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"Yo, it's Heather. I'm probably asleep or Godzilla ate my 'Gear or something so I can't answer you right now. But feel free to leave a message or something. I'll probably get back to you. ... Probably. Peace out."

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[It takes him a second to respond.]

It's my half brother.

[It sounds like he's spitting out the title; that's not how he sounds talking about Lust or Greed or any of the people he's chosen as family. Envy tightens his grip on the harness.]

He just showed up, talking about... [His face darkens noticeably. He doesn't look worried or sad or scared, just furious.]

...about how I'm going to die. Back home.

_{[Half-brother. Her immediate assumption is that it's another case like Greed, but... no. The tone's too different.]

[Obviously he's not talking about any of the Homunculi.]

[But before she can get to the bottom of this, first things first.]}

... Envy.

Let go of the harness.

Let's go sit down.

Or walk, if you wanna keep moving.

[It's a long moment before Envy does let go of it, long enough that it's almost like he didn't hear her or isn't going to. But he does, and takes a few steps away; Carl, now that he's loose, immediately takes to the sky and lands on the inn roof. Whatever was going on there, he didn't like it.]

We can walk. I don't want to sit.

[Being still means thinking. His fists are clenched now, and he still won't look her in the eye.]

_{[After hesitating briefly, she reaches out to give Envy a clap on the shoulder.]}

Okay. Then let's go.

_{[If he'll allow her, she'll give him a gentle push in a random direction down the road.]}

[He jerks just slightly away from the clap on his shoulder, like he's not sure if he wants that contact or not, but he lets her give him that push and starts walking. He does glance back and up at where Carl is perched like a gargoyle on top of the inn, but then he scowls and turns back ahead. He jams his fists into his pockets; it makes him look like an angry teenager, but really he wants to make sure it wouldn't be easy to lash out at her if he got too worked up.]

[He doesn't say anything at first. Just keeps taking quick, jerky steps with his eyes narrowed at the ground as though he'd set the street on fire if he could. But finally, he speaks up when there's no other pedestrians around to hear.]

You probably want to know what happened, right?

_{[She accompanies him in silence. Doesn't try to prompt conversation, until he speaks.]}

Yeah, I do.

But I'm not exactly in a hurry.

If you wanna just keep walking, we can do that.

I don't know what I want to do.

Besides go after him, but that's...!

[Envy's voice was rising steadily through all that. He's already decided that he can't go after Al, he'd decided that the moment he called the one person he knew for sure would stop him. But that doesn't mean he doesn't want to more than anything right now.]

... Slow down, Envy.

Who's 'him'? The half-brother?

What did he do? Besides tell you how you were going to die?

_{[She doesn't try to stop him from talking, but there's still some missing details that... kind of need to be fille in.]}

Edited 2014-08-29 08:57 (UTC)

He's my REPLACEMENT!

[No it doesn't look like slowing down is happening just yet, and he's still practically shouting.]

He and his brother are the two perfect human sons! The ones that my bastard father went and had when he wanted to start over. And if that wasn't enough, they made a homunculus too! I hate them, how could I do anything else!

_{[She doesn't try to get him to slow or quiet down. That's sort of why they're walking to begin with-- so that he can shout if he wants to, without it turning into some kind of public spectacle. She's sort of walking north towards the woods anyhow. He can yell all he needs to out there.]}

Your dad left you.

That's what happened, isn't it?

[Envy tenses up completely at the question, and when he speaks his voice is low and more bitter than Heather's ever heard him.]

He wanted his dead son back, so he tried to use alchemy to bring him back to life.

He didn't get his son back. He just got a monster who looked like him, and that wasn't what he wanted.

_{[She can hear the caustic agony in his voice, and it gives her pause. She can't help it. Not because it's unfamiliar-- no, she knows exactly what that horrible, smoldering feeling is like-- but because she's never heard it coming from him.]}

... What he did was wrong.

Leaving you.

But he's not here.

Right?

No.

He's not.

[His teeth grind.]

But my half brother is. And he told me that my father is going to be the one who kills me. [His voice starts getting louder again, until he's shouting by the end.]

That he was going to do it to send them all home! Using me as their transmutation fee!

Well, that was tactless of him.

_{[It sounds a little dry and sarcastic-- she can't really help it. But her expression is still serious. It's not really POLITE to inform someone how they're going to die first thing. But then, she supposes, if they were enemies... there wouldn't be much of an incentive on the half-brother's part to play nice.]}

... But he's not the one who he says was gonna kill you.

Right?

It was your dad.

[Envy bristles at that.]

Maybe so, but he's a part of it.

It's my father I blame for it. But like you said, he's not here right now.

So you don't need to kill anybody yet.

_{[She includes the 'yet' part because if Envy's dad DOES show up? She's only gonna stop him long enough to make sure she can catch a ride along with him.]

[She may regret attacking Claudia... but she doesn't regret what she'll do to Dahlia if she ever shows up.]}

Answer this question for me-- this guy who just got here.

Is he responsible for what your dad did? Or is he just another one caught up in the tide?

[Yeah, if Hohenheim showed up here? The one from his version of Amestris? Nobody would be able to stop Envy going for him.]

For him killing me? I don't know, I didn't get the details.

[As for Alphonse just being caught up in everything...that idea goes right in one ear and out the other.]

For what happened when I was born, he's a few centuries late. But that doesn't make it any better.

... Let me put it another way, Envy.

When Claudia came, and I went after her... my feelings were real. I hated her for what she did to me. For what she would have done, if she'd gotten her way.

And I still hate her.

But there was something bigger.

Someone who hurt us both.

Someone who was the reason that she turned out the way she did. Someone who created us both.

So I'm just asking you.

Is this guy like Claudia?

Or like your father?

[Envy doesn't answer at first; it's a good sign, that he's actually slowing down enough to hear and think about what she said. But then his face darkens again.]

My father never hurt them.

[Hohenheim had left that family too, but it wasn't the same thing. And he'd come back for them, eventually.]

To me...to me I guess it's like Claudia. But him and his brother, they did what my father did to someone else. They tried to bring back the dead, and Sloth was born. They didn't know what they'd made, and she wound up with the rest of us.

They killed her, in the end. Once they realized who she was. [His tone changes to a higher-pitched one, a bitter, mocking imitation.] She was their mistake and they had to take responsibility.

... Claudia did what my mother did.

She was literally trying to finish what my mother started, all those years before.

That's on her. It was wrong. She knew it was wrong.

... But it still never would have happened if it weren't for what that bitch did to her.

I'll ask you again.

Are they what they are because of him?

I don't know!

[That comes out as a snap.]

I don't know what he told them when they were kids, I don't know if he told them anything or if they read his research notes or if they decided all this on their own.

_{[She's quiet for a moment or so.]}

It's okay. You don't need to know.

... Do you wanna make a deal?

[He looks a little less defensive when she says it's okay.]

What kind of deal?

[Well, it's not a no.]

Stay away from this guy. And people like him. Talk to him, fine, cuss him out on the network, good, but don't go after him.

... And then if your dad shows up... I'll help you hunt him down.

[Envy looks at her, surprised. Then he nods, a grimly satisfied sort of smirk on his face.]

Yeah, I'll take that deal.

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