~~FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST~~
Rating: T
Title: Equivalent Exchange Ch. 3, "I'm Sorry"
Author(s): ObsidianSilversmith
Date Written: 14 January 2011; ((edited 19 January 2011))
Date Published: 15 January 2011; ((reposted 23 January 2011))
Theme and/or Summary: Ed breaks the one law he'd thought he'd never break again.
Character(s) and/or Pairing(s):
Word Count: 297 ((over doubled!))
Dedication: My dog Spaz, for being quiet and letting me write.
AN:/: I've written eleven things in three days almost. This is 12 and I still don't own.
The laughter died away in Havoc's throat. 'What happened to you Ed?'
"Is the food here still crappy, 'cause I'm starving."
He was the same old Ed, but something was new.
Too many thoughts swirled inside of Ed as he ate quietly. He didn't want to be back here! He couldn't be back…And yet he sat across from Lieutenant Jean Havoc, eating cereal for fuck's sake!
Ed shook his head slowly. The nostalgia in the air nearly smothered him with painful memories weeping to be forgotten.
The sounds of the arguments that once rang throughout Central now only existed in his mind. The snapshots that were taken from this place ran off the pages of his mind, every drop became the razor that carved every word of every promise broken. The agony reminded him that there was a chance to overcome his future. The agony proved that he really stood in Central.
Ed shut his eyes tightly, praying that what he was going through was but a dream within a dream. He was here to give a report to the Colonel Bastard. Any moment he would hear Al clanking beside him.
Only…he wasn't here for that, and he knew it.
Ed trailed off in his thoughts, common sense kicking in. He wasn't sixteen anymore. He couldn't pretend-to himself, he'd be damned in anyone else found out-that he wasn't the same as everyone else.
He opened his eyes. The near-empty Mess Hall's lights barely clung to life as the sky overhead screamed it's wrath for the world to fear.
"Havoc, why am I here?"
Ed's question caught Havoc off guard. The lieutenant gaped as he struggled for an answer. After a moment, he simply smiled. "Now how am I supposed to know that?'
Ed shrugged. "I'm sorry."