Do the Right Thing?
Title: Do the Right Thing?
Series: All
Word Count: 250
Rating: PG
Characters: Izumi Curtis, mention of Sig Curtis
Summary: Sometimes it’s impossible to tell right from wrong.
Warnings: This is about what led up to Izumi’s Bad Decision. So, spoilers for Izumi’s past.
Subject: Prompt 70, Tempt, “Do the Right Thing?”
Apologies for the cross posting!
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The tears had stopped.
She was dry. Empty. Empty eyes. Empty womb. Empty heart. Sig had taken the baby- the body of the baby- away from her. And she had sent Sig away, not out of anger but out of her need to be alone. She lay in bed and didn’t move except to switch her empty eyes to the left, where the empty cradle stood.
The midwife had said, “You’ll be able to try again soon.”
Sig had said, “We’ll try again soon, Love.”
But she wanted this baby. She loved this baby. This baby- her son- deserved to live. He’d looked so beautiful, so sweet, but he hadn’t made a sound. He hadn’t taken a breath. The midwife had wrapped him in a blanket like a living baby, anyway.
He had done nothing wrong. It was so unfair.
For a while (forever?), the emptiness filled her brain, leaving no room for thoughts. (Better that way.) But then, an idea burrowed, wormed, scratched its way in.
No.
She knew the laws; every alchemist did. Equivalent Exchange and its corollaries-Conservation of Mass and Law of Natural Providence. They made sense to her.
But, that rule, the prohibition of human resurrection, made no sense. Why wasn’t human transmutation considered to be a good thing? Wasn’t resurrection just a type of healing? How could it be wrong? Of course it wasn’t wrong, she realized. She wasn’t being tempted to do something wrong. She should try. She couldn’t not try.
She sat up.
Series: All
Word Count: 250
Rating: PG
Characters: Izumi Curtis, mention of Sig Curtis
Summary: Sometimes it’s impossible to tell right from wrong.
Warnings: This is about what led up to Izumi’s Bad Decision. So, spoilers for Izumi’s past.
Subject: Prompt 70, Tempt, “Do the Right Thing?”
Apologies for the cross posting!
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The tears had stopped.
She was dry. Empty. Empty eyes. Empty womb. Empty heart. Sig had taken the baby- the body of the baby- away from her. And she had sent Sig away, not out of anger but out of her need to be alone. She lay in bed and didn’t move except to switch her empty eyes to the left, where the empty cradle stood.
The midwife had said, “You’ll be able to try again soon.”
Sig had said, “We’ll try again soon, Love.”
But she wanted this baby. She loved this baby. This baby- her son- deserved to live. He’d looked so beautiful, so sweet, but he hadn’t made a sound. He hadn’t taken a breath. The midwife had wrapped him in a blanket like a living baby, anyway.
He had done nothing wrong. It was so unfair.
For a while (forever?), the emptiness filled her brain, leaving no room for thoughts. (Better that way.) But then, an idea burrowed, wormed, scratched its way in.
No.
She knew the laws; every alchemist did. Equivalent Exchange and its corollaries-Conservation of Mass and Law of Natural Providence. They made sense to her.
But, that rule, the prohibition of human resurrection, made no sense. Why wasn’t human transmutation considered to be a good thing? Wasn’t resurrection just a type of healing? How could it be wrong? Of course it wasn’t wrong, she realized. She wasn’t being tempted to do something wrong. She should try. She couldn’t not try.
She sat up.