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Unsettling Affairs	By : xkesshoux Category: Fullmetal Alchemist > Yaoi - Male/Male Views: 1906 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter List
- 13
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- 15
Each
individual chapter will have a different rating, different pairings,
different spoilers, and a different setting and timeline. Multiple
people were involved in writing this fic, I do not claim to have
written anything other than my own characters. I do however claim to
have come up with the plot, story idea, and organizing it all. The
others who write characters in this fic are well aware that I am
posting it, and contribute willingly. This fic is an ongoing project
with an unknown number of parts, with alternate storyline as of the
fifth laboratory incident. Enjoy!

Intentions
in Murky Water

Rating:
PG-13
Pairings: Implied EnvyxWrath, LustxSloth, over
the board affections between chimeras.
Disclaimer: I don't
own FMA.
Spoilers: Sin identities, Lust's birth.
Setting:
Irrtum, a city in Ishbar.
Timeline: After the
confrontation between the Abominations and the Devil's Nest.

Nothing
is as it seems in this city of the dead, where ghostly curtains of
worn thin fabric hang eerily in empty windows. Windows that at one
time, were filled with light, filtered laughter, and framed families.
All of that was lost with the Ishbar war, however, and the city was
left as naught but a ghost town. But nothing is as it seems here, and
perhaps a stray glance would tell you that a bustling crowd filled
the streets, your ears catching the sounds of traffic and gossip. And
just as suddenly it would be gone, as though it were never there at
all.

Nothing
but shadows of a life once prosperous, but a death too horrid to send
the life away completely, its secrets to be buried forever with the
bodies that had long since decomposed and rejoined the soil to become
a constant reminder...

Or
perhaps, it was just the delusional figment of imagination that came
from the long, empty travel to this desolate place, so far away from
anything that could be called civilization.

--

Lazy,
bored, violet eyes stared out of one of the few paned glass windows
that remained in the city, as the Homunculus huffed a sigh
irritatedly. "Saaaaa....why do we have to stay here of
all places! It's not even remotely pleasant..."

Atop a
dusty pile of rubble along the wall was where the other Homunculus in
the room sat quietly, her legs crossed and chin in hand.

"Mm...
what's wrong, Envy? Bored?"

Kohl-dark
lashes lift to reveal her own violet-hued orbs, a hint of boredom in
their depths, though the faint smirk on her lips indicated that she
was otherwise amused by Envy's restlessness. She tucked a wisp of
ebony behind her ear before standing, brushing herself off and
resting a hand on one cocked hip as she turned to peer out of the
window as well. This place brought its own brand of unpleasantness to
the one called Lust, for reasons she was loathe to even attempt to
comprehend...

She was
not, however, as eager as Envy to voice her complaints.

"Feh....why
here...." Envy mumbled again, poking at a rock with his
toes rather idly. "And where'd Gluttony get off to anyway..."

The green
haired Homunculus cocked his head at Lust, a wicked smirk on his
face. "Oi...I followed Wrath after you told him Sloth was dead,
and it turns out the kid actually found Sloth for us! It's a grubby
little town in the south, I asked Him about it but He didn't answer,
figures..." Violet eyes turned back to the window again, as
though something might actually happen outside of it.

"Is
that so?" Lust's pale expression betrayed nothing, her
vacant-yet-piercing gaze continuing to watch the scenery through the
window, a window that might have shown her much happier sights in a
former lifetime, when there was a village here in destruction's
stead. But there was only the same nothing out there as the
nothing in her heart, and it made her feel uneasy.

Her brow
furrowed and a frown tugged at her lips. "If there's someplace
you'd rather be right now, I'm open to suggestions."

Envy
hopped down from the windowsill, stretching a bit. "But would
leaving be that good of an idea right now? After all, we hardly even
know this new guy....there's no telling what He could do....but I
hate it here....che...."

He
shrugged a bit, his usual expression slipping on. "Saaa....but
He said we were supposed to wait for a signal from those
Abominations, so really we can't do much but wait, can we?"

Lust took
Envy's place at the windowsill, leaning back against the pane of
glass, her hair spilling over her shoulders as they hunched slightly.
The frown was quickly replaced by another ghost of a smirk, her legs
crossing with a whispering swish of her dress.

"I
wonder..." Lust tilted her head slightly. "But we really
have no choice but to wait, you're right. You're just going to have
to find some way to amuse yourself in the meantime."

Envy
shrugged again. "If you hadn't run off little Wrath I could have
plenty of fun right here...."

Slightly
sharp teeth gleamed in the shadows, a wickedly perverse grin upon the
Homunculus's face.

The
corner of Lust's mouth quirked, pulling her smirk tighter. "Oh?
And you would do such a thing right here, in front of a lady? Really,
Envy, you should show more self-control."

There was
a crackling sound, and it was the form of Sloth that stepped out of
the shadows and up to Lust, half-lidded amethyst eyes gazing into
hers as lithe fingertips brushed against her cheek lightly. "And
if you hadn't run me off...."

Envy let
the words linger, leaning so close that his current form was just
centimeters away from Lust's face, and then he smirked and spun
around, crackling from head to toe and he was himself again. At
least, as much himself as he wanted to be.

"You
know it's true...." Envy snickered.

Lust
simply stared back at the crackling form that was Envy, all amusement
drained from her face. That wasn't really what she meant when she
told Envy he should find some way to entertain himself. Her arms
folded across her chest, a defiant gesture.

"I'm
glad you're so amused." She droned, turning her face away from
him and giving a sidelong look out the window.

"Awwww....did
I touch a sore spot?" Envy teased at her, grinning amusedly.

"Really,
though, you're more sour than usual!"

"I
don't like it here," Lust finally conceded her feelings,
acknowledging them grudgingly. She started liking it even less after
Envy started pushing her buttons for amusement.

"Oh
that's riiiiiight!" Envy's grin broadened as he acted
thoughtful. "You were created near here weren't you!"

Clapping
his hands together suddenly, Envy spun on his heels to face the
younger Homunculus. "I know! We could go on a field trip!"

Lust's
unamused frown gave way to a full-on glare, her long, talon-like
fingers extending and raking down the glass of the window with a
resentful screech. She remained calm despite Envy's goading, allowing
her murderous stare and the window shrieking in protest to speak for
themselves. "Now, now -- let's not stray from the task at hand.
We have a job to do right now, don't we?"

A vile
grin accompanied her cold stare as her fingers continued to scar the
window.

"You
wouldn't want to have to be the one to tell Him we got distracted,
ne?"

Envy
didn't let the obviously aggressive behavior irk him at all, as it
seemed only to further amuse him, grin turning into a full-on smirk.

"It's
only a few hours away, though...right? We could go and be back before
sunset! Or are you scared to go back to your birthplace,
neeee, Lust?"

There was
a wicked gleam in his eyes, one hand on his hip. There wasn't one of
them that could beat him, so it had quickly become one of Envy's
favorite pastimes to find and push the other Homunculus' buttons.

Lust's
fingers ceased their assault on the window, that hand dropping to her
side as she regained some semblance of composure -- she knew better
than to let Envy get to her. She might just start to regret having
run Wrath off if this was the best form of entertainment for himself
that Envy could come up with.

Scared to
be debilitated by remnants of a former life whose fractured memories
are scary enough in their own right? Perhaps. But she felt no
particular inclination to share this with Envy.

"I
wonder..." She mused with that honey-dipped voice of hers, that
vile smile never leaving her pale face. "Is this all that it
takes to get you off?

"Would
it excite you to hurt me, Envy?"

The older
Homunculus' grin was now lacking the gleaming teeth, but it was still
there, amethyst eyes slitted at Lust.

"Heh...maybe..."

Envy's
look became a bit more laid back, lazily predatory, as he leaned back
against a few dusty crates, arms draped casually out to the sides.
"What would you do if I said it would?"

The bait
was set. However, it didn't really matter if it was taken or not, the
outcome would be the same.

Which
Lust knew. She was not a stupid woman.

"Mmm...
I'm not sure there would be much I could do against you, now
would there?" Lust leaned forward in her seat, resting her chin
in her hand and matching Envy's narrowed gaze with a hooded stare of
her own.

"But
I do have to ask, regardless... do you like it when your prey fights
back?" Because if those claws were indicative of anything, it
was that Lust would not go down without a fight, if not for as much
her own enjoyment as Envy's.

Envy
cocked his head back to the side slightly, teeth once more in that
jagged, perverse grin.

"If
they don't struggle, fight, or run, what's the fun in it?"

That
voice was still as sly as ever as the Homunculus slumped forward
slightly, supported by his arms hooked around the corners of the
crates, though it took on a wicked, sadistic undertone then. Envy
licked his lips. "It's the most exhilarating thing....the look
of knowing that there's nothing they can do to save themselves...the
fear that's so thick in the air you can taste it!"

"Well...
that's where I'm afraid I'm lacking," Lust veritably purred as
she stood, the clacking of her heels echoing as she took a few steps
closer.

In one
fluid motion, her fingers shoot across the room, two on either side
of Envy's head and two on either side of his torso, barely missing
and piercing the wall behind him.

"You
see... I'm not afraid of you."

"Defiance
rather than fear only makes it all the more fun to break them..."
Envy smirked, not even blinking an eye as Lust's claws pierced the
wall to either side of him.

Advancing
on Envy, she retracted her claws little by little with each step,
effectively keeping him trapped in her grasp until she was close
enough to press her palm against his chest. Lust didn't doubt that
Envy wouldn't attempt to break her. There was only one small little
detail...

"I'm
not made of glass."

"Do
you think it matters to me?" Envy was relaxed. Maybe too relaxed
it would seem. "Glass is too easy to break, so it's not even
that fun anymore...why break glass when you can break even the
toughest steel?"

There was
that smirk, still quirking the corners of his lips.

Sadistic.
Cruel. Envy himself would say it was sexy.

Lust
smiled darkly as she ran one sharp forefinger down Envy's cheek,
ever-so-careful as not to give him the same treatment that she gave
the window, stopping when she reached his chin.

"Mmm...
but I'm not even made of steel... perhaps I won't be any fun
for you, after all."

With a
shrug, Envy closed his eyes. "Glass breaks too easily, steel
poses a fun challenge, gives such a satisfaction when it finally
snaps under pressure...but it's always fun to be able to bend and
twist, shaping clay to my desire..."

In the
same breath Lust has promised men power and then crushed their
spirits without even so much as a forethought. Men -- especially
those with the gift of alchemy -- craved power and she would give it
to them, hoping that in doing so she would be one step closer to her
own goal. If they wavered or failed, one swift blow would end it and
that, as they say, would be that.

Envy,
however, could neither be classified as Man, nor could he use
alchemy. She had nothing to gain from him.

"That
doesn't sound nearly as much fun for me as it would be for you."

"Of
course not!" Envy grinned again, violet eyes flickering open.
"It's not supposed to be fun for the prey..."

There was
a jingling of chains down the barren streets, as several figures
approached the only house in the entire city that was occupied.

Seven, it
seemed, as they grew closer, led by a young man with shaggy blood
colored hair in a black coat.

The door
was opened and Deceit stepped inside, making room for the other six,
as one emerald eye focused on Lust and Envy.

One
shadowy figure stepped inside, claws clicking softly on the floor of
the entryway. Her features became clear in the light... She was
slender and lithe, with an oddly pointed face and sharp dark eyes. A
cascade of cream-colored hair tumbled down her shoulders, blending in
with the downy fur that fringed her forearms before tapering off to
skin. Her fine-boned hands, each tipped with a translucent claw,
absently scratched at her pelt. A long tail trailed unobtrusively
behind her.

Cruelty
smoothed her simple crimson garments, a smile gracing her lips. The
teeth that smile revealed were sharp and somehow threatening despite
her demure expression. A tiny, malicious twinkle brightened her dark
eyes.

Wow...
Her hands looked so worn in the lighting...

Mischief
stared at her palms in wonderment, questioning how she had never
realized the ruggedness that took over what used to be soft and warm.

"Heh..."

The girl
looked around this place labeled 'Irrtum,' her lips slightly parted
to feel a faint breeze on her tongue.

Amethyst
eyes followed the figures, from the time they were visible through
the window to the time they entered the door, and Envy casually
brushed Lust's hand away, stepping forward to greet them.

"Deceit...
Mischief... Cruelty.... Falsehood.... Slaughter.... Sabotage...
Discrimination..." The Homunculus looked them over, nodding to
each in turn, though several of them shied away as his eyes fell upon
them.

Envy's
eyes narrowed slightly, returning to Deceit. "Where's the
Alchemist..." he hissed, stepping towards the red-haired chimera
angrily, a sneer on his face.

One of
mischief's kohl-covered eyes slightly closed in disgust, as she
lifted her hand straight up, pointing to envy.

"That's
not very niiicce......"

She took
a few swift and long strides, making a barrier between him and her
leader, hand closer to her body now, but still pointed at Envy. Her
ears flattened to the back of her head, but she winked at him all at
the same time.

"He's
escaped...the new chimera I picked up along the way got careless..."
Deceit kept a cool exterior, stepping up behind Mischief and curling
a few locks of her hair around on clawed finger idly.

"We
can take him again, it's likely if he returns to his 'friends' they
will reject him..."

"Envy."
There was a warning note in Lust's voice, and she stepped forward,
placing a hand on her hip as she regarded the Abominations with
mock-warmth.

"What
do you mean?" She drawled sweetly, cocking her head to one side
-- said sweetness didn't reach her eyes.

Envy
glared, backhanding Mischief across the face and passing her to knee
Deceit in the gut followed by a punch to his face. "Incompetent
little...." He hissed, showing a bit of self-restraint after
sneering at Mischief as he turned to walk back to Lust's side. "I
still don't trust them..."

The
Homunculus hadn't even bothered to lower his voice, they would hear
him either way.

Taking
the blows in stride, the feline chimera picked himself up off of the
ground, dusting off his clothes and rubbing his jaw slightly.
"Perhaps you are correct...but we've lost one of our own in this
little skirmish you know...be a bit more respectful if only for that
reason...."

Deciding
to ignore Envy's comment, Deceit helped up Mischief, nuzzling her
cheek slightly and giving it an affectionate lick. "Why don't
you get the Alchemist yourself next time then?"

Mischief’s
eyes narrowed, not quite so used to being harmed. The expression she
had after that looked something like a pout, but it didn't last long,
for Deceit had comforted her almost immensely. She was a slightly
immature chimera, and always seemed to act younger then her true age,
showing quite a bit at the time. Still though, she kept her lips
tightly pursed together, her tail bristling and stiff.

Lust
stepped in front of Envy, feigning a look of apology for her
short-tempered comrade and asking once more -- a bit more forcefully
this time -- "What do you mean? What happened?"

'Respectful'
Lust can give them. She, however, does not have an endless supply of
patience in which she can tap into, either.

Deceit
purred slightly, nipping Mischief's ear before returning to the task
at hand and stepping up to Lust. "It was the failed experiment I
picked up in Dublith...Decay, she called herself...got a little too
curious for her own good and ended up being the bomb that let the
Crimson Alchemist escape our clutches..."

One green
eye matched the gaze of violet, left eye hidden under several messy
swatches of blood red hair. "He's either dead in the North now
or his canine comrade has picked up his trail. If the latter, we need
to cover our tracks, lest we be caught..."

Cruelty
yawned, exposing sharp canines. "We need to cover our tracks no
matter what the conditions, Deceit. Or is that little brain of yours
smaller than I thought?"

Envy
snickered at the ferret's remark, flipping back on top of a few
crates and getting comfortable. "That's what we get for trusting
a chimera then isn't it?"

She
snarled at Envy incoherently, claws flexing, her hard little eyes
glittering like chips of obsidian. "Don't tempt me to rip out
your throat, pretty boy!"

There was
a slight hiss and the rustling of fabric, as soon the red-haired
chimera was at Cruelty's back, purring in her ear whilst a set of
claws raked down her arm. "Silence that tongue of yours, lest
you forget who your master is..." Deceit hissed coyly, before
returning to his previous place.

She
arched her back to get away from his touch, but fell silent.

The green
haired Homunculus yawned boredly, seemingly indifferent to Cruelty's
threats. "Why are you here then anyway, if you don't have the
Alchemist?" Envy leaned forward, grinning coldly.

"Because
it's time to move..." One emerald eye focused on Envy.

"The
time has come now for the second phase to go down...the military will
be sending a diplomat to make negotiations...I will be our
representative..." Deceit traced the array on the palm of his
hand, his animalistic features fading away slowly to make him seem
just a normal human. "But of course...they will only be lead to
believe that we will negotiate..."

He held
out one hand, signaling to the dark-skinned female in the group.
"Falsehood...you know your orders...now go..."

The
serpentine woman nodded curtly, exiting the building and disappearing
into the desert.

"Che..."
Envy rolled over on the crates, getting comfortable and curling up to
sleep. Not like he needed it or anything, he was just bored.

Deceit
noted the raised hackles, mostly Mischief and Sabotage, silently
glanced to each in turn to make sure they didn't do anything stupid.
"The military is moving in their little flock of sitting ducks
in less than a week's time..." the cat drawled lazily, really,
dealing with these people was less than enjoyable.

"Anything
we don't know, fuzzy?" Violet eyes dared the cat to
retort through a fall of emerald bangs.

Discrimination
yawned, peering down from his perch on Slaughter's shoulder. "How
many ducks, and is there goin' to be anyone fun to hunt in there?
We're gettin' pretty bored, Boss..."

"If
Pride did his job right we might have some fun, but I doubt any of
them will be much of a challenge, it's not like they're bringing in
alchemists..." The feline shrugged, glancing at the two
homunculi. "Wasn't there supposed to be another at this post?
And what's the status on Sloth and Wrath, we'll need them too..."

Lust
closed her eyes, leaning against a crate. 'More importantly, will our
escapee be with them, and can you get him back? Can you redeem your
mistake?"

"That
was reckless to let them get away like that, kitty cat... I thought
you had it settled once Greed was down, and you went and let two get
away with the splodey alchemist, tch!" Envy chided from atop his
crate, grinning like a fool.

"Once
he's alone without a leader, he'll realize where his place lies...if
you're that worried about him why don't you have Pride do some
bribing?" Deceit leaned back against Slaughter's sturdy form,
one green eye idly surveying his nails.

"It's
not really important that a snake and a dog got away with a crazy
alchemist," Slaughter pointed out. "Revenge will be the
last thing on their mind. And anyway, we have more than enough
firepower to knock them out no matter what."

"Yeah,
just look how easy it was last time!" Sabotage yawned and sat at
Deceit's feet, sighing boredly.

Lust
opened her eyes slightly, amethyst glittering as she considered
Deceit. "Take responsibility for your mistakes. He could still
be useful to us. As for Sloth and Wrath, don't worry about it. We
have that under control."

Envy
smirked and idly toyed with a lock of Lust's hair just to be
annoying. "You ran them off in the first place..."

A crackle
of light and Sloth's form was flush against Lust's back, head nuzzled
in long, dark hair. "Why did you have to...there could have been
so much more..." It was her voice, but it was still Envy, just a
taunt again to rile the younger homunculus.

Lust
lifted her hand, , razor-sharp claws tangling themselves in the
doppelganger’s hair. The Abominations certainly didn't need to
play audience to this. "Not now, Envy.." she muttered,
keeping the rest of her attention on the chimeras before her.

The smirk
on Deceit's lips echoed itself in his one good eye. "We'll be
across the way if you need anything, loves..." Not even the
gayest of men could deny that Lust is as lust does and two nicely
formed females tangled in a heap was still quite a pretty picture, or
maybe that was just him. Well...and Sabotage...

Deceit
chuckled lightly and nudged the wolfboy's haunches. "I think
we're pretty much done here for now anyway..." he purred,
leading the others out with an arm around the waists of both Mischief
and Sabotage, tail tugging at Cruelty's leg to hurry up out the door.

Envy
waved with Sloth's hand, tracing the tip of Sloth's tongue along the
shell of Lust's ear. "Come on...it's only fair...you ran away
him too..." the homunculus purred.

Lust
watched as they left, waiting until the door was closed, then moved
her hand away. At least the annoying ones were gone, but now she had
an even bigger annoyance.. "did you HAVE to do that?" she
asked, stepping away and refusing to look at the older Homunculus.

"Of
course not!" Envy shifted back to his cute form, grinning from
ear to ear. "I just felt like it!"

Walking
back to the window, Lust seated herself on top of a crate, choosing
for now to ignore Envy and stare out the window. Finally, after a few
minutes, she muttered, "can we go now?"

"Gluttony
still hasn't shown up, and where else do you have to go with him
while I'm playing escort to that cat?" Envy perched himself back
on the crate he'd been on before, shrugging. "Did you lose him
or something?"

Lust
frowned. "He'll turn up, he said he was hungry and wandered off
somewhere. Probably chewing on a-" her words were cut off by the
sound of a building collapsing, and she sighed. "Never mind, I
know where he is now."

"Rasuto..."
Gluttony wandered in, his little white button eyes bewildered.
"Rasuto, I'm hungry..." He plopped down at his favorite
Homunculus' feet, tugging on her black skirts. "Those chimeras
were mean, may I eat them?"

Envy
blinked, sighed, and generally acted bored. "Aren't there some
smelly Ishbarites still hanging around we can mess with?"

Lust
reached down and patted his bald head, brushing brick dust off. "Not
yet, Gluttony, we still need them unfortunately.." she said,
looking up at Envy. "No, I haven't seen any around here. Now can
we go?"

"I
already told you, I've got to stick around for a while, you
can go if you want, but it's not like you've got anywhere to
go..." Envy waved a hand nonchalantly.

Gluttony
perked up as he realized the flow of the conversation, then drooped.
Ishbarites were his favorite snack, and now there weren't any! ...
stupid chimeras.

Lust felt
her mood go steadily worse as she realized he was right. There wasn't
really anywhere to go now, nothing much to do but wait. She eased off
her crate and wandered across the room, Gluttony following close
behind. "Then wake me up when you're done, so we can leave."

"Sure
you don't want to go sightseeing?" Envy chided, knowing that she
would know exactly what he meant by 'sightseeing' and where that
might be.

"Go
to Hell", Lust muttered, a headache rapidly coming on. She found
an empty office with a few tarps and refolded them into a makeshift
bed, choosing to concentrate on this and ignore Envy.

Envy on
the other hand had other plans, as he followed her into the room,
sitting at the end of the little 'bed'. "Come on....my
birthplace doesn't even exist anymore!"

"We're
not going, give up, let me sleep." Lust said flatly, laying down
and pulling one of the tarps over her. As an afterthought, she turned
a bit. "Go help Gluttony find something to eat, that should
occupy you for a while."

"He
can find his own food perfectly fine." Envy didn't move from his
seat on the makeshift bed.

Lust
sighed, trying to ignore him and feign sleep. She was growing to
outright hate this place, and wished she had an excuse to go
elsewhere. She closed her eyes, pulling the tarp over her head.

"You're
being a grouch..." Envy was starting to get bored, and annoyed,
and it showed.

Lust
glanced at him just over the tarp. "If you have any better
ideas, besides your idea of sightseeing, then you're welcome to share
them." she said finally. She was bored too, sleep never did come
easily and she didn't need it anyway.

"Of
course I have better ideas, you just don't like them!"
The green-haired homunculus grinned maniacally.

"Do
you have any ideas that don't involve taking me places I don't like?"
Lust said, her voice dripping in false sweetness.

"Oh
of course I do.." That leering grin still didn't leave
Envy's face.

The grin
disturbed Lust, she knew it meant nothing but trouble, but as they
say, curiosity killed the cat... "what is it?"

At that,
the slender-bodied homunculus rocked back on his heels, looking at
the ceiling in mock-consideration. "Weeeell....if I told you
that...you'd want to kill me."

Lust
decided to neglect telling him she felt like it anyway sometimes, and
sat up, pushing herself back against some boxes. "Come on.."

"Oh,
I have ideas...I have plenty of them..." Envy
crawled forward, shifting his form to mimic Sloth's again as he went,
seductive look in his eyes.

Lust
simply eyed Envy, wondering what his motives could be. Finally she
reached her hand out, brushing her fingers against Sloth's face,
smirking a bit. "Well, Envy, I didn't know you were into that.."
she purred, brushing a loose tendril of hair aside.

Crawling
forward a bit more, Envy had Lust pinned, albeit carelessly. "Or
maybe you'd like one of these better..." The form of Sloth
rippled and was replaced by that of that Ishbarite,
pre-transmutation. "Remember him?"

Rippled
again, post-transmutation, naked and tattooed with the array of the
Philosopher's Stone. "Or maybe you hate it because he reminds
you of what you are..."

Again,
the man called Scar who was that Ishbarite's younger brother. "Or
was he too dead for your tastes?"

Still
again, the man from the petrified village. "Oh, that's right..."

Again,
the still-forming body of Sloth, revoltingly maimed looking with one
eye dangling from the socket and a voice that gurgled with unplaced
fluids, "You like them dead, don't you?"

Lust
watched, each form Envy took filling her more with horror and a sense
of rising panic. The final one did it; no Homunculus looked very good
immediately post-transmutation, but that was one of the more
frightening ones in her opinion. She finally raised her hand,
stabbing her claws through the doppelganger’s head, shoving the
body off and quickly standing and backing out of the room. "You
bastard.." she whispered, keeping his (?!) head speared on her
long nails.

The
disfigured form rippled and crackled with light once more, taking
Envy's cute form with Lust's nails still through his head, blood
trickling down from the punctures. He licked a bit of it that had
dripped down to his mouth and grinned. "I know I don't
have to tell you how much that stings..."

Leaving
the warehouse was suddenly a very good idea. Lust needed to go
somewhere to regain her composure, to calm down and erase the images
and memories from her head once again. Retracting her claws, she left
the office and quickly walked through the messy warehouse, glancing
around for Gluttony, unsure if she wanted him to join her just for
the company, or to stay here so she could have time to herself.

Envy
stood, form shifting once again. Now you've lost sight of me...the
ball's in my court now, you won't even be able to tell unless my
acting is wrong...

Pushing
open the broken door, Lust stepped outside, the bright sunlight
making her squint. She wandered down one of many barren streets, once
probably filled with vendors and people, but now filled with nothing
but litter and sand, as the desert attempted to reclaim it. Realizing
the direction she was going, she made a deliberate turn and went the
other way, loathe to stir more memories.

A boy
with sandy-blonde hair and gray-brown eyes dressed in Ishbarite robes
focused his dull grayish-brown eyes on Lust’s retreating form,
letting the smirk on his lips settle before stepping into the street
after her. Now, little girl, let’s play a little game called
trust, shall we?

Please
review, constructive criticism and questions appreciated, flames will
be deflected back at you by Roy. n.n;
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