Turning the corner, she held her hand within his. Rarely did she smile. Only with Envy. Her usual smirk was never about when she was around him. The love she shared with him made her completely forget about being human. It made her want to spend eternity with him forever, to walk the Earth with him forever, because she loved him.
But tonight, another life would be taken...
And she wouldn't know...
As her violet optics watched the male homunculi open the door, she was pulled toward it. She was stopped at the threshold as his body was consumed by shadows. Only the back of his ebony colored head could be seen. She was worried. He was, after all, just standing there. Then he said something.
"Stay. Something is not right...The lights are not working."
She could not help but smile. He was being so chivalrous. Making her wait outside. How silly he was being. She was a grown woman, she could take care of herself. Especially with those nails of her.
"Oh please Envy. I'm--"
"Lust. Stay."
Her smile faded as her eyebrows dropped into a worried facial expression. She stepped outside into the alley and pressed her back up against the building, tilting her head toward the sky. The moon hit her face and made her skin look even more ghostly and pale then it already was. Everything would be okay. He was just being paranoid...She was just being paranoid. She shut her violet optics and let her head drop.
And then it happend...
Her eyes shot open as light crashed through the threshold. Forcing her body from the building, she waited for the light to fade at the door. Her nails extended, ready for combat. Envy could not preform alchemy. He had been right when he had said something was not right...He was to benevolent for his own good now. She had changed him...now she was afraid that she had gone wrong somewhere, and that she was a fool to change him.
The light slowly faded as she flew through the open door and pulled to a halt. Her eyes slowly widened as she watched the one she love cough up red. Red stones...It was a seal...
She ran faster then she probably ever had before, contracting her nails as she neared him. His arm had been slashed vertically. He would be dead within a max of eight minutes. She didn't even know how deep the wound went. She just knew it was bad. Humans broke to easily, and now that Envy had no red stones, he was as good as human...
She watched him fall to his side as she ran into the seal. She could feel water building in her eyes. Is that what they called tears? They stung as she picked up his head and layed it on her lap. She would stay by his side. She would keep him here, on this ugly thing they called Earth, for as long as she could.
His eyes appeared dead as they stared up into hers. He smiled gently as he blinked slowly and rose his injured arm up to place on her face. He felt a wet, warm drop of liquid hit his fingers. She was crying for him, and yet, he could not feel any emotion but love for her. He felt her warm hands cup around his. More tears slid down her face.
"Shhh," he said in a soft whisper. "It will be alright..."
Lust could not help but shake her head. No. He was being delusional. He was going to die, all because she wasn't there, all because they came back now. She was worthless. She was nothing.
"Lust..."
As his voice entered her ears her eyes shot open wider then they already were. She would listen to his words till he was torn form her on this ugly thing they called Earth. Nothing could keep her from him. If she must, then she would ask Dante to seal her, and then kill her, so she could be in hell with him. There was nothing, that would keep her from him.
"Do not cry...Answer me this one question..."
"Anything," she said almost immediately.
"If love is pain...then..is not pain, love?"
She shook her head slowly in disbelief as he shut his eyes. His hands were cold on her face. She was afraid. Afraid he was gone. He couldn't leave her here. Not now. Not ever. She wouldn't let him.
"E-Envy.."
He did not answer...
"Envy," she said, her voice less shaky.
Again, he remained silent. She did not want him to strain himself to speak to her, but she did not want to think that he was gone. Anything but the thought of him gone...
As his hand dropped from her pale, tear stricken face she shouted. "Envy!"
She shook him lightly. "Envy answer me. Answer me..." Tears fell onto his closed eyes. She began to shake him harder. He couldn't leave her. He wouldn't. He won't... "You can't leave me! Don't leave me! Envy! ENVY!"
She screamed out from the pain that pierced her rotting soul. The pain of loosing somebody...The pain of love...She starred at his face once more, her faith leaving her body. Just then, his eyes shot open. She smiled as her head hit his chest as she covered him in an embrace.
"Oh thank God...I thought you were Gone..."
"He is gone."
Her head shot up to meet with a black pair of rubber like boots. It was Fullmetal.
"His eyes are opened because the muscles behind his eyes that are kept close are not receiving blood, thus making them not work."
Her eyes clenched shut in pain as she rose slowly and shakily, her black burnet hair covering her face.
"It was you who did this...Was it not you who said one life does not equal another?"
The shrimp remained silent.
"...If you have not an answer...then maybe will have to rip one from you..."
Her nails extended. This was her battle that she would fight for Envy. For his loss. She would win for him. For he was everything, now torn from her. The battle that was about to begin, she would not loose...
