You said forever. You said forever, dammit!
You said we'd be friends forever, and we'd work on rockets until we had to retire. You said we'd always be together like family, living together under one roof and keeping each other company. And then you go and get yourself killed. All for me. And then I come back and you died for nothing.
I kneel by your grave. I brush snow off of the top and frantically dig away at it with my hands, ignoring the cold that bites into my flesh and makes my automail stiff. God. You can't really be dead. I'm waiting for the day that you come through the door and say, "Sorry I'm back so late--I had to work overtime."
It's been three years and that day hasn't come yet.
I dig harder, my fingernails scraping against stone and hard dirt. And once I hit the plaque that has your name on it, I stop and it hits me for the first time. "You're really dead," I whisper. "You really aren't going to come back."
I don't know when I started to cry, but after that all I remember is my arms around the stone and my body shaking from tears I didn't know I could leak. "Dammit," I sob onto your stone, my tears slowly hardening on the ground and the gray marble. "Why did you do this? You reckless idiot. Dammit!" I sob harder.
I think I stayed there for a few hours--time means nothing to me--when I got up and lifted my head. I smiled softly as my lips hit cool stone instead of warm skin. I stood, patted the stone, and said, "I'll come back tomorrow," and I left you there, nothing but a stone that read,
Alfonse Heidrich
Age: 17
Until we meet again, I'll be waiting.
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(SOBS) I can't believe I wrote this…On that last line, 'Until we meet again, I'll be waiting", I just burst into tears. I couldn't help it. I was listening to 'Who Knew' by P!nk and it almost scared me how much this song relates to Alfonse and Ed. Go figure.
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