BACK TO THE BEGINNING

(UPDATED VERSION)

So I started this on a whim a year ago and began retouching it now. i feel there should be more franz/Albert. Now, I can never really make up my mind on who I want to be tops and who on bottoms cuz in the anime, franz acts tops most of the time yet is implied bottoms sometimes (who are you, my girlfriend) and he looks uke (bottoms). Yet albert acts uke yet looks seme (tops). So I decided to go with franz tops albert bottoms. Why? I thought to the 7 hour French movie of CoMC and Franz is totally Seme there and albert is unquestionably uke. Why? Albert= blonde hair, petite body, emo attitude like in anime. Franz= black hair, strong presence, doesn't act girly in the least! So if you don't like this pairing for the anime, imagine these descriptions instead! I own none of these characters, just their actions.

"Hey Franz?"

"Yeah?"

"Why are we even here?"

"What?"

"Why are we here? Why don't we… just go somewhere or something…I don't know."

"Why?"

"Ugh…I just can't take it anymore. Can you? There's so much going on, I don't understand any of it yet it all seems to revolve around me. I feel like a pawn in some evil plot…"

"Um…"

"I just want to go…" Albert paused. Something occurred to him and he began to pace excitedly. "Like, back to Luna or something! I think that this all started after we got back from that place…"

"Um…Albert?"

"So let's go back to the beginning and start all over. If this all happened after we got back, then lets not come back at all. Let's go on a big life long adventure, just the two of us."

Frustrated and weary, Franz gave up. Albert was so close to the truth, yet no matter how many times he tried to explain it, Albert would never believe him and would only become angry. Franz hated it when Albert got angry with him.

"Common Franz! I'm sick of this! Lets just run away from it all! Let everyone else deal with it!"

"Albert, if we run away it will cause more problems…"

"For them, not for us! We'll be trouble free! That's all I want! I just don't care anymore! I can't do it without you Franz, common, let's run away together. Please?"

"You're making it sound like we're gonna elope or something…"

"If that's what it'll take to get you to come with me…"

"Shut up, don't say things like that." Franz sighed and looked out the smeary window pane. "…I'll go."

Albert smiled, lending him an outstretched hand. Franz looked at it resignedly. He knew it was to help him off the floor, but if felt more like an offer to seal the deal. He took the hand and stood. His bones ached and his mind was boggled, but that dumb smile… it got him every time.

"Thank you…friend."

Franz cringed and looked solemnly at his feet.

"Sure."

Albert ran down the stairs of their hideout, eager to leave, that dumb smile still on his face. Franz slowly followed, and upon turning off the lights, looked longingly inside. To go back… go back to childhood innocence, the state that Albert never left, would be bliss. Before vengeance, hate, love, uncertainty, and taboos… would going to Luna with Albert bring all that back? A warm hand entered his clammy one and tugged gently.

"Common, I have to pack!"

"Yeah, me too."

And they left, dissolving into the cold grey blankets of a misty morning.

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