My Last Breath
by hisforever
Songfic. Episode 25 spoiler. What were thelast moments like between Maes and Gracia?
Maes Hughes was on the ground, bleeding. Moments earlier, Envy, in the form of his loving wife, shot him. The pain was horrible, but somehow he managed to stay alive for this long. As the rain fall around him he closed his eyes to focus on his loving family during his last moments on earth.Maes was so far away, nearly gone, and he felt someone's arms wrapped around him, and his name being called far away. By the warm touch, he could tell it was his wife. "Maes." Gracia whispered to him.
Hold on to me Love You know I can't stay long.
All I wanted to say was I love you and I'm not afraid.
Can you hear me?
Can you feel me in your arms?
"Gracia." was all he managed to say. Maes was weak. He knew he wasn't going to make it. Holding his last breath he surveyed his beautiful wife as tears came to both of their eyes. Roy stood by, they had been together for so long. Maes was supposed to help him become Furher, rank below him, help him make it to the top. Maes was supposed to be there at his wedding. Maes was supposed to be his children's godfather.
Holding my last breath.
Safe inside myself,
are all my thoughts of you.
Sweet raptured light, it ends here tonight.
"Maes, I love you. Don't leave me." Gracia cried. Maes managed to lift a weak hand to her cheek to wipe the tears away. "Gracia," Maes spoke, he didn't know how he gained the strength, he was so weak. "I will always be here." he lifted a hand and put it over her heart. "I love you."
I'll miss the winter.
A world of fragile things,look for me in the white forest hiding in a hollow tree
"I love you too, Maes." she said, crying. She felt helpless as her husband lay on the ground dying.
Holding my last breath.
Safe inside myself, are all my thoughts of you.
Sweet raptured light,
it ends here tonight.
Closing your eyes to disappear.
You pray your dreams will leave you here.
But still you wake and know the truth.
No one's there.
Maes closed his eyes as he let out a breath for the last time. Gracia looked at him, tears streaming down her eyes. Roy seemed to lift the devastated Gracia from the ground. Roy bowed his head to his best friend, tears in his eyes as well. No one knew what to say as they all looked at the ground. Sadness, grief, and tears seemed to fill the air as the rain poured down.
Say goodnight Don't be afraid Calling me calling me as you fade to black
"I love you, Maes Hughes." Gracia whispered into the air, choking on tears. It was the first thing she had said to him on their departure, years ago, when Maes had led Gracia to her doorstep, after their first date.
Maes Hughes was lifted from the ground onto a stretcher. A white cloth was covered over his body as he was placed in an ambulance and taken away. The military personnel and Gracia slowly walked back to their vehicles to prepare for the funeral inthe followingdays.
A/N:This was kinda hard to write, but I've always wondered what Maes and Gracia's last moments would have been like if Gracia the real one had been there with her husband. Since the series didn't show such thing, I decided to write it! Isn't fan fiction great? Gives cookies to those who read All flames will be used to light the fire in which I will stare into aimlessly.
