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Whumptober 2020 Day 21: I Don’t Feel So Well—Chronic Pain/Hypothermia/Infection Word Count: 705 Author: Katie/Ally (aquietwritingcorner/realitybreakgirl)   Rating: T Characters:  Jean Havoc Summary: Jean Havoc’s legs are healed. But there’s still things to deal with. Notes:  Because there had to be some leftover consequence.

 Leg Pains

 Jean Havoc would eternally be grateful to a few people in his life. His parents were two of them. Not only was he grateful for his childhood and the patience they had shown him, but also for the way that they had taken him back in after he had lost the use of his legs and worked hard to give him a purpose and help him heal as best he could.

He was also grateful to Roy Mustang, and all of his team, really. They had stayed by him, had always expected for him to catch up to him somehow. He understood why they hadn’t been in contact with him much when he had gone back home—it was too dangerous. But he had never doubted that they cared for him. And Mustang had made sure that he would have the chance to catch up to him, even when it could have cost Mustang his shot at healing.

He would also always be grateful to Dr. Marcoh, the man who had the stone and who knew how to use it. With it he had healed the lost connection in Havoc’s spine, enabling him to feel and move his legs again. Marcoh had offered to completely restore his legs, but Havoc had refused, saying that he wanted to make sure that there was enough of the stone to heal Mustang’s eyes. As long as Havoc was able to rebuild what he has lost, then he would be fine with it. It had been a good thing, too, because after Marcoh had healed Mustang’s eyes, the stone was depleted.

Mustang had been apologetic to both him and Riza (who both men had agreed without speaking, was going to be the next to be healed from the stone, if it was possible.), but neither of them had let him stay mopey about it. Riza had healed with time, although it had been a long recovery, and Havoc had worked hard.

There was, however, one lasting consequence for Havoc, although he wasn’t sure if it would still be a thing or not even if he had let his legs be completely restored.

Havoc had never been particularly good at being still for long periods of time. It was one reason he didn’t make a good sniper. While Riza could hold the same position for hours without moving an inch, Havoc was always at least shifting around, even if it was just a tiny bit. It also meant that he had a tendency to get up and move around to stretch his legs.

Nowadays, though, he had another reason for getting up. There was, fairly often, a low-level pain in his legs. It was like an underlying ache that happened in his legs, giving them the fidgets and the wiggles at best. At the worst, there was pain, the kind of pain that kept him from sleeping and left him restless and hurting and hobbling. Fortunately, those times only tended to happen either at night, after work, or after a long, hard day of work. Most of the time he was just left with restless legs after work and either some mild painkillers or a glass of whiskey helped calm them enough for him to get in some decent sleep.

Of course, the team noticed. They were all too close not to. Breda was the first one who noticed. He had caught him rubbing his legs one too many times during the workday or seen him hobble for a bit before his legs warmed up. It wasn’t long before the rest of the team had caught on as well. Fuery would often run errands or let Havoc take Hayate out if Havoc needed to stretch his legs. Falman would fix him some tea that did help. Riza had some sort of herbal lotion that worked wonders. And Mustang made sure that if he needed time off or if he needed to take a break, he could.

Havoc was grateful to all of them for those small things. He always would be. Even with the chronic pain that he faced to with his legs, he considered it a small price to pay to be back with these people—with this brotherhood.

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