Drabble: Late Rescues Are Better Than None
Another Alchemy (and not FMA) originalfic drabble. Part of a series: Meeting, Courtship, Visitors, Laws of Inheritance, Paranoia, Survive Contact, Ashes, this one, perhaps another and perhaps not, and then the first of this turned-into-a-series that I wrote (but last in internal chronology), Wedding Oaths.
EDIT: Part of a series: Meeting, Courtship, Visitors, Laws of Inheritance, Paranoia, Survive Contact, Ashes, Late Rescues Are Better Than None, Incentive, and Wedding Oaths.
Late Rescues Are Better Than None
"Was this your doing?" Her voice was a rough croak. He marked the greenish froth on her lips, the acrid scent of her breath.
"No." He pulled a vial out. "Purgatorie?"
She didn't thank him, but her muddy eyes focused past shock.
He held her hair in a hand-- one of hers pressed against the carriage while the other held her dress closed as she bent over. (He pressed his free hand against his mouth. Tried not to listen.)
He gave her a handkerchief after, and held the carriage-door.
"I'll be bleeding soon," she rasped.
"I'll have the cushions replaced."
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