30 Day SongFic Drabble Challenge: Day 30
Fandom: FullMetal Alchemist
Pairing/Character(s): Hohenheim
Song: "Live To Tell The Tale," by Nightwish.
Song Excerpt:
An errant soul, homeless and foul
All gone but the will to
Live to tell the tale
Drabble:
He had never wanted to leave his family, but in the end there were just some things that were unavoidable. It broke his heart as he kissed his wife's soft lips and caressed his young sons cheeks one more time, but it was the only way he had to say his silent goodbye. As he walked away from his house, the home he had built and truly lived in, a single tear fell; he knew how hard it would be for all of them come morning.
Hohenheim's body was deteriorating though, and it had been for years. His soul did not belong to this body, or this body to his soul, and the human vessel grew foul as it did what it could to reject his presence. Yet again the ancient man was homeless, without four walls around him or a body to keep him alive.
Years passed as he wandered farther and farther from Resembool and the whole while his mortal shell kept weakening and worsening. By the time his oldest son had grown to be fifteen, he was just about out of time, even if it didn't look it. He was sure Edward hated him and he didn't blame the boy, after all, he had left them, even if it wasn't really what he wanted to do.
Now, all Hohenheim had left was the need, the urge to go home and tell his son the real story; let him know the real truth of what happened before it was all too late. He only had the will left to tell the tale; then he would finally let nature take him like it had been trying for centuries.