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Covenant of the Damned by AnotherInternetUser
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Bad Batch (Cartoon)
12 Jan 2025
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Instead of escaping Tantiss and reuniting with her family, Omega and Crosshair are shot down on an unknown plant wrought with ice and snow, injured, starving, and with no way of contacting the outside world.
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Omega must grapple with her newfound relationship with her wayward brother, thaw out his icy exterior, and decide what she will ignore, what she will hold onto, and what she must sacrifice for survival, suffering the consequences of morality. Crosshair must come to terms with the crippling loss of agency, his continued worth as a human being with the decisions he made, and accept his struggling love for a sister that never gave up on him. Together, the two clones of the long lost Bad Batch must come together to fight the depravity of humanity and their own moral codes to ensure their survival in an unforgiving world wrought with cold and starvation, hunted by an unknown force that shines of an aching familiarity.
Not all is as it seems out here in the ice and snow.
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Hello Satan, I Believe that it's Time to Go by AnotherInternetUser
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
31 Oct 2023
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Whumptober 2023 Day 31: Emptiness/Setbacks/Take it easy
Sam thought he could tough it out. He thought he could live with the horrible images the Cage projected into his mind and the pain that ravaged his body. In the beginning, after Lucifer tore his soul from his body to bind it to his own body, saying that the cage would warp and ruin him without protection, Sam wanted nothing to do with him. He fought and screamed and avoided the angel, argued and taunted and spat, aggressive and fighting, and Lucifer did nothing but look at him with weary eyes and offer anything to please him. He was there for him, he said, because even if Sam had ruined everything and thrown them back in the Cage, he understood. He had watched over him for so long, even deep in the Cage, and wanted nothing more than to keep him safe and sane as time ticked on in Hell. He cared for him. He truly did.
It was a confusing, horrible notion that Sam could not understand.
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A look into how Sam lived in the Cage, and the complicated, confusing relationship between him and the Devil.
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- Part 31 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Right is Wrong, Wrong is Right by AnotherInternetUser
Fandoms: モブサイコ100 | Mob Psycho 100
29 Oct 2023
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Whumptober 2023 Day 29: Scented Candle/Troubled Past Resurfacing/What happened to me?
Mob knows he's wrong. He's know since the day he could speak, the day he ventured outside his family unit and spoke with peers, that he was made incorrectly. His very core, his very way of speaking and habits and interactions, were bathed in a sense of malpractice he could hardly understand. Students and friends and adults would forever gaze at him with a curious look, fretting and whispering, full of scorn that he could not be like the rest. He's not human he feels, even if he wasn't an Esper, because he cannot act like a person, nor does he feel people treat him like one, and for good reason. He must try at what comes naturally to humans, to being a person, and he fails each time.
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A candle bleeds introspection, and Mob struggles with his role in his life and how others perceive him, despite his best abilities to be someone that people can love.
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- Part 29 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Sacrifice by AnotherInternetUser for Dusweet
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
29 Oct 2023
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Whumptober 2023 Day 28: Bloody Knife/Sacrifice/You’ll have to go through me
Edward Elric stares with those large, golden eyes, brimmed with tears and shaking, face awash with terror.
Roy Mustang stares back with defiance, thick and strong but wavering, resolute in what has been said and what must be done.
Edward has yet to argue.
Mustang has yet acknowledge the consequences his trade will have.
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Mustang will do anything to keep Ed out of harms way. No one is coming for them this time.
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- Part 28 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Whumptober 2023 Day 26: Seeing Double/Working to Exhaustion/You look awful
He's just...Mob. He's Mob and he feels, but his face does not and he's alright with that.
It's different when Reigen says it. Reiegn is his Master, his mentor, the supposed greatest physic of the 21st century though Mob knows that to be a facade, has for years, and the man knows him in and out. He tells him he's fine as he is, he's fine to act the way he does and listen the way he does and speak the way he does, and there is never any scorn from the man when it comes to his peculiar personality. If Reiegn has picked up on his newfound habit, charged with fear and a desire to protect, then Mob must truly look awful.
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Mob believes a lack of sleep will protect the world from his powers. He didn't count on Reigen catching him in the act.
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- Part 26 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Whumptober 2023 Day 25: Storm/Buried Alive/They're not breathing!
He digs. Water splashes against his back, against his mouth and pulls at his clothes, trying to drag him down the hill and into the screeching river below. He steels himself and keeps his knees buried in the mud, shaking and trembling with the cold, desperate for his brother, for his father, for anyone other than his rampant thought that plague him with inklings of death and punishment. His father is long gone, stolen by demons and the forest and revenge, and his brother is buried, under muck and leaf litter and it streams through his fingers.
Dammit De, why? his brain rages, whirled and troubled. Why did you shove me out of the way? Why did you take the fall? Why do you always do this?
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Buried in the mud, Sam fights for his brother in the midst of a storm, musing over the role of his older brother.
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- Part 25 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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A Cumbersome and Heavy Body by AnotherInternetUser
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
24 Oct 2023
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Whumptober 2023 Day 24: Goodbye Note/Neglect/I thought they were with you
Hawkeye has asked about Al’s absence for the day. Mustang told him that he was out with Edward, busying himself with research when the golden boy came in by his lonesome with a request for library access and inquires about which section his brother was in. Raised eyebrows and rambles words bloomed into mismatched stories, and Mustang could only choke out a single sentence.
“I thought he was with you.”
Now, panicked footsteps and slamming car doors, jangled keys as he gathered and searched for his own, a horrible letter, written in grief, poked through his drawer.
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Alphonse is done living as a shell of himself. He wants to do something about it before his soul slips away forever.
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- Part 24 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Whumptober 2023 Day 23: Shadows/stalking/who’s there?
Unsettlement rolls in Adams stomach as the sounds pick up. It’s just the wind and the trees and the plants, he knows, perhaps a squirrel skittering in the underbrush, but he feels uneasy as his fingers brush the wilting petals of an unknown flower. He licks his lips nervously and plucks it, going to stand. He slips on mud and stumbles, twigs snapping.
Something moves again, on the opposite side and he whirls, heel in the dirt and flower in hand. His backpack falls into the muck and the strap catches on his ankle. A shadow in his peripheral leaps just out of sight when he turns, back into the dark trees and out of the street lamps. Adam swallows, heart picking up and swallows nervously. Despite the air, sweat prickles on his skin.
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It’s a noisy walk home, and Adam is starved for some company and good cooking. Shame that the cracking of twigs and skittering of leaves is causing so much anxiety.
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- Part 23 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
- Part 1 of Borrowed Time (Adam Milligan Lives AU)
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Whumptober 2023 Day 22: Glass Shard/Vehicular Accident/Watch out!
Reigen clucks his tongue, shifting through his tattered wallet, coins jingling and paper crinkling as he does so, trying to keep a somewhat neutral face as the taxi driver glares at him from the mirror. He’s an angry, ugly man, matted beard and beady eyes that raked down Mob and him in a manner that make Reigen cringe as he waved him down, but there isn’t really another option. He was the first taxi they had seen in ages, and the clock was ticking, and Reigen relented only because he was about seventy percent sure he could crush the dude in a fight. Maybe sixty.
Still, he hopes it doesn’t come to that, because even if he managed to coo his way into the car despite the man insisting he was done for the day, he doesn’t know if he has enough to pay him for the ride. A train, a subway, even a strangers car they hitchhiked with would be preferable to this. Reigen wonders if maybe they should have just walked.
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Too late to walk home, Reigen and Mob head back to the city in a sketchy taxi. Anxiety peaks when Reigen doesn’t recognize the way back.
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- Part 22 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Whumptober 2023 Day 21:Vows/Restraint/Don’t move
He knows biology, he knows anatomy, he knows his muscles and bones and the tendons in his elbows, the buccinator muscle that helps you smile and the cerebellum that helps him balance, the axons and dendrites and his central nervous system prepping him for movement and chaos. He knows it all. He could point out each carpal bone in the wrist and each muscle of the thigh.
It’s an entirely different thing seeing it in real life, on a living, writhing human being that screeches and bleeds and begs. It’s nearly foreign watching tissues and muscle pulsate and groan and sinew snap, skin flayed in pieces and veins popping. Anatomy terrifies and disgusts him as he watches it in real time, cinched to a table as creatures, they have to be creatures, they can’t be human, gnaw on the flailing form of his mother.
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A few years ahead of their time, the ghouls are furious and writhing with revenge, and Adam can only listen and bleed as his mother is the brunt of it.
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- Part 21 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
- Part 2 of Borrowed Time (Adam Milligan Lives AU)
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Chilly Train Rides by AnotherInternetUser for Dusweet
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
21 Oct 2023
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Whumptober 2023 Day 20: Blanket/Found Family/You will regret touching them
He sits on the bed in their small roomette, one bed for them both and a table that Ed has stolen to research and write, his body is plagued by aches and throbbing in his head, a high fever that saps the heat from his body. He was warned of this, rambled words from a doctor, and it’s nothing he hasn’t dealt with, but exhaustion is wrought and it’s like Ishval once again, a painful reminder of the wounds he carried and the infections that robbed many soldiers of life.
Edward yawns, and Mustang allows himself to be pulled from the emerging memories to focus on the boy. Eyes are dark and lidded, shoulders sagged and cheek smushed against a metal hand. He gives himself a shake and glances to the clock. The only source of light, a small lamp that illuminates the room with a honey glow, makes it hardly manageable to read the time that ticks on the clock face.
“Bedtime, Edward,” Mustang croaks, a clip in his voice as he shivers. “Nearly 1.”
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A train ride back from a scrabble, Mustang is fevered and cold, and Edward is sleepy and teasing. To his surprise, Edward can be surprisingly sweet and affectionate.
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- Part 20 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Whumptober 2023 Day 19: Floral Bouquet/Psychology/I'm not as stupid as you think I am
“Why, Master,” he whispered to Reigen once, petals in his hair, when he visited, desperate for company beyond that of his grieving parents. “Why do people give flowers?”
His master had looked at him from across the table, a bento in front of him and another pushed towards Mob, his chin in his hands and eyes grieved. Scruff dotted his face, and his tie was undone. “To show compassion, I guess.”
Mob stared at his own bento then, numb to the world. The flowers in his hands he wished would wilt and be with his brother. Compassion was beautiful. Flowers were beautiful. Death was not. Flowers may have matched the emotion, but not the situation.
Or maybe it was just another one of those things he didn’t understand.
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Guilt and blame haunts him, and Mob has no idea how to deal with the looming thought that all of this, all the grief and pain and flowers that taint his house, is all his fault. He should have done more.
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- Part 19 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Whumptober 2023 Day 17: Collar/Touch Aversion/Leave me alone
Mob shakes his head slightly, a little jerk of his chin and his hair ruffles with the movement. The pencil in his hand flips as he fiddles with it, and Reigen tries to catch sight of his eyes, but Mob won’t look at him and keeps his eyes pointed to the floor like he’s trying to purposely avoid his gaze. “No, master,” he says blankly. “Easy day.”
Reigen purses his lips, and gives a wave of his hand. “Ah, must be nice. Lots of calls today.”
Mob stiffens. It’s such a docile, slight movement that Reigen wouldn’t never noticed if he wasn’t watching him out of the corner of his eye. He can only truly tell because the pencil in his hand stills, eraser up, and his feet plant on the floor instead of rocking at the heel. Concern, thick and choking, grips Reigens throat.
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A change in Mob’s behavior rattles Reigen, but he’s unsure of how to approach it because he doesn’t want Mob to feel he can’t be himself in the office. Still, peculiar changes loom, and it all comes to a head after a simple case.
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- Part 17 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Whumptober 2023 Day 16: Gurney/Flatline/Don’t go where I can’t follow
His knee buckles, and he crashes down onto the roots, legs sliding in the dirt. The impact jolts him and sudden agony weeps from him, like a hot poker is being shoved between his ribs and he pushes his palm into the pain, withering and trying to soothe it. Confusion stuffs his mind and spills from his ears as the world dips underwater. Sparks cloud his vision, and he cannot tell if it’s from the stars and the moon or something else entirely.
“Sammy!”
Legs crash down beside him and pressure is shoved against his side, more warmth soaking in his shirt, and torment grips his skin and he cries out with a choked voice. Something slips down his cheeks. Dark eyes cut into the woods.
“Hang on Sam just hang on,” Dean rambles, quick and blurred and Sam tilts to the side, temple hitting dirt and jutting roots and Dean shouts. “Dad! Call an ambulance!”
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A hunt goes haywire, and Sam goes down in the dead of night with Dean by his side. Oh, how he hates hunting and wishes his life was normal.
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- Part 16 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Whumptober Day 15: Makeshift Bandages/Suppressed Suffering/I’m fine
His mother is dead.
Adam sits. He sits and holds a hand to his stomach, body exposed and skin prickling against the air, blood spilling over his fingers and coating his palm. It’s warm and smells of iron. It’s thick in his nose and viscous on his skin, on his thighs and chest and in his eyes, wetting the flannel shirt that’s been thrown across his lap.
A man kneels in front of him. He has blood on his face and a gun on hip, but he is not injured beyond a split knuckle and a bruised eye. His hands hold an old first aid kit and rips a shirt. He says his name is Dean and that monsters are real, and dumps stinging power into his wounds.
Adam doesn’t really care. His mother is dead.
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In a turn of events, ghouls show up sooner and Dean ends up in Minnesota in the nick of time. For Adam, anyway.
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- Part 15 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
- Part 3 of Borrowed Time (Adam Milligan Lives AU)
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Whumptober 2023 Day 14: Flare/Water Inhalation/Just hold on
Don’t dip your toe in the water and expect not to get wet.
It’s an idiom Reigen grew up hearing tossed around his household. His mother shouted it with worried hands and fling wrists when Reigen toed the line of something silly or stupid. His father spat it when Reigen came back with sloppy test results and bruised knees and homework blotted with red ink. His sister sighed it with murmured words when Reigen shuffled in with a muddy face and tardy notices. Don’t dip your toe in the water and expect not to get wet. Don’t do anything without expecting consequences.
Reigen thought it such a negative, despairing way to live.
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Too hot in Seasoning City for work, Reigen takes the boys on a much needed swim. He watches them, mindful of the scar on his back. Maybe a quick wade would do him good.
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- Part 14 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Obnoxious Infection by AnotherInternetUser for c_c_cherry
Fandoms: モブサイコ100 | Mob Psycho 100
13 Oct 2023
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Whumptober 2023 Day 13: Cold Compress/Infection/I don't feel so good
He can’t quite remember why it hurts so much. It’s that why he’s shaking? He didn’t think people shook unless they were cold. Or maybe it is when they are hot. He tries to remember which one it is and his head flares, burning, and he drops his pencil. A soft sound leaves his lips and the world feels like it’s wrapped in bubble wrap. What was he working on again?
Mob looks back to the paper. Numbers stare back. That’s right. Math. He’s working on math. A problem mixed with letters and numbers stretches on the page and he goes to write it down again, to start solving it in a way that escapes him right now, and his finger crunches against the paper instead. Pain shoots down his wrist and he furrows his eyebrows, drawing his pointer across the paper. Lines don’t appear, and numbers don’t write.
Oh. He dropped his pencil. He’d forgotten about that.
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Math is confusing, but Mob doesn't think that's what's causing his head to ache so much. Not only that, he can't remember why his wrist hurts or why he feels hot. Maybe Reigen can help him out.
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- Part 13 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Whumptober 2023 Day 11: Animal Trap/Captivity/No one will find you
“Cmon, cmon, cmon,” he urges it, heart drumming and sweat on his brow and he spins around, twisting on his heel when the leaves near his head reach out and brush his skin. Wide eyed and spluttering, he sticks his phone out like a weapon, hand shuddering and half blinking screen providing less light that a match. He squares his trembling body and pulls in a breath, ready to scream or swear to scare off whatever is approaching him.
A little squirrel, chittering and happy with a nut looking thing it’s in mouth, pops out of the bushes and stares at the light with its beady eyes, tilting its head with a chirp. Reigen stares back for second, body awash with adrenaline, before slumping his shoulders and giving a shaky laugh.
“Just a squirrel,” he chuckles, feeling like a typical movie protagonist, and shakes his head. “Just a damn squirrel.”
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In typical Reigen fashion, the way home after after a job takes a dangerous, agonizing turn, and he finds that he is completely alone as he tries to scramble for help in the dead of night.
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- Part 11 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Whumptober 2023 Day 10: Broken Phone/Stranded/You said you'd never leave
“What’s wrong, Dean?” She asks, though she doesn’t look at him, doesn’t move, but her voice is what he remembers. It twists through pitches and bleeds a mess of vibrations that run through her bones, deep and high and quiet and loud all at once. It has the ghost of his mother, of what he remembers, but it’s not quite right. He squirms and thinks and clutches to her, trying to place it, searching through the very depths of his mind to the earliest memories he can conjure. Heat clings to his skin and his nose burns.
“I’m scared, mom,” he answers, and his voice is high and not his. Dean smacks his lips and touches his mouth, looking towards his mom with crinkled eyebrows. She stares straight ahead and does not move.
“Of what, dear?”
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Dreams brought by hunger show true desires, and Dean shoves it aside to care for his baby brother with no sign of his father.
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- Part 10 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober
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Give Up the Ghost by AnotherInternetUser for Dusweet
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga
05 Oct 2023
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Whumptober 2023 Day 5: Debris/Pinned Down/It’s broken
Memory is foggy and dull, wrapped in bubble wrap and spotty, like a book with missing pages, but it comes back in spurts the longer he sits and mulls with his head against a bumpy wall. A brief conversation with a man behind a desk, suitcase at his side, a mustache that curled and a marble desk that was cold to the touch. Tremors and a shrieking radio and unsteady feet. It all comes back in waves.
It’s not the first thing that he remembers though. This first thing he remembers isn’t the shaking and groaning of a building, or the sudden screams of people above and below him and the screeching of car wheels. No, it’s diving beneath a table, luggage forgotten, hand wrapped around a fistful of fabric and a little body beneath him, trying to be heard about the noise with a cracked voice.
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After an earthquake, Mustang and Edward are trapped under debris. Relatively unscathed, Mustang looks for his major and a way out.
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- Part 5 of AnotherInternetUser's 2023 Whumptober