Laylah (laylah) wrote in ironman7, @ 2007-08-22 17:30:00 |
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Entry tags: | fullmetal alchemist, laylah, week 1: prompt 4 |
Fullmetal Alchemist (Greed, Envy) [week 1, prompt 4]
Title: Hasn't Learned
Author: Laylah
Rating: PG-13 for violence
Word Count: 200
Summary: All these years, and he still can't stop himself.
"Come back here!" Greed snarls, chasing Envy through darkened, rain-slick streets. All these years, and the bastard still knows Central better than he does. The years and the fights and the losses: first Dante's interest, then his place in the mansion, then the lovers and the gambling partners and that one opium den in East City that Greed favored, the one that Envy burned down while he was still in it --
All these years and he still hasn't learned. Still can't stop himself from flirting, from taunting, from wanting Envy's attention when he knows that only leads to pain. Pain and possibly worse. Envy threatened tonight to bring Dante here, to fetch the rest of them. Together they could defeat him. He wants to sink his claws into Envy's dead flesh. Wants to tear that vicious smile right off. His freedom is the only thing Envy hasn't stolen from him. He follows Envy through a doorway --
And alchemical power blazes alight, a sealing circle to pin Greed down. He chokes off the cry of pain, of anger. The others are there, in the shadows.
Envy stops. Looks back. Smiles. "I'll tell your friends not to wait up for you."