This is a oneshot songfic. Song featured is Suzanne Vega's In Liverpool. She's an awesome artist! I've left out bits of the song that didn't fit so well with the story, but I haven't changed any of the bits I did use.
In case you couldn't figure it out, this is after the end of the anime series.
Warning: Ed x OC and possible character deaths.
Oh yeah, and this was the original summary for this that has been removed because it turned into a string of oneshots instead of just this:
Everything failed. He couldn't find a way, so he took the last option he had. He didn't realize she cared, that she would come with him.Oneshot Songfic. I do not own Suzanne Vega.
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Standing on the edge he looked down over this still-foreign city. He took a deep breath. No one would ever record the way this city had finally broken him.
In Liverpool
On Sunday
No traffic
On the avenue
The light is pale and thin
Like you
No sound down on this part of town
Except for the boy in the belfrey he's crazy
He's throwing himself
Down from the top of the tower
Like a hunchback in heaven
He's ringing the bells in the church for the last half an hour
And he sounds like he's missing something or someone that he knows he
can't
have
now
And if he isn't, I certainly am
"Al..." Ed savored the sound of his brother's name. Even if no one ever knew, it would be his last word. Maybe if he was lucky he would end up back with his brother again, but if not then he didn't want to go on anyway.
Homesick
For a clock that told
the same time
Sometimes you made no sense to me
If you lie on the ground in somebody's arms
You'll probably swallow some of their history
Except for the boy in the belfry he's crazy
He's throwing himself
Down from the top of the tower
Like a hunchback in heaven
He's ringing the bells in the church for the last half an hour
And he sounds like he's missing something or someone that he knows he
can't
have
now
And if he isn't, I certainly am
The tears that had threatened to break loose for so long were now freed.
"Al...!"
He'd given it his all, he really had, but for years of loneliness and pain and unfamiliarity he just couldn't find the way back. This was his last resort. It would probably fail like all the rest.
...spreading a memory all through the sky
Running footsteps behind him. Someone was coming to stop him. But he couldn't be stopped.
In Liverpool
On Sunday
No reason
To even remember you now
As Ed's feet leave the solidity he has known all his life the footsteps come with him and a soft hand entwines itself with his.
Except for the boy in the belfrey he's crazy
He's throwing himself
Down from the top of the tower
Like a hunchback in heaven
He's ringing the bells in the church for the last half an hour
And he sounds like he's missing something or someone that he knows he
can't
have
now
And if he isn't, I certainly am
And the ground rushes to meet them as he looks at her and she smiles. 'Where you go, I go.' She seems to say.
And they rush to meet the ground, to end it all.
Together.
In Liverpool...
