Three sentences. Requested by Dante on tumblr.
Prompt: Greed/Dante (2003 anime)
They dance around each other for decades after his escape; two steps forward three steps to the left and one step back, but still they're always just shy of each other.
And then one day he's back (Ed and Al are the catalyst and she really must remember to thank them before she carries out her plans) and emotions bubble to the surface like gas in a tar pit, sticky and thick and cloying on the tongue; but Dante can't let him interfere with what needs to be done and Greed, in the end, is just an extra on her stage (just a rotted branch that must be trimmed if the tree is to survive).
And then he's gone again, and she almost mourns the loss (almost, but not quite because the soul's eroded and there isn't enough left to mourn with) for a moment before she moves on and the world keeps turning.