run, i'm a natural disaster
02: Broken
It is Ed's- they decide not to change her name in the end, no matter how much Greed (Ling) wants to call her Rosalind or Sandra or other princess names- first menstrual cycle, and as expected, things are going swimmingly. Darius sports colourful bruises on both sides of his face (when asked, he lies and says he tripped. He's not going to admit a pipsqueak of a girl tried to beat him to death for taking away the chocolate she stole from the last town). She's cried a few times, done her best to kill everybody and hugged them all at least once. Greed, surprisingly, is dealing with it the best and being quite sympathetic. He gives a throwaway line about female friends (Ed's eyes are soft when she whispers "Martel" and her voice is impossibly sad), before he turns back to attempting to blag his way into free painkillers.
Heinkel thinks that he drew the short straw when it came to animal instincts coupled with human ones, because now Ed is all delicate and young looking he feels like he has to look after her, and, fuck if it isn't the hardest thing he's tried to do in the past few years. Even now, when she's doped up on drugs and hormones, she's always moving, putting herself in harm's way. She claps and shelter appears, claps and a broken thing is fixed, claps and a fire starts, just claps and that's all people will need to find her. There aren't many (not even five, according to Greed, when they're talking around the glowing campfire one night after Ed's stomped off to her alchemised shelter complaining of volcanoes and earthquakes in her stomach) alchemists that can transmute without a circle, so the military can track them down easily. And since he was in the military, he knows what they do to little girls, (a shot in Ishval, shredding clothes and forcing, and monsters, animals of men) and it breaks him inside.
So he hands her painkillers, returns her hugs, and rubs her back when she cries. He knows Greed feels the same, as he talks with her about people named Al, and Lan Fan, places called Dublith and Xing, and steals painkillers of old ladies with too many cats.
They both laugh when Ed breaks Darius' nose with her metal foot, for "belittling her pain".
She'll be fine (for now).
AN: I'm glad everyone is enjoying the proof of my madness, and I thrive in your comments. I'm trying to keep ten drabbles ahead of what I'm publishing, so when there's a delay or something, I can post more.
Not much to say about this one, except YAY ANGST AND STUFF ALL THE TIME, because it features quite a lot in these drabbles. If only you could add more than two genres...
Tell me if you enjoyed, or have a request or something. If it's something that sparks my interest, by can't include in one of the prompts, I'll put it in a seperate story. (For example steampunk!AU of 'run'.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed!
-Tom