route_1065 | Great googly-moogly, it's all gone to shit

He'd just killed my sister in front of me!

[AND AL WOULD KNOW ALL ABOUT THAT, WOULDN'T HE]

And you wanted to kill him too!

[These children need some assistance.]

You're one to fucking talk!

[SWING SWING WOW LOOK AT THESE ANGRY TEARS NOW]

You were going to kill Brother all over again! I'm not making the same mistake again, I won't let you anywhere near them!!

_{[Okay, so the past... what, two? Three? Times that Heather has been in the same general vicinity as both of these hopeless, fucking dysfunctional boys at the same time, she has had to break up some kind of argument between them.]

[She's kind of gotten used to it.]

[But you know... YOU KNOW... she was REALLY FREAKING HOPING that this day at the beach would go smoothly, WITHOUT any goddamn family feuds.]

[Not entirely unlike the dream in which she hauled them both out of that fountain, two hands plunge into the surf-- in this case grabbing onto Envy because 1. he's smaller and more-easily hauled away from direct swinging range, and 2. this is FAR WORSE than any of the previous arguments she's intervened on and it needs to be broken up right the hell now.]}

STOP!

STOP, STOP, STOP!

Edited 2015-08-09 07:06 (UTC)

[SORRY HEATHER.]

[Envy doesn't get a chance to respond to Al before there are hands grabbing him and hauling him up and away. He twists in Heather's grip, teeth bared in Al's general direction.]

I wasn't going to kill him, I stopped didn't I?! Before you even showed up!

[HE TRIED TO DO THE RIGHT THING GODDAMN. It's only because it's Heather that he doesn't keep struggling against her hold, instead settling into stillness. He's so tensed up that he's nearly shaking with anger, and growls out.]

I didn't start this shit this time.

Don't you fucking lie, I saw you, I saw you!

[YOU NEVER DO THE RIGHT THING YOU SHIT]

[He doesn't fight Heather pulling him away (he's pissed, but he's not Edward levels of pissed), but he sure as hell snarls right back at Envy.]

You think I'm gonna just let you go when you're threatening to hurt my friends?

_{[She'd feel proud of the fact that her involvement alone is enough to make Envy stop trying to literally maul someone, but she's kind of got other concerns at the moment.]

[And man, she doesn't know what to believe.]

[Giving Envy an insistent push to get him BEHIND her, she stumbles between them and holds out her hands in that universal STOP RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE motion. Keeping them APART is priority.]}

STOP!

BOTH OF YOU JUST-- STOP!

[Envy still looks like he'd very much like to continue punching Al in the face; in fact, at Al's shout about threatening his friends he looks just about ready to EXPLODE. He'd let her push him, but now he takes another half-step forward.]

I DID NOT--!

[Of course, Heather's shouting gets in the way of his own outraged protest, cutting it off. He doesn't look any less furious, though.]

Okay, I'm stopped.

[Al would absolutely love to continue this fight, but with Heather between them yelling at them both he knows better than to try. Still, his fists are clenched tight enough to leave the knuckles white, and he glares at Envy as if it might be enough to set him on fire.]

[It would not be entirely surprising if he DID, with how hot that glare is.]

_{[OKAY. STOPPED. GOOD.]

[Not bothering to conceal how frustrated she is, Heather looks back and forth between them as though daring them to try anything further.]}

--Okay! OKAY! I don't know WHAT the hell is going ON, but WHOEVER started this-- this WHATEVER this is, it's stopping RIGHT. NOW!

OKAY?!

[Envy crosses his arms.]

Okay. I'LL stop, but I'm not so sure that Alphonse isn't going to sneak up behind me and deck me in the face for NO GODDAMN REASON again.

[ENVY KNOWS DAMN WELL THAT EVERYONE WILL THINK IT WAS HIM but he is not taking the fall for this fight no sir.]

[Wow fuck you Envy, he is totally in the right here??? Clearly?????]

No reason? You were threatening my family!

_{[Okay, now that they're not trying to murder each other... time to get to the bottom of this. Or TRY to.]

[She looks over to Envy, eyes narrowing.]}

Is that true?

[Envy grits his teeth, meeting Heather's gaze without an ounce of guilt.]

No. Greed and I were talking about trying to help that other homunculus kid, you remember the one we mentioned on New Year's? The one who got stuck in Team Rocket.

You can ask Greed if you don't believe me.

[Wait. Hold on, that's...that's not matching up at all to what Al had built up--I MEAN DEFINITELY 100% OVERHEARD earlier today. He blinks in stupefied confusion for a few moments before shaking his head.]

That--that's not what I heard you say before!

_{[... OKAY SO LIKE. YOU KNOW WHAT?]

[HEATHER'S GONNA GO WITH ENVY ON THIS.]

[Because she does not believe that he'd lie right to her face. And also because she's now witnessed Al jumping to conclusions MULTIPLE TIMES. The kid's logic is not infallible.]}

... Al?

_{[WHAT DID HE SAY BEFORE THAT WAS SO DIFFERENT? >8/]}

[GOOD. Slightly more appeased that Heather seems to believe him, Envy crosses his own arms. His palms are marked with little half circle nail indents by now, not that they can see that.]

Yeah, you never did tell me exactly WHAT it is that I supposedly said.

[Al is very quickly realizing that he is in Trouble. But he's still an Elric and he's still stubborn, so he puts an attempt into defending himself.]

I heard--Envy said he was going to 'do something' about Wrath, how else was I supposed to interpret that? The last time they were around each other he kicked Wrath across a ballroom because he was grieving!

[SO TO BE FAIR...]

_{[It's not a pleasant discovery to hear that Envy had once kicked a child across a ballroom, but... well, "Envy being willing to beat the shit out of little kids" is not exactly new information. Which is why all she does is shoot Envy a sort of exasperated 'Really?' look before turning back to Al.]}

Al, there's all KINDS of things that 'do something' can mean.

[Watch it, Al, YOU once legitimately threatened that same child's arm and leg off.]

Yeah, and if you'd asked, you would've found out that it meant that we were talking about trying to do something about how he's still loyal to Dante.

I fucked up back then, and I fucked up when he showed up, and I'm 'doing something' about that.

[He was threatening to take Ed's body! Totally different circumstance!]

Well--I mean--!

[Goddamnit.] ...okay, fine, so I jumped the gun a little.

There's 'accidentally saying something uncalled for' jumping the gun, and there's 'beating up somebody on a beach' jumping the gun.

Do I HAVE to tell you how big the difference between those are?

[This is so humiliating. Al crosses his arms and glares off to the side, settling into full Teenager Sulk Mode.]

...no...

_{[DON'T YOU SULK AT HER YOUNG MAN!!!!!!]

[But fortunately for Al, any further berating is cut off as Heather looks over her shoulder just in time to see Lust walking VERY QUICKLY off of the beach... clearly upset.]}

--oh for crying out--

_{[IT WAS THAT GUY, WASN'T IT!!]}

FUCK.

You two-- just-- don't fucking KILL each other. I'll be back!

_{[And then off she goes. TRUSTING THAT THEY WON'T JUST START BEATING EACH OTHER UP AGAIN >8(]}

[Envy sees Lust running off too, and he's tempted to go after her himself...but Heather's going, she'll be able to help until he's done with Al.]

[For a good long moment after she leaves, Envy just GLARES at Al, arms crossed. His face is really starting to hurt...ugh, there's going to be some nasty bruises soon.]

Care to accuse me of anything else that didn't really happen?

[Al watches Lust run off with a worried look as well, and even moreso when he catches sight of Scar retreating down the beach. That...is really not good.]

[He starts to move off to follow Scar, but Envy speaks up before he can and Al turns back to him. GLARE GLARE GLARE ugh he hates being the wrong one when Envy is involved.]

Don't act so innocent, you absolutely would have gone after him like that.

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