Title: Refuge
Author: Kristen Sharpe
Date: October 16, 2009
Rating: K
Warnings: None.
Disclaimer: "Fullmetal Alchemist" belongs to Hiromu Arakawa, Square ENIX, Studio BONES and various other parties.
Author's Note: This is my attempt to reconcile the beaten, self-exiled Roy Mustang of the "Conqueror of Shamballa" movie with the driven man we knew in the series.
There was a boy, terrified and tear-stained, who aimed a gun at him and died by his hand under a wash of flames.
There was a boy, innocent and naïve, who unwittingly saved his life and died there amid the flames because he was too slow.
There was a boy, aged beyond his years, who went off to fight an unsung war and died when he gave everything he had to give.
His last mission complete, his promise fulfilled, he finally let himself run.
Because alone, in the stillness of the snow, he didn't have to see anymore boys die.
Notes: Yes, the last boy is Ed, who didn't die of course, but that's what most everyone believes at the end of the series.