Raccoon: What the hell is with me and songs lately? I guess the stress of college is really getting to me and music is my release (despite the fact that I can't tune myself to save my life). I own nothing except for the book that I'm supposed to be studying from.
How can I repay you, brother mine?
How can I expect you to forgive?
Clinging to the past, I shed our blood.
And shattered your chance to live.
Ed stood quietly crying. If Al was here, he would be holding his tears but Al wasn't. It was rare that he came here by himself these days. And yet, Al seemed to understand when he needed it most.
Though I knew the laws, I paid no heed.
How can I return your wasted breath?
What I did not know has cost you dear,
For there is no cure for death.
"I knew what would happen. Why didn't I listen to common sense?"
Ed knelt down on the ground and laid down the flowers he had brought. It had been several years since he had visited and it was only fair that there were flowers.
Beautiful mother, soft and sweet,
Once you were gone we were not complete.
Back through the years we reached for you,
Alas 'twas not meant to be.
"Mother. You were our rock. And when you died, we lost not only our mother but our rock."
"I brought flowers since that is what you asked for just before you died. I never had the chance to make some for you."
And how can I make amends?
For all that I took from you?
I led you with hopeless dreams,
My brother, I was a fool.
"I was a fool. I knew better. I knew I wasn't a superior being. And look where that led us. Mother…" He paused. "Mother, I guess I still want your forgiveness before I get forgiveness from Al."
Don't cry for the past now, brother mine.
Neither you nor I are free from blame.
Nothing can erase the things we did,
For the path we took was the same.
Al hadn't tried to stop him all those years ago. He even agreed to do the transmutation. The blame was both of their's but he took it because wasn't that what older brothers were supposed to do?
Beautiful mother, soft and sweet,
Once you were gone we were not complete.
Back through the years we reached for you,
Alas 'twas not meant to be.
"We tried and failed. We still needed you back then….I still need you and so does Al."
My dreams made me blind and mute.
I long to return to that time.
I followed without a word,
My brother the fault is mine.
"I took the blame for the entire thing because I was insistent."
"You took the blame because you believed that it was your job to."
Ed gave a slight start as Al came to kneel beside him.
"Besides, I've already forgiven you. It was my choice too. And bottling it up is bad for you."
So where do we go from here?
And how to forget and forgive?
What's gone is forever lost.
Now all we can do is live.
"What can we do now?"
"Live. We're here and alive aren't we?"
"Yes. Now it doesn't surprise me that people often mistook you for being older."
"Brother, we need to head back. Granny wants to make sure that everything is ready for the big day."
"I guess I should have expected it. Al has to be the most forgiving soul I've ever met. And I made a promise all those years ago. Look at us now mother. I have my brother back in the form he was born in."