Apples for fortune

[grassangel]

Title: Apples for fortune

Day/Theme: Nov. 23, 'o love, be fed apples while you may'
Series: Fullmetal Alchemist
Characters/Pairing: Riza Hawkeye
Rating: PG

 

One wouldn't think Riza Hawkeye, woman of the modern day, had any insensibilities.

However, every year when apples come into season, her fruit bowl is constantly overflowing with succulent fruit and the scent of baked apple constantly lingering in the air.
She peels the fruits carefully, knife slowly travelling its way around and around before a single spiraling peel is thrown over her shoulder and peeked at before moving onto the next one, the process repeated.

Then, when the longest day of summer rolled around, worn socks were gathered up and sewn together; a sock doll the end product. This end product soon tossed up into the roof space, the previous year's doll retrieved and burnt in the fireplace along with other odds and ends.

There are many other things, like leaving a saucer of milk out on top of the counter, out of Black Hayate's reach every night. Collecting leaves every autumn, eggshells throughly crushed before being disposed of, sneezing habitually to the right, always picking up a fallen pencil and greeting Black Hayate every time she left him at home.

Little things that weren't really superstitious, just odd and maybe a bit old-fashioned.

But she always stopped peeling those apples whenever that peel thrown over her shoulder didn't fall in a spiral.

Comments

[dawnduskdancer.livejournal.com]

Good story. Riza seems older - maybe post-series by 10-20 years. The only thing I noticed is that you switched from present to past tense a few times - otherwise good work.

Where did all those superstitions come from?

[grass-angel.livejournal.com]

It's supposed to be just POST-series. Not too much older, as she still thinks of herself as young. (And still loves Roy)
Copy and paste into word pad and highlight the parts that are off. I think it's only the sock part right?
Anyway, then email me the file. Please?


Uh... Apple one, I don't know, but it's only supposed to be on a certain day and the apple peel is supposed to fall into the shape of a letter and that letter is supposed to be the first letter of her love's first name.
Sock one is based of corndolls for fertility and the rest are assorted ones that I found by searching google with "old 'country superstitions'"
And the milk is left out for the fairies...