run, i'm a natural disaster
6. Breathless
Most of the time, it feels like they haven't stopped moving since they left the broken shack that they all met up at. They've been running, for days, weeks, months; no-one really knows the exact date- they haven't visited a town in a while; and it might be crazy but they're actually having fun running for their lives.
Ed hasn't felt so carefree since forever, and sometimes she can't help but forget that she has a life (sometimes she wishes it abandoned her like her masculinity), that she has family (Al, Winry, Granny, Mustang, Teacher- how are they going to react?), and sometimes that she has automail (sparing with people that are so much stronger than humans, like her). She runs from her past, as she always has done, running from her search, her desperate need to fix the broken people she collects, sprinting to snatch a glimpse at her future beyond getting bodies back, sacrificing and saving everyone. She runs with her group, a motley crew of half people, and hopes that it'll never stop.
Heinkel and Darius are running for their lives. They're with people just as, if not more, fucked up than they are- monsters that alchemy created- all running from those that would hunt them. They can't help but think that they are in a 'pack' or a 'pride' or, fuck, even a family. They are the perfect hunters, human understanding and animal instinct combined with military fitness. So they run with the pair that are giving their life a meaning, a purpose; and prepare to charge the predators in their wake. There is no past, there is no future: there is only the hunt and the running.
Greed runs too, away from the family of immortals that all hate each other but want the same thing, away from the temptation to slither back to his father, away from the memories that he regained but doesn't want. Ling runs because he runs, and they're running for a future where they gain what they both want so desperately (and neither speak about the shared thought that, even just having this would be alright for eternity, because it feels like a betrayal).
They run, breathless from laughter at the tricks they pull off, how the military can't track for shit, how citizens are blind as bats, and all hope that the running will never end.
[STOP]
A.N: Happy angst? Idek.
But I am back from camp and I bring drabbles, so dance in happiness, for Team Greed is back and this fic still lives!
Any requests for characters, mini-plot lines, hell, even ships; as well as any requests for AUs, fusions and cross-overs are taken and much appreciated.
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed!
-Tom
{Thanks to Fluehatraya, Hyper V and Mini Hayden for reviewing - they all make my day.}