And since I'm on a guilt trip, here's a double update. This one written five minutes ago, for the prompt 'Sincerely Yours'. Includes a personal little Envy/Rose theory I have.

I can only kowtow at Hiromu Arakawa's greatness. I can never hope to BE her. Therefore, I do not own these characters, just my meager writing.

Darling,

I miss you more and more as the days go by. Burying myself in work - you'd tell me I was pushing myself too hard, if you were here - at the church only helps a little. Sometimes I feel like I'm living on nothing but empty promises.

I try to convince myself sometimes that I was only supposed to be with you for a brief space of time. That my life was so perfect when you were with me because that was the little space of Heaven on earth I was allotted, and I should not want more.

But then… I miss you so much I can't sleep or think, and I find myself praying to Leto: 'Cast me into Hell forever, if I might have him with me again. I would gladly endure it for him.'

You'd tell me I was being silly… but that's how I feel.

But I shouldn't tire you with my pain. I'm being selfish. I hope you are happy, wherever you are, and Leto willing we will meet again.

Sincerely yours,

Your Rose.

He reads her letters, even though he knows bitterly they're not really meant for him, that the grave they're left by contains nothing but a decomposing simulacrum. Kain never existed, and she never really knew Envy, but the paper is warm under his fingers and smells faintly of roses as he sits high above the town to peruse them, and it's the only time somebody's written something that he can pretend was meant for him.

"Sometimes I feel like I'm living on nothing but empty promises'," he whispers to himself, and thinks of the Day, and homunculi and humans and Father's words on both, and the truth he really didn't want to approach.

He shies away from the thoughts in a moment.

He can't shake the feeling that she's not the only one.

Spinner's FMA Theory Number 1:

Kain was Envy.

Think about it. You never see the guy onscreen, do you? He could have been Chuck Norris, for all we know! (Wait, no… he died… couldn't have been Chuck. We can rule out Chuck.) Envy could easily have scouted out the location for Lust beforehand, seeing as he runs in to help her out with Lior later on, and gotten integrated a bit into the society while he was checking it out. Him being Kain would also hold up the themes of love and faith side-by-side with harsh truths, lies and betrayal that Rose's story holds.

Feel free to review. I'm not gonna stop you.