A/N: Pride and YoungAndInnocent!Lust. A little idea that occurred to me. I have this urge to give Pride a bit more feeling, at least in his younger years, but he's the type that really wouldn't show it.
I don't own Fullmetal Alchemist… even if I get a million dollars, I'm just going to use them to bribe someone to make an L.A.B.B Cases movie.
A cart rattled through the night, the old driver at the wheel only kept awake by the almost constant shying of his horses. He clucked his tongue impatiently, wondering what frightened them; not aware that on the back of his cart rode two unnatural passengers.
One held the shape of a young boy with dark hair and cold, dark eyes. Standing just inside, the cart, it looked coldly down upon the other occupant; a young woman in a torn dark dress, her head bent low with shame and her eyes a little red from weeping.
"You must compose yourself, Lust," the boy finally said, his voice as cold as his eyes. "Father will be even further upset if you carry on like this."
The younger Sin sniffed, wiping her eyes with one black sleeve.
"Y-yes," she answered quietly. "I'm sorry, Pride."
Pride shook his head slightly in disgust. In the thirty years since she had been created, his 'sister' had shown radical differences from Father and he. Her more uncontrollable and strong emotions, gullibility, and strange yearning for 'human' connections had led her into many problems… the latest being the human she had tried to run away with. Pride's mouth twisted with contempt. How could she possibly embody the sin that tainted and mocked real love, and yet thirst for it so desperately? It really was pathetic.
"Did you have to kill him?"
"Yes," he answered flatly. He wasn't going to think too much about it. That pathetic human scum had, in a way, tried to take his sister; that went far beyond the offense of his sister getting confused and trying to have a relationship with a human.
He'd say it out loud, but she doesn't deserve it. Pride chokes the silence between them as he looks away, unspeaking, and the cart rattles on.
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