--Closure--

Here's the present I didn't get you.

And the card I didn't make.

Here are the words I should've said,

The things I found too late.

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And day has come and gone.

The old place has become a place of shadows and ghosts as well as memories.

Memories that will never be remembered again.

I sigh, and glance at the fading rays of the dying sun creeping across the dusty floor.

It's almost time to shut the lid.

My body is aching from sitting for so long in one position; I feel like I've become a part of the old place, with all the dust that's accumulated in my hair.

But it'll soon be over.

Just one more thing to remember.

Just one.

This... is the Death.

I looked down on him, or what was left of him.

I could hardly believe it; the shrimp had actually done it.

Greed was dead.

I scowled, glared furiously at the puddle of red on the floor of Dante's house and cursed.

Cursed Greed, cursed Edward, cursed Dante and that bastard I used to call my father.

Cursed sin, cursed life, cursed humanity and this irrepressible wrath eating at me inside.

I wanted to scream and kick and bite and fucking tear the place down around me.

I wanted to destroy, everything that had ever come into contact with me, and him, and that stupid old bitch who dared to call herself my master, dared to try and claim superiority over me when she didn't even understand how I came to be.

And then there's the one who did, the one who dragged me back from the Gate and made me this conflicting creature of wrath and desire and hate and pain.

The one who made me both crave and despise that which he took from me, made me need it and reject it at the same time: Hohenheim of Light.

And then there was 'It'.

Humanity.

Humanity must pay for what it's done to me.

Humanity will fall; I'm sick of stupid, ignorant little humans. I'll bring the world down around their heads and laugh as they scream and bleed and cry and end their pathetic little lives in misery and hopelessness, and then they can all go to hell for all the shit they've poured into this godforsaken land, for all the crap they fed me in life and in death.

Humanity will fall.

My father will pay for all he took from me, and all he gave.

And...

I looked again at the red water that was Greed, and a cold gleam flickered across my violet oculars.

I grinned viciously and screamed at him, 'See? You get what you deserve, bastard! You want, you want, you want, you lose it all! Every fucking thing!'

I was still grinning, panting triumphantly down on him.

'You always were too greedy for your own good; everyone knew it, even you. Especially you.'

I paused.

'You poor bastard...'

Again, the rage was replaced with emptiness.

Cold.

The cold he always managed to get me to feel.

Why?

Like I don't already know.

But it's too late for that now; there's no way he can fill the emptiness from beyond the grave.

There's no coming back this time.

One last pitying glance, one last moment of sympathy.

And then:

'My only regret now is not being able to do the job myself.' I clenched my fists. 'Again, the Fullmetal fucking Shrimp beat me to it...

'So this is goodbye. So long, shithead; burn in Hell.'

Darkness.

And in the darkness, regret.

And in that regret, the truth finally being acknowledged.

That I wanted him to fill the gap.

That I wanted him to stay with me.

That I wanted to be the one to finally send him on, to give him the oblivion he knew was coming.

I wanted that.

I wanted...

I close my eyes, feel a familiar wry grin spreading across my face, the ghost of something I thought I'd already said goodbye to.

'Greed and Envy', huh? 'Dream on'?

You bet I fucking I will; there's no closing the lid on this desire. You were right, Greed; and I'm sorry.

I guess I'll see you in Hell.

:: sonryz ::
Oh man.

It's over.

It's over guys, it's over. I finished something that's more than one shot! XD And all within exam study leave, too. (Which means I probably should've been looking at those horrible maths sequences... -guilty-)

Somehow though, I feel I've failed rather miserably in this. : S The ending... I'm not quite sure if that's what I wanted; I'm not quite sure if it worked out as the right thing to be building up to. And the body of the series seemed rather... vague?

But I might be wrong. Correct me if I am, let me know if I screwed up as badly as I think I have, because

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