Prompt 163: Coffee - "A Taste of Home"
Title: A Taste of Home
Author: Starlit Purple
Series: Manga/Brotherhood
Word Count: 205
Rating: G
Characters: Maria Ross, mentions of Fu
Summary: Maria's having a hard time adjusting to her new home.
A/N: Hi! *waves* Totally new here. I've been out of the spin of writing for a while, but I've wanted to try my hand at a bit of FMA fic since discovering the series, and Maria has been poking at me the hardest lately. I hope I've done everything right, mods please let me know if I've missed something. Enjoy! :)
Feet shuffled across a room filled with foreign items-her room now, Maria's mind filled in with a pang of sadness. It was hard to believe that just mere weeks ago she'd been a normal Amestrian soldier grieving over the loss of her superior officer.
She never thought his murder would be pinned on her.
Everything had spun out of her control since then, from her imprisonment to her upcoming execution, to escaping, to being “executed” by Mustang, to making her way out of the country and eventually, finally, leading her to her new home in Xing.
She sank down into the chair her hand had been resting on and took the cup from the tray that had been brought for her. It wasn't steaming anymore, but the cup was still warm in her hands. The taste was familiar where nothing else was and a grim smile curved her lips as she remembered what the kind servant girl had told her.
“It's not Amestrian blend, but Fu thought you would like this more than tea.”
She took another sip of the coffee, closed her eyes, and thought of a home she didn't belong to anymore. There wasn't a desert to stop her tears now.
Author: Starlit Purple
Series: Manga/Brotherhood
Word Count: 205
Rating: G
Characters: Maria Ross, mentions of Fu
Summary: Maria's having a hard time adjusting to her new home.
A/N: Hi! *waves* Totally new here. I've been out of the spin of writing for a while, but I've wanted to try my hand at a bit of FMA fic since discovering the series, and Maria has been poking at me the hardest lately. I hope I've done everything right, mods please let me know if I've missed something. Enjoy! :)
Feet shuffled across a room filled with foreign items-her room now, Maria's mind filled in with a pang of sadness. It was hard to believe that just mere weeks ago she'd been a normal Amestrian soldier grieving over the loss of her superior officer.
She never thought his murder would be pinned on her.
Everything had spun out of her control since then, from her imprisonment to her upcoming execution, to escaping, to being “executed” by Mustang, to making her way out of the country and eventually, finally, leading her to her new home in Xing.
She sank down into the chair her hand had been resting on and took the cup from the tray that had been brought for her. It wasn't steaming anymore, but the cup was still warm in her hands. The taste was familiar where nothing else was and a grim smile curved her lips as she remembered what the kind servant girl had told her.
“It's not Amestrian blend, but Fu thought you would like this more than tea.”
She took another sip of the coffee, closed her eyes, and thought of a home she didn't belong to anymore. There wasn't a desert to stop her tears now.