The Knight in Slightly Tarnished Armor (yuuo) wrote in chaotic_library, @ 2007-06-11 18:43:00 |
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Entry tags: | alphonse elric, ed and al, edward elric, fma, fma: anime, gen, r-rated, roy mustang, short story, y-52flavours, yuuo, yuuo-lj, yuuo: fma |
[Edward Elric; Alphonse Elric; R] Bring On The Rain
Theme: 36; Above the Thunder
Character/Series: Edward and Alphonse Elric; Fullmetal Alchemist
Rating: R
Notes: Dedicated to the awesome linachu, who deals me icon crack, and also to my lovely beta readers. ♥ Fullmetal Alchemist is copyright Square Enix and Hiromu Arakawa and used without permission.
Title: Bring On The Rain
Author: yuuo
Word Count: 2864
Summary: And above the noise, above the clamor, above the roar of the beast, the thunder outside and in that tiny little room, Edward heard a scream that stopped his heart, that silenced the noise and commanded his attention...
Original LJ Post Date: July 25, 2005 @ 52_Flavours
Another day has almost come and gone
Can’t imagine what else could wrong
Sometimes I’d like to hide away somewhere and lock the door
A single battle lost but not the war
-"Bring On The Rain" Jo Dee Messina
Bring On The Rain
Roy Mustang never understood why the Elric boys would refuse to let him protect them so much. Every step, every turn, Edward fought and railed against letting Roy do anything for them. The only way Roy could gain any ground was to go behind the boy's back and arrange something that Edward would not realize was help.
It was not for an excess of pride. Edward was a prideful boy, to be certain, but pride can only run so far when the gods have melted the wax feathers of that particular sin for someone as violently as they did for the Elrics.
It was not even for a lack of trust, though Edward would never admit it, even to himself. He knew that Roy would do whatever he could for the boys, even if it didn't always seem like he had anybody's interests but his own in mind. It was not concern that he would get too far caught into what the boys were doing and end up disappearing as they might.
It was none of these things, and Roy Mustang had never figured out what it was then.
Roy Mustang's biggest weakness was the rain, the storm that rolled in from the Western skies, dark clouds blocking the light of the sun and unleashing its violence on the land below.
So how did he expect to protect the boys when he was so useless in the very storm from which they needed shelter?