Chapter 2

Title: Second Chance
Pairing: Izumi/Wrath
Word Count: 356 Spoilers: episode 29 onwards.
Summary: Izumi always wishes that she has the second chance to atone for her child.
A/N: Izumi is one of my favourite characters in FMA. She is such a strong woman despite having a soft spot for children.

Izumi had suffered from insomnia ever since she lost the child that she had never really had. When she dreamt, she often dreamt of him, crying out loud as those black hands pulled him in before the gate closed.

She was a terrible mother. What mother would attempt to revive her dead son only to abandon him again? She thought she was doing the right thing to give the new-born second chance to live but she couldn't have been more wrong. She was a sinner and therefore deserved any retribution for her act, even if it cost her internal organs, causing her to cough up blood at inappropriate moments.

She never thought she would be given second chance to atone for her sin until she saw him on Yokk Island, the very place she had abandoned her child years ago. She felt oddly close to this boy from the first time she laid her eyes on him. He had stopped crying instantly when she had embraced him. Her motherly instinct had immediately kicked in and she found herself wanting to protect him no matter what.

But that was not to be when she finally realized the truth. She was convinced that he was her sin and that she would be the one to set things right. So she brought him back to the island and put her hands around his neck to end it all. Her hands were trembling uncontrollably and she found herself couldn't do it, not again. To atone for her sin, she would've let him kill her if the Elric brothers hadn't arrive in time to stop him.

Blood is always thicker than water. She had helped him escape instead. She had thrown away her second chance to right her wrong just like that and she knew there wouldn't be a third chance to do it. The saddest thing was that she hadn't even had the chance to name him.

But maybe it was never too late. Maybe she could still catch him in next life. This time she swore to herself she would never let go of him again no matter what.

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