Fanfic Bakeoff Prompts: Secret Ingredient Catch

by havocmangawip

Written for LJ's Fanfic Bakeoff. 1. Catch Up 2. Solitaire 3. Red Handed 4. Confessions of a Bibliophile 5. Novel Sensibility. 100-300 word limit. Characters: Jean Havoc, Sciezka, Elric brothers, Tricia Elric, Riza Hawkeye and Rebecca Catalina.

1. Catch Up

Title: "Catch Up"
Fandom: Fullmetal Alchemist manga
Author: havocmangawip

Words: 142
Rating: K

Summary: Havoc thinks about Mustang's orders to him while they were in the hospital.

Warnings: Possible spoilers for FMA manga up to and including chapter 89.

He told me to catch up. He expects me to catch up. How am I supposed to give my all when fifty percent of me won't work?

I turned that around in my head time and time again. I fretted about it through grueling therapy sessions and what seemed like endless humiliation learning about what I had left, on the train to the East, in the truck with Ma and finally in town, at the store.

The doctors told me to make what still worked strong, to make up for it. Breda did too, the jerk.

So here I am, waiting, working and trying. Planning too...

It's a good thing the bad guys don't know that under the blanket I've got a sawed off on my lap and a double barrel shotgun besides.

They're not expecting it, so I won't get caught.