Title: Octopus' Garden
Author: S J Smith
Words: 130
Rating: Language says Teen
Summary: Edward realizes.
Warnings: Manga chapter 104 spoilers. 2nd Person POV. (Edward/Winry implications.)
You were fucking played and you realize it as that thing catches you and spins you around, slamming you to the floor. You can't move – can't do anything as it activates a transmutation circle. Your heart feels like it burst inside your chest – worse than when you nearly died on that piece of rebar. Inside, you're hollowed out and somehow not – something's peeling you open like you'd gutted those rabbits only you're
still alive
and dammit, it hurts so much you can't even scream
and you can just make out your brother, your master, your boss, your father and
your body splits
and the world thunders and roars and is somehow so
very
still
and you realize, bile in your throat, eyes too dry for tears –
they're all (she's) gone.