Prompt: Superstition
Word Count: 250
Rating: Mature
Characters: The Rockbells, Roy
Disclaimer: I don't own Hagaren. Yet.
Series: Anime1
Warning: Death of the Rockbells.
Summary: You are Winry's father.
A/N: Prequel to Sink, Sank, Sunk, which can be found on my other profile, SenshiAlchemist.I always thought Roy would get it over with as quick as he could.
Down, Down, Down
Because this bad omen, these cracks in the glass, strike at something in your stomach and linger somewhere under your chest. Because you've never believed in these kind of notions, although they laugh at you now.
You stand still, staring at the broken photograph.
The door bursts open, the picture –
Falls –
Fractures -
"Doctors Rockbell… I have been ordered to execute you on sight for crimes against the Amestris military…
"You have failed to respond to multiple subpoenas and…
"Warrant… for your arrest…" He cannot finish. Gun in hand, he looks at you both, young eyes set with determined fear. "…We refuse to deny help to those who need it, regardless of their nationality." Your wife says next to you. She is strong.
He cocks the pistol. "You refuse to cooperate…" He reiterates. You can't back down: your work is for good.
He shoots.
She dies.
You choke, you break, you scream her name and drop to her side and reach out to her but she's gone. The mother of your daughter is gone. Your other half is gone. The woman you loved more than you ever loved yourself is gone. For good.
Your heartstrings – she used to hold them – snap in two.
The man takes one step forward, shaking hand and smoking weapon raised at you.
"Please…"
You don't remember which one of you says it; he pulls the trigger but you're already dead, been so since she hit the floor, and dark takes you - down, down…
Down.
end.
Because I DO kind of always write angsty / deathfiction.
Bad omen of cracked photograph= superstition? Yes? No? Nyeh.