Virtues
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Summery: A fic based in FMA's world, but about 26 years in the future. Virtues, the exact opposites of homunculus, are interesting things...Rated for certain content.
Now, Sloth has left this world. How will Greed and Judgment take it? Judgment has come to age, and now has access to powers he didn't have before. Who will he take his anger out on?
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Last time...
"Stop." Fortitude said, holding his hand up. "It's healing on it's own." he said. Both woman looked at the wound, where a light was shining. "He's come of age. Immortality has hit." Judgment groaned.
"Get...that bastard...that hurt...my dad..." he muttered, and then passed out. Faith and Greed's eyes both darted over to where Logan was before. He was gone. Fortitude picked up the boy.
"Come. I will take you home." he said calmly.
Now...
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Barely an hour had passed since they'd returned to the apartment. Judgment had been laid in his room, to rest. Greed has hidden herself in her room. Faith paced about, Fortitude sitting on the couch. Faith pressed her ear to the door of Greed's room. Sounds of sobs met her ears.
"It is the flow of life. She will learn to adapt." Fortitude said calmly.
"Shut up. If you hadn't tried to stop Judgment and I, we may've been able to save Sloth!" Faith snapped back. She paced back and forth a couple of times, in obvious worry. Fortitude sighed, getting to his feet. He crossed over towards Faith, coming up behind her. He eased his arms around her waist, feeling the girl become rigid under his touch.
"You will learn to accept it too." he whispered in her ear. Faith struggled a bit, but put up a half assed fight.
"Let me go..." she said in kind of a weak, meaningless tone. She could feel Fortitude's gentle breath against her neck. Right at the moment, she felt like she could drown in the feeling. She froze again, and broke away from him, quickly scooping up her coat that she'd left on the couch.
"I'm leaving." she said in a hurried tone. "Tell Judgment and Greed that I'll be back later." With that, she left, the door snapping shut behind her. Judgment's door creaked open, and his head stuck out, a weary look on his face.
"Onii-chan leave?" he asked. Fortitude nodded.
"She went home, for now. Don't worry about it. Go lay down." Fortitude said. Judgment's head disappeared, and his door closed. Fortitude sighed, flumping down on the couch. He…was going to need to explain how love worked for virtues…to both of them.
"The act of loving someone for a virtue is different that what your father or mother dealt with. You'll know who it is, Fortitude. It may come soon, it may never come. But you'll know. And you'll love only them."
Remembrance of what the old geezer of a Judgment had told him, some 500 years ago, flooded his mind. He pressed his hand to his forehead. But...how to explain to a girl about 6 years in age that her teacher had picked her as the only person he'd ever love. Almost perverted in nature. It wasn't like he'd CHOSE her as his only. You don't exactly get to choose these kinds of things after all. He could only pray that she would choose him as such as well.
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Awaking to the cold breeze that seeped through the window, Judgment pulled himself up. He shook his head, clearing his mind. Felt a lot like something has collided with the side of his head. Which...may've happened. He didn't exactly remember anything after he passed out...The memories from earlier flooded his mind, and he flumped back down into the pillows of his bed. He spared a look at his bedside clock. It was nearly 9 by now. The thought of who had stopped him worked it's way into his mind. Fortitude...He bounced up almost instantly. It was HIS fault that Sloth died. HE had held him back, so he couldn't help. Forgetting the pain in his head totally, he stomped out the door, into the living room.
Fortitude lay on the couch, apparently asleep. His hair fell sort of limp over his face, his chest rising and deflating slowly. (A/N: That was...interesting to word. xX) Judgment yanked the man up by the collar, waking him up instantly.
"DAMNIT YOU! YOU'RE THE REASON MY DAD IS DEAD!" Judgment yelled at him. Fortitude held the same calm expression as he always did.
"You may be an adult, but you are hardly acting like one, dear Judgment. Yo-"
"DON'T 'DEAR JUDGMENT' ME! HE DIED BECAUSE YOU HELD ME BACK!"
"I was keeping you from getting involved. Had you been hit by that knife sooner, you would have been killed." At this, Judgment dropped the man back down onto the couch. Looking downwards, he fell back into a chair.
"He's...gone...really gone.." he said, in a sort of choaked voice.
"As is the eeb and flow of time. Everything has to die eventually." Fortitude said, as calmly as before. Judgment looked up at him.
"You've been around for 500 some years. When is it YOUR turn?"
"When I lose my use in this world, I will leave it." Judgement stared at the ground.
"Do not let it bother you, Judgment. What is done, is done. There is nothing that is going to change that." Fortitude said. He helped the boy up. "Go. Go lay down. Let dreams sooth your mind."
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A/N: xX That last line was SO corny!
Anyway. New chapter and all. Pulling stuff out of my head. xx; Its all random, really.
AND DARN YOU KYRSTIN! DDD: I SHALL NEVER AGAIN TELL YOU IF I'VE GOT HALF A CHAPTER DONE!