Cold
'It all came down to this moment.' [Spoilers]

This is a gift, it comes with a price
Who is the lamb and who is the knife?
Midas is King and he holds me so tight
Turns me to gold in the sunlight

-'Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)' Florence + the Machine

She had always been cold towards him. It had been... necessary. Because she had been a teenage girl after all, and as little interest as she had in whimsical things like clothes and boys... there had been something about that roguish grin that her father's apprentice had always given her when her father wasn't looking. Something about his voice that made her... melt.

And now it all came down to this moment.

She is crumpled on the ground, lost in the depths of despair, as the moment she had always feared would come; has come. The enemy; a tall, beautiful woman with flowing black hair is sneering at her, and telling her that Roy Mustang is dead. Roy Mustang is dead. Her worst nightmare come true.

She knows that there is no point in living anymore. Everything she was had been wrapped up in him.

She supposed that in a way this was fitting, her life would follow his even into death, and death had claimed them as he fought for a greater cause, and she fought for him. She should have known that it was going to end this way. Maybe there was a part of her that had never really expected their goals to ever be reached. Not with the way he was going about everything.

Especially when he leapt straight into battle even though it was possibly the stupidest thing he could have done, considering the situation. She had yelled at him for that, and then it was straight back into action. Straight back into the action that had now killed him.

She knows that there is no point living anymore. Unless there is a way to bring people back from the dead. She almost laughs aloud. If only. All she wants is to feel the heat of his flames one last time before she dies.

Click.

FWOOMPH.

Who are you calling dead?

To be honest... I missed the reviews coming in to my inbox, so I had to put up some kind of one-shot, and I've slowly been building up my library with various volumes of Fullmetal Alchemist, the most recent acquisition being Volume 10, which is all the stuff with Envy, so what began as a pre-manga fic turned into this. There probably aren't all that many spoilers, but it references the specific chapter and then all the stuff about Roy living in her father's house, so I thought that it would be better to be safe than sorry.

Also; I finished watching episode 13 of Brotherhood the other day and there has so far been a disappointing lack of Ling. But he will appear eventually I suppose; because of being in Australia I have to wait until the DVD releases to see each episode. Grr.

Please review. Pretty please.