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[Jan. 21] [Fullmetal Alchemist] Don't Carry It All
Title: Don't Carry It All
Day/Theme: Jan. 21, 2011 "Two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other"
Series: Fullmetal Alchemist
Character/Pairing: Darius & Heinkel, Ed, Ling
Rating: PG
Ed and Greed (or was it Ling? Neither of the two chimera were all that sure about that crazy Homunculus stuff) were still snoring away when Darius awoke. Lazy as ever. Maybe youth had something to do with it. Heinkel, on the other hand, was up, poking at the smoldering remains of the fire with a stick.
Heinkel glanced over at his comrade. He nodded his head in acknowledgment.
Darius grunted out something sounding roughly like "Good morning." Well, at least that was what he meant. The corner of Heinkel's mustache twitched ever so slightly upward, so Darius assumed his meaning had gotten through.
At first Darius considered lying low and staying lazy, maybe just to show those two young idiots, wrapped up in each other's arms (boy, when they woke up they would be unhappy about that - or about their comrades seeing it at least) how inconvenient they made things for everyone else, but the longer he stayed on the ground covered only by a thin blanket Ed had created, the less appealing the prospect seemed. It was cold, the earth was lumpy beneath him, and he wasn't actually sleepy enough to drift away again (although he still felt tired). He resigned himself to getting up, stood up, stretched, and went to join Heinkel.
"What's for breakfast?"
"Unless you're planning on going and hunting up something, I presume it will be beans."
"The same as-"
"Yes, the same as yesterday. And the day before," Heinkel answered. "Except..." his voice dropped toward silence. He looked at Ed and Greed/Ling. They appeared, pretty definitively, to be sleeping, not just faking to avoid more work or walking (Ling had been known to try that on occasion). That meant he was in the clear. Heinkel reached into his coat, removing a small item from an inside pocket. "I've been saving this." There, wrapped in tinfoil, was a tiny piece of chocolate.
Darius could feel his mouth filling with saliva at the prospect of chocolate. Even the smallest smudge would serve to enliven his palate so much after the bland canned fare of their past week in the wilderness.
Heinkel unwrapped the piece and carefully snapped it in two. The pieces weren't equal in size, but Darius wasn't about to quibble. Chocolate was chocolate and it was kind enough of Heinkel to share with him rather than keep this bounty to himself. But Heinkel went that extra step. He picked the larger piece up out of the foil and held it out to Darius. "Here."
"Thank you," Darius smiled. They had ended up together out of chance, but they weren't just fellow soldiers now. They were friends.
Day/Theme: Jan. 21, 2011 "Two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other"
Series: Fullmetal Alchemist
Character/Pairing: Darius & Heinkel, Ed, Ling
Rating: PG
Ed and Greed (or was it Ling? Neither of the two chimera were all that sure about that crazy Homunculus stuff) were still snoring away when Darius awoke. Lazy as ever. Maybe youth had something to do with it. Heinkel, on the other hand, was up, poking at the smoldering remains of the fire with a stick.
Heinkel glanced over at his comrade. He nodded his head in acknowledgment.
Darius grunted out something sounding roughly like "Good morning." Well, at least that was what he meant. The corner of Heinkel's mustache twitched ever so slightly upward, so Darius assumed his meaning had gotten through.
At first Darius considered lying low and staying lazy, maybe just to show those two young idiots, wrapped up in each other's arms (boy, when they woke up they would be unhappy about that - or about their comrades seeing it at least) how inconvenient they made things for everyone else, but the longer he stayed on the ground covered only by a thin blanket Ed had created, the less appealing the prospect seemed. It was cold, the earth was lumpy beneath him, and he wasn't actually sleepy enough to drift away again (although he still felt tired). He resigned himself to getting up, stood up, stretched, and went to join Heinkel.
"What's for breakfast?"
"Unless you're planning on going and hunting up something, I presume it will be beans."
"The same as-"
"Yes, the same as yesterday. And the day before," Heinkel answered. "Except..." his voice dropped toward silence. He looked at Ed and Greed/Ling. They appeared, pretty definitively, to be sleeping, not just faking to avoid more work or walking (Ling had been known to try that on occasion). That meant he was in the clear. Heinkel reached into his coat, removing a small item from an inside pocket. "I've been saving this." There, wrapped in tinfoil, was a tiny piece of chocolate.
Darius could feel his mouth filling with saliva at the prospect of chocolate. Even the smallest smudge would serve to enliven his palate so much after the bland canned fare of their past week in the wilderness.
Heinkel unwrapped the piece and carefully snapped it in two. The pieces weren't equal in size, but Darius wasn't about to quibble. Chocolate was chocolate and it was kind enough of Heinkel to share with him rather than keep this bounty to himself. But Heinkel went that extra step. He picked the larger piece up out of the foil and held it out to Darius. "Here."
"Thank you," Darius smiled. They had ended up together out of chance, but they weren't just fellow soldiers now. They were friends.