
Boots click, cloth rustles, shadow smiles.
A/N: Woohoo! I really like how this one came out, what do you think? Reviews are LOVE! :D