The Knight in Slightly Tarnished Armor (yuuo) wrote in chaotic_library, @ 2007-06-11 16:22:00 |
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Entry tags: | envy, flash fiction, fma, fma: pre-anime, g-rated, gen, yuuo, yuuo-lj, yuuo: fma |
[Envy; G] Broken Jewel-Box Dancer
Character/Series: Envy; Fullmetal Alchemist
Prompt: The Room
Rating: G
Notes: Spoilers for the entire series; set early after Envy's creation
Title: Broken Jewel-Box Dancer
Author: yuuo
Word Count: 191
Summary: The steps are bare, covered with only a thin layer of dust.
Original LJ Post Date: Feb 11, 2006 @ Chaotic_Library
The steps are bare, covered with only a thin layer of dust. His vision blurs slightly for a moment and sunlight streams in through the window where it'd been night and he hears a nearly forgotten sound-
laughter, a little boy, and a crash and then tears, childish and young and a scraped knee "I warned you about running up those steps, William. Come here and let Father see..."
- and he half-expects that the warm and familiar hand will clamp down on his shoulder and ask him what's the matter, why did he stop? Dinner will be cold if they don't hurry upstairs.
(But he wasn't in the lab, so he can't come from behind me, but he never comes the other way, I was always running ahead.)
Eyes, bruised violet by death, travel down the stairs, tracing each one down to the floorboards at the base and the blue-tinted light and dark shadows lingering there pulls his attention upwards again, to the window. He looks out to the dark sky beyond, and the coldly-lit moon, and truth freezes his nerves.
He's left.
And he's not coming home.