Prompt 11, Gamble, "Risk"
Title: Risk
Author: Sky_dark
Series: Manga and Anime
Word Count: 492
Rating: G
Characters: mostly Lt. Colonel Roy Mustang
Summary: Decisions change lives.
Warnings: None
In all our lives, in all our times, in all our doings there is always that element of risk. Merely existing was tantamount to being a pawn in a game, a chip on a table, a marble on a spinning wheel. Without risk there wasn't any advancement and without advancement there wasn't any progress. And the lack of progress was of course, the greatest risk of all.
He sat in the train car, looking again at the letter written in a simple, wide scrawl. He folded the paper back and forth along the original crease, where it had be folded to fit in the envelope. He turned it over and looked at the smudge on the back, ink and otherwise, things he couldn't tell. The letter was straight forward and to the point. Come home, we need you and she is dead. All of it was finality and all of it sounded of despair, confusion and desperation. Surely he answered this letter; surely they weren't the only ones to receive it.
Across from him sat a woman who was accompanying him on this side venture. She, too, had seen this letter, read this letter, listened to his hypothesis about this letter and even without being under his direct command, agreed to come with him to verify this letter. The woman's reasons were always her own and he wondered if she to, felt the pain radiating from the thin lines of pigment on yellowed paper. Did she also feel the cry into the world? Did she hear with her eyes the writer's voice asking for someone to come and fix all he'd lost?
The train rocked him on the bench and knocked his shoulder into the window and the conductor, walking down the isle, announced the coming stop in a scratchy voice use to being loud and she nodded at him. They left the train with him leading and she following and found a hired car to take them over dirt and gravel to a house standing silently by itself. When it finally revealed it's mysteries and the authors of the mysteries were sought out he once again thought of the letter, folded and tucked in his inner jacket pocket and he looked at the child, whose plain, wide scrawl has brought him here in the first place and he listened to the circumstances of the devastation around him and he thought; here is the chance.
To have come this far was to have willingly abandoned the innocence to be children. He could gamble on torn lives and wrecked souls and tell himself in the end it was for the betterment of them all; but who would he really be fooling? There are somethings that can't be left to lie. And so he made the offer, knowing their was no choice but to accept and he left to wait for what he'd started to begin and hope the risk was worth them all.
Author: Sky_dark
Series: Manga and Anime
Word Count: 492
Rating: G
Characters: mostly Lt. Colonel Roy Mustang
Summary: Decisions change lives.
Warnings: None
In all our lives, in all our times, in all our doings there is always that element of risk. Merely existing was tantamount to being a pawn in a game, a chip on a table, a marble on a spinning wheel. Without risk there wasn't any advancement and without advancement there wasn't any progress. And the lack of progress was of course, the greatest risk of all.
He sat in the train car, looking again at the letter written in a simple, wide scrawl. He folded the paper back and forth along the original crease, where it had be folded to fit in the envelope. He turned it over and looked at the smudge on the back, ink and otherwise, things he couldn't tell. The letter was straight forward and to the point. Come home, we need you and she is dead. All of it was finality and all of it sounded of despair, confusion and desperation. Surely he answered this letter; surely they weren't the only ones to receive it.
Across from him sat a woman who was accompanying him on this side venture. She, too, had seen this letter, read this letter, listened to his hypothesis about this letter and even without being under his direct command, agreed to come with him to verify this letter. The woman's reasons were always her own and he wondered if she to, felt the pain radiating from the thin lines of pigment on yellowed paper. Did she also feel the cry into the world? Did she hear with her eyes the writer's voice asking for someone to come and fix all he'd lost?
The train rocked him on the bench and knocked his shoulder into the window and the conductor, walking down the isle, announced the coming stop in a scratchy voice use to being loud and she nodded at him. They left the train with him leading and she following and found a hired car to take them over dirt and gravel to a house standing silently by itself. When it finally revealed it's mysteries and the authors of the mysteries were sought out he once again thought of the letter, folded and tucked in his inner jacket pocket and he looked at the child, whose plain, wide scrawl has brought him here in the first place and he listened to the circumstances of the devastation around him and he thought; here is the chance.
To have come this far was to have willingly abandoned the innocence to be children. He could gamble on torn lives and wrecked souls and tell himself in the end it was for the betterment of them all; but who would he really be fooling? There are somethings that can't be left to lie. And so he made the offer, knowing their was no choice but to accept and he left to wait for what he'd started to begin and hope the risk was worth them all.