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Who: Pride-Ed and Riza Hawkeye
What: A run in
When: Midnight
Where: In the forest
Summary: Pride is having some problems with his former self, Edward. He can't seem to get that damn brat to let go and hand himself over entirely. Currently Pride is flitting back and forth between his dark side (Pride) and his good side (Edward Elric).

Rating: R (strong langauge and content, you have been warned!)

"The young man staggered through the forest. He could hear that brat's voice again in the back of his mind. It was getting louder and louder by the second. He shook his head, trying to rid himself of it. "No, I've already been through this too many times. I'm not going to let back. I won't let you back. You can suffer, you little bastard. I could give a shit less about your human traits. Your emotions. Pathetic little human. You're oh so pathetic. You couldn't even save Alphonse. You worthless little piece of shit!" Pride screamed, knowing full well that his other half was listening. He continued to move forward as his body had started to betray him. It was Ed and he was taking over. "You stupid fuck, can't you see that I have a job to do?!"

"No....." He choked out, but this voice was not low like Pride's, it was Ed's. Edward, the one who had been consumed by Pride. He wanted to come back more than anything. He wanted to rush to Riza and throw his arms around her. He wanted to ask her what was going on. To take comfort and security in her words. He didn't want to be this monster that Hohenheim had turned him into at the 5th Laboratory. "I...won't...I won't! Go back to the hell where you came from and leave me alone!" Edward's voice rang out into the still night air. He lurched over and continued to fight with his darker half, collapsing onto the ground. "Somebody...Anybody...If you can hear me...Please...Help...?" He cried out, trying to force Pride back and lock him away for good.

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Riza had been unable to sleep and it had been a nice night, so she decided to take a walk. She figured that she would be fairly safe, after all, where she was going she figured that no one would be around. That was, until she heard a familiar voice in the distance.

Without a second thought, the sniper ran off towards the sound of the voice, pushing tree branches away from her face, tripping several times until she managed to find him.

"Pride?" She asked hesitantly as she looked down at him.

"Riza?" He asked, Edward was still in control of things for the time being. But he was struggling with it. Struggling with Pride. That damn monster. He hated him. "Riza....No I...It's me...Ed..I.."

He began and stopped mid-sentence when he could feel a sharp sting of pain shoot throughout his body. "Pride isn't who you think he is...He's...A...Monster..You can't trust him! Hohenheim..Hohenheim, did this to me at...The 5th Laboratory...I.." He stuttered. He didn't know how much longer he could hold on.

"Edward?" She knelt down in front of him and gently placed a hand on his shoulder. "Just calm down and tell me what's happened? The 5th Lab has been destroyed..." At least that was the last thing she had remembered. "We thought you had been killed, you had been injured."

He slammed his eyes shut and when they were opened, tears began to flood them and they started to slip down his cheeks.

"I...I never wanted to be one of them Riza...I never did. All I wanted was for Al and I to be happy...Alphonse...I let him down. It was my fault..The 5th...Hohenheim was there..I..This must be some type of punishment for not giving enough in exchange..I didn't hand it over willingly..So he took it from me..He took my life..He turned me into one of them!" He sputtered and started to feel nauseated as the pain continued to flow steadily through his veins.

She vaguely knew who Hoenheim was, but she didn't think anything too bad had happened inside of Lab 5. She knew that Edward had been hurt but he didn't die. Riza sighed softly and shifted, gathering Edward up in her arms and holding him close. She didn't know how else to comfort him right now. "Shh...just calm down." She said, slowly stroking his hair.

"I could have stopped him...I could have just went a long with things and Alphonse would have been fine. Al...Oh God...That bastard, Envy...Killed Al! That murderer. I promised Al that I would protect him. I made that promise to him and I couldn't keep it. I should have went a long with things like they told me to do..If I did, he would be here with me right now..I..It's my fault..I..He..He died because of me." He said as the pain continued to rip through his body.

"It should have been me instead of him..I don't deserve to live. I don't want to live without him. I..Pride is right, I am worthless. If I would have just done something, anything, Al would be alive. He didn't deserve to die...He didn't..He never did anything wrong. It was all me. It was my fault. I was the one that talked him into everything. It should have been me, not him.." He blurted out and rested his head against Riza's chest as tears clouded his vision.

Riza just held him, idly stroking his hair. "Calm down Edward." It felt odd saying that, considering there was another Edward Elric already here at Luceti, but she didn't say it. "I'm here and Alphonse is still alive. He's here and I can take you too him." She was trying to be comforting, but she wasn't sure if she was doing a good job.

"Al....Alphonse...No...I...I saw Envy kill him..I..I saw him die right infront of my own eyes. His blood was on my boots...There's no way, there's just no way..It's not true..I can't...I won't..." He refused to believe it. Was he going mad? Possibly. After all, he did have that damn monster inside of him. He was so confused at this point, he didn't know what to believe.

"I wish I could go back...To just go back before...Before all of this..Before everything..If I could just right the wrongs that I've done. If I could erase the mistakes that I've made..I thought we were doing the right thing at the time by trying to bring Mom back..I had no idea that it would end up like it did. If I would've known..If I only would've known.."

"He's not dead. He lives in a house not far from my own. I can take you there." Riza said, looking down at him. "The mistakes of the past can't be fixed, but you can use them to make a better future." She said, holding him just a little bit tighter. She didn't know what to do besides take him back home with her and then take him to see the other Edward and Alphonse tomorrow. "Come on, lets go back to the house and I'll take you to see Alphonse tomorrow."

He clung onto her tightly, not wanting to let go. "Al isn't...He can't be! It must be some type of cruel trick. He can't be alive..He's..I..I saw him die!" He murmured to himself and rested his head on Riza's shoulder.

He could feel his body begin to tense up again, "No...Not again...No..I don't want..This can't be happening...I..I.." his fingers suddenly gripped the fabric of Riza's uniform tightly. A low laugh came barreling from off of his lips and he quickly sunk his teeth into the woman's neck. Those knifelike canines piercing her flesh.

Riza stiffened when she felt his fingers tighten on her uniform. "Edward?" She asked before she heard the laugh. She didn't have any warning as he bit down on her neck. Thankfully it was lower, closer to where her neck and shoulders meet and she didn't think he bit anything vital.

Her first instict was to push him away, but she didn't. That would only tear the flesh, making a bigger wound. She did however, let go of Edward, her hands going to grip his shoulders tightly. His bite was nothing like Zelman's. It hurt like hell.

He smirked against the skin, finally pulling away when he had felt her hands on his shoulders. He glared at her now. Those vacant golden eyes could have driven a hole right through her if glares could be used as weapons.

"No, not Edward. That little brat will never be rid of me. Soon he will only be a memory. I'm tired of fucking around. The only reason why I didn't kill you in the first place was because of him. But now? Now I'm going to take pleasure in watching you die...And then I will bathe in your blood." He said with a devious grin as he jumped up onto his feet. "Run. I'll even give you a head start. Go on. Run or grovel like the pathetic bitch you are."

Pathetic bitch? Now she was pissed. "Bitch? What the fuck is wrong with you?" She snapped, standing up and not bothering with the wound. She wasn't going to grovel like some dog at his feet. Sure, she was a dog of the military, but that was beside the point. "I'm no one's bitch." She said, reaching behind her for the gun that she carried.

She hadn't used it since before she lost the vision in her left eye. She didn't want to use it, but she might just have to.

"Wrong again." He said and lunged at her, fist pulled back, ready to strike. He had hit her in the face. He loved that reaction. The reaction of pain in another person's face. Oh the sweet agony. So he did it again and grabbed her by the neck. "You're my bitch."

He said in a low tone, hand clinching her throat tightly. "I could snap your pretty little neck right here, right now. I could kill you so easily. And I would have no remorse. I should do it. I think I'm going to just because it will put that brat in even more torture than he already is! You see, Ed hates being in this body with me. He's so terrified. So afraid...So weak. That's why Hohenheim picked him. Because he was gullible and easy to break down."

She glared at Pride again, spitting blood into his face after being hit. She was starting to get afraid now, he was stronger than he looked and she needed to get away from him. "No, you're wrong. I'm no one's bitch." Riza managed to choke out before she grabbed the gun, drawing it out and clicking the safety off in one smooth movement.

"Now, let me go." She said as she aimed for one of his knees and pulled the trigger. Once he let her go, she bolted into the forest, not knowing where she was going, Riza kept tripping over things, losing her gun in the process.

A gun, damn he was caught off guard. He would be sure not to let that happen again. Thank goodness he wasn't human. The only way that someone could hurt one of his species was to use a piece of their former self and seal them or paralyze them and then proceed to injure them. But that wasn't the case here. The wound soon closed and he took off through the forest, chasing after her. He stopped in his tracks when he saw her gun laying on the ground. He picked it up and looked at it with a grin.

"You know, Riza..It would be quite ironic, eh? To be killed with your own gun? Come on now, you can't run forever. I'll find you sooner or later." He said and took off running again. He was enjoying this game of cat and mouse.

Riza had no idea which direction she was going or even if she was going in the right direction to get back to town. Not much scared her since Ishbal, but this homunculus scared her. Then again, she also had to be half blind so she couldn't really see where she was going.

That slowed her down considerably, but even though she had slowed down, it didn't stop her from tripping over a badly placed tree root, twisting her ankle and causing her to cry out.

He heard the cry and it wasn't too far from where he was. Using his keen senses, he found her within a minimal amount of time. The gun in his hand as he approached her. He looked at the piece of junk and then at Riza. "You are quite clumsy, aren't you?" He asked and aimed the gun at her. He wanted to see her squirm. He wanted to see her beg for her miserable life. He was a sick and twisted creature indeed.

"Bang!" He said with a smile and waved the gun around. "These aren't really my style. And besides, you need an honorable death, don't you?" He asked her and grinned, then tried to use alchemy to fuse the gun into a spear so he could stab it right through her heart, but the process ended up backfiring and it dissolved instead. "What the fuck?"

"Guess you don't have the skill to be a sharpshooter." She said sarcastically. "I guess I forgot to tell you that the Malnosso have messed with people's abilities here." She said. "At least, magical or alchemical. My sharpshooting skills weren't messed with at all." Ya, she was asking for trouble with that. As for an honorable death? She didn't care.

"I've died once in this place, not like I won't be back again." She said, glaring up at him.

"Well where the hell is the fun in that? I'll just have to work a bit harder then I guess at bringing this entire place down, hmm?" He asked and crouched down infront of her. He was taking his time with things. Why should he hurry up anyways? It wasn't like he had anything better to do.

"We are a lot alike, you and I. We've both killed innocent people before."

"I know I've killed innocents. I still have nightmares about it." And she did. The Ishbal massacre was the reason that she was out here this late at night. "I hated every minute of it. I was still a cadet when it happened." But she didn't use that as an excuse. She had made the choice to pull the trigger.

"You see, we are a lot alike. But I don't have anyone controlling me. Not anymore anyways. Back in my world I did. I know a lot more than Edward does.." He sad and let his fingertips touch upon the grass gently. "I know that the Elrics here are from a different realm than we are. But Edward, the one locked inside of my mind, he doesn't know. He's still struggling with the fact that he let his brother die."

He tilted his head to the side and smiled. "And I like it that way. The more guilty he feels, the more weak he is. And the more weak he is, then there is less likely of a chance that he'll be able to overcome me. You do understand, don't you? He's still within me. I'm just torturing him for the hell of it. And the weaker he gets...Well..He'll start to fade away soon and then disappear completely." He explained and glared at Riza. "I can't carry out my plan until that prick is gone. He keeps interrupting me."

"And what would that plan be?" She asked, narrowing her eyes at him. She didn't like the way that this was sounding. She did understand that Edwards was still in there and that Pride was in control. He was going to take his time tortureing her so that Edward would fade faster. Great. She wasn't going to happen once she was killed this time. She had lost half her vision the last time, who knew what would be lost this time.

"Curious, are we?" He asked and let out a soft laugh. "You'll find out soon enough. I promise you that much. I just need to tie up a few loose ends so to speak." He said and placed his fingers upon a few pebbles. He smiled in approval when he used alchemy to fuse them with his fingernails. It was a small little trick. Nothing big. Still he loved the idea that he could use his powers, even if they were a bit toned down.

"How is your dear Colonel doing? Too bad he isn't here. I would have so much fun with him."

"The last time I saw him he was fine." She said. "And he's better of back home." She wouldn't admit it, but she really did miss Roy a lot, more than anyone else actually.

She noticed what he had done with the rock and paled, she had no idea what he was going to do with those. What she did know was that it was going to hurt...a lot.

"Oh?...Too bad. It would have been fun to play with him." He said in mock disappointment. He looked down at his fingernails as they grew sharper from using his alchemy. Now on his left hand there they were, five small knifelike weapons of which he had created from those small pebbles. A smirk dressed his features and he stood up slowly. His eyes fixed upon those damn wings of hers.

"Those things really don't suit you. Do they? I can remove them for you if you'd like?" He asked with a smile.

"No..." She whispered softly, starting to crab-walk backwards to try and put some distance between them. She couldn't let him get to her wings. She knew it would hurt like hell and she had a bad feeling that it would also lead to her death.

"Aw, you're no fun." He said with a frown and took a step forward towards her. "Lets play a game. You tell me what I want to know and in exchange for it, I'll let you live. How does that sound?" He asked as he took another step forward.

"Unless you don't want to play. Then I could just kill you right now."

"Just what do you want to know?" She said. She knew that he was going to kill her anyway. She might as well tell him what she knew. She had no idea what she was going to lose when she was going to die. "I haven't been here for very long." She added quickly, stopping her crab walking when her back and wings hit a rather large and ancient tree.

"First I want to hear what you know about the other Elrics. Every fucking detail. Are they from your world? Did you bring them here? What do they know about the Philosopher's Stone? I don't expect you to know everything about them, but you should have some type of useful information in that brain of yours, hmm?" He asked and stood before her. This time standing still and giving her a chance to answer.

"The Elrics? They were here before I got here. I don't know what they know about the Philosopher's Stone. They appear to be from the future in my world. Alphonse has his body back." She really didn't know much else about the Elrics, she didn't talk to them much while she was here.

"Ah..I see." He said and took another step towards her. "What happened with the 5th Laboratory in your world?" He needed to find out everything those damn kids knew, somehow.

"It blew up. That's the last I knew. Apparently some experiments were going on there but I don't know the details." She said, trying to back up even more and forgetting that there was a tree there.

Blew up..He thought to himself and smiled inwardly. Good. Then they would never find out the rest. Or maybe in their world there was no other missing pieces after all. He looked at the weapons on his fingers. They were razor sharp to the touch now.

"And now, you will tell me about this place. Starting with who runs it. And also, why is it so fucking cheery here? It's really annoying."

"All I know is that the Malnosso are the ones who bring people here and conduct experiments. I've only been here a couple months. I know that death isn't permanent and when people come back they're missing something. I can't see out of my left eye because of it." She said, looking up at him as she tried to protect her wings.

"Experiments..How interesting..Sounds just like Father." He said and moved towards her, touching a single fingernail to one of her wings and beginning to shred a chunk of it off.

"Scream for me.."

And scream she did. She lashed out at the same time, trying to push him away. Tearing a chunk out of her wings hurt like hell. The canary yellow feathers were becoming stained red with her own blood as she tried to scramble away.

Blood. That sweet crimson red color. Oh how beautiful it was. What a sight to see! He took pleasure in her pain. He fed off of it.

"Sweet little bird. I'm going to clip your wings....And shove them down your fucking throat. Now get back here!" He hissed and grabbed at her with his other hand. He got hold of a fistful of her blond hair and again started to rip another portion of the same wing off.

"I want to hear you beg me to stop this...Beg..You bitch."

Riza screamed again as she was grabbed by the hair and as another chunk of her wings was ripped off. Her vision was clouded by tears as she continued to struggle to get away. Pride was strong and she couldn't break his grip, not with as much pain as she was in.

"Please...." she sobbed. "Stop. I'll do anything...."

He let his eyes fall shut and slid his tongue across his lower lip as Riza screamed. It was amazing to say the least. Everything was so perfect. The way it felt as her blood had decorated his hands when he sliced through chunks of that damn wing. Just one single wing. He wanted her to have a slow death.

"Mmm, you have no idea how incredible this feels for me. To watch your life slowly slip away. It's so....What's the word? Exotic." He said in a low tone.

"Please....stop...." She begged again, her voice hoarse from screaming. Everything hurt and her vision was starting to leave her. "Please...." Her voice was weak. Her struggles slowly stopped as the pain took over, making it hard for her to move. She just wanted the torture to end now.

"Just...end it..." She begged.

He stopped and let go of her hair then looked down at her. "You want it to end, hmm? I thought we were having fun. You said you wanted to play, remember?" He asked and laughed softly then gave her a swift kick to the stomach.

"Bitches like you don't deserve a quick death. Dogs of the military. How does it feel to be helpless, Riza? How does it feel to have no control over your life? You will never understand what it's like to have this power. Pathetic humans like yourself. The pleasure of power and pain is something that I long for. That I crave. Watching you suffer sets me on the highest of the high."

"I wanted to help you." She said, weakly, looking up at him after she was kicked. "Just end it, so that I can lose another part of my life." She tried to push herself up and only succeeded in falling back onto the ground with a soft whimper. One of her wings had been torn off, she just had one left.

She was so weak....she just wanted it to all end.

He moved over to her and kicked her again so that she was on her stomach now.

"You are powerless. You are helpless. Pathetic and weak. You sniveling little bitch. That's really all you are, is a fucking bitch. You let yourself be controlled by the military. You went a long with their rules. Never thinking for yourself. Always kissing your superior's ass." He said and knelt down beside Riza then leaned over her. And with a quick movement, he sank his teeth into that other wing of hers. Teeth piercing it.

She screamed again as he bit down on her wing. Yes, she knew that she let herself be controlled by the military, she did it so that she could stay close to Mustang and help push him to the top. What he didn't know was that she loved Roy, but then again, no one did.

"I may be powerless...but then again...so are you compared to the Malnosso..."

He started to hear Edward's voice scream at him from the back of his mind. Those screams and Riza's words were all too much for him and he finally ripped the damn thing off with his teeth, blood dripping from his lips now. He spat out the thing and it tumbled onto the ground.

Riza cried out one last time as her other wing was torn off. Her last scream died down, she slumped to the ground, the light in her brown eyes fading. Her breathing became shallower and shallower until finally she stopped breathing.

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